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Rumors of War
Rumors of War The race to economic collapse is an international competition sparking threats and tensions summoning the specter of war. The imploding center of this collapse is that of industrial technocracy based on fossil fuels. All the nations will go through it on differing schedules. It has been playing out slowly, painfully, and deceptively […]
“Pig Ebola” Epidemic Threatens To Unleash Stagflation Across China
“Pig Ebola” Epidemic Threatens To Unleash Stagflation Across China With Chinese pigs getting slaughtering left and right to contain the breakout of African swine fever, also known as “Pig Ebola”, so are pork shorts as meat processors around the world scramble to sell more pork to China to make up for sharp shortages of China’s […]
Trust is On Trial in Europe and the World
Trust is On Trial in Europe and the World “It seems that if there was any truth to our language, ‘trust’ would be a four-letter word.” Joel – “Risky Business” Trust is the most important aspect of human endeavor. Without trust there can be no interaction. No communication. No friendship. No love. No Commerce. The […]
They’ve Stolen Our Future!
They’ve Stolen Our Future! Collapse is in the cards It’s time to have a serious conversation. I know we’ve been having it, but maybe there’s another glove hidden beneath the one we’ve already taken off. Put bluntly, there doesn’t seem to be any hope of avoiding a collapse of civilization. The forces of the Business-As-Usual […]
Pain Is Inevitable; But Suffering Is Optional
Pain Is Inevitable; But Suffering Is Optional How to avoid becoming collateral damage in the coming crash. Sometimes you really do find enlightenment at the top of the mountain. I spent this week hiking in Montana’s Bitterroot mountain range, as a participant in the pilot run of a new personal-growth-through-adventure-travel startup. In our group was […]
Why it (sort of) makes sense for the US to impose tariffs
Why it (sort of) makes sense for the US to impose tariffs Nearly everyone wonders, “Why is Donald Trump crazy enough to impose tariffs on imports from other countries? How could this possibly make sense?” As long as the world economy is growing rapidly, it makes sense for countries to cooperate with each other. With the […]
Superbugs and the Ultimate Economic Weapon: Food
Superbugs and the Ultimate Economic Weapon: Food The food-exporting superpowers are easy to identify. As my esteemed colleague Michael Snyder chronicled in a recent Zero Hedge post, world agricultural production is under assault from extreme weather and diseases such as African swine fever. Floods & Drought Devastate Crops All Over The Planet; Is A Global Food Crisis Be Coming? […]
Doug Casey: “This is Going to be One for the Record Books”
Doug Casey: “This is Going to be One for the Record Books” Just because society experiences turmoil doesn’t mean your personal life has to. And a depression doesn’t have to be depressing. Most of the real wealth in the world will still exist—it will just change ownership. What is a depression? We’re now at the […]
Should the Fed Tamper With the Quantity of Money?
SHOULD THE FED TAMPER WITH THE QUANTITY OF MONEY? Most economists are of the view that a growing economy requires a growing money stock, because economic growth gives rise to a greater demand for money, which must be accommodated. Failing to do so, it is maintained, will lead to a decline in the prices of […]
Here’s The Proof: How The CPI Is Underrepresenting Food Inflation By 40%
Here’s The Proof: How The CPI Is Underrepresenting Food Inflation By 40% The “muzzle” on reported inflation has policymakers and analysts perplexed. As Joseph Carson, former director of economic research at Alliance Bernstein writes in his follow up to a “New Working Theory on Inflation“, numerous economic explanations and theories have been offered, and policymakers […]
Negative Interest Rates Spread To Mortgage Bonds
Negative Interest Rates Spread To Mortgage Bonds There are trillions of dollars of bonds in the world with negative yields – a fact with which future historians will find baffling. Until now those negative yields have been limited to the safest types of bonds issued by governments and major corporations. But this week a new […]
Weekly Commentary: The Ignore Them, Then Panic Dynamic
Weekly Commentary: The Ignore Them, Then Panic Dynamic After years of increasingly close cooperation and collaboration, the relationship has turned strained. Both sides are digging in their heels. Credibility is on the line. If one side doesn’t back down, things could really turn problematic. The Fed is asserting that it’s not about to lower the […]
Commerce Department Targets China With Proposed Tariffs On ‘Currency Manipulators’
Commerce Department Targets China With Proposed Tariffs On ‘Currency Manipulators’ A lot has happened since then-candidate Trump said he would label China a currency manipulator on ‘day one’ should he make it to the Oval Office. So far, at least, the pledge to hold Beijing accountable for manipulating its currency wouldn’t fall into the ‘promises kept’ column. But […]
The Next Economic Crisis and the Looming Post-Multipolar System
The Next Economic Crisis and the Looming Post-Multipolar System The Impending Crisis At one time, specifically during the post-World War 2 Bretton Woods era, it looked like as if the capitalist model could be indefinitely sustainable and avoid plunging the world into major world conflicts. That era began to come to an end during the […]
