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07.10.20- Armed Militias: Severe Madness - Markets Aren't Ready!
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We believe that most market participants have just not realized HOW PROBLEMATIC the  |
07.09.20- My Investigation of COVID-19
And of course, the phenomenon is not real. Read More |
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07.08.20- "Pragmatism Is Out The Window, The Days Of Madness Are Upon Us"
I used to think the “believe 6 impossible things before breakfast” line from Alice Through the Looking Glass was one of the funniest things ever written. Until this year.. I’ve come to understand it’s a statement of simple fact for this corona-addled age. I really can’t believe just how confused, conflicted, unfocused and distracted the various threads of society are becoming. Read More |
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07.07.20- Bye Bye American Pie
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07.06.20- Hyperinflation: Absolutely EVERYTHING You Need To Know!
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07.04.20- Trading and Investing America’s second Civil War
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07.03.20- Investors Feel Bulletproof Again
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Investors are ignoring the worst economic and earnings data since 2008. They’ve piled into risky assets in the hope that conditions will soon be back to normal. |
07.02.20- Storm Warning
Makes sense, right? The market came down a bit towards the end of the week, but don’t worry. The Fed will make another announcement that it’s going to do something or other and presto, the market will be off to the races again. Read More |
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07.01.20- Trump's Next Move Could Mean EVERYTHING!
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06.30.20- Surrounded by Government Failure, Why Do People Still Believe?
Astonishing. Read More |
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06.29.20- The Four Steps to an Unstable and Corrupt America
SALTA, ARGENTINA – We drove up to the capital city to take care of business. Argentina has the toughest lockdown in the world. Regular airline travel to Europe or America, for example, is not expected to resume until September. But there are no cases of the virus in Salta. So it has been allowed to return to normal… almost. Read More |
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06.27.20- How Surging Bank Deposits May Collapse US Dollar
According to CNBC, “A record $2 trillion surge in cash has hit the deposit accounts of U.S. banks since the coronavirus first struck the U.S. in January.” In one month, deposits grew by $865 billion, which beat the record for an entire year. Read More |
In another episode of “Strange 2020,” banks have become flush with deposits. But not in the way you might expect. |
06.26.20- 2020 Economic Predictions: This Series of Unfortunate Events Guarantees the Epocalypse
Here are my economic predictions for the remainder of 2020This list of economic predictions is not hard to come up with. It is, however, the fact that it is so easy to predict these things this year that makes this year’s list so important. Read More |
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06.25.20- Five places that should boom from the coming Covid migration
Across the Land of the Free, and much of the world, local governments are finally starting to allow businesses to re-open and employees to come back to the office. Offices in New York City opened this morning for the first time in months, after Comrade Mayor Bill de Blasio’s politburo finally approved the policy. Read More |
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06.24.20- Life is getting harder for debt collectors, and that is bad news for borrowers
The collectors would be required to furnish the debtors with their options, ability to dispute claims made against them, provide more information to them, etc. Read More |
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06.23.20- I, Who Hates Shorting, Just Shorted the Entire Stock Market. Here’s Why
I hate shorting. The risk-reward relationship is out of whack. It feels crappy. I lost a ton of money shorting the worst highfliers a little too early in late 1999. It’s just nuts to short this market that is even crazier than in late 1999. But this morning, I shared in a comment in our illustrious comment section that I’d just shorted the SPDR S&P 500 ETF [SPY]. My time frame is several months. Read More |
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06.22.20- Crimes Against Common Sense
Or is it that the media only highlights those who scream the loudest, leaving the impression that what they demand must be implemented? Read More |
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06.20.20- Fake News Is Manipulating the Markets
As a young stockbroker, I read how the great speculators of the early 1900s would float negative stories. They’d crash shares so they could cash in on short positions. Others would whisper bullish stories into the ears of clueless newsmen so they could dump overpriced shares onto the public. From Jay Gould to Jesse Livermore, Wall Street’s history is littered with moneymen playing the media for personal profit. Given there were no rules governing stock trading back then, it was easy for them to move stock prices. Read More |
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06.19.20- Black Lives Matter is a Modern Totalitarian Revolution
Classic totalitarian regimes share a number of common characteristics. The rise of these regimes began with a cultural revolution, aimed at angering the citizens against the current system. Read More |
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06.18.20- Meanwhile, Back In The Real World...
Recovery is the wrong word. After 3 months of lockdown, consumers are out in force, industrial production is rising, activity is increasing. It feels like the first glimmers of spring have arrived. Problem is… we’re nearly half-way through the year! A lot has been missed and lost forever. Consumption and production are rising – but are nowhere near where they would be if things were normal. Growth remains fettered by the ongoing virus hurdles. Read More |
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06.17.20- Wall Street Greed Will Make This Asset Skyrocket
This story is still being written… and it won’t be finished overnight. But it’s unfolding in front of your very eyes. Back in January 2019, I said it would be the year of Wall Street greed. This was right on the heels of the brutal 2018 Crypto Winter. Here’s what I wrote back then…Read More |
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06.16.20- NPR: “Mounting Evidence” Suggests COVID Not As Deadly as Thought. Did the Experts Fail Again?
