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07.16.18- Complete Idiocy Engulfs The U.S.
The first time I watched this I thought it was a joke – product of National Lampoon. Then the reality of it hit me like a ton of bricks. Is this really a productive use of Congressional time? The entire U.S. system is hurling toward a debt-induced financial and economic apocalypse. At the same time the Deep State, using Trump as its hand-puppet, is alienating the U.S. from the EU/NATO, this country’s last remaining allies. Read More |
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07.14.18- Hope and Change Are At Hand
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07.13.19- Public Pensions:
They've promised full pensions to their workers. But they aren't putting aside enough money — or generating high enough returns — to fulfill those future obligations. Soon, they'll have to cannibalize current workers' pension contributions to pay retirees. Young and middle-aged government employees will likely never receive the retirement benefits they're counting on. It's too late to prevent this crisis. But there's still time to mitigate the financial fallout — by trimming benefits, raising contributions, and transitioning younger employees to 401(k)s and other defined-contribution plans. Read More |
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07.12.18- The Uncivil Civil War: Economic and Market Implications of Political Transformation
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07.11.18- Globalists Are Telling Us Exactly What Disasters They’re Planning For The Economy
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07.10.18- America Is Now A 3rd World Nation
Dividing the Earth's nations into 1st, 2nd and 3rd world has fallen out of favor;apparently it offended sensibilities. It has been replaced by the politically correct developed and developing nations, a terminology which suggests all developing nations are on the pathway to developed-nation status. What's been lost in jettisoning the 1st, 2nd and 3rd world categories is the distinction between developing (2nd world) and dysfunctional states (3rd world), states we now label "failed states." Read More |
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07.09.18- Survival of the Richest
I’ve never liked talking about the future. The Q&A sessions always end up more like parlor games, where I’m asked to opine on the latest technology buzzwords as if they were ticker symbols for potential investments: blockchain, 3D printing, CRISPR. The audiences are rarely interested in learning about these technologies or their potential impacts beyond the binary choice of whether or not to invest in them. But money talks, so I took the gig. Read More |
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07.07.18- Summer of Tough Love
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07.06.18- Here’s a great example of a company using Blockchain to solve a real problem
I thought this would be important given that most of the noise in the crypto space these days is still almost invariably focused on the Bitcoin price. A quick Google search for “Bitcoin” reveals headlines from CNBC to Fortune Magazine, all about whether or not Bitcoin can come out of its price slump: Read More |
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07.05.18- Would the Founding Fathers Recognize Modern America?
Time and growth produce changes in institutions, too. Sometimes, they merely get bigger and older. Sometimes, they go through a metamorphosis and change into something very different. Read More |
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07.04.18- Economic Collapse 101: Food Americans Ate To Stay Alive During The Great Depression
(Natural News) The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and continued until about 1939. It affected North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world. It was the most serious economic tragedy ever experienced by the industrialized Western world in modern history. Read More |
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07.03.18- A Turn for the Worse
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07.02.18- How to Create Your Own Personal Gold Standard and Currency Reserve
And only for the last 47 years has the world largely moved away from the gold standard. It is easy to feel like we are on top of the world in 2018. Technology has never been better or more easily accessible. The standard of living is rapidly rising. But does that mean we should dispense with 5,000 years of monetary policy which led us to where we are today?
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06.30.18- Libertarian? Conservative? Classic Liberal? Leftivists don’t just believe you’re a bad person - they WANT to believe it
I’m not a social media person, but a few days ago, I posted my very first comment on Instagram, in response to a woman whose site I had read for years. Enraged by the border story, she had just posted an Instagram ordering those who didn’t see the world her way to take a hike. Read More |
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06.29.18- How to Survive the Civil Unrest That’s Coming to America
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06.28.18- Media Creates Caricatures of Political Parties. And People Believe Them!
Or at least, we hate what we think the other team stands for. A poll asked Democrats and Republicans to estimate statistics about the other party. The answers we pure caricatures. Read More |
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06.27.18- The Danger Is Real: We Need a New Declaration of Independence for Modern Times
Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials.Read More |
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06.26.18- Things Just Went Nuclear In Our Trade War With China, And A Giant Shockwave Is About To Hit The U.S. Economy
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06.25.18- The Entire Western World Lives In Cognitive Dissonance
Let us begin with the family separation issue. The separation of children from immigrant/refugee/asylum parents has caused such public outcry that President Trump has backed off his policy and signed an executive order terminating family separation. The horror of children locked up in warehouses operated by private businesses making a profit off of US taxpayers, while parents are prosecuted for illegal entry, woke even self-satisfied “exceptional and indispensable” Americans out of their stupor. Read More |
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06.23.18- Social Security benefits buy 34 percent less than in 2000, study shows
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06.22.18- The Dumbing Down of America Is Deliberate and Deadly
Is America getting dumber? Is this presumption even measurable? The answer to both questions is an unqualified yes! Read More |
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06.21.18- I Remember When America Was A Free Country
Your flight ticket was good at any airline. If something happened to your flight or you missed it, you could use the ticket on another airline going to the same place. On international flights you were permitted two free stopovers prior to your destination. Read More |
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06.20.18- John McAfee Says He's No Longer Pitching ICOs "Due To SEC Threats"
McAfee, who hasn't been affiliated with his namesake company since 1994 and lost most of a fortune once worth $100 million in the years since the crisis, was at one point pitching a new ICO every day. And since before last year's boom, McAfee has been a regular on the cryptocurrency conference circuit and is part of what Bloomberg calls "a vast network of social media influences" who have helped ICOs raise billions. Read More |
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06.19.18- A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
~ King Louis XV of France A hard rain's a-gonna fall ~ Bob Dylan (the first) As the Federal Reserve kicked off its second round of quantitative easing in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis, hedge fund manager David Tepper predicted that nearly all assets would rise tremendously in response. "The Fed just announced: We want economic growth, and we don't care if there's inflation... have they ever said that before?" Read More |
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06.18.18- Americans Need Plain Sight: The IG Report Hides the Truth
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06.16.18- Seven Huge Mistakes Real Estate Investors Make When Running Their Numbers
You can predict the returns! Having said that, your ROI forecasts are only as good as the numbers you start with. Here are the seven of the most common mistakes real estate investors make when running their numbers — and how to avoid them for a perfect win record in your investing. We’ll start with numbers that affect all real estate investors, then narrow our focus to rental investors and cash-flow forecasting. Read More |
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06.15.18- Currencies – Truth and Confidence
Restate this for global currencies and it becomes:
WHAT LIES? There have been many. Examples specific to the United States: Read More |
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06.14.18- Clock is Now “3 Minutes to Midnight” on Social Security and Medicare Benefits
In it, the financial data indicates that both Medicare and Social Security could start “riding off into the sunset” sometime within the next two decades. This is mainly due to the addition of millions of retirees aged 65 and older and reducing the average number of taxpayers that support each retiree on Medicare and Social Security. Read More |
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06.13.18- The most successful investor in modern history is selling… here’s what it means for you
Yes, drywall… as in, the building material that’s used for interior construction. Drywall, also known as wallboard, is manufactured from rehydrated gypsum to produce a calcium sulfate plaster, that’s later mixed with mildew-resistant foaming agent. . . hello? Are you still there? Seriously, though, in this particular case, drywall is a big deal. Read More |
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06.12.18- Last Exit to the Road Less Traveled
What’s important to keep in mind in this quote from Rachael Carson’s 56-year-old warning shot over the bow of corporate civilization is that there are two roads being traveled now. We are no longer at a fork. Read More |
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06.11.18- The Clock Is Ticking: "Modern Slaves Are Not In Chains, They're In Debt"
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? - Adam Smith There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt. - Dave Ramsey Modern slaves are not in chains, they are in debt. - Anonymous Read More |
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Feeling Isolated?
If you answered "no" to these questions, you're not an outlier. In fact, the #1 most commonly-reported complaint we hear from Peak Prosperity readers is that they feel alone and isolated when it comes to the warnings delivered in The Crash Course. Read More |
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06.08.18- Are You The Fish?
