Source – economicprism.com Fear and Greed with a Roll of the Dice By MN Gordon Bear markets take time. They also provide countless occasions to lose money. With each bounce comes an opportunity for investors to buy higher so they can later sell lower. Major U.S. stock market indexes hit what is likely an interim bottom…
Source – usawatchdog.com Neocons Know The “Monetary System Is Collapsing” – Martin Armstrong Warns “War Checks All The Boxes” (Above Image Added By SM) Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong said at the end of last year the U.S. is being set up for a “nightmare fall.” Train derailments and political problems are spinning out…
Source – commondreams.org Jimmy Carter and the End of Democratic Capitalism The myth and reality of our 39th president. ROBERT REICH I’m honoring Presidents’ Day by sharing with you some thoughts about Jimmy Carter, who is now in hospice care. Carter’s administration marked the end of 45 years of democratic capitalism, whose goal had been to…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com The Core of the Economy–The Middle Class–Is Crumbling The net result of hyper-globalization and hyper-financialization is the crumbling of the middle class. Neofeudal societies and economies lack a vibrant middle class. This is the defining feature of feudalism and its updated V2.0, neofeudalism: a nobility (based on birth or finance, it doesn’t matter) controls the vast majority…
Source – claritypress.com – “…Two Americas exist — one for the vast majority of its people, ordinary ones struggling to get by, including unprecedented numbers out-of-work. The other is for the nation’s super-rich and privileged class overall. Its members never had things better” The Great US 2020 Wealth Transfer Heist. Deep Inequalities in US Society…
Source – oftwominds.com The New Normal: Death Spirals and Speculative Frenzies By Charles Hugh Smith There is an element of inevitability in play, but it isn’t about central bank bailouts, it’s about Death Spirals and the collapse of unsustainable systems. The vapid discussions about “soft” or “hard” landings for the economy are akin to asking…
Source – off-guardian.org War Certainly Is A Racket By Iain Davis In 1935, Major General Smedley Butler’s seminal book “War Is A Racket” warned of the dangers of the US military-industrial complex, more than 25 years before the outgoing US President Eisenhower implored the world to “guard against” the same thing. One of the most…
Source – thesaker.is Homo implacatus by Naresh Jotwani People often wrongly interpret the process of natural selection – which drives the evolution of living species – by the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’. However, the latter phrase can be highly misleading – for two reasons. One reason is that ‘survival’ may be wrongly understood as…
Source – economicprism.com Living the Lie by MN Gordon “It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceeded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.” – EH Carr Denying the Truth Central planners face an impossible task. They must compel people to behave in ways that go contrary to freedom of choice. Only…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com Four Crypto-Friendly Banks Are Being Bailed Out with Billions from a Federal Housing Program By Pam Martens and Russ Martens Remember those Fed bailouts of the mega banks on Wall Street during and after the 2008 financial crisis that the Federal Reserve battled in court for years to keep secret from the American…
Source – mercola.com How COVID Patients Died For Profit By Dr. Joseph Mercola By May 2020, it had become apparent that the standard practice of putting COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation with ventilators was a death sentence Between 50% and 86% of COVID patients placed on life support ended up dying By May 2020, doctors…
Source – internationalman.com David Stockman on the Fed’s Giant Economic Science Experiment by David Stockman The Fed holds interest rates to be its primary control valve, with lower ones providing a stimulus to the GDP and higher ones a brake. Self-evidently, therefore, interest rates below the inflation level are a stimulus because they amount to…
Source – mises.org The End Of Monetary Hedonism – By Jeff Deist Does cheap money and credit make us richer? Does more money and credit create more stuff, or better stuff? Do they make us happier and more productive? Or do these twin forces actually distort the economy, misallocate resources, and degrade us as people?…
Source – eurasiareview.com Why The End Of The Petrodollar Spells Trouble For The US Regime Why End Of Petrodollar Spells Trouble For US Regime – OpEd February 1, 2023 MISES 1 Comment By MISES By Ryan McMaken* On January 17, the Saudi minister of finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, announced that the Saudi state is open to…
Source – aljazeera.com We are “greening” ourselves to extinction Vijay Kolinjivadi Vijay Kolinjivadi (Also Read: Biden Promotes EV Hummer That Pollutes More Than Gas-Powered Sedan @ https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/biden-sits-ev-hummer-pollutes-more-gas-powered-sedan) More than a decade ago, investment experts James Altucher and Douglas Sease wrote a book for the Wall Street Journal called Investing in the Apocalypse. They argued that the…
Source – aljazeera.com SM:..We would be wise to take a page from our Lebanese compatriots & begin to learn the subtle refinements of preparing your morning coffee using yesterday’s socks…. Lebanon devalues official exchange rate by 90 percent The central bank has confirmed the new official rate of 15,000 pounds per dollar, up from little…
