05.23.25- What is Islam to Christianity?
Byron King

I write you from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam. Despite growing up in America as a Catholic, I’ve always loved the Middle East. That’s down to my love for Indiana Jones and traveling through the region as a professional and tourist.

I’ve taught here once and in Abu Dhabi many times. I’ve also traveled through Dubai, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. The cuisine is delectable, and the people are friendly. Their architecture is unique, and their art sublime. Read More

05.22.25- Trump Effect: U.S. Senate Unanimously Approves ‘No Tax on Tips’ Bill
Simon Kent

Hard working Americans can now keep more of the money they earn thanks to the No Tax on Tips Act as passed Tuesday by the U.S. Senate.

The Guardian notes the bill was introduced in January 2025 by Sen. Ted Cruz.  A bipartisan group of co-sponsors subsequently joined to give it their unanimous backing.

No objections were made resulting in the free passage of the bill which now goes to the House. Read More

05.21.25- The Real American Dream:
Starting Over
Charles Hugh Smith

It seems to me the real American Dream is not measured solely by money, it's more a measure of the freedom to Start Over.

The conventional definition of The American Dream is anyone can achieve middle-class security if they work hard, work smart, persevere and are frugal / prudent / save and invest a healthy chunk of their earnings.Read More

05.20.25- Kefir Improves Memory by 66% in Alzheimer’s Patients
Dr. Joseph Mercola

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurological disorder that gradually erodes memory, language, decision-making, and behavior. Over time, it strips away independence and identity. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it accounts for 60% to 70% of all dementia cases.1 By 2050, the number of people living with Alzheimer’s is expected to hit more than 150 million globally.2 Read More

Get Rich at a Medium Pace
Adam Sharp

The great Ben Franklin once said, “Money makes money. And the money that money makes, makes more money.”

This is the essence of a dividend reinvestment program (DRIP). When you own a stock that pays high dividends and reinvest them into more shares of that company, you’re compounding. Read More

05.17.25- Will Medicaid Cuts Derail Your Retirement Plans?
Peter Reagan

What happens when healthcare costs rise… but your safety net shrinks? Millions of retirees could face tough choices if Medicaid cuts move forward. Here’s what you need to know – and how to protect yourself…

There’s an old saying that the only certain things in life are death and taxes, and while there’s a lot of truth to that statement, there are a number of things that, while not “certain,” are certainly likely. Read More

05.16.25- The Great Simmering in the West
JB Shurk

People all over the world are worried about the future.  While regional wars continue to fester, the prospect of global war weighs heavily on many.  However, likely belligerents are not all foreign aggressors.  Nearly a century of globalization has erected a web of clunky international institutions that wield tremendous power while disregarding sovereign borders.  Concomitantly, mass immigration has transformed once-homogenous national populations into stews of many competing cultures and religions.  Battle lines forming inside nations are more serious than those forming among them. Read More

05.15.25- "Rogue" Devices Found Hidden In Chinese Solar Panels Could "Destroy The Grid"
Steve Watson

Undisclosed communication devices reportedly discovered in Chinese-manufactured solar panels and related equipment have sparked concerns among U.S. officials about the vulnerability of the nation’s power grid, according to a Reuters report. 

These “rogue” devices, found over the past nine months, could potentially destabilize energy infrastructure and trigger widespread blackouts, sources familiar with the matter told the outlet. Read More

05.14.25- It’s Not “If;” It’s “When”
Jeff Thomas

Cicero had it right when he described the Sword of Damocles.

To be the leader of a country is like having a sword constantly dangling over your head from a single horse hair. You never know if or when the sword is going to cause your demise, but you know that the danger is ever-present.

That is just as true today as it was in Cicero’s time, but the modern-day Sword of Damocles hangs over the heads of not just the world’s leaders. It hangs over the heads of the populations as well. Read More

05.13.25- THE DEEPER DIVE: The China Syndrome of Trade Deals
David Haggith

Having laid out what a bad deal looked like, I now have to lay out what a terrible deal for the US Trump just managed to pound out of China. Even more than the UK deal, this one was a win where Trump can boast that he held China’s feet to the fire until he got them to agree to let us tax ourselves 30% on all the vast purchases we get from China, our biggest global trading partner! China acquiesced, and said, in compensation, they would agree to only tax their citizens 10% on everything they buy from the US. Read More

05.12.25- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Trump’s ‘Nuclear’ Deportation Options
James Rickards

The battle between the Trump administration and the federal courts on the topic of deportation is intensifying.

The outlines are clear. Biden and his corrupt cronies left the U.S. southern border wide open for four years. Estimates vary but it’s likely 8 million illegal aliens crossed the border. But the actual number could be 10 million or higher. Of course, some just came for a better opportunity, but many were murderers, terrorists, rapists, sex traffickers, Chinese spies and every sort of violent low life you can imagine. Read More

05.10.25- Genocide, Blood, and Dividends
Adam Sharp

In the 1987 film Wall Street, Michael Douglas famously played Gordon Gekko, a cutthroat corporate raider.

But compared to the Dutch pioneers who founded the world’s first publicly-traded company, Gordon Gekko was a softie. Those Dutch guys were literally cutting throats in pursuit of profit. Read More

05.09.25- The Two Catalysts Driving The Next Great Monetary Reset
Nick Giambruno

All of this points to something big on the horizon, driven by two key catalysts.

We’re entering a pivotal moment—one where the economic, monetary, and geopolitical landscape is shifting. Read More

05.08.25- Is it Finally Time to Buy Platinum?
Adam Sharp

Spanish conquistadors came to the Americas in search of gold and silver. And they found plenty.

But while they were mining, they occasionally found a strange silvery metal unlike any other. They called it “platina”, meaning “little silver”.

At the time, they believed this “platina” was young gold that would take a few more thousand years to mature and turn yellow. This platina was difficult to work with, however, so it was essentially worthless for a long time. Read More

05.07.25- Toxic Fog, Historic Freezes, “Nuclear” Wildfires! Weather Warfare 
Dane Wigington

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05.06.25- The Terminal Rot in Corporate America
Charles Hugh Smith

Corporate America took advantage of the Covid shortages and fiscal largesse to profiteer on a scale criminals could only dream of. 

One of humanity's most pernicious traits is the ease with which we habituate to conditions over time that we would have rejected out of hand if the transition had been sudden. This is the essence of what I term Anti-Progress: over time, what was solid melts away into thin air, what worked no longer works, but we no longer notice because wretchedness and decay have been normalized, i.e. accepted as "the way things are," or hyper-normalized: everyone knows things no longer work but we're unable to change the system, so we play-act that everything's fine as a means of not going crazy. Read More

05.05.25- Whales AND Minnows
Swimming to Gold
Matthew Piepenburg

Many, from Elliot Wave experts to the dollar-hugging faithful, are asking if we are now reaching a moment of “peak gold”?

The evidence, and answer, is: No.

Our Currency, Our Problem

Gold has made massive price moves in 2025, touching $3500 just days ago and finally making headlines in a politicized world, media and financial system that has otherwise deliberately attempted to ignore and downplay gold for decades. Read More

05.03.25- Hitler had Goebbels,
China has the US Legacy Media
Richard Blakley

President Trump gave a wonderfully encouraging speech at a rally celebrating his first 100 days in office, where he spoke of numerous actions his administration has already accomplished.  The speech covered the progress that Trump is making to return common sense, decency, protection, and logical thought to America. Read More

05.02.25- AI’s (Extreme) Leftist Bias
Adam Sharp

Using AI can be magical. It has helped me understand obscure investment concepts which aren’t covered well anywhere else.