The basic idea here is that you need to know your opponents. You need to understand their strengths and weaknesses. You need to know what type of edge you have over them. Read More |
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06.07.18- Cognitive Dissonance Will Not Save America From the Collapse of the Dollar
The Inevitable End I recently received that dreaded call “rush to the hospital, she only has a short time left, hurry!” So, you arrive at the hospital and the person hangs on, and hangs on, but everyone knows the final outcome is inevitable. The next day arrives and the person is still with us. Read More |
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06.06.18- When They Shall Say “Peace And Safety”: Polls Show Americans Are The Most Optimistic They Have Been In A Very Long Time
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06.05.18- Ten Ways the Democratic Northern Hemisphere Nations Became the Orwellian West
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In his book, “1984”, George Orwell envisioned a future crushed by the iron grip of a collectivist oligarchy. The narrative told of the INGSOC Party which maintained power through a system of surveillance and brutality designed to monitor and control every aspect of society. From the time of the book’s release in 1949, any ensuing vision of a dark dystopia depicting variations of jackboots stomping on human faces, forever, has been referenced as being “Orwellian”. This is because Orwell’s narrative illustrated various disturbing and unjust conceptualizations of control, crime, and punishment.  |
06.04.18- “Teen Culture” is the New Imperialism, and it is Destroying the World  You know how missionaries used to run around the globe forcing everyone to be a Christian? And in the process, they destroyed native cultures and traditions?
Well, the same thing is happening today with Western “teen culture.” It is being exported around the world with disastrous effects. Preindustrial societies mostly exhibit a continuum from childhood to adulthood. There is generally no random cut off age where suddenly teens are given rights and expected to become adults. Children seamlessly and gradually integrate into adulthood, with puberty rites being the only major benchmark. Read More |
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06.02.18- Calling All Broke Millennials: Vermont Will Give You $10,000 To Move There And Work From Home  The Governor of Vermont has introduced an unusual law that will pay people who move into the state and work remotely for an out-of-state company - $10,000 over a two year period to cover relocation costs, office equipment, internet, and other work-related expenses.
Governor Phil Scott approved the legislation on Wednesday (May 30) in hopes to bottom out the rapidly shrinking tax base, and, of course, sucker in those heavily indebted millennials from large cities. Read More |
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06.01.18- ‘Three Wise Men’ Warn Crash Coming, Own Gold The men who have recently warned are Jim Rogers (video below), Martin Armstrong (blog below) and Tony Robbins (video below). Each come from somewhat different backgrounds and are respected experts in their respective fields. Each has different views in terms of asset allocation and how best to weather the coming financial storm but all are united in believing that gold will act as a wealth preservation tool and will likely rise in value when other assets fall.Read More |
‘Three wise men’ are warning that the next financial crash is coming and that one of the ways to protect and grow wealth in the coming crash will be to own gold. |
05.31.18- Huge Economic “Blind Spot” that May Damage the Dollar and Crash the U.S. Economy
The U.S. has been poking a global trade “bear” through the economic cage by placing various sanctions on trade since 1951. The U.S. uses this tactic to keep the dollar as the central currency on the world stage. But it seems the U.S. has poked the “bear” enough, as China, Russia, Iran and Turkey are now coming out swinging. The effect on the U.S. dollar could be damaging, to say the least. It’s likely that this is what these countries want: to damage the dollar and replace it. Read More |
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05.30.18- Capitalism vs. Socialism
Free market capitalism, wherein there is peaceful voluntary exchange, is morally superior to any other economic system. Why? Let’s start with my initial premise. All of us own ourselves. I am my private property, and you are yours. Murder, rape, theft and the initiation of violence are immoral because they violate self-ownership. Similarly, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another person, for any reason, is immoral because it violates self-ownership. Read More |
Several recent polls, plus the popularity of Sen. Bernie Sanders, demonstrate that young people prefer socialism to free market capitalism. That, I believe, is a result of their ignorance and indoctrination during their school years, from kindergarten through college. For the most part, neither they nor many of their teachers and professors know what free market capitalism is. |
05.29.18- The 2020s Might Be The Worst Decade
The crisis will create a domino effect and trigger global financial contagion, which I usually refer to as "The Great Reset." The collapse of high-yield bonds will hit stocks and bonds. Rising defaults will force banks to reduce their lending exposure, drying up capital for previously creditworthy businesses. This will put pressure on earnings and reduce economic activity. A recession will follow. Read More |
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05.28.18- Whose Country Is This? Is the Constitution Even Welcome Here Anymore?
There are days I wake up, and I’m not sure what country I live in anymore. Read More |
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05.26.18- The Poverty of the Truth
Many will be unable to hear this. But it is true. Truth is the enemy of wealth. Why is this? Because wealth accumulation by the few is always at the expense of the many. Because deception is used by the few to control the many. Because the love of wealth is a corrupting force, and corruption exist in the shadows, never in the light of the Truth. Read More |
One cannot serve two masters. You either serve God or mammon (wealth). Christians should know this from the teachings of Jesus. And yet we have entire Christian denominations today that cater to those who serve mammon. Mammon is what is now worshiped in many nations, much more so than any God. Especially in ‘first’ world nations. And yet there are so many claiming to serve both, claiming they have the truth. But this cannot be. One cannot server two masters. |
05.25.18- A Summer Of Disappointments Will Lead To An Extended Economic Crash
I am seeing quite a lot of this in the past month as mounting global tensions appear to have subsided. But appearances can be deceiving… Read More |
The summer season is often about renewed hope and revelry in comfort, and this goes for economic comfort as much as anything else. In parallel to the old tale of The Ant And The Grasshopper, we are all tempted to act like the grasshopper, forget about the trials and tribulations of the world and take a vacation from awareness. |
05.24.18- The Next Recession Will Be Devastatingly Non-Linear
Linear correlations are intuitive: if GDP declines 2% in the next recession, and employment declines 2%, we get it: the scale and size of the decline aligns. In a linear correlation, we'd expect sales to drop by about 2%, businesses closing their doors to increase by about 2%, profits to notch down by about 2%, lending contracts by around 2% and so on. Read More |
The acceleration of non-linear consequences will surprise the brainwashed, loving-their-servitude mainstream media. |
05.23.18- 'Russiagate' Unveils The Depths Of Corruption In American Politics
For the last seventeen months now, the daily serving of American political news has included a generous helping of Robert Mueller, the Russiagate investigation that has morphed into an “is there any way possible we can get rid of Trump?” investigation, and a never changing but frothy lack of evidence to show that anything dishonest or disingenuous happened in Donald Trump’s campaign to be President of the United States. Now, according to an opinion piece released by the Hill on Sunday 20 May, one of the issues that has been hiding in plain sight is getting some attention. Read More |
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05.22.18- Top Five Reasons To Vote With Your Feet
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05.21.18- The Great Oz
Today, the conservative US media are touting the brilliant accomplishments of the conservative president, whilst the liberal media grouse that nothing he does is of value. So, which is it? Who is correct here? Well, actually, neither is correct. Neither president is the great Oz. Neither one is in fact, “running the country.” Behind the scenes, the great machine of government churns along, often in complete disregard to the president or his stated policies. Read More |
For eight years (2008-2016), the US liberal media touted the brilliant accomplishments of the liberal president, whilst the conservative media groused that nothing he did was of value. |
05.19.18- Record High Lumber Price: Another Warning That The Market Is In A Bubble
Well, maybe the home builders understand the dangers of rising lumber prices, but the overall market is clueless. Read More |
As the price of lumber reaches an all-time record high, investors better take this as another warning that the market is in a massive bubble. However, a large percentage of investors today are unable to spot bubbles because everything is in a bubble. So, to see the price of lumber hit the highest price ever, doesn’t phase the market one bit. |
05.18.18- The Long Death of
In 2015, it dipped below 50% of the population for the first time since data collection started on the issue. It’s now an official minority group. Meanwhile, nearly half of Americans don’t have enough money to cover a surprise $400 expense. Many are living paycheck to paycheck, with little to no cushion. And US homes are less affordable than they’ve been in decades—possibly ever. I’ll tell you why this is happening and how to secure your spot among the “haves” in a moment. But first, let’s take a look at the America that was. Read More |
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05.17.18- The Stairway To Heaven
Led Zeppelin released the iconic song “Stairway to Heaven” in 1971, shortly after President Nixon released the dollar from gold backing. The dollar plummeted in purchasing power. The following provides a perspective on inflationary price increases. Read More |
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05.16.18- Individualism is a Product, But It Has Never Truly Been Available… Until Now
According to Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, governments started out as simple gangs, collecting protection money.
