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June 29, 2024 Readings
Attempting a new format (that I will probably fiddle with for a week or so) for sharing articles of interest. Below you will find a number of links to those articles. Note that I may add a few before the day ends so check back. Hope this works for everyone… First-Responder Trauma: A New Framework […]
Scary Stat Alert: The Government Liquidity Index
Scary Stat Alert: The Government Liquidity Index Obscure but historically accurate crash signal Not that we need any more scary statistics, but here’s one that might be worth watching. From the Brave browser’s AI summarizer: Government liquidity index The government liquidity index is a metric that measures the ease or difficulty of trading in government securities, such as […]
Carol Roth: The Death of Property Rights
Carol Roth: The Death of Property Rights And the end of the US as we know it We all sense that our basic rights are under attack, but the nature of the enemy and the weapons at their disposal aren’t always clear. Here’s a video that spells out the who, what, and how of the […]
Where You (Shouldn’t) Store It: Nine Places
Where You (Shouldn’t) Store It: Nine Places Think like a thief… A marketing email just came from Michael Major, author of a book called No Grid Survival Projects, on where NOT to hide your valuables. His ideas are sometimes counterintuitive, which makes them potentially useful: 9 Hiding Spots In Your House Where Looters Always Look First […]
Creeping Fascism, Part 1: Just The Beginning
Creeping Fascism, Part 1: Just The Beginning “Way crueler than any dictatorship” I keep a “creeping fascism” file with the intention of tracking governments’ erosion of their citizens’ rights and freedoms. But the file is filling up so fast that the first few articles in this series will have to be “data-dump” cut-and-past jobs rather […]
Wall Street Journal Boosts Gold FOMO
Wall Street Journal Boosts Gold FOMO They hate that everyone suddenly wants physical metal The Wall Street Journal just published a long article (reposted via MSN) lamenting the fact that everyone suddenly wants gold. So thanks, WSJ, for the FOMO boost: Inside the 21st Century Gold Rush (MSN) – Eric Vazquez, a lineman for a […]
Because We’re Still Not Sufficiently Indebted…
Because We’re Still Not Sufficiently Indebted… Now the government wants your home equity Zero Hedge just posted a long look at how the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) industry now accounts for about $700 billion of largely unreported “phantom debt”. This, speculates ZH, is why the economy hasn’t fallen into recession. Now come the unintended consequences: […]
It’s Not Just Gold. This Is A Full-On Commodities Bull Market
It’s Not Just Gold. This Is A Full-On Commodities Bull Market Which, ironically, is a good reason to be careful First, uranium had a nice run. But it was all alone for a depressingly long time. That changed a couple of months ago as gold, silver, and copper began runs of their own: Nickel, meanwhile, […]
Art of the Collapse, May 2024
Art of the Collapse, May 2024 Let’s play “match the satire to the atrocity” There are so many wars (and related civil unrest) these days, that it’s hard to keep track of which meme/satire/diatribe is aimed at which crisis. But April included April Fools’ Day, so at least we have a logical place to start: […]
Recession Watch: Why isn’t “inevitable” becoming “imminent”?
Recession Watch: Why isn’t “inevitable” becoming “imminent”? Because “fiscal dominance”… So that recession I keep whining about still hasn’t arrived. What’s going on out there to keep “inevitable” from becoming “imminent”? It might be as simple as a government borrowing insane amounts of money and giving it to arms makers, banks, and AI companies. This […]
The Day We Stopped Trusting Media
The Day We Stopped Trusting Media Imagine future election campaigns One of the first posts in this newsletter’s Shrinking Trust Horizon series was about how “deep fake” technology will make fake images, videos, and audio recordings almost indistinguishable from the real thing. This will kill millions of modeling and acting jobs, while weaponizing audio and video in […]
How Far Can The Yen Fall Before Japan Goes Bankrupt?
How Far Can The Yen Fall Before Japan Goes Bankrupt? We may be about to find out Japan’s ongoing march to national bankruptcy has been a recurring theme here. See: Japan Is In That Box Japan Takes Another Step Towards the Cliff How a Country Goes Bankrupt, In 10 Steps Now the death spiral has […]
Eventual Financial Death Spiral Now Imminent – John Rubino
Eventual Financial Death Spiral Now Imminent – John Rubino Analyst and financial writer John Rubino warned nearly four months ago of a “U.S. Financial Death Spiral.” This past week, Bank of America caught up to Rubino and issued a warning about a “US dollar death spiral” because the federal government was going deeper in the red by […]
