01.20.25- When Future Shock Meets Mass Formation Psychosis In 1970, futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler released the first of three seminal books about the trajectory that America, and the world was on. They published them at roughly decade intervals: Future Shock (1970), Power Shift, (1984), and Third Wave(1991). There were others (like War & Anti-War and Revolutionary Wealth), but those three laid out what was coming down the pipe and they were largely correct about it because their core premise was so simple: The rate of change was accelerating. Read More |
01.18.25- The Global Economy is a Pyramid Scheme. It's the End of the Road |
01.17.25- Report: Your Bank Might Be Spying On You For The Feds Americans should be deeply concerned that our government and financial institutions are not only spying on us but also potentially abusing their power to target Americans for their political views. For many Americans, our banks know more about our lives than our own mothers. Based on our financial records, they can accurately guess a customer’s religious beliefs, political leanings, and more. Yet this extensive knowledge has been used to spy on us on behalf of the federal government, a revelation that was brought to light by a bombshell report released by the House Judiciary Committee (HJC) and accompanied by a video posted by the subcommittee. Read More |
01.16.25- California Abandons Regulations Phasing Out Diesel Trucks Critics of the strict air regulation plan are applauding regulators’ decision to withdraw a waiver request from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. California’s Air Resources Board sent a letter on Jan. 14 to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, withdrawing its prior waiver request that would have forced a transition from diesel to zero-emission trucks in the state. Read More |
01.15.25- Animal Farm Politics:
“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”—George Orwell, Animal Farm It cost the American taxpayer $24 million to find out what we knew all along: politics is corrupt.Read More |
01.14.25- One World Trumpenstein vs. the Lesbian Firefighters Donald Trump’s most recent comments have perplexed everyone. Sure, he always says provocative things, and trolling is an essential characteristic of the Trumpenstein Project. But he has inexplicably introduced ideas and proposals which he has never touched on before. And they contradict everything about the MAGA movement. Read More |
01.13.25- Go Anti-ESG For a 7.9% Yield Over the past 10 years, “socially-conscious” investors have shunned sectors such as tobacco, firearms, oil and gas, and alcohol. For example, these huge investment firms refuse to own any tobacco stocks or bonds:
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01.11.25- California (Bad) Dreamin’ Amid the horrific fires in Los Angeles that have destroyed hundreds of homes and caused numerous deaths and injuries we have reports of massive infrastructure and fire equipment failures that have certainly made the situation much worse and have probably cost lives. The fire hydrants are mostly out of water. “There’s no water in the fire hydrants,” declared LA real estate developer Rick Caruso. City Councilwoman Traci Park said there has been “chronic underinvestment in .. . our public infrastructure,” presumably meaning water delivery to fire hydrants. Fire chiefs are complaining about huge shortages of basic firefighting equipment, including firefighters’ helmets and gear. Read More |
01.10.25- Eating the Rich Is Not a Good Idea Criticisms of pro-market policies, such as lower corporate taxes and deregulation, are often rooted in a form of discrimination rarely acknowledged: upward classism. This prejudice against people of higher socio-economic status misrepresents the contributions of “the rich” and distorts discussions about public policy. While these policies are castigated as benefiting the wealthy, they have demonstrable benefits for broader economic growth and living standards. Read More |
01.09.25- 12 Things You Should Know About The Apocalyptic “Hurricane Of Fire” That Is Rampaging Through Southern California The “hurricane of fire” that is ripping across Los Angeles County is already being called one of the worst natural disasters in the entire history of the state of California. There are actually several different fires that have erupted, and extremely high winds are spreading them very rapidly. The Palisades Fire, the Eaton Fire and the Hurst Fire are the three largest, and the destruction that they have already caused is absolutely staggering. Read More |
01.08.25- How To Survive "The Great Taking" In 2025
David Webb, a former hedge fund manager, and Wall Street insider, has blown the lid off a diabolical plan more than 50 years in the making in a shocking new book. Read More |
01.07.25- Are You on the Fedeal List? You Can Now be Considered A “Potential Terrorist” Just Because Of Your Religious Or Political Beliefs. Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner? Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order? Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times”? Read More |
01.06.25- The System's Self-Destruct Sequence Cannot Be Turned Off The artificial hill of pottery shards is puny and localized; the consequences of our system will bring down the system in ways the system is completely blind to. We're all familiar with the plot device of the self-destruct sequence counting down while our hero / heroine frantically tries to find the kill switch that turns it off. The system--however we choose to describe it--is self-destructing and there's no switch to turn it off. Read More |
01.04.25- Let’s Get Real About DOGE
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01.03.25- Fiat Money and Dark Forces at Work The Bible recounts how the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The devil appeared and first wanted Jesus to turn stones into bread. (In fact, Mises criticized Keynesianism, saying, “the stones do not turn into bread”). Jesus refused. Then, the devil challenged Jesus to throw himself from the pinnacle of the temple in the holy city, asserting that the angels would catch him. Again, Jesus refused. But the devil did not give up. In Matthew 4:8–11. Read More |
01.02.25- 44 Statistics From 2024 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe 2024 was definitely one of the wildest years that any of us have ever experienced. During the past 12 months, Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury, he was almost assassinated, he won the presidential election, and he was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Nobody has ever had a year quite like that. Of course 2024 was also a year of war. Israel battled Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, the government of Syria was overthrown by radical Islamists, long-range missiles provided by NATO started raining down on targets deep inside Russia, and Russian forces stormed even deeper into eastern Ukraine. Read More |
01.01.25- “Quantum-Proof” Your Bitcoin Let’s talk about the Bitcoin-Eating Pacman. No, not Michael Saylor… No, not El Salvador… I’m talking about Bitcoin’s biggest threat: quantum computers. Before you freak out, let’s start here: Read More |
12.31.24- It’s Not the End of the World Periodically, I’ll encounter someone who has read one of my essays and has decided not to pursue them further, stating, “You’re one of those ‘End of the world’ guys. I can’t be bothered reading the writings of someone who thinks we’re all doomed. I have a more positive outlook than that.” In actual fact, I agree entirely with his latter two comments. I can’t be bothered reading the thoughts of a writer who says we’re all doomed, either. I have a more positive outlook than that. Read More |
12.30.24- A New Round of Stimulus Checks Inbound – But There's a Catch The IRS recently announced they’re sending $2.4 billion in unclaimed pandemic-era stimulus checks. Everybody loves “free money,” right? Well, there’s only one small problem – that free money isn’t really free… Everyone loves to get “free money.” After all, isn’t that how you think about receiving a refund check from the IRS after filing your taxes? Read More |
12.28.24- The Real Inflation Number What’s happening with inflation? Allegedly, it’s back down in the 3.5% range, give or take; and to do it right one must give and take quite a bit. That is, again, the government number jockeys shamelessly cook the books, as we see from reviewing a site like ShadowStats.com. Read More |
12.27.24- Expect the Unexpected in 2025 Sometimes things don’t always go according to plan. An unexpected car repair can blow the monthly budget. A lingering illness can delay completing a big project. When it comes to the schemes of central planners this is especially true. A five-year plan may list certain goals and objectives. It may even outline a roadmap for achieving them. But reality has a way of taking things off their intended course. Read More |
12.26.24- The Musk-Led Manufacturing Revolution Nobody Is Talking About When most analysts discuss Tesla, they focus on new vehicles or the electric vehicle company’s advancements in autonomy. Yet, according to Launch i/o CEO Jeff Lutz, one of the most significant—and under-discussed—developments at Tesla is happening not in its design studios or on the road, but in its factories. Lutz, a former executive at Google and Motorola, argues that Tesla’s true innovation isn’t just the electric vehicles or robots it’s building, but how those products are being made. The company’s first-principles approach to manufacturing is a radical departure from the industry norm, focusing not just on cheap labor or existing models, but on rethinking the entire production process. Read More |
12.25.24- A Debt Jubilee of Biblical Proportions Is Coming — Are You Ready? Four thousand years ago, the rulers of ancient Babylon discovered a technique to stave off violent revolts. In ancient times, people often became hopelessly indebted to their creditors. As debts mounted, social unrest would boil over, threatening the stability of the entire ruling system. Read More |
12.24.24- A Christmas Prayer
The longest and coldest night of the year is upon us with its portents of endings, the death of things, of people like ourselves, and also bodies of thought, movements of culture and politics. And for all the cold and darkness, you feel the stirrings of things waiting to be born. Christmas is the lovely distraction for a brief spell, and after that, the difficult labor of the nation commences for-real in the long night of the year. Read More |
12.23.24- Justice Has Departed America. Will Justice Return?