In April 2005, Charles Duelfer, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq, admitted in the CIA’s final report that after an extensive search, no weapons of mass destruction could be found. Read More |
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The rise of Black Lives Matter terrorism and their seizing of downtown Seattle through the use of violence, demands a law-and-order response. But the feckless Mayor of Seattle kowtows to the terrorists, and the Governor of Washington is a Soros-controlled left-wing puppet who relishes in the idea of America being destroyed. Read More |
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06.13.20- We Don't Need No Stinking Vaccine For COVID-19
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06.12.20- Unstoppable: The Greatest Depression and the Reverse Wealth Effect
I'll try to summarize all this as simply as possible:
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06.11.20- Rent Strikes, the Erosion of Property Rights, and What Comes Next
What is your take on this? Doug Casey: Property rights are basic to human rights. In fact, it doesn’t make any sense to talk about human rights unless you talk about property rights. Read More |
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06.10.20- May 2020 Jobs Report Highlights Disconnect Between Wall Street, Main Street
SAN MARTIN, ARGENTINA – It was like waking up from a bad dream. As if the last 90 days had never happened… …No COVID-19… no lockdown… no 20 million job losses… no market crash… no $3 trillion in new money-printing… no $4 trillion budget deficit… Read More |
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06.09.20- Just Like That, Gun Control Support and COVID-19 Died This Week
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After watching hundreds (including Michigan Governor Whitmer and other political figures who placed the rest of us in lockdowns) marching, screaming shouting -- without social distancing and often without masks -- it’s going to be hard to persuade us that even normal social contact will infect us and those around us with COVID-19. After watching the police hamstrung by these same politicians as their cities were looted and burned and they and civilians were severely injured and killed, gun sales are soaring. |
06.08.20- The Systemic Collapse Of The US Society Has Begun
And to explain my point, I would like to begin by saying what I believe the riots we are seeing taking place in hundreds of US cities are not about. They are not about: Read More |
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06.06.20- Crime Is Crime
The reigning chaos reflects perfectly what passes for thought in millions of minds. Minds that have been taught that reality is whatever one believes it to be. That reason is a superstition and is inferior to random feelings and emotions. That observation, hypotheses, experimentation, discovery, and science itself are akin to voodoo rituals. That consumption precedes production and is morally superior to it. That anyone’s work, income and wealth are subject to anyone else’s proclaimed need. That actions have no consequences. Read More |
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06.05.20- My Stream of Consciousness Thoughts About What’s Going On
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06.04.20- Fiddling While America Burns
But within the last week, the COVID-19 production has been replaced by nationwide riots, ignited by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin grinding his knee into the neck of an alleged forger, George Floyd, long enough to kill him. Read More |
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06.03.20- That Change You Requested…?
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06.02.20- Do Conservatives Really Believe that an Unconstitutional Law Is No Law?
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06.01.20- Ecuadorian President: World Leaders Asvised to Take Hydroxychloroquine
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05.30.20- Who’ll Stop the Rain?
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05.29.20- 70% Depopulation Of The U.S. Predicted By 2025
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05.28.20- Where Did My World Go?
I remember when there was no tamper-proof and child-proof packaging. That was before multiculturalism and Identity Politics when we could still trust one another and parents accepted responsibility for their children without fobbing it off on a company with a liability claim. Read More |
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05.27.20- COVID Vaccine: What Else Could They Put in the Shot?
I have already covered the devastating effects of experimental RNA/DNA vaccine technologies—both of which could be launched with a COVID vaccine. Putting that aside for the moment, could the vaccine serve another purpose? Read More |
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05.25.20- Moderna and the COVID Vaccine: What Kind of Lunacy?
Would you buy a used car from the company called Moderna? The US government has shelled out $500 million to this Massachusetts-based biotech firm for a COVID vaccine. Based on what? Read More |
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05.23.20- The Path To Monetary Collapse
The fact that a liquidity crisis developed in US money markets five months before the virus hit America has been forgotten. Only a rising gold price stands testament to a deeper crisis, comprised of contracting bank credit while central banks are trying to rescue the economy, fund government deficits and keep the market bubble inflated. Read More |
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05.22.20- Social Security Has a Big COLA Problem (Oh, And It May Be Insolvent
We suggested the COLA would not be enough to cover increased prices. And it appears that’s been accurate so far this year, as food inflation almost doubled from March to April, increasing from 1.9% to 3.5%. Read More |
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05.21.20- Did the Lockdown Save Lives?
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05.20.20- “Free Money”: Most Americans Want The Government To Issue
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05.19.20- Beware The CoronaNazis
Business and markets are arbitraging government support packages and central bank QE Infinity to stay “insanely high” despite the massive economic hit of the virus. If the proverbial Martian visited the stock market today, he’d struggle to understand just why markets are so high when prospects look so low. Read More |
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05.18.20- Police State Dry Run a Huge Success
We have become part of a mass scale human experiment in government control and it turned out that stripping away our freedom wasn’t all that difficult. Under the guise of concern for our health and well-being, tyrants came out of the woodwork. Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our lives are being destroyed as the left solidifies and expands their oppressive powers. We’ve been herded around like cattle, threatened, isolated, confined, silenced, and arrested. You name it, it’s happening. Read More |
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05.16.20- Tasting the Forbidden Fruit
Numerous stimulus proposals are currently being cooked up in Congress. In an election year, with unemployment going vertical, now’s the time to cash in on populist sentiments. The three leading bills, for example, are the Automatic Boost to Communities (ABC) Act, the Emergency Money for the People Act, and the Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act. Read More |
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05.15.20- The U.S. Is Caught In An Economic Death Spiral, And One Group Is Being Hit Particularly Hard…
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05.14.20- Fourth Turning Accelerating
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05.13.20- 'Social Distancing' Is Snake Oil,
“We thought maybe they were taking public transportation,” he said, “but actually no, because these people were literally at home.” “Much of this comes down to what you do to protect yourself,” he continues. “Everything closed down, government has done everything it could, society has done everything it could.” Read More |
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05.12.20- Market Insights From May 2021: Remembering The End Of The Beginning Of The End
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05.11.20- Former JPMorgan Economist:
Readers will have anticipated the bursting of the bubble that has been re-inflating ever since 2009. Ultra-loose monetary policy, coupled with deflationary pressures from increased aggregate supply and investors chasing yield at ever higher risk, meant that almost all asset classes had reached all time highs just before entering the current bear market. Read More |
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05.09.20- Time To Learn About Money
The question arises as to what will replace fiat currencies. In the past the answer has always been gold but today there are cryptocurrencies as well, whose enthusiasts are more aware than most of fiat money’s failings. Read More |
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05.08.20- Beware of the Bear. He is Soon Back.
