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08.21.17- You stand a higher chance of being crushed by a vending machine.
They have the most incredible instincts, honed from countless generations of survival against constant threats. Animals have a keen sense of danger. They know immediately when something doesn’t feel right, and they act on it without hesitation. I saw an incredible example of this last year when I was visiting a remote wildlife reservation in Zimbabwe. Read More |
There’s something I’ve always found mesmerizing about watching animals in the wild. |
08.19.17- Don't Forget About The Red Swan
Given the anti-Trump feeding frenzy, we continue to believe that a Swan is on its way bearing Orange. But if that’s not enough to dissuade the dip buyers, perhaps the impending arrival of the Red Swan will at least give them pause. Read More |
[Urgent Note: The nation’s future and a massive debt ceiling hangs in the balance as Trump pushes beyond the Comey hearings. That’s why I’m on a mission to send my new book  |
08.18.17- Social Security requires a bailout that’s 60x greater than the 2008 emergency bank bailout
Given that tens of millions of Americans depend on this public pension program as their sole source of retirement income, you’d think this would have been front page news… Read More |
A few weeks ago the Board of Trustees of Social Security sent a formal letter to the United States Senate and House of Representatives to issue a dire warning: Social Security is running out of money. |
08.17.17- Functional Illiterates Trying to
I consider myself a student of history. I’ve always been fascinated by the personalities who drove events throughout history. I probably would have been a history major in college if I didn’t feel the need to make enough money to support myself and my family. I chose a business major and decided studying history would be my hobby. Over the years I’ve taken a particular interest in the Civil War. You could even call me a Civil War buff. Read More |
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08.16.17- If you’re 53 to 71 years old… *New Retirement Warning*
According to a survey conducted by Legg Mason, American baby boomers on average are in terrible shape when it comes to savings for retirement. These poor folks are woefully underfunded. To be clear, Legg Mason defines a baby boomers are being between the age of 53 and 71. For most of these people, the time to accumulate a retirement savings is in the rear-view mirror. Read More |
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08.15.17- How to Get Saudi Women Rights, and Make Your Neighbor Paint his House
New York City has a lot of wealth. There is infrastructure, skyscrapers, smart people, transportation, and so on. But what would happen if North Korea took over the city tomorrow? Would all that wealth simply remain in place? Would everyone just go on with their lives? Of course not. People would flee in droves, the city would crumble. Read More |
If you get government wrong, you get everything wrong. |
08.14.15- Trump, DEFCON 1, Wile E. Coyote and Run for the Fallout Shelter
For those too young to recollect, Vaudeville entertainment was the fad in the US in the early 20th century famous for a mixture of burlesque comedy and song and dance. The presidency of Donald Trump, so far, has been a marque extravaganza of all three. His song has changed with regard to reconciliation with Russia, but rabid rhetoric on North Korea seems about to go ballistic – literally. Read More |
American foreign policy has now entered its Vaudeville stage. The latest far out act being convincing the dumbest Americans that North Korea is a threat to the US at all. President Donald Trump’s madman assertions and swagger recently are made even more horrific by mainstream media’s apparent shift into his corner. By the time you’re done reading this, fallout shelters may be back in vogue. |
08.12.17- Prepare for Another Market Face Pounding
After nine years of near uninterrupted stock market gains, new opinions are being offered to explain why the stock market will be bathed in sunshine indefinitely. For example, the late-1990s term Goldilocks is again being used to describe why the slow growth, low unemployment, economy is good for stocks. Apparently, if an economy is not-too-cold, but not-too-hot, stocks can go up lots and lots. Read More |
Perhaps this means that after a long period of rising stocks prices otherwise intelligent people conceive of clever explanations for why the good times will carry on. Moreover, if the market goes up for long enough, the opinions become so engrained they seek to explain why stock prices will go up forever. |
08.11.17- My friend emailed billionaire Howard Marks about Bitcoin. Here’s his response
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Today is one of those days when I feel blessed to have such wonderful and interesting people in my life.  |
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We are about to witness an extremely unusual convergence of events that many believe could represent a major turning point for our nation. By now you have probably heard that  |
08.09.17- Is Bitcoin Money?
People say some forms of money, such as Bitcoin or U.S. dollars, are not backed by anything. But that’s not true. They are backed by one thing: confidence. Read More |
At various times in history, feathers have been money. Shells have been money. Dollars and euros are money. Gold and silver are certainly money. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can also be money. |
08.08.17- The Medical Cartel is Keeping Health Care Costs High
The country is experiencing a shortage of doctors in virtually every state. Read More |
In 2010, the small town of Collegedale, Tennessee had the dubious distinction of having the highest prevalence of Type II Diabetes in the world. Without a single endocrinologist in the small town, those suffering from this preventable and treatable form of the disease were unable to gain access to the treatment they needed. |
08.07.17- Anti-Populist Coward Jeff Sessions Threatens the First Amendment
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When you take a look at which issues Jeff Sessions gets most passionate about (asset forfeiture, drug war foolishness, cracking down on media), there’s one thing that ties it all together. He has a very deep-seated and visceral disdain for the American public. He’s your typical cowardly prosecutor looking to make a name for himself by picking on the weak and dispossessed, while never targeting elite criminals. One thing you’ll always notice about Sessions is how much of a thug he is. He’d never dare take on a bank executive or powerful politician, but prefers to marshals resources toward the most anti-populist crusades possible. His latest move to target freedom of the press is no exception.  |
08.05.17- Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan Ominously Warns That The Biggest Bond Bubble In History Is About To Burst
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Are we right on the verge of one of the greatest financial collapses in American history? I have been repeatedly warning that our ridiculously over-inflated stock market bubble could burst at any time, but former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan believes that the bond bubble actually presents an even greater danger. When you look at the long-term charts, you will see that an epic bond bubble has been growing since the early 1980s, and when it finally collapses the financial carnage is going to be unlike anything we have ever seen before.  |
08.04.17- Geopolitical Tensions Are Designed To Distract The Public From Economic Decline
This is why whenever someone asks me as an economic and political analyst "when the collapse is going to happen," I have to shake my head in bewilderment. The "collapse" is here now. It is done. It is a historical fact. It's just that not many people have the eyes to see it yet, primarily because they are hyper-focused on all the wrong things. Read More |
Tracking geopolitical and fiscal developments over the past several years is a bit like watching a slow motion train wreck; you know exactly what the consequences of the events will be, you try to warn people as much as possible, but, ultimately, you cannot reverse the disaster. The disaster has for all intents and purposes already happened. What we are witnessing is the aftermath as a forgone conclusion. |
08.03.17- The Incredible Lie Of Internet Advertising
But nobody has, as far as I know, talked about the real, underlying issue behind all of the above and more: Incentives, the mismatch thereof, and thus the outrageous enabling of worthless advertising which the consumer directly pays to have sent to them by the venues in question. Read More |
There has been a lot of micro focus on Internet advertising -- the prevalence of "bots" (robotic "readers" that click ads), second, third, fourth and sixth accounts that belong to cats, dogs and mice, measurement problems (such as counting a video "viewed" if 50% of the pixels could have been seen for 2 seconds) and more. |
08.02.17- The United States Has Become
Let me ask you a very simple question. What is on your mind today? Read More |
You can either follow the herd of you can decide to find your own path. One of the things that greatly frustrates me is that so many Americans allow other people to do their thinking for them. We have become a nation of sheeple, and the vast majority of the shepherds that we are relying on for guidance are frauds and imposters. The blind are leading the blind, and we are slowly but surely committing  |
08.01.17- Big Banks Make Risky New Lending Scheme Available to Millions of Americans
Here’s why it could be a recipe for disaster… There are two basic kinds of loans: secured loans and unsecured loans. Secured loans utilize some form of collateral, making their interest rates lower, while unsecured loans have no collateral and higher rates.Read More |
The same lending indiscretion behind the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007 could be reincarnated through a new surge in securities-backed debt. Historically, this risky form of loan was only available to the ultra-wealthy, but financial behemoths are now using it to lure in the average American. |
07.31.17- Saving Rural America
There are two main reasons why the youth of America are leaving small towns. One is the economy and the other is the social environment. There are no good jobs and there is nothing to do outside of work. Growing youth need to be kept busy with something and lacking that they will seek out excitement. Read More |
Rural America is dying a slow and miserable death but only the local inhabitants seem to notice. It was happening slowly but now it is happening faster. The crown jewels of the rural areas, the graduating children, are leaving and taking their potential with them. As rural businesses shut down and opportunities dwindle, younger people are leaving to seek out greener pastures. That is a travesty for small towns and the traditions they have maintained for generations. |
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07.28.17- Hegemony is a Three-Player Game
This is basic balance-of-power politics as practiced since the rise of Napoleon (1799), with antecedents in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), and Machiavelli’s The Prince (1532). The case for normalizing relations between Russia and the U.S. rests on the coming confrontation between the U.S. and China. This confrontation stems from China’s refusal to help the U.S. deal decisively with North Korea, which is pushing the U.S. toward a pre-emptive war on the Korean peninsula. Read More |
Three-player games are easy to model — it’s always two against one. The art of geopolitics and examining hegemony powers in such situations is to be part of a duo that pressures the remaining player, or, at a minimum, keep the other two players separated. |
07.27.17- The Current Big Lie Is...
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The Big Lie today is as enormous as, and potentially far more harmful than, any Big Lie throughout history has been; and, it will be exposed fully here, and will be documented even more fully, by means of the links that are provided in this summary of it. (This Big Lie is certainly important enough for that care, because if the lie is continued unexposed, that massive fraud will produce World War III, a world-destroying nuclear war, perhaps even soon.) So, this will be only a summary of it, but a completely documented summary — not a mere ‘exposé’ that’s expected to be believed because it is already generally suspected or thought to be the case, but, instead, something that's presented in the expectation that the key facts of the case have, to the contrary, been so effectively hidden from the public, as to make necessary here the providing of  |
07.26.17- 5 Ways to Keep a Tax Farm (Citizens) Producing
Credit cards, student loan debt, home loans, and car loans all represent an obligation to work full time. Once you have been saddled with debt, you cannot make the choice to take time off to pursue a business endeavor you are passionate about. Read More |
The government depends on the citizens to produce, to create value from which the ruling classes can leech. They need to keep us working and spending in ways that they prescribe in order to insert themselves into transactions which would otherwise have nothing to do with them. Here are five ways that they keep the tax farm going. |
07.25.17- What To Do With Your Cash?