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05.15.18- Central Bankers Won't Tolerate Deflation — No Matter the Cost
It is hardly surprising that with equity indices stalling, the financial community is increasingly worried that the long, steady bull market is coming to an end. Naturally, this makes investors look for reasons to worry, and it turns out that there are indeed many things to worry about. Read More |
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05.14.18- Jim Rogers: Extreme Bear Market Coming
ETF.com: You recently said you see the worst stock market correction of your lifetime coming next year. What’s going to cause that? Jim Rogers: I can give you lots of possibilities. These things always start small and with nobody noticing. Read More |
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05.12.18- How To Get Ahead In Today's Economy
On Tuesday, for example, the Labor Department reported there were a record 6.6 million job openings in March. Based on the Labor Department’s data, there were enough jobs available – exactly – for the 6.6 million Americans who were actively looking for a job. What a remarkable feat! Read More |
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05.11.18- The Worst Man In Modern History
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05.10.18- Stagflationary Crisis: Understanding The Cause Of America’s Ongoing Collapse
First, the mainstream economic media is approximately two to three years behind average alternative economists. At least, they don’t seem to acknowledge reality within our time frame. Read More |
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05.09.18- You Can Accomplish More Than You Think In Two Years. Here’s How, Step by Step
Enough was enough. They would find a way to move somewhere warm and rural, where they could live off the land and keep what they earned. When they told their friends and family the plan, most thought it was just a dream. Read More |
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05.08.18- Everything You Need to Know To Grow a Big Crop of Cucumbers
Pickling cucumbers, like Boston Picklers are prolific when they get going and are perfect for canning, but slicing cucumbers are best for salads. Did you know that cucumbers have electrolytes and are high in potassium? So they’re a wonderfully refreshing snack to help you beat the Summer heat! Here are some cucumber growing facts: Read More |
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05.07.18- Wisconsin and Welfare: Work Works
Chris Kapenga, a Wisconsin state senator, said the sentence above in regard to welfare reform legislation recently passed in the Badger State. “We’re going to help people get 30 hours of work and move them closer to being self-sustained.” Of course, the state senator is only half right; the other steady road out of poverty is a healthy marriage. But the basic facts about the gains of work and marriage still seem to elude some people. Read More |
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05.05.18- Weekend Rant: Shocking Of What Is Being Taught To Our Children
They’re “public” schools, you know. Meaning that what is taught is what is commonly seen as “normal” in the public sector. Webster’s 1828 dictionary is my favorite place to go when I get stuck on words and especially the meaning of them. So I recently visited my favorite online resource http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com as I watched the tomfoolery masquerading as education in this nation. Read More |
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05.04.18- Can We Please Try Capitalism?
Stop! Enough is enough. I have had enough of people attacking capitalism as if they have the faintest clue what they are talking about. Read More |
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05.03.18- Banks, credit card companies explore ways to monitor gun purchases
Although the discussions resulted in nothing tangible — and ideas may never come to fruition — ideas tossed would help companies monitor gun purchases, which includes information on buyers, from retailers, the newspaper reported. Financial companies explored the concept of creating a new credit-card code for firearm dealers, similar to similar to how restaurants or department stores identify their transactions, the newspaper reported. Another idea would require retailers to share info about specific firearm products purchases. Read More |
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05.02.19- Deficits and Gold
This week’s chart compares the trailing 12-month federal deficit (as a percentage of GDP) to gold prices. The correlation is not perfect, but it is pretty good over time. The implication is that rising deficits should be bullish for gold prices. That certainly was the case during the 2000s, following the supposed surpluses of the late 1990s. Those were not actual surpluses, as the total federal debt actually went up in every one of those years. But for federal bookkeeping purposes, they were counted as surplus years. And gold certainly did poorly while that was going on. Read More |
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05.01.18- Inflation Is Back: Maybe The Phillips Curve Was “Just Resting”
The reasons for this glacially slow recovery include demographics, debt, foreign competition and automation. But it now appears that the delay was temporary rather than permanent. Different industries are getting desperate for workers at different rates, but those that are are are behaving pretty much the way the much-maligned Phillips Curve says they should, with surprisingly big raises. Read More |
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04.20.18- And . . . Yet Another Wells Fargo
Seriously– these banking scandals are happening with such regularity and predictability it would be almost comical. . . were it not for the millions of people who have had their lives turned upside down. The latest transgression involves, once again, our old friends at Wells Fargo. Read More |
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04.28.18- The End Of Our Empire Approaches
Do you have the nagging sense that our empire is in decline? If so, don't be embarrassed by it. Historically speaking, we’re in very good company. Far larger and longer-lived empires than ours have come and gone over the millennia. This was hit home for me on a recent trip. I scored a major "dad win" by taking my youngest daughter, Grace, to England for her 18th birthday (we live in Massachusetts, USA). Read More |
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04.27.18- Underfunded American Pensions Are
The math locomotive that is barreling down the railroad tracks to which criminally underfunded pensions are bound is inevitably going to make things extremely messy. There are going to be a whole lot of impassioned speeches, political posturing, and chest-thumping about this over the coming years. Read More |
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04.26.18- How The Globalism Con Game Leads To A 'New World Order'
There are other names for this engineered vision, including the “global economic reset,” or the more general and innocuous term “globalism,” but the intention is the same. The ultimate goal of the new world order as an ideology is total centralization of economic and governmental power into the hands of a select and unaccountable bureaucracy made up of international financiers. Read More |
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04.25.18- Without Mass Delusion About the USD, We’d Have a Currency Crisis Today
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04.24.18- Perspective
Now before you run off to Google this to learn more about it, realize that it did not happen yesterday, it did not happen a week ago, and it did not happen within the past year. Read More |
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04.23.18- A Better Way To Live
I came to it later in life after trying- and doing fairly well at the so-called American Dream life of high income/big house/more stuff lifestyle. Living a life dependent on other people to maintain your home, teach your children, look after your health, clean your house is a form of bondage. It’s bad for your body, your family, your soul and the better you do the more people around you envy what you have. You don’t inspire them to new heights, but to drag you down. And because you don’t want to lose what you have you make compromises in what you say and how you act and what you wear or drive, the list is endless. Read More |
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04.21.18- The Economy Is Cooked
Of course, those paying attention to the data already knew this. Our politicians and central planers have been peddling to us the fantasy that the global economy is strengthening, finally ready to fire on all cylinders after nearly ten years of dependence on monetary stimulus. That just ain't so. Read More |
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04.20.18- The War between Public Pensioners and Tax Donkeys Is Heating Up
You know it's serious when the newspaper of record finally reports it: A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash (New York Times). It's a long article but the summary is brief: corrupt politicos promised the moon to public employees, and now the fiscal chickens of insolvency are coming home to roost. Read More |
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04.19.18- Winter is Coming
The swirling fog of confusion enveloping the globe as the high lords of the universe play their game of thrones has even the most critical thinking individuals baffled by the course of events. The desperation and blatant lawlessness of the Deep State players in their endeavor to preserve their hegemony over the course of global affairs is palpable with every attack, false flag, accusation, and ratcheting up of their propaganda media machine. Read More |
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04.18.18- Crimes of a Monster:
Let us not mince words. We are living in an age of war profiteers. We are living in an age of scoundrels, liars, brutes and thugs. Many of them work for the U.S. government. We are living in an age of monsters. Read More |
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04.17.18- Boycotting Big Oil vs.
I then received a text from a much happier and outgoing friend of mine from Reno. He too was inquiring about my mental health and wondering if everything was OK. Read More |
I had received an incredibly rare call from an associate of mine. He is anti-social, a veritable hermit, pulling it off so well we call him Eeyore. He was concerned because my last podcast was "too depressing" and that he hadn't seen anything from me on Facebook for a while. I assured him I was fine and that everything was OK. |
04.16.18- World War III Will Be An Economic War
There are much more precise and effective weapons than nukes in the arsenal of the establishment globalists that manipulate political systems in various nations. Read More |
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04.14.18- 'For a Couple of Days There I Expected to Wake Up to Mushroom Clouds'
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04.13.18- Ten Days Before The End Of The World
There are no protests from European governments. There are no protesters in the streets of European and US cities. Congress has not reminded Trump that he has been given no authority by Congress to launch a military attack on a sovereign country that is likely to ignite a war, possibly World War 3. The moronic American presstitutes are egging it on. Read More |
The criminally insane governments of the US, UK, and France are sending a flotilla of missile ships, submarines, and an aircraft carrier to attack Syria in the face of Russian warnings. What is the likely outcome of this outrageous act of agression based entirely on an orchestrated and transparent lie, an act of reckless aggression that is more irresponsible and more dangerous than anything done by the demonized Nazi regime in Germany? |
04.12.18- China’s “Nuclear Option”
At first, this interest was purely economic, because the British refused to deal with the U.S. (for obvious reasons). So the Americans bought Chinese goods, and the Chinese bought from the Americans. And for most of U.S. history, things were good. But in 1949, with the rise of Mao and communist China, tensions rose. Read More |
The United States has been interested in economic relations with China since 1784, shortly after the American War for Independence. |
04.11.18- The U.S. Should Be Reaching out to Russia — Not Risking War
The list of bad acts laid at Putin’s feet is much longer than the one just recited, but you get the idea. He’s no Mr. Nice Guy. Read More |
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04.10.18- The Impending Recession Is Following a Similar Script from 2008
The short version is the banks were allowed (through the repeal of Glass-Steagall) to invest savings into derivatives. Here’s what happened: This required security backed mortgages, which in turn led to “interest only” mortgage loans marketed to people who couldn’t afford the payment when the “low payment” disappeared. Read More |
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…and Liberals Wonder Why Americans Are Buying More Guns?