We are not just talking about the US and Europe but the whole world, including China, Japan, and emerging markets. This will clearly involve a very unpleasant and disorderly reset leading to great suffering. Read More |
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05.07.20- The Great Myth of “Small Government”
We have no doubt they do. But how can an era end… if it never began? No Republican in current practice has lived one day in an era of small government. Read More |
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05.06.20- Bubble-Wrapped Americans: How the U.S. Became Obsessed with Physical and Emotional Safety
It’s a common refrain: We have bubble-wrapped the world. Americans in particular are obsessed with “safety.” The simplest way to get any law passed in America, be it a zoning law or a sweeping reform of the intelligence community, is to invoke a simple sentence: “A kid might get hurt.” Read More |
“In America we say if anyone gets hurt, we will ban it for everyone everywhere for all time. And before we know it, everything is banned.” |
05.05.20- Millennials Are Creating Massive Demand for Crypto
A week later, COVID-19 claimed its first reported death. Today, there are more than 3.5 million global cases and over 248,000 deaths. In the United States alone, more than 1 million have been infected and over 67,000 have died during the pandemic. Read More |
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05.04.20- Why Sweden Has Already Won The Debate On COVID-19 "Lockdown" Policy
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05.02.20- Weekend Rant: War on Cash
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05.01.20- About One-Fifth Of All The Jobs In The U.S. Are Already Gone, And This Economic Depression Is Just 6 Weeks Old
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In all of U.S. history we have never seen anything like this. I have been sitting at my desk for quite a while searching for the proper words to convey the gravity of what we are facing, and to be honest it has been quite a struggle. On Thursday, we learned that another 3.8 million Americans filed initial claims for unemployment benefits last week. That was much higher than many experts were anticipating, because by now the initial surge of unemployment caused by the coronavirus lockdowns should have started to fade quite a bit.  |
04.30.20- What happens when you cancel rent, mortgages, and debt?
First they mortgaged their land, and delivered the majority of their crops to the lender. But after a bad harvest, the farmers needed to borrow more in order to afford another planting. Read More |
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04.29.20- We Are Fighting a Public Health Crisis, Not a War
The U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires notified us yesterday that it had organized a flight to Miami. It is scheduled to leave tomorrow. But why the “last flight?” we wondered. Then we got the news.
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04.28.20- Are You Ready For The Great Depression Of The 2020s?
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04.27.20- Moving Out and Not Coming Back
Yesterday on my work Facebook page, a reader asked, “Why is it that the places Covid-19 show up the most are in Democrat controlled areas?” As much as I’d like to believe that all the troubles in the world can eventually be traced back to Bill de Blasio, I responded, “Probably because ‘the places it shows up the most’ are large densely-packed cities with a lot of international and domestic air travel and high use of mass transit, where Democrats have been winning elections more than Republicans for at least a generation and in many cases several generations.” Read More |
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04.25.20- On Quarantines and Trees, Pencils, Technology, Art and Music
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04.24.20- Narrative Insanity
You needed a study to go through the NY daily Covid death report and figure out that if you didn't have one of the underlying conditions they specifically listed your risk of being killed by this bug was roughly equal to your all-cause mortality -- that is, of no particular concern at all? Or do you need a study to know that anywhere from a quarter to a half or more of the mortality from this bug came from nursing home patients, when in fact the first big "oh oh" was in a nursing home in Washington State? Read More |
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04.23.20- How Could This Possibly Happen?
A microbe shutters the global economy for the first occasion in history… the stock market careens from bull market to bear market in record time… never have so many millions filed for unemployment in so short a stretch… Read More |
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04.22.20- Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments
I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Read More |
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04.21.20- End Occupational Licensure
The same sort of thing took place in bad old India under British rule. There was that scene in the movie “Gandhi” in which numerous of his followers were brutalized as they approached the sea. What was that all about? The colonial powers had reserved salt-making for the crown. Gandhi did not quite buy into this prohibition. His supporters were attempting to violate this stricture and were subjected to ruthless beatings to quell their protest. Read More |
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04.20.20- The Locked Down World
But within the period of a just a few weeks last month, virtually the entire world went on lock down. No police were needed. No troops were needed. Not a single shot was fired. When the dust had settled, healthy people everywhere were being quarantined within their homes. Voluntarily Read More |
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04.18.20- Investing Is Now Simple
It has made obvious — to all with open eyes — that the stock market is a crook’s game, a vast swindle. How else could the stock market regain so many of its initial pandemic losses… while 16 million Americans file unemployment claims… and second-quarter GDP may contract 40%? Read More |
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04.17.20- Is Nassim Taleb "The Only Man
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04.16.20- Worst Recession in 150 Years
But you really shouldn’t be terribly surprised by the rally. Even the worst bear markets see substantial bouncebacks. And you can expect the market to give back all of its recent gains in the months ahead as the economic fallout of the lockdowns becomes apparent. Read More |
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04.15.20- Epidemiologist: Coronavirus Could Be “Exterminated” If Lockdowns Are Lifted
Knut Wittkowski, previously the longtime head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at the Rockefeller University in New York City, said in an interview with the Press and the Public Project that the coronavirus could be “exterminated” people were allowed to lead normal lives. Read More |
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04.14.20- The Epocalypse is Different This Time, Yet Much as Predicted
The following article is verbatim from my original lead-in to the Epocalypse series I wrote with just a few comments or updated words added in brackets so you can tell exactly what’s been changed — and an additional quote [also noted as additional in brackets]. Read More |
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04.13.20- Welcome to your new Freedoms: “Shoot them dead”
Emanuel first said this during the 2008/2009 financial crisis… meaning that politicians can use a crisis as an opportunity to push through radical ideas that would otherwise never be accepted. Read More |