It has shown my son exactly how to do a geometry problem, so I don’t have to relearn something forgotten 30 years ago.

AI has helped me understand legal contracts which previously would have required paying a lawyer hundreds of dollars per hour.

Magical. Read More

05.01.25- The Rio Reset and
the End of Dollar Privilege 
Phillip Patrick

The Rio Reset is real, it’s happening and it will change our lives in ways that are hard to imagine. Phillip Patrick brings an international perspective to the issue. He explains the privilege most Americans have enjoyed without knowing it – and what happens when that invisible privilege fades…

If you’ve ever seen one of my appearances on Steve Bannon’s War Room, you might’ve guessed I was not born in America. Read More

04.30.25- American Real Estate Has a Sudden, Historic Shift
Peter Reagan

Have you ever wondered why the media pays so much attention to home sales?

If you have, you’re certainly not alone in wondering. After all, without being given the context about how home sales fit into the overall picture, it can just seem like that much extra noise in our already busy, media saturated culture. Read More

04.29.25- Buckle Up, Things Are About to Get NASTY!
Graham Summers, MBA

As I keep warning, a tsunami of liquidity/ money printing is about to hit the financial system.

Indeed, by the look of things, it’s coming even sooner than I expected!

While the Fed focuses on the deeply flawed and highly gimmicked “official” economic data in the U.S., REAL WORLD signals are telling us the economy is rolling over in a big way. Read More

04.28.25- The Elusive Meaning of Equal Opportunities
Wanjiru Njoya

When liberals argue in favor of equal opportunities, they often presume their meaning to be self-evident. They insist that they do not demand equal outcomes, only equal opportunities. Their aim in demanding equal opportunities is usually to ensure that everyone has an equal starting position in life, or at least that nobody is explicitly prevented from participating in any activities of their choice. This is what liberals mean when they say everyone should have an equal opportunity to get an education or an equal opportunity to enjoy access to good healthcare. They mean that nobody should be arbitrarily barred from such participation. Often this is expressed in the non-discrimination principle—the idea that nobody should be excluded based on his or her race or sex or any other personal characteristics. Read More

04.26.25- Europe’s Anti-American Shift
Brandon Smith

Nationalism is villainous and globalists are the heroes? It’s a propaganda message that has been building since the end of World War II and the creation of globalist institutions like the UN, the IMF, World Bank, etc. By the 1970s there was a concerted and dangerous agenda to acclimate the western world to interdependency; not just dependency on imports and exports, but dependency of currency trading, treasury purchases and interbank wealth transfer systems like SWIFT. Read More

04.25.25- The Wile E. Coyote Recession
Charles Hugh Smith

So where are corporate profits going to come from as globalization, price-gouging, planned obsolescence, shrinkflation and immiseration run out of rope?

We all know there's a time lag between the moment Wile E. Coyote runs off the cliff at full speed and the moment he realizes there's nothing but thin air beneath his feet. His expression in the second before he begins his descent communicates surprise, fear and a woeful awareness of impending impact with unforgiving ground. Read More

04.24.25- Ruining the Money
Lawrence W. Reed

By the start of the 20th Century, governments and their diplomats around the world dubbed the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire “the sick man of Europe.”

Conventional wisdom, reflected in high school and college history texts to this day, cites these contributing factors in the 500-year decline of what was once one of the biggest and most powerful domains in the world: a failure to industrialize and modernize; internal strife; conflict with neighbors, particularly Russia; and siding with Germany in World War I.  Read More

04.23.25- "After Shorts Are Squeezed, Will Markets Turn Lower Again"
Peter Tchir

If We Could Turn Back Time

I think this is the second time I’ve used a Cher song in the T-report (must be a guilty pleasure of mine). I also think that some of my colleagues at Academy have some firsthand knowledge of the filming of the video. In any case, as headline after headline hit last night, this is the song that kept popping into my head.

If we could turn back time?

If we went back a few weeks ago and had announced:  Read More

04.22.25- EXPOSED: Secret War Raging
on US Borders
Steve Eichler

One of the largest and most expensive secret wars in the history of these nations is targeting Canada, Mexico, and the US. Not only are lives and ruined communities at stake, but no one seems to be able to stop the carnage.

Native American communities on reservations, particularly those situated along borderlands. From Arizona to Montana, and even into territories that straddle the U.S.-Canada line, drug cartels have discovered both opportunity and immunity on tribal lands, and American Indian communities are paying the price.  Read More

04.21.25- Cocoa: The Global Trade Of "Brown Gold"
Tyler Durden

Last year, a cocoa shortage drove up prices for European chocolate makers and consumers. 

This was largely due to an exceptionally wet rainy season as well as a viral cocoa disease that severely impacted the 2023/2024 harvest in West Africa. However, the situation is expected to improve this year, according to industry experts. Read More

04.19.25- The Democrat Party and Law and Journalism Schools Are Americans’ Worst Enemies
Paul Craig Roberts

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, one of the most knowledgable and seasoned law practitioners in the US, has expressed concern about federal district judge Boasberg’s threat to hold President Trump in contempt for refusing to allow Boasberg to determine whether or not the executive branch can enforce US immigration law. Dershowitz has cautioned Boasberg against assuming power that the judiciary does not have. Dershowitz says that Boasberg’s threat shows weakness, not strength.  As for the whore media’s line that Trump’s disobeying of a judge’s order has caused a “Constitutional Crisis,” Dershowitz says pure nonsense. Read More

04.18.25- Open the Eyes of the Blind! Mankind’s Struggle With the Existence of God
Justin O. Smith

Mankind has struggled with the notion of a higher power, an omnipotent all-powerful being we have all come to know as God, in one form or fashion, since the beginning of time when tiny “humans” emerged from the soup of the earth and began worshipping the stars, moon, sun and all the elements of Mother Earth, along with Her various and wondrous creatures – the wooly mammoths and bears and saber-tooths of the land. And today, as we Christians prepare to celebrate the defeat of death by Jesus, Our Lord and Savior, one cannot deny that we follow but one of several major religions on earth, and therefore, as much as we may know we have the Word of the One True God, it is and always has been a matter of faith, more than anything any one person can prove.  Read More

04.17.25- The NWO Religion: How The Woke Postmodern “Faith” Glorifies Evil
Brandon Smith

It’s not as if it was ever a secret: The very core of the woke movement is fundamentally rooted in evil. The general definition of “evil” being a conscious act of deception and destruction, the deliberate victimization of others for the sake of personal power, pleasure and gain. When I try to imagine what a religion of evil might look like I consistently come back to the far-left woke movement along with its rabid mantras, agendas and self righteous narcissism. Read More

04.16.25- If Negotiations With Iran Fail, The Course Of Human History Could Quickly Take A Turn In An Apocalyptic Direction
Michael Snyder

President Trump says that we have “a problem with Iran”, and he insists that he is going to be the one to solve that problem.  If the Iranians are willing to compromise, there is a chance that we could see a negotiated deal.  If the Iranians are not willing to compromise, there will be military action against Iran.  The Iranians are prepared to hit back with everything that they have got if their nuclear facilities are attacked, and once that happens there will be no turning back.  So there is a lot riding on the negotiations with Iran that began last weekend and that will continue this upcoming weekend. Read More

04.15.25- Embargoes: The Flip Side of Trump’s China Tariffs
Byron King

Happy April 15th. Remember to file your tax return, or else file for an extension. (Okay, that’s my public service announcement for the day.) And welcome to many new subscribers who have joined us in recent weeks. Now, on to business.

