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Update on the Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in the US
Update on the Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in the US Everything spikes. Prices of houses and condos across the US surged 6.3% from a year earlier (not seasonally-adjusted), according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index for February, released this morning. The index is now 6.7% above the crazy peak of “Housing Bubble […]
The Curse of Bigness
The Curse of Bigness The next time I hear a politico or banker or corporate executive talk about institutions “too big to fail,” I’ll direct them to the 34 percent of Americans who are obese. Last I heard, these big Americans, themselves a kind of cultural institution, were failing en masse, racked by diabetes, asthma, […]
What Will Weapons Inspectors Find in Syria…And Does it Matter?
What Will Weapons Inspectors Find in Syria…And Does it Matter? Inspectors from the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have finally arrived in Douma, Syria, to assess whether a gas attack took place earlier this month. It has taken a week for the inspectors to begin their work, as charges were thrown back […]
Merkel Caught in the Energy Conundrum for Germany’s Future
Merkel Caught in the Energy Conundrum for Germany’s Future The nominal U.S. President, Donald Trump, will meet with the two main European leaders next week with the goal of pushing the President off his position to end the Iran Nuclear Deal, or JCPOA. But it is the bigger issues of energy security that will be the […]
Stop and Assess
Stop and Assess America has become Alzheimer Nation. Nothing is remembered for more than a few minutes. The news media, which used to function as a sort of collective brain, is a memory hole that events are shoved down and extinguished in. An attack in Syria, you ask? What was that about? Facebook stole your…what? […]
Eric Peters: “China’s Best Play Is To Let The US Stock Market Crash”
Eric Peters: “China’s Best Play Is To Let The US Stock Market Crash” As excerpted from the latest Weekend Notes from One River CIO, Eric Peters. “China’s best play is to let the US stock market crash,” said the CIO. “Trump is right, they can’t win a trade war.” So they won’t try. “But Xi […]
Staged suffering? Interview with boy in Douma video raises more doubts over ‘chem attack’
Staged suffering? Interview with boy in Douma video raises more doubts over ‘chem attack’ Hassan Diab (left) featured in the video of the alleged chemical attack in Douma / RT The boy portrayed as a ‘victim’ in a video of the alleged chemical attack in Douma has told a Russian TV crew that he was […]
War Fever
War Fever There is a fever that seizes this land from time to time and it is the fever of war, a condition that this time seems immune to all known cures, starting with reason, as Daniel Lazare explores. What happens when an unthinkable war meets an unbeatable case of war fever? Thanks to Russia-gate, unsubstantiated […]
Why the April 14th Missiles-Invasion of Syria Was a Historic Turning-Point
Why the April 14th Missiles-Invasion of Syria Was a Historic Turning-Point The April 14th invasion was the apogee, the turning-point downward, for American hegemony, the end of the mono-polar world or U.S. dictatorship that ever since 24 February 1990 the U.S. Government has imposed on all of its foreign allies for them to join the U.S in […]
Russia Exposes British Lies on Skripal, but Trail Leads to US
Russia Exposes British Lies on Skripal, but Trail Leads to US Moscow says it has proof that the agent used in the UK attack is a chemical weapon patented in the US. So was this a covert operation aimed at ratcheting up tensions between the West and Russia? The sensational case of the poisoning of […]
Turkey Will Repatriate All Gold From The US In Attempt To Ditch The Dollar
Turkey Will Repatriate All Gold From The US In Attempt To Ditch The Dollar After Venezuela, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands prudently repatriated a substantial portion (if not all) of their physical gold held at the NY Fed or other western central banks in recent years, this morning Turkey also announced that it has decided […]
A Crisis At The Heart Of U.S. Shale
A Crisis At The Heart Of U.S. Shale The bottlenecks in the Permian are starting to capture the attention of the oil market, raising the prospect that U.S. shale production does not live up to the hype. The frenzy in West Texas has predictably led to bottlenecks up and down the supply chain. Oil drillers […]
The Dollar’s 70-Year Dominance Slowly Coming To An End
The Dollar’s 70-Year Dominance Slowly Coming To An End The US dollar hasn’t been backed by gold since 1971, but that might change soon. Republican Congressman Alex Mooney is proposing that the US once again place value on the dollar by backing it with physical gold. The problem is, the Federal Reserve has been printing […]
Russia Warns Of ‘Precise And Painful’ Response To Any Future US Sanctions
Russia Warns Of ‘Precise And Painful’ Response To Any Future US Sanctions Russia is continuing to warn the West of further attacks against Russia. Whether it be in the form of missiles or sanctions, the former Soviet Union doesn’t seem like they wish to play “war games” any longer. The United States this month added […]
The Road to 2025 (Part 2) – Russia and China Have Had Enough
The Road to 2025 (Part 2) – Russia and China Have Had Enough Part 1 of this series focused on how the U.S. empire no longer provides any real benefit to the average American citizen. Rather, the spoils of overseas wars, the domestic surveillance state and an overall corrupt economy are being systematically funneled to […]