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Imagine waking up one morning to find that the value of your savings has plummeted overnight, stores are struggling to stock essentials, and economic news is filled with words like “recession” and “crisis.” It’s a scenario that many of us prefer not to think about, but the reality is that financial collapses have happened before and can happen again. Read More |
12.20.24- The Extremely Improbable, Exceedingly Unlikely, Exceptionally Amazing Birth of Christ When we celebrate the birth of Jesus, we are celebrating one of the most improbable miracles in all of human history. You see, the truth is that not just anyone could have showed up and claimed to be the Messiah. According to the Scriptures, the Messiah had to come from a very specific bloodline, the Messiah had to be born at a very specific place, and the Messiah had to be born at a very specific time. It was exceedingly unlikely that anyone would ever be able to fulfill all of those prophecies, but Jesus did. The prophecies about the first coming of Christ that we find in the Bible are powerful evidence for the reality of the Christian faith, and yet these prophecies are rarely taught in our churches today. Read More |
12.19.24- 2025 will be AMAZING for the red-pilled, but CATASTROPHIC for the gullible and obedient |
12.18.24- Unidentified Drones In America’s Skies? Smells Like A False Flag… The term “False Flag” gets thrown around rather haphazardly these days and it’s important to recognize that a real false flag requires a particular end result – The public blaming the wrong culprit for an event that someone else (usually our own government) perpetrated. When it comes to the increasing fervor over major drone activity across the US, I have very little doubt that what we are witnessing is a false flag scenario. Read More |
12.17.24- Think Independently; Act Decisively When I was twenty-four, I knew virtually nothing about business and less about banking. I had very limited self-esteem and assumed that, if someone was wearing a suit, he knew what he was doing and I shouldn’t question him. At that time, I came into some money for the first time in my life and opened a CD at a prominent bank, to keep the money “safe.”Read More |
12.16.24- Government Waste Is So Much Worse Than You Ever Imagined From sexy goldfish to AI toilets, federal bureaucrats have spent staggering quantities of our money on truly insane projects. It’s not only misguided and wasteful – it’s a direct drain on our financial security. Here’s how much it’s costing you… Most Americans hate government waste. Read More |
12.14.24- Grey Swans Are Circling History is either “one damned thing after another”–a chaotic collection of random events–or there are connections between events that are not readily visible. The study of history includes both rooting around for more factual evidence to aid our understanding, and interpreting what is known–both the factual evidence and what people living at that time described and thought was happening. Read More |
12.13.24- Spy Drones Swarmed Langley Air Base, Pentagon Unable To Counter Threat Since the start of the 21st century, America's defense spending has soared nearly 50%, with this year's budget surpassing $841 billion. Yet, despite being the world's largest military spender, the Pentagon alarmingly struggles to protect the homeland against the rising threat of spy drones operating within US borders. A new Wall Street Journal report said a fleet of spy drones swarmed some of America's most sensitive national-security sites, including Langley Air Force Base on Virginia's shoreline late last year. Read More |
12.12.24- The Best Form of Government: Here in Italy, he’s known as Tommaso d’Aquino. But to the English-speaking world, he’s St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor Angelicus, and the foremost Scholastic thinker, theologian, and philosopher of the Middle Ages. His Summa Theologiae is over 5,000 pages long; thank heavens God sent Catholic author Peter Kreeft to the 20th and 21st centuries to summarize the Summa for us modern readers. After the upheaval of the recent election and the insanity permeating The State, wherever it is today, I wondered, “What did ole St. Tommy think of government?” This essay attempts to answer that question. Read More |
12.10.24- America’s Middle Class In 2024: Aging Vehicles, $300 Carts of Groceries, and Mountains of Credit Card Debt Have things been getting better for the middle class, or have things been getting worse? Needless to say, the answer to that question is obvious. The cost of living is absolutely crushing us, we can’t afford to replace our rapidly aging vehicles, debt levels are exploding, and the proportion of the country that is living paycheck to paycheck has been steadily rising. Our economy is a mess, and America’s middle class is getting smaller and smaller. Sometimes I feel like I am watching a very tragic version of musical chairs. If you are still holding on to your chair, you should be very thankful, because more people are slipping out of the middle class and into poverty with each passing day. Read More |
12.10.24- America’s Middle Class In 2024: Aging Vehicles, $300 Carts of Groceries, and Mountains of Credit Card Debt Have things been getting better for the middle class, or have things been getting worse? Needless to say, the answer to that question is obvious. The cost of living is absolutely crushing us, we can’t afford to replace our rapidly aging vehicles, debt levels are exploding, and the proportion of the country that is living paycheck to paycheck has been steadily rising. Our economy is a mess, and America’s middle class is getting smaller and smaller. Sometimes I feel like I am watching a very tragic version of musical chairs. If you are still holding on to your chair, you should be very thankful, because more people are slipping out of the middle class and into poverty with each passing day. Read More |
12.09.24- What Happened The hope here is that facing the reality of moral collapse frees us of the delusion that fiddling with technocratic financial abstractions and policy tweaks can reverse moral collapse. Ours is a technocratic culture with a short attention span, and so problems and solutions are understood to be 1) technocratic and 2) instant. The problem is something that can be distilled down to a spreadsheet, formula, algorithm or legalistic policy, and the solution is some modification of spreadsheet, formula, algorithm or legalistic policy: all our problems will go away if we just end the Fed, switch to cryptocurrency, tweak some laws, get rid of the bankers, eliminate an agency, and so on. Read More |
12.07.24- Buy & Hold Investors |
12.06.24- Not a Joke "Stare into the sun and begin to glimpse the size of what you're up against." — Mike BenzThe Hunter Biden super-sized blanket pardon went over so well around the country that “Joe Biden” — or the shadowy league of not-quite-geniuses who run the twilight White House operation — floated the idea of issuing preemptive pardons for a few of the most spectacularly dishonest characters in US political life: Dr. Fauci, Senator-elect Adam Schiff, and Liz Cheney. Does “JB” plan on legally adopting them so he can claim he was moved to act out of a father’s love? Read More |
12.05.24- Making a Crisis Your Friend Nick Giambruno: Doug, you’re one of the foremost authorities in the world on the topic of crisis investing. Tell us a bit about your background on this topic. Doug Casey: After my second book, Crisis Investing, came out in 1979, I started publishing a newsletter of the same name. I used the Chinese symbol for crisis as the logo. It’s actually a combination of two symbols: the symbol for danger and the symbol for opportunity. The danger is what everybody sees; the opportunity is never quite so obvious as the danger, but it’s always there. Read More |
12.04.24- Why Has The World Suddenly Gone Completely Nuts? Chaos is starting to erupt all over the planet. Martial law was just declared in South Korea, civil unrest is raging in the streets of Georgia, and civil war threatens to topple the Assad regime in Syria. It is almost as if someone decided to flip a switch and now vast hordes of people are going completely nuts. Unfortunately, I think that this is just the beginning, because I am convinced that civil unrest will be a major theme in 2025. Read More |
12.03.24- When You Decide I bought some Dogecoin the other day. If that sounds a little crazy to you, don’t worry. I’m not feeling like the world’s most sophisticated trader when my phone buzzes with DOGE price alerts. The reality of this trade sounds ridiculous when you spell it out: I bought a small amount (about 10% of what I would consider a full-size position) of crypto that was started as a joke and infamously evolved into a popular meme coin. Read More |
12.02.24- As You Are Waking Up..... I am making my way to Knoxville for the annual Turkey Trot after which I shall engage in the debauchery of good food and better Scotch. Some of you might remember my usual annual Thanksgiving missive, in which I put forward facts that many do not know, and which is only taught in schools where actual history is the subject of, well, history class. Read More |
11.30.24- Speculation Run Amok: |
11.29.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey Drop |
11.28.24- How the New National Debt Number Will Hurt Your Finances As of Nov. 21, the U.S. national debt broke $36 trillion. It took over 200 years to hit $1 trillion – then just 40 years to shatter $36 trillion. That’s much more than just a massive number. It’s an obligation – and it matters even more than you might think… The national debt just passed $36 trillion. Trillion. Read More |
11.27.24- Eight States That Pose Highest Risks Of Missile/Nuclear Strike If SHTF, living in one of these states, may put you at the unnecessary risk of a potential missile or nuclear strike. I’ve been studying nuclear warfare for quite a few years now. During this time, I’ve found that some states pose a much higher likelihood of becoming a target of war. Read More |
11.26.24- For Millions Of Americans, This Holiday Season Will Be A Season If you live in a warm home and you have plenty of food to eat, you should consider yourself to be extremely blessed, because millions of others are deeply suffering right now. Most of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, the number of homeless Americans is higher than ever, demand at food banks is back to pandemic levels, and many victims of Hurricane Helene are living in very thin tents and are not getting the help that they need from the government. Children in the mountains of western North Carolina are literally shivering in the freezing cold all night long because their parents have nowhere else to go…Read More |
11.25.24- Horrible Housing, Gleeful Gold, We’re seeing increasing signs of desperation from “them.” Europe is in deep trouble, but maybe not as much trouble as the S&P500 companies that force mandated vaccines that injured their own workforce and now face the prospect of trillions in injury claims and settlements. Ed Dowd has concerns about SPX companies and the huge liability they have – because most of them force-vaxxed their workforce. Read More |