This note pertains to President Trump’s tariff schedules; or rather, his on-again, off-again tariff schedules. They come, they go. They get put in place, the stock market tanks, and then they’re deferred for three months. Or perhaps we’ll work out deals with a long list of very annoyed foreign countries, and tariffs will go down. Frankly, at this stage nobody knows. Read More

04.14.25- What Matters More
Than the Stock Market
James Hickman

Yesterday when I was talking to my friend and business partner Peter Schiff, he made it clear: China is trying to drive a wedge between the US and Europe by dumping US bonds, and buying euros.

If that’s true, it constitutes a major reset of the global financial order. Read More

04.12.25- A New Food Pyramid for a Metabolically Unwell Nation
Sheramy Tsai

For the first time, experts are plugging a low-carb food pyramid.

With chronic illnesses soaring across the United States, a group of doctors and nutrition researchers say it’s time to reconsider the foundation of American dietary advice—starting from the bottom up. Read More

04.11.25- A Wave Of Panic Buying Has Suddenly Erupted At Retailers All Over America
Michael Snyder

Do you remember the panic buying that we witnessed during the early days of the pandemic?  It’s back, and I have a feeling that it is only going to intensify in the days ahead.  As more Americans begin to realize that products made in China will soon more than double in price and that some may no longer be available at all, there will be a feverish rush to purchase Chinese-made goods.  Ironically, this may actually give a short-term boost to the U.S. economy, and the economic numbers for the first half of this year may end up looking better than they otherwise would have. Read More

04.10.25- Tariff Freak Out: Why So Many People Cling To The Cancer Of Globalism
Brandon Smith

This past week after Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcements the Dow Jones Index plunged by around 4000 points and the global panic was palpable. Social media was rife with nervous naysayers on both sides of the aisle – The leftists are panicking but also cheering because they think crashing markets will turn into public support for the woke commie brigade.  A contingent of conservatives are panicking too. Read More

04.09.25- Devaluing the US Dollar: How to Make America Poorer Again
Daniel Lacalle

In recent days, we have read numerous articles about a possible agreement between the US administration and its main trading partners to devalue the US dollar. It has been named “The Mar-A-Lago Accord”, a concept inspired by the Plaza Accord of 1985, which aimed to devalue the US dollar to address trade imbalances. That plan failed.

The objective, according to the financial media, would be to weaken the US dollar, boost US export competitiveness, and rebalance global trade. Another proposal involves restructuring US debt by swapping existing obligations for longer-term bonds, such as 100-year Treasury bonds, to ease fiscal pressures. However, this would be a dangerous and potentially counterproductive idea. Read More

04.08.25- Trump Triggers Tariff Tantrum
Byron King

You know the basics: Last week President Trump proclaimed something called “Liberation Day.” He then way over-fulfilled his campaign promises and whacked the entire world with tariffs (even on islands with only flocks of penguins), and markets fell off a cliff.

Indeed, if there’s one thing about Donald Trump, it’s his unsubtle approach. He speaks bluntly and this triggers some people. In this case, people across the globe saw the tariff rates and hit the sell-button. Read More

04.07.25- A Brief History of the Panama Canal
Clifford F. Thies

The US took over a bankrupt French project, backed an independence movement, and paid a $25 million ransom to get the marvel finished.

The Panama Canal was opened in 1914. It was an enormous undertaking. The canal took ten years to complete (from the time Teddy Roosevelt got our country’s work on the canal started), and $400 million (about $15 billion in today’s money). Read More

04.05.25- How Trump's Tariff Tizzy Is Burning Down The House
Pepe Escobar

Global Majority, rejoice! And step on the high-speed rail de-dollarization train.

Circus ringmaster Trump’s Tariff Tizzy (TTT), christened by himself as “Liberation Day”, is beinglargely interpreted around the world – Global North and Global South alike – as Slaughterhouse Day. Read More

04.04.25- Wake Up! The Stock Market Is Crashing, Layoffs Have Surged More Than 200 Percent, And We Are Being Warned A Depression Is Coming
Michael Snyder

I am trying to find the words to describe the economic carnage that we are witnessing right now.  Even before President Trump unveiled his new tariffs, the U.S. economy was rapidly heading in the wrong direction, layoffs were soaring, and stock prices were steadily falling.  But now it is as if enormous amounts of gasoline have been suddenly poured on the fire.  Trump’s tariffs have caused a massive wave of panic on Wall Street, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1,679 points on Thursday. Read More

04.03.25- The World Wobbled, Cracked and then Burst into Flames
David Haggith

"What was delivered was as haphazard as anything this administration has done to date, and the level of complication on top of ... new tariffs is worse than had been feared." —Chief Market Strategist

The S&P ETF has fallen more than 3%, as of the time I’m writing, an hour after Tump’s tariff announcement, and the Nasdaq ETF is down more than 4%. Of course, I’ve many times seen stock futures open way negative only to turn green in the hours after the open as the smart money starts moving in to sweep away the rubbish left by the overnight futures traders, etc. So, we’ll see what actually holds tomorrow, but I don’t think that would be very smart money if it tried to sweep this away! Read More

04.02.25- The Imminent Restructuring of the Monetary System
Kane McGukin

A Controlled Unwind and a New Bretton Woods with Bitcoin

For over a century, the global financial system has been increasingly built on papered-over leverage, fiat expansion, and financial engineering. Since 1913, governments, financial institutions, and central banks have systematically distorted money and markets, creating an unsustainable system of derivatives, credit expansion, and hidden leverage. Read More

04.01.25- The First Libertarian?
Jeff Thomas

Most libertarians count Murray Rothbard as one of their mentors. They will know that one of Rothbard’s primary mentors was Ludwig Von Mises. But Rothbard dug deeper in his search for libertarian thinking. Here is a little-seen paper that he wrote in 1967:

The first libertarian intellectual was Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism. Little is known about his life, but apparently he was a personal acquaintance of Confucius in the late sixth century BC and like the latter came from the state of Sung and was descended from the lower aristocracy of the Yin dynasty. Read More

03.31.25- The counter-revolution is off and running
George G. McClellan

We are entering an exciting time as well as a dangerous time. The counter-revolution is off and running, and America, a nation clearly divided, finds evil struggling to keep its feet on the deck before it loses all. At this moment, in their loss of power, the desperation of evil is causing the really stupid among them to resort to violence against all their perceived enemies, even at local levels. Elon Musk is their personification of the Devil, but they’re wrong, and we know it. Targets also include kids wearing red MAGA hats, Democrat Tesla owners, and Tesla dealer showrooms, driven by pure dementia. Read More

03.29.25- Another Taxpayer-Funded
Leftist Scam Exposed
James Hickman

There is a shady syndicate in the United States that has perfected the art of stealing from taxpayers; they’re so good that they manage to siphon off hundreds of billions of dollars each year.

But this is no traditional criminal outfit. There’s no ski masks, no getaway cars, no briefcases full of cash.

