12.20.24- The Extremely Improbable, Exceedingly Unlikely, Exceptionally Amazing Birth of Christ
Michael Snyder

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
Mike Adams

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12.18.24- Unidentified Drones In America’s Skies? Smells Like A False Flag…
Brandon Smith

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
Jeff Thomas

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
Peter Reagan

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
Charles Hugh Smith

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
Tyler Durden

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:
Sean Ring

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
Michael Snyder

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
Michael Snyder

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
to Integrity and Honor?
Charles Hugh Smith

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
to Get Wiped Out
Michael Pento

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12.06.24- Not a Joke
James Howard Kunsler

"Stare into the sun and begin to glimpse the size of what you're up against." — Mike Benz

The 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
Doug Casey

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?
Michael Snyder

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
to Buy a Meme Coin…
Greg Guenthner

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.....
Karl Denninger

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:
Complacency, Then Crisis
Chris Martenson

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11.29.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey Drop
Les Nessman

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11.28.24- How the New National Debt Number Will Hurt Your Finances
Peter Reagan

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
Brandon Campbell

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
Of Very Deep Suffering
Michael Snyder

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,
and Booming Bitcoin
David Fairtex

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
Gordon, David

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
TL Davis

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”
Michael Snyder

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
James Howard Kunstler

“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
James Howard Kunstler

“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,
They Want Us Dead
Larry Klayman

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
Homeland Security
Ryan McMaken

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
Chuck Baldwin

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
Martin Armstrong

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
Is Soaring
Charles Hugh Smith

The soaring costs of home ownership are changing the metrics of unaffordability in important ways.

We all know that buying a house is now unaffordable, but owning a house is increasingly unaffordable, too. Gordon Long and I have laid out the sobering explosion of the costs of homeownership, a rise that shows no signs of slowing, much less reversing. Read More

11.12.24- How Do You Create A Recession?
Daniel Lacalle

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
Francis W. Porretto

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'
Pepe Escobar

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
and Maximizing Gains
Dudley Baker

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11.07.24- Top Three Global Bolt-Holes for Safety and Freedom
Doug Casey

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
Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA

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

11.05.24- Escape from Psychopathocracy
James Howard Kunstler

"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 Lindsay

You 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
Robert Gore

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

11.02.24- North Dakota voters Could End Property Taxes, and Pour ‘Gas on the Spark’ of a Growing Tax Revolt
USA Now

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11.01.24- How to…Rig Your Rigged Elections
Kit Knightly

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
Doug Casey

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
James Rickards

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
Paul Craig Roberts

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
Sundance

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
J. Peder Zane

“I just can’t wait for this campaign to be over.”

–The American people

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...
Peter Jacobsen

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:
Everything Is Fake
Charles Hugh Smith

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.  

Everything is staged, and therefore fake. Given the near-zero cost of posting content in the digital world, everyone discovered that staging wasn't limited to high-end political events, parades and Hollywood sets; since all the world's a stage, everything could be staged, from every selfie on social media to every video on YouTube to every public display. Read More

10.23.24- First Gold, Then…
Greg Guenthner

All eyes are on gold’s record-breaking run.

The gold bull is in full swing this month as the yellow metal extends to new highs… again. Gold has been on an absolute tear since breaking out above $2,500 for the first time ever back in September, jumping almost double-digits on its run above $2,700. Read More

10.22.24- Today’s Housing Bubble Could Sink Your Retirement
Peter Reagan

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
Jeremiah Hosea

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”
Thomas DiLorenzo

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
From Pathology to Politics: Public Health in America (Transaction Publishers).  That’s the year 2000, not 2020.  Tom’s comment was the result of his discovery that my coauthor and I had smoked out the dishonesty and left-wing political gimmickry of the “public health establishment” nearly a quarter of a century ago. Read More

10.18.24- If Trump Wins, Guess Who Will Be In Charge Of Certifying The Election?
Michael Snyder

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
John & Nisha Whitehead

“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%
Of Your Money
Lance Roberts

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:”

“The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.” Read More

10.15.24- How to Buy Gold for $900 per Ounce
James Hickman

Today’s letter is about how to go back in time.

A lot of us remember 2009 as a pretty tough economy. The whole world was in bad shape. Major banks had failed, panic had set in, governments were spending money hand over fist, and debts were rising fast. It was pretty brutal.

But if there’s anything nostalgic about 2009, it would be that, almost exactly 15 years ago, gold traded below $1,000 an ounce for the last time. Read More

10.14.24- “We Lose Total Control”
James Howard Kunstler

“We lose total control…” she said.

Hillary Clinton was recently on CNN calling for censorship of social media. Here’s her full quote:

We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave, you know, platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted. Read More

10.12.24- Kamala Unwinding
James Howard Kunstler

“. . . 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…
Brandon Smith

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
Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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
Vince Coyner

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
Lance Roberts

When most people hear the word “risk,” they think about wild market swings, scary headlines, and losing money overnight, but Howard Marks, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Oaktree Capital Management, takes a different approach. In his new video series How to Think About Risk, Marks digs deep into what risk is and how investors should handle it. Spoiler alert: It’s not just about volatility.Read More

10.07.24- Moon Landing Fraud in 45 Minutes
Bart Sibrel

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10.05.24- The American Economy Just
Dodged A Bullet… For Now
Peter Reagan

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
MN Gordon

Three Day Strike

Dockworkers on the East and Gulf Coasts went on strike on Tuesday. This marked the first major work stoppage by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) since 1977. It halted about half the nation’s ocean shipping imports and affected 36 ports from Maine to Texas.

Bananas, socks, automobiles, booze, electronics, Christmas goodies, and everything in between. The disruption would have cost the economy billions of dollars per day, upset supply chains, and pushed up consumer prices. Read More

10.03.24- They’re SO Not There To Help
Vox Day

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
T.L.Davis

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
Jim Rickards

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
William Briggs

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
Baron Bodissey

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?
 James Hickman

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
Michael Snyder

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
John & Nisha Whitehead

“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?”
Alastair Crooke

Judging by Israeli statements, the consensus is that Hizbullah will retaliate, but in a way that is different from the way it has responded until now.

“After today [the day of the pager simultaneous explosions], there can be no talk about settlement and solutions”, writes Ibrahim Amine, Editor of Al-Akhbar, known for his close contacts with the Hizbullah leadership: Read More

09.23.24- Coming US Election and What It Means for America’s Fiscal Future
David Stockman

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
Gerald Celente

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09.20.24- The Revolution Comes For Those Who Can’t Believe It. It Always Does.
Doug “Uncola” Lynn

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
Top 10 Tax Havens
Tyler Durden

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
Jim Rickards

We’re still trying to process the latest assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which took place on Sunday in West Palm Beach. But while that’s important to dissect as the election gets closer, it’s important to consider a development I’ve been warning about for over two years.

