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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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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
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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
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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.  |
12.31.19- Nullify Government Tyranny: In 2020, Harness The Power Of Your Discontent
Twenty years into the 21st century, and what do we have to show for it? Read More |
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12.28.19- Jim Rickards Warns That Debt Tsunami Could Upend Economy
Jim Rickards recently issued a dire proclamation about the global debt situation: Current global debt levels are simply not sustainable. Debt actually is sustainable if the debt is used for projects with positive returns and if the economy supporting the debt is growing faster than the debt itself. But neither of those conditions applies today. Read More |
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12.26.19- Very Unusual Seismic Activity On The West Coast Has Some Experts Extremely Concerned About What Could Happen
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12.25.19- An End to the World as We Know It?
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12.24.19- Welcome To The Era Of Intensifying Chaos And New Weapons Of Conflict
A declining standard of living in the developed world, declining growth for the developed world and geopolitical jockeying for control of resources make for a highly combustible mix awaiting a spark: welcome to the era of intensifying chaos and the rapid advance of new weapons of conflict as ruling elites attempt to stamp out dissent and global powers pursue supremacy by whatever means are available. Read More |
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12.23.19- Sexual Perverts Are the New American Privileged Class
In response to college kids or provocateurs burning the US flag during Vietnam War protests, the US Congress passed the 1968 Flag Act that permits those who burn or defile the US flag to be imprisoned, but not more than one year. What has happened to America that buring a flag of sexual perversion is 16 times more serious than burning the American flag? How can this be the case, and in a red state!? Read More |
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12.21.19- The Fed Gets Blindsided... Again
Trump now joins Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton as the only U.S. presidents to be impeached (Nixon resigned before he could be impeached). Now it goes to the Senate for trial. But there’s no chance the Senate will convict Trump on the charges, given the Republican majority. Read More |
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12.20.19- Skyrocketing Costs Will
We've used a simple trick to keep the status quo from imploding for the past 11 years: borrow whatever it takes to keep paying the skyrocketing costs for housing, healthcare, college, childcare, government, permanent wars and so on. Read More |
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12.19.19- The Crazy Events Of The Past Month And What They Mean For 2020
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12.17.19- Markets vs. Politics: Which Will It Be?
No rival field of human enterprise can approach its ferocity. War is the extension of what by other means… in Mr. Carl von Clausewitz’s telling? The answer is politics of course. Today we file a scorching tort against politics. Politics separates, divides, enrages, disrupts — as war itself. Democratic politics offer no exception. Reduce electoral politics to its naked core… Read More |
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12.16.19- Bubbles Are Brutal
Asset bubbles are brutal. The most difficult time to remain centered and focused is during their last stages as everyone around you is going nuts. Logic has been tossed out the window, sentiment is manic, and every narrative – the stories we hear and use to make sense of our world – is thoroughly ungrounded. Read More |
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12.14.19- Why We Should Worry About a New Global Currency War
The expression «currency war» conjures up a scary 1930's image of competitive devaluations (against gold) designed to divert a larger part of globally stagnant demand to individual countries at the expense of others. Then – as today –, such fears have been exacerbated by the prospect of «trade wars» as well. Read More |
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12.13.19- Borrowing From Peter to Pay Paul…
Bernie Madoff showed us how it was done: you induce many investors to invest their money, promising steady above-market returns; and you deliver – at least on paper. When your clients check their accounts, they see that their investments have indeed increased by the promised amount. Anyone who opts to pull out of the game is paid promptly and in full. You can afford to pay because most players stay in, and new players are constantly coming in to replace those who drop out. Read More |
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12.12.19- Lil’ Tyrone
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12.11.19- A History of Inflationary Money:
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12.10.19- 6 Things We Learned from Prohibition
Just over 100 years ago (October 28, 1919), the National Prohibition Actbecame law. Better known as the Volstead Act, it outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. Read More |
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12.09.19- The Fed Could Be Setting Us Up for Explosive Price Inflation
Simply put, that means the Fed sees 2% inflation as a level that sustains economic growth without putting too much upward pressure on prices. Read More |
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12.07.19- Transferism, Not Socialism, Is the Drug Americans Are Hooked On
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12.06.19- The Meaning of Valuation
A New York Times article published the following day elaborated on Fisher’s comments: “After discussing the rise in stock values during the past two years, Mr. Fisher declared realized and prospective increases in earnings, to a very large extent, had justified this rise, adding that ‘time will tell whether the increase will continue sufficiently to justify the present high level. I expect that it will… While I will not attempt to make any exact forecast, I do not feel that there will soon, if ever, be a fifty or sixty-point break below present levels such as Mr. Babson has predicted.’ Read More |
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12.05.19- The Most Wonderful Time of the Year? Not So Fast…
Filling your days with hot cocoa, classic movies, and the smell of pine trees, baking cookies, or logs burning on the fire, along with the company of friends and family to warm your heart can be festive indeed. But for some, especially those further north, the long, dark winter months can be dreadful, regardless of the joy surrounding them, if you suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder. Read More |
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12.04.19- Central Bankers Have Declared War On Your Savings
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12.03.19- Death Wish
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12.02.19- See You on the Dark Side of the Moon
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11.30.19- Two Easy Strategies to Pay Less Taxes
In the big picture of personal finance, there are four financial forces that cause most people to work hard and yet struggle financially. They are:
Take a moment and reflect briefly on how much these four forces affect you personally. For example, how much do you pay in taxes? Not only do we pay income tax, but also sales taxes, gasoline taxes, real estate taxes, and so forth. More important, to whom do our tax dollars go and for what causes? Read More |
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11.29.19- Happy Thanksgiving, America 2.0
Thanks to countless films and television shows, Americans have come to understand that Thanksgiving means having to tolerate your extended family members for a few hours. For some it represents a lone annual occasion for parents and children, or siblings, to be in the same physical location. Read More |
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11.28.19- Gun Sales Surge In October As 2020 Dems Unveil Gun Control Proposals
Roughly 1.2 million guns were sold this October, a 10.8 percent increase from Oct. 2018, according to Small Arms Analytics and Forecasting (pdf). The firm also estimated that about 1.1 million guns were sold in September, another increase of almost 11 percent from the same month last year. Read More |
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11.27.19- 5 More Signs That The Global Economy Is Careening Toward A Recession
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11.26.19- Holiday Sales May Be Missing In Action
The mainstream financial media, planted with soundbytes from Wall Street snakeoil salesmen, have already created this year’s “the dog ate my homework” excuse for poor holiday spending with the absurd notion that the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is shorter this year. Quite frankly, I would not be surprise if many households used Amazon’s Prime day and easy Amazon credit lines offered to buy holiday gifts early this year. Read More |
I’m sure most of you are inundated with “Black November,” “70% off” and “clearance” email promotions from the usual cast of brick/mortar/online chain retailers. It started with my inbox in October. This is because retailers are terrified of what could be one of the worst holiday spending seasons in years. |
11.25.19- The Greatest Swindle In American History... And How They'll Try It Again Soon
Jeff Thomas: Yes, exactly. It always begins this way. The average person is always happy to see the rich taken down a peg, so this makes the introduction of the concept of theft by the government more palatable. Once people have gotten used to the concept and accept it as being perfectly reasonable, then it’s time to begin to drop the bar as to who “the rich” are. Ultimately, the middle class are always the real target. Read More |
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11.23.19- Princeton Study: The U.S. Is Not ‘Losing’ Its Democracy, It’s Already Long Gone
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11.22.19- Who Knew 2 Cents Could Go So Far?
About a week and a half ago I had a terrible sinus infection… I’m talking -really- bad. My sneezes were so ferocious that I half-expected the US Geological Survey to register them on the Richter Scale. In the midst of all that misery, I became acutely interested in the health care plans of leading US Presidential contenders… and stayed up late at night when I couldn’t sleep combing through their solutions. Read More |
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11.21.19- The Antifederalists Were Eerily Prophetic
Most school kids are left with the impression that the US Constitution was the inevitable follow-up to the Declaration of Independence and the war with King George. What they miss out on is the exciting debate that took place after the war and before the Constitution, a debate that over the dangers of creating a federal government at all. Read More |
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11.20.19- A Striking Collection of
One of the pitfalls of identifying market conditions using labels like “bull market” and “bear market” is that the accuracy of those labels can only be verified in hindsight. Early technical analysts like Charles Dow, Robert Rhea, and William Peter Hamilton tried to address that uncertainty by requiring various “confirmations” before applying those labels. For example, a new bull market isn’t “confirmed” in Dow Theory until both industrial stocks and transportation stocks experience an initial advance from market lows, followed by a moderate pullback, followed by both indices breaking above the highs of that initial advance. Read More |
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11.19.19- The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment: Understanding the Court’s Landmark Decisions
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11.18.19- Entertaining Questions
Mr. Barr declared unambiguously and in plain English that “in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of ‘Resistance’ against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law.” Is any part of that unclear? The confounded might take in this more detailed lesson in recent history from the speech: Read More |
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11.17.19- Yes, Taxation Is Theft
An influential book by Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership, tries to show that this view of taxation is wrong. Many people, they say, foolishly resent taxes. By what right does the government take away part of what we own? Isn’t this legalized theft? The government may claim that it needs the funds to provide essential social services: are the poor to be left to starve? But these assertions do not justify its policy of forcible seizure. Read More |
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11.15.19- Doug Casey on How the Homeless Crisis Could Soon Become an Epidemic
Residents must deal with human feces, syringes, disease, and filth every day. In some areas, it’s worse than the dirtiest slums of Brazil, Kenya, and India. How did this happen? R ead More |
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11.14.19- John Adams on the Purpose of Government John Adams, who has become “virtually an asterisk in history books today,” in one writer’s words, is inadequately celebrated. He played a leading role in our revolution and the beginnings of constitutional government. He wrote a Stamp Act protest that became a model for other protests. He outlined principles of liberty for Americans on the cusp of independence. R ead More |
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11.13.19- How the Deep State Media Operate
There has long been liberal bias in the media, but deliberate efforts to undermine the traditional nonpartisan ideal of journalism took a giant leap forward with the 2007 founding of “Journolist.” R ead More |
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11.12.19- If Impeachment Fails, Will The Elite Crash The Economy In Order To Prevent Four More Years Of Trump?
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11.11.19- The Wounded Mind
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11.09.19.- Weekend Rant: Plans for
A monetary reset incorporating state-sponsored cryptocurrencies will enable exchange controls to be introduced between nations by separating cross-border trade payments from domestic money circulation. The purpose will be to gain greater control over money and to direct its investment into green projects. R ead More |
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11.08.19- The Real Stock Market Is Declining
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11.07.19- An Obituary of the Western World
The Western World succeeded, because it believed in objective truth and searched for it. This resulted in scientific and technological discoveries, in architectural & artistic beauty, and in brilliant literature that educated the educatable into the human condition. R ead More |
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11.06.19- Being a Modern Heretic It’s not easy going against the grain in any time period, in any society. In our present crumbling America, it may be more difficult than ever. When you oppose both authoritarian political correctness, and the all-encompassing greed that has produced an unprecedented disparity of wealth, as I do, your prospects in all ways will be severely limited. Family and friends roll their eyes, at best, and at worst shun you. Prospective employers are not impressed. R ead More |
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11.05.19- How Far Will They Go?
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Should they succeed in achieving a U.S. Senate conviction of Trump — which would remove him from office — here are 25 shocking, history-changing events we may see unfold. R ead More |
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11.02.19- Justice is Dead
The U.S. Department of Justice, commonly referred to as simply the Justice Department, is a subdivision of the Executive Branch of the government under the control and authority of the United States Attorney General. Their primary function is to ensure that the laws are upheld and that justice is served. (So what went wrong? ~ Ed.) R ead More |
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11.01.19- A History of the 21st Century
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10.31.19- Individual Goodness Is the Antidote to Collective Turmoil
The discussions span a wide range of interesting topics from history to how to cook a particular dish to where to find a good deal on wool socks to the best song of the 1960s. However, politics, by far, appears to be the most common driver of discussion. I suspect it’s like this in many corners of the online world. R ead More |
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10.30.19- Have The Bankers And Politicians Taken America to The End of Its Financial Rope?