I’m actually talking about universities— and the incredible scam they play year after year. In fact these guys are so clever that they have enriched themselves beyond belief without violating a single law. Read More

03.28.25- Trump’s New World Order
Nick Giambruno

The US-led world order has undergone several distinct phases since the end of World War 2.

From 1945 to 1991, it was defined by the Cold War—a global struggle between the US and the Soviet Union.

After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the post-WW2 world order experienced a massive shift, with the US emerging as the undisputed global superpower. This era, often called the “unipolar moment,” lasted from 1991 until Trump’s inauguration in 2025. Read More

03.27.25- Can Tariffs and DOGE Eliminate the Income Tax?
Peter Schiff

Freshly-confirmed U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently appeared on CBS News, declaring that President Trump aims to eliminate income taxes for Americans earning less than $150,000 per year. Lutnick touted Trump’s vision for tariffs to replace the revenue lost from this massive tax cut.

“That’s his goal. That’s what I’m working for.” 

It’s a bold statement, one that taps into a very Trumpian populist vein and promises relief for the vast majority of taxpayers—over 90% of Americans fall into the $150,000-or less club. Read More

03.26.25- America's Self Destruction Continues to Spread through the Economy
David Haggith

It's too much all at once and poorly thought out. While the spread of destruction is global, it's likely to be worse at the center of the collapse.

The gradual demolition of the US credit rating continues as Moody’s today warns that the United States’ fiscal condition has deteriorated since its last downgrade a little over a year ago and that it believes the US is set to continue on that downward trajectory. The US, in fact, is no longer even the best horse in the glue factory—a status that I once said helped it avoid dying under the weight of its debt: Read More

03.25.25- Prepare for the Looming Recession
Byron King

“Will we have a recession?” was the question.

My answer was… Yes, count on it.

And to give away the punchline, prepare now for rough seas ahead, so to speak. Take some money off the stock market table, stash cash, lighten up expenses, throttle back generally, and own gold and silver for the long-term. Read More

03.24.25- More Calls for a
Constitutional Convention
Joseph P. Farrell

Over the yeas I’ve been occasionally sounding the warning against the idea of convening an article V constitutional convention, and as we’ve taken yet another step closer to that goal recently (as the following article reveals), I do so again here. Most people know that I am an anti-Federalist. Read More

03.22.25- How To Defend Against The Latest Financial Scams
Javier Simon

Technology has made financial transactions as easy as pressing a button on your phone. You can send or request money through mobile apps in seconds. And you can open new accounts like credit cards, personal loans, and even mortgages entirely online. But while technology has made financial transactions simpler, it also has opened a door through which your money can flow into the wrong hands. And that door is guarded by sophisticated scammers and fraudsters. Read More

03.21.25- Hunting Killer Drones With Your Father's 12-Gauge?
Mike Fredenburg

The Ukraine-Russia war and its innovative use of drones has significantly changed warfare. And while the use of drones as spotters for artillery and bombs is arguably their biggest contribution to death and destruction, Telegram is full of chilling FPV footage of kamikaze drones blowing up soldiers and equipment. Among the many measures being used to protect men and equipment from drone attacks is the shotgun, which along with being used by individual soldiers, is also being mounted on both ground and aerial platforms to provide defense against drones. Read More

2025 401(k) and IRA Contribution Limits: What You Need to Know
Peter Reagan

Every year, the IRS adjusts retirement contribution limits to account for inflation and changes in the economic landscape. In 2025, workers saving for retirement will see increased contribution limits for 401(k)s, IRAs, and other tax-advantaged retirement accounts. Understanding these changes is crucial to maximizing your savings and securing your financial future. 

One major change this year: SECURE 2.0 created a higher catch-up contribution limit for employees aged 60-63 who participate in most 401(k), 403(b), governmental 457 plans, and the federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). For 2025, this higher catch-up contribution limit is $11,250. Read More

03.19.25- The Quest for Alice’s Rabbit Hole
Jeff Thomas

For those of us who provide advice to those considering internationalisation, I would say that the sentiment that we most often encounter in those we offer to assist is, “I don’t want to go!”

Now, it should be said that those seeking our counsel rarely voice this comment, but it is often pervasive in their comments and questions. In spite of the fact that they may actively be pursuing internationalisation, they almost invariably reveal through their manner and their phrasing of questions that, consciously or otherwise, they are inwardly resisting the change in their lives that they are pursuing. Indeed, some are clearly hoping that they will be talked out of internationalising. Read More

03.18.25- Do We All Have PTSD?
Jeffrey A. Tucker

Just how much mental and psychological trauma exists in the country and world today cannot be quantified, and I would not trust any studies that tried. But this much is clear. We have lost our footing in knowing something that scientists long believed we could know: whether and to what extent an economy is growing and prospering or going the opposite way.

Everyone seems just to be winging it these days. Ever since lockdowns broke reporting, it’s been hard to tell up from down.Read More

03.17.25- Now or Never
Bill Bonner

We’re talking about betrayals.

Disappointment.

Faithlessness. Read More

03.15.25- The Great Gold Leasing Conspiracy
Adam Sharp

For decades, we gold bugs have whispered about a grand conspiracy.

The theory is that governments and central banks have suppressed the price of gold and silver. The purpose of this manipulation would be to prop up fiat currencies by limiting the gains in precious metals.

After all, if gold and silver are flying higher, it makes fiat currencies look bad by comparison. Read More

03.14.25- Spring's Frightful Awakening
James Howard Kunstler

The notion that Europe is able to pose a military threat to Russia does not even qualify as trashy propaganda for sub-zero IQs.” — Pepe Escobar

“The left became hideously, ostentatiously, unapologetically corrupt (as ruling parties tend to do). They sold out bigtime and got bigtime rich. You want to know why none of them want to cut waste anymore? because they’re the ones stealing it.” — El Gato Malo on Substack Read More

03.13.25- Look The F*ck Out Below
Tyler Durden

To most of my readers, the move in markets today won’t be much of a surprise. In fact, a couple of the names I talked about over the last week or two (and here) are actually green in today’s blood red tape.

For the most part, I’ve already explained why I think markets could be set up for a much bigger move lower. I detailed this in both my March market review and my piece explaining why I think the next crash could very well be different from those of days past and could “break the brain” of market participants: This Next Market Crash Will Break Our Fragile Brains. Read More

03.12.25- How To Save, Invest, and Speculate When the Money Is Broken
Nick Giambruno

There was a time when people could simply save the excess of their production over consumption in sound money—gold or a derivative of it—and focus on their families and passions.

There was no need for a dentist, construction worker, or small business owner to double as a hedge fund manager, attempting to predict market movements just to preserve what they had already earned. Read More

03.11.25- Utah To Become 1st State To Ban Fluoride In Drinking Water, Weeks After RFK Jr Sworn In
Tyler Durden

In a huge development, and coming just weeks after federal health secretary and Fluoride-skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn into office, the state of Utah has become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water. The landmark move also comes soon after recent major health studies were published which linked the decades-long US fluoridization in public drinking water with lower IQ in children. Read More

03.10.25- Why Does Hardly Anyone Seem To Realize That We Are Literally
On The Brink Of War With Iran?
Michael Snyder

The Shadow Government wants the population dependent on their system, but there’s a push to release the technologies to finally bring humanity to the stars — tune in!

Dr. Steven Greer explains on The Alex Jones how the globalist Shadow Government has hidden away groundbreaking free energy technologies that would usher in unprecedented freedom and prosperity for mankind. Tune in!