11.23.24- Reconstructing Reconstruction Frequently an accepted version of the past turns out to be based on mythology, created to advance special interests. Even when we become aware of these interests, it is difficult to break loose from the common opinion. In few areas of history has the conventional wisdom assumed such dominance as in the Reconstruction era (1865–77) that followed the War between the States. Read More |
11.22.24- Civil War II and WWIII Broadcasting from the nuclear bunker outside of the Pentex blast zone, I find myself in the uncomfortable position of accepting that I called it wrong. Who knew that the wandering Biden would stumble into a means of igniting WWIII to keep the government out of the hands of Donald Trump and his weird cabinet selections? I mean, Dr. Oz over Ben Carson? There are multitudes of criminal bureaucrats plotting their civil war to keep from answering for their treasonous acts, but they were, no pun intended, trumped by Joe Biden’s handlers when they approved long-range missile strikes on Russia proper. Read More |
11.21.24- Russia Strikes Back! U.S. Embassy In Kyiv Closes Due To “Specific” Intel Regarding A “Significant Air Attack” Throughout this very long war, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv has continued to operate even though there has been a constant threat of missile strikes and drone attacks. But now it has closed because it has received “specific information” that the Russians are about to conduct a “significant air attack”. By the time many of you read this article, that attack may have already happened. We don’t know exactly when the Russians will strike, and we don’t know what specific targets they will hit, but it appears that they are gearing up for something really big. Read More |
11.19.24- Beyond Consequence “I don’t know why the Democrats lost. I don’t understand … Prices have come down, the economy is good. I don’t know why they voted against her, against the party.” — William Shatner (Captain Kirk) If you boil down everything the woked-up, psychopathic Democratic Party did the past eight years as it drove the country into a ditch, it all amounted to a Great Pretending. Whatever the party said, they knew it was not so. Whatever they did, they pretended the other side was doing. They lied lavishly, knowingly, and incessantly and now they are pretending to soul-search in a great public display of pretend humility as they await the dreaded reckoning. Read More |
11.19.24- Beyond Consequence “I don’t know why the Democrats lost. I don’t understand … Prices have come down, the economy is good. I don’t know why they voted against her, against the party.” — William Shatner (Captain Kirk) If you boil down everything the woked-up, psychopathic Democratic Party did the past eight years as it drove the country into a ditch, it all amounted to a Great Pretending. Whatever the party said, they knew it was not so. Whatever they did, they pretended the other side was doing. They lied lavishly, knowingly, and incessantly and now they are pretending to soul-search in a great public display of pretend humility as they await the dreaded reckoning. Read More |
11.18.24- Left is a Vicious Wounded Tiger, Renowned Attorney Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and later Freedom Watch, has been fighting government corruption and winning for decades. Today, the fight has turned into an all-out war and fight to the death. Klayman explains, “Bottom line is we have been in a war, but now we are at red alert. The fact that Donald Trump has been reelected the 47th President of the United States with the popular vote and an overwhelming landslide in the Electoral College, the Left is on the run, but it’s stung. It’s like a wounded tiger. It’s vicious. Read More |
11.16.24- Abolish the Department of The Trump transition team on Wednesday announced that he is nominating South Dakota governor Kristi Noem as the next head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In the coming weeks, we’ll hear a lot about Noem’s personal politics and origins. We’ll also hear about how the DHS is, as the AP puts it, “one of the biggest government agencies that will be integral to his vow to secure the border and carry out a massive deportation operation.” Read More |
The Kosher President Donald Trump is now America’s President-Elect. As I said previously, I fully expected that Trump would win by a comfortable electoral margin and that it would be a clean sweep for the GOP. As a result of the big Republican win, most evangelicals and conservatives are predictably acting like the Millennium has arrived. Despite everything that has transpired since the dawn of this century, despite the Tea Party movement during the Ron Paul years, despite the ubiquitous bumper stickers pasted to the vehicles of conservatives that said, “I don’t believe the mainstream media,” today’s evangelicals and conservatives are still trapped in the artificial left-right paradigm. Read More |
11.14.24- The RINOS Preparing to Oppose Trump to Protect the Swamp Mitch McConnell is a RINO and is a traitor to the people of this country. He staged a COUP against the incoming president and should have been hauled out of the Senate in chains, for he has abused his personal power to try to obstruct what the American people voted for to protect the swamp. Mitch McConnell engineered a coup against Trump’s agenda by calling for early leadership elections in the Senate to ensure that the RINOS would select his replacement to obstruct the American people again as he did throughout the previous Trump Administration. Read More |
11.13.24- The Cost of Owning a Home
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11.12.24- How Do You Create A Recession? If The U.S. Falls into Recession, It Will Be From Years of Government Excess Overheating the economy with a massive increase in government spending, disguising employment with public sector jobs, and soaring federal debt. The foundation of Neokeynesian economics always rests on the idea that an economy must prioritize government spending, leading to full blown socialism. When the economy is growing, government spending rises because, allegedly, it is time to borrow and grow. When the economy overheats and enters the inevitable recession, government spending must rise again because it needs to support growth. See? Read More |
11.11.24- What We Know Now The fourth word in the title is the one to stress. There is much that we suspected – including a few things we were sure of but could not prove definitively – that we now know to be incontrovertible. The evidence is unimpeachable. The implications are unavoidable. (And ending three sentences in a row with a polysyllabic adjective is something I should try not to do.) We no longer suspect but know: Read More |
11.09.24- 'Fasten Your Seatbelts' - Pepe Escobar Explores The 'Trumpquake' On the political Richter scale, that was a killer – literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park – any park. Even before Election Day, critical thinking was aware of the stakes. With fraud, Kamala wins. With no fraud, Trump wins. Read More |
11.08.24- Rick Rule on Managing Risk |
11.07.24- Top Three Global Bolt-Holes for Safety and Freedom International Man: You’ve often emphasized the importance of having a bolt-hole—a secure haven where someone can escape during times of crisis, danger, or upheaval. Why do you think this is such an important topic? Doug Casey: The US is on the ragged edge of something that will look like a civil war. The differences in basic worldviews between the Red and Blue people are irreconcilable. This will come to a head as the election results are tallied, and not accepted by the losing side. That will make the US a very unpleasant place to be. Read More |
11.06.24- Gold is on the Cusp of 2 Huge Breakouts There have been quite a few breakouts this year in precious metals. None have been bigger or more significant than Gold breaking out of its 13-year cup and handle pattern and clearing $2100/oz easily. Although it is overbought and could pause or correct, it remains bullish and on track for its $3,000/oz target. Read More
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11.05.24- Escape from Psychopathocracy "Most people do not get a clear opportunity to vote against Communism and prevent a historical evil from taking hold. We have that opportunity. Vote Trump." — James LindsayYou thought Halloween was over, but somehow the horror show won’t stop, and it’s not so much fun anymore. Those oversized ghouls, werewolves, and dead souls you erected in the front yard, like shrines to wickedness, represent something truly roiling and moiling around the zeitgeist of this troubled land: the ruling Party of Chaos. Look at what they have done to you and what they are still doing. Hoaxing you, sucking the life-blood out of you, and lying about everything. Wrecking the country. Read More |
11.04.24- The Right of the People Regardless of the election’s outcome, revolution is inevitable. Whoever is inaugurated in January will become the nominal head of a failing government. It is buried under promises it can’t keep and debasing its currency to devalue its debt. Well over half the people it governs despise it. Its confederated empire falters as much of the world rejects its hypocritical “rules-based order.” The military is incompetent and dangerous; a war-making operation that showers defense contractors, politicians, bureaucrats, and revolving-door brass with trillions of dollars. Read More |
11.01.24- How to…Rig Your Rigged Elections Are you an aspiring oligarch, dictator or autocrat? Do you want to wield power whilst maintaining a façade of popular support and democratic mandate? Do you want to make your proles believe they have a choice? Well then, welcome to the first of our “How to…” series. A selection of articles dedicated to teaching aspiring authoritarians how to hide tyranny behind a reassuring mask of freedom. Read More |
10.31.24- Top Five Reasons Not to Vote Democracy is vastly overrated. The national elections this November 5 (Guy Fawkes Day, FWIW) have every chance of turning into a chaotic catastrophe. I’m not, therefore, going to discuss either candidate. Let’s instead talk about principles. That’s something few people discuss these days. Read More |
10.30.24- “The American System” Made America Great It’s hard to believe, but the presidential election is just one week away. It’ll all come down to the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada. It’s a tight race, although it appears to be breaking for Trump. The Democratic strategy is essentially to call Trump Hitler and a would-be dictator who would jail his political opponents (sound familiar?) and destroy democracy. Read More |