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04.11.20- Soaring Food Prices May Signal U.S. Return to “Inflation Nation”
In the near term, it appears some food prices are rising dramatically. Robert Wenzel explains why he thinks the first signs are happening: Read More |
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04.10.20- 14 Ways to Be Civilly Disobedient in the Face of the Corona Ban
Case in point, even the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, more than two weeks ago, acknowledged that the hasty and heavy-handed corona ban may have backfired, saying “If you re-thought that or had time to analyze that public health strategy, I don’t know that you would say ‘Quarantine everyone.’” Yet the corona ban remains firmly in place in New York. Read More |
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04.09.20- Know Your Rights Under Martial Law: Regulations, WEAPONS
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04.08.20- A New World Is Being Born:
Elites are working to make it better for them, and worse for the rest of us. About that the evidence is clear. The Big Boys are being bailed out and their debts covered. Everyone else, except those already marginalized and without a recent work record and fixed address, got a month’s rent and extended unemployment benefits. Read More |
We are hearing from many that the world after Covid-19 will be different. The question is: Different in what way? Will it be better or worse? |
04.07.20- Blame the Baby Boomers
We came along at the end of history’s earlier biggest trauma, the Second World War, following the hard stumble of the Great Depression — which, by the way, for those of you unsure of chronology, followed the First World War, an epic, purposeless slaughter that utterly demoralized Western civilization. What a set-up for my parents’ generation. Read More |
History will probably record that America’s Baby Boom generation threw one helluva party; Gen X was left with the sorry task of cleanup crew; and the Millennials ended up squatting in the repossessed haunted party-house when it was all over. On behalf of the Boomers, let me try to explain and apologize. |
04.06.20- Food Banks Warn They Will Soon Run Out Of Food As Economic Suffering Explodes All Over America
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What are hungry Americans going to do when the food banks don’t have any more food for them? Over the past couple of weeks, we have witnessed the largest spike in unemployment  |
04.04.20- Testing for DNA...Er...
This intrigues me because it prompts an obvious question: what the heck is a DNA-heritage testing company doing involved in helping China create a corona virus test? Well, for one thing, recall those stories early on as the corona virus story stated to go Viral (pardon the pun), spreading faster than the virus itself. Those early stories indicated that oriental peoples, and particularly Chinese, were more susceptible to the virus due to much higher numbers of receptors in their lungs for the virus to latch onto. Read More |
Someone who wishes to remain so Anonymous that they don’t even want me to use their initials spotted this article and passed it along. It has me wondering, and doubtless, will have you wondering too.  |
04.03.20- Who’s Next to Fail
Money velocity has been falling for years. It is now cratering as we hide in our homes from a bug that eventually we will all have to reconcile with. Credit is the engine of the world of today. It is the gas which fuels the engine of the world. COVID-19 has cratered the global economy exposing the internal rot within our hyper-financialized global economy as nothing more than a pyramid of Ponzi schemes… Read More |
As much as I hate to invoke The Ayn Rand lest I give off the impression I’m some kind of Objectivist, which I am most certainly not, the engine of the world is coming to a halt. |
04.02.20- A light in the Darkness
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Novartis Chief Executive Vas Narasimhan has announced that there is preliminary evidence showing that “hydroxychloroquine kills the coronavirus.” Narasimhan made the announcement to Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung on Sunday, as he was touting the ability of his pharmaceutical corporation to develop medicines to stop the pandemic. They have pledged to donate 130 million doses of hydroxychloroquine as soon as the medicine is approved for widespread use. Read More |
The CEO of Novartis is giving the public a reason to be hopeful during the pandemic. |
03.31.20- "Don't Be Fooled...
According to the press, China is experiencing normal traffic jams, while the major threat is reinfection from the West, so borders are locked shut. They are anticipating business as usual. They are in for a shock. JP Morgan are on the wires saying markets have made their lows, and although it will be volatile, its time to “average into oversold markets.” In my opinion… they are fools. Read More |
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03.30.20- Boot Strapping the World Economy
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“Boot strapping” is an electrical term used to perform a “black start” or a complete “cold start” of a complex electrical grid after a catastrophic failure. The East Coast blackout of 1965 was one such occurrence. Another was on the Gulf Coast after hurricane Rita. More recently the complete electrical failure in Venezuela illustrates the difficulty. It has been over a year and Venezuela’s power system is still struggling to provide power after their cold start. When the crash happens everything is still connected and tries to restart all at once. It can take up to six times the running power to start an electric motor. When everything is trying to start at the same time the system is overwhelmed and the breakers trip out again. |
03.28.20- The Grasshoppers Are Swarming Mad That You Are Prepared For The Crash
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Most people are familiar with the tale of the Ant And The Grasshopper, an ancient fable about a grasshopper who spends the fruitful months of spring and summer in idle recreation, dancing and playing carelessly while the industrious ant works tirelessly to prepare for what he knows will be a harsh winter. In many versions the Grasshopper harasses the Ant, criticizing him for wasting so much time on work when he could be out enjoying himself in the sun.  |
03.27.20- FDIC asks Americans to keep their money in the banks
Yesterday the Chair of the FDIC released an astonishing video asking Americans to keep their money in the bank. Accompanied by soft piano music playing in the background, the official said: “Your money is safe at the banks. The last thing you should be doing is pulling your money out of the banks thinking it’s going to be safer somewhere else.” Read More |
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03.26.20- The Pandemic Is Accelerating the Breakdown That Began a Decade Ago
The feedback loop has reversed: by saving more, people will spend, borrow and speculate less, draining the fuel from any broadbased expansion. Read More |
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03.25.20- It Could Last 18 Months —
That is how long the coronavirus scourge may endure. This we learn by way of The New York Times. It has done us all a capital service by executing a rare feat of journalism. For its spies have captured a government document “not for public distribution or release.” Read More |
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03.24.20- Good night, John Boy…
It may not come as a surprise to many that the recent Covid-19 Crisis will bring about some very difficult times for many people in our community and around the world. How we all conduct ourselves will make the world of difference to the level of suffering to many around us and even the quality of our own lives. Read More |
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03.23.20- The End of Civilization?