Have you moved a material percentage of your financial portfolio to cash? Have you become so concerned about the meteoric ramp upwards in asset prices that you find it wiser instead to move to the sidelines, build "dry powder", and wait to re-enter the markets at saner valuations? If so, you have my sympathies. The past 5+ years have been brutal for savers pursuing this strategy. I know this well, as I'm one of those folks, too. Read More |
Is it folly to hold cash right now? Or brilliant? |
07.24.17- Don’t Buy the Sears Stock Rally –
We still think Sears is headed toward bankruptcy. If you own it, get out. And if you think management can pull off a miracle, forget it. They can't. Money Morning Capital Wave Strategist Shah Gilani told readers back in May about Sears' epic downfall. He even outlined a strategy to profit as Sears stock "lurches towards its deathbed." And despite the stock's recent rally, if you'd followed Gilani's plan, you'd still be up double digits. Read More |
Sears stock has rebounded more than 43% in the last month, but that does not mean this stock is turning around. Quite the opposite. |
07.22.17- August 1, 2017 Starts the Most Dangerous 90 Days in American History
The Republicans have held a majority it he legislative branch along with the executive for the same duration. The stock market has enjoyed a bull market of historic proportions without a correction for the longest period in post Federal Reserve Act history. And effective overnight interest rates have remained below the historical average as measured by the Fed Fund Rate in over 60 years. Read More |
Donald J. Trump has been President of the United States (POTUS for short) for almost seven months by August 1st and everyone should rightfully be terrified; not of him or his Presidency but the ominous parallels to our past. |
07.21.17- Hemp CBD Vs Cannabis CBD,
CBD has received lots of media attention over the past few years; however, there are many people that have questions about it: Below is everything one need know about CBD and some, as follows: Read More |
CBD stands for phytocannabinoid Cannabidiol. It has come into the medical cannabis scene like no other natural compound has ever done. |
07.21.17- Hemp CBD Vs Cannabis CBD,
CBD has received lots of media attention over the past few years; however, there are many people that have questions about it: Below is everything one need know about CBD and some, as follows: Read More |
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07.20.17- Car-Mageddon Is Upon Us
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07.19.17- Real Fake News:
People seem to give doctors and scientists the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their findings and opinions on things like global warming, genetically modified organisms, pesticides, chemicals, and how unhealthy certain foods and habits are. But like any other humans, scientists and doctors are, well, human. They can be misguided, confused, corrupt, and opinionated. Read More |
Did you know that doctors and scientists can be corrupt or simply wrong? |
07.18.17- Statin Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs A Giant Hoax; Add Just Four Days To Your Life
The scathing denunciation of statin drugs emanates from The Pharmaceutical Journal in the UK that declares the cholesterol hypothesis of cardiovascular disease is “dead.” The prevalent mantra that statins are “life-savers” and that “people will die” if they discontinue statins, as well as advice “everyone over 50 should be on a statin drug,” is based upon “cherry-picking” of the data say investigators. A review of 44 published trials of statin drugs finds among subjects taking statins to prevent heart attacks, these pills only add 4 days to one’s life! Read More |
What we now observe is a blistering condemnation of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs coming out of news sources in  |
07.17.17- Times Change Out From Under Us
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He had lugged the 50 lb. bag of Milorganite into the garden in order to discover, as on many prior occasions, that he had nothing with which to open it. He blamed this on the war on terror and the TSA. As a youth he, as did every boy, had a pocket knife. Always. It was expected. There was no school rule against pocket knives. Once for a period they even all had switchblades. You could get them for 99 cents, a large amount in those days, enough to buy a case of 24 Coca-Colas. The switchblades met with school and parental disapproval as they smacked of New York gangs. But before teachers and parents came up with a policy, the boys had abandoned the switchblades. The knives had weak springs. Fascinated with the speed with which the knives opened with a satisfying click and locked the blade into place, the boys quickly wore out the springs on their switchblades. Unlike their trusty pocket knives, the switchblades quickly became useless.  |
07.15.17- Tech Billionaires Are Funding A Plan To Break The Human Race Out Of The Matrix
In 1998, purported extraterrestrial contactee Jerry Wills claimed a tall blonde humanoid named Zo taught him how to access Aramu Muru and enter “another universe.” Wills further claimed that Zo illustrated to him how our universe is an experimental simulation within his species’ universe. They built it to understand their own reality, which is itself nested inside a larger universe. Read More |
On the southwestern edge of Lake Titicaca, Peru, there is an ancient 23-foot doorway known as the Aramu Muru. Local natives call it the “Puerta de hayu Marca,” the gateway to the lands of the gods and immortal life. Throughout their history, the natives have described people disappearing and appearing at this doorway. |
07.14.17- How Trump’s New Plan for the Border Wall Could Explode Silver
Why does Trump care about making his border wall solar? Essentially, he’s dangling a huge carrot in front of Democrats, environmentalists, and other staunch opponents of the original plan. And it looks like it may work. Read More |
Donald Trump’s border wall is gaining traction thanks to a revised proposal that would outfit it with solar panels. Detractors are turning into advocates, and the new plan may even have a hidden benefit for a few savvy folks out there. |
07.13.17- Cryptocurrency Bloodbath! Sell Everything We Were Totally Wrong!
In a recent newsletter to subscribers (subscribe here) I wrote: BUY OR SELL CRYPTOS? "I have seen a number of subscribers posting in the private TDV Facebook Group that they are beginning to give up on gold and silver and are thinking of selling and buying some of these high flying cryptos. That would be the opposite of what I would advise at this moment in time... and I touched on this in the last Dispatch too. Read More |
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07.12.17- Investors Should Be Terrified Of The Imminent Liquidity Shock
The ECB also seems to be preparing to taper its aggressive Quantitative Easing program. If the Fed and the ECB go forward with these plans, global liquidity will dry up. That could send the price of stocks, property, bonds and commodities (including gold and oil) tumbling. It could also send the global economy back into severe recession. Read More |
We are now entering a very dangerous period for asset prices and the global economy. The Fed plans to drain more than $1 trillion of liquidity from the financial markets by the end of 2019. That’s not just taking the punch bowl away. It’s more like pumping the stomach of a chronic alcoholic. |
07.11.17- Take Advantage of This Free Insurance Policy For Your Savings
This is the very first article I’m writing to you on the brand new Macbook Pro that I just purchased here in Hong Kong. It’s the fully loaded version with 16GB of RAM, a 1 TB SSD hard drive, and 3.5 GHz i7 processor. Given that I actually run Linux on may laptop and barely do anything outside of word processing a bit of programming, the purchase was probably overkill. But I got such a great deal it was hard to pass up. You see, Hong Kong has some of the best prices in the world on just about EVERYTHING. Read More |
Hong Kong has some of the best prices in the world on just about EVERYTHING… |
07.10.17- The Inevitability Of DeGrowth
Even though we don't know precisely how the future will unfold, we know a few things about it:
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07.08.17- Suicide By Stupidity
America wakes up to astonishing bullshit from its so-called Newspaper of Record in this lead front-page propaganda dump du jour. Granted, American education has succeeded in destroying the critical faculties of at least three generations so that the public drowns in a soup of unreality every day. Read More |
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07.07.17- Preparing For The Cashless Transition
With the now widespread use of smart phones, payment for many small transactions is as simple as just waving a phone at the checkout counter. (This is a so-called “contactless” or “mobile wallet” purchase.) Mobile wallets, such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay, are catching on rapidly. So rapidly, in fact, that some urbanites no longer carry any cash. At many stores, kiosks, and even restaurants this will likely become obligatory in the next few years. No smartphone? Sorry, “No soup for you!” Read More |
Most western nations will soon adopt digital currency. Already, more than 80% of day-to-day transactions in the  |
07.06.17- Sovereign Debt Jubilee, Japanese-Style
Let’s face it. There is no way the US government is ever going to pay back a $20 trillion federal debt. The taxpayers will just continue to pay interest on it, year after year. A lot of interest. If the Federal Reserve raises the fed funds rate to 3.5% and sells its federal securities into the market, as it is proposing to do, by 2026 the projected tab will be $830 billion annually. That’s nearly $1 trillion owed by the taxpayers every year, just for interest. Read More |
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06.05.17- Prepare For Asset Price Declines
When growth starts to decline, I think we’re going to see the valuations of assets decline considerably. It’s anyone’s guess how quickly they can fall, but according to what I have been looking at, I think we are going to see a 50% decrease in real estate values right off the bat. I am not saying this will happen in a day, but the first wave will be a 30-50% decrease in real estate values when the markets really start to crack. They are already at the edge of the cliff — and I see prices falling down the cliff, struggling to recover, and then falling even further. Read More |
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07.04.17- We Must Declare Independence
Some 241 years later, Washington claims more of our money as its own than King George could have ever imagined. What do we get in this bargain? We get a federal government larger and more oppressive than before 1776, a government that increasingly views us as the enemy. Read More |
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07.03.17- The American People Are The Number One Target: “They Are Tightening The Screws”
As if that connection is not nefarious enough, there is more: it appears a new cloud technology is being produced for the CIA from…you guessed it…none other than the CIA, as is excerpted here: Read More |
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07.01.17- Will Citizens Turn Their Rage Towards Central Bankers?
According to Edwards, “While politics in the West reels from a decade of economic crisis and stagnation, asset prices continue to surge on the back of continued rapid growth in G3 QE. |
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06.30.17- The Medical System Is A Racket
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06.29.17- It Is the Presstitutes, Not Russia, Who Interfered in the US Presidential Election
Now the entire Western media has joined Megyn in foolishness, or so it appears from a RT report. James O’Keefe has senior CNN producer John Bonifield on video telling O’Keefe that CNN’s anti-Russia reporting is purely for ratings: “It’s mostly bullshit right now. Like, we don’t have any big giant proof.” CNN’s Bonifield is reported to go on to say that “our CIA is doing shit all the time, we’re out there trying to manipulate governments.”Read More |
Unlike Oliver Stone, who knew how to interview Vladimir Putin, Megyn Kelly did not. Thus, she made a fool of herself, which is par for her course. |
06.28.17- Can Gold & Silver Be Put On The Blockchain?
They’ll often point out there is “nothing backing bitcoin” without, for even a second, realizing there is nothing backing gold either. All value is subjective and in today’s digital age there is real value in being able to digitally transfer value nearly instantly worldwide at the click of a button for very little cost and in a way that no bank, government or other third party can block or steal. Read More |
Many gold bugs and hard money advocates still see bitcoin as being an enemy of gold when, in fact, it is complementary to gold. |
06.27.17- Full "Faith" And Credit
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Everyone knows that our “official” US debt is around $20T on our “cash basis” of accounting. When taking all our promised future payments into account and running them back to their present worth then the real US debt is around $80 to $120 T. Considering the total US GDP for an entire year is only $18.5T these numbers are pretty unpayable – EVER. Of course this means only one thing which is default. Sir Alan Greenspan said that we could never default in that we could just print up more dollars, however, printing more dollars and making them worth less is indeed another indirect form of default. The big question is exactly how much longer can this go on?  |
06.26.17- The World Is Going Down With Trump
One second’s thought is sufficient to realize how bad this advice is. The orchestrated demonization of Russia and its president began in the late summer of 2013 when the British Parliament and Russian diplomacy blocked the neoconned Obama regime’s planned invasion of Syria. An example had to be made of Russia before other countries began standing up to Washington. While the Russians were focused on the Sochi Olympic Games, Washington staged a coup in Ukraine, replacing the elected democratic government with a gang of Banderite neo-nazi thugs whose forebears fought for Hitler in World War II. Washington claimed it had brought democracy to Ukraine. Read More |
On June 21 the editorial board of the Washington Post, long a propaganda instrument believed to be in cahoots with the CIA and the deep state, called for more sanctions and more pressure on Russia.  |
06.24.17- This asset has outperformed the Tulip Bubble, Mississippi Bubble, and dot-com Bubble
I’m sure you’ve been there, being passed around various departments like the village bicycle, each time having to re-explain the entire situation to someone brand new. Finally someone found the missing funds, and the person told me me they would release the money later today. But that it would still take 3-5 business days for the funds to hit the recipient’s account. Read More |
This morning I had the pleasure of spending an hour of my life tracking down a missing wire transfer that had been sent to a large, multinational bank more than two weeks ago. |
06.23.17- What happens to your debt
You’re probably going to die with some debt to your name. Most people do. In fact, 73% of consumers had outstanding debt when they were reported as dead, according to December 2016 data provided to Credit.com by credit bureau Experian. Those consumers carried an average total balance of $61,554, including mortgage debt. Without home loans, the average balance was $12,875. Read More |
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06.22.17- Cannabinoids Can Successfully Kill Leukemia Cells, Reveals Groundbreaking New Study |
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06.21.17- 100 Million Dead In US
Accordingly, I must communicate to you at this time the full extent of our dire fiscal straits and the potential disruptions that we face in addressing even our most critical core responsibilities going forward into the new fiscal year. My Office has very serious concerns that, in the coming weeks, the State of Illinois will no longer be able to guarantee timely and predictable payments in a number of areas that we have to date managed (albeit with extreme difficulty) despite an unpaid bill backlog in excess of $15 billion and growing rapidly. We are effectively hemorrhaging money as the state’s spending obligations have exceeded receipts by an average of over $600 million per month over the past year. (ed: That's $7.2 billion/year) Read More |
Go ahead folks, read this one. |
06.20.17- Crisis On The Horizon: Will It Be Economic Collapse? Global Civil Unrest? War? We Won’t Have To Guess Much Longer…
