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Exxon Crushed By Pandemic, Reports First Quarterly Loss In 32 Years
Exxon Crushed By Pandemic, Reports First Quarterly Loss In 32 Years Exxon Mobil Corp. has reported its first quarterly loss in 32 years amid oversupply conditions, a crashed economy, and a pandemic that continues to destroy petroleum demand. The company reported a $610 million loss for the quarter ending March 31. That is equivalent to about a 14c loss […]
The Pandemic Is Deepening America’s Many Divides
The Pandemic Is Deepening America’s Many Divides And so we’ve reached the precarious state of disunion in which the only thing the warring elites can agree upon is that the Federal Reserve should rescue their private wealth, regardless of cost or consequences. America’s divides are proliferating and deepening by the day. The key political and economic […]
Gold Is Set to Crash? No Way!
Gold Is Set to Crash? No Way! The mainstream is a fickle place. On the one hand, we had Bank of America raising its 18-month price projection for gold to $3,000. On the other hand, some people argue the price of gold could crash later in the year. Gold is up over 13% on the year, but […]
The Global Contagion Impacted Silver Production The Most
The Global Contagion Impacted Silver Production The Most According to a new report released by GlobalData, the global contagion impacted silver production the most while gold mine supply fared the best. The two largest silver producing countries, Mexico and Peru, have issued temporary shutdowns lasting nearly two months. Peru, which started its lockdown on March […]
Beef Prices Soar To Record High As Meatpacking Plants Shutter
Beef Prices Soar To Record High As Meatpacking Plants Shutter Wholesale American beef prices jumped 6% to a record high of $330.82 per 100 pounds, a 62% increase from the lows in February, according to Bloomberg, citing new USDA data. The surge in beef prices comes at a time when the nation’s food supply chain network […]
WILL IT TAKE FOOD SHORTAGES TO END SUPPORT FOR THE SHUTDOWN?
Will It Take Food Shortages to End Support for the Shutdown? Americans are uniquely privileged, to the point of simply imagining they can stay home for months and months without suffering severe economic hardship as a result. Our unique privilege is delusion, the mentality that America is rich and will remain rich without particular effort […]
“Crisis In Processing” – Pandemic Exposes Fragility Of Food Supply Chain
“Crisis In Processing” – Pandemic Exposes Fragility Of Food Supply Chain Today’s food supply chain crisis began in the meat industry has been developing for decades, and Tyson Foods has helped to create the disaster that is currently unfolding. The problem is consolidation, and with Tyson, JBS SA and Cargill Inc, three mega-corporations that control 66% […]
The Twilight-zone Economy Resulting From Covid-19
The Twilight-zone Economy Resulting From Covid-19 Currently, our economy is caught somewhere in the Twilight-Zone, a place that exists for moments but where wrong decisions often lead to madness. While this is happening a great deal of the population sits at home trying to ignore the reality developing outside their walls. The truth is we will not know […]
Life Under Draconian Lockdown: I Can Barely See the Light at the End of this Long, Dark Tunnel
Life Under Draconian Lockdown: I Can Barely See the Light at the End of this Long, Dark Tunnel The process of reopening Spain has been dubbed, rather ominously, “Operation New Normality.” “Is there any light at the end of this long dark tunnel?” That’s a question many people are asking themselves in Spain, whose government […]
Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisis
Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisis Bowing, perhaps to inevitability, the group of scientists responsible for assessing ways to cut the pollution that causes global heating, working group three of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, announced in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, that for the first […]
Pandenomics: a story of life versus growth
Pandenomics: a story of life versus growth The clash between business-as-usual economics and the pandemic shows what we really need from our economy. I’ve been thinking a lot about breathing, recently: how our organisms take life-supporting oxygen from Earth’s clement atmosphere, and exhale waste carbon dioxide back out. I’ve been thinking about how pleasant and […]
The Search For A New Community
The Search For A New Community A look at intentional community in a world who may be calling for a reimagining of collective actions. Every intellectual had a “draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson We have reached a new epoch in our planet’s history. Few can look at the increasingly […]
Chinagate is the New Russiagate
Chinagate is the New Russiagate I’ve become convinced the next major event that’ll be used to further centralize power and escalate domestic authoritarianism will center around U.S.-China tensions. We haven’t witnessed this “event” yet, but there’s a good chance it’ll occur within the next year or two. Currently, the front runner appears to be a […]
YouTube Censors Viral Video of Doctors Criticizing ‘Stay-at-Home’ Order
YouTube Censors Viral Video of Doctors Criticizing ‘Stay-at-Home’ Order Deleted after racking up over 5 million views. YouTube has censored a viral video in which two doctors criticized the logic of whether California’s stay-at-home coronavirus order is necessary. The video, which had racked up over 5 million views, featured Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin […]
American Farms Cull Millions Of Chickens Amid Virus-Related Staff Shortages At Processing Plants
American Farms Cull Millions Of Chickens Amid Virus-Related Staff Shortages At Processing Plants A significant concern that readers should have during an economic collapse and pandemic is food security. We’ve noted over April that troubling news is developing deep inside America’s food supply chain network, suggesting shortages and rapid food inflation could be ahead. The reason behind the disruptions […]