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04.07.18- This Is The Turning Point
The saying "the worm has turned" refers to the moment when the downtrodden have finally had enough, and turn on their powerful oppressors. The worms have finally turned against the privileged elites -- who have benefited so greatly from globalization, corruption, central bank stimulus and the profiteering of state-enforced cartels. It doesn’t matter as much as the punditry assumes whether they are turning Left or Right; the important thing is that the powerless have finally started challenging their privileged overlords. Read More |
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04.06.18- Cashless society
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04.05.18- Why Millennials And Boomers
The study also points out that just 5% of working millennials are saving as much as financial experts recommend. The recommendation is 15% to 22% of salary, twice the amount recommended for previous generations. It’s not all bad news, of course. Read More |
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04.04.18- New technique stores summer heat until it's needed in winter
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04.03.18- He Ran Into My Knife Ten Times
Those seven words suggest anger, bleeding and murder… The American people have “run into a financial knife” many times in the last century. (Solutions listed at the end.)
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04.02.18- Guardianship … and how to avoid it
In fact, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association cites says the risk of developing Alzheimer’s doubles every five years once you hit 65. Once you get to age 85+, between 25% and 50% of people will exhibit signs of the disease. It’s a sobering truth: As many as 5.3 million Americans currently have Alzheimer’s. Read More |
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03.31.18- What If All the Cheap Stuff Goes Away?
One of the books I just finished reading is The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire. The thesis of the book is fascinating to those of us interested in the rise and fall of empires: Rome expanded for many reasons, but one that is overlooked was the good fortune of an era of moderate weather from around 200 BC to 150 AD: rain was relatively plentiful/ regular and temperatures were relatively warm. Read More |
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03.30.18- Investing for Freedom, Profit & Wealth Protection
Here, we expose several Main Freedom Threats and indicate how to help Surmount them and thus enhance Opportunities for Profit and Wealth Protection, and Privacy. It should be obvious that the farther away (physically and/or economically) Investors/Citizens are from centers of Economic, Financial and Political Power, the less Freedom and Clout (and often, accurate information) they have to protect their own interests. Read More |
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03.29.18- Tesla’s Irreversible Death Spiral
Tesla’s continued existence, despite obvious operational and financial problems that were growing in scale by the week, was enabled by the most lascivious monetary policy in U.S. Central Bank history. For me the coup de grace was the $1.5 billion junk bond deal floated last summer. It was emblematic of rookie money managers, unsupervised children in the sandbox, shoveling other people’s money into a cash-burning furnace. Read More |
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03.28.18- Bob Moriarty: Investors Should Be Looking For A Cave To Hide In
CEO Technician: The market is looking precarious after a rough finish to last week. Do you think there is a risk of a major crash soon? Read More |
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03.27.18- Global Economic Collapse
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03.26.18- The Great American Unspooling
The ominous silence enveloping the DOJ the week after Andrew McCabe’s firing — and before the release of the FBI Inspector General’s report — suggests to me that a grand jury is about to convene and indictments are in process, not necessarily from Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s office. Read More |
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03.24.18- Killing Each Other
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03.23.18- China Is One Signature Away From Dealing The Dollar A Death Blow Some intruders are worse than others. All can be annoying. But let in a thief, who robs your home… and it only takes that one time to change your life forever. The U.S. has essentially left their “sliding glass door” open, and on March 26 China is set to become the intruder that may very well deal a death blow to the dollar. Read More |
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03.22.18- Civil Insurrection: A Modest Proposal for Ending the United States
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03.21.18- Are Alt-Coins On The Verge
Those conditions, unfortunately, became reality. We have since seen both Ether and Verge, highlighted in that article, slide to new lows below the February 6th low. Bitcoin and Ripple did not fall below their February 6th levels, but did confirm the unlikelihood of that low marking the beginning of an impulsive wave. Read More |
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03.20.18- 74% Of Americans Believe The "Deep State" Is Running The Country
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03.19.18- How to negotiate directly with physicians and hospitals.
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03.17.18- New Jersey’s Desperate (And Disturbing) Plan to Save Its Public Pension
New Jersey (NJ) has the 2nd worst credit rating and the most underfunded public pension fund in the U.S. In a move that resembles “robbing Peter to pay Paul,” NJ is now preparing to raise taxes. But they’re taking the simple idea of raising taxes to a whole new level… Read More |
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03.16.18- The egregious errors of static statistics
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Lord Macaulay wrote this nearly two hundred years ago. His aphorism is particularly apposite of modern politicians, and also of the modern state itself, which is meant to be selfless in the interest of the common good. We can be certain that when a person moves from outside to inside the machinery of the state, he or she changes from representing the people to representing the state. Presumably there are honourable exceptions to this rule, but offhand, it’s hard to think of any in contemporary politics.  |
03.15.18- Trump Is Bringing Control of the Secret Space Program Under the Control of the Elected Government
The technology was obtained from captured German scientists. In 1983, my father, who had worked with captured German scientists from 1957 to 1965, told me that he was convinced that NASA was a fraud used to secretly funnel money to the secret space program. He told me that the technology that he was reverse engineering, from 1957 and on, was hundreds of years beyond anything NASA was working on and as he watched NASA unfold, the technological development of the agency, covering nearly three decades was stagnant and did not reflect the level of sophistication that he would have seen in NASA. Read More |
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03.14.18- Immigration and California
At one point, California was the golden standard of the country. If offered the fulfillment of dreams and opportunities of a better lifestyle. Today, because of the progressive socialist who have pushed their Marxist principles upon the American people. Read More |
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03.13.18- The New Color Line: American Suicide
Most Americans are unaware of Identity Politics, and those who hear about it dismiss it as something silly. But it is the core politics of the Democratic Party and the liberal/progressive/left that is rivaling the neoconservatives for control over the American psyche. Read More |
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03.12.18- Faux fasting diet regenerates pancreas to reverse diabetes
Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes center around insulin, or rather, the lack thereof. Put very simply, in type 1 diabetes, the body – specifically, the pancreas – stops producing insulin, while in type 2 diabetes, the body doesn't use insulin properly and eventually is unable to produce enough insulin to compensate. Read More |
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03.10.8- Big Alcohol Hasn’t Been This Scared Since Prohibition
I don’t mean alcohol executives have watched the propaganda film Reefer Madness one too many times… I say this because marijuana is a grave threat to their business. Even Molson Coors admits this. Coors is one of the largest U.S. beer companies. It sells the popular brands Blue Moon and Miller Light (among many others). Read More |
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03.09.18- The Heart of the Problem
Not a one of them represents ‘We the People‘ – they only represent BIG Corporate lobbies, and/or those who serve the military industrial complex, or Israel – or whomever THEY feel will line THEIR pocketbooks. Read More |
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03.08.18- The Anti-China “Silver Bullet”
“Fine!! See how you like it when we don’t buy any of your fancy BMW’s or Audi’s!!!”
