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The Fed Just Picked the “Big Guys” (Again) Over Individuals
The Fed Just Picked the “Big Guys” (Again) Over Individuals In a recent disclosure to Congress, the Fed revealed that it just purchased $429 million in bonds from 86 corporations. They did this through something called a Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF). Buried on the Fed’s website, the press release explains the intention behind this purchase of bonds: […]
Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan
Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House Armed Services Committee has added a Liz Cheney-spearheaded amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which throws severe roadblocks in the Trump administration’s proposed scale-down of US military presence in Afghanistan and Germany. As The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald notes, both parties advancing the amendment cited in […]
Is America Heading For Civil War? Of Course It Is…
Is America Heading For Civil War? Of Course It Is… In last week’s article I discussed the issue of American “balkanization” and the rapid migration of conservatives and moderates from large population centers and states that are becoming militant in their progressive ideology. In my home state of Montana there has been a surge of […]
TOM CLOUD PRECIOUS METALS UPDATE: U.S. Dollar Troubles Ahead & Are Banks Safe?
TOM CLOUD PRECIOUS METALS UPDATE: U.S. Dollar Troubles Ahead & Are Banks Safe? In the newest precious metals update, Tom Cloud discusses the platinum market, U.S. Dollar troubles, and is your money safe in banks. Tom says that more individuals and companies are moving some of their cash out of banks and into physical metals […]
Natural Gas Price Plunge Could Soon Lead To Shut-Ins
Natural Gas Price Plunge Could Soon Lead To Shut-Ins Natural gas prices plunged to new lows this week, falling below $1.50/MMBtu, a catastrophically low price for U.S. gas drillers. The factors afflicting the gas market are multiple. Prices had already fallen below $2/MMBtu at the start of 2020, weighed down by oversupply. But it wasn’t a […]
Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix An assertion made by spooks is as far from evidence as you can possibly get. Really dumb that this needs to be said. ~ Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishing CIA press […]
The War That Time Forgot
The War That Time Forgot Drone targeting footage, Afghanistan. Photo: USAF. I hear it all the time. The most crucial decision of this century was the vote to go to war against Iraq. It’s meant to serve as a political line of demarcation, a sure-fire way to determine which politicians, celebrities and news personalities you […]
McCarthyism Down Under
McCarthyism Down Under UPDATE: 5 Eyes media have been amplifying the story. BBC quoted Sydney Morning Herald saying, “No allegations had been proven.” The New York Times, which rarely reports on Australia, ran a staff-written story, writes Joe Lauria. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison held a somber press conference on Friday to announce that the Australian Federal Police […]
The Insanity Of The Political Left And The Balkanization Of The US
The Insanity Of The Political Left And The Balkanization Of The US Can leftists and conservatives of our modern era peacefully coexist within the same society? If someone asked me this question only ten years ago I would have said “Sure, it’s possible”. Today, the answer is a resounding “No way”. The political divide has […]
Fear in the JFK Assassination, Part 1 (of 2)
Fear in the JFK Assassination, Part 1 (of 2) Fear in the JFK Assassination, Part 2 (of 2) One of the fascinating phenomena in the JFK assassination is the fear of some Americans to consider the possibility that the assassination was actually a regime-change operation carried out by the U.S. national-security establishment rather than simply […]
Business Uncertainty About Sales Goes Haywire
Business Uncertainty About Sales Goes Haywire These Charts Show What Mess Businesses Face Going Forward. I’m going to show you a chart based on data that the Atlanta Fed released today. We’ll dissect it in a moment. The chart would be funny, if it weren’t so serious. At first, just look at the chart superficially. These results […]
Update on the WTF Collapse of Demand for Gasoline, Jet Fuel, and Diesel
Update on the WTF Collapse of Demand for Gasoline, Jet Fuel, and Diesel No “V-shaped recovery back to normal.” Demand for gasoline collapsed in a stunning and historic manner, starting in mid-March when the measures to slow down the spread of the pandemic took effect, when working from home became the new thing, and when […]
U.S. Debt Has No Meaning Anymore (Until It Eventually Does)
U.S. Debt Has No Meaning Anymore (Until It Eventually Does) Photo by Wikimedia.org | CC BY | Photoshopped The national debt currently looks like a runaway freight train. Not only is it clocking in at $26.1 trillion at the moment, but it has made the jump of the last few trillion dollars fast. Really fast. Wolf Richter summarizes the frenzied ascent in […]
How Do You Prepare for a Revolution?
How Do You Prepare for a Revolution? As all hell breaks loose across the United States of America (and we haven’t even gotten to the election yet), a resistance movement to the status quo seems to be increasingly violent, taking over a Minneapolis police precinct and an area in downtown Seattle. Protests continue to be peaceful in some […]
United States: An Obituary
United States: An Obituary The United States of America was problematic from the start. It was founded on genocide and slavery, and, while frequently congratulating itself on the rights and freedoms it granted its citizens, never managed to confront the demons in its past. The question would arise repeatedly, generation after generation: rights and freedoms […]
