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The Losses are Hidden – Bill Holter
The Losses are Hidden – Bill Holter Precious metals expert and financial writer Bill Holter has been predicting the financial system is going to go down sooner than later. He says the signs are the lies being told to the public to try to hold the system together. Holter explains, “If you look at everything, […]
New Infrastructure Will Not Come Good, Fast, And Cheap
New Infrastructure Will Not Come Good, Fast, And Cheap Anyone naive enough to think America is about to receive a big gift of newfangled “fixed installations” needed in order to function should look long and hard at what is really being proposed. The “underlying structure” a country and the economy rely upon includes things such […]
There’s a Serious Flaw to the Team Powell-Yellen Inflation Scheme
There’s a Serious Flaw to the Team Powell-Yellen Inflation Scheme If you’re a wage earner, retiree, or a lowly saver, your wealth is in imminent danger. A lifetime of schlepping and saving could be rapidly vaporized over the next several years. In fact, the forces towards this end have already been set in motion. Indeed, […]
Do We Really Think a Band-Aid Will Heal a Tumor?
Do We Really Think a Band-Aid Will Heal a Tumor? Borrowing a quarter of the nation’s entire economic output every year to prop up an ineffective, corrupt status quo is putting a Band-Aid over a tumor. If we misdiagnose the disease, our treatment won’t work. We’re all familiar with medical misdiagnoses, which lead to procedures and […]
Blocked Suez Canal Adding to Container Shortages, Supply Chain Snarls, Component Shortages for Manufacturers
Blocked Suez Canal Adding to Container Shortages, Supply Chain Snarls, Component Shortages for Manufacturers Exactly at the worst possible time. Ripple effects to be felt for months. Today is Thursday, and the Suez Canal is still blocked by one of the largest container carriers in the world. The last thing the tangled up and […]
Monsanto, Big Food, and Big Ag Move to Co-opt the Organic and Regenerative Movement
Monsanto, Big Food, and Big Ag Move to Co-opt the Organic and Regenerative Movement There’s one skill that Big Food and Big Ag corporations have in abundance: taking control of every situation and corrupting it into an opportunity for profit. For example, as consumer interest in the terms “natural” and “sustainable” increased, industrial agribusiness began […]
Canada, the Supreme Court hold that Carbon Tax is Constitutional
Canada, the Supreme Court hold that Carbon Tax is Constitutional In Canada, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Ottawa has the power to impose a carbon price across the country as a “matter of national concern.” This is a major win for Trudeau and he can really make sure that the Canadian economy further declines to enable […]
Suez Canal Crisis Morphs Into Global Supply Chain Wrecking Ball
Suez Canal Crisis Morphs Into Global Supply Chain Wrecking Ball The world got another wake-up call this week about the overreliance on complex global supply chains. As of Friday, the massive containership, “Ever Given,” remains stuck in the canal, unable to be refloated, paralyzing the world’s most important shipping lane. Ever Given is one of the world’s […]
Are We Staring At A Coming Systemic Breakdown & The End Of Capitalism?
Are We Staring At A Coming Systemic Breakdown & The End Of Capitalism? Michael Every of Rabobank is concerned we are For any problems they face, governments all over the world are now conditioned to simply deficit spend or issue new $trillions in ‘thin air’ currency. So how in danger are we of that recklessness […]
Weekly Commentary: Powell on Inflation
Weekly Commentary: Powell on Inflation The Treasury yield spike runs unabated. Ten-year Treasury yields rose another 10 bps this week to 1.72%, the high since January 23, 2020. The Treasury five-year “breakeven” inflation rate rose to 2.65% in Tuesday trading, the high since July 2008. The Philadelphia Fed’s Business Survey Prices Paid Index surged to […]
How Will We Pay for the Energy Transition?
How Will We Pay for the Energy Transition? Earlier this month, the International Renewable Energy Agency said the world needed to invest $131 trillion by 2050 in order to limit the estimated global rise in average temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius. That’s 30 percent more than what is currently planned. It’s also equal to investments of $4.4 […]
Wrong… Again
Wrong… Again The Federal Reserve met last week and voted to keep interest rates unchanged. What a shock! The Fed also gave an upbeat forecast of economic growth, predicting that the U.S. economy will grow 6.5% this year, its highest rate in nearly 40 years. Its December 2020 forecast projected 4.2% growth. The Fed also […]
Yield Curve Control: Bubbles And Stagnation
Yield Curve Control: Bubbles And Stagnation Central banks do not manage risk, they disguise it. You know you live in a bubble when a small bounce in sovereign bond yields generates an immediate panic reaction from central banks trying to prevent those yields from rising further. It is particularly more evident when the alleged soar […]
Bank of Canada Announces Balance Sheet Reduction, Suddenly Worried about “Moral Hazard”
Bank of Canada Announces Balance Sheet Reduction, Suddenly Worried about “Moral Hazard” “Once crisis tools have served their purpose, central banks should scale them back.” The Bank of Canada will unwind its crisis liquidity facilities, will further reduce its purchases of Government of Canada bonds, which it already started tapering in October, will let short-term […]