The algorithm is simple: Governments coerce their pet monkeys to pay taxes into the system – the self-perpetuating machine – and thereby the monkeys become the very sources of funding to build, equip, staff, and enforce their own incarceration. There are too many individuals with dreams, plans, goals, and ambitions for themselves and their families. There is too much individualism. It eventually must be crushed, in order to maintain the existing social, political, religious, and economic order. Read More |
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06.19.17- The Worst Financial Nightmare In Illinois History Erupts As State Comptroller Declares ‘We Are In Massive Crisis Mode’
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Margaret Thatcher once said that the big problem with socialist governments is that “they always run out of other people’s money”, and unfortunately we are witnessing this play out in a major way in the state of Illinois right now. At this point, the Illinois state government has more than 15 billion dollars of unpaid bills. Yes, you read that correctly. They are already 15 billion dollars behind on their bills, and they are on pace to take in 6 billion dollars less than they are scheduled to spend in 2017. It is the worst financial crisis in the history of Illinois, and State Comptroller Susana Mendoza  |
06.17.17- Invest in the Highest Value Asset: Personal Skills
There are skills for financial gain, skills for personal gain, and skills for a backup plan. Most of them overlap; something once a hobby can become a career, for instance becoming a tennis instructor. Or a skill that is a “backup plan” can become the bread and butter in an emergency, like keeping bees or growing a garden. Tangible assets are a needed hedge when it seems everything–the stock market, real estate, bonds–are overvalued or in a bubble. A good useful skill is as tangible an asset as they get. And unlike resources, a skill cannot so easily be taken from you. Read More |
That’s what this world needs: skills. Raw resources are useless without the skill to properly apply them. |
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06.15.17- There Will be More
As this society becomes more and more officially violent, it is probable that unofficial violence will also increase. In fact, it is almost a mathematical axiom. It is also one not comprehended by those most responsible for initiating the process. Police and politicians seem baffled by the growing disenchantment with their class. They seem to expect people to behave toward them with respect and deference no matter what they do – by dint of the fact that what they do is Official and Legal. Read More |
Violence is, unfortunately, fungible. |
06.14.17- To Save Trump’s Presidency, Hillary Must be Prosecuted for Treason-It’s a Slam Dunk Case
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I published my assertion that Clinton was a traitor in 2015. I repeated this charge nearly eight months ago. So you may be wondering why am I resurfacing this issue. First, the final numbers are in on how much the Clinton’s made on selling uranium to the Russians. They made a whopping $2.85 billion (see below). Second, it was not Dave Hodges that exposed the Clinton treasonous sale of uranium to the Russians.  |
06.13.17- Debt-Based Money Corrodes Society
The current monetary system debauches the culture. Long-suffering readers are familiar with our… diminished regard for paper money. Paper money — or digital money nowadays — is the great bogeyman of the boom/bust cycle. It inflates bubbles of every model and make. Paper money fuels big government… as oxygen fuels fire. Read More |
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06.12.17- General Lee Speaks: Had it Figured Out
The man was perceptive. Amalgamation of the states under a central government has led to exactly the effects foreseen by General Lee. In, say, 1950, to an appreciable though imperfect extent America resembled a confederacy. Different regions of the America had little contact with each other, and almost no influence over one another. Read More |
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06.10.17- Why The Money in Your Bank Account is Not As Safe as You May Think
But that won’t help if the government is the thief. The United States government can freeze your bank accounts for basically no reason, without due process. Then it is up to you to prove your innocence. One reason might be that you have a name similar to an alleged terrorist on the list maintained by the U.S. government. The list is comprised of people suspected of involvement in financing terrorism but has remarkably little identifying information, sometimes only a name. Read More |
Banks are supposed to be the epitome of secure. You can put your money in their vaults, and forget about it. Don’t worry everything will be fine. And even if the bank goes under, the federal government insures deposits of up to $250,000. |
06.09.17- I Bought Bitcoin -- Here’s What Happened I’ve received so many questions about how to buy, and where to buy, and even more about the legality of the process, so I figured what the heck — I’ll buy some myself. So that’s what I did. I bought bitcoin. And here’s what happened… In the last two weeks, bitcoin has blanketed the radio waves. No matter if you keep up with Bloomberg or CNBC, or you’re nosey neighbor continues to chat your ear off about the cryptocurrency, odds are, in the past few weeks, you’ve heard the hype surrounding Bitcoin. Read More |
I wouldn’t say that I bought into the hype. I would say that I did this more as a learning experience. |
06.08.17- Walmart and Amazon Know the Terrible Truth: The American Middle Class Is Dying
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A lot of people were probably thrilled today about Amazon’s latest announcement. The online retail giant has revealed that they are going to reduce the cost of Prime membership, which provides free shipping for more orders and unlimited streaming for many shows and movies. But it’s not just for anyone. The reduced rate  |
06.07.17- If We Don’t Fight For It, The Liberal World Order Is Going To Kill Our Way Of Life
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There comes a time when it becomes necessary to draw a line in the sand. When the early settlers came to America, they were desperate to find a place where they could live in freedom. And our Founding Fathers worked very hard to draft a Constitution that would guarantee that future generations of Americans would live in a nation where the freedom and liberty of the people were maximized. Unfortunately, the way of life that our founders sought to establish is slowly being killed off by the progressive agenda of “the Liberal World Order”. Just about every single element of their progressive agenda is diametrically opposed to the values and the principles that this country was founded upon. And if they ultimately get everything that they want, our way of life will be eradicated for good.  |
06.06.17- Invest in Yourself
Most of us invest because we pursue long-term goals, even if the means of achieving them differ greatly. This long-term goal tends to be saving for retirement; for those who can, it might extend to save for a future generation; or, for institutional investors, there might be an infinite investment horizon. Read More |
The other day, I was asked what my investment advice for a 65-year old would be? My reply: “Go to the gym and watch your expenses.” To create wealth and/or preserve it for a future generation, all too often do we lose sight of the big picture. Let me explain. |
06.05.17- China’s Latest Assault on the Dollar
Here’s how China’s deal-brokering in the oil market could gradually kill the dollar, and what average savers ought to know about maintaining their savings in spite of it. Read More |
For some time now, China and Saudi Arabia have been negotiating to ditch the petrodollar system and allow Beijing to purchase oil with the Chinese yuan. If a deal is struck, it will be a huge blow to the long-standing system of the petrodollar, which dictates that oil is sold in units of U.S. dollars. Should it begin to dissolve, it could spell the end of U.S. dollar hegemony — leaving Americans with an increasingly devalued currency, and robbing them of their spending power. |
06.03.17- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy cures woman of stage-4 cancer Sabrina Gauer, a New York-based singer was 27 when she was diagnosed with stage-4 mouth cancer. The singer underwent intensive surgery in October 2015 to have part of her tongue removed and reconstructed to eliminate the aggressive oral squamous cell carcinoma tumor at the side of her tongue. The surgeons also removed 41 lymph nodes on the right side of her neck during the surgery that lasted six hours. Read More |
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06.02.17- RIPPLE Crypto-Currency Up 20% Today….. It’s The Wild West Out There
Of course, the rapid increase in price has sparked some interest, but very few realize just how much energy and capital it takes to produce one Bitcoin today. Actually, I was quite surprised. Read More |
After the crypto-currency, Ripple, fell 12% yesterday, it surged over 20% in trading today. Folks, it’s the Wild West out there in crypto-currency land. I have been spending some time looking into these crypto-currencies because there seems to be a great deal of mystery behind them. And I like looking into and solving mysteries. |
06.01.17- John Mauldin: We are coming to a period I call the Great Reset ...
We are coming to a period I call the Great Reset. As it hits, we will have to deal, one way or another, with the largest twin bubbles in the history of the world: global debt, especially government debt, and the even larger bubble of government promises. We are talking about debt and unfunded promises to the tune ofmultiple hundreds of trillions of dollars – vastly larger than global GDP. We are also going to have to restructure our economies and in particular how we approach employment because of the massive technological transformation that is taking place. But let’s keep the focus for now on global debt and government promises. Read More |
John Mauldin has been writing his weekly articles for over 15 years. He has a huge audience worldwide. I met him once, years ago in Brussels and don’t know if he has read The Big Reset. But recently he started to  |
05.31.17- Charlie Daniels’ Open Letter to Chuck Schumer: You’ve Opened Pandora’s Box
There's something sinister about seeing you bent over the lectern in the Senate Chamber, your countenance resembling what I would imagine Edgar Allen Poe's would look like reciting one of his macabre tales of doom and gloom, as if there is not one drop of happiness in your life, forecasting a dismal future for America if anything President Trump proposes passes both houses, is signed and becomes law. Read More |
Sen. Schumer, I don't live in your constituency, but in the larger picture, you live in mine and every other legal, taxpaying American citizen who is affected by the power you hold in your political party, your blind allegiance to it and the obstructionist posture to anything that doesn't directly benefit it. |
05.30.17- Happy War & Freedom Propaganda Day
The hypocrisy was thicker than the grill smoke, the pandering more apparent than in a Chaucer poem. You see, Memorial Day is the day the government tells us we should pay tribute to the soldiers who paid the ultimate price to protect our freedoms. I say those soldiers would be turning in their graves if they saw how our freedoms were being “protected” today...Read More |
As I watched politicians pay tribute to our fallen servicemen on Memorial Day, I have to admit that I felt a bit disgusted. |
05.29.17- The Attack on Workers, Phase II
It’s been a long row to hoe for most workers during the first 17 years of the new millennium. The soil’s been hard and rocky. The rewards for one’s toils have been bleak. For many, laboriously dragging a push plow’s dull blade across the land has hardly scratched enough of a rut in the ground to plant a pitiful row of string beans. What’s more, any bean sprouts that broke through the stony earth were quickly strangled out by seasonal weeds. Those ‘green shoots’ that persisted bore pods that dried out on the vine before maturity. Read More |
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05.27.17- Microsoft Warns Of ‘Orwellian Future’ As WikiLeaks Exposes Participation With Surveillance
The revelation put Microsoft in the hot seat, with people speculating that the tech giant may have been aware that the CIA works with features specifically built into Microsoft computers to collect data and perform tasks. Read More |
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05.26.17- Drain the Swamp
Donald Trump ran his campaign on a promise to drain the swamp. I agree with the sentiment but disagree with its lack of clarity. Washington loves obfuscation and lack of clarity. It allows them to ignore all promises. Read More |
Drain the Swamp was not a political movement when I came of voting age. The term then applied more to real estate in Florida not Washington, DC. |
05.25.17- Storing and Hiding Your Gold at Home
You instinctively know that gold is valuable and understand it must be stored safely. You probably also realize that gold coins and bars come with no replacement policy: if you lose them, they’re gone for good. No claim check to redeem. This makes your home storage plan critical. This guide provides hiding tips, the pros and cons of alarms and safes, backyard burial advice, the home storage golden rule, and why insuring your metal is probably not a good idea… Read More |
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05.24.17- The Escape from Collectivism
Since then, I’ve received requests to address whether it’s ever possible to fully escape collectivism, once it has taken hold in a country. The short answer is “yes.” It’s always possible to kick an addiction, but it’s not easy nor without pain. There are two forms of exit from collectivism. The first is national, the second is personal. Read More |
Recently, I penned an article entitled, “A Chicken in Every Pot,” which described the reasons why countries that have delved into collectivism are likely to slide further down the slippery slope, once it’s addictive qualities have been introduced to the brain. |
05.23.17- Joel Salatin: Curing Society's Constipation Of Imagination
As my son, Daniel says all of the time, "Our problem is not a lack of resources. Our problem is a constipation of imagination." In our culture today, we're all blocked up. Because we're so sure we know how it's supposed to be done. That becomes our limiting factor. We can do things very differently and profoundly better, but it never even enters the imagination. Read More |
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05.22.17- How to Protect Your Wealth in a World of Confused Monetary Authorities
I ordinarily wouldn’t have been worried about the state of the U.S. economy or the prospects of the USD because the media has its way of blowing things out of proportion. More so, conspiracy theorists can always find ways to interpret normal events to suit their bias. However, the fact that the U.S. Federal Reserve seems to be at loss on how to halt the decline in the U.S. economy is giving me sleepless nights.Read More |
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05.20.17- Technology Is The Master of Modern Slavery
Technology is a double edged sword that we wield that must be handled with care less we cut off one of our own limbs. Technology allows us to be more productive and work faster than without it but as we embrace more technology to relieve us of many manual tasks we must not let it rule our very existence. Read More |
The recent cyber attack on computers worldwide is just the latest wakeup call to the future we are blindly building for ourselves. The vast majority of humanity embraces technology like it is their next breath of air. Without it, they feel like they will die.  |
05.19.17- Manufacturing Resistance – The American Public is Being Manipulated Into Irrelevance
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No honest person could accuse me of being a Trump fan or supporter. I refused to back his candidacy despite my total disdain for Hillary Clinton and pretty much everything she stands for. More importantly, I’ve written a multitude of articles since he was inaugurated severely taking him to task on a wide variety of subjects. I’ve tirelessly discussed how he’s outsourced his economic policy to Goldman Sachs, and condemned his burgeoning neocon foreign policy, evidenced by his disturbing coziness with the autocratic barbarians of Saudi Arabia.  |
05.18.17- Congress Is Coming After Your 401(k)
Don’t take my word for it: 75% of Americans disapprove of the job our representatives are doing. It’s things like this that explain why: Whilst only about 13% of U.S. employees nationwide enjoy a retirement fund that assures stable, lifelong income, all 535 members of Congress do … courtesy of Uncle Sam. Members of Congress participate in the Federal Employees Retirement System, which provides pension benefits of which most American workers can only dream. Read More |
How do I despise thee, O Congress? Let me count the ways. |
05.17.17- We got robbed this weekend.