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03.21.20- “Hell Is Coming”
It is as if some hinge, deep within the national psychology, has suddenly given way. The daily rites of life are suspended. Businesses, schools and arenas the nation over have gone dark. Travel is hopeless…. and borders are sealed shut. Unemployment claims are piling up. Secretary Mnuchin has suggested they may scale a depression-level 20%. Read More |
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03.20.20- Will This Be “Just A Recession” Or Will It Be “The Next Great Depression”?
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03.19.20- How Dead is the Fed?
It’s happened via face-plant failures over past month that I’m going to lay out to show how savagely the Fed is dying a perpetual-motion death. Read More |
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03.18.20- Economic Effect of Coronavirus Could Be Revolutionary
Coronavirus will teach us that a country without free national health care is severely handicapped. Millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. They cannot afford health care premiums, deductions, and copays. Millions have no insurance. This means millions of people infected with coronavirus who cannot get medical help. The morbidity from this is intolerable in any society. Read More |
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03.17.20- Federal Government To Control And Oversee Grocery Distribution Within Days
Breaking news alert – NaturalNews.com – The US federal government is in the planning stage of implementing a plan to protect and control grocery distribution across the United States via public / private partnerships with top grocery chains such as Wal-Mart, Kroger, HEB (Texas), Target, Costco, etc., sources now tell Natural News. Read More |
Trump will implement the plan with absolutely zero advanced warning to the public to protect the supply lines and prevent mass starvation & death… |
03.16.20- The "Greater Depression" Is Coming
What is a depression? We’re now at the tail end of a very long, but in many ways a very weak and artificial, economic expansion. At the same time, we’ve had one of the strongest securities bull markets in history. Both are the result of trillions of new dollars created over the last decade. Right now, very few people are willing to consider the possibility of tough times – let alone The Greater Depression. Read More |
Just because society experiences turmoil doesn’t mean your personal life has to. And a depression doesn’t have to be depressing. Most of the real wealth in the world will still exist – it will just change ownership.  |
03.14.20- Treatments for coronavirus that have worked in China
Treatments for coronavirus that have worked in China Hydroxychloroquine These research papers show great antiviral promise for both Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine. The Chinese have started using them. So should we. Read More |
These are scientific papers showing effective treatments for coronavirus being used in China |
03.13.20- Your Pension May Quickly Be 'Infected' by Coronavirus Panic
One of the ripple effects that will likely impact some retirement savers is panic stemming from the virus' potential impact on public and corporate pensions. Of course, both types of pension programs have been running on fumes for years now. The coronavirus may just be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Read More |
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03.12.20- Fear Of The Coronavirus Is Causing
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In all of U.S. history, we have never seen the Dow Jones Industrial Average go from an all-time high to a bear market as quickly as we just did. As I keep reminding my readers, the stock market is all about how investors view the future. Early this year, extremely irrational optimism about the future pushed stock prices to  |
03.11.20- Even The Best-Case Scenario Is Pretty Grim
Almost certainly not, because the psychological damage has already been done. Over the past couple of weeks the modern globalized economy with its multi-nation supply chains and just-in-time inventory systems has been forced to recognize that such a system only works in a nearly-perfect environment. Take the iPhone: It is designed in the US, its constituent raw materials are mined and processed in numerous other countries and the resulting components are then shipped for assembly to vast Chinese factories. Read More |
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03.10.20- No, the world is not coming to an end…
I’ve been saying for years that, at some point, there will be a severe financial reckoning. We wouldn’t know how, and most likely, we would have very little advance warning. As an example, in June 2018 I wrote “whatever causes the next major downturn can be something completely obscure and unpredictable. And no one realizes it until it’s too late.” Read More |
This is going to be a rough day for a lot of folks. But it’s one that I’ve been writing about for quite some time. |
03.09.30- Pandemic Pandemania Causes Global Economic Crisis
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03.07.20- Weekend Rant: Corona baloney...
Enter THE VIRUS. The medical version of Satan. To new readers: to fully understand the next paragraph, you’ll need to read my previous articles on the “China epidemic” con job (archive here). Read More |
We all understand that governments can invent money out of thin air. However, inventing a reason out of thin air to invent the money sometimes takes a little more ingenuity. |
Top FBI and federal law enforcement insiders were investigating what amounted to a Clinton-backed crime spree but were told to stand down by Attorney General William Barr. These agents may have stopped the official probe but that is not stopping high-ranking personnel from spilling the beans to Thomas Paine, detailing how the Clinton Foundation ripped off taxpayers amd many many other entities worldwide. Read More |
Just how much money did the Clinton Foundation and its criminal cartel of bogus subsidiaries steal from U.S. taxpayers and unsuspecting dupes worldwide? And where did all the hordes of illicit cash go? |
03.05.20- How The Pandemic Crisis Will Probably Develop Over The Next Year
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For a while now I have been hearing it said that Americans are “in a panic” over the coronavirus outbreak in the US, and that mainstream media outlets are “feeding the fear”. This is an odd conclusion to come to and something worth noting, because the truth is mostly the opposite. For the past couple of months the WHO, the CDC and even Donald Trump have been dismissing Covid 19 as nothing much to worry about. The WHO actually still refuses to call it a pandemic even though the virus meets all of their own criteria.  |
03.04.20- Have we brewed a whirlwind?
