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The Cost Basis of our Economy is Spiraling Out of Control
The Cost Basis of our Economy is Spiraling Out of Control What will it take to radically reduce the cost basis of our economy? If we had to choose one “big picture” reason why the vast majority of households are losing ground, it would either be the stagnation of income or the spiraling out of […]
Stock Market 2018: The Tao vs. Central Banks
Stock Market 2018: The Tao vs. Central Banks The central banks claim omnipotent financial powers, and their comeuppance is overdue. I will be the first to admit that invoking the woo-woo of the Tao as the reason to expect a reversal of the stock market in 2018 smacks of Bearish desperation. With everything coming up […]
The Internecine Deep State Conflict Moves to Stage Two
The Internecine Deep State Conflict Moves to Stage Two It now seems evident that the Neoliberal Camp of the U.S. Deep State is highly vulnerable on an individual basis. I tend to notice things like a year-old blog entry suddenly getting thousands of page views. The essay that received a surge of recent interest: Is […]
The Asymmetry of Bubbles: the Status Quo and Bitcoin
The Asymmetry of Bubbles: the Status Quo and Bitcoin Shall we compare the damage that will be done when all these bubbles pop? Regardless of one’s own views about bitcoin/cryptocurrency, what is truly remarkable is the asymmetry that is applied to questioning the status quo and bitcoin. As I noted yesterday, everyone seems just fine […]
Did Anyone Do Even a Minimal Check on the Sensationalist Bitcoin Electrical Consumption Story?
Did Anyone Do Even a Minimal Check on the Sensationalist Bitcoin Electrical Consumption Story? Check the context before uncritically accepting sensationalist conclusions. Let’s start with a primer on how to write a sensationalist story that can be passed off as “journalism:” 1. Locate credible-sounding data that can be de-contextualized, i.e. sensationalized. 2. Present the data […]
The Problem Isn’t Populism: the Problem Is the Status Quo Has Failed
The Problem Isn’t Populism: the Problem Is the Status Quo Has Failed The top 5% who have benefited so immensely from the consolidation of wealth and power cannot confess the status quo has failed the bottom 95%. The corporate/billionaires’ media would have us believe that the crisis we face is populism, a code word for […]
Our National Madness
Our National Madness Fakery and trickery are not solutions; they are a form of self-delusional madness that destroys the nation’s ability to face reality squarely and choose real solutions, no matter how painful the choice and path might be. The nation has lost its common sense, its soul and its sanity.Can we summarize the source […]
The Demise of Dissent: Why the Web Is Becoming Homogenized
The Demise of Dissent: Why the Web Is Becoming Homogenized In other words, we’ll be left with officially generated and sanctioned fake news and “approved” dissent. We’ve all heard that the problem with the web is fake news, i.e. unsubstantiated or erroneous content that’s designed to mislead or sow confusion. The problem isn’t just fake news–it’s the homogenization […]
The Superhero Complex: Are We Incapable of Saving Ourselves?
The Superhero Complex: Are We Incapable of Saving Ourselves? If we felt empowered in daily life, would we be so enamored of superheroes constantly saving our world from destruction? It’s been widely noted that the U.S. film industry ably functions as a pro-global hegemony propaganda machine: even when the plot features evil rogue elements at […]
Mideast Turmoil: Follow the Oil, Follow the Money
Mideast Turmoil: Follow the Oil, Follow the Money In this scenario, time is running out for Saudi Arabia’s free-spending royalty and state– and for all the other free-spending oil exporters. While there are numerous dynamics at work in the turmoil roiling Saudi Arabia and by extension, the Mideast, one way to cut to the chase […]
Where are Europe’s Fault Lines?
Where are Europe’s Fault Lines? Beneath the surface of modern maps, numerous old fault lines still exist. A political earthquake or two might reveal the fractures for all to see. Correspondent Mark G. and I have long discussed the potential relevancy of old boundaries, alliances and structures in Europe’s future alignments.Examples include the Holy Roman […]
The Big Reversal: Inflation and Higher Interest Rates Are Coming Our Way
The Big Reversal: Inflation and Higher Interest Rates Are Coming Our Way This interaction will spark a runaway feedback loop that will smack asset valuations back to pre-bubble, pre-pyramid scheme levels. According to the conventional economic forecast, interest rates will stay near-zero essentially forever due to slow growth. And since growth is slow, inflation will […]
What’s Driving Social Discord: Russian Social Media Meddling or Soaring Wealth/Power Inequality?
What’s Driving Social Discord: Russian Social Media Meddling or Soaring Wealth/Power Inequality? The nation’s elites are desperate to misdirect us from the financial and power dividethat has enriched and empowered them at the expense of the unprotected many. There are two competing explanatory narratives battling for mind-share in the U.S.: 1. The nation’s social discord […]
What the Kennedy Assassination Records Reveal: Uncontrollable Incompetence
What the Kennedy Assassination Records Reveal: Uncontrollable Incompetence Imagine Harvey Weinstein wielding a “top secret” stamp to block any exposure of the uncomfortable truth and you have the FBI, CIA and NSA. One way to interpret the intelligence community’s reluctance to let all the Kennedy assassination archives become public is that the archives contain evidence […]
Observations on Wealth-Income Inequality (from Federal Reserve Reports)
Observations on Wealth-Income Inequality (from Federal Reserve Reports) There’s a profound difference between assets that produce no income and those that produce net income. To those of us nutty enough to pore over dozens of pages of data on wealth and income in the U.S., the Federal Reserve’s quarterly Z.1 reports and annual Survey of […]