Most people simply do not realize how close we are to an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East.  On Friday, President Trump revealed that he has issued a very chilling ultimatum to the Iranians…Read More

03.08.25- The High Cost of Chaos is Manifesting Everywhere!
David Haggith

The Trump wrecking ball is swinging through everything--stock markets, global bond markets, international trade, longstanding alliances--and that's just TODAY's NEWS!

Never in my life have I seen so many articles prominently featuring the word chaos as I did on Thursday when I started writing this column. Stories that didn’t use chaos used a synonym for chaos, such as confusion. The word dominated the news so much that an editorial giving a broad sweep of news categories was the only way I could give the full sense of the situation. As a result, today’s article, again, has the breadth of one my Deeper Dives, giving everyone another chance to sample something similar to those. Read More

03.07.25- Social Insecurity and the Fate
of All Ponzi Schemes
MN Gordon

Elon Musk – the richest man in the world – is doing a fine job shaking up Washington’s political establishment. He recently took to the Joe Rogan podcast where he said, “Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.”

This small dose of reality was enough to elicit excitement from big government statists. Rex Huppke, in an opinion piece in USA Today, provided the following counterpoint: Read More

03.06.25- As Globalism Breaks Nations Must Produce Their Own Survival Necessities
Brandon Smith

The term “protectionism” is generally treated as a pejorative in the economic world, akin to “isolationism” and “populism”. In an era where globalism is treated as the end-all-be-all of social and geopolitical evolution, the idea of taking a step back and reconsidering the notion of independence and self reliance is abhorrent. Globalists and progressives argue that there can be no going back and that only they know the way forward. Read More

03.05.25- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Deeper Dive, Recession
David Haggith

It is suddenly being revealed that things are worse than many thought. A Deep recession is already forming.

The S&P has already retreated to such an extent that it is negative for the year, in spite of its reprieve on Friday, and is only 1% higher than it was on Election Day when it entered a melt-up Trump rally. The worst performer for stock indices has been the former best performer: The Nasdaq fell almost 4% over the month of February, most of that due to the 3.5% plunge I wrote about on Thursday. Read More

03.04.25- Three Ways to Restore Housing Affordability
Charles Hugh Smith

The choice is simple: housing is either shelter for citizens, or it’s just another interchangeable speculative asset in the global financialization casino. It can’t be both.

We tend to think of housing becoming unaffordable as a matter of land prices, zoning and the cost of 2X4s, but it’s fundamentally a matter of values. Subscriber John summarized this in an insightful comment on Substack: Read More

03.03.25- The Gold in Fort Knox Does Not Back the Dollar or Anything Else
Ryan McMaken

I’m all in favor of a thorough and public audit of the US’s gold reserves. This includes the gold, not only at Fort Knox, but also at the other gold storage facilities at West Point, Denver, and the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Ron Paul was right when, in 2011, he tried to force the federal government to be transparent about its gold holdings. Read More

03.01.25- 10 x 10 Approach
Doug Casey

Everyone who devotes any attention to investing inevitably develops his own specialties, approaches, and methods. In other words a style. There are many paths up the mountain, and all intelligent methods have merit. But the degree of merit can vary tremendously with the times. A value investor, who attempts to find dollar bills selling for 50 cents, is going to have a tough time in a mildly inflationary environment when the stock market is booming. A growth investor, who looks for companies with rapidly and consistently compounding earnings, is going to have a tough time during a deflation. A technician, who follows the price action of charts, has a tough time in trendless markets, or periods punctuated by unpredictable events in the world outside. Read More

02.28.25- China's Silver Manipulation
Has Ended
Alasdair Macleod

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02.27.25- World War III Is Still On The Table: Europe Wants Boots On The Ground In Ukraine
Brandon Smith

In the lead up to the 2024 presidential elections in the US the Biden Administration in collusion with UK, European and Ukrainian partners devised a plan to “Trump Proof” the war in Ukraine. In other words, they openly admitted that they wanted to prevent Trump from taking any actions that might force an end to the war and render a serious peace agreement. Read More

02.26.25- Wyoming Enacts Law To Establish Strategic Gold Reserve
Jp Cortez

(Cheyenne, Wyoming – February 24th, 2025) — A groundbreaking bill to establish a strategic gold reserve has just become law in Wyoming.

Senate File 96 – also known as the Wyoming Gold Act – requires the Wyoming Treasurer to diversify the state’s holdings by acquiring no less than $10 million in “specie and specie legal tender” as part of the state’s Permanent Mineral Trust Fund. Read More

02.25.25- You Don’t Actually Need To
Pick a Team
Caitlin Johnstone

You don’t have to pick a team.

You don’t have to side with Democrats because Trump is bad.

You don’t have to side with Trump because Democrats are bad.

You don’t have to give Trump “credit” for anything. Read More

02.24.25- Why We Need To
Get Out of NATO
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth have recently been critical of NATO, calling for the European NATO countries to pay for their own defense. This is all to the good, though it does not go far enough. As the great Dr. Ron Paul has pointed out, “We also need a change in policy. Americans are beginning to understand the economic costs of maintaining a global military empire. US taxpayers are forced to cover more than half of the entire NATO budget while European countries rattle sabers at Russia and threaten war. If Europe feels so threatened by Russia, why don’t they cover the costs of their own defense? Why do poor Americans have to pay for the defense of rich Europeans? Haven’t we had enough of this? Read More

02.22.25- Gold Revaluation Means Dollar Devaluation
Stuart Englert

Raising Official Bullion Price Would Debase U.S. Currency

Recent anomalies in the gold market, including London delivery delays, repeated record highs and unusually large bullion shipments to U.S. vaults, have precious metal analysts speculating about an official revaluation of the gold price. Read More

02.21.25- Travel Back in Time to 2009… and Buy Tech
Adam Sharp

In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2009, I was obsessed with the risk of a “double-dip” recession.

The outlook was bleak. The banks all seemed to be failing, stocks had crashed, housing was belly-up, and the Fed was printing money like mad.

So instead of gobbling up cheap tech shares, I was primarily focused on hoarding my (meager) stash of precious metals and preparing for an armageddon which never came. Read More

02.20.25- Normal Will Be Destroyed
TL Davis

The biggest obstacle the United States faces at this point in time is the Republican party. They’re not acting to strip all of the funds from USAID, the Treasury, HHS, etc., but are waiting for the crisis of March 15 to hit and force the hand of Donald Trump to sign a CR. That’s all they’re doing. They prefer to work off the Biden budget, filled with the Green New Deal and Inflation Reduction Act pork, misspending, fraud and waste. They’re changing literally nothing in the future budget. Despite the fact that they have already passed numerous budget appropriation bills, they are not attending to the rest of them and the Senate has done nothing to pass the ones sent to them by the House. Read More

02.19.25- Trump’s Revival of Lincoln’s “Colonization” Plan
Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Now that the US and Israeli military has bombed almost all of Gaza into a smoldering ruin and killed tens or hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, President Trump has proposed getting Jordan and Egypt to house the remaining Palestinians. He has threatened to withdraw US taxpayer “aid” to these countries if they do not accept his proposal. This is essentially a revival of Lincoln’s lifelong dream of deporting or “colonizing” all of the black people out of the United States. Read More

02.18.25- Is Trump a Wrecking Ball or a Flaming Asteroid that Just Hit Earth?
David Haggith

Trump is shaking the whole world more severely than any leader has in the past century, and he hasn’t even been back in office for a month!