10.29.24- How America Was Destroyed Those who control the Democrat Party are concerned about Kamala’s election chances. Little wonder. She represents the most anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-white, anti-peace regime in US history. Top Democrats are concerned that Trump will not only take the swing states, despite the multiple theft mechanisms Democrats have in place, but also some blue states. Polls are revealing that a majority of men of color see Trump as a leader of America and Kamala as a destroyer of America. Those who control the Democrat party, most certainly not the people, are also disturbed by reports of the heavy early voting by Trump supporters. Read More |
10.28.24- “Six Days from Sunday” and the Continuity of Government During the rushed debate over the Patriot Act, was when I first heard political officials talking about the importance of “continuity of government.” I immediately recognized what all these DC voices were describing was a construct of a post-911 government that would exist and maintain itself without the elected representatives of WeThe People. Read More |
10.26.24- Quiet Before The Storm
Enjoy these last nasty days of the presidential election – they are the quiet before the storm. As long as the race continues, each side’s anger is reined in by the hope of victory. Once a winner is declared, the loser’s rage will erupt. This political Vesuvius promises to inflame the land as events unfold in these final days to maximize furious disappointment Read More |
10.25.24- The Largest Study Ever On UBI Was Just Conducted, And... In the 2020 election, an interesting candidate made his way onto the scene for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination: Andrew Yang. Yang made a splash in particular for his promise to give everyone $1,000. Andrew Yang’s campaign strategy took a similar approach to Trump’s 2016 campaign in hyper-focusing on a single issue. For Trump, the single issue was immigration. For Yang, that issue was universal basic income (UBI). Read More |
10.24.24- All The World's a Stage: No wonder we're restless, teetering on the edge, frustrated by our addictions to fakery and excess, starved for what cannot be marketed or made profitable, so it no longer exists except in the shadows. |
10.23.24- First Gold, Then…
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10.22.24- Today’s Housing Bubble Could Sink Your Retirement You may be surprised to learn that housing is now “the civil rights issue of our time” according to some activists. The problem with activists like this is how they want the problem solved. They want more government involvement and control – which could wreck more than just the housing market… Civil rights is a hot button term in this day and age, and it really should be. After all, as human beings, we have certain rights that are ours and that can’t be justified in being taken away. Read More |
10.21.24- The Final Countdown A dignified life, or dehumanized technocracy -- which would you prefer for your children? As you may have noticed, I do enjoy lists. I suppose they appeal to my sense of order. The following is a list of fundamental principles that were strangely, as if by hypnosis, abdicated during the Convid Scamdemic. I hope you enjoy, as do I, the novelty (at least for this Substack) of presenting this particular list in countdown format! Read More |
10.19.24- The Trojan Horse of “Public Health” At the recent Mises Institute Supporters Summit in Hilton Head, South Carolina Tom Woods made some flattering comments about Yours Truly regarding my 2000 book coauthored with James T. Bennett entitled |
10.18.24- If Trump Wins, Guess Who Will Be In Charge Of Certifying The Election? Do you know who will be in charge of certifying this election? In January 2021, it was Vice-President Mike Pence, and we all remember how that turned out. Well, an even more interesting scenario is shaping up this time around. In January 2025, Vice-President Kamala Harris will be in charge of certifying the election. In other words, if Donald Trump wins the person that he was running against will be in charge of certifying his victory. This is a major defect in our system, and it could potentially set the stage for widespread chaos if things do not go smoothly. Read More |
10.17.24- Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches “What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security... And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.” Read More |
10.16.24- Greed And How To Lose 100% In the movies, greed is a trait often exhibited by the rich and powerful as a means to an end. Of particular note is the famous quote from Michael Douglas in the 1987 movie classic “Wall Street:”
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10.15.24- How to Buy Gold for $900 per Ounce
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10.14.24- “We Lose Total Control”
Hillary Clinton was recently on CNN calling for censorship of social media. Here’s her full quote:
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10.12.24- Kamala Unwinding “. . . we are facing a catastrophic collapse of governance. With democracy reduced to a tragedy or a farce (probably both things). . . ."— Ugh Bardi “As the US increasingly resembles ancient Rome, being president is more and more dangerous. Something around 35 emperors met violent deaths, most from people in and around their courts. In other words, members of the Roman Deep State. An ugly situation is brewing in and around Washington DC.” — Doug Casey Read More |
10.11.24- Globalists Are Taking The Mask Off And That’s A Bad Sign… Remember the last time the globalists took the mask off? It wasn’t that long ago, but some people might have already forgotten how the western world almost lost all individual freedom under the guise of an over-hyped health emergency. When globalists are honest about what they truly want, it usually coincides with an engineered calamity. Read More |
10.10.24- Debt Doom is Coming Everybody knows it. Here's what to do.Debt doom is coming, everyone knows it, no one is doing anything about it. I see no way, under current political constraints, to keep the debt from growing to the point at which it is not merely unsustainable, but actually causing fiscal collapse. As economist Herb Stein said, something that can’t go on forever, won’t. Read More |
10.09.24- Recent Events Force Us To See The Reality Of Today’s Democrats One of the most stunning moments I ever had watching a movie was during The Sixth Sense (spoiler alert) in the scene when the ring crashes to the floor and we suddenly realize that Bruce Willis’s character is dead. I was simply dumbfounded. It immediately made sense, but I couldn’t believe that I’d not recognized it the whole time. The movie flashes back over the different scenes from Willis’s newly revealed perspective, and it was as if I’d just watched a different movie than the one I’d actually seen. Seen through Willis’s eyes, everything was clearly there, but I simply hadn’t seen it. The signs were there, but I just didn’t recognize them…Read More |
10.08.24- How Howard Marks Thinks About Risk... And You Should Too
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10.07.24- Moon Landing Fraud in 45 Minutes |
10.05.24- The American Economy Just You may have heard about the East Coast dockworkers’ strike that, fortunately, only lasted for three days. Considering the strike was simply postponed until January, it’s worth a look at what such a black swan event will have on the average American’s cost of living. You need to understand what’s at stake – and how to protect your family and yourself… The evening news, 24 hour news channels, and news sites online have all been running stories about labor strikes, especially the dockworker’s union three-day strike, over the last few weeks. Read More |
10.04.24- The Ghost of Harry Bridges
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10.03.24- They’re SO Not There To Help The federal government does not want to help you. It has been actively trying to kill you, and attempting to interfere with anyone who gets in the way. This attempt to shut down donations and volunteers in Tennessee is no different than the attacks on all the doctors, nurses, and people speaking out in public about the dangers of the vaxx. Numerous people on social media are reporting some form of the following: The feds are confiscating donations in Tennessee Read More |
10.02.24- Chaos As Cover If you’re looking toward this election as anything other than a trigger event, you’re missing the point. It doesn’t even matter who wins in respect to your preparedness. Contact with the enemy is ensured either way. There is no peaceful path other than total and complete compliance; abandoning any hope for the future of the republic and human rights. Read More |
10.01.24- Biggest Monetary Shock in 50 Years I’d like to start today’s issue by extending my thoughts and prayers to those impacted by Hurricane Helene, which has devastated significant portions of the southeast with massive flooding. The death toll is over 100 and may increase significantly. Let’s all hope the affected areas will recover. Read More |
09.30.24- The Ladies Who’d Rather Brunch — Guest Post by Gaudia Certaminis I cannot take credit for this insight, but the young people of today—and by young let’s say under 40—have a decision to make between having kids or going to brunch. This is not meant to be a dump on the avocado-toast fanciers, but is a succinct way to describe the priorities of the generation who is supposed to be begetting the souls that will carry us forward as a nation. Read More |
09.28.24- A Failed State and an Irresponsible Justice System I posted on Wednesday about a young Moroccan culture-enricher who allegedly raped and murdered a French student named Philippine and then fled to Switzerland. The miscreant was apprehended by the Swiss police, and is now in custody. Read More |
09.27.24- So what about silver? In the 6th century BC, during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, Babylon flourished as a center of power, culture, and commerce. We know this because the Babylonians were exceptional record keepers. And they chiseled everything down onto cuneiform tablets, many of which have survived through today. Sadly the tablets aren’t tabloids. They don’t contain any juicy gossip or colorful stories of ancient times. Read More |
09.26.24- The Stage Is Being Set For The Greatest Period Of Chaos In U.S. History If chaos is what they intended, everything is coming together beautifully. Major wars threaten to throw the entire planet into a state of turmoil, criminals are running wild in our streets, and in a little over a month the outcome of the presidential election is likely to cause an unprecedented explosion of anger. If all of this wasn’t bad enough, our politicians have been allowing millions of desperate people to come pouring over our wide open borders. Some of these “new arrivals” belong to international criminal gangs, and members of these gangs are being arrested for drug dealing and sex trafficking all over America. Read More |
09.25.24- Hidden Agendas: Beware Of The Government's Push For A Digital Currency “The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.” - Thomas Paine The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. Read More |
09.24.24- Will Israel “Recklessly” Seize the Day? “Have the Doors to a War Without Limits Been Opened?”