President Trump has long been an opponent of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) or as I call them Biden Bucks. (Now that Biden is essentially out of the picture, maybe I should rename them Kamala Bucks.) Read More

09.17.24- Arabica Bean Hits 2011 Highs As Coffee Inflation Soars
Tyler Durden

Consumers are furious that ground beef, orange juice, eggs, cocoa, and food in general have skyrocketed in price. For low—and middle-income households, a trip to the supermarket has become a painful experience in the era of Bidenomics. Adding to the strain, the cost of a cup of coffee will rise even higher into the end of the year and likely in the first half of 2025.  

Bloomberg reports that premium arabica beans are experiencing adverse weather conditions in top producer Brazil, pushing prices up in New York to a 13-year high.  Read More

09.16.24- The Impossible Dream: 70 Million Boomers Retire in Style
Charles Hugh Smith

The younger generations expecting to inherit the immense wealth piled up by Boomers in home equity and stocks may be in for a shock. 

I've reached the point in life where I see a sharp line dividing the adult populace: there are those of us who are old enough to retire who are taking care of very elderly parents / family members at home, and then there's everyone else. Read More

09.14.24- China Tariffs Won’t Save the Dollar; Gold the Only Real De-Dollarization Play
Doug Casey

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09.13.24- Easy Fixes for Social Security and Fair Taxes to End Deficits for Good
David Haggith

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
Thomas A. DeWeese

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
Michael Snyder

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
NS Lyons

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
To Destroy Our Economy
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

“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
the Future of America
James Hickman

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
Frank Bergman

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

09.05.24- Creeping Towards Conscription: Senate Defense Bill Looks to Automatically Register Young Men and Women for the Draft
Cruz Marquis

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
Frank Shostak

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

09.03.24- 09.03.24- Cancer researcher: IVERMECTIN can overcome chemotherapy resistance of TURBO CANCERS caused by mRNA vaccines
Mike Adams

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
Thorsten Polleit

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
Kevin Hughes

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)
Peter Reagan

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?
Victor Davis Hanson

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
Jim Quinn

“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
Ann Barnhardt

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
Tom Gantert

Presented With Rise in Border Crossings, Kamala Harris Chose a Long-Term Approach to the Problem
Biden, watching tens of thousands of migrants from Central America reach the U.S.-Mexico border just a few months into his administration, tapped his second-in-command to help address the influx — a decision that has exposed Vice President Kamala Harris to one of her biggest political liabilities. Read More

08.24.24- Reuniting America? Forget it!
Al Benson Jr.

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
Peter Reagan

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
Tyler Durden

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
Mark Jeftovic

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
Rex Moore

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
David Morgan

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08.17.24- BRICS, Inflation, Turmoil, and CDBC – What to DO?
Andy Sutton

Our column last week prompted so many questions from new readers that we decided to start from scratch. Long-time readers will recognize much of what we’re about to say, but we ask that you take the time regardless since we’re adding in valuable context that has been provided over time. Just looking at the world today, your first thought might be: crazy! However, compared with even a few years ago, things are much clearer. So, without further ado…Read More

08.16.24- US Living Standards In Grave Danger
Jeffrey Tucker

“Inflation cooled, lower than expected,” read the financial press on the release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for July.

One only needs to look carefully: when month-to-month changes are down, those alone get the headline. When they are up, as they are in July, the headline focuses on the 12-month trend. Every time.

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
Against The West
Brandon Smith

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
TL Davis

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
Michael Snyder

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
Daniel Lacalle

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'
Victor Joecks

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.

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Read More

08.08.24- Israel Is in a Death Spiral. Who Will It Take Down with It?
Jonathan Cook

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.
Michael Snyder

Do you believe Donald Trump?  He is entirely convinced that if we stay on the path that we are currently on we are heading into a “great depression”, and many believe that he is right on target.  Unemployment is rising, manufacturing activity is contracting, bankruptcies are soaring, home sales have fallen to depressingly low levels, the cost of living crisis never seems to end, poverty is soaring and homelessness is at the highest level ever recorded. Read More

08.06.24- And Suddenly Things Change
James Howard Kunstler

“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?
Brandon Smith

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!
James Howard Kunstler

“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
Are Rapidly Approaching
Michael Snyder

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
Peter Reagan

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
Doug Casey

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
Michael Snyder

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
of civilisation
Jacob Howland

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
Maura Dowling

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

07.26.24- Elon Musk warns ‘America is going bankrupt’ as interest payments on US debt ate up 76% of June’s income tax revenue
Jing Pan

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
Doug Casey

International Man: On July 13, there was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. What’s your take on what really happened?

Doug Casey: The official narrative is still crystallizing, as all the government employees and bureaucrats who were supposedly responsible for Trump’s safety scurry about to ensure their careers aren’t adversely affected. Now that Kim Cheatle, the security hen in charge of the Secret Service, has resigned to collect her fat pension as a public mea culpa, the Secret Service and FBI will conduct internal investigations. A few people may be reprimanded and placed on administrative paid leave for a couple of weeks. A question will be asked as to whether it was a lone nut or part of a broader conspiracy. The odds are 99 out of 100 they’ll conclude the former, whether or not it’s true. Read More

07.24.24- Myths…
Neal Ross

Do you remember how, when you were a child, you used to believe in all kinds of silly things? We used to believe that some guy lived up in the North Pole, making toys all year long, to be delivered to all the children who had been good on Christmas Day. We used to believe that the Easter Bunny delivered colored eggs and candy for us to find scattered around our homes. We used to believe that if we left a baby tooth that had fallen out under our pillow, that during the night the Tooth Fairy would come along and exchange it for a quarter; at least it was a quarter when I was a kid. Read More

07.23.24- Goodbye Mr. Biden
Padraig Martin

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
Patricia Anthone

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
Nick Giambruno

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
Adam Taggart

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
Stu Tarlowe

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
Dave Kranzler

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
Jim Rickards

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
Maxim Benjamin Smith

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 -
Is It Already Here?
Peter Reagan

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?
Tom DeWeese

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?
Brandon Smith

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
James Rickards

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?
Or Big Breakdown?
Greg Guenthner

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
Frank Holmes

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
David Haggith

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?
Yes--With These Conditions
Charles Hugh Smith

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
Brian Maher

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
James Rickards

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
Ron Paul, MD

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
Were Right on Target
Al Benson Jr.

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
Doesn’t Want You To Know
Michael Snyder

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
Brandon Smith

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!
Graham Summers, MBA

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
Michael Snyder

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 —
Save Your Nickels!
James Wesley Rawles

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"
And She "Resents" It As A Taxpayer
Tyler Durden

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!
Ben Garrison

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
James Howard Kunstler

“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
Jose Nino

On June 11, 2024, Texas Gun Rights announced Kyle Rittenhouse as the pro-gun organization’s outreach director.