And so the shouting match has started. It seems we’re on the cusp of a global trade war. Read More |
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03.07.18- How China’s Social Credit Score Will Shape the “Perfect” Citizen
Well imagine if there was a social credit system. But it was the government that used it to decide who could travel, or live in certain apartments. Imagine if your social credit was too low to send your kids to a private school, or get a better job. But what kind of behavior would warrant such a score? |
If you have too much debt and bad credit, it may be tough to get credit cards and loans. The idea is that people less likely to pay pack lenders get less credit. |
03.06.18- America’s Pension Crisis
I’ve re-posted below my view of the looming pension system melt-down that I shared with Dr. Roberts. Read More |
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03.05.18- Why You Should Ignore Market Experts
People want certainly. David Freedman, in his 2010 book “Wrong” offers the example of a person suffering from back pain. He visits two doctors to review his MRI. One doctor says that he has seen many similar cases and that it’s hard to say exactly what’s wrong. He suggests trying out a treatment and going from there. The other doctor says that he knows exactly what is wrong and knows what to do. Which doctor will he choose? Read More |
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03.03.18- What the Latest “Warren Buffett Warning” Means for You
That massive pile of cash exists because Mr. Buffett makes decisions that end up producing stable, consistent returns. Each year, Berkshire releases an annual letter, and investors take his insights to heart because of their respect for his success. This year’s letter was quite unique, as Buffett announced a decision that should serve as a warning for stock investors… Read More |
In his annual letter to investors, Warren Buffett made a somewhat shocking disclosure. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, now has a cash-on-hand balance of more than $116 billion. |
03.02.17- In Defense of the Right to
After burying their dead, the survivors have mobilized into a mighty political force that loosely seeks more laws to regulate the right to keep and bear arms. The young people, traumatized and terrified with memories of unspeakable horror that will not fade, somehow think that a person bent on murder will obey gun laws. Read More |
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03.01.18- FBI and Sheriff Either Failed Miserably Before Parkland Shooting… Or Much Worse
The shooter was handed to the Broward County Sheriff’s office and the FBI on a silver platter multiple times. There were tips that specifically mentioned school shootings. There were threats made by the shooter, which again, specifically mentioned school shootings. Read More |
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02.28.18- Goldilocks Is Dead
It appears every president finds the religion of false economic narrative once they ascend to power. Trump never stops babbling and tweeting about the fantastic economy and raging jobs market since his election. He has embraced the stock market bubble as proof of his brilliant leadership, rather than the tens of trillions in debt propping up the most overvalued market in world history. Read More |
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02.27.18- John McAfee: "Bitcoin Will Reach
After what I experienced last weekend at the Bitcoin, Ethereum, & Blockchain SuperConference, I couldn’t agree more. Expert after expert specifically noted that blockchain tech is the equivalent of the internet in 1996. Read More |
According to my colleague Ray Blanco,“the biggest blockchain stock explosion of 2018 is set to erupt, unleashing a tsunami of wealth for investors.” |
02.26.18- How Puerto Rico Could Turn Disaster into a Decentralized Paradise
Many Puerto Ricans are still without power from the large-scale grid failure after Hurricane Maria last fall. Some are not expected to be reconnected to the grid until April or May. Read More |
Could the massive failure of the Puerto Rican government-run energy grid be a blessing in disguise? It has the potential to set Puerto Rico on a course of self-sufficiency and individual empowerment for decades to come. |
02.24.18- Dow Jones Tanks
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During the last 90 minutes of trading on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Index tanked by 400 points. Supposedly, the steep selloff had something to do with the release of the Fed minutes. However, today, the market has reversed once again and is up by 200 points. Unfortunately for mainstream investors, it doesn’t matter what the Fed or Wall Street have to say; the broader markets will continue to fall precipitously over the next few years.  |
02.23.18- This Time Is Completely Different---But Not In A Good Way!
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If you don't think the stock market is a giant accident waiting to happen, just consider the two most crucial developments----soaring stocks and soaring deficits--- since November 7, 2016. |
02.22.18- 5 Best Performing Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin for example, the world's biggest virtual currency by market capitalization, lost about 25% in January, its biggest monthly percentage decline in three years, amid increased fears over regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and Asia. Despite its modest recovery in recent days, Bitcoin prices remain down about 18% since the start of 2018. Read More |
The start of 2018 wasn't particularly auspicious for cryptocurrencies...to say the least. The value of the market dropped by a whopping $93 billion, to hit a low of $276 billion on February 6, well off the all-time high of $834 billion reached in the early days of January. |
02.21.18- Do You Believe In BLS Unicorns?
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The chart below says there has been 55.6% inflation over the last 20 years. That is just less than a 2.4% annual level of inflation. What a load of bullshit. Let’s look at a couple of categories listed below and do a smell test. Everyone knows the prices of TVs have fallen dramatically, but 99% – I don’t think so. I was able to find the price of a 28 inch Samsung TV in 1997 – $750. The same size Samsung TV costs $200 today. That’s a 73% decrease. The good old BLS says the decrease is really 99% because the new TV does so much more. They call this a hedonic adjustment.  |
02.20.18- The System Is Breaking Down: Collapse Is All But Guaranteed
Oligarchs, though they speak of deconstructing the administrative state, actually increase deficits and the size and power of law enforcement and the military to protect their global business interests and ensure domestic social control. The parts of the state that serve the common good wither in the name of deregulation and austerity. The parts that promote the oligarchs’ power expand in the name of national security, economic growth and law and order. – Chris Hedges Read More |
“It’s mind-boggling that tens of millions are so easily divided and conquered…avoiding at all costs what’s really going on in this country, such as…” |
02.19.18- How Ending The Gold Standard
Once the gold standard ended, the Nixon administration went to Saudi Arabia to strike up a deal that would give immense power to the US’s rent-seeking elites for many decades to come. This deal created what’s known as the Petrodollar system. In exchange for weapons and military support, the Saudis agreed to sell their oil exclusively in dollars. Read More |
Politicians, economic “experts” and the talking heads in mainstream media will never tell you that monetary policy is the most important issue facing the United States. Whether you realize it or not, monetary policy has a direct and significant impact on all our lives. When the US abandoned the gold standard in the early 1970’s, it steered our economy toward a cliff that we are closer than ever to driving over. |
02.17.18- Bankers and Policy Makers Sowing Seeds of Next Banking Crisis
The scary thing is, this complacency is sowing the seeds for the next banking crisis, which could start this year. The Seeds of the Next Baking Crisis Read More |
The U.S. has a long list of economic challenges. But over the last few years, complacency by bankers and economic policy makers has been added as a big part of that list. |
02.16.18- A Million Dollars a Minute
Now imagine that this happens every minute of every day for the next three years. At the end of the three years, you owe back more than $6 trillion. So you borrow $6 trillion to pay back the $6 trillion you owe. Is this unending spigot of cash reality or fantasy? Read More |
Imagine you open the faucet of your kitchen sink expecting water and instead out comes cash. Now imagine that it comes out at the rate of $1 million a minute. You call your plumber, who thinks you’re crazy. To get you off the phone, he opines that it is your sink and therefore must be your money. So you spend it wildly. Then you realize that the money wasn’t yours and you owe it back. |
02.15.18- Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming Present Legislation Supporting Cryptocurrency
On Thursday, the Arizona Senate passed a bill that would allow residents to pay income taxes using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This implementation has practical significance, allowing the use of cryptocurrencies as a payment option in a state revenue system legitimizes them as an everyday alternative payment medium. Read More |
Lawmakers in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming have all recently taken legislative action that seeks to further support cryptocurrency. |
02.14.18- The Threat of Contagion
But, once there was blood in the water, every shark within miles descended on the marlin and devoured it. By the time Santiago got to shore, there was nothing left of the marlin but the bill, the tail and some bones. In this metaphor, the marlin is XIV. During regular trading hours last Monday, there was not much blood in the water. But, once traders saw the damage to VIX, they smelled blood in terms of the value of XIV. Read More |
To understand the risk of contagion, you can think of the marlin in Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea. The marlin started out as a prize catch lashed to the side of the fisherman Santiago’s boat. |
02.13.18- Crypto Alert: Relief is Ahead
On Tuesday 99% of the top 100 coins by market cap were in the red. Stories about banks cutting off services to companies and individuals who work with crypto, shutting down their bank accounts, turning off their crypto-loaded credit cards, shutting down their merchant accounts and even freezing their assets have sent coin values spiraling. Read More |
The crypto market took some massive hits this week, mirroring action we’ve seen in the stock market. |
02.12.18- Has YOUR computer been ‘cryptojacked’?
Nothing comes for free, especially online. Websites and apps that don’t charge you for their services are often collecting your data or bombarding you with advertising. Now some sites have found a new way to make money from you: using your computer to generate virtual currencies. Several video streaming sites and the popular file sharing network The Pirate Bay have allegedly been ‘cryptojacking’ their users’ computers in this way, as has the free wifi provider in a Starbucks cafe in Argentina. Read More |
Experts reveal how to tell if hackers are using it to mine bitcoin |
02.10.18- Revisionism
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On hearing the word ‘revisionism,’ suspicion lurks in the mind of some, and alarms sound in the mind of others. Suspicion is the elder sister of twins, credulity and incredulity. And of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate and wonderful is that of zealots; of men who resign the use of their eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow. |
02.09.18- Alan Greenspan's Critical Warning
Speaking on Bloomberg Television, he said: I think there are two bubbles. We have a stock market bubble and we have a bond market bubble. Experts are always making predictions about how the markets are going to go. However, when a former head of the Fed tells us his opinion, it’s best to pay attention. Read More |
On January 31, two full days before the stock market’s recent sell off, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan issued a warning. |
02.08.18- When Injustice Takes Hold: Freedom – Liberty – Really???