The GDP is a number world economies use as a bellwether. Where the U.S. economy goes, so goes the world. (Given that the Post WW I & II rearrangement saw to it that the U.S. would have high incomes to produce a consumer economy and most of the rest of the world would be a supplier economy with low incomes to provide cheap products to the U.S.) R ead More |
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10.29.19- Three things you didn’t know about the crash of 1929
The US stock market had peaked the previous month, on September 3, 1929, with the Dow Jones stock index reaching a record high of 381. But throughout September and October, nervous investors began pulling their money out of the market. And over a three day period in late October (including Black Monday), the market lost more than 30% of its value. R ead More |
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10.28.19- This Is What Worries Me
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10.26.19- What You Think Is Controlled By What You Watch, And What You Watch
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10.25.19- 55 Ways to Starve the Beast
Now the Beast is a whole lot bigger. These days the Beast has a lot more tentacles than just the government. R ead More |
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10.24.19- The Pathocracy Of The Deep State: Tyranny At The Hands Of A
- Dr. Martha Stout, clinical psychologist and former instructor at Harvard Medical School R ead More |
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10.23.19- Central Bank Hints at a “Big Reset” and Reveals a Possible Solution
The reason major financial institutions (and the mainstream financial media) shy away from a negative outlook on the economy is out of fear of triggering a kind of “self-fulfilling prophecy.” People stampeding to sell stocks and pull money out of banks could cause a vicious cycle of declines and losses. R ead More |
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10.22.19- The American Economy RIP
Thirty-eight years ago when I was in charge of United States domestic economic policy, the US Treasury and President Reagan believed that the purpose of economic policy was to serve the country, not Wall Street and the banks or the corporations or any of the various organized interest groups. Our idea was that policy could not be for this or that part of the economy. It had to be for everyone.R ead More |
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10.21.19- Tulsi Gabbard: Canary in the Democratic Coal Mine
For a sense of how divorced the Democrats are from mainstream America, the collapse of Tulsi Gabbard’s presidential campaign is instructive. Gabbard is a liberal who supports banning so-called assault weapons, raising the minimum wage to $15, free college tuition, etc. But her positions on abortion and health care are relatively moderate. Moreover, she is circumspect about impeachment, the only responsible position for a sitting congresswoman, and supports withdrawing American troops from Syria. Read More |
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10.19.19- Still Think There’s No Inflation? Check Out All The Affluent Renters
Yet a growing number of affluent Americans are now renting. From today’s Wall Street Journal: Read More |
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Nowadays Americans collectively spend more than 6 billion hours each year filling out tax forms, keeping records, and learning new tax rules according to the Office of Management and Budget. Complying with the byzantine U.S. tax code is estimated to cost the American economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually – time and money that could otherwise be used for more productive activities like entrepreneurship and investment. Read More |
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China, The NBA, And The Massive Face of Globalism
And if you really believe the situation in America is no better than the system in China, even with the amount of censorship alive and well in America, even with the rigging of this economy, try an experiment. Move to China and start publishing articles relentlessly critical of the government there. See what happens. Be sure to leave a copy of your last Will and Testament at home. Read More |
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10.16.19- Property Rights Are What Separate Humans from the Animal Kingdom
A good example of this willful ignorance is the frequency with which opponents of capitalism reiterate dog-eat-dog, “survival of the fittest,” and jungle as descriptors when they open their cornucopia of calumny. Read More |
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10.15.19- We're in a permanent coup
I’ve lived through a few coups. They’re insane, random, and terrifying, like watching sports, except your political future depends on the score. The kickoff begins when a key official decides to buck the executive. From that moment, government becomes a high-speed head-counting exercise. Who’s got the power plant, the airport, the police in the capital? How many department chiefs are answering their phones? Who’s writing tonight’s newscast? Read More |
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10.14.19- Will Social Security Be There for You? Status of the Social Security Trust Fund
The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund – does not include the Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund – which closed the fiscal year 2019 at the end of September with a balance of $2.80 trillion, according to figures released by the Social Security Administration. This balance was up by $3 billion from September last year, but was down $16 billion from September 2017. Read More |
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10.11.19- Why you shouldn’t be able to drive to your bank
I bet these are all within, say, 15 minutes of your home. That makes sense–who wants to drive three hours to get coffee, or take a plane to their dentist? But what about your bank? If you live in the USA or Europe, chances are, the banks in your neighborhood probably aren’t that great. Read More |
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10.10.19- PG&E's Deliberate Blackouts
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10.09.19- Inflation Will Eliminate Excess Debt
– Richard Nixon Today, we come bearing glad tidings. We’ve seen how both Trump and Warren, the Federal Reserve, Congress, Krugman, Summers, the powers that be, and all the ships at sea are committed to inflating our way out of the debt trap. Read More |
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10.08.19- Following the Greater Depression
Although careful research into an economy can result in a relatively accurate prognostication, the timing is always the most difficult aspect to pinpoint. Read More |
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10.07.19- The Impeachment Waltz
Just in more recent years, both Reagan and George H.W. Bush could have been impeached over the October Surprise and Iran/Contra scandals. Bill Clinton could have impeached for many high crimes and misdemeanors, but the mass murder at Waco certainly stands out as an impeachable offense. Dubya could have been impeached for the “weapons of mass destruction” lie and the government stand down on September 11, 2001. Barack Obama assassinated an American citizen with a drone, bragged about it, and then killed his sixteen year old son a month later. I don’t recall any impeachment efforts over that. Read More |
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10.05.19- Weekend Rant: "I Love The Smell Of Malfeasance In The Morning"
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10.04.19- The Huge & Terrifying US Dollar Beast
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) explains very well how to predict the winner of a beauty contest successfully. You must, he noted, think along the following lines: “(…) each competitor has to pick, not those faces which he himself finds prettiest, but those which he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors (…). It is not a case of choosing those which, to the best of use of one’s judgment, are really the prettiest, nor even those which average opinion genuinely thinks the prettiest. We have to reach the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be.” Read More |
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10.03.19- America’s Perilous Path Of Wealth Distribution
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10.02.19- Soviet Catastrophe Paints Grim Picture of America’s Future
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10.01.19- 11 Habits You Need to Break Before You’re Broke
Sadly, for a lot of Americans the latter is true. In fact, the average US adult spends $1,497 a month on nonessential items, according to a recent survey conducted by OnePoll. That’s roughly $18,000 a year on things we can all do without. Read More |
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09.30.19- Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News
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09.28.19- Weekend Rant: It Is Time To Go: Over Half Of All California Voters “Have Considered Leaving The State”
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09.27.19- It’s impossible to know everything. Here’s the smartest way to be ignorant
Keeping the price in mind, I wanted a smaller variety of tuna to avoid high mercury content and something with few dangerous chemicals in the packaging. Read More |
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09.26.19- This law allows hospitals to kidnap you for profit
He went to the emergency room, and told the doctor that he had thoughts of hurting himself. Using his powers under the Baker Act, the doctor sent Robert to a mental health facility called North Tampa Behavioral. Florida’s Baker Act allows doctors, police, or judges to involuntarily commit patients to psychiatric hospitals for up to 72 hours if they show signs that they may hurt themselves or others. Read More |
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09.25.19- What I learned from having my mind manipulated this weekend
Whether it’s the world’s greatest chef, a champion athlete, a master pianist, or even the guy who holds the world record for being able to recite the first 70,000 digits of Pi, it’s always exciting to see the best at work. Apollo Robbins is the best in the world at what he does. Read More |
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09.24.19- Doug Casey on Why the State Is a “Parasite on Society”
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09.23.19- How to Slice Your Cell Phone Bill in Half
If you can’t, I don’t blame you. The ‘Big Four’ have dominated the mobile provider space for decades. And with their dominance, they’ve been able to dictate the price of your monthly phone plan. The average starting price of an unlimited plan within the Big Four is now $68.75 a month. Read More |
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09.21.19- Ben Hunt: Prepare To Get Burned
History teaches us that there is no free lunch, reminds Dr. Ben Hunt, publisher of EpsilonTheory.com. And science informs us that even the most simple systems become nearly impossible to predict or control with 100% precision as time and variables change. Read More |
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09.20.19- The Greatest Threat to World Stability No One Knows About
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09.19.19- Democracy Is a Scam
Somebody launched an assault on a refinery. Immediately, a group called the “Houthis” claimed responsibility. And immediately, too, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that it was the fault of Iran… and U.S. President Trump said he was locked and loaded for a retaliation against someone. Read More |
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09.18.19- Financially Transmitted Diseases It all happened when I was having dinner with some colleagues discussing quantitative easing (QE) and negative interest rate policy (NIRP). NIRP will have the biggest impact on our global markets moving forward. Read More |
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09.17.19- The Black Swan Is a Drone
Predictably, the mainstream media is serving up heaping portions of reassurances that the drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities are no big deal and full production will resume shortly. The obvious goal is to placate global markets fearful of an energy disruption that could tip a precarious global economy into recession. Read More |
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09.16.19- Tectonic Rumblings
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09.14.19- Everything I Know About Business I Learned From The Godfather
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09.13.19- Has America Become One of the Most Evil Nations on the Entire Planet?
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09.12.19- Tulsi Gabbard Suggests Government Is Run By A “Small Group Of Political Elite”
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09.11.19- Just when you think you own your own private property…
And a restaurant chain called The White Spot opened its newest location in Denver, Colorado. Read More |
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09.10.19- 9/11 After 18 Years
I suspect that the expert report is already in the Memory Hole. Popular Mechanics, Wikipedia and CNN cannot label a distinguished team of experts “conspiracy theorists.” Read More |
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09.09.19- Gun control is ‘NOT‘ the answer… Idiot control ‘IS‘ the only answer!
There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. The U.S. population is 324,059,091 as of June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.00925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death: Read More |
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09.07.19- It’s The Pace Of Change That Kills You
A treasured member of my family is in the process of dying right now. She has lived a full, rich life; but her passing is a sad affair for us. I’ve spent a lot of time recently with hospice workers. I’ve learned that they’re often asked by their patients, “How much time do I have left?” Read More |
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09.06.19- The king of Ponzi schemes was an amateur compared to this
Posing as an investment firm for decades, Bernie Madoff’s company defrauded thousands of investors out of their money. In 2009 Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for running the $64 billion Ponzi scheme. Read More |
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09.05.19- Free-Riding Investors Set up Markets for a Major Collapse
The best example is a parasite on an elephant. The parasite sucks the elephant’s blood to survive but contributes nothing to the elephant’s well-being. Read More |
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09.04.19- Truth is an Endangered Species
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09.03.19- In Coming Currency Wars, Gold Is the Only Practical Way to Preserve Buying Power
OLD TOWN HOTEL, HANOI – This month, we are billionaires. As longtime Diary readers know, a year ago, my ex-wife Kate and I packed up our things and left America. Then we converted our savings and investments into gold and silver. Since then, we’ve been traveling the world. Read More |
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09.02.19- Mass Layoffs Are Back.
Imagine the following scene playing out at work tomorrow:
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08.31.19- Trade War Tariffs to Hit U.S. Consumers and Retailers
The new tariffs will be raised to 15% from 10% in response to China’s additional tariffs on $75 billion of American goods. According to a Newsmax piece, POTUS said that “the $250 billion of goods and products already being taxed at 25% will see that rate hiked to 30% starting on Oct. 1.” Read More |
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08.30.19- “Monster” Hurricane Dorian Is Projected To Be “A Very Big Hurricane,
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08.29.19- How to become a billionaire
Once there, one of my favorite medieval torture devices is a fairly new exercise bike called a Peloton. In case you haven’t used one before, a Peloton is like any other stationary exercise bike. You pedal a lot, and it sucks. Read More |
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08.28.19- The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials
The trade war is dragging on. The yield curve is inverting. Investors are fleeing to safety. Global growth is slowing. The stock market is dipping. The Millennials are screwed. Read More |
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08.27.19- Peter Schiff Compares Trade War to “Battle at Little Bighorn”
In today’s polarized political climate, there is one topic both the Left and the Right seem to agree on: the trade war with China is eventually going to hurt the average American. Read More |
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08.26.19- Save The World By
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08.24.19- A Critical Threshold Has Just Been Crossed, And Things Will NEVER Be The Same Again…
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08.23.19- What a Nobel Peace Prize, the Federal Reserve, and endless war have in common
It immediately shot to number six on the New York Times Bestsellers list. Paul’s message was that the Federal Reserve was created to bail out banks. It privatized profits for them and socialized losses for the rest of us. He said the system works against us by killing competition among banks and hiding taxes through inflation. Read More |
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08.22.19- The “Hidden Tax” That Could Hurt Your Retirement Savings
You can see in the GoBankingRates chart below that 61.6% of retirees have less than $100,000 saved for retirement, which is far from the amount some experts claim is needed on average: Read More |
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08.21.19- Something Stinks About The “Booming Economy” Narrative:
J.C. Penny, yes, that same J.C. Penny that has been a staple, for decades, in malls throughout America, is getting into the business of selling used clothes. Read More |
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08.20.19- Censorship of Conservative Voices on the Internet is Virtual Book Burning
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08.19.19- 'Con'-fidence
Consider the macro context here: Nine major economiesare either in recession or on the verge of it. This includes Germany, UK, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore, South Korea, Russia. Everything else is slowing down hard. Read More |
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08.17.19- Bubble Bubba
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08.16.19- Inflation Rising: Consumer Goods Prices Increase by Most in Seven Years
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08.15.19- Major Recession Alarm Sounds
The Dow Jones shed 800 scarlet points on the day. Percentage wise, both S&P and Nasdaq took similar whalings. The S&P lost 86 points. And the Nasdaq… 242. And so the market paid back all of yesterday’s trade-induced gains — with heaps of interest. Worrying economic data drifting out of China and Germany were partly accountable. Read More |
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08.14.18- The “R” Word Is Rearing Its Ugly Head
We can debate the causes – an escalating trade war between the US and China, too much dodgy debt, the end of the longest bull market in history, or perhaps all three. Read More |
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08.13.19- The True Story Behind China's 'Currency Manipulation'
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Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell at 7:30 am this morning, according to police. He was under “suicide watch,” which was of course a designation placed on him roughly two weeks ago to set up the back story for what just happened. Jeffrey Epstein was “arkancided” / murdered for the simple reason that dead men don’t talk. Read More |
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08.10.19- To Avoid A Collapse Means Restoring
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08.09.19- Heading for civil war
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08.08.19- The Middle Class is Getting Destroyed!
In his recent video, Babe says far too many Americans are staring the boogeyman in the face and yet they still ignore the “dangers that are coming with this [economic] collapse.” He added: “I’m absolutely dumbfounded by the lack of common sense here in America in regards to what is happening to this economy.” Read More |
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08.07.19- “Worst Year Ever”: The Chinese Ban On U.S. Agricultural Products Will Be A Death Blow For Countless U.S. Farms
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08.06.19- Why We’re Keeping Our
Investor’s Business Daily reports:
So far, the big, fat, ugly Dow has sat on the wall and stubbornly refused to tumble. But last week, Donald J. Trump gave Humpty a shove. Read More |
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Abundance is the enemy of globalist control. When people experience abundance, they become more self-reliant and realize they don’t need big centralized government to run their lives. Abundance leads to economic mobility and human dignity, and these must be crushed by globalists to keep humanity suppressed. Read More |
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08.03.19- Weekend Rant: Fiscal Conservatism Is Dead. Republicans Killed It. "Fiscal conservatism," R.I.P. And while the Democratic Party has been an aider and abettor of this untimely death since at least the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, it is the Republican Party — the purported partisan home for fiscal conservatism — that ought to be credited with the fatal coup de grâce. Read More |
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08.02.19- America's Poverty Trap: How A Small Financial Setback Can Spiral Into An Inescapable Disaster
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08.01.19- How Real Mind Control Works
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07.31.19- Johnstone: How the Question "Who Benefits From This?" Can Change Your Life
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07.30.19- What I Learned from Eating Candy
I was looking through the local newspaper and saw a big, bold ad. Or maybe my parents showed it to me… I can’t remember that part either. What I do remember is what the ad said, and how exciting it was to me at the time: Topps, the famous baseball card and candy company, was looking for taste testers. More specifically, they wanted children taste testers. It was a one-day job. You’d go there, taste some sweet stuff, and get paid to tell them what you thought. Read More |
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07.29.19- Boomer Retirement
Now I plan on working until the day I die. I just want to work less and less every year. Fortunately I am in a position where I can slow down, downshift a gear and not quit. I still want to work but I want to take more time off and travel a little more. Most people run at their jobs full speed until one day they just jump off (or are pushed off) the merry-go-round and all of a sudden find themselves unemployed. Read More |
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07.27.19- Non-Profit Hospitals
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07.26.19- How to Buy “the Next Amazon”
A small company founded in Bellevue, Washington was set to go public. With the modest ambition of selling books online, Amazon (AMZN) listed for just $18 a share. We all know what happened next… On a split-adjusted stock basis, Amazon rose from $1.50 per share to where it is trading today around $1,975 per share. That is an incredible 1,317 times your money, or a 131,567% return on investment. That turned every $1000 invested into more than $1.3 million. Read More |
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07.25.19- Free-Riding Investors Set up Markets for a Major Collapse
The best example is a parasite on an elephant. The parasite sucks the elephant’s blood to survive but contributes nothing to the elephant’s well-being. Read More |
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07.24.19- California’s nuclear power plants found to be sitting on top of a massive supervolcano filled with
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07.23.19- Beware, the IRS is eyeing your inherited money
One of the perils of being well-off is the constant risk that the federal government and/or your friendly state and local tax collectors will figure out new and different ways to snatch more of your wealth. Especially wealth that you earned the old-fashioned way: by inheriting it. To raise your paranoia to the appropriate level, here are two new things to worry about. Read More |
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07.22.19- Badly Screwed: The Elite Are Spitting in Your Face!
