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The Bulletin: May 22-28, 2025
The Bulletin: May 22-28, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Witness to Collapse Climate Change: The Crisis Management Model – Ecosophia Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action Building a Mycelial Network of Resistance and Resilience Gazprom CEO Sounds […]
Recipe for Collapse: Rising Military and Social Welfare Spending
Recipe for Collapse: Rising Military and Social Welfare Spending Leaders faced with unrest, rising demands and dwindling coffers always debauch their currency as the politically expedient “solution.” Whatever you think of former Fed chair Alan Greenspan, he is one of the few public voices identifying runaway entitlement costs as a structural threat to the economy […]
Whose QE Was it, Anyway?
Whose QE Was it, Anyway? Spanning a decade (2003-2013), QE0 was the most sustained and uninterrupted surge in central banks’ purchases of Treasuries on record. It is difficult to determine the extent to which the Fed’s QE1 during the crisis owed its success in bringing interest rates down to the fact that it was being […]
Who Will Raise Rates? The Market or the Fed?
Who Will Raise Rates? The Market or the Fed? Some people are confused by what I mean when I say that rates will rise as we move into the sovereign debt crisis, which will pick up steam in 2017 moving into 2020. We are NOT talking about central banks raising rates; we are looking at […]
Who Owns the Federal Reserve Bank and Why is It Shrouded in Myths and Mysteries?
Who Owns the Federal Reserve Bank and Why is It Shrouded in Myths and Mysteries? “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” — Henry Ford “Give me control of a Nation’s […]
The U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To Make It Worse
The U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To Make It Worse The 7th largest economy on the entire planet, Brazil, has been gripped by a horrifying recession, as has much of the rest of South America. But it isn’t just South America that is experiencing a very […]
U.S. jobs and global gloom may mean more mortgage relief: Don Pittis
U.S. jobs and global gloom may mean more mortgage relief: Don Pittis Interest rate hikes fade into the future as economic recovery appears to go flat It seems a terrible thing to cheer about, but a new feeling of gloom may be good for Canadians weighed down by mortgage debt. A worse-than-expected U.S. jobs report and increasing fears […]
The Margin Debt Time-Bomb
The Margin Debt Time-Bomb A terrible threat created by terrible decision-making What is perhaps the greatest risk to individual investors these days? Is it the potential for a decline in corporate earnings based on a slowing global economy? Is it that current valuation levels in both equities and fixed income instruments are much nearer historic […]