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09.23.24- Coming US Election and What It Means for America’s Fiscal Future When in the course of history’s twists and turns dire necessity becomes the mother of invention the hour is usually late. That’s the case with America’s septic fiscal derangement at the present time. There is simply not a snowball’s chance in the hot place that either the Trumpified GOP or the beltway blob-controlled Democrats will lift a finger to deflect America’s fiscal doomsday machine from its appointed rendezvous with disaster. Read More |
09.21.24- Interest Rates Down, Markets and Gold Up, Nuclear War on the Horizon |
09.20.24- The Revolution Comes For Those Who Can’t Believe It. It Always Does. The title of this post was found on page 88 of “Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions” by authors Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec. Published this year, I discovered the book to be concisely written and well-sourced. Read More |
09.19.24- These Are The World's Individuals and corporations use tax havens to minimize their tax burdens and protect their wealth in low-tax or no-tax jurisdictions. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, shows the top 10 countries hosting the most offshore financial wealth, according to 2022 data from the Atlas of the Offshore World. Read More |
09.18.24- Kamala Bucks
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09.17.24- Arabica Bean Hits 2011 Highs As Coffee Inflation Soars
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09.16.24- The Impossible Dream: 70 Million Boomers Retire in Style
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09.14.24- China Tariffs Won’t Save the Dollar; Gold the Only Real De-Dollarization Play |
09.13.24- Easy Fixes for Social Security and Fair Taxes to End Deficits for Good The bottom line is we need to pay for everything as we go and stop deficit spending, and there are only two avenues for doing that—raising tax revenues and lowering expenses. The closest we came was during the Clinton years when Bill Clinton wanted to solve the debt problem by raising taxes, while Newt Gingrich said, “Not so fast. Not without equal expenditure cuts.” The two hammered out a deal under considerable pressure that greatly cut expenses and reasonably increased tax rates to find the sweet spot. Read More |
09.12.24- The Real Way to End Poverty and It’s Not by Government If one truly wants to help eliminate poverty, perhaps it’s time to rethink the process. To begin, one should ask this question – why are some nations (and individuals) wealthy and others are so poor? The reason the United States has led the world in wealth, standard of living, and abundance is that every resident of the United States has had the ability and the opportunity to invest and produce their own capital and build personal wealth. Why is that possible? And why has most of the rest of the world failed, and continues to fail, at such an attempt? Read More |
09.11.24- While The Left And The Right Fight Over Cats And Dogs In Ohio, What Is Going On In New York Is Far Worse If you want to get people angry, just start a debate about immigration. There are very few issues that are capable of arousing such passion right now. In recent days, the left and the right have been engaged in an all-out war of words over what may or may not be happening in the city of Springfield, Ohio. Haitian migrants now make up approximately a quarter of the city’s entire population, and many local residents have publicly expressed frustration about the chaos that these migrants have caused. Of course many on the left are disputing these claims even though they don’t live in that community. Read More |
09.10.24- The Total State and the Twilight of American Democracy Reviewing Auron MacIntyre's new book, and why conservatives need the New Right Even when our nation's dysfunction becomes too obvious to ignore, average Americans tend to comfort themselves with the story that it at least remains a democratic, constitutional republic. For such Americans, it's probably been a confusing summer. Read More |
09.09.24- The Woke Plot “Woke” people claim that they want to wake up racial and sexual minorities to the way they are being discriminated against. Because of past and present exploitation, blacks and other “protected” groups are not getting what rightfully belongs to them. The solution to this is that the better off, especially if they are white, should have their wealth and income seized and given to those they are exploiting. Read More |
09.07.24- Three Key Trends That Will Shape You wouldn’t be especially impressed by someone’s insight if they told you that the world today is full of turmoil. That’s obvious— from wars and cultural clashes to cost of living crises and a pervasive sense of negativity. More impressive is that William Strauss and Neil Howe predicted that the 2020’s would be like this nearly three decades ago in their 1997 book, The Fourth Turning. Read More |
09.06.24- Renowned Medical Professor Confirms Ivermectin Cures Cancer A celebrated medical professor has confirmed that the “wonder drug” ivermectin has successfully been used to treat and cure terminally ill cancer patients. The bombshell announcement was made by Dr. Paul Marik, an American physician and revered professor of medicine. Read More |
Fiscal Year 2025’s National Defense Authorization Act’s Senate version contains an important item that is being ignored—young women between the ages of 18-26 will be automatically registered for the draft. Previously, the House version of the NDAA passed (217-199) on June 14 and provisioned for the automatic registration of 18-26 year old men for the draft, but there was no item extending the order to women. Read More |
09.04.24- The Regime’s War on Cash Could Destroy the Economy According to some “experts,” there is an urgent need to remove cash from the economy. It is held that cash provides support to the “shadow economy” and permits tax evasion. Another justification for its removal is that, in times of economic shocks, which push the economy into a recession, the run for cash exacerbates the downturn—it becomes a factor contributing to economic instability. Moreover, it is argued that, in the modern world, most transactions can be settled by means of electronic funds transfer. Money in the modern world is allegedly an abstraction. Read More |
An oncologist, cancer researcher and author recently shared a study that chemotherapy-resistant turbo cancers caused by Pfizer and Moderna Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) mRNA vaccines can be overcome by ivermectin, a controversial anti-parasitic drug known to ease symptoms of viruses such as coronavirus. Health authorities have been debunking this information and have not authorized or approved its use in humans for this purpose. Read More |
09.02.24- The Euro Is A Frankenstein-Currency In 1818, the English writer Mary W. Shelly (1797-1851) published her gruesome novel Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, which became world famous. In the story, the scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein pieces together a human-like creature from cadaver parts in his laboratory and succeeds in breathing life into its body. But Frankenstein would immediately like to eliminate the monster he has created. He sees it as a demon, calling it a “disgusting monster,” a “cursed Satan.” The monster immediately realized that it is excluded, outcast from human society. Read More |
08.31.24- Texas PURGES one million ineligible voters from voter rolls, including non-citizens and dead people Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared on Monday, Aug. 26, that more than one million ineligible voters have been taken out from the state's voter rolls in the past three years, including more than 6,500 noncitizens and 457,000 people who are dead. Read More |
08.30.24- One In Three Americans Now Have A RUINED Retirement (Here's Why) Is the dream of a work-free retirement gone for good? A new study reveals that more than one in three retired Americans are going back to work – and not because they miss the daily grind… Traditionally, so long as you have the financial resources to do so, retirement is a fairly simple and straightforward endeavor. Read More |
08.29.24- America’s Lab Rats? Half the country thinks something has gone drastically wrong in America, to the point that it is rapidly becoming unrecognizable. Millions feel they are virtual lab rats in some grand research project conducted by entitled elites who could care less when the experiment blows up. Consider: Our military turns over $60 billion in state-of-the-art weapons to terrorists in Kabul and then flees in disgrace? Read More |
08.28.24- Countdown to Crisis, Catastrophe and Collapse “All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.” – George Orwell “The future’s becoming muddled. The lines of vision are narrowing. But now they’re desperate. All paths lead into darkness.” – Frank Herbert – Dune Read More |
08.27.24- Please, Sweet Merciful Jesus, send us a holy and manful Monarch Slowly, slowly, I think more and more people are coming to the sick realization that “democracy” is and ever was a ticking time bomb built for the inside-out destruction of Christian Civilization. I think people are finally starting to sit down and think in stillness about the inner cities utterly devoid of any morality, about the SJW youth and their middle-aged and Boomer indoctrinators who are completely detached from reality, and at the luciferianism of the political class and realizing that “democracy” did this. And even more chillingly, that democracy can never, ever be the way out of this, and should never be returned to, because to return to it would be the proverbial dog returning to its vomit. Read More |
08.26.24- The Continued INVASION of America… The Insanity Will NOT End Presented With Rise in Border Crossings, Kamala Harris Chose a Long-Term Approach to the Problem |
08.24.24- Reuniting America? Forget it! There was a time when America might have been mostly reunited. That time is gone. You will never come close to reuniting this country again. We have let in too many foreigners who refuse to assimilate and who want to remake America into their own image and will not be satisfied with anything less. And we’ve done that on purpose. No matter how much Trump or others try to make us all one people again it will not happen. Read More |
08.23.24- 3 Retirement Red Flags You Should NEVER Ignore As you near retirement age, one of the decisions you get to make is when to file for Social Security benefits and officially retire from the workforce. By this point, you’ve saved as much for your future as can. Your savings priorities change from growth to preservation. Before officially embarking on your retirement journey, it’s smart to consider both the current state of our economy as well as the current state of Social Security. While both will certainly change during the years ahead, we don’t know with certainty how they’ll change. What we DO know is what’s happening right now – and that may be extremely important. Read More |