Bottom line: America’s politicians, wealthy businessmen, and CEOs do not, in their heart of hearts, give the slightest thought to the average person’s well-being. Read More |
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07.20.19- Trump's Fight With The Fed Over Interest Rates Is A Scripted Farce
“The Federal Reserve has capitulated on liquidity tightening yet the US economy is “stronger than ever”, isn't that weird?” Read More |
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07.19.19- The Greatest Hoax of All
As a twelve year old, and a huge astronomy junkie, I followed the Apollo program nearly as closely as I memorized Major League Baseball batting averages. I knew all the astronauts’ names, and even had a favorite; Jim Lovell, who would head the ill-fated Apollo 13, denying him the honor of walking on the moon. Read More |
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07.18.19- Eugenics, Infertility & Population Growth CRISIS Part 5
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07.17.19- Promise The Moon
Until the 2016 election, the US hadn’t seen many openly collectivist candidates since before World War II, but since the campaign that gave rise to avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, socialist candidates have appeared in abundance and have become “the other democrats.” They’re not only plentiful, but unapologetic in their socialist stance. But why should this be? And where will it lead? Read More |
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07.16.19- The Next Industrial Revolution
As you probably know, I believe times are about to get quite rough economically and politically. But, at the same time, I’m very optimistic about what’s happening in science and technology. So let me hazard some predictions. And break the old rule about how, if you predict an event will occur, to make sure you don’t predict its timing. Read More |
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07.15.19- Eugenics, Infertility & Population Growth CRISIS Part 4
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07.13.19- Do You Truly Have Free Will?
I love that Jung quote. I’ve used it generously in conversation, seminars and writings throughout the years. Read More |
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07.12.19- Eugenics, Infertility & Population Growth CRISIS Part 3
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07.11.19- Are White People
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07.10.19- Major Red Flags Are Causing Many To Doubt Whether Justice Will Be Done In The Jeffrey Epstein Sex Scandal
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07.09.19- Goodbye Dollar, It Was Nice Knowing You!
Over the past two years, the White House has initiated trade disputes, insulted allies and enemies alike, and withdrawn from or refused to ratify multinational treaties and agreements. It has also expanded the reach of its unilaterally imposed rules, forcing other nations to abide by its demands or face economic sanctions. While the stated Trump Administration intention has been to enter into new arrangements more favorable to the United States, the end result has been quite different, creating a broad consensus within the international community that Washington is unstable, not a reliable partner and cannot be trusted. Read More |
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07.08.19- You Are Being Trolled
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07.06.19- Eugenics, Infertility & Population Growth CRISIS
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07.05.19- Central Banks Will Keep Easing "Until Parliaments And Palaces Burn"
Oh, what a beautiful morning… It’s a Friday in July, so I may as well have an off the wall rant! If you are stuck in the office, send me a mail and we can bemoan we’re not working from home in the back garden! Read More |
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07.04.17- Rediscovering America:
The quiz below, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, provides an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of the 4th of July .Read More |
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07.03.19- The Only Thing Worse Than The World Dying Would Be If It Died Unseen And Unappreciated
It’s a mainstream media piece, so of course it ends with a couple of think tank denizens claiming that Gabbard’s dire warnings during the debate are hysterical nonsense, but the first half of the article quotes authorities on nuclear disarmament confirming that we may very well be as close to nuclear annihilation as we were at the height of the last cold war. Read More |
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Unfortunately, plenty of research already proves it isn’t (see 1, 2, 3). Not only that – cybersecurity experts, (see 1, 2), environmentalists (see 1, 2, 3) meteorologists, NASA, NOAA, the U.S. Navy, and utility companies have ALL warned that installing 5G everywhere could lead to widespread catastrophic events. Read More |
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07.01.19- It's No Bitcoin: Facebook's Libra Currency Is Tied to Government Currencies
But his concern for money and market reached back to his earlier work, as noted in a number of articles posted in recent years at mises.org. As noted by Nikolay Gertchev: Read More |
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06.29.19- Weekend Rant: Freedom and
Anyone who listened to Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren share her horror over states making gains in halting abortion understands that true liberty and individual rights, even states’ rights, mean nothing to the Democrats. Warren called for a federal law that codifies Roe v Wade, with the certain knowledge that the federal government treasury would be used to coerce states to fall in line, as has been done regarding so many other federal laws. Read More |
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06.28.19- Buy Gold, Sell Bonds
If you're considering tweaking your strategy for the second-half of the year, I have four words for you: Buy gold, sell bonds. Why Gold Is Attractive Again Gold has been dead money since 2011. But lately, it's showing signs of life again. Gold recently broke above an important resistance level at $1,350. Some technicians think this sets the stage for a run to $1,700. Read More |
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06.27.19- The Diminishing American Economy
For example, it is normal in a recovering or expanding economy for the labor force participation rate to rise as people enter the work force to take advantage of the job opportunities. During the decade of the long recovery, from June 2009 through May 2019, the labor force participation rate fell from 65.7 to 62.8 percent. Read More |
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06.26.19- The Pain Of This New Economic Downturn Is Starting To Show Up All Over The Country
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06.25.19- No Inflation? A Day Trip To The Regional Amusement Park Costs A Family Of Four OVER $1,000 This Summer (2019)
This is arguably the best amusement park in the nation in terms of the number/quality of thrill-rides/roller-coasters, and sure, this is subjective opinion, but I’m saying that as having gone to amusement parks all over the country for most of my life, including many in California, Florida, Georgia, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and In other states I’m sure I’m forgetting about because that data has not yet been de-fragmented in my brain, and by “most of my life”, I mean, I’ve gone to amusement parks as a kid, as a student, as a single, as a married fella, and as a family man. Read More |
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06.24.19- Why Legal Cannabis Will Be
But Teeka has been diving deep into a new, booming industry – legal cannabis. He’s been flying all over the world… talking to the most important CEOs in the cannabis space. And, as he details below, he sees this industry as an even bigger play than cryptos… Read More |
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06.22.19- The Politics of Personality
The social justice warriors have won; all politics in this country are emotion driven now. There is no reasoning, no flexing of the intellect. It is all about how you feel, and the larger, timeless principles America was founded upon have become irrelevant to a public that is basically ignorant of them anyway. Read More |
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06.21.19- The Advent of Truth-Destroying Technology
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06.20.19- An Examination Of The Leftist Cult And Their Religion
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06.19.19- Americans Are Losing the Only Fight Worth Having
On the other side, he unrolls a mat, kneels, and bows in prayer, facing the Holy City of Mecca. This morning at 6 a.m., it is already almost unbearably hot and humid Read More |
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06.18.19- Gold Standard Coming Into View…US Must Adapt Gold Trade Note
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06.17.19- Waiting For The Black Swan
Two more tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday morning (6/13/19) in the Gulf of Oman, and if hostilities advance we could be facing a ‘black swan’ event. One that changes everything, and divides the world into ‘before’ and ‘after’ periods. Read More |
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06.15.19- It’s Coming And It’s Going to SUCK
The business cycle has never been repealed. Every person who has predicted that someone has “conquered” it over the decades has been wrong. Let me repeat that for emphasis: EVERY PERSON who has made such a prediction or claim through the last roughly 100 years HAS BEEN NOT ONLY WRONG THEY’VE BEEN DISASTROUSLY WRONG. Read More |
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06.14.19- FAANG Companies Facing Impacts from Imminent Antitrust Probe
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06.13.19- How the Stock Market Actually Works
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06.12.19- The American Bolsheviks
Our dark fears and midnight tremors are coming to life. In the broad daylight. The Bolsheviks are invading the suburbs and cities… and even the Corn Belt… all across America. American Jackassery Both Democrats and Republicans are turning to three-part programs – one part Soviet economic claptrap, one part Mussolini’s political bamboozle, and one part pure American jackassery. Read More |
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06.11.19- Sometimes Things Turn
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06.10.19- Socialism Rises Due To The Great American Economic Growth Myth
Since 1775, millions of Americans have given their lives in defense of the American “idea.” The tyranny and oppression which arise from communism, socialism, and dictatorships have been a threat worthy of such sacrifice. I am sure those patriots who died to ensure the “American way of life” would be disheartened by the willingness of the up and coming generations adopt such ideals. Read More |
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06.08.19- The State of the Economy
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06.07.19- How $30 Trillion Disappears…
But the economy continues to sink. The longest expansion in U.S. history seems to be approaching its end. Here’s CNBC:
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06.06.19- The Trade War Is About To Become An Economic World War III
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06.05.19- 32 Tips For Navigating A Society Full Of Propaganda And Manipulation
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06.04.19- The War On Truth
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06.03.19- Do We Face a Global Food Disaster?
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06.01.19- These Are The ‘Good Old Days’
Bill was 48 when his wife stunned him with a request for divorce. Right up until that moment, he’d thought everything was fine. He’d been pouring all his energy into his work to provide a very comfortable life for his wife and 2 children. But she was unhappy and fell out of love while Bill wasn’t paying attention to matters at home. He’d taken her for granted and forgot to be present for the most important people in his life, and to be grateful in the moment. Read More |
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05.31.19- Globalists Only Need One More Major Event To Finish Sabotaging The Economy
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05.30.19- Why A “Safe Retirement” Is Becoming Too Difficult to Obtain
That clear retirement path ended in 2000, according to John Mauldin in a recent SeekingAlpha article (emphasis ours): Read More |
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05.29.19- Monsanto is finally getting a taste of its own poison
In the 1960s it created Agent Orange, a defoliant–hardcore weedkiller–which the USA used during the Vietnamwar. The military sprayed vast swaths of the jungle causing horrible health effects like cancer and birth defects in American veterans and Vietnamese civilians exposed to the chemical. Then Monsanto brought their products home to the USA and started dumping its poison on the homeland. Read More |
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05.28.19- Pain Is Inevitable;
Sometimes you really do find enlightenment at the top of the mountain. I spent this week hiking in Montana’s Bitterroot mountain range, as a participant in the pilot run of a new personal-growth-through-adventure-travel startup. In our group was a famous professional cyclist, who had been a superstar on the Tour de France for many years. Read More |
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05.27.19- The CPI Is Underrepresenting Food Inflation By 40%: Here's The Proof
As Joseph Carson, former director of economic research at Alliance Bernstein writes in his follow up to a "New Working Theory on Inflation", numerous economic explanations and theories have been offered, and policymakers are considering making changes to their operating price-targeting framework. Yet, before any decisions are made policymakers should consider all of the factors that could be keeping a "muzzle" on published inflation. Read More |
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05.25.19- The Ongoing Destruction of the Minds of Children
Compulsory schooling is a travesty. To call it education is absurd. Real education is lifelong learning as an individual, while compulsory public schooling is the indoctrination of children as a collective exercise to bring all down to the lowest level. Prisons called schools are simply the forced means to stifle individual brilliance while promoting sameness and monotony. The result of this brainwashing is meant to teach children to obey orders, and to be satisfied spending their lives in a virtual cage of ignorance, to never become entrepreneurs and dissenters. Read More |
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05.24.19- How to Survive the Journey Ahead: A Graduation Message for a Terrifying Age
Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young people. Read More |
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05.23.19- Why Imminent Pension Crisis Reveals a Grim Future for All Retirees
John Mauldin shines a light on the math that seems to explain why public pensions aren’t living up to their task:
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05.22.19- Origins of the Deep State in North America Part 3: What is the Fabian Society and to What End was it Created?
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05.21.19- The Origins of the Deep State in North America Part 2: Milner’s Perversion Takes Over Canada
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05.20.19- The Origins of the Deep State
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05.18.19- Trump's Last Stand
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05.17.19- The Darkness Rising - Twilight of Those Who Would Be Gods
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05.16.19- We Have 3 Years Before The National Debt "Death Spiral"
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05.15.19- The Economy Has Fundamentally Changed In The 21st Century...
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and other metrics of economic activity don't measure either broad-based prosperity or well-being. Elites skimming financialization profits by expanding corporate debt and issuing more loans to commoners while spending more on their lifestyles boosts GDP quite nicely while the security and well-being of the bottom 90% plummets. Read More |
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05.14.19- 5 Memes… because if you can’t laugh about government, you’ll cry
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05.13.19- The World To America: "You're Fired!"
The 2016 US presidential elections gave us Donald Trump, a reality TV star whose famous tag line from his show “The Apprentice” was “You are fired!” Focus on this tag line; it is all that is important to this story. Some Trump Derangement Disorder sufferers might disagree. This is because they are laboring under certain misapprehensions: that the US is a democracy; or that it matters who is president. It isn’t and it doesn’t. By this point, the choice of president matters as much as the choice of conductor for the band that plays aboard a ship as it vanishes beneath the waves. Read More |
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05.11.19- A compound in pomegranates can trigger cancer cell death
A previous study carried out by the same researchers revealed that punicalagin induces autophagic cell death in papillary thyroid carcinoma cells. For the current study, the research team hypothesized that punicalagin triggers DNA damage associated with cell death because DNA damage was previously reported as an inducer of autophagy. Autophagy can encourage tumor suppression during cancer initiation and protect tumors during progress. Read More |
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05.10.19- "Get The Popcorn Ready" - Why The World's Most Bearish Hedge Fund Thinks The Biggest Crash Is Almost Here
However, as Horseman Global's Russell Clark has proven over and over again, this simply isn't true. A few years back, we anointed Horseman with the title "The world's most bearish hedge fund" for a very simple reason: Read More |
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05.09.19- Border Crisis: Most Arrests In 12 Years; Over 168,000 Released Into US; Measles, Chickenpox Found
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05.08.19- Seven Laws of Investing
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05.07.19- The Old World is Dying
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05.06.19- Which SHTF situation is most likely to actually happen?