It happened on Saturday, which was an intense day packed with a dozen Q&A sessions with the CEOs of exciting private businesses in which we all invested. But at the end of the day, I treated our group to live entertainment by a gentleman named Apollo Robbins. And Apollo truly is a gentleman. Or as he fancies himself, a gentleman thief. Read More |
Over the weekend at an amazing, closed-door event that we held here in Las Vegas exclusively for our Total Access members, a number of us got robbed. |
Praise the Lord! The Hero is back to tell us what to do! Why, oh why have you ever left, oh greatest central planner of all time. We are not worthy. Read More |
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05.15.17- U.S. Tax System Explained in Beer
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this… The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. |
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100… |
05.13.17- Is The U.S Ponzi Scheme About To End?
At some point the western Central Banks will lose the ability to manipulate the gold and silver price and the Comex will default. That’s when chaos will break out in the physical gold and silver markets… Given the inability to manipulate its market via paper derivative instruments and short selling, this is the message that Bitcoin is signaling: Read More |
In the absence of the ability to manipulate the market, this is the same message that gold and silver would be sending to the world, only the scramble for gold and silver bullion in any form would be more frenzied and it would be widespread. |
05.12.17- The Father of Subprime Auto Loans Is Cashing Out You’ve probably never heard of Foss. But he’s likely the world’s richest used car salesman. He was also a pioneer of the subprime auto loan market. These are car loans made to people with bad credit. Today, the subprime auto loan market is worth more than $175 billion. But this market didn’t even exist in the 1960s. Back then, car companies like General Motors and Ford would only lend money to folks with good credit. It was simply too risky to lend money to people with bad credit. Read More |
Don Foss is walking away from his empire. |
05.11.17- Five More Reasons Why You’re Living in the Strangest Time in Human History
Granted, every generation has unique challenges and innovations that often change the nature of our existence in a big way. But with how fast technology is advancing these days, it’s easy to argue that what modern humans are experiencing is very unique. Read More |
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05.10.17- Where Do You Go in a Hurricane?
On the other end of the scale, in 2004, my country, the Cayman Islands, experienced a category five hurricane, with winds up to 200 miles per hour that sat on us without moving for 36 hours. I was responsible for assuring that safety be provided for scores of my employees prior to the hurricane. After the storm, one of my companies took on the complete rebuilding of the country’s wholesale and retail food distribution facilities in order to assure that the country’s population would have the most essential commodities - food and water. Read More |
As a West Indian, I’ve lived through quite a few hurricanes in my time. My level of responsibility in each varied quite a bit. I was eight years old in my first hurricane and I thought it was great fun, as it was so exciting during the hurricane and, afterward, the landscape had changed so much that I had lots of new places to play. |
05.09.17- Top 4 Alternative Investments to the Stock Market
But what if you want to avoid anything that trades through a broker or online discount broker? There are alternative investment opportunities. Some of them can make you a lot of money, and some of them may make you a little money. Either way, you are not trapped into choosing stocks, bonds and ETFs that are traded publicly. Read More |
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05.08.17- The Coming Debt Reckoning
American workers, as a whole, are facing a disagreeable disorder. Their debt burdens are increasing. Their incomes are stagnating. There are many reasons why. In truth, it would take several large volumes to chronicle all of them. But when you get down to the ‘lick log’ of it all, the disorder stems from decades of technocratic intervention that have stripped away any semblance of a free functioning, self-correcting economy. Read More |
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05.06.17- The Blockchain Is About to Disrupt This $7 Trillion Industry
Why? This one trade changed 400 years of history in just four hours. How so? Normally, it would take 10 days to handle the paperwork. But this trade concluded in less than four hours. The solution: a blockchain platform that streamlined the entire process. While the trade was small, it was big for the $7 trillion trade finance industry. Read More |
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05.06.17- The Blockchain Is About to Disrupt This $7 Trillion Industry
Why? This one trade changed 400 years of history in just four hours. How so? Normally, it would take 10 days to handle the paperwork. But this trade concluded in less than four hours. The solution: a blockchain platform that streamlined the entire process. While the trade was small, it was big for the $7 trillion trade finance industry. Read More |
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05.05.17- A Paler Shade of Gray
Of course, an issue even larger than the health care fiasco is this society’s tragic and astounding inability to discuss anything coherently in the public arena, and that might possibly be traced to the failures of education in our time and its effects on the current crop of editors and news producers — people who grew up hearing that reality was just a constructed “narrative” and that one narrative was as good as another. Read More |
If you seek to know why this country is in so much trouble, check out the lead reports about the health care reform bill in today’s New York Times, WashPo, and CNN. You will find there is no intelligible discussion in any of them as to what’s actually ailing US health care. All you get is play-by-play commentary about which political tag-team is “winning,” as if this were a pro wrestling match — with an overlay of gloat that the Republicans fell oafishly out of the ring in the early rounds. |
05.04.17- Bipartisan “Budget Win” Puts Americans Deeper in Debt
With the threat of a government shutdown looming, and the debt ceiling set to expire in a matter of days, Democrats and Republicans finally made an agreement on the federal budget. Congress is set to vote on the deal today, and it’s expected to pass through the Senate on Friday. Read More |
A new $1.1 trillion deal will keep the federal government funded until September, and politicians are calling it a big win. But average Americans might not be so quick to agree… |
05.03.17- Crash Alert: The Market Set
I’m going to spin the stock market around and take a look through the eyes of a bear. Fact is, I check my email constantly (a little too much my family may say!) And through the stacks of reader mail, from loyal readers like you, one question continues to stand out:
That question — and the answer — are VERY important for serious investors or anyone looking to retire “on time.” Read More |
Today I’m going to flip the tables… Something I have not done in a while. |
05.02.17- Will Physical Gold/Silver Demand Prevent A Bigger Sell-Off?
But the price action of the metals is behaving somewhat differently from past cycles when the banks decide to flex their muscles and trample on the precious metals market by bombarding the Comex with thousands of gold and silver contracts in order to disgorge the long positions held by hedge funds and create intermittent “waterfall” sell-offs. Read More |
The precious metals market has been under attack for the last two weeks by the Comex banks who have once again built-up an extreme net short position in their paper gold and silver positions. In fact the open interest in paper silver recently set a new record high, exceeding the previous high set in 2011, when the price of gold was approaching $50. That it took a record amount of paper silver creation to keep the price of silver below $20 a sense of desperation by the banking cartel in its effort to keep gold and silver “irrelevant” as an investment. |
05.01.17- The Confidence Game - The Next Crisis
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04.29.17- On The Home-Stretch To Collapse
The soaring level of “hope” that, for some unexplainable reason, accompanied the election of Trump is now crashing. The so-called “hard data” which somewhat measures the level of economic activity never moved higher in order to justify the optimism. Read More |
The warning signs are there but very few look for them or want to see them. But it’s a dynamic in which once you see it you can’t “unsee” it. A teacher I know told me this morning that Colorado school districts are quietly cutting staff across all districts. The only reason this would be occurring is that the State is projecting a decline in tax revenues. The only reason tax revenues would be declining is because economic activity is slowing or contracting. And Colorado supposedly has one of the more “vibrant” State economies. |
04.28.17- It’s finally come…
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04.27.17- Epiphany Time
Which is not to mention, of course, watching for family members sneaking up on me, each variously wanting me to give them money, take them somewhere, or (shudder) do something useful. Read More |
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04.26.17- These 2 Investing Secrets Will End Your Market Worries Forever
But you don’t have to deal with the emotional pain caused by the meltdown of one of your investments. If you learn the two simple market secrets I’m about to reveal today, you can protect your brokerage account from big losses. I’ll also show you how use these tips to spot a failing investment before you buy shares. Listen, I know how easy it is to get caught up in the story of an exciting company. In fact, nearly every person who has invested a dollar in the stock market has bet on an intriguing story. There are plenty of compelling businesses out there. Read More |
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04.25.17- Every Parent Needs to Read This Article- Our Children’s Failed Future
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04.24.17- The Curious Case of Free Energy Device
The real scheme is to collect views which can pay lots of easy money if you can get attention to your video. Truth has nothing to do with it. Roughly $2,000USD per million views. Check these out;
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There are tons of free energy device designs and videos about them out there. But are they real? |
04.22.17- Paul Tudor Jones Says U.S. Stocks Should ‘Terrify’ Janet Yellen
The legendary macro trader says that years of low interest rates have bloated stock valuations to a level not seen since 2000, right before the Nasdaq tumbled 75 percent over two-plus years. That measure -- the value of the stock market relative to the size of the economy -- should be “terrifying” to a central banker, Jones said earlier this month at a closed-door conference, according to people who heard him. Read More |
Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones has a message for Janet Yellen and investors: Be very afraid. |
04.21.17- What Comes Next?
Of course the threat of major warfare, possibly even nuclear warfare, looms large these days, not least on and around the Korean peninsula. The United States and its allies are right now building up a very large military force, and bruiting their plans to imminently "resolve" the North Korean "problem" via military means, though an objective observer strains to identify even one case of the allegedly war-like North Koreans invading another country, while the USSA has willy-nilly been destabilizing, Read More |
In a word: change. Very big change. All that remains to be determined is the nature of the change and its precise timeline. |
04.20.17- The Anything President And The Everything Bubble
Or the outbreak of cold war style nuclear brinksmanship on the Korean peninsula — what one commentator properly called a Cuban missile crisis in slow motion. Likewise, forget that the vacationing Congress is set to return on April 25 to an endless sequence of shoutdowns, showdowns and shutdowns on continuing resolutions and debt ceiling increases. Read More |
The lemmings were running hard towards the cliffs yesterday. Despite a renewed burst of bombs and drones careening into the already rubble-strewn wastelands of Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Iraq. |
04.19.17- Trump Adviser Invested in America’s Collapse?
On March 31, Navarro stood by Donald Trump’s side as two trade-related executive orders were signed into action. The two men bolstered the orders as being robust measures to “defend our industry and create a level playing field for the American worker.” Read More |
Recently released financial disclosure forms show that Peter Navarro, one of Trump’s top trade advisers, could be setting himself up for a handsome payday if U.S. Treasury Bonds collapse — raising serious questions about his support of recent policy decisions. |
04.18.17- Does Your Plan B Include a Second Place to Live If Plan A Doesn’t Work Out?