08.22.24- 1 Million Square Foot Office Building In Center City Philly Appraised For 25% Less Than 2021 The 1 million square foot office building just blocks from City Hall at 18th & Market streets in Philadelphia, saw its appraisal value crushed 25% from $282.1 million in 2021 to $211.3 million this year, according to a new report from Bisnow. Citing Morningstar, the report notes that Shorenstein Properties’ office space, about 80% occupied, has been in special servicing for a year, with another property at 1700 Market St. added earlier this year. Read More |
08.21.24- Forty Centuries of Failure: Price Controls, Debasement and Tyranny August 15th was the anniversary of the infamous “Nixon Shock”, when excessive spending and trade deficits had governments on the ropes, as prices climbed relentlessly, inflation soared into the double digits, while economic growth stalled. In 1971 of that year, Nixon “temporarily” suspended convertibility of the US dollar for gold (still in effect), while simultaneously proclaiming a 90-day freeze on all wages and prices across the United States. Read More |
08.20.24- 2.34 Billion Ton Discovery in Wyoming Could Unlock AI Wealth A shocking discovery on a small parcel of land in Wyoming might’ve just changed the world as we know it. Over 2.34 billion metric tons of some of the rarest materials on earth was recently found in a mining operation in rural Wyoming, and analysts are already calling it ‘the mother lode’. Read More |
08.19.24- Elon Musk Talks Silver: It’s Critical Role When the Dollar Dies |
08.17.24- BRICS, Inflation, Turmoil, and CDBC – What to DO? |
08.16.24- US Living Standards In Grave Danger “Inflation cooled, lower than expected,” read the financial press on the release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for July. Based on the data release we have, the “cooling” is actually up from June to July, if you can believe it. Read More |
08.14.24- Britain Is Proof: Globalists Plan To Use Migrants as a Mercenary Army Why do western officials insist on gaslighting the public on illegal border crossings? Why do they attempt to destroy anyone that publicly opposes mass immigration from the third world? The laws on the books support the public’s majority position on immigration – Come here legally or don’t come here at all. In Europe, the UK and the US polls show a majority of citizens want reductions in immigration and better border security. Yet, government officials, who often claim to be “protecting democracy,” brazenly ignore these majority concerns. Why? Read More |
08.13.24- The Disaster Lottery What we are facing is greater than war, greater than civil war, greater than genocide, greater than worldwide migration, greater than being conquered; it’s greater than recession or depression, dispossession, bankruptcy or collapse. It’s even greater than famine or disease. It’s all of these things at the same time. Either this is a coordinated effort by numerous nations across the globe, the maladministration of global elites (who have their fingers in everything) or some sort of mass psychosis. I don’t totally rule out a combination of these forces, either. Read More |
08.12.24- Whacked by a Financial Two-by-Four The stock market has stabilized after Monday’s major stumble — for now. Don’t sound the all-clear signal just yet. Yes, the U.S. markets look temporarily stabilized… while the Bank of Japan suffered a major anxiety attack, declaring it would turn around the very modest 25 basis point interest rate lift that crashed their markets for three days by 20% — and also stated they would no longer even try to raise interest rates again. Read More |
08.10.24- Americans are poorer: the United States Misery Index rises again I frequently receive comments about the strength of the United States economy and the unfairness of perceiving things as less than stellar. Is it really the “strongest economy ever”? It’s evident that it’s far from being the “strongest economy ever.” The United States unemployment rate has risen to 4.1%, the highest in three years, which is also significantly higher than the level seen in 2019. In June, a 70,000 increase in government jobs boosted payroll employment by 206,000. One-third of job creation is public sector jobs paid with more debt. Both the employment-to-population ratio and the labor force participation ratio are below the pre-pandemic level, and immigrants account for all the labor force growth since the pandemic, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Ned Davis Research. Read More |
08.09.24- 2024 Echoes '1984' The book “1984” is supposed to be a warning. Today’s leftists are using it as an instruction manual... George Orwell’s classic novel is set in a dystopian world where Big Brother controls the population through information control and surveillance. See if any of this sounds familiar.
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08.08.24- Israel Is in a Death Spiral. Who Will It Take Down with It? Israel’s zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences There should be nothing surprising about the revelation that troops at Sde Teiman, a detention camp set up by Israel in the wake of Hamas’s 7 October attack on southern Israel, are routinely using rape as a weapon of torture against Palestinian inmates. Read More |
08.07.24- Donald Trump Says That A Great Depression Is Coming. He Is Right.
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08.06.24- And Suddenly Things Change “The global economy is becoming unburdened by what has been.” — Jordan Schachtel on “X” That two-by-four upside our country’s head you’ve been waiting to get whomped with? Looks like it’s landing now. We got a banger in 2008, but it didn’t make a much of an impression. Maybe you don’t even remember these people, but then Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke came in like a code blue squad and hooked up the banks to an IV-drip speedball of cocaine and heroin, i.e., “money” that didn’t actually exist (a.k.a. “liquidity,” hallucinated capital), and that crew kept it coming for years. Read More |
08.05.24- The Trigger For WWIII Just Arrived – What Are The Implications For Americans? If the year of 2024 has proven anything so far, it’s that our worries about the potential outbreak of WWIII are absolutely reasonable. The skeptics making accusations of “conspiracy theory” and “doom and gloom” have been proven wrong yet again. The geopolitical atmosphere is turning sour fast. I still don’t think a lot of people realize how truly volatile the situation is globally right now. From my point of view, WWIII has already begun, at least in economic terms. Read More |
08.03.24- Into the Weird! “What we are witnessing is nothing less than the failure of the greatest propaganda apparatus in history.” — Mattias Desmet Have you noticed yet? — the weird thing about Veep Kamala Harris is how weirdly brisk her transfiguration was from a sit-com character to Wonder Woman, overnight in the reality-optional news media. In a party burdened with complex ideology, she was known only for tautology: “The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time,” she repeated solemnly on a tour of a Louisiana library in 2022. “So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.” Yes, ma’am. You nailed that ol’ coonskin to the wall, all righty! Read More |
08.02.24- The U.S. Is Not Prepared To Fight One Major War, But Three Major Wars What in the world has happened to our military? When I was growing up, I was proud that my father was an officer in the U.S. Navy. At that time we possessed the most powerful military in the entire world by a wide margin, and as a result nobody wanted to mess with us. But now everything has changed. Our military has been transformed into a “woke” joke, and we all saw what happened during the absolutely disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. We desperately need to get our act together, because war is coming. In fact, we could soon find ourselves fighting multiple major wars simultaneously. Unfortunately, a study that was just released by a congressional panel concluded that we are not even ready to fight one major war at this point… Read More |
08.01.24- BRICS Proposes Cryptocurrency "The Unit" as Alternative to the Dollar A new major currency will be hitting the world stage soon as BRICS – being the economic block of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and a growing number of non-western nations – is coming closer to officially launching its collective tender. Details of the currency, which will be called The Unit, were announced during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June. Read More |
07.31.24- Your Enemy, The Deep State A lot of people would like political solutions to their problems, i.e., getting the government to make other people do what they want. People with any moral sense, however, recognize that can only create more problems. Clever players, therefore, use the government as a tool but do so from behind a curtain. They know that it's more effective, and a lot safer, to pull the puppet's strings from offstage. Sometimes, they step into the limelight, depending on the circumstances and the depth of their personal narcissism. But they're all about two things: Power and money. Call them the Deep State. Read More |
07.30.24- This Is What The Final Stages Of A Bubble Economy Look Like Just Before A Collapse Happens How does it feel to be living on the edge of a bubble just before it bursts? Ever since the days of the Great Recession, our leaders have been going to extremes that we have never seen before as they attempt to keep our failing economy propped up. The Federal Reserve has created trillions upon trillions of dollars out of thin air and pumped it into the financial system. Our politicians in Washington have been on the greatest debt binge in the history of the world, and as a result our national debt has soared to truly horrifying levels. On Monday, our national debt reached 35 trillion dollars, and even the New York Times is admitting that it is growing “more quickly than many economists had predicted”… Read More |
07.29.24- The grizzly truth about the West We have forgotten the basic principles The past month of American politics has been utter chaos. Former president Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by a matter of millimetres. Joe Biden went to Las Vegas, reportedly got Covid, and disappeared completely from public view. A day after his campaign team insistedhe would stay in the race for president, he dropped out via a letter posted to X. Read More |