Trump is smashing through government agencies with a kind of abandon that fills many who have long hated big government with glee over its rapid demise, but he has also already landed seventy court cases against his government, claiming dictatorial overreach of power. So, a fierce fight has been enjoined and will undoubtedly rage throughout his term. Read More

02.17.25- New Jersey bans safe, effective ammunition
Mike McDaniel

Among the things at once hilarious and alarming to those who understand and support the Bill of Rights—all of it—are the efforts of anti-liberty/gun cracktivists. This includes not only the operatives of anti-gun groups whose normal discourse is shot full of inaccuracies and lies, but the Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) media who usually haven’t a clue of the science and reality of guns, ballistics and every related topic. That doesn’t stop them from grotesquely and purposely misinforming the public on those issues. Read More

02.15.25- Trump’s Tariff and Income Tax Plans: A Major Shift for Gold and Your Portfolio
Doug Casey

International Man: Before the income tax, tariffs funded the US federal government.

Was the country better off then?

If tariffs were to replace the income tax today, would it be a net positive? Read More

02.14.25- State Bills Grant Pfizer-Style Immunity to Pesticide Manufacturers That Give People Cancer
Ben Bartee

This week in “government by special interest,” flyover country is awash in agricultural chemicals — and it’s only going to get flooded harder in the near future if a raft of proposed legislation is any indication.

Related: Grocery Chains Ration Eggs After Mass Chicken Slaughter For Bird Flu Read More

02.13.25- Could Ending Wokeism Save the U.S. Economy?
Brandon Smith

The ESG frenzy has plagued American businesses for long enough, leading to complex regulatory requirements and lost profits. Fortunately, the dismantlement of ESG is well underway. Today, Brandon Smith of alt-market.com proposes an alternate to save the economy…Read More

02.12.25- Is This the Biggest Heist of All Time? 
James Hickman

We recently received a question from a reader asking for my thoughts on crypto.

He said we’ve been talking about gold a lot lately, the gold price, and how the price could go a lot higher. Shouldn’t we hold the same views on crypto, given everything that has happened with Bitcoin over the last year or so?

We ended up doing a whole podcast about this today. Read More

02.11.25- The Greatest Heist of All Time: The Level of Corruption That Elon Musk and His DOGE Team Are Uncovering is Absolutely Mind Blowing
Michael Snyder

Did you know that approximately $1,000,000,000 in obviously fraudulent payments flow through the U.S. Treasury’s payment system every week?  Until Elon Musk and his DOGE team stepped in, nobody in the government was doing anything about this theft.  Please read all the way to the end of this article for the details.  Suspiciously, the Democrats are desperately trying to get the courts to keep Elon Musk and his team out of the U.S. Treasury’s payment system.  Why is that?  What are they working so hard to hide? Read More

02.10.25- Gold Teases 2900; to 3000 Unencumbered?
Mark Mead Baillie

The price of Gold just completed its sixth consecutive up week, within which the past three thus far comprise the newest weekly parabolic Long trend.  Indeed through this latest week, Gold continued to attain All-Time Highs, teasing yesterday (Friday) up through 2900 to 2910 before settling at 2886.

Moreover as you regular readers already know, our Golden Goal Two (of three) is the “milestone” level of 3000.  And given Gold’s expected weekly trading range is now 93 points, within that vacuum, 3000 (+114 points from here) is certainly “within range” by month’s end.  But are six consecutive up weeks already getting a bit long in the tooth for Gold? Read More

02.08.25- Can Canada Survive Trump 2.0?
Adam Sharp

Canada’s exports to the U.S. make up more than 20% of its GDP. This is an absurdly large number. Only Mexico is more dependent on trade with America.

Over the past decade America’s trade deficit with our northern neighbor has soared higher. They’re selling a ton of goods to us, but aren’t buying nearly as much.

President Trump doesn’t like this. He has not only threatened 25% tariffs, but also to absorb Canada as the “51st state”. Read More

02.07.25- White House Starts First Phase of Disbanding the IRS
Sean Adl-Tabatabai

The Trump administration has announced plans to begin the first phase of disbanding the IRS by eliminating taxes on tips, social security and overtime pay. 

“So these are the tax priorities of the Trump administration that the president has laid out for members in that meeting today,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told members of the press, regarding a meeting on taxes with GOP leaders held at the White House on Thursday. Read More

02.06.25- Rising Long-Term Interest Rates: The Hidden Impact of High Time Preference
Peter Schiff

In the wake of last week’s FOMC meeting, it’s worth revisiting the economic function of interest rates, which guide economic activity in accordance with societal time preference. In order to suppress the natural rate of interest, central banks must resort to inflation.

The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Peter Schiff or SchiffGold. Read More

02.05.25- Level Of Democrat Panic Over Musk Freezing USAID "Unlike Anything Ever Seen"
Tyler Durden

A Democratic Party insider says that the level of panic over President Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE freezing all USAID spending is “unlike anything he’s ever seen.”

The source described the development as “a killing blow to the heart” of the deep state. Read More

02.04.25- Trump Didn’t Kill CBDCs - This “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” Will Track
Your Every Move
Matthew Piepenburg

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02.03.25- Mainstream Media Muffle China’s Breakthrough
Rick Ackerman

Bloggers were revved up when last week began, trumpeting a warning that China’s DeepSeek R1 threatened to crush America’s capital-intensive effort to lead the world in AI development. ZeroHedge was among the first to jump on the story. “The future of humanity is being decided as we speak,” wrote Mark Whitney. “This is a full-blown, scorched-earth free-for-all that has already racked up a number of casualties, though you wouldn’t know it from reading headlines that typically ignore recent ‘cataclysmic’ developments.” Read More

02.01.25- 10 Burning Questions That Everyone Should Be Asking About The Black Hawk Disaster In Washington D.C.
Michael Snyder

What in the world just happened at Reagan National Airport?  Like many of you, I was deeply distressed to hear of such a great tragedy that should have been so easy to avoid.  There is no way that we can bring back those that have died.  Many believe that if competent people were running things at Reagan National Airport, they would still be with us.  Others are entirely convinced that we aren’t being given the entire picture.  There are so many unanswered questions, and I am going to share quite a few with you in this article. Read More

01.31.25- Did DeepSeek Use Shell Companies In Singapore To Procure Nvidia Blacklisted Chips?
Tyler Durden

Chinese startup DeepSeek's latest AI models, V3 and R1, were reportedly trained on just 2,048 Nvidia H800 chips—GPUs that were blacklisted by the US government in 2023 for sale to Chinese firms. Federal investigators are now combing through trade data to determine how DeepSeek acquired the restricted chips. 

Bloomberg spoke with sources close to the US probe focusing on "third parties" in Singapore that procured the H800 chips and sold them to DeepSeek—a move we've seen before to circumvent US trade restrictions (read here). Read More

01.30.25- How to Protect Yourself From the Tech Bubble Bursting
James Rickards

In the 1920s, Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was the hottest stock in the world.

Radio was cutting-edge tech, and RCA was dominant in the sector. The company was the largest manufacturer of radio sets and operated the largest broadcasting company, NBC. They owned key patents and had attracted many of the country’s best engineers.

