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The Threat to the Dollar as the World’s Primary Reserve Currency
The Threat to the Dollar as the World’s Premier Reserve Currency …but does it really matter? By Patrick Barron My answer is that, “Yes”, it really matters. And that is why we need to take action today to protect all of our interests. The source of the threat may surprise you. We refer […]
Monetary System, World Order We’ve Had Since 1940’s Are Collapsing: Richard Maybury
Monetary System, World Order We’ve Had Since 1940’s Are Collapsing: Richard Maybury Richard Maybury has been predicting ‘black swan’ events in his newsletter Early Warning Report for the last two decades. In a recent conversation, he put his finger on something happening around the world. He sees a growing anxiety about global events – “everybody knows there’s […]
Get Ready for a “Zero Returns” World…
Get Ready for a “Zero Returns” World… Dear Diary, Where is that old and tattered “Crash Alert” flag? Many times since the start of the rally in US stocks in 2009, we hoisted it. And many times has it failed to give us a useful signal. But we will bring it out again, if a […]
Mark Cuban Warns: This Bubble Is Far Worse Than The Tech Bubble Of 2000
Mark Cuban Warns: This Bubble Is Far Worse Than The Tech Bubble Of 2000 Just over a year ago, we warned that while the world of speculative capital is focused intently on the Twitter and Facebook #Ref/0 fundamental valuations in the publicly-traded equity markets, the real dot-com 2.0 bubble is occurring in the private markets. Few […]
Crude Parallels
Crude Parallels The Great Recession was seven years ago so it might seem appropriate that our memories of the specific nature and order of events is lost to time. However, given that it will be a seminal event in history (hopefully not surpassed) there is less leeway to having such a short grasp on the […]
Financial collapse leads to war
Financial collapse leads to war Scanning the headlines in the western mainstream press, and then peering behind the one-way mirror to compare that to the actual goings-on, one can’t but get the impression that America’s propagandists, and all those who follow in their wake, are struggling with all their might to concoct rationales for military […]
BREAKING BAD (DEBT) – EPISODE THREE
BREAKING BAD (DEBT) – EPISODE THREE In Part One of this three part article I laid out the groundwork of how the Federal Reserve is responsible for the excessive level of debt in our society and how it has warped the thinking of the American people, while creating a tremendous level of mal-investment. In Part Two I focused on […]
The Externality Trap, or, How Progress Commits Suicide
The Externality Trap, or, How Progress Commits Suicide I’ve commented more than once in these essays about the cooperative dimension of writing: the way that even the most solitary of writers inevitably takes part in what Mortimer Adler used to call the Great Conversation, the flow of ideas and insights across the centuries that’s responsible for […]
Role of Wages of the Common Worker in Oil Prices, Collapse
Role of Wages of the Common Worker in Oil Prices, Collapse In their book Secular Cycles, Peter Turchin and Surgey Nefedof point out the important role falling wages of the common workers played in early collapses. I got to thinking that this might be an issue with our current situation as well, including the low level […]
“Global System Catastrophe” Is Key Threat To Human Civilization
“Global System Catastrophe” Is Key Threat To Human Civilization – Oxford Scientists Cite “Global System Catastrophe” Among 12 Plausible Threats To Civilization – “Global System Catastrophe” More Of A Possibility Than Most Western People Suspect – Study Described As A “Scientific Assessment About The Possibility Of Oblivion” – Other Threats Include Nuclear War, Environmental Degradation, […]
Federal Reserve Insider Alan Greenspan Warns: There Will Be a “Significant Market Event… Something Big Is Going To Happen”
Federal Reserve Insider Alan Greenspan Warns: There Will Be a “Significant Market Event… Something Big Is Going To Happen” With the Federal Reserve printing trillions upon trillions of dollars to keep the economic system afloat, many investors and financial pundits have surmised that the fundamental economic problems facing the United States during the crash of […]
A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World
A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World Popular media today, including television and cinema, are rife with examples of what is often referred to as moral relativism — the use of false and fictional moral dilemmas designed to promote the rationalization of an “ends justify the means” narrative. We are also bombarded lately with entertainment […]
Apocalypse How? Scientists Unveil 12 Risks That Threaten Human Existence
Apocalypse How? Scientists Unveil 12 Risks That Threaten Human Existence From ‘Armageddon’ to ‘Day After Tomorrow’ to ‘Independence Day’, many have speculated as to the eventual demise of human life on the planet but – according to Dennis Pamlin of the Global Challenges Foundation, no scientists had “compiled a list of global risks with impacts that, […]
The global financial system stands on the brink of second credit crisis
The global financial system stands on the brink of second credit crisis The world financial system stands on the brink of a second credit crisis as interbank lending shows increasing risk The world economy stands on the brink of a second credit crisis as the vital transmission systems for lending between banks begin to seize […]
We can’t have resilience without justice
We can’t have resilience without justice Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. John Crawford III. Levar Jones. Their deaths — and those of too many others — illuminate the ghastly toll of racism and impunity. It’s a toll we can measure in lives lost, and in communities seared by violence. But here’s a casualty you might […]