We can see the public’s distrust of public authorities in the negligent response to the coronavirus. The refusal of public authorities to stop incoming flights from infected countries has brought the dangerous virus into the Western World where inaction has so far prevailed. Read More |
In the United States and throughout the Western World there is public distrust of public authorities and distrust among the public of one another. Public authorities who do not like “conspiracy theories” do a lot to generate them. |
03.03.20- What Is The Deep State
Last year, fuel was added to this fire when internal memos were leaked from the British-run Integrity Initiative featuring a startling account of the techniques deployed by the anti-Russian British operation to infiltrate American intelligence institutions, think tanks and media. Read More |
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03.02.20- All Of A Sudden, People All Over America Are Prepping Like Crazy
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I can’t remember a time when we have seen such widespread “panic buying” all over the nation. Today I spoke with someone that just visited the closest Wal-Mart in this area, and I was told that there are empty shelves all over the store. There are very few canned goods left, some of the most essential medications have been cleaned out, and there was nothing left in the long-term storable food section at all. Of course similar things are being reported at major retail stores all across the United States. All of a sudden, fear of COVID-19 has motivated thousands upon thousands of Americans to start prepping like crazy.  |
02.29.20- What happens to your bitcoin after you die?
This is more than just a philosophical question: It could involve a substantial amount of currency. Read More |
If a "dead man's button" isn't pressed one week, it is assumed the user is dead and the service automatically dispenses a "secret," which heirs can use to retrieve the crypto. |
02.28.20- Doug Casey on the Truth About Millennials and the Next Crisis
Whether or not this is true, Millennials as a group will soon surpass the number of baby boomers as the largest generational group. How equipped is this soon-to-be dominant generation for handling a financial crisis, a major war, or civil unrest? Doug Casey: According to William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book, The Fourth Turning, the Millennials should be a “Hero” Generation, set to face a huge threat to the country. Read More |
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02.27.20- The Unsustainable Trajectory of America’s Economy
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I have never claimed to be an economics “expert” or anything remotely close, but my university years did make me well familiar with certain aspects of higher math as course requirements and quantitative methods of social science research, especially as applied to the demographics of any particular culture and society. So, through this prism and the perspective of largely a layman on the topic, I have looked at all the numbers I could find on this topic, and I attempted to condense them to a core of those most pertinent, in order to present a fairly comprehensive overview of where America’s economic future currently stands.  |
02.26.20- No One on Food Stamps Should Be Allowed to Vote
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02.25.20- Your Doctor and Your Guns
You are at the pediatrician’s office for a routine well child visit. Maybe you just moved to a new town. The nurse hands you the standard paperwork with the questionnaire pertaining to your child’s health. You start filling out the form and right there . . . question number 14 . . . “Do you have a gun in the home?” It’s right after the question about swimming pools and right before the one about household cleaner storage. What do you answer? Read More |
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02.24.20- US Biowarfare Act Author: Studies Confirm Coronavirus Weaponized!
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02.22.20- Is There Any Place Safe Left To Live?
Has the entire country gone mad? Is there any place left where liberty, privacy, self-reliance, and the ability to garden, fish, hunt, build, and protect one’s hearth and home is still possible? Read More |
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02.21.20- Omens, Portents, Karma and the Mandate of Heaven
What makes humans unique among social mammals? Some say humor, I would nominate superstition: regardless of how hard we promote our rationality and logic, humanity continues to sense portents and omens in events and feel the intangible tug of karma: the consequences of past actions that we arrogantly thought we’d escaped forever. Read More |
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02.20.20- The Lessons We Have Learned From The Coronavirus So Far...
Refusing to examine the dark side of life and its dangers has become a staple of our society, to the point that it has given birth to a kind of religious cult. Naive optimism has become a virtue, a misplaced form of faith that encourages people to remain oblivious in the face of adversity. Read More |
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02.19.20- The Betrayal Of The Elites
We need institutions, including families, associations, churches, corporations, trade unions, political parties, professions such as law and medicine, as well as the formal institutions of government such as Congress, the presidency, and the courts. Read More |
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02.18.20- Why Covid-19 Demands Our Full Attention
There’s a reason we’ve re-directed so much of our attention towards reporting on and trying to understand the novel coronavirus (covid-19) that originated in Wuhan, China in December. The heart of our approach is to be “systems thinkers.”
