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The Bulletin: April 24-30, 2025
The Bulletin: April 24-30, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Killing People by Lies: The New CO2 Campaign $10T Money Print! Fed’s New Plan Will Dwarf Bernanke Era | ZeroHedge The Wile E. Coyote Recession How I Unintentionally Became an Urban Farmer Banned DDT […]
Doug Casey on the Relentless Rise of Taxes, Regulations, and Inflation
Doug Casey on the Relentless Rise of Taxes, Regulations, and Inflation International Man: Almost every government worldwide is moving to increase taxes and regulations on its citizens while at the same time engaging in ever-increasing currency debasement. What do you think of this trend, and where is it going? Doug Casey: Higher taxes, more money printing, and […]
Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy
Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy The reasoning is so simple, a fifth grader could understand it – which is probably why the Biden administration doesn’t. Having used up all of the rest of the batshit, insane, counterintuitive economic dirty tricks left in the “we’ll literally do anything but cut spending” bag, the Biden administration […]
Everyone Loves a Generous Government Until They Have to Pay For It
Everyone Loves a Generous Government Until They Have to Pay For It Not only does everyone love getting “free money” from the state, they also love hearing the fantasy repeated endlessly that debts are no problem. Governments, like individuals, can spend liberally with great generosity, or they can be frugal. Everyone receiving government money loves the […]
Inflation – Cassandra Speaks
Inflation – Cassandra Speaks Inflation should be front and centre for markets – give or take Ukraine, Oil, etc. How real is it, and just how bad could the consequences be? Not talking about it is one way to ensure it hurts. “The way to crush the bourgeoise is to grind them between the millstones […]
Welcome to the age of cuts
Welcome to the age of cuts The UK government faced a barrage of criticism over its National Insurance hike this week. The tax – which theoretically pays for public services, pensions, and benefits – was in creased last autumn, before the political class became aware of the massive increase in gas and electricity prices coming later this year. However, […]
Biden’s New “Regressive” Methane Tax Will Raise Average American’s Gas Bill By 17%: Op-Ed
Biden’s New “Regressive” Methane Tax Will Raise Average American’s Gas Bill By 17%: Op-Ed At a time when the Biden administration is panicking in an attempt to keep energy prices down, the House has slapped a “fee” on methane that is being called a “stealth tax” on natural gas and everyone who uses it. The […]
George Monbiot champions wealth taxes on ultra-rich as best way to prevent environmental collapse
George Monbiot champions wealth taxes on ultra-rich as best way to prevent environmental collapse Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich? Most of our dysfunctions are caused by pandering to the rich. — George Monbiot “Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich? Most of our dysfunctions […]
Billionaire Tax Is A Ploy To Take Eyes Off Bigger Problems
Billionaire Tax Is A Ploy To Take Eyes Off Bigger Problems In sports, the term head-fake is used to describe the act of moving the head in such a way as to deceive an opponent as to one’s intended direction or move. The idea of a billionaire tax to tax the super-rich with the idea they […]
To Be Sustainable, Green Energy Must Generate Adequate Taxable Revenue
To Be Sustainable, Green Energy Must Generate Adequate Taxable Revenue What allows any type of energy to be sustainable? I would argue that one of the requirements for sustainability is adequate production of taxable revenue. Company managements depend upon taxable revenue for many purposes, including funding new investments and paying dividends to shareholders. Governments depend upon […]
Canada Spent $23 Billion to Support Pipelines in Just Three Years
Canada Spent $23 Billion to Support Pipelines in Just Three Years Taxpayers should understand the financial and climate risks of the big commitment, says an independent report. Governments’ financial support for pipelines is financially and environmentally risky, says a report. Photo from Trans Mountain. Canadian pipelines have received over $23 billion in support from federal and […]
The G-7’s Reckless Commitment To Mounting Debt
The G-7’s Reckless Commitment To Mounting Debt Historically, meetings of the largest economies in the world have been essential to reach essential agreements that would incentivise prosperity and growth. This was not the case this time. The G7 meeting agreements were light on detailed economic decisions, except on the most damaging of them all. A minimum […]
Is the United States on The Same Calamitous Path as Yugoslavia?
Is the United States on The Same Calamitous Path as Yugoslavia? “Tito, go and make them happy and bring order to the Balkans.” Pic from Propagandopolis Of all the inflationary disasters in modern economic history, Yugoslavia’s is the one most ignored by the mainstream. To be sure, the collapse of the Eastern European nation was a […]
How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden
How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden We live in a world where words are very carefully chosen. Companies hire public relations firms to give just the right “spin” to what they are saying. Politicians make statements which suggest that everything is going well. Newspapers would like their advertisers to be happy; they certainly […]
The Hunt for Global Taxes
The Hunt for Global Taxes The proposal is to create a global tax rate as world leaders move to create a one-world government. The United Nations, behind the curtain, is preaching that ONLY they can solve the world crisis in climate change, for it requires a single government to control the world. On top of […]