We all have a Plan A — continue living just like we’re living now. Some of us have a Plan B in case Plan A doesn’t work out, and the reasons for a Plan B break out into three general categories:
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04.17.17- A Government of Morons
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It has become embarrassing to be an American. Our country has had four war criminal presidents in succession. Clinton twice launched military attacks on Serbia, ordering NATO to bomb the former Yugoslavia twice, both in 1995 and in 1999, so that gives Bill two war crimes. George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and attacked provinces of Pakistan and Yemen from the air. That comes to four war crimes for Bush. Obama used NATO to destroy Libya and sent mercenaries to destroy Syria, thereby commiting two war crimes. Trump attacked Syria with US forces, thereby becoming a war criminal early in his regime.  |
04.15.17- Telecom Fiasco Proves “Uncomfortable Truth” of U.S. Cyber Security
Case in point, a recent security snafu involving WikiLeaks and U.S. telecom giant Cisco stands as firm evidence of the growing cyber security risk facing the American public. It seems like our leaders are failing to properly defend us. Here’s what you need to know about this evolving situation, and how you can protect your financial security from future cyber threats. Read More |
Today’s wars aren’t only being fought with bombs and bullets; cyber warfare is quickly becoming the new weapon of choice. But the U.S. isn’t prepared to handle this new threat like politicians would have you believe, meaning Americans (and your bank accounts) could be sitting ducks. |
04.14.17- Stupid Asset Protection Tricks
Last November, Sarao pleaded guilty in US federal court to wire fraud and illegal market manipulation. (Incidentally, it’s quite likely that he’s innocent of the charges he pled to, although that’s an entirely different story.) Sarao was a master trader who in a good week could clear £500,000, at the time equal to more than $700,000. Yet, he was unable to come up with $750,000 bond pending his sentencing. His family had to put up their homes to cover it. Read More |
I almost feel sorry from Navinder Singh Sarao. If you don’t recognize the name, you’ll probably remember what he did. He’s the UK-based trader accused of causing the “ |
04.13.17- Is That Armageddon Over The Horizon?
The Western “leaders,” that is, the puppets on the end of the strings pulled by the powerful private interest groups and the Deep State, are just as insouciant. Trump and his counterparts in the American Empire must be unaware that they are provoking war with Russia and China, or else they are psychopaths. Read More |
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04.12.17- 43 Facts About Love, Sex, Dating And Marriage That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
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Is it more difficult for a woman to find a husband in America today compared to several decades ago? If a couple lives together before marriage, are they more likely or less likely to get divorced? Are married men more satisfied with their intimate relationships than single men are? You will get answers to these questions and many more in this article, and what the numbers actually show may surprise you. The truth is that there have been some seismic cultural shifts when it comes to romantic love, courtship, marriage and parenting in America. The way things worked for our parents and grandparents is not necessarily the way that things work in 2017. I expect that the statistics I am about to share with you will provoke some extremely strong reactions, and that is okay, because we need to have open and honest discussions about these things.  |
04.11.17- Hate Donald Trump?
The Trump Trade. Trump-O-nomics. Whatever you’re calling this politically brainwashed market, everything is getting completely out of hand. Late last month, I was complaining about how stock market analysts are hanging up the ticker tape and diving into political commentary. Nothing has changed. There’s no market news on the web. Folks who used to cover stocks are gossiping like beltway reporters. Instead of earnings and IPOs, all we hear is Trump, Trump, Trump. It’s driving me nuts. Read More |
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04.10.17- Stay Home, Order Take-Out,
Papa John’s upgraded on belief civil unrest is encouraging more pizza delivery (MarketWatch) – Papa John’s International Inc. was upgraded to overweight from sector weight at KeyBanc Capital Markets with analysts expressing the surprising view that diners, concerned about political and civil unrest, are choosing to stay home for pizza delivery rather than head out for a meal. Read More |
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04.08.17- Weekend Rant:
Brain function increases and quickens. Endocrine levels optimize. The cells of the body awaken to a higher degree, and energy output rises. From the point of view of the free individual, things are upside down. It is HIS power that is primary, not the monolithic corporate State’s. From his point of view, what does the social landscape look like? Read More |
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04.07.17- China Is More Fragile than You Realize
China is no exception. It is a mistake to refer to them as unitary actors. International crises are often the result of domestic actors who may view external conflict for their own political positioning against their domestic political rivals. Because of these contending factions, governments can lose their legitimacy and vanish overnight. That fear of losing domestic legitimacy is a major driver of any government’s decision making. Read More |
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04.06.17- Please, somebody play the race card: “like white on (Susan) Rice.”
And when will CNN say Susan Rice had to spy, to offset Russian spying? CNN is already claiming the whole Susan Rice scandal is a tempest in a teapot, and the Trump team is exaggerating it to distract the public from…something. Fill in the blank yourself. For example: Trump isn’t actually the president, he cheated his way into the Oval Office, while acting as a secret agent for his handler, Vladimir Putin, who in turn was operating on behalf of aliens from Jupiter. Read More |
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04.05.17- The World’s Best Economist
What you will learn is that neoliberal economics is an apology for the rentier class and the large banks that have succeeded in financializing the economy, shifting consumer spending power from the purchase of goods and services that drive the real economy to the payment of interest and fees to banks. His latest book is J is for Junk Economics. It is written in the form of a dictionary, but the definitions give you the precise meaning of economic terms. Read More |
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04.04.17- What Is America Going To Look Like When Stocks, Home Prices And Even Used Cars All Crash By At Least 50 Percent?
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Have you ever thought about what comes after the bubble? In 2008 we got a short preview of what life will be like, but most Americans seem to have come to the conclusion that the last financial crisis was just a minor bump in the road toward endless economic prosperity. But of course the truth is that the ridiculously high debt-fueled standard of living that we are enjoying now is not sustainable, and after this bubble bursts it will be an extremely painful adjustment for our society.  |
04.03.17- Final Piece of Pension Disaster Puzzle in New Savings Data
Traditionally, retirees have viewed pension programs as something they can count on 100%, no questions asked. For decades, pensions — both public and private — have always found a way to make good on their promises. But those days are long gone, and the conditions for pension programs in the U.S. are deteriorating quickly. Read More |
What was initially a slow breakdown in America’s pension system is now a speeding train wreck, one that has become a risk to more than just pension holders. New statistics on Americans’ saving habits are adding a new dimension to an already massive economic threat. |
04.01.17- Racket of Rackets
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If you thought banking in our time was a miserable racket — which it is, of course, and by “racket” I mean a criminal enterprise — then so-called health care has it beat by a country mile, with an added layer of sadism and cruelty built into its operations. Lots of people willingly sign onto mortgages and car loans they wouldn’t qualify for in an ethically sound society, but the interest rates and payments are generally spelled out on paper. They know what they’re signing on for, even if the contract is reckless and stupid on the parts of both borrower and lender. Pension funds and insurance companies foolishly bought bundled mortgage bonds of this crap concocted in the housing bubble. They did it out of greed and desperation, but a little due diligence would have clued them into the fraud being served up by the likes of Goldman Sachs.  |
03.31.27- The world’s first pension crisis
I’m not talking about their roads, republican form of government, or water sanitation. Their bold idea was to start paying retirement benefits to Roman soldiers. This was a pretty big deal. In ancient times, you worked until you died. There was no such thing as retirement. But under the praemia militiae, retired legionnaires could be secure in their futures when they completed their service to the republic. Read More |
In the late in the 5th century BC, the government of ancient Rome came up with a new idea that has lasted for thousands of years. |
03.30.17- Broken America
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Is this the beginning of the end for the United States of America? It has been said that a house divided against itself will surely fall, and today we live in a shattered union. In all my years, I have never seen so much strife, discord, bitterness and resentment in this country. Everyone can see what is happening, but nobody can seem to stop it. Politically, you have got tens of millions of people trying to pull America one way, and you have got tens of millions of people trying to pull it the exact opposite way. As I discussed in a previous article, the term  |
03.29.17- The Coming Government Shutdown
Is a government shutdown next? And when? Details coming up, as the news folks say. But first to the narrow canyons and broad shoulders of Wall Street… We wondered yesterday if the post-health care market swoon would trigger another round of “buying the dip.” It seems we have our answer… The Dow was up a dip-buying 150 points today. Read More |
Health care dead. Tax cuts in doubt. |
03.28.17- The Government Spies on All of Us —
If true, this means that someone authorized the monitoring of Trump campaign communications using Section 702 of the FISA Act. Could it have been then-President Obama? We don’t know. Could it have been other political enemies looking for something to harm the Trump campaign or presidency? It is possible. Read More |
There was high drama last week when Rep. Devin Nunes announced at the White House that he had seen evidence that the communications of the Donald Trump campaign people, and perhaps even Trump himself, had been “incidentally collected” by the US government. |
The haves and have nots of the next, gritty era of aftermath will be those who have the means to survive when the system has failed, and those who do not. For the wealthy, and prepper minded elite, hidden fortified layers purchased for insurance will preserve most of the luxuries of life above ground, and in the cities, even as society crumbles and burns to the ground. Read More |
Ultimately, no one can stop what is coming. |
03.25.17- A Global Health Threat With Big Upside
It already kills at least 23,000 people in the U.S. annually. That’s nearly as many people as those who die in car accidents per year in the U.S. And this threat is rapidly growing. One study says it’s poised to become a bigger killer than cancer in the years ahead. The World Health Organization calls it one of the three greatest threats to human health this decade. I’m talking about antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Let me explain… Read More |
We’re facing a huge, invisible threat to our species… |
03.24.17- Watch These Geopolitical Flashpoints Carefully
This is not that hard to comprehend, but for some reason there are a lot of people out there who simply assume that global sea-change events just happen “at random,” that the elites are stupid or oblivious, and that all outcomes are a matter of random chance rather than being directed or manipulated. I call these people “intellectual idiots,” because they believe they are applying logic to every scenario but they are sabotaged by an inherent bias which causes them to deny the potential for “conspiracy.” Read More |
Anyone who has been involved in alternative geopolitical and economic analysis for a decent length of time understands that the establishment power structure thrives according to its ability to either exploit natural crises, or to engineer fabricated crises. |
03.23.17- Will Computers be the Market’s Demise?
Today’s stock market is a completely different animal than the stock market of our past. And the thing making it different is also making it far more volatile, dangerous, and threatening to the financial safety of a largely unsuspecting American public. Read More |
In today’s digital age, did you know that more stock trades are placed by computers than real people? High-Frequency Trading (HFT) programs dominate the market, and they could be what brings it down too. Here’s how… |
03.22.17- How the Government Ruined U.S. Healthcare, and What We Can Actually Do About It
This is not an accident. It’s by design. Read More |
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Death, Debt, Devaluation and Taxes
Debt: The world is drowning in debt – $150 to $200 trillion. The U.S. government is sinking into a black hole of debt – $20 trillion official and another $100 – $200 trillion in unfunded obligations. Total U.S. debt securities exceed $40 trillion according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve. Devaluation: Given unpayable debt and unwillingness to face the insanity, the remaining option is devaluation. Taxes: Governments need more revenue. It will come from taxes and “printing.” Both are poor choices. Read More |
Death: It comes to all of us, including empires, paper currencies and countries. |
03.20.17- Doug Casey on “The Diamond Age”
Every educated person should have read the classics by Jules Verne, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C Clarke, among others. Add Neal Stephenson to that list. I’ve been a fan of Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age since it was published in 1995. I strongly recommend you read the book. Read More |
Science fiction has always offered both a more accurate and more timely look at the future than any think tank. For one thing, a good book is the product of a genius, not a committee of suits trying to reach a consensus. And a format of fiction allows one to speculate in ways that a “serious person” can’t do in nonfiction. |
03.18.17- Rex Tillerson Is Preparing The US For Nuclear War With North Korea.
Although Mainstream News Media has been absent from communications with the Trump Administration, FOX NEWS is maintaining a very close working relationship with the Trump Team. FOX has always supported President Trump, and I think FOX has bridged Mainstream with Alternative Media. They have a very special place in the Trump Camp now, and they earned it. Good for FOX. Read More |
“Let me be very clear: the policy of strategic patience has ended,” said Tillerson. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is through baby-sitting North Korea. Tillerson is not mincing his words, and I pray North Korea wakes up before it is too late. |
03.17.17- "Military Action Is On The Table": Tillerson Warns "Patience" With North Korea
“I think it’s important to recognize that the political and diplomatic efforts of the past 20 years to bring North Korea to the point of denuclearization have failed,” Tillerson said. "Let me be very clear: the policy of strategic patience has ended. We are exploring a new range of security and diplomatic measures. Read More |
The U.S. policy of "strategic patience" with North Korea has ended, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in South Korea on Friday  |
03.16.17- Why Do Leftists And Globalists Hate Tribalism So Much?
