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Could China’s Overlapping Crises Spiral Out of Control?
Could China’s Overlapping Crises Spiral Out of Control? Threats, propaganda and the Orwellian dissolution of social trust cannot stop a withdrawal from the status quo. Longtime readers know I’ve had an active interest in what differentiates empires/nations that survive crises and those that collapse. There is a lively academic literature on this topic, and it boils […]
Who or What Started the Wuhan Coronavirus Epidemic?
Who or What Started the Wuhan Coronavirus Epidemic? On the Condemnation of “Conspiracy Theories” as a Device for Protecting Officialdom’s Lies, Disinformation, and Obfuscation. The Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic of 2019-20 is moving many markers where life merges into death, where truth merges into lies. At age 34, Dr. Li Wenliang drew attention in Wuhan to […]
Globalization and Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains
Globalization and Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains The grave risks and dangers in the process of worldwide out-sourcing and so-called globalization of the past 30 years or so are becoming starkly clear as the ongoing health emergency across China threatens vital world supply chains from China to the rest of the world. While much attention […]
An Official Emergency
An Official Emergency Latest SARS-COV-II Video Update As officials scramble to get in front of a disease that seems to easily evade their slow-footed efforts, SARS-COV-II is growing exponentially in several countries. Iran’s cases and deaths are certainly far higher then they claim, as recent gruesome video evidence supports. The Federal Reserve took it’s only […]
Did Covid-19 Just Pop All the Global Financial Bubbles
Did Covid-19 Just Pop All the Global Financial Bubbles? Once confidence and certainty are lost, the willingness to expand debt and leverage collapses. Even though the first-order effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are still impossible to predict, it’s already possible to ask: did the pandemic pop all the global financial bubbles? The reason we can ask […]
German Minister Declares Outbreak “A Global Pandemic”; Israel Quarantines Soccer Fans: Virus Updates
German Minister Declares Outbreak “A Global Pandemic”; Israel Quarantines Soccer Fans: Virus Updates Summary: Italian gov’t denies ANSA report about closing schools & universities German finance minister declares outbreak “a global pandemic” EU reports first coronavirus case at its headquarters in Brussels China reported 119 additional coronavirus cases and 38 additional deaths South Korea reported […]
Sprawling Our Way to Climate Catastrophe
Sprawling Our Way to Climate Catastrophe The best way developers can help cut emissions is by redesigning suburbia. Make them to do it. There’s a hole in B.C.’s climate plan big enough to drive a subdivision through. While civil servants in Victoria diligently seek emissions reductions throughout the province to hit our climate targets, the people […]
A Shaky Foundation
A Shaky Foundation And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.– Jimi Hendrix There’s a widespread belief out there that the U.S. and the global economy in general is on much sounder footing ever since the financial crisis of a decade ago. Unfortunately, this false assumption has resulted in widespread complacency and […]
FEMA is Preparing For Coronavirus “Emergency Declaration”
FEMA IS PREPARING FOR CORONAVIRUS “EMERGENCY DECLARATION” As Americans scramble to prepare themselves for the possibility that the coronavirus outbreak becomes a pandemic, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is also preparing. FEMA is “aware of the gravity of the situation” and ready to assist in a coronavirus response. FEMA officials are preparing for an “infectious […]
Next Economic Downturn May Last Forever And A Day
Next Economic Downturn May Last Forever And A Day Market Manipulation Has Created Big Problems Based on how Japan has fared over the last several decades it is difficult to see the green shoots of a global economic spring forth as a result of lower interest rates. In fact, the next economic downturn will likely […]
DoD: Covid-19 “Likely” to be a Pandemic Within the Next 30 Days
DoD: Covid-19 “Likely” to be a Pandemic Within the Next 30 Days In a document obtained by Newsweek, Department of Defense officials said that Covid-19 will “likely” become a global pandemic within the next 30 days. This comes after a 23-year-old soldier stationed in South Korea became the first member of the US armed forces to […]
Rabobank: What Level Of Interest Rates Will Incentivize You To Risk The Death Of Yourself And Your Family
Rabobank: What Level Of Interest Rates Will Incentivize You To Risk The Death Of Yourself And Your Family “Tonight the super trouper lights are gonna find meShining like the sun (sup-p-per troup-p-per)Smiling, having fun (sup-p-per troup-p-per)Feeling like a number one…” So sang markets yesterday in excitement as we enter what I am dubbing “Super Trouper […]
‘Bees are sentinels’: mass bee die-offs signal the wider impact of Brazil’s pesticide boom
‘Bees are sentinels’: mass bee die-offs signal the wider impact of Brazil’s pesticide boom Brazil’s vast plantations, agribusiness-friendly policies and tropical fecundity have made it an agricultural superpower – and, our data reveals, the world’s largest user of highly hazardous pesticides. The footage is unpleasant to watch: thousands of bees writhe, disoriented, on the ground […]
We’re Close To Your Last Day To Prepare For The Coronavirus
We’re Close To Your Last Day To Prepare For The Coronavirus As supplies fly from the shelves, you’ll have to deal using the preps you now have A cases continue to grow exponentially in South Korea and Italy. yesterday the US recorded its first coronavirus death on the continent: a 50+ year-old man in Washington […]
Bill Fleckenstein: Coronavirus Will Cause A “Confidence Crisis” In The Fed
Bill Fleckenstein: Coronavirus Will Cause A “Confidence Crisis” In The Fed Money manager and metals specialist Bill Fleckenstein appeared on the Quoth the Raven Podcast on Sunday to give his thoughts about gold, the market’s reaction to coronavirus and the Fed’s coming “confidence crisis”. Gold First, talking about last week’s move in gold, Fleckenstein says he doesn’t […]