Source – oftwominds.com What Goes Up Also Comes Down: The Heavy Hand of Bubble Symmetry Should bubble symmetry play out in the S&P 500, we can anticipate a steep 45% drop to pre-bubble levels, followed by another leg down as the speculative frenzy is slowly extinguished. Bubble symmetry is, well, interesting. The dot-com stock market…
Source – technocracy.news SM:…I would expect nothing less from this conniving ‘Egg-Head’ – Bill ‘Gates of Hell’… Bill Gates Invested In Artificial Eggs Before Mysterious Egg Shortage and Price Hikes (Also Read: Bill Gates Finally Says Something that is True @ https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/bill-gates-finally-says-something-that-is-true/) Globalist billionaire Bill Gates, who has a history of making uncannily prescient investments…
Source – mercola.com The Most Important Topics of Our Time Dr. Joseph Mercola Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is one of my favorite resources to keep current on everything COVID. They typically interview several experts every day and have amazing staff to compile the information in a useful format. I was excited when Polly Tommey from…
Source – michael-hudson.com Oligopoly Unchecked By Michael Hudson Platypus interview on The Destiny of Civilization The destiny of civilization: An interview with Michael HudsonOn July 15, 2022, Platypus Affiliated Society member D. L. Jacobs interviewed Michael Hudson to discuss his new book, The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism (2022). An edited…
Source – oftwominds.com The Race to the Bottom Accelerates By Charles Hugh Smith When competence, transparency and accountability are all punished, the Race to the Bottom accelerates. Race to the Bottom describes the process of competitive devaluation, where value is gutted to remain competitive with those who are grabbing market share by stripping out quality,…
Source – home.solari.com I Want to Stop CBDCs – What Can I Do? By Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts CBDCs are in the works, but transparency and mass action can throw a huge monkey wrench into their implementation. The Solari Report offers a few concrete steps people can take, with the most important being…
Source – commondreams.org SM:…A house to actually live in?…hmm, what a novel idea….. We Need Housing for People to Live In, Not for Corporations to Invest In Unhoused people on our sidewalks, in shelters, in motels, in tents: this is our present and our future if we don’t see some real, urgent action to legally…
Source – economicprism.com Will You Beat Uncle Sam’s Relentless Pursuit Of Your Wealth? Authored by MN Gordon The United States is lurching towards an epic financial catastrophe. This isn’t a novel insight. The great tragedy has been in the works for decades. Anyone with a mild inkling of curiosity knows what’s going on. According to…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com Bankruptcy Proceedings Thus Far Show a Shocking Miscarriage of Justice By Pam Martens and Russ Martens To grasp the severity of the miscarriage of justice that occurred yesterday at the hands of Judge John Dorsey in the bankruptcy hearing for collapsed crypto exchange, FTX, one first needs a brief bit of background. The…
Source – internationalman.com Look Like in a True Free-Market Economy By David Stockman There is nothing more substantive than Bernanke’s original finger-in-the-air proposition that the Fed needed a 200 basis point cushion in the inflation rate in order to steer the economy clear of the dreaded 0.0% inflation line, the other side of which allegedly…
Source – zerohedge.com American Ponzi The first question that came to mind as the closing credits rolled on the Netflix documentary Madoff The Monster of Wall Street was why? Why would they make a movie like this that connects as many dots? The film lays out so many of the obvious truths of how America…
Source – opendemocracy.net BlackRock Says We’re All Doomed. It’s Being Optimistic The world’s largest asset manager has forecast systemic economic chaos. The reality is even worse. By James Meadway The working assumption, for governments and central banks across the world, is that at some point soon everything will get back to ‘normal’ – our economies…
Source – globalresearch.ca Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity By Prof Michel Chossudovsky All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click…
Source – zerohedge.com The Invasion Equation Authored by Clarence Henderson Rape trees, river floaters, skeletal remains, and fentanyl candy. The new vernacular of illegal immigration is an indictment of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) loss of operational control along the U.S.-Southern border. A consequence of this is the transformation of cartel insurgencies into…
Source – ronpaulinstitute.org Ron Paul – Trump’s Tax Returns Show Evil Of The Income Tax Authored by Ron Paul The final act of the Democrat majority on the House Ways and Means Committee was to make public several years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, which the Committee obtained after a prolonged legal battle. The tax…
Source – americanthinker.com SM:…The Good Ship ‘America’ has already hit the iceberg & is slowly taking on water…all the while the champagne is still flowing in first class & the band plays on…. Is There an Economic Bomb Cyclone Ahead? By Christopher Chantrill First of all, nobody knows what will happen next with the economy.…
Source – covertactionmagazine.com The Trillion Dollar Silencer By Jeremy Kuzmarov The military’s deep penetration into all aspects of American life has hampered the development of a strong anti-war movement—at a time when it is desperately needed. Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across the U.S. in the last few years to…
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