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05.04.19- Why Does Time Seem Like It’s Speeding Up?
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Does constant exposure to digital technology change the way we perceive time? I would have to agree with the following video from Truthstream Media and say yes. When human attention is hyperfocused on a single point, all other environmental stimuli tends to be cut off. When we completely cut our experience off from our surroundings, this often makes us feel as though we are suffering from what is sometimes called "time loss". Add to this the neverending quest for a new hit of dopamine that digital culture provides and you have a recipe for the mass warping of human brains.  |
05.03.19- Covington Gives a Glimpse of
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05.02.19- Show Me the Real Money
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05.01.19- How the Financialization Scam Works
What is it? How does it happen? Does it matter? Who cares? Let’s begin with the last question: Who cares? Answer: Nobody… until it blows up. Read More |
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04.30.19- Tom Petty was Right
What if the dreaming part is actually driving us insane? What if we have engineered a society in which fantasy has so grotesquely over-run reality that coping with daily life is nearly impossible. What if an existence mediated by pixel screens large and small presents a virtual world more compelling than the real world and turns out to be a kind of contagious avoidance behavior — until reality is so fugitive that we can barely discern its colors and outlines beyond the screens? Read More |
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04.29.19- Wealthy Elitists Freak Out As Hordes Of Homeless People Take Over Their Neighborhoods All Over The West Coast
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04.27.1- No One Is Coming to Rescue You — Especially Not a Presidential Candidate
We are only a few months into 2019, and already the 2020 presidential election season is well underway. Each week, it seems that more candidates are entering the race, especially in the Democratic field. And as the country cycles through its political flavors of the week, social media has become overrun by passionate posts that read more like stump speeches in support of a given candidate. Read More |
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04.26.19- Nearly 102 Million Americans Do Not Have A Job Right Now – Worse Than At Any Point During The Last Recession
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04.25.19- A horrible future awaits for anyone who depends on government
Congress controls government spending. And nine out of every ten people say the government doesn’t spend tax dollars wisely. 57% say tax rates are too high. Read More |
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04.24.19- Here’s an easy way to tell if your bank is actually safe
The next morning the entire nation woke up in horror. Their politicians had been up all night, negotiating with international lenders to provide an emergency loan to the country, and its banks. Read More |
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04.23.19- Now who would have thought it would be this simple to explain!
The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the U S, especially in the minority races. Not the Catholics, not the Mormons. Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for maintaining my state prison security clearance. During the training session there was a presentation by 3 speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant & Muslim faiths, who each explained their beliefs. Read More |
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04.22.19- The Best Case For Free Trade
The best case for free trade—the best argument in favor of unbridled commerce—might be a personal one. Let me explain. Read More |
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04.20.19- Are “Conspiracy Theories” Tearing Society Apart Or Saving Us From Destruction?
CIA memo 1035-960, circulated within the CIA in 1967 and exposed through a freedom of information act request by the New York Times in 1976, outlines strategies the agency would use to shut down critics of the Warren Commission Report. Read More |
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04.19.19- The House on Lake Minnetonka That Never Existed
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04.18.19- How to Make Your “Embarrassing” Investments Pay Off
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04.17.19- Guess who ends up paying those taxes meant only for the rich…
Imagine working for yourself, or building a company from scratch. With no corporate taxes, and no income taxes, you kept the full rewards of your risk and labor. It’s not surprising that in about 100 years the United States went from non-existent, to having the largest economy in the world. Read More |
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04.16.19- Japanified World Ahead
I still think the economy is okay for now. I still see recession odds rising considerably in 2020. Maybe it will get pushed back another year or two, but at some point this growth phase will end, either in recession or an extended flat period (even flatter than the last decade, which says a lot). And I still think we are headed toward a global credit crisis I’ve dubbed The Great Reset. Read More |
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04.15.19- The Bull(y) Rally
The current market rally is like a playground bully; shoving to the ground anyone in its path. But like all bullies, the braggadocio belies an underlying cowardice. Those in charge of the status quo must be absolutely terrified to resort to the unnatural lengths they are going to right now to keep the current rally intact. Read More |
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04.13.19- Trump Calls for New Quantitative Easing to Prop Up U.S. Economy
Now that the Federal Reserve is on “pause” – presumably for the rest of 2019 – perhaps investors can stop obsessing over interest rate decisions by central planners. Perhaps markets can finally trade based on actual market signals and underlying fundamentals. Perhaps ... not. Read More |
As gold and silver markets continue in choppy trading this spring, bulls are hoping a dovish Fed will sink the dollar and lift the metals. |
04.12.19- World Faces "Uphill Battle" With Average IQ Of Just 82!
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David Becker has released a new version of the World’s IQ. Each country has a score showing the cognitive abilities of their citizens, this being a blend of genetics and the environment of each country, particularly as regards education and health. The world’s global score is 82. This is 12th percentile rank on the Greenwich Mean Intelligence benchmark of IQ 100. As school teachers used to say in end of year reports: “Could do better”.  |
04.11.19- Growing Public Pension Crisis an ‘Existential Financial Threat’
Almost every state struggles with massive unfunded pension obligations due to the “risky and uncaring attitudes” of lawmakers, according to a report released March 20 by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative public-policy organization. State pensions in the United States are funded at an average of 35 percent of what they should be, according to the report. And that means an average of $18,300 in unfunded pension obligations for every resident in the country. Read More |
WASHINGTON—Unfunded liabilities of nearly $6 trillion in state pension plans pose a significant risk to public workers, retirees, and taxpayers across the United States, according to a new study. |
ANOTHER “Bomb Cyclone” Will Bring More Flooding To Parts Of The Midwest That Were Hit By A “1,000 Year Flood” Last Month
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04.09.19- The Curse of the Thinking Class
There is, for instance, the failure of America’s leading economic viziers to arrest the collapse of the middle class — and with it, the disintegration of families — that more than anything produced the 2016 election result. What is a bigger emergency: the destruction of all those towns, cities, and lives in flyover-land, or the S & P stock index going down twenty points? Read More |
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04.08.19- Why a Ruinous Deflation Is Coming
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I’ve been writing on deflation since the early-1990s, when I had the topic all to myself and was regarded as a voice on the lunatic fringe. Scary essays that I freelanced to Barron’s, the San Francisco Examiner and a number of other publications turned out to have been premature, but I’ve never doubted that the endgame for a global economy glutted by debt would be a deflationary collapse. Skeptics say the Government will make this impossible by simply revving up the printing presses, creating enough money to bail out ‘the system’ regardless of how many dollars it takes. Oh really? How would this work if, as is extremely likely, a state pension system goes bust?  |
04.06.19- The Growing Opposition To
I just heard from Tom Feeley:
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04.05.19- Read this if you believe that you will never need a semi-automatic rifle.
Day in and day out I observe that The Rule of Law is being eroded in America, especially the Highest Law of the Land, The Constitution of the United States and The Bill of Rights. If you disagree with me, then maybe you simply do not know what it is that you are looking for, so you do not miss it. Here is a list with four things to help you better see what exactly it is that we are slowly but surely losing. Read More |
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04.04.19- US government’s net worth is now NEGATIVE $75 TRILLION
It’s called the Financial Report of the US Government… and it looks a lot like an annual report that you might see filed by a big company like Apple or Facebook. Except that, unlike Apple and Facebook, the US government’s annual report is absolutely gruesome. Read More |
Usually around the middle of February each year, the US Treasury Department releases an annual report of the federal government’s financial condition. |
04.03.19- Missouri bill will ban
One of those checks is the creation of a federal republic, in which the constituent geographic states have their separate powers — a founding principle that is enshrined in the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which spells out the powers of the constituent (geographical) states and of the people. Read More |
I thank God that our Founding Fathers, whose greatest fear was a tyrannical government, had the wisdom and foresight to institute curbs on government power in the form of numerous checks and balances. |
04.02.19- Open the Age of Reason
"There, in the stars, lies mankind's entry into the long-awaited Age of Reason, when our species sheds at last the cultural residue of the beast." — Lyndon LaRouche, 1985 In unveiling his five-year U.S. manned-Moon mission and succeeding international Moon-colonization and Moon-Mars missions when he did so, immediately after the collapse of the "Russiagate" coup against him one week ago, President Donald Trump acted exactly as Lyndon LaRouche might have advised him—if only LaRouche were still alive to see these signal victories for his ideas. The British beast may have suffered a big setback, but it is still active and still working to shred the U.S. Constitution; we must go on to inflict its final defeat. Read More |
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04.01.19- Here’s What Pops the
But as Bill has been showing you all week (catch up here, here, and here), all that “stimulation” did absolutely nothing for the real economy. All it did was push up the price of financial assets, specifically stocks and bonds. Read More |
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03.30.19- The Financial Panic of 2019?
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03.29.19- How to Play The Game of Life & Go Into Extra Innings
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Now you and your loved ones can play the game of life into extra innings and they aren’t going to have to send in a pinch runner for you, and you won’t be forced to retire and you can still hit home runs!  |
03.28.19- Behind the Mueller Distraction…
So were the trade wars… first with Canada and Mexico… and now with China. Lots of blah, blah… gumming and jawing… And there was the “taking the knee”… which many people took seriously. And remember Stormy Daniels? And two summits with North Korea? What was the point? Why the circus? Read More |
The last two years have been full of absurd distractions. The Mueller Report, for example – one big, fat, waste of time. |
03.27.19- For The Average Investor, The Next Bear Market Will Likely Be The Last
Just recently Anna-Louise Jackson published an interesting article asking if “The Financial Crisis” still haunted your investing. To wit:
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03.26.19- How the Perfect Prepper Plans
Or, in the eloquent words of Mike Tyson, “Everyone’s got a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth.” Read More |
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03.25.19- France Is The Socialist Future We Should Dread
I get why so many are devoting such amounts of energy to this task. First, the likes of Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and few others have made the notion of socialism acceptable in some circles and even hip. Also, according to a poll from August, more Democrats approve of socialism than of capitalism. Read More |
A lot of attention and ink are being poured these days in trying to explain to a generation of voters why socialism always fails. Not only does socialism always fail to deliver the economic goods; it is also a source of massive oppression and pain. |
03.23.19- 18 Statistics That Prove That America Has Become An “Idiocracy”
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Once upon a time, America had the greatest system of education on the entire planet, and our people were sharp, capable and extremely well informed. Sadly, none of those things are true anymore. In 2006, Mike Judge made a movie entitled “Idiocracy” in which an individual of below average intelligence wakes up after being asleep for 500 years thanks to a military hibernation experiment. When he wakes up, he quickly realizes that he is now the smartest man in America, and that is not a good thing. The film became an instant classic, but when I originally watched it I thought that such a thing could never actually happen in this country. Unfortunately, I was wrong.  |
03.22.19- Government Warns Of Historic, Widespread Flooding “Through May” – Food Prices To Skyrocket As 1000s Of Farms Are Destroyed
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We have never seen catastrophic flooding like this, and the NOAA is now telling us that there will be more major flooding for at least two more months. On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned that “historic, widespread flooding” would “continue through May”. More than 90 percent of the upper Midwest and Great Plains is currently covered by an average of  |
03.21.19- Social Security “Tipping Point” Could Be Arriving Faster Thanks to Congress
If nothing is done, in 2034 the clock will be ticking for this and other entitlement programs like Medicare. But a “tipping point” may be coming faster than most people think. Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan had a prescription to offer in a Newsmax piece. There’s his “easier said than done” part: Read More |
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03.20.19- A Recipe for Massive Government Spending
Leading Democratic presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders have expressed desires to increase income taxes to 70% or even 90% on the rich, impose “wealth taxes” on their net worth and impose estate taxes that are equally onerous when they die. Read More |
I try to avoid partisan politics in my analysis. And I never try to tell people how to vote or what they should think. I trust my readers to make their own judgments. But sometimes I can’t avoid partisan politics because they can have a major impact on markets and the economy. |
03.19.19- How States/Empires Collapse
There is a grand, majestic tragedy in the inevitable collapse of once-thriving states and empires: it all seemed so permanent at its peak, so godlike in its power, and then slowly but surely, too many grandiose, unrealistic promises were made to too many elites and constituencies, and then as growth decays to stagnation, the only way to maintain the status quo is to appear to meet all the promises by creating money out of thin air, i.e. debauching the currency. Read More |
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03.18.19- Internet Censorship and False Flag Fake wars coming to a city near you
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03.16.19- The Government’s Greatest Con Job
Today we file a protest against contemporary money. We begin with the “evolution” of United States currency… We refer you to this $10 bank note, dated 1928: Read More |
Yesterday we documented our personal frustrations with contemporary technology. |
03.15.19- World War 3 Coming? Israel Is On The Brink Of War With Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria And Iran All At The Same Time
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03.14.19- Why Do Some People Live Paycheck To Paycheck?
It has become evident to me that many people live paycheck to paycheck because they choose to. It seems that many people today decide what standard of living they want and start living it. They get the home, car, clothes, jewelry and other items they view as their birthright. Then they try to find a job that will pay for it all. They are basically doing things ass backwards. Read More |
It is common place today to hear of people living paycheck to paycheck. If so many people are living so close to the edge one must ask why? There are many reasons why someone might be in financial distress but one looming question remains. If they lack sufficient funds to live as they do, why do they continue on that path? |
03.13.19- Shoot Now Or Be Shoved In The Oven
Gene Sperling was just on CNBC saying that health care must be treated as a right and essentially deferring the debate as to how to pay for all of that -- and of course he trotted out the trope of a kid born with severe disabilities bankrupting his or her parents. Health care is, today, almost 20% of our economy. One dollar in five. Read More |
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03.12.19- Civil War Would Erupt If “Green Deal” Socialists Actually Get What They Want
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03.11.19- Third Reich Redux: Don’t Say We Weren’t Warned
Now, for those who may be exclaiming that it’s time to put a fork in America “because we’re done,” the latter two stats are admittedly pretty worrisome, even if one factors in the unreliability of some polls due to selective sampling and subjective interpretation. The numbers in question are even up from those of a 2016 Harvard University survey of adults between the ages 18 and 29, which reported that 51 percent of these did not support capitalism. Read More |
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03.09.19- Stunning Prediction of a Global Battle to Replace Fiat Money
Wealth Research Group actually had the chance to speak with this daring individual, who happens to be none other than Mr. Bob Moriarty. Read More |
Revolution is ugly and messy, but it’s sometimes necessary when tyranny exists. Tyranny can take many forms, including economic tyranny, which is manifested through the monetary supply in today’s world. Getting back to the  |
03.08.19- How To Earn an Income? What Do You Tell Your Kids?