In 1921 RCA shares traded as low as $1.50 (split-adjusted). By 1929 RCA rose to a peak of $549. A 352x return. Read More

01.29.25- Church and Science Warn the World that Chinese AI Just Changed All the Rules in the Race to Artificial Intelligence
David Haggith

The guardrails have certainly come off now ... if they were ever on.

This week an electronic black swan swooped down, casting its shadow over the US stock market, frying circuit boards everywhere. It plunged the most powerful components of the artificial-intelligence nanosphere, such as Nvidia, deep into a black hole. When China revealed AI at a fraction of the cost of everything the US billionaire intelligentsia had been developing, it crashed US tech stocks into an unexpected abyss, reminding everyone—even if briefly—how quickly a stock bubble that is floating out over nothing, because the companies remain profitless, can be deflated. Read More

01.28.25- “If Anything Happens to Me…”
Ron Unz

Elections have consequences and the remarkable return of Donald Trump to the White House has already led to a flurry of major reversals across numerous policy areas. The weekend newspapers revealed that these now included the longstanding Covid origins debate, which had largely disappeared from the headlines over the last year or two.

John Radcliffe, the new incoming CIA director, had long favored the lab-leak hypothesis, claiming that the virus had accidentally escaped from China’s Wuhan lab, and under the influence of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Trump himself had sometimes taken that same position during 2020.  Read More

01.27.25- 59% Of Americans Don't Have Enough Savings For A $1,000 Emergency: Report
Naveen Athrappully

Most Americans cannot afford a $1,000 emergency expense, with inflation and high interest rates affecting their ability to save adequately, according to a recent survey by consumer services company Bankrate.

A full 59 percent of Americans aren’t in a position to use their savings “to pay for a major unexpected expense, such as $1,000 for an emergency room visit or car repair,” said a Jan. 23 report from the company. Read More

01.25.25- Will Trump’s Executive Orders Change Retirement Math?
Peter Reagan

It’s been an eventful few days since Trump was sworn into office for his second term. Right out of the gate, Trump issued quite a few executive orders and policy revisions, many with economic consequences. Let’s assess the long-term impact… 

It’s been an eventful few days since Trump was sworn into office for his second term.  Read More

01.24.25- Meet The 'Crunchy' Moms Who Support RFK Jr. As Health Secretary
Jeff Louderback

A term once reserved for granola-eating hippies, “crunchy” moms has evolved into a label for women who embrace a more natural lifestyle for their families.

These are women who favor herbal treatments over physician-prescribed and over-the-counter medications, cooking with butter or beef tallow instead of seed oils, examining food labels at the grocery store, and exercising caution about vaccinating their children. Read More

01.23.25- Golden Dawn or Golden Sunset under the Golden Gollum of Greatness?
David Haggith

Will the beautiful promises of the inauguration lead us from this present winter into a new spring for the United States of America?

There is beauty even in winter. Stocks are lifting and bond yields are settling as investors relax in the optimism of America’s new golden horizon. Trump is here, saved by God to bring on America’s golden age, the restored president claims. Everything is going to be swell again. Read More

01.22.25- You Can Believe The Math Or The Politicians, But Not Both
Mitchell Vexler

Although it sounds tough, yet often stated by me, is that I don’t give a damn what someone has to say, but very much I care what can be proven.  Knowledge vs Ignorance.  Repetition of ignorance is ignorance raised to the power two.

Time and careful thought lead to the clarity created by quantifying the issues via math and understanding the associated risks. Read More

01.21.25- Another Door Opens
James Howard Kunstler

“…there’s little political upside in defending the rights of undocumented shoplifters.” — Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times

If past is prologue, Mr. Trump lacks the acumen to carry out his ambitious agenda. The first problem is management style. In his first term, Mr. Trump was a poor administrator because of his mercurial, polarizing style and a general indifference to facts and the hard work of governance. — Jack Goldsmith, The New York Times Read More

01.20.25- When Future Shock Meets Mass Formation Psychosis
Mark E. Jeftovic

In 1970, futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler released the first of three seminal books about the trajectory that America, and the world was on. They published them at roughly decade intervals: Future Shock (1970), Power Shift, (1984), and Third Wave(1991). There were others (like War & Anti-War and Revolutionary Wealth), but those three laid out what was coming down the pipe and they were largely correct about it because their core premise was so simple:

The rate of change was accelerating. Read More

01.18.25- The Global Economy is a Pyramid Scheme. It's the End of the Road
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01.17.25- Report: Your Bank Might Be Spying On You For The Feds
Helen Raleigh

Americans should be deeply concerned that our government and financial institutions are not only spying on us but also potentially abusing their power to target Americans for their political views.

For many Americans, our banks know more about our lives than our own mothers. Based on our financial records, they can accurately guess a customer’s religious beliefs, political leanings, and more. Yet this extensive knowledge has been used to spy on us on behalf of the federal government, a revelation that was brought to light by a bombshell report released by the House Judiciary Committee (HJC) and accompanied by a video posted by the subcommittee. Read More

01.16.25- California Abandons Regulations Phasing Out Diesel Trucks
Travis Gillmore

Critics of the strict air regulation plan are applauding regulators’ decision to withdraw a waiver request from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

California’s Air Resources Board sent a letter on Jan. 14 to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, withdrawing its prior waiver request that would have forced a transition from diesel to zero-emission trucks in the state. Read More

01.15.25- Animal Farm Politics:
The Deep State Wins Again
John & Nisha Whitehead 

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”—George Orwell, Animal Farm

It cost the American taxpayer $24 million to find out what we knew all along: politics is corrupt.Read More

01.14.25- One World Trumpenstein vs. the Lesbian Firefighters
Donald Jeffries

Donald Trump’s most recent comments have perplexed everyone. Sure, he always says provocative things, and trolling is an essential characteristic of the Trumpenstein Project. But he has inexplicably introduced ideas and proposals which he has never touched on before. And they contradict everything about the MAGA movement. Read More

01.13.25- Go Anti-ESG For a 7.9% Yield
Adam Sharp

Over the past 10 years, “socially-conscious” investors have shunned sectors such as tobacco, firearms, oil and gas, and alcohol.

For example, these huge investment firms refuse to own any tobacco stocks or bonds:

• Allianz SE: $2.3T AUM (Assets Under Management)
• CalPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System): $469B AUM
• AXA Group: $950B AUM
• Norwegian Pension Fund: $1.74T AUM Read More

01.11.25- California (Bad) Dreamin’
Thomas DiLorenzo

Amid the horrific fires in Los Angeles that have destroyed hundreds of homes and caused numerous deaths and injuries we have reports of massive infrastructure and fire equipment failures that have certainly made the situation much worse and have probably cost lives.

