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Week 9 of the Collapse of the U.S. Labor Market: Still Getting Worse at a Gut-Wrenching Pace
Week 9 of the Collapse of the U.S. Labor Market: Still Getting Worse at a Gut-Wrenching Pace Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) for gig workers doubles initial claims under state programs. Here are the “Insured Unemployment Rates” for each of the 50 states & DC. The moment the unemployment crisis stops getting worse and bottoms out […]
COVID Crisis Could Unify World’s Largest Oil Companies
COVID Crisis Could Unify World’s Largest Oil Companies Sir Winston Churchill once admonished leaders to never let a good crisis go to waste. Wall Street banks and other large banks have been paying attention: They were shrewd enough to seize the opportunity presented by the last financial crisis to get hard-nosed government agencies to approve […]
The Collapse Will Be Visible: “For Lease” And “Space Available” Signs Are Starting To Go Up All Over America
The Collapse Will Be Visible: “For Lease” And “Space Available” Signs Are Starting To Go Up All Over America Initially, we were told that the coronavirus lockdowns would just “temporarily” disrupt the U.S. economy, but now it is becoming clear that a lot of the damage will be permanent. We are starting to see businesses […]
What is Really the Game with the Bailouts?
What is Really the Game with the Bailouts? There is a major crisis economically unfolding and the markets are not yet taking into account the seriousness of the economic damage. I have explained that this is a Coronavirus Bankruptcy Pandemic which has put about 30% of the retail service industry in the crosshairs of insolvency. […]
Our Fate Is Sealed, Vaccines Won’t Matter: Four Long Cycles Align
Our Fate Is Sealed, Vaccines Won’t Matter: Four Long Cycles Align A Covid-19 vaccine, or lack thereof, will have zero effect in terms of reversing these cycles. Call it Fate, call it karma, call it what you will, but the cycles have aligned and nothing can stop the unraveling of all that was foolishly presumed […]
Why Cleantech Investment Should be a High Priority Now and after COVID-19
Why Cleantech Investment Should be a High Priority Now and after COVID-19 Prior to the COVID crisis, progression to Net Zero carbon neutral emissions was rising to the top of the policy agenda in many countries. Understandably, the global health and economic crisis has thrown a spanner into the works. It is crucial though, Robyn […]
Big Tech Is Turning Hospitals Into Real-Time Surveillance Centers
Big Tech Is Turning Hospitals Into Real-Time Surveillance Centers Recent events have come to light about hospital surveillance that should concern everyone. Big Tech is using the pandemic as an excuse to turn hospitals into mirror images of law enforcement’s real-time crime centers. When Google announced that they were donating 10,000 Nest cameras to hospitals, my jaw dropped. […]
Food for Thought – US Population, Employment, Debt, NIRP, Monetization
Food for Thought – US Population, Employment, Debt, NIRP, Monetization In 2019, US population growth fell to +1.55m or +0.5%…this was due to a trifecta of declining births, lower immigration, and higher deaths than anticipated. However, as with everything “2020”, all three trends are only intensifying to blow away 2019. Births are falling faster and […]
Huge Protests in Germany Against Government’s Lockdowns
Huge Protests in Germany Against Government’s Lockdowns The German Press is starting to wake up at last after a period of just saying Yes mam! They have run the story that if we acted rationally, we could quickly overcome the consequences of the corona crisis. But politics is deliberately spreading panic among the population and stirring up […]
The Perpetual Crisis: Now The WHO Is Telling Us That COVID-19 “May Never Go Away”
The Perpetual Crisis: Now The WHO Is Telling Us That COVID-19 “May Never Go Away” Are you ready for “the new normal” to become permanent? Originally, most of us assumed that “shelter-in-place orders” and “social distancing restrictions” would just be temporary, but now top health officials are warning us that some of these temporary measures […]
Industrial Production Declines Most in 101 Years
Industrial Production Declines Most in 101 Years On the heels of miserable retail sales numbers comes the worst ever industrial production numbers. The Fed’s Industrial Production report provides another grim look at the Covid-19 wrecked economy. Total industrial production fell 11.2 percent in April for its largest monthly drop in the 101-year history of the index, as […]
Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing: Are We on The Fast Track to a National ID?
Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing: Are We on The Fast Track to a National ID? If you can’t read the writing on the wall, you need to pay better attention. CHARLOTTESVILLE (Rutherford) –– No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of […]
It’s Time to Investigate the Players to Prove the Public Has Been Manipulated for Personal Gain
It’s Time to Investigate the Players to Prove the Public Has Been Manipulated for Personal Gain COMMENT: Marty; it seems you write and other do listen. I remember when you posted that China should stop buying bond from the bankers at inform the Treasury they will only buy directly. The US never did that. They did […]
The Collapse of Main Street and Local Tax Revenues Cannot Be Reversed
The Collapse of Main Street and Local Tax Revenues Cannot Be Reversed The core problem is the U.S. economy has been fully financialized, and so costs are unaffordable. To understand the long-term consequences of the pandemic on Main Street and local tax revenues, we need to consider first and second order effects. The immediate consequences of […]
What does COVID-19 mean for sustainable consumption?
What does COVID-19 mean for sustainable consumption? Our priorities shift when the wolf is at the door, Iona Murphy writes about the impact of the current crisis. It’s quite understandable that people may not have the headspace for sustainability right now. Nonetheless, we’re currently on a hiatus from consumerism—will it last? Back in the beginning […]
