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Intentional Destruction
Intentional Destruction First Covid, Now Comes “The Great Taking” The Great Depression was a well-executed plan to seize assets, impoverish the population, and remake society. What comes next is worse.. A recent book by David Webb sheds new light on exactly what happened during the Great Depression. In Webb’s view, it was a set up. […]
The Last Time This Happened Was Days Before The Great Depression
The Last Time This Happened Was Days Before The Great Depression The US equity market is suffering its worst start to a year since 2009… In the space of just six days, we went from record high to a ‘correction’ (over 3,000 Dow points and down over 10.5%)… What is most ominous is the fact that, as […]
The Forgotten Media Purges of the Great Depression
The Forgotten Media Purges of the Great Depression Republican Hoover built the federal broadcasting shield in 1927. Roosevelt fashioned it into a weapon in 1934 and Democrats have never put it down since. One might consider the elaborate FCC speech barriers: A Poll Tax on Public Debate One of the more enduring myths accepted as reality […]
An Inflationary Depression
An Inflationary Depression Financial markets are ignoring bearish developments in international trade, which coincide with the end of a long expansionary phase for credit. Both empirical evidence from the one occasion these conditions existed in the past and reasoned theory suggest the consequences of this collective folly will be enormous, undermining both financial asset values […]
Challenging the Notion that the Fed will Support Markets to Prevent a Crisis
Challenging the Notion that the Fed will Support Markets to Prevent a Crisis A pervasive belief throughout both the mainstream and independent media is that when faced with the threat of an economic downturn, central banks will act unconditionally to lower interest rates and inject fresh stimulus into markets by way of quantitative easing. One theory […]
These 8 Red Flags Warn Us We’re Speeding Toward an Economic Collapse RIGHT NOW
These 8 Red Flags Warn Us We’re Speeding Toward an Economic Collapse RIGHT NOW This isn’t exactly an article loaded with Christmas cheer, but there’s a very good reason that my family has strictly limited our holiday splurges this year. It’s because all the signs right now seem to indicate the US is hurtling toward […]
The Coming Crisis
The Coming Crisis In a crisis, people either turn to their institutions or they turn to their leaders to provide a path forward through the emergency. This is especially true when the path forward is waiting out the emergency. People respect action, so they have to have faith in their leaders if the right course […]
Weekly Commentary: Portending an Interesting Q4
Weekly Commentary: Portending an Interesting Q4 “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” I’ll add that those that learn the wrong lessons from Bubbles are doomed to face greater future peril. The ten-year anniversary of the financial crisis has generated interesting discussion, interviews and scores of articles. I can’t help but […]
Weekly Commentary: Portending an Interesting Q4
Weekly Commentary: Portending an Interesting Q4 “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” I’ll add that those that learn the wrong lessons from Bubbles are doomed to face greater future peril. The ten-year anniversary of the financial crisis has generated interesting discussion, interviews and scores of articles. I can’t help but […]
Comparing Crises: 1929 with 2008 and the Next
Comparing Crises: 1929 with 2008 and the Next The business and mainstream press this month, September 2018, has been publishing numerous accounts of the 2008 financial crash on its tenth anniversary. This month attention has been focused on the Lehman Brothers investment bank crash that accelerated the general financial system implosion in the US, and […]
Learning from America’s Forgotten Default
Bettmann/Getty Images Learning from America’s Forgotten Default One of the most pervasive myths about the United States is that the federal government has never defaulted on its debts. There’s just one problem: it’s not true, and while few people remember the “gold clause cases” of the 1930s, that episode holds valuable lessons for leaders today. […]