“Joining Texas Gun Rights is an awesome opportunity to continue advocating for our constitutional freedoms,” Rittenhouse declared in a press release.
“I am excited to work with TXGR to mobilize Texans in support of their right to keep and bear arms. Together, we can ensure that our voices are heard and our rights are protected in Austin and D.C.” Read More

06.13.24- Surveys Show That The American People Absolutely HATE What Is Happening To The Economy, And This Is Why…
Michael Snyder

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
Brandon Smith

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
Brfian Maher and Jim Rickards

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:

I find the comments about D-Day very disturbing. There was no need to disrespect D-Day on that day. Whatever your views on D-Day they could have been discussed at any time than on that day. You do all Americans a disservice when you have to dig into every aspect of the shortcomings of American troops and service during war. Read More

06.10.24- Our Crisis of Competence
Charles Hugh Smith

Money being scarce saves us from many pernicious forms of mischief, and having too much money/credit leads to catastrophe. This is of course the exact opposite of the conventional belief that having lots of money makes life not just easier but expansive and, well, as perfect as human life can be.

On the scale of nation-states, having too much money/credit leads to the catastrophe of wars of choice, as having a couple million silver ducats to play with opens the door to imperial temptations, for example, assembling a great fleet of warships and sending this Armada to conquer troublesome England. Read More

06.08.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Obese Woman Wins Miss Alabama And People Have Questions
Paul Joseph Watson

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
Haley Zaremba

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
In Favor Of The Ultra-Wealthy Elite
Krishan Gopaul

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
Social Engineering Fraud
Birch Gold

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?
James Howard Kunstler

“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
David Haggith

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
to Mad Zionist
Thomas DiLorenzo

“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

05.31.24- Fiscal Armageddon looms and no one in power wants to talk about it. Here’s why you should be afraid
Frank Giustra

U.S Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s ebullient take on the economy, writes Frank Giustra, is akin to the captain of the Titanic acknowledging they were scraping alongside an iceberg but that the ship is intact — barring a few minor tears in the hull. >>

For the better part of two decades, a small group of us fiscally prudent types have been relegated to the wilderness for having the temerity to sound the alarm. Read More

05.30.24- Get Up, Stand Up, Don’t Give Up the Fight: Know Your Rights
or You Will Lose Them
John & Nisha Whitehead

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”—Thomas Jefferson

If America’s schools are to impart principles of freedom and democracy to future generations, they must start by respecting the constitutional rights of their students

Take the case of Lucas Hudson. Read More

05.29.24- Rancher: Record High Beef Prices May Be 'New Norm'
Matthew Lysiak

Regulations and economic factors drive beef prices up as small farms struggle.

Beef prices skyrocketed to a new record high this Memorial Day weekend as industry experts warn costs could continue to rise even higher if current regulatory and economic conditions remain unchanged.

Recently released data shows that “all fresh beef retail value,” a composite value based on choice beef, other beef, and hamburger retail prices, shot up to $794.90 in April, according to the Economic Research Council, the highest price on record. Read More

05.28.24- Quantitative Brainwashing
Jeff Thomas

We’re all familiar with the term, “quantitative easing.” It’s described as meaning, “A monetary policy in which a central bank purchases government securities or other securities from the market in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply.”

Well, that sounds reasonable… even beneficial. But, unfortunately, that’s not really the whole story. Read More

05.27.24- Giving Ukraine Missiles to Shoot Into Russia Is a Declaration of War
Mike Whitney

Congressman calls for direct strikes on Russia —House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul shows a map of potential targets in Russia >>

In a desperate attempt to stave off a humiliating defeat in Ukraine, “Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reportedly asked President Biden to greenlight Ukrainian missile strikes on targets deep inside Russia.” The change in policy will have no material impact on the ongoing ground war in Ukraine, although it could trigger a response that would put NATO in direct conflict with Moscow. In short, Washington’s looming defeat in Ukraine has compelled administration decisionmakers to implement a strategy that could precipitate a Third World War. Read More

05.25.24- The Electric Car Revolution is Coming Crashing Down
Will Jones

The state-subsidised electric car market has crashed in China and the country is trying to dump the vehicles on the West, but the same is happening here as well. For manufacturers it’s going to be a blood bath. Ross Clark has the details in the Spectator. Read More

05.24.24- Loose Talk About The End Of Everything
Victor Davis Hanson

After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin issued an odd one-sentence communique: “There can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be fought.”

No one would disagree, even though several officials of both hypocritical governments have previously threatened their neighbors with nuclear attacks. Read More

05.23.24- Un-Cancel Robert E. Lee
Gib Kerr

Cancel culture is all about tearing things down. It is inherently destructive. It builds nothing. It creates nothing. It only destroys.

Like the Vandals who destroyed Rome, cancel culture is destroying American culture. Systematically, it seeks to target and eliminate America’s heroes. It rages against symbols of our cherished traditions, urging its hateful mobs to “burn it down!”  It is fueled by anger, bitterness, envy, and vindictiveness. Read More

05.22.24- The “Old Money” Secret to Wealth
James Rickards

I believe that we’re heading for another liquidity crisis or financial crisis. That doesn’t mean it’ll happen tomorrow, but there are disturbing signs that it might not be too far off.

It doesn’t mean the world’s going to end. But investors who aren’t prepared could see large portions of their portfolios wiped out. It could take years to rebuild them, and many investors just don’t have the time to recoup those losses. Read More

05.21.24- People Have Woken up
James Howard Kunstler

The miasma of anxiety befogging so many brains in our troubled land begins to lift as every narrative served up by the US fascist intel blob goes annoyingly stale and impotent.

The worst media meme — that a vicious officialdom is “defending our democracy” — gets laughed out of the room now when repeated incessantly by such regime shills as Jen Psaki and Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC. Read More

05.20.24- ‘Billions’ of Vaxxed Will Die in ‘Onrushing Death Wave,’ Analyst Warns
Frank Bergman

A leading analyst has raised the alarm over concerns that an “onrushing death wave” will soon wipe out “billions” of Covid-vaccinated people around the world.

The warning was issued by Dr. Richard Sauder.

Sauder is an American researcher with multiple degrees and the author of several books. Read More

05.18.24- Ray Dalio believes there’s a 35% or even 40% chance of a civil war in the U.S.
Louis Goss  

Hedge-fund billionaire can foresee people moving to states that align with their political views while refusing to abide by rules made by federal authorities whose politics they disagree with

Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio believes the U.S. is “on the brink” of a civil war and sees a 35% or even 40% possibility of an internal conflict breaking out. “We are on the brink,” Dalio, who started Bridgewater Associates in 1975, said in an interview with the Financial Times. Read More

05.16.24- Academic Psychosis: ‘Epistemological Violence’
Ben Bartee

Of course, a lot, rather any one thing in particular, has gone off the rails within Western intelligentsia — which was once, a long time in the past now, the noble vanguard of the Renaissance and Enlightenment and the envy of the civilized world.