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03.07.19- The Trade Deficit Continues To Explode, Factories Continue To Be Closed, And U.S. Jobs Continue To Be Sent Overseas
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03.06.19- 3 Top Cyber Security Threats and How To Protect Yourself Against Them
This information has its perks, but greater connectivity can open your data to everyone. The good news, there are ways to mitigate the risks and protect your data. Read More |
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03.05.19- Bannon Predicts 2019 Will Be “the most vitriolic year in American politics
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Where Did AOC Get Her Sweet Potatoes?
She put salt and pepper on them. Salt was once so rare that it was regarded as money. Ever try to go a day with zero salt? Nothing tastes right. That was the history of humanity for about 150,000 years. Then we figured out how to produce and distribute salt to every table in the world. Now we throw around salt like it is nothing, and even complain that everything is too salty. Nice problem. Read More |
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03.02.19- The Debt Accrued Through Dollar Hegemony Is Unpayable (Except In Hyperinflated Dollars)
After having destroyed Saddam’s army and dispossessing the Sunnis in favor of the Shi’ites, after Abu Ghraib and it’s indelible pictures, after the total destruction of Fallujah, in short after a victory achieved with the utmost brutality, contempt and humiliation of Iraq and Iraqis, the Entity was in charge. Then the “insurgents” appeared. They put improvised explosive devices along the roads so, with a phone call, they could destroy patrols of the Entity. They made car bombs so that every vehicle approaching a check-point might spell doom. They donned suicide vests to blow themselves and any nearby Entity soldiers up. Entity soldiers couldn’t go into the streets. Read More |
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03.01.19- Ginseng May Work Better Than Chemo and Radiation. Here’s How…
Cancer stem cells are one of the keys to understanding both the root cause(s) and the most appropriate treatment approaches for cancer. Read More |
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02.28.19- In Washington, Regime Change Is Truly and Urgently Needed!
It is not Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Iran that are in dire and crucial need of ‘regime change’. It is the United States of America, it is the entire European Union; in fact, the entire West. And the situation is urgent. Read More |
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02.27.19- How to Truly Measure
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02.26.19- You Can't Stop The Cycle: The Next Few Years Will Change Everything
– Crescat Capital Cycles are perhaps the most natural and common occurrence in the universe. The planets orbit the sun, seasons change, day turns to night and night back to day, humans are born, grow old and die. Read More |
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92.25.19- The Freedom Fairy
But, in the last ten years, the awareness of this has become increasingly pronounced. With each successive year, more and more people recognise that all facets of life in these formerly great countries are heading in a decidedly negative direction. Read More |
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02.23.19- Class Warfare
Many Americans on the left are asking themselves this question. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – the Democrat’s new rising star – is certainly no exception. Just look at what AOC said in a recent interview.
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02.22.19- 12 Steps You Can Take if
Open the paper or do a quick Google search online and you’ll see all the recent corporate layoffs happening in America. This month, General Motors said it was starting to hand pink slips to about 4,000 salaried workers in the latest round of restructuring. Read More |
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02.21.19- Plunder: An American Way of Life
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02.20.19- Greatest Bubbles of All Time
On the other hand, we can extract some lessons from every bubble. Thus constructing some protocol for future guidance. Here I’ll write about 7 of the Greatest Bubbles of all time, and then highlight common aspects between them. Read More |
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02.19.19- Great Civilizations Aren’t Murdered, They Commit Suicide: The U.S.’s Likely Collapse
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02.18.19- A gold backed alternative to the dollar may finally be here in the Iranian PayMon cryptocurrency
Yet ironically, Europe's defiance to the U.S. regarding the Iranian JCPOA could have triggered the final battle for dollar hegemony in the world as multiple nations within both Europe and Eurasia are being recruited to ditch the reserve currency for a new gold backed cryptocurrency replacement. Read More |
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02.16.19- The Uncertainty Hiding in the Recent Market “Rally”
But not so fast. According to a recent report, Liz Ann-Sonders from Charles Schwab highlighted concerns about an imminent earnings recession. Ann-Sonders said that an earnings recession – two straight quarters of year-over-year profit declines – is possible. It’s just not “something that the market is forecasting right now.” Read More |
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02.15.19- The Democratic Party's Secret Attack On The Middle Class
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02.14.19- Avoid the Financial Circus
THE WALL STREET CIRCUS DISTRACTS PEOPLEWall Street cheerleaders assure everyone stocks go up in the long term. Yes, they rise because the dollar is devalued every year, which they seldom discuss. Their cheerleaders avoid stating that corrections and crashes occur every five to ten years. Wall Street generates fees by encouraging individuals and pension funds to stay invested for the long term. Read More |
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02.13.19- Trump Missed His Last Great Opportunity
No one wants to hear about the State of the Union speech (SOTUS). Full of bluff and bluster… lies and claptrap – all of them are best forgotten, and fast. But we return to last week’s SOTUS, as to the site of a murder, not to bury the corpse but to praise him. For there lies DJT… Donald John Trump… slain. Like Caesar, smitten in the Capitol, but by his own hand. Our guess is that he will never rise again. A further guess is that he will take the nation down with him; we will look at that tomorrow. Read More |
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02.12.19- If This Isn’t Stock Market Manipulation, Then I Don’t Know What Is
There is a growing chorus surrounding the topic of stock buybacks and whether they should be banned. Most recently, Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders wrote a piece for the New York Times arguing that buybacks are nothing more than corporate self-indulgence that leads to long-term harm to both companies and the economy. This may be true and, with equity valuations at or near all-time highs, buybacks certainly appear uneconomic at current prices but this is no reason to ban them. Companies should be allowed to throw money down the drain if they so choose. It’s a free country, as they say. Read More |
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02.11.19- Dreams Die Hard
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02.09.19- Weekend Rant: Luciferianism: A Secular Look At A Destructive Globalist Belief System
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02.08.19- Telltale Signs Of Recession
Though every recession is unique, all recessions manifest in similar ways in the real economy. By real economy, I mean the on-the-ground economy we observe with our own eyes, as opposed to the abstract statistical model reflected in official declarations of when recessions begin and end. One characteristic that never makes it into the abstract statistical representation of recession is the light switch phenomenon: business suddenly dries up, as if someone turned a light switch off. This is especially visible in discretionary purchases, which include everything from smart phones to vehicles to eating out. Read More |
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02.07.19- “The Value Of The Dollar Has No Guarantee Whatsoever”
It could have been said today, but it actually dates back to August 1971 when the People’s Daily in China declared the beginning of the end for the monetary system of the capitalist world. Read More |
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02.06.19- CounterThink: How the Cancer Industry Will DESTROY the New Cure for Cancer |
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02.05.19- Home Sales to Get Even Uglier
What will home sales look like in January and February? Very, very lousy, according to pending home sales, a measure that counts how many contracts were signed. Contract signings run roughly one or two months ahead of when the sales close and are reported as sales. The measure of pending home sales for December projects actual home sales in January and February. To that tune, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said that its Pending Home Sales Index for December fell to the lowest level since April 2014: Read More |
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02.04.19- If You Are Warm Right Now,
I am lucky to be alive. It would take me just a couple of hours to die from hypothermia if I were outside in such weather. But I am not just alive, I am comfortable. It is a balmy 73 degrees in my home. I am relaxing by my gas fireplace that gives off a warm heat as gentle flames dance about and please my eye. I can hear the gentle whir of fans blowing heat around my living room, generated by my furnace. I write this on my comfortable sofa with a computer on my lap powered by electricity and fed information via the Internet, itself powered by electricity and glass-fiber conduits that carry information to me from computersfrom across the earth. Read More |
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02.02.19- How Rich Is Rich?
Statista’s Niall McCarthy has the answer. According to a recent YouGov poll ,that depends heavily on you ask… The research found that the American public considers an annual income between $90,000 and $100,000 necessary to be deemed rich. The fieldwork for the survey was carried out in September 2018 and it found that 76 percent of respondents think an annual income of $10,000 constitutes being poor. Read More |
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02.01.19- How Do You Beat The Bankers At Their Own Game?
People need to understand that the bankers need to collapse everything and leave the population in want of resources. Just like after a natural disaster when the government shows up to provide help to those that have lost everything, the bankers want to show up after the population has lost everything in a collapse, to be their savior and gain control of everyone by offering resources in exchange for compliance. Read More |
Those that have been following events for several years know they are under attack by an enemy that has no face and means to do them great harm. Nothing less than their sovereignty and freedom is at stake. Absolute control over people and resources is the ultimate goal. |
01.31.19- U.S.-China War May Be
Currency wars do not exist all the time; they arise under certain conditions and persist until there is either systemic reform or systemic collapse. The conditions that give rise to currency wars are too much debt and too little growth. In those circumstances, countries try to steal growth from trading partners by cheapening their currencies to promote exports and create export-related jobs. Read More |
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01.30.19- So You Want to Get Rich: Focus on Human Capital
So you want to get rich: OK, what's the plan? If you ask youngsters how to get rich, many will respond by listing the professions the media focuses on: entertainment, actors/actresses, pro athletes, and maybe a few lionized inventors or CEOs. The media's glorification of the few at the top of these sectors masks the statistical reality that those who attain wealth in these pursuits number in the hundreds or perhaps thousands, not in the millions. As in a lottery, the odds of joining such a limited group are extremely low. Read More |
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01.29.19- Bunnies, Bombers and Butter
If a nation subsidizes butter, it will get more butter. The U.S. and most other western governments subsidize welfare and warfare. Those expenses inevitably increase and are inescapable, like the mathematics of debt. The U.S. federal and state governments created a huge network of government programs, giveaways, entitlements and public assistance. The welfare people have increased the number and cost of those programs every decade. Giveaways will expand next decade when the U.S. elects a welfare-oriented politician as President. She will push for Universal Basic Income, Medicare for all, guaranteed jobs, free tuition, wealth taxes and more. Read More |
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01.28.19- Feminism Is A Disease -
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It seems these days like everyone and their genderfluid grandma has some “profound” insight into the minds and world of men. Men and masculinity are spoken of in the media with sharp tones of fear mixed with disdain, as if we are a dangerous aberrant genetic anomaly that needs to be studied under a special microscope that will protect the observer from being influenced by our vitriolic pheromones. The problem is, most of these “experts” on manhood are not men at all, or, their observations of male behavior are tainted with deep-seated resentments. That is to say, they are hardly objective.  |
01.26.19- Weekend Rant: Toxic Masculinity and White Privilege
Justin: Doug, what did you think of that Gillette ad? Doug: The first thing that came to mind was that, when I was a kid in the ’50s, Schick razors used to sponsor boxing on television. Boxing, ritualized unarmed combat, is about the height of masculinity. It was, logically, sponsored by a razor company. Read More |
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01.25.19- Do This to Profit in a Bear Market
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01.24.19- Experts Uncertain About Social Security’s Future Prove One Thing is Certain
This idea was recently addressed in a MarketWatch article, which included this potential result:
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01.23.19- Three Ways the Government Shutdown forecasts a totally boring federal collapse
Maybe it’s 2034, the date the government admits it can’t pay it’s $50 trillion Social Security bill. Or maybe it’s earlier. The national debt is at almost $22 trillion, plus the massive everything-bubble created by the federal reserve money printing. Those don’t bode well for the future of the dollar. It is inevitable that all this debt and the debasing of the US dollar will eventually hurt. Read More |
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01.22.19- What Will Take the Place of America?
Investigative genius Gordon Duff wrote recently about the psychopathic killer, former Vice-President Dick Cheney in a piece about the indecency of Washington. Discussing a new film called “V-I-C-E,” which fries Cheney on the spit like a big fat hen, Duff encapsulates what mucky slime our nation’s capital is infested with the following passage: Read More |
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01.21.19- C.S. Lewis Sounded the Alarm on the Dangers of Progressivism
C.S. Lewis: World-renowned author, philosopher, theologian. Christian apologist. Mere mention of his name fills our minds with images of faith-based allegory, of lions, witches, and wardrobes, of rational defenses of the Christian faith. Read More |
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01.19.19- The U.S. Economy and the Ponzi Scheme
The most famous Ponzi scheme of modern day was run by Bernie Madoff from New York City who managed to turn $5,000 saved from a lifeguarding job and installing sprinkler systems into nearly $65 billion of accounts. During the run of the scheme he was able to amass an impressive list of clients including numerous celebrities and other well-known public figures. Arvedlund, E. (2018). Read More |
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01.18.19- This problem is 10,000 times bigger than the border wall
Don’t get me wrong, I like having the government shut down. As I’ve said before, I believe it is my moral duty to pay as little taxes as possible. The government does some really stupid things with your tax dollars. I’d rather not pay for a $2 billion Obamacare website that doesn’t work, or to defend Congressmen against sexual assault allegations. So, by starving the beast, I at least ensure they’re not squandering my money. Read More |
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01.17.19- This New Market Could Make You a Fortune in 2019
He had a rattlesnake with its jaw open and fangs exposed glued to the front of it. With a Texas drawl, he’d tell the other players how he had killed it himself. At 6’4’’ and 170 pounds, Amarillo Slim was the greatest gambler to ever live. He made his first million in 1947 when he was only 19. His unforgettable look helped make poker a mainstream game around 20 years ago. Read More |
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01.16.19- Where Will You Be Seated at the Banquet of Consequences?