07.27.24- US Is Going Bankrupt: 76% of Income Tax Goes to Interest on Debt As Elon Musk says, the US is headed for bankruptcy. [Kamala strongly backs Joe’s economic plans.] “Our honest Ph.D. Peter St. Onge explains in the clip that 76% of income tax goes to the interest on the debt. That means three out of every four dollars you currently give the IRS are actually going to China or Wall Street. The numbers come from the US OMB.” Read More |
Rising national debt has long been a pressing issue in America, and it has caught the attention of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “America is going bankrupt btw,” Musk wrote in a recent post on the social media platform X. He was responding to a post by Billy Markus, the creator of Dogecoin. Read More |
07.25.24- Trump Assassination Attempt and What Comes Next
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07.24.24- Myths… |
07.23.24- Goodbye Mr. Biden As I am writing this article, Biden has stepped aside from his reelection campaign, and baring some kind of last-minute chicanery, Vice President Kamala Harris is the likely nominee. Whereas the optics will change from frail, older White man whose facilities have long since departed, to a younger (59) black-Indian female, the election dynamics will not change. Effectively, it is Trump versus the Establishment – or more accurately, the current Establishment in power (Harris) versus the Establishment out of power (Trump). The policies will not change much, regardless of the election outcome. Read More |
07.22.24- Diversity hire Kimberly Cheatle demonstrates the deadly consequences of replacing duty with diversity Kimberly Cheatle, Biden’s diversity-hire choice to head up the Secret Service, has been subpoenaed by Congress to answer for her deadly dereliction of duty. So far, this blithering idiot has done nothing but belch up lie after lie. Read More |
07.20.24- The REPO Act: A Precursor To The Dollar's Downfall In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the US government has launched its most aggressive sanctions campaign ever. The US government and its allies froze around $300 billion of the Russian central bank’s reserves—the nation’s accumulated savings. Read More |
07.19.24- How The Economy Will End What if a near-term recession & bear market are the LEAST of our worries?History is full of examples where nations resorted to taking on ever-increasing amounts of debt to maintain a positive economic growth rate. But it never works out well for those who do. Most often, they end up sacrificing the purchasing power of their currencies in the process. Read More |
07.18.24- The Secret Service Story is Starting to Stink We’re now learning, among other things, that Trump’s Secret Service detail was made up of second- and third-stringers, with more experienced agents having been pulled away to protect “Dr.” Jill Biden, and that even the Secret Service director is a “DEI” (“Diversity, Equity, Inclusion”) hire, put in place under a doctrine that amounts to “Affirmative Action on steroids,” replacing meritocracy with “qualifications” based on identity politics. Read More |
07.17.24- The Housing Market Hit A Wall In May/June – It’s Headed South Pronto The commentary below is from my weekly short seller’s newsletter. To learn more follow this link: Short Seller’s Journal Housing market update – In taking a deeper dive into the existing home sales report for May, I noticed that the distribution of sales across the six price “buckets” shows a different story than the headline number broken out by sales region: Read More |
07.16.24- Unanswered Questions About the Assassination Attempt on Trump You’re receiving today’s issue early because it’s very important, and I want to make sure you didn’t miss it. All Americans should be relieved and grateful that Donald Trump survived an attempted assassination at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Read More |
07.15.24- 7 Ways to Prepare Your Kids For the Coming Crisis… How to Set Them Up to Thrive Editor’s Note: Doug Casey and the International Man team have published extensively on the topic of the coming crisis, including actionable information and advice on how to survive and thrive. Today, we’re publishing an article written by 18-year old Maxim Smith on how to prepare your children for the difficulties ahead. We urge you to read what he has to say… Western civilization has been circling the drain for decades, but the time is coming where much that we now take for granted will be flushed away. Read More |
07.13.24- Great Depression 2.0 - If you have that strange feeling like the full story about the U.S. economy isn’t being told, you’re not the only one. You might even be feeling like things are much worse than the Administration keeps touting through the corporate media. In fact, in this piece we’re going to explore several examples that illustrate just how the American public is being sold one version of the economic story, while being left in the dark about the rest of the story. Read More |
07.12.24- Is Home Ownership the American Dream or an Opportunity for Government Control? Does your family live in a home located in a single-family neighborhood of your choosing? A place where your kids are safe to play in the yard, you can enjoy the sun in your own lounge chair, the grill is ready to be fired up for dinner, and your neighbors wave hello? Best of all, are you counting on the equity value growing with each mortgage payment, preparing for your financial future? This is your home, your investment, your quality of life! Read More |
07.11.24- China's Great Resource Grab - Will It Affect Americans? With China and other foreign nations buying up farmland in the U.S., Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.us discusses the harmful ramification for Americans, and the future of our economy. In the past three years China has accelerated export agreements and industrial operations in Africa, becoming the continent's largest bilateral trade partner. Given Africa's complete lack of development and GDP, the Asian rush to cement economic ties might seem strange. However, I would argue that China is adapting to events that haven't quite happened yet. Read More |
07.10.24- China: The Helpless Giant Myths die hard. Among these is the great myth that China’s poised to take over the world. Today I’ll debunk that myth. No one seriously disputes the importance of China to the global economy. It’s the world’s second-largest economy after the U.S. and accounts for 17% of global GDP (or an even larger percentage if one uses an alternative accounting method called purchasing power parity). Read More |
07.09.24- Is This Crypto’s Big Moment? Instead of a sizzling summer rally, crypto once again finds itself at a crossroads. The year began with hope and excitement. Bitcoin had just led stocks off their lows during the fourth-quarter melt-up rally, gaining more than 60% off its October lows. Crypto bulls were giddy as two big developments appeared on the horizon: the impending Bitcoin ETF approvals – courtesy of the Securities and Exchange Commission – and the halving. Read More |
07.08.24- Commodities Halftime Report: Silver, Oil And Gold Were The Top Performers If you were in charge of feeding everyone this Fourth of July, you probably noticed a hike in prices. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the cost of a typical Independence Day spread for 10 people jumped to $71.22 this year, up 5% from last year and a whopping 30% from five years ago. Read More |
07.06.24- America the Beautiful How will we make America beautiful again?Because it’s the Independence Day weekend, I’m going to provide a little more of today’s content through easy-to-watch videos and humor to go nicely with your weekend, and I’m going to take a different approach in my own editorial today as well. Read More |
07.05.24- Is It Possible to Live Well Earning $30,000 a Year in America? Can a couple of hardworking people live well in America on $30,000 a year in earnings? Yes, if they're willing to do what's needed to make it happen. Is It possible to live well on $30,000 a year in America? Let's start with the raw numbers. I am starting with a couple, not an individual, so we're talking about two people living well on $30,000 earnings a year. Read More |
07.04.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: America’s True Patriots Here is the trouble with America’s jingos, warhawks, drum-beaters, glory hounds, world-improvers and idealists: They are not patriotic. A jolting, nearly scandalous claim, it is true. Do these Americans not cry tears red, white and blue? Read More |
07.03.24- Green New Scam Is Dying It’s no secret that the vast majority of the so-called elites are advocates of climate alarmism and are taken in by the Green New Scam. Whether this preference is based on ignorance of the science, ideological zeal, a willful desire to hurt American growth or simple greed because of their investments in Green New Scam infrastructure varies case by case. The typical upper-income supporter of the climate cult including academics, media figures and celebrities is probably ignorant of the fact that there is no evidence that CO2 emissions cause climate change and that the real causes are solar cycles, volcanoes, ocean currents and atmospheric moisture not caused by humans. Read More |
07.02.24- The Debate Should Be a Wake-Up Call For Americans There were plenty of surprises in last week’s presidential debate. For one, Americans who rely on the mainstream media for their news learned that they had been lied to for the past three years about President Biden’s capability to do the job he was elected to do. The realization that the media has been lying for years about Biden is a positive development, as, hopefully, thoughtful Americans might begin wondering what else the media has been lying about. For example, they will find out that the media has been lying to them for years about Russia and Ukraine and about the Middle East and elsewhere. Read More |
07.01.24- The Antifederalists A couple days ago someone forwarded me an article from November 17, 2019 by Gary M. Galles about the Antifederalists who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Mr. Galles felt the Antifederalists were pretty much on target with their objections to the Constitution and over the years I’ve felt the same way. The Christian statesman Patrick Henry, who I have high regard for, was an Antifederalist. Read More |
06.29.24- 21 Facts That Joe Biden It takes a lot of gumption to go on television and repeatedly lie to more than 300 million Americans. I honestly don’t know how Joe Biden does it. I suppose that after you have been lying for your entire career, lying comes as naturally as breathing does. Sadly, there are still millions of Americans that are falling for his lies after all this time. Biden would like for us all to believe that the economy is “booming”, that the southern border is under control, that our communities are safe, and that Ukraine is going to win their war against Russia. Our entire society is literally crumbling all around us, and Biden and his minions have brought us to the brink of global war. I am entirely convinced that he has been the worst president in U.S. history, and that is really saying something.Read More |