So this isn’t anything like a holistic autopsy of the institutionalized pursuit of knowledge, as that would fill volumes longer than the Bible. Read More

05.15.24- Two Serious Pieces
Of Financial Advice
Karl Denninger

Let's do the easy one first: There are plenty of people talking about taking Social Security early because it is likely to "go broke."

I'm going to make an assumption here: You're either not working or intending to not when you take it.  If you are working and have employer-provided health insurance then this doesn't apply to you, but if not it most-certainly does. Read More

05.14.24- I've Got A Bad Feeling About This
Michael Every

Ideally, I would have written this on May 4th not 14th, but I am going to talk Star Wars.

I was a fan in 1977, kept the flame alive when only battered VHS cassettes of the original trilogy existed, and was delighted to get prequels. Until the opening crawl announced, “The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.” I recall thinking, “This is my job - boring!” But the prequels were better than the sequels and all the TV shows I don’t watch. Indeed, the prequels’ clunky theme of democracy crumbling into autocracy, dispute over trade routes, then war, seems even more prescient than my 2016 ‘Thin Ice’ report, which underlined how the 21st century could echo the 20th, and our more detailed fragmented ‘World in 2030’ report in 2020. Read More

05.13.24- 9 Most Dangerous Cities in the US
Madge Waggy 

The Consequences Of Being In These Places Can be Devastating, If You Don’t Know What to Expect!

This article was created for educational purposes and I suggest you take these tips and information with a good heart because it can help you prevent an unpleasant situation! Read More

05.11.24- How Much Emergency Cash Should You Keep at Home?
Clark Barnes

If We Have A Regional Disaster Where You Can Bug Out to A Safer Location, Your Cash Should Serve You Well.

It is the final backup plan for a lot of us in the case of a disaster. A generous supply of cold hard cash to buy our way out of trouble, pick up as many last-minute supplies as possible or to acquire resources that are unavailable to anyone with a credit card in a world where the electricity is out and the internet is down. We frequently talk about having cash for emergencies, but how much cash should you have if the grid goes down? What will you be able to purchase with your doomsday supply and how long would it last in the first place? Read More

05.10.24- The Reality of Economic Collapse, and Why Skeptics Deny It
Brandon Smith

In light of the recent resurgence of inflation on top of dwindling 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 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. Read More

05.09.24- A Coming Recession Worse Than 2008? - Once In A Lifetime
Chance To Build Wealth
Codie Sanchez

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05.08.24- Bad News, I’m Afraid
James Rickards

Most economists don’t believe we could have stagflation today. The prevailing view is that recessions are characterized by higher unemployment and reduced spending, and inflation is triggered by full employment and increased spending and therefore they cannot both happen at the same time.

This prevailing view is wrong, as I explain today. Yet it’s a powerful narrative that blinds most analysts to situations where stagnation and inflation are both happening at the same time. Read More

05.07.24- The Left’s Three-Pronged Attack on Property, Family and Religion: Part 1
Dr Sherri Tenpenny

Nearly 60 years ago in Chile, a group of conservative Catholics led by Fabio Vidigal Xavier da Silveira declared that the Christian Democratic party became a communist tool to socialize all of Latin America. Vidigal wrote a book about it which was banned by the government at the time (hint: it was the Christian Democratic Party.)

Sound familiar?

It’s happening now in America and the biggest prize of all – creating a communist America – is at stake. Read More

05.06.24- UN Plans Tyrannical Future for You
Greg Hunter

Award-winning journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular book “Deep State” and the new best-selling book called “Indoctrinating Our Children to Death,” says the UN’s quest for total tyrannical control of your life is coming sooner than you could imagine. Newman explains, “The bigger story here that people are not paying attention to is the UN is coming together in September . . . and they are having ‘The Summit of the Future.’ They are telling us they are going to bring out radical drastic reforms in the structure of the UN . . . and the power of the UN . Read More

05.04.24- Has pay kept up with inflation?
Wendy Edelberg and Noadia Steinmetz-Silber

There are various ways to evaluate recent trends in real pay (i.e., nominal pay adjusted for inflation), including using different measures of pay, measures of inflation, and reference periods. These factors can lead to conflicting conclusions about the trends in real pay in the United States. In October 2023, we published a detailed analysis breaking down these differences. Read More

05.03.24- American Families Are Running Out of Time
Peter Reagan

As tired as are of hearing about inflation in these days, it’s taking a turn for the worse.

Here’s the short version: The overall inflation rate is heating up again (officially 3.5%), which is almost double the Fed’s target rate of 2%.

On top of that, personal budgets are getting tapped out (including credit cards), which could mean consumers won’t be able to keep up with increasing prices for much longer. Read More

05.02.24- Was Hitler Controlled Opposition?
Piere Simon

As long as the lie remains in our hearts,

it will not be possible to build a better world.

- Michele Camposeo

The roots of the “Hitler-Controlled-Opposition” myth go back to the 1920s and 1930s in the circles of Hitler’s political rivals, namely the German and Soviet Communist Parties, the leftists of the West and the hard left faction of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP).[1] The intention was obviously to prevent Hitler and the NSDAP from being elected, so, Hitler sued the socialist newspaper Berlin Vorwaerts that was defaming him with slogans such as “Hitler Got Jewish and Ford Money,” and won his libel case for which he was ironically awarded 6 million marks.[2] Read More

05.01.24- U.S. Colleges And Universities Are About To Go Completely Nuts Because Israel Is Planning A Really Big Move
Michael Snyder

What we are witnessing throughout the nation right now is truly sad.  At colleges and universities all over the United States, crazed protesters are setting up encampments, attacking Jewish students, replacing the American flag with the Palestinian flag, and illegally occupying buildings.  Unfortunately, these protests are likely to become even more heated in the days ahead because Israel is preparing to make a really big move.  No matter how negotiations for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza turn out, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is promising that the IDF will go into Rafah and eliminate the Hamas forces that are hiding there…Read More

03.16.24- From Capitalism to Corporatism
Jeffrey Tucker

In the 1990s, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backward.

We were all gaining access to fabulous things, including the web, apps, search tools and social media. But governments at all levels were stuck in the past using IBM mainframes and large floppy disks. Read More

03.15.24- 5 Big Tax Breaks for Older Americans
Peter Reagan

The last few years have featured heavy doses of economic turmoil for most older Americans trying to save for their retirement. That turmoil includes persistent (possibly long term?) inflation, pandemic panic, and even the potential for a near-term recession.

So let’s take a moment to cover a bit of good news.