As I last asked, if an official swears to uphold the Constitution for the united States of America, your state’s constitution, and laws thereof, how the heck can they do so if they do not know the laws they must uphold? I had a terrible thought that woke me after a couple of hours sleep. I have believed most of my life that America began because of people that wanted religious freedom and to escape the absolute rule of so-called “Royalty”. In reference to the latter, they wanted to be free of the “feudal system” of Europe. Read More |
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02.07.18- Yesterday’s Collapse Was Just The First Stage of a Rude Awakening
Few understand what happened to the financial system after 2008. What happened was that the debt based financial system began to implode as debt deflation took hold. The scary thing is that it wasn’t even a large amount of debt deflation. Remember the 2008 Crisis? That time when everyone thought the world was literally going to end? Read More |
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02.06.18- Former Lehman Trader: "There’s More Pain To Come For Markets
There’s been a rapid deterioration in market fundamentals and that means that, even at these much lower prices, global stocks don’t look attractive yet. Read More |
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02.05.18- The U.S. Dollar’s “Hidden Tax” Could Spell Disaster for Your Wealth
It’s partly because that’s the stated desire of many within the White House, who may very well be playing a shell game of sorts. You see, right now, the U.S. economy is projecting several signs of strength — at least according to many mainstream metrics. But this “shell game misdirect” might be coming at the expense of the dollar. Read More |
For over a year now, the U.S. dollar has experienced a steady, continuous decline in value. |
02.03.18- Trump’s Financial Arsonists - The Next Financial Crisis - Not If, But When
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There’s been lots of fire and fury around Washington lately, including a brief government shutdown. In Donald Trump’s White House, you can hardly keep up with the ongoing brouhahas from North Korea to Robert Mueller’s Russian investigation, while it already feels like ages since the celebratory mood over the vast corporate tax cuts Congress passed last year. But don’t be fooled: none of that is as important as what’s missing from the picture. Like a disease, in the nation’s capital it’s often what you can’t see that will, in the end, hurt you most.  |
02.02.18- Introducing "Trumpfrastructure"
I don’t blame you if you skipped out early. Because according to one commentator, this was the third longest speech of its kind in American history! But if you did turn off the TV to call it a night early, you may have missed the latest information on Trump’s $1.5 trillion plan. And as an investor, you do NOT want to miss out on the opportunities behind this spending plan. So today, we’re going to take a look at the President’s newest priority, and zero in on the best ways you can use “Trumpfrastructure” to build your wealth…Read More |
Did you watch Trump’s State of the Union Address? The whole thing?? |
02.01.18- Stormy Weather
It’s hard not to be impressed by the evidence in the public record that the FBI misbehaved pretty badly around the various election year events of 2016. And who, besides Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, and Dean Baquet of The New York Times, can pretend to be impressed by the so far complete lack of evidence of Russian “meddling” to defeat Hillary Clinton? I must repeat: so far. Read More |
For those of us who are not admirers of President Trump, it’s even more painful to see the Democratic opposition descend into the stupendous dishonesty of the Russian Collusion story. When the intelligentsia of the nation loses its ability to think — when it becomes a dis-intelligentsia — then there are no stewards of reality left. Trump is crazy enough, but the “resistance” is dragging the country into dangerous madness. |
01.31.18- Immigration Lies and Hypocrisy
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President Donald Trump reportedly asked why the U.S. is “having all these people from shithole countries come here.” I think he could have used better language, but it’s a question that should be asked and answered. I have a few questions for my fellow Americans to consider. How many Norwegians have illegally entered our nation, committed crimes and burdened our prison and welfare systems? I might ask the same question about Finnish, Swedish, Welsh, Icelanders, Greenlanders and New Zealanders. The bulk of our immigration problem is with people who enter our country criminally from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East. It’s illegal immigrants from those countries who have committed crimes and burdened our criminal justice and welfare systems.  |
01.30.18- Did the NSA Create Bitcoin to Usher in One World Currency?
When you first hear that, it is pretty jarring. It seems like a smoking gun! Case closed, conspiracy theory proven. But the NSA creates a lot of cryptography code. Some of it works and is widely adopted. Read More |
It is true, the National Security Agency created part of the code for Bitcoin. |
01.29.18- Proof That 50 Years of Drug Policy is Based on Lies
It is not just the likes of Hitler that destroy generations. Countless much more subtle politicians have exerted influence on hundreds of millions of lives for decades after their stint in government. Yet most people don’t even blink an eye at that kind of power. They shrug it off. And that is truly terrifying. Case and point is research that laid the foundation for half a century of drug policy. Read More |
More terrifying than monsters, murderers, snakes, and rats: politicians. They create horror stories that go on for decades. And their tales are real. |
01.27.18- Hidden In Plain View / Eyes Wide Shut
The average middle class household is getting squeezed by an income that is not keeping up with the cost of living. Unfortunately, a major portion of the cost of living has become debt service. Most car buyers assume an almost insane amount of debt to buy a new car. Credit card debt is being used to make ends meet. Low-to-no down payment mortgages have funded most of the homes sold over the last few years. The problem, however, is that the financial system enables this behavior. One has to wonder if this was not intentional… Read More |
The impending economic collapse is hidden from most. People only see a rising stock market, not the negative underlying factors that will cause the whole system to crash.– Peter Schiff |
01.26.18- 5 Reasons Why I think Bitcoin Will Hit $100,000
For the entirety of my trading career I have tried to avoid buying and holding. Every time I put on a trade I do so with a clear exit plan in mind. I NEVER go into positions with the intention to hold them for an undetermined amount of time. Until now… There’s one market and one investment that has made me completely change my attitude about “buy and hold” as a trading strategy… That’s the bitcoin market. Read More |
“Buy and hold” isn’t a trading strategy. |
01.25.18- Crypto-Currencies Hack |
Earlier this week I blogged about some of the dangers that I believe to reside in the new crypto-currency fad. To recapitulate, in my opinion those dangers are twofold, as they relate to (1) the closed nature of the system itself which is a deep sort of philosophical issue that I have addressed in various books and interviews about the relationship of one's "physics" to one's "financial views", and (2) to the inherent vulnerability of all cyber-systems to hacking, external manipulations and so on. It is the latter possibility with which I have been concerned of late, for when these crypto-currencies first emerged, my first thought was that they were - because of cyber-vulnerability - almost a perfect way to augment and enhance a hidden system of finance.  |
01.24.18- Prepare for the Downfall of the Dollar
Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all emergency plan that will protect you from every kind of crisis. Part of prepping is taking all precautions you can and remaining flexible — because you never know what may happen. Financial crises — like a stock market crash or a complete devaluation of the dollar — are a little trickier to plan for than a hurricane or blackout, for example. Preparing for an economic disaster isn’t a simple matter of saving money at home or acquiring a stash of gold and silver (although you absolutely should). There are other options you should look into as well. Read More |
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01.23.18- First the Battle Flag, Then What Remains
Occasionally I will read articles on the ostensibly conservative web site, Townhall.com. Indeed, my good friend Jack Kerwick has published some fine pieces there. Recently, Paul Gottfried forwarded on to me an essay written by a Neoconservative Republican operative, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, “The Confederate Flag is Anti-American,” and I wanted to make a few comments on it while my blood pressure is sky high. One of my bete noires continues to be the group of East Coast, mostly New York, largely (but certainly not exclusively) Jewish intellectuals who now dominate and generally control what is called “Conservatism.” Read More |
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01.22.18- Asteroid Strikes, Plague, and Economic Meltdown: Government Shutdown 2018!