Tribalism (like nationalism and populism) has slowly but surely been falsely associated with totalitarianism, as if the two are synonymous. The use of “tribalism” as a dismissal of sovereignty concepts is a distinctly globalist and leftist habit; clearly, they hate the very notion of it, so much so that they have sought to turn it into a four letter word. But why?Read More |
Over the years I have heard the word “tribalism” used consistently as a way to deride and attack conservative groups with political stances outside the boundaries of globalization. Many readers have been exposed to this propaganda recently as “tribalism” becomes the go-to denouncement of the Trump Administration. From  |
03.15.17- What You Do On Your Cell Phone Could Come Back To Haunt You
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As far as Big Brother is concerned, nothing that you do on your cell phone is ever private. And if the government really wants to see what is on your cell phone, they are going to get that information one way or another, even if that means resorting to physical violence. On Monday,  |
03.14.17- War Against Humans Wins Another Fight. Will Technology Win the Battle?
Thirty plus years ago it began in earnest with the replacement of a number of human positions on the factory floors. Robots began manufacturing automobiles, processing food, medicine and a great many other task that humans used too perform. We now accept this reality as there is nothing anyone can do about it. Read More |
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03.13.17- When This All Blows Up...
This report marks the end of a series of three big trains of thought. The first explained how we’re living through the Mother Of All Financial Bubbles. The next detailed the Great Wealth Transfer that is now underway, siphoning our wealth into the pockets of an elite few. This concluding report predicts how these deleterious and unsustainable trends will inevitably ‘resolve’ (which is a pleasant way of saying ‘blow up’.) Read More |
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03.11.17- What the Hell is Going On? (part 3)
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.” – H.L. Mencken Read More |
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03.10.17- How Technology, And Incompetence, Destroyed The World
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03.09.17- What the Hell is Going On? (part 2)
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03.08.17- What the Hell is Going On?
“The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.”– Andrew Carnegie I’m 53 years old. The older I get the less sure I am about things I was sure about when I was 25 years old. I believed stocks for the long run was an unquestioned truth. I believed our economy was based on free market capitalism. I believed stock prices were based upon profits and cash flows. I believed a home was a place to live – not an investment. I believed the Catholic Church was run by good men doing good things. I believed journalists and the media were watchdogs working on behalf of the public. I believed our military was protecting our interests. I believed politicians legislated on behalf of the people. Read More |
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03.07.17- Dad’s Personal Banking Crisis
Back in the late 1960’s banking was still a special privilege and as such banks were all local (within the same county or parish in Louisiana). Since most money is created in the process of commercial loans that profit was supposed to remain in the local community. Nowdays the large 5 banks suck the life out of the country and funnel this special privilege directly to New York. At any rate the late 1960’s was before credit cards and home equity loans. Banking was much simpler then and loans were quite easy to obtain without the reams of paperwork required now. Read More |
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03.06.17- The Second Dumbest Kind Of Money Is Pouring Into Stocks - “With A Vengeance”
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03.04.17- Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation Running Out of Cash, Millions Affected
Teamsters and other unions are poised to take huge pension hits. Previously, airline employees have taken a hit. Please consider PBOC Running Out of Cash to Cover Union Pension Funds. Read More |
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03.03.17- Gold Moves Higher Even if the Fed Raises Rates
Gold bottomed the day after the rate hike, but then started moving higher again. And for the last 10 weeks it’s been up about 12%, despite some up and down fluctuations. Incidentally, the same thing happened last year when the Fed tightened in December 2015. Gold had one of its best quarters in 20 years in the first quarter of 2016. So it’s very interesting to see gold going up despite headwinds from the Fed. Read More |
When the Fed raised interest rates in December, many believed gold would plunge. But it didn’t happen. |
03.02.17- How To Counter Leftist Violence While Maintaining The Moral High Ground
Diving into a culture of zealotry is certainly the WRONG way. Zealotry requires a religious-like idolization of a particular idea or philosophy; it requires unverified faith and an unwavering devotion. Once people become zealots, they cannot be reasoned with, they cannot be debated, they cannot be dissuaded. Read More |
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03.01.17- 6 Totally Insane Things That Will Happen If Our Power Grid Goes Down
Of course, the reverse is probably also true. If you and your family were wrenched from the comforts of the present and hurled back into a previous era, you might not fare so well either. Your survival odds would probably be a little better since you have hindsight and an understanding of germ theory. Read More |
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02.28.17- Of Bread And Circuses
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02.27.17- It’s Bubble Time!
It's impossible to predict with certainty how much more insane our financial markets will get before an inevitable correction. But my personal bet is: A lot! Bubbles make no sense economically. Or rationally. But they happen all the time as a part of the human condition. Even while financial bubbles are enabled by dumb monetary and banking decisions, their actual genesis is rooted in primal human emotions. Greed on the way up, and fear on the way down. Read More |
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02.25.17- Justice and "Social Justice" Are Two Very Different Things
Allen recognized that justice required “equality before the law” and that freedom exists “only when it is for everyone.” But she confused democracy — defined as progressives “build[ing] a distributed majority across the country, as is needed for electoral college victory” — with liberty, which is very different. Similarly, she replaced the traditional meaning of justice (“giving each his own,” according to Cicero) with a version of “social justice” inconsistent with it. And her two primary examples of rights — “rights” to education and health care — were inconsistent with both liberty for all and justice for all. Read More |
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02.24.17- The Stakes for Trump and All of Us
Our secret police agencies are busy at work planting “intelligence” among the presstitute media that Trump is compromised by “Russian connections” and is a security threat to the United States. The plan is to make a case in the media, as was done against President Nixon, and to force Trump from office. Read More |
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02.23.17- Break Up the USA
Case in point: everyone takes for granted that it’s normal for a country of 320 million to be dictated to by a single central authority. The only debate we’re permitted to have is who should be selected to carry out this grotesque and inhumane function. Here’s the debate we should be having instead: what if we simply abandoned this quixotic mission, and went our separate ways? It’s an idea that’s gaining traction — much too late, to be sure, but better late than never. Read More |
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02.22.17- The Four Horsemen of the
If current laws generally remain unchanged, the US government deficit will increase nearly every year over the next decade and, according to the Congressional Budget Office, rise to the highest average level in the last 50 years. The reason is growth in Federal revenues will be outpaced by spending, particularly for Social Security, Medicare and interest payments on government debt. Whether you refer to it as an approaching fiscal crisis or retirement crisis, the Baby Boomer retirement wave is the country’s biggest and most predictable train wreck. Read More |
There are close to 76 million baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) alive today representing 28% of the total US population. Starting in 2011, an estimated  |
02.21.17- This Is How the U.S. Empire
Each appointment – some good, some bad from our perspective – has brought forth such heavy lamentations. You’d think Washington had been invaded by Goths, now raping the vestal virgins (if there are any within the Beltway) on the White House lawns while the Capitol burns to the ground. Read More |
So far, the most satisfying thing about the Trump win has been the howls and whines coming from the establishment. |
02.20.17- What Every American Should Know About the Threat of Global Currency Wars
The finger pointing started with China, but now Japan and Germany are under fire as well. Whether there’s truth to the claims or not, economists fear the Trump administration may be on the brink of starting a currency war that puts the entire global economy in jeopardy. Read More |
The new Trump administration is calling out several major U.S. allies with claims of currency manipulation, but the accusations come with a risk Americans need to understand. |
02.18.17- The Trump Presidency: RIP
Is Steve Bannon, Trump’s main advisor, politically inexperienced? The answer is yes. We can conclude from the answers to these two questions that Trump is in over his head and will pay a big price. How large will the price be? The New York Times reports that US “intelligence agencies…sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.”Read More |
Has Donald Trump overestimated his presidential power? The answer is yes. |
Healthcare: Government — Not Technology — Is Driving Prices Up
In this piece, Frakt contrasts the contribution of technology to that of the ageing of the population. Frakt notes that age per seis a poor marker of costs associated with healthcare utilization. What’s important is the amount of money spent near death. If you’re 80 years old and healthy, your usage of healthcare services won’t be much more than that of a 40-year-old person. Read More |
Should we blame technology for the growth in healthcare spending? Austin Frakt, a healthcare economist who writes for the New York Times,  |
02.16.17- The Coyote Principle
• The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor’s dog, then bites the Governor. • The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie “Bambi” and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural. • He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the state $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it. • He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases. Read More |
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02.15.17- “Where Are We Headed?”
Before I offer my reply, a couple of lines from the Zman blog post; the basic idea is that the only way to clean house is for Trump to play the strongman:
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02.14.17- "As Ye Sow..."
Philosophy begins with invariably difficult questions. Why am I here? What is the purpose of life? Is there a god or gods? What is right and what is wrong? How should groups of people be organized and function together? Ironically, when such questions are infrequently asked, when philosophy is generally ignored or disparaged, as it is now, is when it’s needed the most. Political philosophy is the branch that addresses the question of how coercive power is to be distributed in a society Read More |
Our deranged world is a product of deranged minds. |
02.13.17- When the Money Supply Dries Up
At Bretton Woods, the US took advantage of this situation, setting up the World Bank, the IMF and declaring the dollar to be the default currency for all countries concerned. From that point on, the US was in the catbird seat, able to dictate economic terms to other countries and even to behave irresponsibly, eventually creating previously unheard-of levels of debt, thereby inspiring other nations to do their best to create their own debt in order to keep pace as best they could. Read More |
In 1944, the US had been the primary supplier for arms for the allies during World War II and, as such, exited the war with more wealth than any of the other nations that had entered the war earlier, draining their treasuries of money. Since payment was largely demanded in gold, the US held three-quarters of the world’s gold and therefore was in a position to call the shots with regard to the free world’s economic future. |
02.11.17- U.S.-Chinese Relations Speed Towards Rupture
The process of connecting the dots between the political, economic, and social forces buffeting China is complicated. By using technical analysis and information I’ve gathered on the ground in a recent visit to China, I’m able to cut through the haze of political rhetoric and propaganda coming from Washington and Beijing. Read More |
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02.10.17- A Murderous Complacency
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02.09.17- Take your Money Out of the Bank While You Can -Beware the IDES of March-
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Beware the IDES of March, so says economist Robert Kudla, whom I am interviewing this coming Sunday night. There is a major economic action planned. More on that later. Right now, I am issuing a major alert to remove your money from the bank. Your surface list to survive what is coming is |
02.08.17- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Guess What Group Plans to “Massively” Resist Voter Fraud Investigation
Democrats know darn well voter fraud has been rampant over the years (because they’ve made an effort to allow it), the whole country knows it, Democrats know the whole country knows it, and yet they’re still insisting voter fraud is a “myth?” Ok, if voter fraud is a “myth,” then Democrats have nothing to fear from an investigation, and it will be the quickest investigation in history, right? Wrong. Read More |
How many times have you been talking to someone, and you know they’re lying, they know they’re lying, and they know that you know they’re lying, but yet they keep lying anyway? What the heck is going on with Democrats these days? It’s been years since they’ve had any sense, but at least they’ve always known how maneuver politically. |
02.07.17- Trump Will Be Great For Gold And Silver (If Nothing Else)
On the other hand, if somehow Trump manages to get Congress to pass his border control and excise tax proposals, consumer prices on the products being imported at prices much lower than the same products can be produced domestically will soar. Let’s not forget, gold loves inflation. Read More |
I love days like today when both gold and the dollar are green. Historically, some of the best moves in gold occur as gold and the dollar move up together for short period of time. Today, of course, is just one day. And there’s no question that the Trump Government will need a significantly lower dollar in order to stimulate U.S. industry, assuming the latter is at all possible anymore. |
You’re all set — your bags were packed long ago, there’s a dozen solid gold coins stashed inside your belt and a pistol strapped round your waist. There’s no need to say goodbye to the wife and children as they’re already waiting for you 6,000 miles away in New Zealand, having slipped off quietly at the first whiff of global catastrophe. Read More |
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02.04.17- Rule by Brute Force:
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02.03.17- How Russia Deals with Immigrants
White people in the former Warsaw Pact countries still cherish their racial and cultural identities, and their politicians and citizens are trying to keep immigrants out. Even if we in America and Western Europe become extensions of the Third World, the countries behind the Iron Curtain will still be European. I would like to discuss the most important of these countries: the Russian Federation. Here, people feel no white guilt. Why should they? While American blacks were demanding civil rights and reminding whites of slavery, Soviet citizens were suffering a kind of modern slavery. White privilege did not save the millions who disappeared in Stalin’s labor camps, nor did it help those who starved during the famines that he and his party bosses created. Read More |
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02.02.17- The US$ is a Piece of Crap
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02.01.17- The Swine Of The Mainstream Media Are Terrified: We Finally Have A President Who Acts On Behalf of The U.S.