Today, we present five meaningful tax breaks for older Americans. After all, you have better things to do with your money than let the government spend it! Read More

03.14.24- Net Zero, The Digital Panopticon, & The Future Of Food
Colin Todhunter

The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate what is essentially a social and economic reset within the context of a collapsing financial system. Read More

03.13.24- Is The Soaring Cost Of Living Stressing You Out? U.S. Households Are Spending An Extra $11,434 Per Year Just To Maintain The Same Standard Of Living
Michael Snyder

I used to really enjoy going to the grocery store.  I would relentlessly hunt for deals, and I would show off what I was able to find when I got home.  But now all of the bargains are gone.  Instead, there are ridiculous prices and there are even more ridiculous prices.  The prices for some of the things that I normally buy have doubled.  In other cases, the prices have almost doubled.  Of course the soaring cost of living is the direct result of decisions that our leaders have made.  They just kept borrowing, spending and flooding the system with money, and now the cost of living is wildly out of control. Read More

03.12.24- One Career Economist Exposes The Lies Of Modern Economics
Michael Every

Damascene Conversion

Today is all about US CPI. I’m not sure why given markets, and President Biden(!), believe G7 central banks --except Japan-- are going to cut rates soon, despite: sticky services inflation; the Red Sea crisis not being ‘In Deep Blip’; other brewing geopolitical crises, from fears of Iranian nukes to Armenia asking to join the EU(!); our base case of a Trump election victory, with inflationary higher tariffs forcing the Fed to stop cuts; and what's trying to play out in the global financial architecture, which gold and Bitcoin point to. Read More

03.11.24- The End of Safe Banking: What You Need to Know Now
Peter Reagan

After several major bank failures that ended the first quarter of last year, regulators are supposedly seeking to minimize the odds of another banking crisis.

(Hint: They weren’t very successful preventing what happened last year, the Fed’s cure ended up being worse than the disease.) Read More

03.09.24- Textbook Communism: American Version
Thomas DiLorenzo

The same U.S. government that spent hundreds of billions of dollars and squandered tens of thousands of American lives in its “cold war” to supposedly defend against a communist takeover of America also spent hundreds of billions on communist indoctrination in American schools for the past sixty years.  Higher education in America is essentially a socialist institution thanks to pervasive government funding, even for schools like Johns Hopkins University, the recipient of hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars annually, that laughingly call themselves “private.”  Grove City College and possibly Hillsdale College are the only two real private colleges left. Read More

03.08.24- The largest psychological warfare in history, and YOU are the experiment
Dr. Stephanie Coxon

The concept of classical conditioning originated from the experiments of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Pavlov was a physiologist who noticed that his dogs would begin to salivate over objects the dogs associated with food. Perhaps you are more familiar with the more recognized theory name, Pavlov’s Conditioning. Essentially, actions or behaviors are learned by connecting a neutral stimulus with a positive one. In his case, when a bell was rung, the dogs expected to receive food, and they would start to salivate in anticipation. You have been trained like this throughout your lifetime and perhaps haven’t caught on… yet. Let me help you. Read More

03.07.24- Covid Showed Us
Who Really Rules America
Ryan McMaken

This month marks the fourth anniversary of one of the most disastrous assaults on human rights in American history. It was on March 16, 2020 that the President Trump issued "guidelines" for "15 days to slow the spread" which stated that "Governors of states with evidence of community transmission should close schools in affected and surrounding areas." The administration instructed all members of the public to "listen to and follow the directions of your state and local authorities." Read More

03.06.24- Here's Why Government Should Stop Throwing Money at Green Energy
John Stossel

In California, which has a slew of renewable energy regulations, the cost of electricity increased three times faster than in the rest of the U.S.—and the state still doesn't even get reliable energy.

"We're building a clean energy future," says President Joe Biden.

Who is "we"?

Well, you pay for it. Read More

03.05.24- ‘Net Zero’ Is WEF Plot to Destroy Food Supply
Frank Bergman

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” agenda is actually a plot to destroy the food supply and eliminate the working class, a new report has warned.

An investigation by the Institute for Community Studies (ICS) found that unelected globalists at the WEF and United Nations (UN) are using “climate change” fears to seize control of the masses. Read More

03.04.24- Never Go Full Weimar: America’s Monetary Base Has Grown 6 Times Larger Since 2008
Michael Snyder

A lot of people have been waiting for a meltdown of America’s financial system, but the truth is that it is already in the process of melting down.  As you will see below, the size of the monetary base in the United States has gotten more than six times larger since 2008.  If we continue down this road, it won’t be too long before we start looking like Germany during the Weimar Republic.  But if we stop creating money at a feverish rate, we won’t be able to service our debts and we will plunge into a very deep economic depression.  Read More

03.02.24- From Trucker Boycotts To Grid Down, There’s Only One Way
To Survive A Food Crisis
Brandon Smith

This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Prepper Beef

If there is one reality that Americans need to accept, it’s that every system has a breaking point and there are no exceptions. Human beings are built to adapt and this has given us incredible resilience, but it also means we have a tendency to wait too long to fix the parts of our society that are broken. Instead, we let the problems build and fester until, sadly, the final straw falls and everything comes crashing down. Read More

03.01.24- Biden’s Coming for Your Cures
Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY)

As 2024 presidential election cycle kicks into high gear, it is important to note that we all share the goal of making prescription drugs more affordable for hard-working Americans and their families. Policy solutions can achieve both lowering the cost of everyday prescription medications while promoting access to future innovation for vulnerable patients. Read More

02.29.24- How The Economy Changed: There's No Bargains Left Anywhere
Alasdair Macleod

What changed in the economy is now nobody can afford to get by on working-class wages because there's no longer any bargains.

The economy has changed in many ways, and it's difficult to track the glacial movements over decades. One change that few seem to recognize or discuss is the disappearance of bargains: cheap rent, cheap meals at hole-in-the-wall restaurants, cheap transport, cheap travel, cheap services--all gone. Read More

02.28.24- Understanding the Difference Between Credit and Real Money
Alasdair Macleod

Due to its abuse pariculaly by governments, it is credit which presents the greatest risk to our finances today. To appreciate why this is so requires an understanding of what credit represents, and how it differs from real money, which is physical gold without counterparty risk. Credit is always matched by debt: your financial asset is always someone else’s obligation. The collapse of credit’s value happens when a currency (which is also credit) is not attached by exchangeability to gold. That is the danger facing the entire dollar-based financial system today, now that we see the US dollar is ensnared in the US Government’s debt trap Read More

02.27.24- Home Price Still 30-40% Too High
with Nick Gerli
Adam Taggart

Well, the average home price in America remains just about as unaffordable as it's ever been.

In fact, a recent report from real estate data provider ATTOM examined the median home prices last year for roughly 575 U.S. counties and found that home prices in 99% of those areas are beyond the reach of the average income earner. Read More

02.26.24- Are You Ready For Neo-Collectivism?
Mark E. Jeftovic

“Two-thirds of young people would like to live under an explicitly socialist economic system”

Even worse: They have no idea what socialism is.