The fire hydrants are mostly out of water.  “There’s no water in the fire hydrants,” declared LA real estate developer Rick Caruso.  City Councilwoman Traci Park said there has been “chronic underinvestment in .. . our public infrastructure,” presumably meaning water delivery to fire hydrants.  Fire chiefs are complaining about huge shortages of basic firefighting equipment, including firefighters’ helmets and gear. Read More

01.10.25- Eating the Rich Is Not a Good Idea
Lipton Matthews

Criticisms of pro-market policies, such as lower corporate taxes and deregulation, are often rooted in a form of discrimination rarely acknowledged: upward classism. This prejudice against people of higher socio-economic status misrepresents the contributions of “the rich” and distorts discussions about public policy. While these policies are castigated as benefiting the wealthy, they have demonstrable benefits for broader economic growth and living standards. Read More

01.09.25- 12 Things You Should Know About The Apocalyptic “Hurricane Of Fire” That Is Rampaging Through Southern California
Michael Snyder

The “hurricane of fire” that is ripping across Los Angeles County is already being called one of the worst natural disasters in the entire history of the state of California.  There are actually several different fires that have erupted, and extremely high winds are spreading them very rapidly. The Palisades Fire, the Eaton Fire and the Hurst Fire are the three largest, and the destruction that they have already caused is absolutely staggering. Read More

01.08.25- How To Survive "The Great Taking" In 2025
Nick Giambruno

It’s a “scheme of central bankers to subjugate humanity by taking all securities, bank deposits, and property financed with debt.”

David Webb, a former hedge fund manager, and Wall Street insider, has blown the lid off a diabolical plan more than 50 years in the making in a shocking new book. Read More

01.07.25- Are You on the Fedeal List?
Brandon Campbell 

You Can Now be Considered A “Potential Terrorist” Just Because Of Your Religious Or Political Beliefs.

Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner?  Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order?  Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times”? Read More

01.06.25- The System's Self-Destruct Sequence Cannot Be Turned Off
Charles Hugh Smith

The artificial hill of pottery shards is puny and localized; the consequences of our system will bring down the system in ways the system is completely blind to.  

We're all familiar with the plot device of the self-destruct sequence counting down while our hero / heroine frantically tries to find the kill switch that turns it off. The system--however we choose to describe it--is self-destructing and there's no switch to turn it off. Read More

01.04.25- Let’s Get Real About DOGE
MN Gordon

With the New Year comes new hope and optimism. The slate’s wiped clean. A new leaf is turned over. Time to start anew.

If only it were so simple. If only, with the turn of the calendar, the mistakes from the past would magically disappear – forever. Wouldn’t it be nice?

But like unpaid bills, the mistakes remain. And they must be reckoned with.

In the sphere of money and politics, central planners in Congress, at the U.S. Treasury, and the Federal Reserve have left massive amounts of mistakes. Read More

01.03.25- Fiat Money and Dark Forces at Work
Dr. Thorsten Polleit

The Bible recounts how the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The devil appeared and first wanted Jesus to turn stones into bread. (In fact, Mises criticized Keynesianism, saying, “the stones do not turn into bread”). Jesus refused. Then, the devil challenged Jesus to throw himself from the pinnacle of the temple in the holy city, asserting that the angels would catch him. Again, Jesus refused. But the devil did not give up. In Matthew 4:8–11. Read More

01.02.25- 44 Statistics From 2024 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Michael Snyder

2024 was definitely one of the wildest years that any of us have ever experienced.  During the past 12 months, Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury, he was almost assassinated, he won the presidential election, and he was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.  Nobody has ever had a year quite like that.  Of course 2024 was also a year of war.  Israel battled Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, the government of Syria was overthrown by radical Islamists, long-range missiles provided by NATO started raining down on targets deep inside Russia, and Russian forces stormed even deeper into eastern Ukraine. Read More

01.01.25- “Quantum-Proof” Your Bitcoin
Chris Campbell

Let’s talk about the Bitcoin-Eating Pacman.

No, not Michael Saylor…

No, not El Salvador…

I’m talking about Bitcoin’s biggest threat: quantum computers.

Before you freak out, let’s start here: Read More

12.31.24- It’s Not the End of the World
Jeff Thomas

Periodically, I’ll encounter someone who has read one of my essays and has decided not to pursue them further, stating, “You’re one of those ‘End of the world’ guys. I can’t be bothered reading the writings of someone who thinks we’re all doomed. I have a more positive outlook than that.”

In actual fact, I agree entirely with his latter two comments. I can’t be bothered reading the thoughts of a writer who says we’re all doomed, either. I have a more positive outlook than that. Read More

12.30.24- A New Round of Stimulus Checks Inbound – But There's a Catch
Peter Reagan

The IRS recently announced they’re sending $2.4 billion in unclaimed pandemic-era stimulus checks. Everybody loves “free money,” right? Well, there’s only one small problem – that free money isn’t really free…

Everyone loves to get “free money.” After all, isn’t that how you think about receiving a refund check from the IRS after filing your taxes? Read More

12.28.24- The Real Inflation Number
Byron Ring

What’s happening with inflation?

Allegedly, it’s back down in the 3.5% range, give or take; and to do it right one must give and take quite a bit. That is, again, the government number jockeys shamelessly cook the books, as we see from reviewing a site like ShadowStats.com. Read More

12.27.24- Expect the Unexpected in 2025
MN Gordon

Sometimes things don’t always go according to plan. An unexpected car repair can blow the monthly budget. A lingering illness can delay completing a big project.

When it comes to the schemes of central planners this is especially true. A five-year plan may list certain goals and objectives. It may even outline a roadmap for achieving them. But reality has a way of taking things off their intended course. Read More

12.26.24- The Musk-Led Manufacturing Revolution Nobody Is Talking About
Tyler Durden

When most analysts discuss Tesla, they focus on new vehicles or the electric vehicle company’s advancements in autonomy. Yet, according to Launch i/o CEO Jeff Lutz, one of the most significant—and under-discussed—developments at Tesla is happening not in its design studios or on the road, but in its factories. Lutz, a former executive at Google and Motorola, argues that Tesla’s true innovation isn’t just the electric vehicles or robots it’s building, but how those products are being made. The company’s first-principles approach to manufacturing is a radical departure from the industry norm, focusing not just on cheap labor or existing models, but on rethinking the entire production process. Read More

12.25.24- A Debt Jubilee of Biblical Proportions Is Coming — Are You Ready?
Nick Giambruno

Four thousand years ago, the rulers of ancient Babylon discovered a technique to stave off violent revolts.

In ancient times, people often became hopelessly indebted to their creditors. As debts mounted, social unrest would boil over, threatening the stability of the entire ruling system. Read More

12.24.24- A Christmas Prayer
James Howard Kunstler

"If it's time for you to go, leave willingly, as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor." — Marcus Aurelius

The longest and coldest night of the year is upon us with its portents of endings, the death of things, of people like ourselves, and also bodies of thought, movements of culture and politics. And for all the cold and darkness, you feel the stirrings of things waiting to be born. Christmas is the lovely distraction for a brief spell, and after that, the difficult labor of the nation commences for-real in the long night of the year. Read More

12.23.24- Justice Has Departed America. Will Justice Return?
Paul Craig Roberts

Readers of this column will remember some years ago my many reports on gratuitous police violence, often resulting in death of innocent and unresisting people.  Many incidents were the result of SWAT teams being sent to the wrong address. On one occasion the police, not realizing where they were, arrested their own mayor on drug charges and terrified his family. A 12 or 13  year old black kid was shot down by police without the police asking a single question, mistaking his toy gun for a real one.  A man in a wheel chair was choked to death. Read More

12.21.24- How to Prepare for Financial Collapse (The World’s Wealthiest Individuals Often Take Extensive Measures to Prepare for Potential Financial Collapses)
Clark Barnes

Imagine waking up one morning to find that the value of your savings has plummeted overnight, stores are struggling to stock essentials, and economic news is filled with words like “recession” and “crisis.” It’s a scenario that many of us prefer not to think about, but the reality is that financial collapses have happened before and can happen again. Read More

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