According to CNN, that is what we should fear from this “government shutdown.” People have to hype it up in order to give the impression that the government matters. In reality, this just reveals why we shouldn’t trust the government to do anything essential in our lives. Read More |
Asteroid strikes, flu plague, and economic meltdown. |
01.20.18- The Social (IN)Security Charade
I compared our 2018 benefit statement with 2015. Our Cost of Living Increase (COLA) was 2.3% – (1.15% annually). Our net payments dropped approximately 1.75% – we are clearing less today than we did in 2015. Why did that happen? Read More |
I’m frequently asked, “Should I count on social security when doing retirement planning?” The best approach is to discuss what my wife Jo and I have experienced. |
01.19.18- How To Capture a Wild Pig: The Allure of Free Stuff and New Tech
A smart farmer knew that if he went out with his dogs and nets and cattle prods to capture wild pigs that the pigs would run amok. It would take tremendous energy to round them up. They would violently resist. Some would get away. Some would fight back and possibly injure him or his dogs. And when he finally got them in the pen, his troubles would only be starting. He would have to build the pen to withstand extreme pressure from within. The pigs would try to escape. They may refuse to eat. They would resist any kind of intervention he may attempt, from medical treatment to pen improvements. Read More |
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01.18.18- The Organized Government Attack On Cryptocurrency - The Revolution Can't Be Stopped
(Before checking out the YouTube version below, please consider checking us out on DTube first, as we attempt to being pulling away from YouTube and Google in general) Read More |
Today we saw a major drop in the cryptocurrency market, and simply by looking at the coordinated timing of the different government statements and releases, it becomes clear that this was a concerted effort to bring down the market. Now whether that was to be able to slide in and scoop up all the currency for pennies on the dollar, or just to collapse it all together, is up for you to decide, but I no longer think that is possible. The revolution can no longer be stopped. Stay Vigilant. |
01.17.18- This fund’s investment performance rivals Bitcoin, puts Warren Buffett to shame.
In fact, a few days ago the company announced that they expect to report an annual profit of $55 BILLION for 2017. That’s more money than Apple makes… which makes this European group THE most profitable company in the world. Its stock price has more than QUINTUPLED in the past three years, and nearly tripled in the last nine months. Those are practically cryptocurrency returns. And it crushes the stock performance of Apple, Amazon, etc. Read More |
There’s a really unique investment company in Europe you ought to know about… because they are insanely profitable. |
01.16.18- Social Security proposes “immediate and permanent reduction” in benefits
It was a supernova… one that they named ASASSN-15lh. This wasn’t just any supernova. It was the BIGGEST and BRIGHTEST supernova ever recorded. Supernovas are exploding stars whose ejected mass and energy can create a light show so brilliant that they can sometimes be seen with the naked eye in our own night sky. Read More |
On a deep, dark evening last June in the spectacularly celestial deserts of northern Chile, scientists made a phenomenal discovery. |
01.15.18- Has This Country Gone Completely Mad?
Pick a subject. Any one you want. Write about it. And no matter what it is…you’ll soon see a firestorm of responses filled with hate, bigotry, foul language, bitterness, race-baiting, name calling and even threats on your life. Is this what the most advanced society and freedom-loving Country in the world has come to? Read More |
It appears that every non-conservative individual or group in this Country has lost their freaking minds!! I have never seen such utter chaos than what we are seeing today!! And an awful lot of it is downright ugly, immoral and vulgar both in words and actions, and in many cases unlawful. |
01.13.18- Productivity: A Question of Focus, Health, Politics & Money
My question had been intentionally open, and as such, I received feedback on productivity ideas pertaining to both personal and professional life. In some ways, answers were all over the place, including numerous answers that I had no idea were somehow related to productivity. Read More |
Last week, I asked, “What would make 2018 more productive for you? Please email me the first thing that comes to your mind.” Before I summarize the responses, a big thank you to the 800+ people who sent me personalized responses. Someone pointed out that asking the question itself already helped because it motivated her to review her plans and targets.  |
01.12.18- The Human Emotion
Today, a brief reflection on that ignoble but staggeringly human emotion… It is said a man is jealous of his betters. But it is only partly true. The average man harbors no jealousy for the great man. He is not jealous of the Alexanders… the Caesars… the Napoleons of this world. Read More |
More men die of jealousy than die of cancer, said Joseph Kennedy. |
01.11.18- My Two Big Bets on the Pension Crisis
In the US, unfunded public pension liabilities have surpassed $5 trillion. And that’s during an epic stock and bond market bubble. Predictably, the government’s go-to “solution” is already making matters worse. At first, distressed states simply increase taxes. The state comptroller of Illinois—the most financially troubled state thanks to its pension crisis—summed it up well. He said: “We can’t go bankrupt and we can’t print money. Taxpayers are going to have to pay this bill.” Read More |
Public pensions are a financial time bomb… and I see two ways to profit from the explosion. |
01.10.18- Why does money inflate?
To help answer some of these questions, let's go far back in time. We'll divide the last one thousand or so years into three monetary eras: the silver coin period, metal-backed notes, and fiat money. How would the nature of inflation have changed as you passed from one era into the next? Read More |
People who live in developed nations have grown used to inflation of around 2% a year over the last few decades. Why do prices generally rise by that amount? What drives the purchasing power of money in these countries? Why can’t prices stay constant year-over-year rather than increasing? |
01.09.18- Signs of Impending Economic Recession Pile Up Early in 2018
After all, these were the actions of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, a financial institution responsible for managing two trillion dollars. The company’s CIO, Mike Wilson, revealed the company’s reasons for doing so in a note he distributed on Wednesday, explaining: Read More |
Signs of a coming recession are becoming clearer every day. And when one of the world’s biggest brokerage firms  |
01.08.18- ALERT: Climate Engineering out of control - Go long defense
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If you live in USA you may have noticed recently the weather is really weird. As this is not being widely reported in the ALT media, we felt an obligation to start a conversation. So let's lead into this with a bombastic statement - Raytheon (RTN) controls the weather. How is this possible you say? Let's start with a background on GeoEngineering / Climate Modifcation whatever you call it. There's basically one site, well documented, that has a list of information and documents including but not limited to laws passed by the US Senate, Patents filed on climate modification technology, and related issues, start with the  |
01.06.18- How quickly will the dollar collapse?
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This might seem a frivolous question, while the dollar still retains its might, and is universally accepted in preference to other, less stable fiat currencies. However, it is becoming clear, at least to independent monetary observers, that in 2018 the dollar’s primacy will be challenged by the yuan as the pricing medium for energy and other key industrial commodities. After all, the dollar’s role as the legacy trade medium is no longer appropriate, given that China’s trade is now driving the global economy, not America’s.  |
01.05.18- Why You Should Embrace the Twilight of the Debt Bubble Age
The recently retired always seem to have the biggest axe to grind. Take Jack Lew, for instance. He started off the New Year by sharpening his axe on the grinding wheel of the GOP tax bill. On Tuesday, he told Bloomberg Radio that the new tax bill will explode the debt and leave people sick and starving. Read More |
People are hard to please these days. Clients, customers, and cohorts – the whole lot. They’re quick to point out your faults and flaws, even if they’re guilty of the same derelictions. |
01.04.18- Victim Blame: Let the People Go Their Separate Ways
In 1991, when Ukraine and Belarus declared their independence from the USSR, things did not end violently. They were allowed to exit the union peacefully. The Soviet Union dissolved without further violence. Of course, there was plenty of past violence the Soviet Union had used since 1922 to keep Ukraine under their control. This included the orchestrated famines in the 1930’s which killed around 4 million Ukrainians. Read More |
The United States was founded on secession. It didn’t have to be violent, but it was. Whose fault was that? Was it the United States’ fault for insisting on more local governance? Or was it England’s fault for  |
01.03.18- Simple wisdom from one of the most famous people to go broke
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So drink up and party down while you still can. You’ll want to sober up quickly so that you can face 2018 with a degree of seriousness, because a lot of the craziness that didn’t quite bubble to the surface is 2017 is now primed for a 2018 eruption. Read More |
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01.01.18- Part 3 Sleaze, Various Other Truth Bombs
The first part is certainly not all inclusive but is wide ranging. That said, 2018 looks to be shaping up as barn burner for the arrests of child molesters and human traffickers. Not only are there over 10,000 sealed indictments, President Trump shocked the world by signing this executive order. I do have concern over this as I believe it steps over the line of considering someone guilty before being proven innocent. Seizing assets prevents one from defending themselves, but if this is necessary to stop what is going on in the world of pedophilia, so be it. Read More |
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12.30.17- Freedom: Achieved By The Positive Or Negative?
