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A rising tide sinks all boats… eventually
A rising tide sinks all boats… eventually Have you heard that ice cream causes murder or that global warming has led to an increase in piracy? Apparently in Maine, consuming more margarine leads to more divorces, while increased US spending on science, space and technology results in increases in suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation. Actually, these are […]
Inflation, Covid, Central Banks and Politics – about half the things to really worry about…
Inflation, Covid, Central Banks and Politics – about half the things to really worry about… As markets shake off their summer slumbers, what should we be worrying about? Lots..! From real vs transitory inflation arguments, the long-term economic consequences of Covid, the future for Central Banking unable to unravel its Gordian knot of monetary experimentation, […]
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset It’s a corporate takeover of global governance that affects our food, our data and our vaccines Last year’s WEF summit had the theme ’the Great Reset’ EThamPhoto / Alamy Stock Photo ‘The Great Reset’ conspiracy theories don’t seem to want to die. The theories […]
Potemkin Nation
Potemkin Nation There are advantages to learning about history. One of the big ones is that patterns repeat themselves across historical time, and if you know what happened just before other societies went through the important inflection points in their life cycle, you can tolerably often figure out when one of those is about to […]
The Fed Says, “Let Me Squeeze Your Dollars…5 Basis Points at a Time”
The Fed Says, “Let Me Squeeze Your Dollars…5 Basis Points at a Time” I still maintain no one will mark June 16th, 2021 as the day the world changed. Watching the dollar surge into this weekend thanks to a breakdown in the euro only validates that conclusion in my mind. Remember, on June 16th Presidents […]
The dollar’s debt trap
The dollar’s debt trap On the fiftieth anniversary of the Nixon Shock, this article explains why fiat currencies have become joined at the hip to financial asset values. And why with increasing inevitability they are about to descend into the next financial crisis together. I start by defining the currencies we use as money and […]
Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War
Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War Share prices of military manufacturers vastly outperformed the stock market overall during the Afghanistan War. May 25, 2002: Two U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters land at Bagram Airfield in Parwan, Afghanistan, after completing a mission. (U.S. National Archives) As the hawks who have been lying about the U.S. […]
WEF Announced They Won
WEF Announced They Won Those who fail to see the truth and constantly call anyone who is anti-mask a conspiracy theorist when all studies show they are “useless” are in serious trouble. They are blind to reality which is precisely what those manipulating societies count on. They are the perfect example of Stanley Milgram’s experiments […]
The Great Divide
The Great Divide The entire COVID agenda has been a pre-staged event; the real agenda has been climate change. Al Gore, who is on the board of the World Economic Forum, ushered in Green Peace’s Jennifer Morgan, who escorted Greta to the Davos meeting to appear in Schwab’s film the Forum, which was intended to […]
Rabobank: The Market Has Become “Springtime For Hitler”
Rabobank: The Market Has Become “Springtime For Hitler” Buy-all-the-stocks and Boom? Readers will know my view that we are living in a black comedy. There is plenty of evidence of this, but US President Biden saying it is the Taliban who are in the midst of “an existential crisis” takes the biscuit today given the US is charging […]
Tyranny
Tyranny I’d like to stop writing about COVID, but I can’t because it has such strong economic implications, which can’t be separated. And I’m afraid policies will be enacted that will only make things worse. We all know the Delta variant of the COVID virus (SARS-CoV-2) is spreading rapidly in the U.S. and Australia. Major […]
How the Economy Has to Radically Transform to End Fossil Fuels in 20 Years
How the Economy Has to Radically Transform to End Fossil Fuels in 20 Years Coming disruptions will eventually lay waste to conventional jobs in incumbent fossil fuel, combustion engine, and livestock farming industries. IMAGE: MARCEL KUSCH/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES To avoid the worst of climate change’s disastrous effects, humanity needs to slash carbon emissions […]
Rabobank: Does The Fed Have The Intelligence To Prevent A Collapse
Rabobank: Does The Fed Have The Intelligence To Prevent A Collapse You came in like a wrecking ball “There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse in 11 days.” At some point ahead, if the Fed announces QE tapering at the September FOMC meeting –despite an evident economic slowdown, no […]
Food Stamp Increase Means Higher Food Prices For All
Food Stamp Increase Means Higher Food Prices For All With the stock market banging out new record highs each day and so many jobs available, it is odd the Biden Administration feels the need to boost the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP by 25 percent. This constitutes the largest single increase in the program’s […]
A Look Back at Nixon’s Infamous Monetary Policy Decision
A Look Back at Nixon’s Infamous Monetary Policy Decision Putting the World on a Paper Standard Half a century ago one of the most disastrous monetary policy decisions in US history was committed by Richard Nixon. In a television address, the president declared that the nation would no longer redeem internationally dollars for gold. Since the […]