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Just look at President Trump go! Yes! Enjoy it! This is the type of thing that all Americans who want to restore the United States to a free nation want to see! The TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) is not going down the drain: The President is flushing it down the toilet, where it belongs. Hopefully the toilet paper he used is the New York Times, which published an article covering the death of (as they quoted it) “Obama’s signature trade agreement.” Here’s an  |
01.31.17- The -other- “ban” that was quietly announced last week
But there was another ban that was quietly proposed last week, and this one has far wider implications: a ban on cash. The European Union’s primary executive authority, known as the European Commission, issued a “Road Map” last week to initiate continent-wide legislation against cash. Read More |
Most of the world is in an uproar right now over the travel ban that Donald Trump hastily imposed late last week on citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. |
01.30.17- When The Rich Become Preppers,
For over 10 years now, we've been openly advocating that folks take action to become more prepared should crisis arrive. And for a long time, this advice relegated us to being labeled "tin-foil hat doomsday preppers" (and other less-polite monikers). The media just couldn't figure out any other box to put us in. But now, the concept of taking at least some responsibility for your own future well-being by increasing your self-reliance is finally moving towards the mainstream. Read More |
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01.28.17- Are We Getting Dumber?
There may be another explanation for this trend. The more affluent a society becomes, several factors unleash. The birthrate declines sharply, for as people become wealthier, women prefer not to have children. Read More |
Recent studies are discovering that each generation is becoming increasingly stupid. A  |
01.27.17- The Most Important Civil Rights Issue Trump Could Solve with an Executive Order: End the "War on Drugs" Gulag
President Trump has a golden opportunity to strike a major blow for civil rights with a single executive order: end the failed "War on Drugs" and shut down America's drug-war gulag. None of the previous three presidents expended any political capital on curbing the immensely destructive "War on Drugs" or freeing the (in many states, preponderantly African-American and Hispanic-American) prisoners in America's drug-war gulag. Read More |
Here is an opportunity for "Black Lives Matter" and the Trump administration to find common cause. |
01.26.17- You're Gonna Get Financially Raped
This is the "Obamacare" repeal and replace option that is being peddled in the Senate. I've read it. Let me summarize:
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01.25.17- The Stage Is Being Set For
Out of a total annual 2015 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $18.36 trillion, health care costs amounted to $3.2 trillion (17.4%). [CMS.gov] Health care used to be counted on the expense side rather than the income side of the accounting ledger, a drag on the economy. But now it is considered a source of American jobs that cannot be shipped overseas like manufacturing jobs. Politicians like to brag how much money is being spent on health care and divvy out as much as they can to gain votes. Read More |
Another regime change – Americans have endured a few of them. But has any new administration in Washington DC made even a dent in the relentless increase in the cost of medical care?  |
01.24.17- Why Your Debt Could Be Killing You – Literally
The report determined that people’s mortality rates rose by 5 percent when they suddenly fell behind on their debt payments due to a sudden macro event such as a recession. But the risk of death was reduced by more than 4 percent if an individual’s credit score increased by 100 points. Read More |
Americans who unexpectedly find they can’t pay their bills are at a greater risk of dying, according to a new research report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The research also found that a significantly improved credit score can lead to an increase in life expectancy. |
01.23.17- Nothing Is Real: When Reality TV Programming Masquerades as Politics
Americans have a voracious appetite for TV entertainment, and the Trump reality show—guest starring outraged Democrats with a newly awakened conscience for immigrants and the poor, power-hungry Republicans eager to take advantage of their return to power, and a hodgepodge of other special interest groups with dubious motives—feeds that appetite for titillating, soap opera drama. After all, who needs the insults, narcissism and power plays that are hallmarks of reality shows such as Celebrity Apprentice or Keeping Up with the Kardashians when you can have all that and more delivered up by the likes of Donald Trump and his cohorts? Read More |
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01.21.17- The Following Words Had Never Appeared In An Inaugural Address, Until Today
For most presidents, a first inaugural address has been the occasion to set out a personal vision of the American idea. You do not necessarily lose points for failing to set out policy in granular detail. You are playing mood-music, making it as stirring as possible and positioning yourself in the grand flow of American history: reminding your audience of an essential continuity. Mr Trump’s theme was the opposite. From his first words, he stressed discontinuity: that his presidency would be a break. Read More |
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01.20.17- Is China About to Drop a Bombshell?
In that case, the Dow Jones Industrial Average could plunge to 17,824, and the S&P 500 could plunge to 2,024 in a matter of weeks, wiping out trillions of dollars of investor wealth. This is not guesswork. Plunges of over 10% in U.S. stock indices happened twice in the past year-and-a-half. The first time was in August 2015. The second wasJanuary-February 2016. Both times it was because of a combination of a stronger dollar and weaker yuan. It could happen again. And you need to understand the dynamics both to avoid losses and reap big gains by positioning ahead of the meltdown. Read More |
Is Trump’s anti-China rhetoric going to trigger another currency war withChina? If so, China may jump out ahead and devalue the Chinese yuan. |
01.19.17- Will There Be War On the Streets Of Washington D.C. During
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The stage is set for a potentially very ugly confrontation between radical leftist protesters on one side and law enforcement authorities and Trump supporters on the other side. It is being estimated that hundreds of thousands of supporters will be arriving in D.C. to celebrate the inauguration of Donald Trump, but it is also being estimated that hundreds of thousands of people will be coming to D.C. to specifically protest the inauguration of Trump. These protesters  |
01.18.17- Welcome To The Third World, Part 21:
As a consequence two things are happening. In dozens if not hundreds of cities and towns, services are being cut to the bone to pay for ballooning pension benefits, and – when even these cuts prove inadequate – pensions are being drastically reduced. Read More |
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01.17.17- Welcome To One of The Most Pivotal Weeks In Modern American History
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Many are anticipating that a wonderful new era of peace and prosperity is just a few days away, but others are using terms such as “civil unrest” and “civil war” for what they believe is about to happen in America. Without a doubt, Donald Trump is one of the most electrifying politicians in modern American history, but he is also one of the most polarizing. So will the next four years bring us together as a nation, or will anger, frustration, strife and discord tear us much farther apart? It is being projected that extremely large crowds of supporters will attend Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20th, but the mainstream media is also reporting that “ |
01.16.17- Ushering In a Totalitarian Police State in Cashless “Smart Cities”
We have been covering the shortcomings of what is rightly called the War On Cash here at TDV for a while now and have shown just how negative the effects can be on an unsuspecting nation’s people. Chandigarh, India, which is the capital of the northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, is like one of India’s labrats. Indian officials are working hard toward making it into India’s first cashless city. Read More |
From Scandinavia to Amsterdam to India and elsewhere, the trend of going “cashless” is gaining traction. |
01.14.17- Three Strikes – You’re Out!
And the phrase is sometimes used in investment circles. One investor can be heard advising another, “Don’t buy that stock – they’re underfunded, have poor management and an unsustainable business plan. You’d have three strikes against you even before you started.” Read More |
In the nineteenth century, the Americans invented a new sport – baseball. At one time thought of by us Britons as a sort of “poor man’s cricket,” baseball eventually became an international sport and, at this point, in virtually any country in the world, the exclamation, “Three strikes – you’re out,” means to all and sundry that the individual in question is finished for the time being. |
01.13.17- Prepare For The Peace
What many of these people have not contemplated is the day when the chaos is over and life begins to return to some new type of normalcy. Most people simply plan for chaos and never think about coming out of the other side at some point. Read More |
The people that are preparing for some sort of chaos in their future are only doing the prudent thing considering the environment we are now living in. Those with growing piles of supplies for disasters, war or some type of collapse have made the mental leap that is required to prepare themselves for unknown eventualities that can be life altering. These people have made a plan to survive the difficult times that come and live to tell of it. |
01.12.17- A Donald Trump Presidency Spells The End Of The George Soros Shadow Government Planned With Hillary
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01.11.17- After the Crash: “What Does the Future Hold For Average People? Feudalism.”
What does the future hold for average people? Feudalism. And they’ll welcome it with open arms, convinced that they are embracing a smart, fair system that eliminates poverty. The greed, entitlement, and lack of ambition that seems inherent in many people today will have them slipping on the yoke of servitude willingly. Here’s what I mean. Read More |
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01.10.17- Will The U.S. Hit The Wall In 2017?
Yes, I know the truthseeking community has been playing “Chicken Little” since the internet stock bubble days, and admittedly the powers that be have been able to extend and pretend for a lot longer than I would have bet on 15 years ago. James Kunstler has written an epic year-end essay that is a must-read. He discusses why 2017 may be the year of reckoning for the U.S. – here’s an appetizer: Read More |
The parabolic move in the stock market, housing prices and the U.S. dollar, while touted by the media and Wall Street as evidence that “all is well and getting better,” is perhaps the most visible signals that the U.S. financial and economic system is “melting up” before it collapses. |
01.09.17- In a Lawless World, Rules STILL Matter
While economics is a science and should be treated as such, economic forecasting is both a science and an art at the same time. However, anyone can forecast. Just like anyone can forecast the weather. To do so accurately and furthermore to do so frequently is a true talent. We think of it along the lines of the ability to hit a major league fastball; a gift granted to maybe 1 in 500 or a thousand babies each year. Then add to that the ability to hit a major league fastball for an average of .300 over an entire career and we’re talking a few babies in an entire generation. Read More |
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01.07.17- Weekend Rant:
How can it happen that the citizens of Vermont are so incapable that they elected a mindless moron as governor? Governor Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, called on federal officials “to conduct a full and complerte investigation” of Russia’s alleged hacking of Vermont’s electric grid system “and undertake that this never happens again.” It never happened at all. But this did not prevent the moronic governor from denouncing Russia for something that not only was Russia not responsible for but which we now know never happened. Read More |
Apparently, the CIA not only owns the US and European media, university faculties, the US Congress, the heads of state of the US Empire, many pseudo-fake leftwing and progressive Internet sites, but also the governors of the US states. |
01.06.17- 9 Ways To Train Your Brain To Respond In A Crisis
In my early prepping years, there were days I wasn’t so sure I even wanted to survive such scenarios. Anyone who has only known security is in for a shock when their normalcy bias begins to struggle with information about these possible scenarios far more realistic. Read More |
When I first began researching survival and preparedness, I can’t tell you how many hours were spent in shock and panic. I read about the “golden hordes” who would soon, very soon, descend upon my suburban home shooting, stealing, and raping, although not in that particular order. According to some survivalists, we’re approaching a tipping point at which our world will begin to run out of oil, and we’ll be thankful to have two rocks to rub together to create heat. Then there were  |
01.05.17- Help With Your New Year's Resolutions
If you're one of the millions of folks here in the initial days of 2017 making resolutions for the new year, we'd like to lend support. In the years since we started this site, we've created a lot of programming and services that are targeted at the most popular goals people make resolutions for. These solutions have helped a large number of folks make real, constructive and positive change in their lives. Maybe they will for you, too. Read More |
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01.04.17- Who Benefits from War with Russia?