Not long ago we looked at The Future Laboratory’s report on travel that predicted carbon passports and limits on personal CO2 emissions as a way to mitigate climate change. Read More

02.24.24- Americans Yearn for What Was
Once a Normal Life
Scarlen Valderaz

Americans nationwide are nostalgic for the “normal days” we once experienced. The days when children went to school and learned how to get along with everyone. The days when it was okay to disagree with others without the fear of losing your friendship. The days when meritocracy was championed and anyone could achieve their American Dream through hard work. Read More

02.23.24- The Biggest Threat to Dollar Dominance Isn’t What You Think
Phillip Patrick

Over the last year and a half, we’ve been watching the global dedollarization trend very closely. Peter Reagan has written about the BRICS nations’ R5 currency project, and we’ve seen Saudi Arabia dismantle the petrodollar pact. A growing number of nations are signing bilateral trade agreements for international trade in local currencies (effectively bypassing the dollar as an intermediate currency).  Read More

02.22.24- The Pitfalls of Central Planning
Charles Hugh Smith

If Central Planning can't expand its power, it expands its budget, at the expense of its programs.

Central Planning has an ominous totalitarian undertone, but there is a place for it in the social toolbox. The federal Interstate highway system was central planning, and so is Social Security. Many view America's patchwork electrical grid as not serving the national interest or its citizenry, and a dose of central planning to expand the grid's resilience and capacity might be the best way forward.  Read More

02.21.24- You Only Need To Cage A Bird If It Knows That It Can Fly
Caitlin Johnstone

One point I keep trying to drive home here in as many ways as I can is that this is the dystopia we were warned about. The main difference between this mind-controlled dystopia and the fictional dystopias in novels like 1984 is that in 1984 people knew they weren’t living in a free society, whereas in this dystopia the people believe they are free.Read More

02.20.24- Who Is the WOAT
(worst of all time) President?
Tom Raabe

A survey for your Presidents Day amusement.

I don’t know about you, but I’m all worn out with this GOAT thing. Every category has a greatest of all time. And while it makes for pregnant discussion, it does get a little exhausting arguing whether Michael Jordan or LeBron James is the GOAT of pro basketball. Whether Tom Brady earns such a monicker, or if the designation should go to Joe Montana or, now, after his Super Bowl LVIII triumph, Patrick Mahomes. And then, a couple of weeks ago, two GOAT football coaches left their jobs on the same day, Nick Saban and Bill Belichick — one voluntarily, the other not — and everything in the media was GOAT, GOAT, GOAT — all GOAT all the time. Read More

02.19.24- Should We Celebrate Presidents’ Day, or Washington’s Birthday?
Gleaves Whitney

People ask why a few of us presidential junkies would like to see Presidents’ Day changed back to Washington’s Birthday. The technical explanation has to do with a misguided law called HR 15951 that was passed in 1968 to make federal holidays less complicated. The real answer is simply this: George Washington is our greatest president, and too few American children know why. Read More

02.17.24- Positioning for an
Economic Hard Landing
Chris Martenson

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02.16.24- Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
Ellen Brown

The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?

This is a sequel to a Jan. 15 article titled “Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?”, discussing the threat of a 2024 “black swan” event that could pop the derivatives bubble. Read More

02.15.24- They Just Don't Get it!
David Haggith

Neither investors nor politicians have a clue about what the nation needs.

As I kind of anticipated, it didn’t take long for the delirious stock market to latch onto a new narrative and start recovering ground. Momentarily, stocks and bonds became a little more grounded in reality yesterday, but a new narrative was trotted out today to restore their hopium high. Read More

02.14.24- Senate: $60 Billion For Ukraine,
$0 For US Border
Ron Paul

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02.13.24- Think About It
James Howard Kunstler

“It’s not enough to be against globalism or the WEF, we have to also be for something better.” — Tom Luongo, Gold, Goats ‘n Guns

Mr. Luongo makes an important point. I want you to think about this: there is a reason that the WEF-Globalist cabal is losing the battle to control and dominate the rest of us. They are trying to power straight into the opposing currents of reality. Above all, they seek to centralize power and decision-making. But the world is moving in the opposite direction. All of the WEF’s aims founder on the macro trends unspooling in history. Read More

02.12.24- BRACE FOR WAR:
Civil War 2.0 cannot be avoided
Mike Adams

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02.10.24- Eventful Events
James Howard Kunstler

“Putin confirms: ‘The United States is not run by its elected officials.’” The Vigilant Fox on “X”

Historians of the future, gathered round their campfires poaching armadillo tail-flaps in their own shells, will harken back to the wondrous day in 2024 when they could watch and compare two heads of great nations present themselves to the world for assessment. There was Mr. Putin of the land called Russia, calmly discoursing in fine detail on a thousand years of his country’s history. And there was Mr. Biden of the USA, facing the White House press pool, angrily refuting a special prosecutor’s glum conclusion that the President was not mentally competent to be tried in court on the finding that he’d indeed mishandled classified documents. Read More

02.09.24- Household Belt-Tightening: Will The Trickle Become A Flood?
Charles Hugh Smith

The top 0.1% will weather a recession just fine, but that will offer cold comfort to the other 130 million American households.

It seems at least some households are realizing they need to rein in spending. This reality is obscured by statistics which distort the financial security of average households. As always, we have to separate the top 10% who collect 40% of the income and own about 90% of the financial assets from the bottom 90%, as the top 10% distort the risks faced by the bottom 90%. Read More

02.08.24- Even Better Than Goldilocks!
Brian Maher

We stand before the gates of Elysium. Paradise is in view.

Here are some recent headlines:

“U.S. Labor Market Sizzles With Blowout Job Growth, Solid Wage Gains”… Read More

02.07.24- The 5 Global Powers That Vie To Crush Each Other And Their Subjects
Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon

In the 1930s, the world had three powers that aspired to dominate the world: the communists of the Soviet Union under Stalin, who sought a worldwide proletariat revolution that redistributed wealth to the masses; the Nazis of Germany under Hitler, who sought to establish a global top-down fascist regime; and the United States under FDR, who sought to spread free-market capitalism throughout the world. Read More

02.06.24- Standard Chartered Sees Ether HItting $4,000 By May, When Ethereum ETF
Is Approved
Tyler Durden

One month ago, Standard Chartered predicted that with ETF approval in the rearview mirror, bitcoin would eventually rise up to $200,000. It has since turned its attention to ether and the inevitable ethereum ETF approval, and while it does not follow up with a similarly bombastic forecast, it nonetheless sees ETH rising to $4,000 by May 23, when it expect the Ethereum ETH will be approved. Incidentally, we agree. Read More

02.05.24- The Asset that Soared 100X Past Gold
Brandon Smith

If you’re a seasoned investor, you’re no stranger to market bubbles. From the Dot-com bubble in 2000 to the housing bubble in 2008, to the crypto mania in 2017, each one has striking similarities.