06.28.24- Odds Are High You’re Going To Need Your Survival Supplies in the Next Few Years In 2020 at the onset of the covid pandemic scare and right before the lockdowns I’ll never forget going on a grocery run on a Friday afternoon only to find near empty roads and near empty stores. The few other people shopping had a glassy stare in their eyes, like they were dazed or shell-shocked. For me and those I know that prep, it was just another day; for those that hadn’t prepped it was a nightmare of uncertainty. Read More |
05.27.24- If You’ve Got Money in the Markets… You NEED to Read This! Remember, never before has the U.S. shut down its economy voluntarily. Not during WWII, not during the Spanish flu, NEVER. So that alone was a game-changer as far as how our economy functions (and is measured). Moreover, never before has the Fed and the Federal Government pumped $11 TRILLION into the financial system in the span of 20 months. Consider that the U.S. economy was ~$20 trillion at the time… so we’re talking about policymakers putting an amount greater that 50% of GDP into the financial system. Read More |
06.26.24- Retirement Nightmare! Hordes Of Older Americans May Need To Go Back To Work Just To Survive The Social Security program was instituted to help elderly Americans thrive during their retirement years. Unfortunately, millions upon millions of retired Americans are finding that their monthly Social Security payments are simply not enough as the cost of living spirals out of control. One recent survey found that a whopping 85 percent of U.S. adults now consider inflation to be one of the most important political issues that we are facing, and seniors are being hit particularly hard. In fact, a different survey that was just conducted by the Motley Fool discovered that 44 percent of retired Americans are thinking of going back to work because they need more money to survive… Read More |
06.25.24- Mass Inflation Ahead — I’ve often mused about how fun it would be to have a time machine and travel back to the early 1960s, and go on a pre-inflation shopping spree. In that era, most used cars were less than $800, and a new-in-the box Colt .45 Automatic sold for $60. In particular, it would be great to go back and get a huge pile of rolls of then-circulating US silver dimes, quarters, and half dollars at face value. (With silver presently around $30 per ounce, the US 90% silver (1964 and earlier) coinage is selling wholesale at 22 times face value–that is $22,000 for a $1,000 face value bag.) Read More |
06.24.24- Judge Judy Says Trump's NYC Hush Money Trial Was "Nonsense" There's going to be a lot of conflicted daytime TV viewers who count both The View and Judge Judy in their daily lineup after this one... One of Manhattan's favorite judges, TV icon Judge Judy Sheindlin, weighed in on Donald Trump's criminal "hush money" trial last week in an interview with Chris Wallace, calling the spectacle "nonsense". Read More |
06.22.24- She’s Baaack! The answer is yes. She's running again. Hillary Clinton made a appearance at the Tony Awards, looking like a old car that just got a new paint job. Her hair was done in a more flattering style then the usual severe straight bangs. Hillary looked like she had lost weight and wore a dress that wasn’t her usual ‘shower curtain’ style. This immediately started tongues wagging about whether Hillary is being considered as a possible replacement for the Depends wearer in Chief, Joe Biden. Read More |
06.15.24- Sick of and Done With “Biden is not well. Everyone knows this even those who support him…the difference is they don’t care and that’s the most frightening aspect of this situation.” — Edward Dowd They’re kidding, right? That “Joe Biden” is capable of being president? Not just for another four-year term, but right here and now? This has got to be the most pitiful case of national gaslighting since 218-AD when the Romans installed 14-year-old Heliogabalus to front for their empire. Like “JB,” he reigned for four years. Read More |
06.14.24- Kyle Rittenhouse is Named Outreach Director for Texas Gun Rights On June 11, 2024, Texas Gun Rights announced Kyle Rittenhouse as the pro-gun organization’s outreach director.
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06.13.24- Surveys Show That The American People Absolutely HATE What Is Happening To The Economy, And This Is Why… The health of the economy has been one of the primary determining factors in many presidential elections, and it will be the same this time around too. Of course that is really bad news for Joe Biden, because the American people absolutely hate what is happening to the economy. Even though the media is constantly telling us that the economy is doing just fine, the vast majority of the population is not buying into the propaganda. Hordes of small businesses are failing, retailers are shutting down thousands of stores, and poverty is explodingall over the nation. But inflation is the biggest reason why Americans are so dissatisfied with the economy. According to one recent survey, it is “far and away”the biggest issue for American voters… Read More |
06.12.24- The Five Stages Of Denial When Skeptics Are Faced With Economic Collapse In light of the recent resurgence of inflation on top of increasingly rigged employments stats, declining manufacturing and stagnant wages I think it’s important to revisit a fundamental question: What does an economic collapse look like? As I have said for years an economic collapse is NOT an event, it’s a process. When people think of a historic crisis they usually imagine something like the stock market crash of 1929 at the beginning of the Great Depression. However, there were numerous indicators and warning signs leading up to that crash that should have tipped people off. There were even a handful of economists that voiced concerns about impending instability, yet they were ignored. Read More |
06.11.24- The Greatest Theft in World History We remain besieged by responses to our D-Day coverage. Certain readers nearly chain us Mr. Benedict Arnold. Reader B.H. — for example. From whom:
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06.10.24- Our Crisis of Competence
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06.08.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Obese Woman Wins Miss Alabama And People Have Questions An obese woman has won Miss Alabama, with the organizers of the contest insisting that the intention of the beauty pageant was to “foster a positive self-image.” Yes, really. After Sara Milliken learned that she had won the competition and would go on to represent her state at the national level, she hit back at critics who questioned her weight. Read More |
06.07.24- U.S. Must Continue Solar Growth to Meet Decarbonization Goals A solar energy boom is reshaping the United States’ energy transition. Solar still only accounts for 6% of the United States energy mix, but it’s already disrupting energy markets in major ways. The rapid rise of this variable energy form has also instigated a rapid rise in energy storage batteries and is forcing grids to become more flexible, acting as a catalyst for wide-sacel energy systems transformation in the United States. Read More |
06.06.24- Money Is Power, And The Global Balance Of Power Is Rapidly Shifting If you have enough money, you can buy just about anything. And when you are in a position where you can buy just about anything, you wield an enormous amount of raw power. Today, our world is completely and utterly dominated by those at the very top of the economic pyramid. Those in the top one percent of the top one percent are pretty much able to do whatever they want, and the rest of us are pretty much powerless to stop them. Read More |
06.05.24- Scam Watch: The Rise of A new scam technique called social engineering fraud is growing fast. The latest generation of AI tools makes it easier than ever for scammers to impersonate a friend or loved one. Here’s what to watch out for… In 2023, people in the U.S. reported losing over $12.5 billion to online fraud. This is a big increase from the previous year, showing that these scams are becoming more common. The FBI gathers this information from people who report fraud to their Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which received over 880,000 complaints last year. However, many scams are not reported, so the actual number is likely much higher. Read More |
06.04.24- Which Movie Will It Be? “It’s almost as if the principals (prosecutors and judge) were performing for their political audience — with a wink, a nod and a stage whisper (“watch this!”) as they ignore yet another fundamental element of American due process.”— Jack DeVine on “X” The ninnies of Bidenworld seem to not understand that by subjecting Mr. Trump to a kangaroo court they’ve made him the kind of outlaw that Americans revere above every other archetypal hero. He’s the new American Robin Hood, the people’s outlaw — with “Joe Biden” relegated as the wicked Sir Guy of Gisbourne, master of foul play and servant of the evil regent Prince John (Barack Obama). Read More |
06.03.24- It's Falling Hard Now All over the economy, metrics of all kinds are rapidly tripping downward. So, the bad news keeps rolling in for the stock market, even on a good stock day when the Dow soared 575 points because we caught an inflation beat that nudged down. This time it was in the PCE report. Last time it was in CPI. The CPI number didn’t look anywhere near as helpful once you looked beneath the surface, and I suspect this one won’t with the same kind of Deeper Dive. So, I’ll be covering that this weekend. Right now, I want to focus on what happened in the economy this week and in stocks as related news continue to pour in today. Read More |
06.01.24- From Mad (Social) Scientist “First of all, don’t target civilians.” ~Murray Rothbard’s first principle of just war in his essay, “Just War” Like Hans Hoppe I have been a friend of Walter Block’s for decades. I co-authored a book and an article with him, sponsored a guest lecture by him at my university; lectured twice at his invitation at Loyola University New Orleans; wrote dozens of online articles in his defense when he was libeled by the administrators of Loyola University Maryland for giving a world-class (but non-woke) lecture on the economics of discrimination; and wrote in his defense against the New York Times smear of him. Read More |
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