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If the Wuhan coronavirus (CoVid-19) pandemic began from an “accidental” release, it sure was a happy accident for the globalists. Everything the pandemic is achieving just happens to perfectly fit the top priorities of the globalist agenda. |
02.15.20- White People Are Being Erased
Those Americans empowered by “white privilege” who are still a demographic majority are too scared and too intimidated to open their mouths or use their pocketbooks to protest their demonization and marginalization. Facebook and Twitter will drop them, denying them their virtual existence. Indoctrinated and mindless white friends will shun them as racist, anti-semitic white supremacists. Read More |
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02.14.20- The Necessity of Questioning Mass Media Journalism (About Nearly Everything)
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02.13.20- Hackers Attacking Retirement Savings With Increasing Frequency
Unfortunately, this nightmare scenario is happening more and more often as hackers become more creative and use more sophisticated methods. Read More |
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02.12.20- If Only Economics Was as Easy as Rocket Science
Economics Is Difficult After all, we have successfully sent rockets to many places in our planetary neighborhood, demonstrating a tolerable ability to solve enough of the relevant problems, yet many economic policies impose more harm than help. And the more one tries to control, the more the information and implementation issues undermine the possibility—much less the probability—of effectiveness. Read More |
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02.11.20- A Most Convenient Virus
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02.10.20- In The Bubble: Trump's Presidency Reveals 7 Undeniable Facts About The Swamp
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Barely into the New Year, 2020 vision has brought many revelations into better focus, making several ongoing observations perfectly clear. Although there are those who’ve been watching the dots of The Matrix assemble into the big picture for decades now, the election of Donald Trump has increasingly exposed what was hidden in plain sight for so long.  |
02.08.20- Welcome to the Bullshit Economy
The story of Shadow, makers of the app that utterly failed to deliver in Iowa, is a perfect example of the bullshit economy. In one sense, the Iowa caucus debacle will last just a couple of news cycles. We have the data on paper, tabulated in front of tens of thousands of witnesses, and it merely needs to be collated. Eventually it will, and though the damage to the news cycle is irreparable—Joe Biden’s disappointing outcome has been diluted in particular—the process will go on with an accurate count. Read More |
The Iowa caucus disaster is a function of a broken economic structure that rewards con artistry over competence. |
02.07.20- The Height Of Idiocy
I’m not a fortune teller. In fact, the only things anybody knows about predicting – even if you gussy the concept up by calling it “forecasting” – are 1.) Predict often and 2.) Never give both the time and the event. The worst offenders are those who pretend they know where the economy’s headed. Read More |
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02.06.20- Pandemic, Lies and Videos
When we look back on this moment from the vantage of history, what will we think? Will we think how obvious it was that the coronavirus deaths in China were in the tens of thousands rather than the hundreds claimed by authorities? Will we think how obvious it was that the virus would spread around the globe, wreaking havoc on the global economy and social order, even as the authorities claimed only a handful of cases had arisen outside China? Read More |
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02.05.20- Are you prepared for the contagion?
I have to admit, a “pandemic” was low on my list of possible sparks, but after thinking it through, a pandemic is a financial disaster. Yes it is a human disaster and many will die, but the odds of dying from the virus are and will remain quite low. The real problem is what the human response will be. I say this because we live in a world of just in time inventory AND production. Read More |
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02.03.20- Our Kardashian Culture
Bryant was a great basketball player, one of the best in NBA history. He was also accused of raping a nineteen year old hotel worker in 2003. Like all celebrities and wealthy people, Bryant escaped punishment and later settled out of court. The mainstream media broke a time-honored tradition at the time, by disclosing the name of the victim, and questioned her character and motivations in several biased, inflammatory reports. At the last minute, she abruptly decided not to testify, and Bryant avoided a trial. Read More |
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02.01.20- More on the Coronavirus... a Real Simulation
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Earlier this week I blogged about the mysterious coronavirus outbreak in Communist China. I pointed out that in addition to the fact that the virus may have been stolen and weaponized by Chinese spies inside of Canada's National Micriobiology Laboratory, there is an additional "coincidence" in that the outbreak appears to have occurred during the height of the Chinese lunar new year, when many people in China travel.  |
01.31.20- Savings vs. Money:
Following this logic, one could also establish that increases in money supply are beneficial to the entire process of capital formation and economic growth. (Note: increases in money supply result in increases in monetary income and this, for a given consumer outlay, implies an increase in savings). Read More |
Conventional wisdom holds that savings is the amount of money left after monetary income was used for consumer outlays. Hence, for a given outlay, an increase in money income implies more savings and thus more funding for investment. This in turn sets the platform for higher economic growth. |
01.30.20- A Date and Time for
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Pete H. — a reader — gives us a good, round piece of his mind:  |
01.29.20- Some Thoughts on
Today, Democracy has become the only accepted political system. All others are considered outrageous. This circumstance did not come about by itself, that is to say, in the course of a normal change in the flow of opinion among the nations of the world. Read More |
Wise Aristotle placed “Democracy” in the category of “Worst Possible Political System”, some 2,300 years ago. |
01.28.20- How screwed up is
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Late last year, the investment management giant Morningstar published a report concluding that most people can either save money for retirement, or save money for their kids’ education… but NOT both. They make the economic realities very clear: parents have to choose between their own future, or their children’s future. And one of the report’s lead authors went on to say that the RIGHT choice– the ONLY choice– is to choose your retirement over your kids:  |
01.27.20- The Things We Believe
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I’ve often spoken of, in this blog, in the many things we believe that are untrue. For example, many financial metrics in which we blindly believe, reported by the mainstream news, like inflation, GDP and unemployment statistics are patently false and not even close to being reflective of reality. This holds true not just in the financial world but also extends to many other beliefs that have been sold to us as facts in the academic setting, but simply are not facts. The things we believe that are untrue, depending on our critical thinking skills, may range from nearly all of, to the majority of, to the minority of our beliefs. Even societal constructs like institutional academics as the only viable choice for education can be a construct in which we believe that is patently not the best option for us.  |
01.25.20- Coronavirus Is Worse Than You've Been Told: Scientist Explains
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Literally, anyone can claim the new refugee status. This will essentially open US borders for good. Read More |
The United Nations ruled that “climate refugees” cannot be returned back to their home countries. This ruling forces the United States to allow all Central Americans into our country. |
01.23.20- IMF warns of new ‘Great Depression’, Russia ahead of the curve due to increased cash & gold reserves
Kristalina Georgieva isn’t any sort of conspiracy theorist; she’s the head of the International Monetary Fund. And when she warns that the global economy risks another “Great Depression,” you would think everyone would listen. Read More |
Last week, the IMF issued a stark warning about the global economy. While most large Western states are vulnerable to a new crisis, Russia has prepared its defenses. |
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The environmental extremists continue to chant their monotonous mantra about the “existential threat” of man-made global warming, or climate change. Indeed, the climate is changing, and it has been changing for nearly four billion years. They recently began using an (apparently autistic) teenager as their spokes-mouth. Like all leftists they talk a good line, assuring us that they care deeply for wildlife, nature, clean air and water, etc.  |
01.21.20- This IS Tomorrow: Gun Control Is A Tool Of Socialism
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01.20.20- Remarks on the
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The first thing to understand is that it is not a trade deal. It is Trump backing off his tariffs when he discovered that the tarrifs fall on US goods and American consumers, not on China. Trump is covering his retraction by calling it a trade deal. China’s part of the deal is to agree to purchase the US goods that it already intended to purchase.  |
01.18.20- What Will It Take to Get the Public to Embrace Sound Money?