But even these modern bubbles have nothing on the strange market mania that overtook the Netherlands in the 1600s. This peculiar piece of history was one of the first examples of a market mania, offering some important lessons we can take today. Read More

02.03.24- Biden’s Budget Coverup – New Details Reveal Their Economic Sleight Of Hand
Peter Reagan

President Biden’s economic legacy might boil down to his administration getting in its own way.

By the looks of it, things could get much worse for the foreseeable future, before they get any better. On top of everything else that has transpired during Biden’s first term, even more disturbing facts are starting to come to light.Read More

02.02.24- The US has a $6 trillion problem over the next twelve months
James Hickman

Yesterday the Treasury Department announced that they expected to increase the national debt by a whopping $760 billion this quarter alone… and another $202 billion next quarter.

In short that means almost $1 trillion added to the national debt just in the first half of this year. And, again, these are the Treasury Department’s own estimates.Read More

02.01.24- The Biggest Government in History
Brian Maher

Today we sink to both knees… in gobsmacked awe.

We genuflect in praise. And we sing hosannas to the government of the United States.

Why? Read More

01.31.24- Scam Watch: The 4 Financial Scams to Watch Out For in 2024
Alex Kotliarskyi

• In 2023, fraudulent activities inflicted over $7 billion in losses to American consumers within the first nine months, up 5% from the year before.
  
  
• Studies indicate that being informed about a particular scam makes you 80% less likely to fall for it. Read More

01.30.24- The Second US Civil War
David Haggith

Chaos is building quickly for the US in wars abroad and in the US. The Houthis managed to route a US military ship that was escorting two Maersk ships to turn and skedaddle further out to sea, showing the little Houthis still have the upper hand. The US ship shot down two Houthi missiles but apparently failed to get a third, which hit the water and maybe exploded right beside one of the Maersk ships. (Accounts are by the military’s intention a little vague.) Read More

01.29.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Biden Demands Texas Stop Repairing Potholes in Federal Highways
James Hickman

What follows below is purely satire. But just barely. We hope you have a good laugh after a long week.

Texans have long complained about the pitiful condition of many of US federal highways that pass through their state.

But eventually the state government grew tired of waiting around for the Biden administration to repair the federal highways, prompting Texas Governor Greg Abbot to take matters into his own hands. Read More

01.27.24- Will We Ever Get the Truth?
Jeffrey Tucker

Donald Trump will certainly get the Republican nomination. With that the issue of truth and honesty about what happened on March 13, 2020, and beyond will likely not be pushed by the executive branch even if Trump wins.

No one in his circles wants any talk of this subject, even if just about every bit of the current national crisis (health, economics, cultural, societal) traces to those grim days of lockdown and the ensuing disaster. We are very far from gaining anything like transparency on what precisely happened. Read More

01.26.24- The Two Worst Retirement Savings Traps – and How to Avoid Them
Peter Reagan

Americans who are saving for their retirement have been having a rough time, mainly thanks to the economic turmoil that never seemed to end after the 2008 financial crisis.

But there could be a silver lining here…

There are two things that you can start to manage today, which could help to improve the stability in your retirement portfolio. Those two things are: Risk and expectations. Read More

01.25.24- Texas Defies 'Lawless' Biden, Invokes Right To Self-Defense From 'Invasion' With More Razor Wire
Tyler Durden

Texas Governor Greg Abbott just drew a hard line in the sand, putting the Biden administration on notice that he's declared the migrant crisis an "invasion" and invoked Texas's constitutional authority to defend and protect itself.

According to Abbott, "That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary. The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border." Read More

01.24.24- An Ethereum ETF May Be Coming Sooner Than You Expect
Lucas Kiely

Bitcoin ETFs were delayed because of politics. Now that we have clarity - along with seven deadlines between May and August - Ethereum ETFs aren't far away.

We finally have a Bitcoin spot ETF — an event few of us thought we would see in our careers — the industry has now turned to the approval of an Ether spot ETF as its next target. Those gearing up for another decade of juicy headlines, though, will be disappointed. Read More

01.23.24- All-Time Highs For Stocks As Bitter Economic Headlines Persist
Lance Roberts

As the stock market hit all-time highs this past week, there remains an interesting disconnect from the more dour economic concerns of the average American. A recent survey by Axios, a left-leaning website that supports the current Administration, addressed this issue. Read More

01.22.24- David Stockman on The Recent Attack on Yemen…
And Whether The US is Starting Another War
David Stockman

Here we go again. The “Joe Biden” thing just started another war in Yemen without a constitutionally compliant declaration by Congress. And it/they did so against a rag-tag tribe of desert insurgents who cannot possibly harm the liberty or security of the American homeland.

After all, the most fearsome missile possessed by the Houthi is the Burkan-3, which has a maximum range of 750 miles. Yet the last time we checked, the distance from Yemen to Washington DC was 7,200 miles. So why is the GOP leadership branch of the Uniparty saluting Sleepy Joe with a chorus of attaboys? Read More

01.20.24- Bidenomics Coverup –
Latest Inflation Report Hides Something Big
Peter Reagan

After 3 years of relentless (sometimes historic) inflation, it’s about time some good news made its way through the economic carnage.

Some categories of goods have finally moved into deflationary pricing. That is, a handful of items are starting actually decline in price. Read More

01.19.24- Will Davos Elites Use YOUR Money To Survive The Economic Collapse?
Peter Reagan

Even though Biden is touting a strong U.S. economy (it isn’t), the global economy is continuing its multiyear slide.

In fact, major institutions are shedding light on years of decline, high interest rates, lagging performance, and much more.

Let’s start with the World Bank, which has issued a report on what’s happening globally: Read More

01.18.24- Are There US Quarantine Camps Right Now?
Jeffrey A. Tucker

"The problem is not only the abuse; it is power itself."

Two years ago, attorney and Brownstone Fellow Bobbie Anne Flower Cox took note of the New York State executive order to permit the building and use of quarantine camps. The litigation against it is still in process. We might have supposed it was an outlying case. That, sadly, is not true. Read More

01.17.24- Are You an Enemy of the State?
George F. Smith

Donald Trump, Julian Assange, Alex Jones, and Rudy Gulianni are in deep trouble with the US state.  How about you?