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There is absolutely no upside to any conflict with Russia when it comes to 99.9% of us. The fact so many pundits, anonymous intelligence officials and Hillary Clinton cultists are encouraging such an outcome based on zero publicly available evidence that Russia hacked the DNC/John Podesta and provided it to Wikileaks for the purpose of electing Trump, should be seen as the gigantic red flag that it is. So what’s actually going on? As is so often the case, it is all about money and power.  |
01.03.17- Accounting Gimmicks Won’t Stop The U.S.A. Titanic From Sinking
Mish Shedlock wrote about this in his article, U.S. Deficit at $590 Billion But Debt Up $1.2 Trillion: Sleight Of Hand Magic:
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The U.S. Government has gone to great lengths in using accounting gimmicks to prop up the financial system and domestic economy. One area where this is readily apparent is the disconnect between the rising U.S. debt versus the annual budget deficits. |
01.02.16- “Services” Rendered. . .
This isn’t new – or news. Read More |
It’s bad enough getting arrested – especially when you didn’t doanything to warrant it. This happens all the time, because the the threshold for arresting someone is very low. It can be done by any cop, pretty much anytime – without much in the way of legal justification. He has the gun – and the handcuffs, after all. If he wants to arrest you, he will arrest you. Maybe the courts will sort it out later; eventually you are released, your record “cleared.” |
12.31.16- Anthony Bourdain Slams "Privileged" Liberals For Their "Utter Contempt" Of Working-Class America
However, while a liberal bashing Trump is hardly news, what was more noteworthy is that the celebrity chef also unloaded on "his own side", when he called out elite east coast liberals - of which he admitted he is part of - saying that their “utter contempt” for working-class Americans was unhelpful and nauseating. Read More |
Celebrity chef and host of CNN’s Parts Unknown Anthony Bourdain is no fan of Trump, and he made as much clear in today's  |
12.30.16- Will Pensions Derail
They see one big indicator in trading activity that suggests a major shift might be coming soon. Plus, when pension funds move to rebalance their assets over the next few weeks, it could throw a wrench into the market’s current winning streak. “Nobody is Selling…” Read More |
In the weeks following Trump’s unexpected election win, markets have soared. But some market watchers are starting to fear the “Trump rally” could be nearing its end. |
12.29.16- Gold’s New Year’s Message: Take Heart, My Friends, I Stand At The Ready
I understand you’ve had some worries about me, and some frustrations about my price. I thought I’d speak to you directly, to put your mind at ease. I want to let you know why you’ll be much better off with me than almost any other asset over the next few years. Read More |
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The past eight years have been extremely difficult for the real economy. Central bank intervention has propped up the stock market at the expense of the main street economy, at the expense of middle class security, at the expense of jobs. And everyone knows that game can’t continue. The question is how it will play out, and how long the game will be. Read More |
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12.27.16- Santa's 2017 Survival Plan
He was short, about 4 feet tall. He also had weird shoes that curled at the toe. And even stranger, he had pointy ears. I asked him who he was and he said he was a messenger from Santa! Whoa…. Read More |
I know it’s Christmas and you probably have a million things to do (I do too!) but I HAVE to tell you about this crazy little guy who showed up at my door  |
12.26.16- Here’s Where You Absolutely Don’t Want to Be “When It All Turns Ugly”
OK, this is actually pretty obvious – but it is worth pointing out that the “archipelago” of islands across the vast expanse of the United States that carried the vote for Hillary Clinton during the election – also happens to be a ring of the liberal cities that:
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Map Shows Us Where We Don’t Want To Be When It All Turns Ugly h/t  |
12.24.15- Weekend Rant: Wreck the Halls
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The birthrate, long tied to economic growth, has been dropping to its lowest point in recorded history – both nationally and, in particular, in the state of California. This demographic shift is bad news for the economy – in terms of housing, consumer markets, and especially for the long-term funding of social security, medicaid, medicare and other obligations that younger generations have typically been expected to pay into. Read More |
Here’s more evidence that the “recovery” never really happened, and good reason to think that the entire social net structure is doomed to fall apart. |
12.22.16- The Deep State Blues
The headline deployed everywhere last week, “Russia Hacks Election,” was designed by the Deep State players to deviously lead the broadly dim public to think that Russia somehow interfered with the balloting process, which was not possible since voting machines are not hooked up to the internet. And then it was repeated endlessly by the cable news networks and the newspapers, under the number one rule of propaganda: that if you repeat something often enough, the public will swallow it. Read More |
Lest you wonder, not only did I not vote for Mr. Trump (or Hillary), but I relished heaping opprobrium on him during the election campaign. Just so you know, I’m not advocating for him, but I’m alarmed that the Deep State (the White House + the Intel Agency gang) now appears to be trying to hack the electoral college vote against him. |
12.21.16- How to “Convert” Your Household Staples into Cash (Starting Today)
At the same time, prices keep rising on the things you actually do need – like toothpaste, tissue paper, and shampoo. And that’s exactly how these stores get you… They tempt you with large percentages off the most expensive items you want. Then they jack up the prices of the items you need on a daily basis. Read More |
It’s that time of year when you can’t help but get smacked in the face with hundreds of holiday discounts on things that you honestly don’t “really need” – like toys, gizmos, and gadgets. |
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Doug Casey is the founder of Casey Research and well known for his forecasting prowess, having accurately called the crash of 2008 and many other trends over the last four decades. In his latest interview with  |
12.19.16- The Royal Flush
It’s the last deal of the game with winner take all. The pot is enormous and all the other participants have been dealt very high and normally winnable hands and are flush with funds and every player is intent on raising and re-raising as each new bet is made. Read More |
In order to make a point, I’m going to address a very popular question, by giving the answer first and then providing the question. The answer does involve a bit of imagining on your part. I ask you to picture yourself at the highest stakes poker game imaginable, where quite literally many billions of dollars are at stake and in which you have just been dealt the indisputable best hand possible - a royal flush. Please accept that you are guaranteed to win.  |
12.17.16- Why the Bill of Rights Is Failing
While most of the Constitution is concerned with centralizing government power, raising tax revenue, protecting the institution of chattel slavery, and hammering the independent states into a consolidated political union, the Bill of Rights, on the other hand, was concerned with limiting government power: Read More |
225 years ago today, the first ten amendments were added to the new Constitution of 1787. |
12.16.16- Getting in Bed with The Government
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The recent deal to keep Carrier jobs in the United States is not at all unusual.
It only received so much press because Trump made it a campaign issue and saw
an opportunity to record a big early PR victory before he even took office.
Government and corporations cooperate, negotiate deals, scratch each others
backs, kickback ill-gotten gains, and function as a career advancement funnel
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12.15-16- Dallas Police Resignations Soar As "Insolvent" Pension System Implodes
Dallas Police Chief David Pughes told city council members Monday that 99 officers have left the department since October 1. Read More |
A few days ago we noted that the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System (DPFP) took the unprecedented step of halting withdrawals from their DROP fund after a "run on the bank" pushed to the entire pension system, and the City of Dallas, to the brink of liquidity crisis (see " |
12.14.16- The Case For And Against
Which viewpoint is correct? The Daily Wire will provide you with the case for and against universal basic income, and let you make up your own mind. Read More |
Some on the right are embracing a form of government policy as a means to end poverty: universal basic income. The notion has been championed by conservative and libertarian scholars like  |
12.13.16- Why the Canadian Marijuana Sector Is the Next Big Thing and Why Emblem Is Our Top Pick There is an ongoing bull market that hasn't been internationally recognized yet and that's investing in the North American marijuana sector. One really needs to understand that there is one going on south of the border and another one north of the border. They are two completely separate bull markets and at very different stages as well. One we love and one we wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. Read More |
Gecko Research discusses the bull market for marijuana, the road to legalization in Canada and why  |
12.12.16- Breaking Free From The Captured Media
In its panicky rush to demonize the independent media via baseless accusations of "fake news," the mainstream press has sunk to spewing "fake news" of its own. Here's The Washington Post's criminally false "fake news" article in case you missed it: Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say. So-called "fake news" was perfectly acceptable to the mainstream media when it was the exclusive purview of the central state. The infamous Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 1964 that was used to justify a massive escalation of the heretofore limited war in Vietnam was heavily promoted by the mainstream media of the day. Read More |
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12.10.16- A Chicken in Every Pot
That’s a pretty powerful statement. Is it historically supportable? Let’s visit a current example - Venezuela, to examine the overall process of collectivism, then look at a few other historical cases and see what we can learn. In 1980, Venezuela was deemed to be the fourteenth most economically free country in the world. Today, it’s a veritable train wreck, having failed in every conceivable way. How did this happen? Was it just bad luck? No, quite the contrary. Read More |
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12.09.16- Wall Street's Calling the Sheep
For the first time since the 1930s there will be a crash on Wall Street and a recession on main street, but the Imperial City will be powerless to remedy either. That’s because financial history is not circular; it’s cumulative and all the fiscal and monetary artifices, expedients and frauds that can be deployed by the state to maintain the illusion of prosperity and soaring financial asset prices will have finally been exhausted. Read More |
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12.08.16- NATO, The Obama Government
Launched by a resounding article in the Washington Post, on 24 Novembre 2016 [11], a mysterious group entitled Propaganda or Not? established a list of de 200 Internet sites – including Voltairenet.org – who were allegedly tasked by the Kremlin with relaying Russian propaganda and intoxicating US public opinion to the point where they elected Donald Trump. While Propaganda or Not? does not publish the names of its directors, it does indicate that it unites four organisations – Polygraph, The Interpreter, the Center for European Policy Analysis and the Digital Forensic Research Lab. Read More |
Here’s the identity of the entities behind PropOrNot: |
12.07.16- Red is the New Green
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I've got nothing against national anthems, and I wouldn't kneel even if I was Colin Kaepernick. I just think as a country, "America the Beautiful" might have been a better choice for ours and that in some cases, some words of "The Star Spangled Banner" don't ring true. A few countries' anthems are, in fact, quite pleasing to my ear. "O Canada" has a beautiful melody and words to match, although you'd probably have to be watching hockey to hear it. Our "Star Spangled Banner"? For me – not so much. I can sort of see the "rockets' red glare", but it's hard to sing and quite long – especially if you're waiting for the kickoff. But like I said, I have nothing against it, except maybe the last stanza. Not the "Home of the Brave" part. Having spent two years in Vietnam, ferrying Navy SEALs up the Mekong Delta, I witnessed a lot of bravery. Not me. I was duckin' quicker than Bill Murray's gopher in Caddyshack. The SEALs though. Yeah – tough guys.  |
12.06.16- Attaining Self-Destruct Velocity
Some Monday mornings are better than others. Others are worse than some. For one Amazon employee, this past Monday morning was particularly bad. No doubt, the poor fellow would have been better off he’d called in sick to work. Such a simple decision would have saved him from extreme agony. But, unfortunately, he showed up at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters and put on a public and painful display of madness. Read More |
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12.05.16- Inauguration Day Is Still A Long Way Off
From an international perspective, something very heinous happened in the dead of night just a little more than a week ago. The House of Representatives passed a resolution, H.R. 5732, in a special session that included the suspension of normal rules. Suspensions are characteristically used for bills that are not controversial. Read More |
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12.03.16- Gold And Silver – Do Not Expect Much Difference With Trump Compared To Obama
History has been somewhat hidden from the public but still in the open for those who take the time to look. The US went bankrupt in 1933 when Roosevelt declared the Bank Holiday. Its purpose was to eliminate any and all banking independence and give all control over to the Federal Reserve cartel. Read More |
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12.02.16- America Is Committing Suicide
The Attacks At Ohio State University Somalia jihadist, Abdul Razak Ali Artan,the Ohio State University terrorist, was not just a Muslim immigrant from Somalia who attempted to kill several Ohio State students, he was in the country under the Refugee/Resettlement regulations created by the Obama administration. By virtue of the fact that this fundamental Islamic terrorist was sponsored by Obama, meant that your tax dollars, provided for this Jihadi with food, shelter, and education grants. Do your children get these benefits from Obama? Read More |
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