The Banquet of Consequences is being laid out, and so the question is: where will you be seated? The answer depends on two dynamics I've mentioned many times: what types of capital you own and the asymmetries of our economy. One set of asymmetries is the result of the system isn't broken, it's fixed, i.e. rigged to favor the few at the expense of the many. There are many manifestations of neofeudal asymmetry that divides neatly into two classes and two systems, the nobility and the serfs. Read More |
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01.14.19- Why I Will No Longer Recognize
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01.12.19- This Technology Will Be Bigger
There was a human in the driver’s seat, but he didn’t touch the steering wheel, gas, or brake pedals for the entire trip. The self-driving car drove itself the entire distance. If any readers are curious about the trip, have a look at the time-lapse video of the entire coast-to-coast journey here. This coast-to-coast, self-driving journey was the first of its kind. Yet it got little to no press. Read More |
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01.11.19- The Recession Will Be Unevenly Distributed
I realize many of the concepts floated here are cryptic and need a fuller explanation: the impact of owning differing kinds of capital, fragmentation, asymmetry, opacity, etc. ( 2019: Fragmented, Unevenly Distributed, Asymmetric, Opaque). These dynamics guarantee a highly uneven distribution of recessionary consequences and whatever rewards are generated will be reaped by a few. Read More |
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01.10.19- Here’s Where the Next Crisis Starts
The reason has to do with the system scale. In complex dynamic systems such as capital markets, risk is an exponential function of system scale. Increasing market scale correlates with exponentially larger market collapses. Read More |
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01.09.19- The Last Act Crowns the Play
Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (306 -337 AD) legalized Christianity but allowed the existence of other religions. Emperor Theodosius I made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in 380 AD; other religions were considered foolish. Read More |
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01.08.19- Our Politics Now: Up vs. Down,
Just look at how most Americans view federal spending: total government spending (federal, state, and local) accounts for 37.7 percent of the country’s overall gross domestic product. In other words, 37.7 percent of America’s economic growth is set to be generated by government spending (which is why Wall Street and other analysts worry about a government shutdown). Read More |
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01.07.19- Why Trump Must Legalize Pot
Legal pot is a bit out of our wheelhouse here at the Diary. As Bill often says, his usual beat is money. But cannabis is now legal nationwide in Canada. It is expected to be lawful in Mexico starting this year. And a majority of Americans now favor legal pot. With all these forces converging, this is a trend that should be on every investor’s radar. Read More |
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01.05.19- Tax Attorney: Social Security Participants About to be “Disenfranchised”
According to the trustees running the program, Social Security will be forced to start cutting benefits by 2034, 15 years from now. According to Waiser the crisis will hit in three years. Read More |
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01.04.19- Markets are all about flows
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01.03.19- 2019 From a Fourth Turning Perspective
Strauss and Howe wrote their book in 1996. They were not trying to be prophets of doom, but observers of history able to connect events through human life cycles of 80 or so years. Using critical thinking skills and identifying the most likely triggers for crisis: debt, civic decay, and global disorder, they were able to anticipate scenarios which could drive the next crisis, which they warned would arrive in the mid-2000 decade. Read More |
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01.02.19- The World Known to Me Is Fading Away
Over these holidays two occurrances brought the strangeness of the present time home to me. Read More |
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01.01.19- Opinion: Roubini: President Trump is flirting with mutually assured economic destruction
Financial markets have finally awoken to the fact that Donald Trump is U.S. president. Given that the world has endured two years of reckless tweets and public statements by the world’s most powerful man, the obvious question is: what took so long? Read More |
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12.31.18- Guess What These Four Fastest Growing States Have in Common…
“Non-essential” government workers… well then what the hell are they doing there? Every penny of federal spending should be only the most absolutely crucial, necessary cent to keep the country’s most basic functions going… Read More |
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12.29.18- The Baby Boomer Survival Guide – Part 2
Money is our beat at the Diary. But money means nothing without philosophy. Beyond what we need to survive, money has no importance. Is it good? Is it bad? It depends. We need a simple philosophy to make sense of it – to guide us past the Gucci bags… past cable TV… and past the million-euro apartments of the 16th arrondissement in Paris. Read More |
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12.18.28- The Arrival Of The Credit Crisis
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12.27.18- The Baby Boomer Survival Guide – Part 1
This is the question we get from readers over 50… over 60… and sometimes, over 70. We baby boomers were famously saying “Na… na… na… Live for today.” Now, it’s tomorrow. And many of us – often through no fault of our own – are having trouble making ends meet. Read More |
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12.26.18- “The Worst Is Yet To Come Next Year”
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12.25.18- The Greatest Gift For All
Dear Donors, thank you for your support in 2018. Although you have kept me working yet another year, I find it encouraging that there are some Americans who can think independently and who want to know. As Margaret Mead said, it only takes a few determined people to change the world. Perhaps some of you will be those people. My traditional Christmas column goes back to sometime in the 1990s when I was a newspaper columnist. It has been widely reprinted at home and abroad. Every year two or three readers write to educate me that religion is the source of wars and persecutions. These readers confuse religion with mankind’s abuse of institutions, religious or otherwise. The United States has democratic institutions and legal institutions to protect civil liberties. Nevertheless, we now have a police state. Shall I argue that democracy and civil liberty are the causes of police states? Read More |
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12.24.18- How to Barter for Survival (not just a list): 100+ Items to Barter in a Post-Collapse World
Do you know how to barter? In preparedness circles, the term barter is used a lot when describing a post SHTF situation when goods and services may no longer be available through normal channels. According to Wikipedia, ”barter is a method of exchange by which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money”. Read More |
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12.22.18- Do you really have to go to work?
That’s how it has been for decades and decades, right? And before that Sunday was the only day off, and the hours were much longer. These traditions began in factory settings when everything had to be standardized. It’s not like farmers were clocking in and punching out… they worked when there was work to do. Which was basically always. But as we turn over to 2019, do we still need to work the five day work week? Do we still need to commute to the office? And should work even be hourly or even salary for most professions, or task-based? Read More |
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12.21.18- The History of Banking Control in the United States
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12.20.18- The 10 Daily Habits of Prepared People
The way prepared people spend their time before an emergency is the real key to survival, and this is something that no amount of money can buy. Read More |
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12.19.18- Anything Goes!
Some few humans, among whose small number I count myself, know that this is our condition, but the vast majority of humanity are not aware of the dire situation in which we live. One result of the collective insanity which prevails in our modern world is that it has allowed the very worst of the lunatics, possessing destructive impulses, to rise to dominant positions in human societies. Read More |
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12.18.18- I Can’t Afford to Live in this Private Community. And I Wish Everywhere Was Like This.
And I don’t mean some arrangement between coercive government and “private” companies that make their money from government contracts. That arrangement actually produces the inequality that people blame on free markets. Notice how everyone is taxed. Yet the government spends the money enriching the government defense contractors, handing out subsidies to already rich oil companies, bailing out sub-par automakers and predatory bankers… Read More |
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12.17.18- Why Speculators Should Love
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12.15.18- Texas Judge Rules Obamacare Unconstitutional
Judge Reed O’Connor, a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas appointed by former President George W. Bush, ruled that Obamacare violated the Constitution. 20 Republican state attorneys general brought the suit, Texas v. Azar, who asked the court to rule that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) violates the Constitution after Republicans managed to zero out Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty with the Jobs Act last year. The judge ruled that the law’s individual mandate violates the Constitution and therefore the entire ACA violates the Constitution. Read More |
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12.14.18- What is the Deep Web and How Do You Get There in 2018?
The Silk Road, a website synonymous with shady dealings, was shut down twice by the FBI and its founder, the Dread Pirate Roberts, also known as Ross Ulbricht, imprisoned for life. Read More |
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12.13.18- A Bad Moon Rising –
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12.12.18- A Crisis in the Making: Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them
We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose. The government is pushing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis. What makes the outlook so much bleaker is the utter ignorance of the American people—and those who represent them—about their freedoms, history, and how the government is supposed to operate. Read More |
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12.10.18- Dow 10,000
When the closing bell finally sounded, the Dow was down just 79 points. The monkeys were greatly relieved. And today, the Fed sets up another drink. Here’s a headline from The Wall Street Journal:
Our advice to readers: Relax… and enjoy the comedy show. Read More |
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12.08.18- What to Do When the Market Goes “Nuts”
Hogwash. In the long term, I’ll agree that markets are efficient, investors are rational, and stock prices generally end up where they are logically supposed to. In the short term, though, the market is nuts. Fear and Greed Read More |
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12.07.18- Things Change, But Not Always For The Better
Knowing that these cycles occur can give a person an idea of what to prepare for in the future. We know that the national debt doubles about every 8 years. We know that the economy goes into a recession every 6 to 8 years. We know that the FED manipulates the economy with money printing and interest rates. We know politicians spend money we don’t have to get reelected. Read More |
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12.06.18- "Too Perfect to be Natural": Those Strange Seismic Waves
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12.05.18- Is An Offshore Account Safe?
Jamie Virjhof, Relationship Manager of Weber Hartmann Virjhof & Partners Ltd. recently interviewed me and addressed those concerns. Read More |
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12.04.18- Another Serious
To visualize this problem, let’s make an analogy to someone who inherits a family farm. There are two approaches to making a living from a farm. In the first—we’ll call this investing—Farmer Brown determines how to produce the greatest amount of food at the least cost. He increases production of milk from his herd, and apples from his orchard. Read More |
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12.03.18- How “Laziness” Can Make You Wealthy
– From Principles of Wealth, by Mark Ford The unpaid bills are stacked next to the unwashed dishes. You’ve been short about $1,200 per month since the divorce. You need something to fill that income gap – some sort of money-making scheme that’s feasible, flexible, and profitable. It can’t be a financial investment because you’ve got no savings. What’s there to do? Read More |
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12.01.18- How to Profit From Trade War Hysteria
…Apple (AAPL). Apple sells the wildly popular iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. It’s one of the most recognized companies on the planet. It was the world’s most valuable publicly traded company until Microsoft (MSFT) overtook it on Monday. So how did a company this powerful get caught up in the trade war? Simple. On Monday, President Trump threatened to introduce a 10% tariff on consumer electronic products made in China. This would impact the iPhone and other Apple products…Read More |
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11.30.18- Rothschild rule ends
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11.28.18- The Best Stock Investors: Dead People
But you don’t have to guess. Because you don’t make money in the stock market from short-term moves. You’ll guess wrong as often as right, and you’ll end up getting nowhere. It’s the big, long-term moves that make a difference. And the trouble is, sometimes, those moves last longer than we do. Read More |
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11.28.18- The Best Stock Investors: Dead People
But you don’t have to guess. Because you don’t make money in the stock market from short-term moves. You’ll guess wrong as often as right, and you’ll end up getting nowhere. It’s the big, long-term moves that make a difference. And the trouble is, sometimes, those moves last longer than we do. Read More |
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11.27.18- End This Madness
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It is a bit of an alienating experience for one to see the nation of his birth and the principles of our ancestors under constant assault, from foreigners and people born here who are amerikkans rather than Americans. I refer to those Muslims who desire Sharia law, the Black Muslims who simply hate America, LaRaza with its Hispanic communists and conquerors who want to reclaim the Southwest for Mexico, the communist Democrat Party that seeks the eradication of our Founding Principles and the destruction of our Constitution and Republic, and those communist proletarians, the TAKERS, who seek their upkeep and livelihood at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer.  |
11.26.18- Thoughts From The Precipice
As you already know, things are unraveling. The narratives of the past are being revealed as false and fraudulent — even harmful. For example, the fallacy of pursuing “ever more” growth. Growth up to a point is beneficial, but it turns self-destructive when it exceeds what available resources can sustain. As it is practiced, economic growth as pursued around the world today is now destructive. If we continue on our current trajectory, it will become fatal. Read More |
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11.24.18- Weekend Rant: Mad World
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11.23.18- The Assassination of Bitcoin
The collapse of bitcoin – down 68% year to date and 78% from its all-time high of $20,000, set in December 2017, when it traded at $4,200.22 earlier this week – may have a perfectly normal explanation. It’s a bubble that popped. Or it’s happened before and is nothing to worry about. As my colleagues have shown their readers in the last week, bitcoin dropped 94% in 2010, 94% in 2011, 85% from 2013 to 2015, and 76% in a three-month period alone in 2013. Read More |
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11.22.18- How Not to be a Turkey on Thanksgiving
The farmer comes every day to feed the turkey and feed him well. He provides free accommodations: a nice yard to peck around in, water, shelter from predators. From the turkey’s perspective, a week before Thanksgiving, life has never been better. Read More |
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11.21.18- An Odor of Perfidy
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I suspect there’s a hidden agenda behind the announcement in The Wall Street Journal op-ed by former Hillary Clinton aide Mark Penn that the Ole Gray Mare is actually eyeing another run for the White House in 2020. No, it’s not just that she would like to be president, as she averred on video last week in a weak moment, or that she has decided late in life to go full Bolshevik policy-wise. It is to establish her in the public mind as a serious candidate so that when she is indicted a hue-and-cry will arise that the move is a purely political act of revenge by the wicked Trump.  |
This plan is under way now due to two important developments: Read More |
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11.19.18- Soaring Health-Care Costs Forced This Family to Choose Who Can Stay Insured
Then, in 2012, Maribel discovered she had breast cancer. “Your world comes crumbling down,” David says. Read More |
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11.17.18- Potential Impacts of the Midterm Elections on Your Retirement
This may have several important impacts on your retirement over the next two years (and beyond, depending on policy adjustments). These potential impacts could be crucial because the economic foundation they influence appears to be on shaky ground. In a peer-reviewed paper from the Indiana Legal Studies department, four authors collaborated and published an alarming discovery (emphasis ours): Read More |
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11.16.18- Does Any of This Make Sense?
We rarely ask "does this make any sense?" of things that are widely accepted as beneficial-- or if not beneficial, "the way it is," i.e. it can't be changed by non-elite (i.e. the bottom 99.5%) efforts. Of the vast array of things that don't make sense, let's start with borrowing from future income to spend more today. This is of course the entire foundation of consumer economies such as the U.S.: the number of households which buy a car or house with cash is near-zero, unless 1) they just sold a bubble-valuation house and paid off their mortgage in escrow or 2) they earned wealth via fiscal prudence, i.e. the avoidance of debt and the exultation of saving. Read More |
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11.15.18- Scum vs. Scum
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11.14.18- Nikola Tesla’s Wireless Energy Dream
Wireless power technology recently became popular with its application in charging wireless-capable devices, (such as a smartphone) via a Powermat interface. There is one company currently building out a true wireless power supply without the need for an intermediary “pad,” which could develop into an investment opportunity of a lifetime if it or another company successfully launches an IPO, not to mention the upstream manufacturing interface components. Read More |
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11.13.18- Reading the Second Amendment
Is this sentence so hard to understand? Apparently so. Even some of its defenders don’t like how it is worded because it allegedly breeds misunderstanding. Read More |
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11.12.18- How to Survive the “Deep State”
Maybe you’re thinking you should get behind somebody like Ron Paul (I didn’t say Rand Paul), should such a person materialize. That would be futile. Here’s what would happen in the totally impossible scenario that this person was elected and tried to act like a Lee Kuan Yew or an Augusto Pinochet against the Deep State: Read More |
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11.10.18- It’s a Fraud. A Pyramid scheme.
Modern banking system creates money faster than our hearts beat. However, they make it so complex & unintelligible that none but they alone, understand it. All economies work pretty much the same way but since most of the global transactions use US dollar, making it the majority of the world’s currency, I will exemplify the US system. Read More |
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11.09.18- What Do We Make Of The Midterm Election?
