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“It’s A Bloodbath” – Here Is The Biggest Casualty Of Canada’s Recession
“It’s A Bloodbath” – Here Is The Biggest Casualty Of Canada’s Recession In the past year, we have extensively profiled the collapse of ground zero of Canada’s oil industry, Calgary, as a result of the plunge in the price of oil, in posts such as the following: “Canada Crude Contagion: Calgary Home Prices Drop Most […]
The Worse Things Get For You, The Better They Get For Wall Street
The Worse Things Get For You, The Better They Get For Wall Street On October 2 the BLS reported absolutely atrocious employment data, with virtually no job growth other than the phantom jobs added by the fantastically wrong Birth/Death adjustment for all those new businesses springing up around the country. The MSM couldn’t even spin […]
Ignore the Media Bullsh*t–Retail Implosion Proves We Are In Recession
Ignore the Media Bullsh*t–Retail Implosion Proves We Are In Recession Here we go again. The dying legacy media will continue to support the status quo, who provide their dwindling advertising revenue, by papering over the truth with platitudes, lies, and misinformation. I have been detailing the long slow death of retail in America for the […]
Why This Feels Like a Depression for Most People
Why This Feels Like a Depression for Most People “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” – John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Everyone has seen the pictures of the unemployed waiting in soup lines during the Great Depression. When you try to tell a […]
Failure to Launch
Failure to Launch The popular belief that the U.S. economy has been steadily recovering has endured months of disappointing data without losing much of its appeal. A deep bench of excuses, ranging from the weather to the Chinese economy, has been called on to justify why the economy hasn’t built up any noticeable steam, and […]
The Shocking Reality: This Chart Shows Just How Bad Unemployment Is Today Compared to The Great Depression
The Shocking Reality: This Chart Shows Just How Bad Unemployment Is Today Compared to The Great Depression (Desperate Americans stand in soup kitchen lines and look for work. Circa 1929) While the Obama administration and their mainstream surrogates maintain that the economy is growing at a booming pace, the reality of the situation is starkly different. […]
Fed Is Not Just Behind The Curve, It’s Driving The Bus Over The Cliff
Fed Is Not Just Behind The Curve, It’s Driving The Bus Over The Cliff So the Fed didn’t raise rates again. And the timing of the rate increase will be data dependent. Ho hum. There’s just one little problem. The inflation measures the Fed watches really don’t measure inflation. The Fed won’t see what its cronies in the government […]
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics The government released their monthly CPI report this week. Even though it came in at an annualized rate of 3.6%, they and their mouthpieces in the corporate mainstream media dutifully downplayed the uptrend. They can’t let the plebs know the truth. That might upend their economic recovery storyline and put […]
The Government Fraudulently Reported April Inflation Numbers
The Government Fraudulently Reported April Inflation Numbers There’s no B.S. like the BLS – Dave Kranzler, Investment Research Dynamics The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the Consumer Price Index for April this morning. This Ministry of “Truth” published an inflation report that asserts that consumer inflation rose .1% month over month for April. But a further dissection […]
A Tale Of Two Graphs——Why Bubble Finance Will Fail
A Tale Of Two Graphs——Why Bubble Finance Will Fail On Friday the BLS reported, among other things, that full-time employment in April had dropped by 252,000 from the prior month and that the weekly earnings of production workers had risen by the grand sum of 67 cents (0.1%) before inflation and taxes. But why should still another confirmation that […]
Economic Disinformation Keeps Financial Markets Up
Economic Disinformation Keeps Financial Markets Up Today’s payroll jobs report is more of the same. The Bureau of Labor Statistics claims that 223,000 new jobs were created in April. Let’s accept the claim and see where the jobs are. Specialty trade contractors are credited with 41,000 jobs equally split between residential and nonresidential. I believe […]
TRUTH – THE CURE FOR COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
TRUTH – THE CURE FOR COGNITIVE DISSONANCE “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell Every time the BLS puts out their monthly propaganda report on the wonderful state of the U.S. jobs market and states with a straight face the unemployment rate is a measly 5.5%, their corporate mouthpieces […]
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 2
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 2 Consumer spending in the U.S. accounts for approximately 70 percent of gross domestic product, though it is important to note that the manner in which “official” GDP is calculated is highly inaccurate. For example, all government money used within the Medicare coverage […]
truthinesslessness
truthinesslessness Nothing is stable, nothing is straightforward, everything is fixed, and nothing is fixed. O nation of busboys and WalMart greeters, awake and sing! Can an empire founder on sheer credulousness? After last Friday’s jobs report, I think so. For a culture that luxuriates in statistical analysis (and the false idea that if you measure […]