Most likely you feel safe because your voice hasn’t attracted a large following.  What would the state’s enforcers gain by attacking a little guy?  They’re big game hunters.  Pull the plug on the big guys and their everyday followers float away like bathtub water down a drain. Read More

01.16.24- Cheers to You, WEFers of Davos!
James Howard Kunstler

"I have decided to unilaterally rebrand Disease X! It is now Disease DIC! Debt Implosion Cover-up” - Edward Dowd

The nabobs and panjandrums of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meet up at Davos, Switzerland, the next several days to lay plans for their latest assault on humanity. This year’s theme is “Rebuilding Trust.” Did you just blow your coffee through your nose? The outfit that coordinated the world-wide Covid-19 response (that perhaps birthed the very concept of Covid-19 itself), and especially pushed mRNA vaccines on the credulous global public — this gang of super-wealthy, super-connected, super-important celebrity punks, poohbahs, pricks, and predators wants a cuddle. Read More

01.15.24- Americans Bought Nearly 16 Million Firearms Last Year in Defiance
of Biden’s Gun Control Push
Levi Mikula

The latest statistics for firearm sales is in, and they show that Americans bought nearly 16 million firearms in 2023 — despite Biden’s gun control push.

According to the FBI’s National Criminal Background Check System, 29,854,186 background checks were logged in 2023. This beats 2022, which saw 28,904,713 background checks, Guns.com reported on Thursday. Read More

01.13.24- The Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything
Tim O’Shea

Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1956 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe described by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Read More

01.12.24- Why 2024 Will Be
the Year of the Illegal Alien
William J. Davis

The Biden administration’s self-inflicted crisis at the border has devastated America over the past three years, but the worst is still yet to come.

The border crisis has escalated even further in recent months as more than 300,000 illegal aliens crossed the southern border in December, shattering a new record for monthly border crossings. After setting records for illegal crossings in 2021 and 2022, the Biden Administration’s anti-border policies once again likely facilitated a record number of illegal crossings at the southern border in 2023, although the official numbers for last year have still not been released. Don’t expect the records set in 2023 to last very long either, because 2024 is likely to be an even worse year for border security. Read More

01.11.24- Avoiding the next inflation may now require a Zombie Apocalypse
Simon Black

Earlier this week, leaders from both major parties in the Land of the Free announced a grand bargain that, in theory, should avoid a government shutdown later this month.

According to their agreement, Congress will supposedly cap its ‘discretionary’ spending at $1.6 trillion for Fiscal Year 2024. That’s down from about $1.7 trillion in FY23. Read More

01.10.24- 5 Must-See Predictions
Greg Guenthner

Everyone and their brother is making predictions for 2024. Take it all with a big grain of salt, but here are mine.

1: AI will have an enormous effect on the economy. I spoke to the CEO of freelance‌.c‌om, the largest freelancing site in the world with over 60 million freelancers vying for gigs.

“A logo designer used to take a week to make a logo. Now she can make 10 logos in a day,” he told me. “Same goes for programmers, copywriters, animators, etc.” Read More

01.09.24- Let the Games Begin
James Howard Kunstler

“To an authoritarian ruling elite insane narratives serve as both loyalty test and humiliation ritual.” —Kit Knightly

The ordeal of the holidays, and the void of action that attends it, is over. Now, history resumes its awesome out-spooling. Will it be tyranny, collapse, war, civil war, renewal? Probably some wicked combo of all that. The players are taking the field again. The great engine of the game comes back to life with a cough and a rumble. Read More

01.08.24- A brief recap of America’s 2023 fiscal train wreck
Simon Black

Jacques Turgot must have cried himself to sleep the night that he reviewed the French government’s annual financial report in early 1775.

The numbers were gruesome; France was so heavily indebted by the mid-1770s that the entire nation was on the verge of a major financial crisis.

But Turgot was smart. Borderline brilliant. So, if anyone could restore France to its former glory, it was him. Read More

01.06.24- Weekend Rant: 5 Bizarre Features
of the Modern Left
Jeffrey Tucker

The political left that I came to know in college — that one that rallied around free speech, reason over faith, fairness to all and peace — seems to have evaporated completely.

I barely recognized what’s replaced it. Truth is, I cannot make heads or tails out of any of it. It seems like this chaotic assembly of seemingly random biases, all shoved together in a package like a grab bag of the bizarre and dangerous. Read More

01.05.24- America’s Empire Of Money Has Reached The Endgame
MIchael Snyder

We did it Joe!  It took a tremendous push down the stretch, but the U.S. national debt was able to hit the 34 trillion dollar mark before the end of 2023.  At this moment I am just so overwhelmed that I don’t know who to thank first.  Over the past few years, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chucky Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy and so many other hard working spenders have been instrumental in helping us reach this remarkable achievement.  And we never would have gotten here without the relentless help of CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the New York Times, the Washington Post and all of the other mainstream news outlets that kept assuring the American people that it was okay to steal trillions of dollars from our children and our grandchildren. Read More

01.04.24- Bold Predictions for a Turbulent 2024
Doug Casey

International Man: How would you summarize what you see coming in 2024?

Doug Casey: I hate to sound a pessimistic note, but you have to call them as you see them. News flash: There are storm clouds on the horizon. I’m tempted to say the presage “The Perfect Storm,” but the phrase has become hackneyed… and it understates the case. Instead, let me say I think it will be worse than even I think it could be. Read More

01.03.24- Why 2024 Will Be
"The Year of Chaos"
David Haggith

There is no center to hold.

Many of us thought 2023 was a horrible year, and we are glad to bid it good riddance. 2024 certainly has started off as a year of chaos with a massive Japanese earthquake and tsunami. That is not the kind of event one can predict, so I am not suggesting, in the least, that it provides evidence for my “Year of Chaos” prediction for 2024. Rather, it symbolically foreshadows what I believe this year will look like everywhere due to all the pressures that built up in 2023 that still have to play through beneath whatever new troubles swoop in on top of us in a US election year that is certain in nearly every view I come across to be the most politically tumultuous and divisive year we’ve seen in our lifetimes. Read More

01.02.24- Fasten Your Seat Belt
Jeff Thomas

Imagine you’re in mid-flight on a passenger jet, and the captain flies directly into a Category Five hurricane.

The flight attendant calmly says, “The captain has turned on the ‘Fasten Seat Belt’ sign, as we may be expecting some turbulence.”

Of course, the above situation is absurd, as no passenger jet pilot would ever put his passengers in such danger. Read More

01.01.24- Taking Stock of Where We are as We Enter the Unknown
David Hggith

Reflections on the path we've travelled since the Covidcrisis transformed our world.

I truly never thought the US would go this entirely crazy in so short a time. I had no doubt it would go crazy, but the speed at which we slipped down the rabbit hole since Covid hit in 2020 is head-spinning: The massive pile-up of government debt at an exponential rate exceeded everything we have ever experienced—even when trying to save ourselves from The Great Recession and its crashing behemoth banks. The exposed follies of the Fed as it claimed inflation was transitory with all the public willingness to let it keep printing mountains of money, which so obviously would fuel inflation in a time of shortages, was a monstrous error that has cost us all in the form of skyrocketing inflation. Read More