What Interest Rate Triggers The Next Crisis?
What Interest Rate Triggers The Next Crisis? The Ten-year U.S. Treasury note yields 1.61%. 10-year high-quality corporate bonds yield 2.09%. The rate on a 30-year mortgage is 3.05%. Despite recent increases, interest rates are hovering near historic lows. We do not use the word “historic” lightly. By “historic,” we refer to the lowest levels since […]
The Consent of the Governed
The Consent of the Governed Mark Chagall Peace window, UN 1967In Holland Sunday, a protest demonstration against government Covid policies provoked a emergency order from that same government against thousands of people gathering in a place to … protest. The police and government had only “allowed” 200 demonstrators. So the government “allowed” a protest against itself, but […]
Has the IMF become a Fascist Organization?
Has the IMF become a Fascist Organization? The entire world of economics has been abandoned without actually admitting it has failed. Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is throwing in the towel without actually admitting its policies have totally failed. The IMF was the bastion of Keynesianism, supporting economic Neoliberalism. Of course, the head of […]
War Is A Rich Man’s Game: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
War Is A Rich Man’s Game: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix War is always powerful people making up fake reasons for poor people to kill each other. ❖ Capitalism is working great if you ignore how it’s about to destroy our ecosystem and kill everything. ❖ Socialism is the collective’s best self-defense […]
How to Build 1 Year of Food Storage – Everything You Need to Know
How to Build 1 Year of Food Storage – Everything You Need to Know I am going to go through everything you would need to know to set up a food storage supply that would provide enough for one person for 1 year and could last up to 25 years if properly stored. I’ll cover […]
Getting Hyperinflation Right
Getting Hyperinflation Right Profligate money printing by the US Federal Reserve and by other Western central banks has amounted to around $10 trillion over just the last year. The amount of currency in circulation has grown to $2 trillion, breaking a record set in 1945 and showing an almost 12% increase over 2019. The US […]
Rabo: If Powell Does Nothing, We Will See Godzilla-Sized Shockwaves Across Markets Everywhere
Rabo: If Powell Does Nothing, We Will See Godzilla-Sized Shockwaves Across Markets Everywhere “Quadzilla is approaching Tokyo!” [Cue epic music] “Up from the depths; 30 trillion high; Breathing fire; Its name in the sky — Quadzilla! Quadzilla! Quadzilla!” [Sudden switch to comedy music] “…and Godz-EU-ki.” For those who grew up with 80’s cartoons, that intro may be […]
Home is not the house but where the garden is
Home is not the house but where the garden is My title is a quotation from archaeologist Francis Pryor’s book about ‘prehistoric’ Britain, but it serves well enough as a summary of the general argument in my own book about our likely global future, and the need to refocus the household from a place of […]
Is Farming the Problem?
Is Farming the Problem? Here is a story that we tell ourselves. From The Good Ancestor: “Consider the immense legacy left by our ancestors: those who sowed the first seeds in Mesopotamia 10,000 years ago, who cleared the land, built the waterways and founded the cities where we now live, who made the scientific discoveries, won […]
At a certain point, even the Gestapo had to stop cancelling people
At a certain point, even the Gestapo had to stop cancelling people On April 26, 1933, the interior minister for the German state of Prussia issued a decree creating a new secret state police, or Geheime Staats Polizei, abbreviated: Gestapo. The Gestapo was tasked with stamping out all opposition to Germany’s new Chancellor and the […]
BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing?
BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing? Greens and environmental groups criticize lack of progress, but others defend efforts to make big changes. Logged old-growth red cedar in Kwagu’ł First Nation territory in northern Vancouver Island. Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance. Six months after releasing a major report on managing and […]
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche on Vaccination Policy Risks
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche on Vaccination Policy Risks Synopsis Geert Vanden Bossche, a vaccine expert with 3o years experience, thinks our vaccination policy has a high probability of causing the virus to mutate into variants that cause more serious illness, and that people who have been vaccinated will spread the virus rather than protecting those that […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Market Manias Galore, But Long-Term Interest Rates Smell a Rat
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Market Manias Galore, But Long-Term Interest Rates Smell a Rat These manias and the rising long-term yields are on collision course. (You can also download THE WOLF STREET REPORT wherever you get your podcasts). wolfstreet, wolf street report, wolf richter, long-term interest rates, interest rates, financial markets
Congressional Testimony: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists
Congressional Testimony: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists A hearing of the House Subcommittee focused on anti-trust and monopoly abuses examines the role of the corporate media in these growing pathologies. Hearing of the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, Mar. 12, 2021 There are not many Congressional committees regularly […]