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12.29.17- “Insidious White Spaces”: Liberal Professors Claim That Farmers Markets Are Now Racist
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J Bosco made the insane claims in a chapter of a new anthology released this month that “researches” the correlation between how white a specific farmers market supposedly is and the gentrification in said area. Read More |
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12.28.17- Change is Upon Us, it is Time for the People to Act
A time comes when all must open their eyes to an unsavory truth. Americans find themselves questioning whether the decisions being made are in the best interest of the people, or in the interest of secrecy, power and money. There are still those in the government who believe in the constitution; what seems to have become no more than a historical relic to far too many. There are a few courageous and honor bound individuals who have the strength of heart to stand up for what they believe to be right even in the face of insurmountable opposition.Read More |
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12.27.17- The Logic, Wisdom and Scientific Evidence for the Homeopathic Treatment of Influenza
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12.26.17- GERALD CELENTE – Get Prepped for Global Systemic Collapse New 2018
There is no better indicator of increasing globalization.The interdependence of massive global interactions and structures has caused systemic risk to increase exponentially in recent times. Tangible risks—in systems as diverse as energy exploration and production, electricity transmission, computer networks, healthcare, food and water supplies, transportation networks, commerce, and finance—now threaten global political, economic, and financial systems that affect citizens of every nation. As a result, the study of risk has the potential to become an important and influential academic and policy field. Read More |
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12.25.17- America The Beautiful!
In 2016, I was bummed out. The negative political crap from the election left much of the country exhausted and frustrated. I was ready to turn the corner from the daily hysteria and melodrama in the media. In 2017 things just got worse, by December I was exhausted, mentally worn out! Read More |
I’m grinning like a Jack in the box clown today. I haven’t felt this good in a long time. I’ll be doggone if I will let anything change my mood. When you are done reading, I’m hoping you feel the same way. |
12.23.17- Political Pizza
Picture this: You live in a relatively small town. It’s a good place to live, with most townspeople being mutually supportive and often quite helpful. There are just a few local restaurants, each owned and operated by your fellow townsmen. You go out to eat often, to support your community. Read More |
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12.22.17- A Review Of The Most Disturbing Events Of 2017
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12.21.17- More Tail Winds for Cryptos
More Tail Winds for Cryptos As of late, I’ve had a lot to say about cryptocurrencies. I announced on CNBC, for example, that I predicted bitcoin could easily reach $1 million by the end of 2020. I compare the current crypto boom to the dot com boom of the late ‘90s. Most of the dot coms went bust and you never heard from them again. But some of the survivors went on to great things. Think of Amazon. Read More |
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12.20.17- Aristotle said there are three types of friendship, but only one we should strive for
At age 17, Aristotle enrolled in the Platonic Academy. He would stay there for 20 years. Founded by the father of Western philosophy, the Greek philosopher Plato, Aristotle was the most promising student around. He asked many questions and answered even more. Read More |
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12.19.17- Zach’s #1 Favorite Year-End Tax Tip! - Plus, 5 Must Knows For The Week Before Christmas
I was expecting to write to you today with some bad news about the new tax bill. One version of the bill that I saw placed restrictions on how you could sell your shares of stock. The restriction would have hurt smart retirees who invested wisely by charging higher taxes on investment gains. But as it turns out, the new tax bill leaves a special loophole open for investors. Today, I want to make sure that you’re aware of this loophole so you can make your investment gains stretch as far as possible. Let’s take a look at this perfectly legal tax loophole… Read More |
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12.18.17- BREAKING: Your Internet is About to Drastically Change
It was simply amazing. Download and upload speeds were exponentially faster than any cable or fiber internet available. At a fraction of what we were paying previously to one of the “Big Cable” companies too. We were in internet service provider heaven.Read More |
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12.16.17- What If Trump Really Is Draining The Swamp?
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What would it look like? Would you recognize it if you saw it? What would you say if I said that Draining The Swamp has already begun? What if I told you World War III has already begun?  |
12.15.17- As Bitcoin Surges To New Record Highs, 5 Lessons For Every Crypto Investor
Overnight Asian demand sent the cyrptocurrency to a new record high at $17,934 (Bitstamp). Whatever you think of bitcoin and crypto currencies, there is plenty to learn from their ascent, even if it is still a small part of the global financial system. Forget the noise of “Biggest bubble ever” – the market cap of the NASDAQ was $3.7 trillion in 1999 and fell 70% (a total of $2.6 trillion) by 2002. That puts the total of $500 billion in all crypto currencies outstanding into the correct context. Read More |
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12.14.17- What are Rights? Do Rights Even Exist?
A right defines a state of being; it describes a condition. “Right of way,” is how we describe who has first use of a road. People can certainly ignore the concept of a right of way. But that doesn’t void the concept. Right of way still serves as a tool to establish who is liable should a car accident occur. In the same way, a right serves as a natural basis for who is wrong in a given dispute. It establishes who should be held accountable in a legal setting. And “legal” does not just refer to our current court system. Common law is a natural law system which solves disputes. Read More |
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12.13.17- U.S. Government Criminal Enterprise – Catherine Austin Fitts
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12.12.17- The Magic Trick
Then, the US got itself into economic trouble over the War of 1812 and needed money. In 1816, a Second Bank of the United States was created. Andrew Jackson took the same view as Mister Jefferson before him and, in 1836, succeeded in getting the bank dissolved. Read More |
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12.11.17- How Amazon and Google Smart Speaker Competition Reveals The Future of Government
These smart speakers listen to everything that happens around them. Ostensibly this is to make shopping, playing music, and finding information easy. But the internet of things presents way too many risks to our privacy. Internet-connected technologies are already used to incriminate their owners in court. And that is the main thing which scares me. Self-driving cars, smart watches, and smart homes controlled entirely from your phone sound really cool and convenient. But I don’t want the government to have that kind of knowledge about me. I might feel differently if I knew the info wasn’t going anywhere beyond Google or Amazon headquarters. Read More |
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12.09.17- Weekend Rant: Stranger Things
Primer: quantitative easing (QE) is a the Federal Reserve’s weasel phrase for its practice of just creating “money” out of thin air, which it uses to buy US Treasury bonds (and other stuff). The Fed buys this stuff through intermediary Too Big To Fail banks which allows them to cream off a cut and, theoretically, pump the “money” into the economy. This “money” is the “liquidity.” Read More |
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12.08.17- The Inevitable Gravitational
Everything degrades over time without exception. Of course there are diverging regenerations within time’s decay but all is fleeting and cannot last. Just as the laws of thermodynamics universally define, a system will exist in a particular state and may cycle through varying states, but in the end, it will return to the equilibrium, or stasis, of inert uniformity. Life is a like a rotating heat engine of sorts, catapulting energy over the cold fabric of space-time as the lexicon of Physics continuously hold singular meaning in our daily existence: laws, work, heat, constant pressure, and cycles. Yet, sadly, total efficiency is achieved in theory only; this is because entropy precludes perfection within the confines of time. Read More |
Entropy is the general trend of the universe toward death and disorder.—James R. Newman (1907–1966), Mathematician and Math Historian  |
12.07.17- Why The Globalists Need A War,
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The government has that power. But it is part of the magical myth of government legitimacy. That is the main service government provides: legitimacy. It can make stealing legitimate. It can make kidnapping legitimate. It can make assassinations, genocides, and wars legitimate. And the government can also make housing deeds legitimate. They do the official processing to make sure that everything is in order. In their sacred temple of city hall, they bless the official papers with holy stamps, and all is right. Read More |
Imagine having the power to declare something legitimate with the stroke of a pen, the press of a stamp, or the enter button on your keyboard. |
12.05.17- The Individual vs. the Staged Collective
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The individual sees how a machine is put together. He sees the pieces and the systems. Because he is creative, he doesn’t stop there. He doesn’t automatically believe in the machine and accept it as the final THING. He can invent a better machine—or no machine at all. Something else. He has the latent power to go outside the machine and invent in a different way. He can CREATE HIS OWN WORLD. It isn’t a bubble that separates him from the commonly shared world. It is inserted into the common world. It is built on different ideas. He is alive, his creative force is alive, and so what he builds will be alive, too. This is a kind of natural magic. A magic that is inherent in him. It surpasses the ordinary strictures of society.  |
12.04.17- JPMorgan Has Some Bad News For Bitcoin Bears
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The war has started. It is erupting on graphic cards and mobile networks around the globe. A single negative tweet will create a firestorm of attention from both sides. We are about to enter the melt-up phase of the global war on currencies. For years, people speculated that China and Russia take on the U.S. dollar. Read More |
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12.01.17- How to Leave the 9-5 Job Behind for the Modern Economy
The 9-5 is on it’s way out. You can’t ignore the facts. That traditional model of employment so many Americans sought in the past, is giving way to something new. Fueling that change: dissatisfaction, loss of opportunities, and stagnation. Each forces people and the economy to adapt. The expectations people have for a job have changed as well. People want more than just a job. Yet many large businesses and corporations act as stewards of traditional employment. They push the same model of employment on people, but with fewer benefits than in the past. Read More |
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