The Current Supply Chain Crisis Could Throw The Global Economy Off Course!
The Current Supply Chain Crisis Could Throw The Global Economy Off Course! Be ready! The current supply chain crisis is becoming noticeable to most at this point and it could toss the entire global economy off course. With just the right problem, we could all be facing shortages that would make the toilet paper incident […]
Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days
Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days On Saturday the entirety of Lebanon was plunged into darkness, with the electricity grid shut down completely after the small Mediterranean country’s two main power stations reportedly ran out of fuel. “The al Zahrani and the Deir Ammar power stations stopped working after supplies […]
“Catastrophic” Property Sales Mean China’s Worst Case Scenario Is Now In Play
“Catastrophic” Property Sales Mean China’s Worst Case Scenario Is Now In Play No matter how the Evergrande drama plays out – whether it culminates with an uncontrolled, chaotic default and/or distressed asset sale liquidation, a controlled restructuring where bondholders get some compensation, or with Beijing blinking and bailing out the core pillar of China’s housing […]
No land, no problem: How a lady farmer converts an idle backyard into a productive urban vegetable garden
No land, no problem: How a lady farmer converts an idle backyard into a productive urban vegetable garden Abi Byrne and her Ocean Grove Farm in Sydney’s Northern Beaches are living proof that you don’t need to own a piece of land to practice permaculture to produce healthy and nutrition-dense food. Since 2019 Abi has […]
Why You Should Add More Native Species to Your Garden
Image by Kurt Stüber under creative commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Why You Should Add More Native Species to Your Garden Gardening is a popular pastime for people of all ages and living conditions. Gardeners put in hours of work to provide food for their families, beautify their backyards and help the environment. Even though many […]
Money, Bad Policies, Inflation & You
Money, Bad Policies, Inflation & You How to weather the inflationary and energy storms The global financial system and economy are a house or cards. Built on an unsustainable underpinning to ever-increasing debt the financial system is, as far as I am concerned, irretrievably insolvent. To truly grasp this you need to understand the basics […]
The Energy Transition Will Take Decades Not Years
The Energy Transition Will Take Decades Not Years With natural gas, coal, and oil prices all soaring this summer, it is clear that a successful energy transition will take decades not years Some energy transition proponents may have confused Covid energy demand destruction with a change in consumer behavior The truth is that an energy […]
15 Common Dynamics of SHTF Collapses
15 Common Dynamics of SHTF Collapses When it comes to how we see and prepare for SHTF, thinking in terms of real and probable rather than fictional and possible can make a big difference. Even though SHTF has many forms and levels and is in essence complex, random, diverse and unsystematic, some patterns and principles are common to the way things unfold […]
Life’s a Beach Until the Tsunami Hits: Four Waves Nobody Cares About–Yet
Life’s a Beach Until the Tsunami Hits: Four Waves Nobody Cares About–Yet Four monster waves are about to crash onto the Fed’s beach party and sweep away the unwary revelers. Hey, is the water in the bay receding? Never mind, free drinks are on the Federal Reserve, so party on, life’s a beach, asset bubbles […]
Albert Edwards: “It’s Starting To Feel A Bit Like July 2008”
Albert Edwards: “It’s Starting To Feel A Bit Like July 2008” One of the theories seeking to explain the Lehman collapse and the ensuing financial crisis points to the record surge in oil prices which rose as high as $150 in the summer of 2008, and which combined with tight monetary conditions, precipitated a giant […]
Economic Theory and Long-Wave Cycles
ECONOMIC THEORY AND LONG-WAVE CYCLES Investors and others are confused by the early stages of accelerating price inflation. One misleading belief is in cycles of industrial production, such as Kondratieff’s waves. The Kondratieff cycle began to emerge in financial commentaries during the inflationary 1970s, along with other wacky theories. We should reject them as an […]
Gazprom Plant Connected To Russia-China Gas Pipeline Shuttered Due To Fire
Gazprom Plant Connected To Russia-China Gas Pipeline Shuttered Due To Fire China’s energy crunch has resulted in power rationing in more than half of the provinces and affected the world’s biggest production base for electronic gadgets to semiconductors to appliances, among other things. Beijing has ordered energy firms to “secure supplies at all costs” as winter fast […]
Rabo: Global Supply Chains Simply Will Not Be Able To Cope With Even More Stimulus
Rabo: Global Supply Chains Simply Will Not Be Able To Cope With Even More Stimulus The Story is the Story Today is a US payrolls Friday. I have covered 277 of these releases. A handful were of any lasting interest, signalling something the market didn’t already know beforehand, and a few dozen more were higher/lower […]
The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital. Original illustration by Mr. Fish Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights […]
Marti’s Corner – 37
Marti’s Corner – 37 * Here is the email I got from USU Extension this week: PLAN Meet with your family or household and discuss the disasters that are most likely to occur. Review basic actions for each situation and decide on a family meeting place. Decide how you’ll contact each other if separated. PREPARE […]