In my opinion, flyover America voted Republican because the “deplorables” want to defend Trump. They want to defend him for two reasons. One is that he spoke to their economic plight caused by the US corporations exporting their jobs, leaving the American workforce and middle class hard-strapped. The other is that the adoption of Identity Politics by the Democratic Party has made the Democrats the party that hates white people—especially white heterosexual males who are defined as the victimizer of minorities, homosexuals, and women. Read More |
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11.08.18- America, the Tyranny of the Stupid
Then, when time and time again, no such plan materializes, and it is demonstrated that America has blundered into a diplomatic, economic or military morass, for some unknown reason, a “reset” occurs, and the wrong assumptions are again made. At every level, humanity errs in assuming that those in command are there because of talent and worth or that, because America is so wealthy and powerful, that its people are such because of moral and intellectual superiority. Read More |
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11.07.18- How do we keep getting dragged into this electoral spectator sport?
Little more than a bare-knuckle boxing match. If you were to suddenly catch a glimpse of such a fight, you would see real blood, real punches, swollen lips, black eyes, and a final knockout. It looks like a real spontaneous fight. But the match was planned, set up, with rules and parameters. That’s an election. Except that it is shoved in all of our faces, while they lie and tell us it wasn’t a planned fight. Not interested in seeing the blood and gore? Not interested in watching two people beat each other to a pulp? Well, you can turn off the boxing match, but good luck avoiding election coverage. Read More |
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11.06.18- Are You Prepared For Lockdown? How To Stay Safe When All Hell Breaks Loose In America
Pretending that it isn’t happening or hoping to hug it out is not a rational response to the chaos that is coming. I know that some cling to their misguided views on the way the world works with the ferocity of a mother bear protecting cubs, but for the rest of us, there’s this thing called reality. When we accept it, we can prepare for it. Read More |
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11.05.18- The Fourth Turning and the
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11.03.18- This Radical Proposal for Social Security Underscores Its Desperate Future
But the economic crisis that started in 2008 shed critical light on Greenspan’s economic policy. He’s 92 now, and as he promotes a new book, he’s sharing some rather radical economic ideas. Read More |
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11.02.18- Politicians Are Creating The Worst Economic Crash In History
I have explained several times that the bulk of investment capital is tied up in two primary sectors – (1) government bonds and (2) real estate. Because of income taxes, real estate has offered a way to make money in capital gains without having to pay income taxes. Read More |
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Shock Claim: The Media Is Reporting That Some In The 2nd Migrant Caravan Have
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10.31.18- Is America Finished?
Americans are now so polarized that they “no longer share basic sympathies and trust, because they no longer regard each other as worthy of equal consideration.” Codevilla blames the progressives and their attitude of moral superiority, but his explanation is independent of who is to blame. I blame both sides. The Constitution and our civil liberties took a major hit from the “conservative” Republican regime of George W. Bush. Read More |
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10.30.18- A Perfect Storm Is Brewing
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10.29.18- End of the World – Part Two
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10.27.18- What a bunch of idiots
A few days ago the creator of the most famous consumer ‘credit score’ in the United States announced a major overhaul in how it rates borrowers. Consumers live and die by this ‘FICO score’. A high FICO score means that it’s easy to obtain loans at lower interest rates. And a bad FICO score (in theory) means that you have a history of not paying your debts… hence making it difficult to obtain loans. Read More |
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10.25.18- Will there ever be a "freedom loving" majority? And do we even need there to be?
People like to romanticize a time when America was more wholesome… when everyone got along and put petty differences aside to fight wars and such. A time when political campaigns were more civil… like in the Presidential election of 1800. That was when a pro-Adams newspaper said that “murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will openly be taught and practiced,” if Jefferson was elected. And the Jefferson supporters responded by claiming that Adams was more like a hermaphrodite than a man or woman. Read More |
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10.24.18- The Average Stock Is Overvalued Between Tremendously And Enormously
With all of that, my firm is having little success finding solid companies at attractive valuations. Read More |
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10.23.18- Weaker Dollar Helps Set Silver Prices for a Breakout
Why silver prices are set for a breakout as the dollar falls With gold having recaptured much of its losses earlier this month, silver could be next in line for a breakout on the back of a weaker dollar reports Money Morning. As columnist Peter Krauth notes, silver moved as the stock market went through a tailspin and ultimately ended higher at $14.28 an ounce. Read More |
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In particular, Limbaugh talked about what it would take for hundreds and thousands of people to make such a long journey on foot, and through a number of countries after the caravan originated in Honduras. Read More |
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10.20.18- End of the World – Part One
An estimate of risk versus reward based on an analysis of current information is more useful. Read More |
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10.19.18- How to Make a Fortune in the Gold-Backed Crypto Revolution
It’s simply the best way to preserve wealth over the long term. Now, with the advent of cryptocurrencies and decentralized blockchain technology, people have a complementary tool for advancing their financial freedom. Read More |
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10.18.18- 4 Ways the Skyrocketing Budget Deficit Could Wreck Your Retirement
Investopedia defines a budget deficit when “expenses exceed revenue and it is an indicator of financial health.” Referring to the U.S. they added “Accrued government deficits form the national debt.” According to an official statement released by Steve Mnuchin and Mick Mulvaney at the Treasury, the FY 2018 budget deficit rose 17% over the previous period to $779 billion. Read More |
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The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Currently, we are in the terminal phase of an “everything bubble” which has had ten years to grow. It is the biggest financial bubble that our country has ever seen, and experts are warning that when it finally bursts we will experience an economic downturn that is even worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s. Of course many of us in the alternative media have been warning about what is coming for quite some time, but now even many in the mainstream media have jumped on the bandwagon.  |
10.16.18- UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between “Mad Max and Hunger Games”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week released a special report detailing all the ways climate change is predicted to wreak havoc on humans. The report is about 800 pages long, so I’ll offer a summary to save you some time: Read More |
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10.15.18- International relations:
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10.13.18- The Last Rebels: 25 Things We Did as Kids That Would Get Someone Arrested Today
Here’s the problem with all of this babying: it creates a society of weenies. There won’t be more rebels because this generation has been frightened into submission and apathy through a deliberately orchestrated culture of fear. No one will have faced adventure and lived to greatly embroider the story |
With all of the ridiculous new regulations, coddling, and societal mores that seem to be the norm these days, it’s a miracle those of us over 30 survived our childhoods.
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10.12.18- Dow 40,000 is coming, but only after ‘a large panic event’ passes, analyst warns Back in January 2016, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.15%was trading around the 16,000 level, Yves Lamoureux, president of macroeconomic research firm Lamoureux & Co., said the blue-chip index would topple 25,000 within three or four years. It didn’t take that long. Now, with the Dow clinging to a 500-point cushion above that milestone, Lamoureux is standing firmly behind another bullish call: Dow 40,000. Oh, but there’s a catch... Read More |
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10.11.18- The Human Drive for Inequality
After the invention of the telephone in the mid- to late-1800s, innovators produced great accomplishments as they strived to improve the technology to. Read More |
At the Foundation for Economic Education Conference (FEECON) in 2017, I met Bill Frezza. He’s been teaching a critical lesson about equality, learned from the horrors of the AT&T telephone monopoly. What follows, I mostly learned from him. |
10.10.18- The Cracks In The Market’s Floor Grow Wider
The yield on the 10-yr Treasury has broken out, hitting its highest level since July 2011: By the end of June 2011, the Fed had only reached its half-way mark in money printing. It was shortly thereafter that the Fed had implemented its “operation twist.” Operation twist consisted of selling the Fed’s short term holdings and using the proceeds plus extra printed money to buy Treasuries at the long-end of the curve – primarily 10-yr bonds. Read More |
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10.09.18- The Biggest Threat to US National Security Is the US Government
Jonathan H. Adler, Professor at Case Western University School of Law, noted, regarding George W. Bush’s secret policy for the NSA to access everyone’s phone-records, that “The metadata collection program is constitutional (at least according to Judge Kavanaugh),” and he presented Judge Kavanaugh’s entire published opinion on that. Kavanaugh’s opinion stated that the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution could be shoved aside because he thinks that the ‘national security’ of the United States is more important than the Constitution. Kavanaugh wrote: Read More |
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10.08.18- With corruption like this, it’s no wonder so many pension funds are insolvent
Vicki Fuller, the former head of New York’s $209 billion fund, now earns $275,000 per year working part time for a natural gas group called The Williams Companies– good work if you can get it. It’s noteworthy that when Ms. Fuller ran her state pension fund, she invested $110 million of taxpayer money to buy bonds issued by none other than The Williams Companies. Bear in mind that Moody’s, the credit rating agency, downgraded Williams’ financial outlook to “negative” because of the company’s high leverage and risk. Read More |
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10.07.18- Ask yourself: Why are there no prescription medications
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The reason there are no prescription medications available today where the side effects aren’t worse than the ailment being treated is because Big Pharma will not treat or heal anything without creating several new issues that keep their “customers for life” coming back for more. Most Americans do not want to stop eating junk food, fast food, corporate franchise restaurant food, microwaveable food, prepared food bar “stuff,” and “diet” food that’s mostly chock full of synthetic sweeteners, GMOs and MSG.  |
10.06.18- Weekend Rant: Think You're Prepared For The Next Crisis? Think Again.
Scottish poet Robert Burns aptly penned the famous phrase: “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men/Gang aft a-gley.” (commonly adapted as "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.") Read More |
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10.05.18- The World Is Quietly Decoupling From the U.S. – And No One Is Paying Attention
This delusion has also recently bled into parts of the alternative economic movement, with some analysts hoping that the Trump Administration will somehow reverse several decades of central bank sabotage in only four to eight years. However, this thinking requires a person to completely ignore the prevailing trend. Read More |
Blind faith in the U.S. dollar is perhaps one of the most crippling disabilities economists have in gauging our economic future. Historically speaking, fiat currencies are essentially animals with very short lives, and world reserve currencies are even more prone to an early death. But, for some reason, the notion that the dollar is vulnerable at all to the same fate is deemed ridiculous by the mainstream. |
10.04.18- The Tyranny of the U.S. Dollar
There’s a paradox at the heart of global finance. The U.S. share of the world economy has drifted lower for decades, and now President Trump is retreating from the American chief executive’s traditional role as Leader of the Free World. Yet the U.S. dollar remains, as the saying goes, almighty. “American exceptionalism has never been this stark,” Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets and chief global strategist for Morgan Stanley Investment Management, said at a Council on Foreign Relations symposium on Sept. 24. Read More |
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10.03.18- How America Can
Wall Street banks triggered a credit crisis in 2008-09 that wiped out over $19 trillion in household wealth, turned some 10 million families out of their homes and cost almost 9 million jobs in the U.S. alone. Yet the banks were bailed out without penalty, while defrauded home buyers were left without recourse or compensation. Read More |
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10.02.18- Imaginary Monsters
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10.01.18- Empire of Lies: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
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09.29.18- Gold Investors:
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09.28.18- Investors Have Fallen Into a False Sense of Security
Then markets were turned upside down in a matter of days. Major stock market indexes fell over 11%, a technical correction, from Feb. 2–8, 2018, just five trading days. The CBOE Volatility Index, commonly known as the “VIX,” surged from 14.51 to 49.21 in an even shorter period from Feb. 2–6. Read More |
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09.27.18- The Real Reason the Government Won’t Hold Big Tech Accountable
The government is coming to regulate them. Someone leaked a draft of an executive order from President Trump. It calls on various agencies to use all current laws to look into possible anticompetitive practices by Facebook and Google. In fact, the EU already fined Google $5 billion in July for “abusing the market dominance of Android.” And now they’ve set their sights on how Amazon uses customer and seller data. Read More |
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09.26.18- Insider Selling Soars: Fastest Pace Of September Sales In Past Decade
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09.25.18- TECH ALERT:
And along with it went the recording studio which a famous rock band had booked for a free session the next day. The members of the band watched in horror as the flames leapt into the night sky. It was 1971 and the fire in the sky and the smoke that hung over the waters of a nearby lake would soon inspire the band’s most famous song. As some of you might have already guessed, the band was Deep Purple and the song was Smoke on the Water. Read More |
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09.24.18- These Three Items Will Be Hit The Hardest Thanks To Trump’s Tariffs
By now, hopefully, Americans have put two and two together and figured out that it isn’t the Chinese government that will pay for Trump’s tariffs, but the Chinese consumer. Much like the American government will not pay for China’s tariffs, it will be the American consumer. Those costs are passed on directly to the public in the form of higher cost of goods. Read More |
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09.22.18- "The News Just Ain't The News No More"
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09.21.18- There’s a New Crash Coming
Donald Trump is the epitome of irrational exuberance. You might remember that phrase from the 1990s. Alan Greenspan, the head of the Federal Reserve at the time, was describing how the tech boom was creating a bubble by generating enthusiasm way out of proportion to the actual value of the new companies. Read More |
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09.20.18- The Donald in Wonderland
Once upon a time, there was a little-known energy company called Enron. In its 16-year life, it went from being dubbed America’s most innovative company by Fortune Magazine to being the poster child of American corporate deceit. Using a classic recipe for book-cooking, Enron ended up in bankruptcy with jail time for those involved. Its shareholders lost $74 billionin the four years leading up to its bankruptcy in 2001. A decade ago, the flameout of my former employer, Lehman Brothers, the global financial firm, proved far more devastating, contributing as it did to a series of events that ignited a global financial meltdown. Americans lost an estimated $12.8 trillion in the havoc. Read More |
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09.19.18- Leave Home
The simple (and tragic) answer to this question is that there is no such solution. The two objectives are mutually exclusive. Throughout the ages, whenever an empire has begun its inevitable collapse, no country has ever woken up and reversed the process. In every case, the government rides the decline to the bottom. And, along the way, a series of policies is invariably undertaken to save those in government in the downward rush. These policies are always at the expense of the populace. Read More |
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09.18.18- “Lehman - Ten Years Later”
2008 had already had more than its share of financial turmoil. In the months leading up to 9/15/2008, Bear Stearns, Fannie/Freddie, and AIG had already had major blowouts. The stock markets were very itchy and everyone was on edge. Most who worked in the industry knew it was just a matter of time until something much more systemic took place. Up until this time, the contagion had been mostly limited to the US, with some minor external collateral damage. We were both heavily involved in the financial/economic landscape at this time. Andy was running his investment advisory and economic consultancy firm and Graham was a strategy analyst for a major G7 central bank. We had already both come to independent conclusions that this was going to be a long emergency as coined by James Kunstler. This was not going to be a 3 or 6-month event and then it would be roses and cherries and cream for the whole world. Read More |
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09.17.18- What Keeps Them Up at Night
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09.15.18- California’s War on the U.S. Dollar
Californians have historically been on the cutting edge of social and political change. Whether it was protesting the Vietnam War or advocating for free speech or civil rights, California has always been among the first states to get involved. And it’s on the front lines once again. Its opponent: the federal government. Read More |
