It’s time to start thinking about inflation
It’s time to start thinking about inflation In the year 215 AD, the young Roman Emperor Caracalla, then just 27 years of age, decided to ‘fix’ Rome’s perennial inflation problem by minting a brand new coin. Caracalla’s predecessors over the previous several decades had ordered an astonishing debasement of Roman currency; the silver content in […]
With ‘Piecemeal’ Budget, BC Is Headed Towards Climate Failure, Critics Say
With ‘Piecemeal’ Budget, BC Is Headed Towards Climate Failure, Critics Say Province’s investments are ‘very, very small compared to the challenges.’ BC’s budget is a ‘missed opportunity to invest in things like a worker transition, electrifying the transportation sector and protecting our strongest environmental assets like old growth forests,’ says Green Leader Sonia Furstenau. This […]
Overshoot Doubt? Chris Clugston Kills It
Overshoot Doubt? Chris Clugston Kills It Thanks to Sam Hopkins for bringing my attention to the work of Chris Clugston. I’m pretty well read in the overshoot space and I thought I knew all the important contributors. Somehow I missed Chris Clugston. Clugston has written two books: Scarcity in 2012, and Blip in 2019. His unique contribution is to research […]
The Taper Next Door: Bank of Canada Cuts Bond Purchases by 25%. Total Assets Drop by 13%. Rate Hikes Moved Forward, Possibly July 2022
The Taper Next Door: Bank of Canada Cuts Bond Purchases by 25%. Total Assets Drop by 13%. Rate Hikes Moved Forward, Possibly July 2022 Housing craziness is front and center. The Bank of Canada, which already holds over 40% of all outstanding Government of Canada (GoC) bonds – compared to the Fed, which holds less than 18% […]
The coming oil shortage – Part I
The coming oil shortage – Part I The oil price crash on the back of the COVID-19 lockdowns has accelerated the coming supply crunch. Both national and international oil companies have slashed CAPEX and maintenance spending, which will push up decline rates and US shale drillers finally focus on profitability instead of growth. Current longer-dated […]
Save Earth Get Rich
Save Earth Get Rich Henri Matisse Flowers 1907I sometimes can’t believe I think I must revisit this theme time and again, but here we are. Joe Biden is chairing a virtual climate plan/summit/whatever, and absolutely nothing has changed since the last time I tried to explain why it is nonsense, or all the other times before that. […]
“Agricultural Disaster” – Frost Blast Decimates French Vineyards, May Slash Total Wine Output By Third
“Agricultural Disaster” – Frost Blast Decimates French Vineyards, May Slash Total Wine Output By Third Earlier this month, French farmers fought mother nature in their attempt to prevent frost from wiping out their crops. It appears their attempts have failed as the damage is extensive and could wipe out nearly a third of French wine output for […]
Warheads
Warheads Mark Chagall I and the village 1911Joe Biden declares a “national emergency”, calls Putin a killer, slaps more sanctions on Russia, for which he has his Foreign Secretary Antony Blinken declare that “Today, we announced actions to hold the Russian Government to account for the SolarWinds intrusion, reports of bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and attempts […]
America’s Political System Leaves Libertarians Homeless
America’s Political System Leaves Libertarians Homeless Sadly, in America’s two-party political system Libertarians are left Homeless. The libertarian philosophy or ideology has many facets. Running through all of them is the idea that less government is generally a good thing. This reminds me of what President Ronald Reagan, famously said: The nine most terrifying words […]
Tsunami Warning
Tsunami Warning When Every Lot Is Odd A Key Difference The Contest of Supply Versus Value SIC and Amanda’s Stroke Recovery A tsunami is a wall of water that wipes out everything in its path, typically caused by earthquakes. But first, the water actually disappears from the usual shoreline, leaving land where there should be […]
350 Canada’s “Climate Science Basics” fail the acid test of science reporting excellence
350 Canada’s “Climate Science Basics” fail the acid test of science reporting excellence Its climate crisis assertions border on the fraudulent; they’re “misleading, overly simplistic, and sometimes, factually false.” — No 2723 Posted by fw, March 30, 2021 — On Wednesday April 7, 2021, Amara Possian of 350.org sent an email to followers bearing the Subject line […]
Uh Oh: Consumer Price Inflation Heating Up Fast
Uh Oh: Consumer Price Inflation Heating Up Fast Anna Shvets Back in September 2020, we reported on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s inability to see a “hidden” inflation offset in energy that camouflaged the rise in overall inflation. That “hidden” inflation offset has now vanished, and inflation appears to be heating up quickly. Anyone can see it. Robert Wenzel wrote […]
Globalists Will Need Another Crisis In America As Their Reset Agenda Fails
Globalists Will Need Another Crisis In America As Their Reset Agenda Fails It might sound like “US exceptionalism” to point this out (…and how very dare I), but even if the globalist Reset is successful in every other nation on Earth, the globalists are still failures if they can’t secure and subjugate the American people. […]
The Next Economic Crisis – Will Your Wealth Survive?
The Next Economic Crisis – Will Your Wealth Survive? The greatest wealth transfer in history has already begun and the next crisis will only accelerate the process. As the printing presses continue cranking out more and more money, looking forward to a time when the markets pause or another economic crisis consumes the world is […]
The $2.3 Quadrilliion Global Timebomb
THE $2.3 QUADRILLION GLOBAL TIMEBOMB Credit Suisse is hours from collapse and the consequences could be a systemic failure of the financial system. Disappointingly, my dream last night stopped there. So unfortunately I didn’t experience what actually happened. As I warned in last week’s article on Archegos and Credit Suisse, investment banks have created a timebomb […]
