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Is Evergrande a symptom of deeper malaise?
Is Evergrande a symptom of deeper malaise? Evergrande’s imminent default is rocking markets – but few believe the collapse of a Chinese property developer could trigger a global financial crisis. What if Evergrande is just a symptom of a deeper malaise within the Chinese economy and its political/business structures? Maybe there is more at stake […]
China’s Crackdown on Debt, Tech & Evergrande Sends Frazzled Wall Street Titans to China
China’s Crackdown on Debt, Tech & Evergrande Sends Frazzled Wall Street Titans to China The property sector and its debts are possibly the biggest financial mess in China’s history. The crackdowns by Chinese authorities on some of the biggest hype-and-hoopla industries have sent investors heading for the exits. There is a crackdown on debt to […]
Are the US and China Stumbling Toward an ‘Islands War’?
Are the US and China Stumbling Toward an ‘Islands War’? World War II began in Europe when the British, Sept. 3, 1939, declared war on Germany over its invasion of Poland to retrieve what Berlin claimed were its territories… If World War III breaks out between China and the U.S., it is likely to be […]
Evergrande Misses Debt Payments Due Monday As World’s Richest Banker Says China’s “Lehman Moment” Has Arrived
Evergrande Misses Debt Payments Due Monday As World’s Richest Banker Says China’s “Lehman Moment” Has Arrived Wall Street analysts have been churning out commentary this week proclaiming that while Evergrande’s troubles pose a serious threat to the Chinese economy, it’s potential collapse doesn’t represent a “Lehman Moment”. As Thursday’s bond-interest deadline looms, analysts at Mizuho […]
Talkin’ About Armageddon: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Talkin’ About Armageddon: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The fact that our world is hurtling toward man-made obliteration on multiple fronts should probably occupy more of our conversational bandwidth than it does. ❖ My basic overall position is that humanity is about to end […]
A Hinge Moment of History
A Hinge Moment of History I have lived in countries that have real domestic terrorism movements…. No country blessed enough not to have a domestic terrorism movement should be inventing one. We are living in a blizzard of lies. [W]e are more dependent on a handful of woke billionaires to tell us what reality is. […]
Former Lehman Trader On “China’s Lehman Moment”
Former Lehman Trader On “China’s Lehman Moment” My name is Larry McDonald, that is the UK cover above. In the years before the failure of Lehman Brothers, I ran a successful distressed credit business at what was the 4th largest investment bank in the U.S. – becoming one of the most consistently profitable traders in […]
Whatever happened to China’s revolutionary molten salt nuclear reactor program?
Whatever happened to China’s revolutionary molten salt nuclear reactor program? Several years ago during a radio interview, the host told me that the Chinese were planning on deploying a commercial modular molten salt reactor (MSR) by 2020. For context, these nuclear reactors are based on existing technology demonstrated by previous operating prototypes, can use fuel that is […]
“Code Red For Humanity” – UN Warns Climate Change Likely Can’t Be Stopped, And China Is Biggest Contributor
“Code Red For Humanity” – UN Warns Climate Change Likely Can’t Be Stopped, And China Is Biggest Contributor Paging Greta Thunberg… On Monday morning millions of smartphone users awoke to a flurry of push alerts from news organizations touting urgent, ground-breaking news: what Bloomberg described as an “epochal” new report from “the world’s top climate scientists” warned […]
Slamming China Won’t Save Fossil Capitalism From Itself
Slamming China Won’t Save Fossil Capitalism From Itself Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Only the mentally impaired now doubt the reality of climate change. Only the ideologically blind question that human burning of fossil fuels has caused it. In just a few weeks, we had once-in-millennium floods in Germany and Belgium, a once-in-a-millennium heat wave […]
China’s Taishan Nuclear Reactor Shut Down For “Maintenance” Amid Fears Of Radiation Leak Cover-Up
China’s Taishan Nuclear Reactor Shut Down For “Maintenance” Amid Fears Of Radiation Leak Cover-Up Weeks ago the Chinese government sought to downplay – but also admitted – an incident at Taishan nuclear plant near Hong Kong which involved damage to fuel rods, also amid wider suspicions of a radiation leak, mainly being spotlighted by entities based outside […]
Cascade of Consequences
CASCADE OF CONSEQUENCES “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” – George Orwell 1984 “People will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.” – Frank Zappa Orwell and Zappa’s words of wisdom have […]
Craig Murray: The Decline of Western Power
Craig Murray: The Decline of Western Power The really interesting thing about the G7 summit is that it wasn’t interesting. Nobody expected it to change the world, and it won’t. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other leaders of the G7 watch the Red Arrows fly over in Carbis Bay, June 12. (Simon Dawson, No […]
Michael Klare, An All-American Path to War?
Michael Klare, An All-American Path to War? The single scariest night of my life may have been on October 22, 1962, when I thought that all the duck-and-cover moments of my childhood were coming home to roost. President John F. Kennedy appeared on national television (and radio) to warn us all to duck and cover. The Soviet Union, it seemed, […]
