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Coronavirus Shutdown: The End of Globalization and Planned Obsolescence – Enter Multipolarity
Coronavirus Shutdown: The End of Globalization and Planned Obsolescence – Enter Multipolarity The coronavirus pandemic has shown that the twin processes of globalization and planned obsolescence are deficient and moribund. Globalization was predicated on a number of assumptions including the perpetuity of consumerism, and the withering away of national boundaries as transnational corporations so required. […]
“Project Zimbabwe”
“Project Zimbabwe” Roughly a month ago on the afternoon of Sunday, March 8th, Fed Chairman Powell had an emergency staff meeting. Powell: I want the nuttiest money printing plan ever. What action plans do we have that are prepared and ready to initiate? Admin: Well, we have this one named “GFC 2.0” Powell: Sounds tame and sedate. Won’t […]
Fed’s Quantitative Easing Strategy Holds Long-Term Benefits for Crypto
Fed’s Quantitative Easing Strategy Holds Long-Term Benefits for Crypto These are perilous times, and it hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that the United States Federal Reserve is doing its part to alleviate the suffering — which began with the coronavirus pandemic and has spread to the global economy. It’s printing more money. “There is an infinite amount of […]
Weekly Commentary: The Solvency Problem
Weekly Commentary: The Solvency Problem Being an analyst of Credit and Bubbles over the past few decades has come with its share of challenges. Greater challenges await. I expect to dedicate the rest of my life to defending Capitalism. One of the great tragedies from the failure of this multi-decade monetary experiment will be the […]
Food-Security Fears Spark Panic-Hoarding, Could Drive Inflation Sky-High
Food-Security Fears Spark Panic-Hoarding, Could Drive Inflation Sky-High A senior economist from the United Nation’s (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) told Reuters that food inflation could be imminent as people and governments panic hoard food and supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “All you need is panic buying from big importers such as millers or governments to create […]
Spirits in the Material World
SPIRITS IN THE MATERIAL WORLD There is no political solutionTo our troubled evolutionHave no faith in constitutionThere is no bloody revolution The Police – Spirits in the Material World As I was driving home from work last week, an almost forty-year-old song began emanating from my radio. I’ve always appreciated the music of The Police, […]
No One Gets Out Of Here Alive
NO ONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE “The seasons of time offer no guarantees. For modern societies, no less than for all forms of life, transformative change is discontinuous. For what seems an eternity, history goes nowhere – and then it suddenly flings us forward across some vast chaos that defies any mortal effort to […]
Median CPI Runs Hot, Fed Averts Eyes
Median CPI Runs Hot, Fed Averts Eyes Despite the Fed’s proclamations, the dollar lost purchasing power at a good clip. The inflation measure by the Cleveland Fed – the “Median CPI” – rose at 0.3% in January from December. This translates into an annualized rate of 3.7%. For the 12-month period, the Median CPI rose […]
What Will It Take to Get the Public to Embrace Sound Money?
What Will It Take to Get the Public to Embrace Sound Money? In the last decade, the combination of virulent asset price inflation and low reported consumer price inflation crippled sound money as a political force in the US and globally. In the new decade, a different balance between monetary inflation’s “terrible twins” — asset […]
Capitalism in America: How a Dismal Decimal is Robbing Americans Blind
Capitalism in America: How a Dismal Decimal is Robbing Americans Blind 31 Facts Showing How the Rich are Getting Richer and Everybody Else Poorer There is no hiding anymore, the United States has become an oligarch owned banana republic with nukes, and with a monopoly currency which has allowed it to rig the markets for […]
Expect low oil prices in 2020; tendency toward recession
Expect low oil prices in 2020; tendency toward recession Energy Forecast for 2020 Overall, I expect that oil and other commodity prices will remain low in 2020. These low oil prices will adversely affect oil production and several other parts of the economy. As a result, a strong tendency toward recession can be expected. The extent […]
“Inflation Is Inevitably Going To Rise” – Is Alan Greenspan Right?
“Inflation Is Inevitably Going To Rise” – Is Alan Greenspan Right? Via DataTrekResearch.com, “Right now, there’s no real inflation at play. But if we go further than we are currently, inflation is inevitably going to rise.” That’s from Alan Greenspan on CNBC this week. The “further” relates to US Federal deficit spending, the idea being that […]
A History of Inflationary Money: From 1844 to Nixon
A History of Inflationary Money: From 1844 to Nixon So that we can understand the financial and banking challenges ahead of us, this article provides an historical and technical background. But we must first get an important definition right, and that is the cause of the periodic cycle of boom and bust. The cycle of […]
Is Inflation Really Under Control
Is Inflation Really Under Control Recently, analysts have been discussing the pros and cons of using negative interest rates to keep the U.S. economy growing. Despite this, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has said that he does not anticipate the Federal Reserve will implement a policy of negative interest rates as it may be detrimental to […]
Costs Are Spiraling Out of Control
Costs Are Spiraling Out of Control And how do we pay for these spiraling out of control costs? By borrowing more, of course. If we had to choose one “big picture” reason why the vast majority of households are losing ground, it would be: the costs of essentials are spiraling out of control. I’ve often […]