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In the last decade, the combination of virulent asset price inflation and low reported consumer price inflation crippled sound money as a political force in the US and globally. In the new decade, a different balance between monetary inflation’s “terrible twins” — asset inflation and goods inflation — will create an opportunity for that force to regain strength. Crucial, however, will be how sound money advocacy evolves in the world of ideas and its success in forming an alliance with other causes that could win elections.  |
01.17.20- The two best gifts to give your newborn child
They made the poor woman sign a form indicating her body type was observed by staff to appear pregnant. The test proved she wasn’t. The woman was traveling to Saipan, the largest island among the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory. Read More |
A Japanese woman was surprised when Hong Kong Express Airways required her to take a pregnancy test before boarding her flight. |
01.16.20- Debt and Inflation Are Bringing the Economy Down
This “repo madness” has been going on for four months. It’s time to ask some questions… Read More |
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – “Fed Adds $82 Billion to Financial Markets.” That’s the headline on page B12 of today’s Wall Street Journal, reporting on Tuesday’s Federal Reserve action. On Monday, the Fed added $60 billion. |
01.15.20- 7 Major Earth Changes That Are Happening Right Now That Everyone Needs
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There has never been a time in modern human history when our planet has been changing as rapidly as it is changing right now. The sun is behaving very strangely, freakishly cold weather is breaking out all over the world, ocean temperatures continue to rise, volcanoes all over the globe are shooting ash  |
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To understand how American citizens today can get their hands on ammo, which rolls off the same factory lines as those that supply the world’s largest militaries, it’s important to first understand how munitions technology developed. Starting in medieval Europe, on a battlefield where a mounted knight in armor could defeat almost any number of peasants, the development of more advanced and accurate ways to destroy enemy personnel and equipment by launching a projectile is one which combines trial and error, scientific ingenuity, and private enterprise. It’s a story of power and technology dating back to the 13th century, at the height of “the divine right of kings,” and tracks the subsequent diffusion of that power held by a chosen few as the individual became capable of breaking the state’s  |
01.13.20- This Is What 'Diversity'
The number of murders has gone up and down. Note that the population of the United States has continually risen, so the number of murders, assuming that the rate per person remains the same, should be a continually-upsloping line growing at about 1% a year. It isn't. In fact the number of murder peaked around 1990. It is materially lower now than then, despite all the screaming of the various scolds, and we're 20 years further down with more people in the nation. Read More |
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01.11.20- Sanctuary Cities: A Battle Over the Second Amendment is Unfolding Across America
As Virginia’s new Democratic legislature promises gun control measures, the wives of National Guardsman are warning that impending gun legislation threatens to turn neighbor against neighbor. Read More |
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01.10.20- Doug Casey on the Difference Between a Whistleblower and a Rat
Webster’s defines a whistleblower as “one who reveals something covert or who informs against another.” Doug, you’re a fan of using words correctly. What is your view on what a whistleblower is? Read More |
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01.09.20- Facts and Speculations – Next Decade
WHAT HAPPENS TO PRICES NEXT DECADE—IN FIVE TO TEN YEARS? Read More |
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01.08.20- Another Stupid War
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01.07.20- No, Jesus Wasn't a Socialist
The claim that Jesus Christ was a socialist has become a popular refrain among liberals, even from some whose Christianity is lukewarm at best. But is there any truth in it? That question cannot be answered without a reliable definition of socialism. A century ago, it was widely regarded as government ownership of the means of production. Jesus never once even hinted at that concept, let alone endorsed it. Yet the definition has changed over time. When the critiques of economists such as Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek, and Milton Friedman demolished any intellectual case for the original form of socialism, and reality proved them to be devastatingly right, socialists shifted to another version: central planning of the economy. Read More |
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01.06.20- Our Real Existential Crisis - Extinction
Thus did Time magazine pass over every world leader to name a Swedish teenage climate activist, Greta Thunberg, its person of the year.
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01.04.20- 3 Key Economic Trends to Keep Your Eye On in 2020
Since the economy generally operates in cycles, and the yield curve has already inverted, the next recession could be right around the corner. Read More |
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Iran, It’s Your Move – Trump’s Takedown Of Iranian General Qassim Suleimani Is Likely To Start A Global War
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01.02.20- Understanding The Keys To Power Will be a Survival Requirement for the Coming Decade
It’s becoming increasingly clear who benefitted most from this: the ultra-rich Read More |
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01.01.20- I, Who Vowed to Never-Ever Short Stocks Again, Just Shorted the Entire Market
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In my decades of looking at the stock market, there has never been a better setup. Exuberance is pandemic and sky-high. And even after today’s dip, the S&P 500 is up nearly 29% for the year, and the Nasdaq 35%, despite lackluster growth in the global economy, where many of the S&P 500 companies are getting the majority of their revenues. Copyright© 1996-2020
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