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09.14.18- America’s False History
Griffin’s book is a humdinger and will certainly upset brainwashed American super-patriots, but it throughly documents how Washington’s aggression toward other lands is covered up by politicians, media, and court historians with moral verbiage. In my view the hubris, arrogance, and ignorance of “American exceptionism” has the world locked on a trajectory to its extinction in nuclear Armageddon. Read More |
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09.13.18- Pandemic scare brewing
The pandemic scare comes as the execution of U.S. Senator John McCain sent shock waves through Khazarian mafia ranks, who are now activating all their resources in a desperate move to save themselves. Thus, this pandemic scare may be something like a schoolboy calling in a bomb threat to his school in order to avoid an exam. Read More |
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09.12.18- The World Is Ganging up Against the Dollar
As the U.S. wields the dollar weapon more frequently, the rest of the world works harder to shun the dollar completely. I’ve been warning for years about efforts of nations like Russia and China to escape what they call “dollar hegemony” and create a new financial system that does not depend on the dollar and helps them get out from under dollar-based economic sanctions. Read More |
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09.11.18- How to Purge the Rot
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09.10.18- Why Most Investors Fail to Beat
For one thing, we don’t own “the market” – which, in these contexts, usually means the S&P 500 Index. We own individual stocks. As I always like to remind people, the ups and downs of those stocks can be very different from those of “the market.” For example, here are the 10 best-performing S&P 500 stocks for the first half of the year: Read More |
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09.08.18- The pension crisis is bigger than the world’s 20 largest economies
As you probably know, pensions are giant pools of capital responsible for paying out retirement benefits to workers. And right now many pension funds around the world simply don’t have enough assets to cover the retirement obligations they owe to millions of workers. In the US alone, federal, state, and local governments, pensions are about $7 TRILLION short of the funding they need to pay out all the benefits they’ve promised. Read More |
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09.07.18- The 10 most important lessons in finance from a legend in the field
Jim is the editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer – one of the most-respected and followed financial publications in the world. In his 35 years writing Grant’s, Jim has seen a financial cycle or two. And he’s amassed a network of many of the most important people on Wall Street (who often share their insights in his publication). Read More |
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09.06.18- Amazon is Far More Dangerous and Powerful Than You Want to Admit
– From my November 15, 2017 post: Amazon Poses a Serious Threat to Freedom and Free Markets Read More |
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09.05.18- How People Become
This is a very complex issue, but I’ll break it down as best as I’m able… The Psychology Of The Tyrant Read More |
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09.04.18- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Terrifying Paintings by ArtificiaI Intelligence
And its one hell of a mutilated abortion. Words that spring to mind: monstrous, from hell, distorted, terrifying, soulless… Its like self-portraits of a family of aristocrats if they were each and every one of them a soul-sucking demon. If this is what Artificial Intelligence has to offer in terms of art, if these images are the seeds of that future, count me out. A French art collective, selling these little monsters at Christie’s for beaucoup bucks, fine.Read More |
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09.03.18- Progressives: The Real World vs. Neverland
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09.01.18- Forget who takes the mid-terms: Here’s how to personally repeal Obamacare
Back in 2010, Congress and President Obama completely overhauled the US healthcare system with the “Affordable” Care Act (aka Obamacare). Their intention was to provide all US citizens with access to healthcare. But, the result of government interference in markets was – surprise – rising costs and lower quality service. Read More |
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08.31.18- Economic Doom Returns: Emerging Market Currencies Collapse To Record Lows As Global Financial Chaos Accelerates
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08.30.18- Making It in the United States: The Harsh Realities Americans Face
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08.29.18- Evade Market Weakness in the Summer by Shifting Your Perspective
In the last issue of Seasonal Insights we have talked to you about biotech and pharmaceutical companies as industries that withstand the traditional summer weakness in stock markets. Six weeks ago, we have shown that gold is an asset one can purchase in the summer months to offset this phenomenon. Warning: don’t let the media mesmerize you in the summer months – the stocks of media companies are a veritable seasonal minefield in August to October. Read More |
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08.28.18- How the Socialism of Imperial Rome Ushered in Feudalism
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08.27.18- Most Americans Don’t Understand This Problem… Here’s Why You Should
Though he was wealthy and didn’t need to, he said he liked the work because it reminded him that no matter how rich you are, you’re never too good to get your hands dirty. He also liked gardening because it was a metaphor for how he saw the world. Read More |
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08.25.18- Weekend Rant: Services Rendered
The diner understands that he’s not obligated to order anything that he doesn’t want to receive, but that, for whatever he does order, he must pay the price on the menu. The subtotal is printed in large type on the charge slip. He may then decide whether or not the service he received was of particular value to him. Diners typically choose to pay somewhere between 10% and 20%, depending on the value they feel they’ve received. Read More |
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08.24.18- Why Do People Assign Value
Following the view of Plato and Aristotle, economists regard the acceptance of money as an historical fact introduced by the government decree.1 It is government decree, so it is argued, that makes a particular thing accepted as the general medium of the exchange, i.e., money. Read More |
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08.23.18- Why You Should Forget School and Let Kids Play
Seriously, it took the American Academy of Pediatrics to let us know that? Better yet, the doctors now recommend that parents even get involved in playing with their children, especially before they turn two. “This may seem old-fashioned, but there are skills to be learned when kids aren’t told what to do,” said Dr. Michael Yogman, a Harvard Medical School pediatrician who led the drafting of the call to arms. Whether it’s rough-and-tumble physical play, outdoor play or social or pretend play, kids derive important lessons from the chance to make things up as they go, he said. Read More |
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08.22.18- Most People Struggle Financially Because They Don’t Know This…
Yet we hear countless stories about the multi-million dollar athlete who is homeless 10 years later. Or the guy who won the lottery only to soon find himself penniless. It’s not how much money you make. But how much money you keep. I cringe whenever I hear people ask me how to get rich quicker, or where they should start. I often hear, “I need to make more money.” I hate hearing any of that, because more money will often not solve the problem. Read More |
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08.21.18- How to Protect Your Money from Financial Warfare
I would put Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and a few others at the top of the list. Russia and China at the top of the list but Iran certainly has good cyber-warfare capability. They’re employing what they call Cyber Brigades that spend all their time basically hacking into the critical infrastructure systems I described above. It’s a good bet that all of these systems have already been penetrated. Read More |
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08.20.18- The Telltale Signs of Imperial Decline
Check which signs of Imperial decline you see around you: The hubris of an increasingly incestuous and out-of-touch leadership; dismaying extremes of wealth inequality; self-serving, avaricious Elites; rising dependency of the lower classes on free Bread and Circuses provided by a government careening toward insolvency due to stagnating tax revenues and vast over-reach--let's stop there to catch our breath. Check, check, check and check. Sir John Glubb listed a few others in his seminal essay on the end of empiresThe Fate of Empires, what might be called the dynamics of decadence: Read More |
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08.18.18- The West Continues to Rot at the Core as it Obsesses Over the Short-term
This is not to say that it does not have a purpose, because undoubtedly it does. This cannot and will not be denied, except by those who identify themselves as having anarchist traits. Yet, it is still a farce. It is corrupt, it is short-sighted and it is riddled with problems. But in our “semi” capitalistic system, it is what we have. And we have to make the best of it. Read More |
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08.17.18- Turkey: A Glimpse of America’s Future
This week, we began looking at Turkey, but only because Donald Trump sent an extraordinary tweet last Friday. In it, the president broke with tradition and common sense in a remarkable way. He used a crash in the Turkish lira to justify a new attack in the trade war. Instead of soothing words that might have calmed the crisis situation, his tweet made it worse. And instead of coming to the aid of an ally in difficulty, he piled on. Read More |
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08.16.18- A traditional plant native to Thailand effectively manages obesity,
For the study, researchers from Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand derived the extract of broken bones from the fruit pods of the plant. They looked at the effects of broken bones plant extract on the adipogenic and biomolecular change in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. They used the cell line 3T3-L1 to establish the potential toxic effects of broken bones plantextract during adipogenesis, the differentiation of pre-adipocytes into adipocytes. Read More |
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08.15.18- Generation Z: The Intolerant Ones
Generation Z is racially diverse, increasingly secular, and very much online. Non-Hispanic whites make up just over half of this cohort, compared with 72 percent of Baby Boomers. In religious terms, 13 percent of Generation Z identifies as atheist, compared with only 7 percent of millennials. Read More |
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08.14.18- The Law As Weapon
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08.13.18- Pater Familias
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08.11.18- Experts Warn That The “Scariest” Stock Market Signals Are Flashing Red
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08.19.18- This Time Is Different — No, Really
The wise man remembers. The fool forgets. The wise man listens. The fool talks. He ignores both the living and the dead… the immemorial dead, whose whispers carry the distilled wisdom of history. No — this time is different, comes the fool’s eternal cry. Read More |
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08.09.18- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Students Say 'Young Democratic Socialists Of America' Not Socialist Enough
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08.08.18- Even Lefties Get it… Today’s Housing Bubble About To Burst
We are too some of those 3.5 million views. Of course not many of us also enjoyed that same day’s obvious record high volume, $100 gold market intervention swing. But we digress, to the reflated, now larger housing bubble ongoing. Unlike the previous housing bubble of yore (the 2007 version). These now humbled, left ideologues can see the writing on the wall. Read More |
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08.07.18- Welcome to Bad Faith
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08.06.18- Here's Why 3D-Printing Guns Are A Win For World Peace AndA Potential
For generations, advocates of private gun ownership have been fighting exhaustively through political channels to protect their right to keep and bear arms. Gun owners even have one of the strongest lobby groups in Washington, the highly disappointing NRA. Yet over the years, gun rights continue to diminish in America, despite the constant political campaigns by the NRA and politicians that claim to support gun rights. Read More |
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08.04.18- Here’s What the “Doom Index” Is Telling Us Now…
Regular Diary readers will remember that the Doom Index is made up of 11 key indicators. These indicators track the health of both the Main Street and Wall Street economies. [For a full review of the Doom Index, go here.] After reviewing all the data from Q2, here are the results… For the second quarter of this year – from the start of April through the end of June – the Doom Index level is at 6. That’s down from 7, where the Doom Index ranked for Q1. Read More |
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08.03.18- Conservatives Banned From Social Media? Here's What They Can Do About It
However, in the wake of the social justice cult frenzy some companies have decided that ideology is more important than profit, and most of these companies are deeply involved in various forms of media. Read More |
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08.02.18- FALSE FLAG WARNING: ‘Perfect Storm’
(Natural News) Today I’ve posted an urgent warning video, which you can see in full, below. This video — which would have been banned by YouTube and Facebook — is available exclusively on REAL.video.Read More |
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08.01.18- COURT DOCS: SPLC Co-Founder Accused of Trying to Molest Step-Daughter With Sex Toy
It has now been exposed that the organization is awash in pedophilia. George Clooney and his wife recently contributed $1,000,000 the the SPLC. Please take note of the number of Ashkenazi Jews that control the organization. The SPLC is an enemy of the Republic. - JSB The SPLC is known for doling out bogus “hate group” labels. Read More |
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07.31.18- An Illustrated Glossary of |
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07.30.18- Why Americans Are About To Experience Sharply Higher Prices
It appears that the "short-term" part has now arrived, because after several rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs and retaliations between the US and China, American consumers are about to be hit with sharply higher prices as tariffs on industrial metals put pressure on U.S. manufacturers. Read More |
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07.28.18- The Treasonous Democratic Party
In this one TV broadcast - Carlson shows that the Democrats have gone far beyond “lying through their teeth political partisanship” into deranged hatred of President Trump and the American people who elected him. The Democrats’ insane hatred of “Trump deplorables” has firmly allied the Democrats with the corrupt military/security complex in a plot to overthrow the elected President of the United States. Carlson presents the former heads of US intelligence in the corrupt Obama regime accusing President Trump of treason against the United States for trying to normalize relations with Russia and endangering the United States for trying to make peace. Read More |
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07.27.18- Valuing Gold In A World
In this article I point to the pressures on the Fed to moderate monetary policy, but that will only affect the timing of the next cyclical credit crisis. That is going to happen anyway, triggered by the Fed or even a foreign central bank. In the very short term, a tendency to moderate monetary policy might allow the gold price to recover from its recent battering. Unlike the last credit crisis when the dollar rose sharply in a general panic for safety, on the next crisis, the dollar is likely to fall substantially. The reason is that foreign ownership of dollar investments (typically in US Treasuries) appears greatly overextended, and an additional $4 trillion of liquidity is in the wrong (non-US) hands. This is likely to be unloaded during a general credit crisis, driving the dollar lower. Read More |
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07.26.18- Get Ready for the “100-Year Flood”
From the Black Death in the 14th century to the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th century to the world wars of the 20th century, gold has been a reliable store of wealth. There is no reason to believe that such existential events are no longer a danger. Read More |
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07.25.18- The Lonely Road of the Free Thinker
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07.24.17- The Imperial Naivete of the American Public
Whether it's stated or not, one source of the inchoate outrage triggered by Russian-sourced purchases of adverts on Facebook in 2016 (i.e. "meddling in our election") is the sense that the U.S. is sacrosanct due to our innate moral goodness and our Imperial Project: never mind that the intelligence agencies of all great powers (including the U.S.) meddle in the domestic affairs and elections of other nations, including those of allies as well as geopolitical rivals-- no other great power should ever meddle with U.S. domestic affairs and elections. Read More |
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07.23.18- What Happened To Our Country? These Are Not Our Values, This Isn’t Who We Are
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07.21.18- Four Obvious Areas for
That was the slogan used by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and it propelled him to the most powerful and coveted job in the world – commander in chief of the United States. However, since Trump’s inauguration there has been much blustering and many unpopular policies that don’t seem to have been made with the promise of making America great again. While the United States makes worldwide news for the President’s tweets, other countries are implementing changes that are benefitting their citizens and helping to change the world positively. Read More |
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07.20.18- Russiagate Is Constructed of Pure Bullshit, No Facts
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07.19.18- What the Origins of Money Teaches Us About Spontaneous Order
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07.18.18- Our Rules of the Game: US Constitution
It’s indeed a “dark moment” for those who’ve for decades used the courts to accomplish what would have been impossible through federal and state legislatures — such as same-sex marriage, abortion and preferences with regard to race and sex. Read More |
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07.17.18- The Trade War Is Already Having A Huge Impact On The U.S. Economy
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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.Copyright© 1996-2018
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