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03.24.23- My Preferences For Defensive Firearms
I’m sure this column will not provide anything new for the firearms aficionados out there. However, we are living in a violence-prone society, and more and more people (especially ladies) who never paid much attention to guns before are sensing the need to arm themselves but often don’t know where to start. I hope this column helps these folks. Read More |
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03.23.23- Get Woke, Go Broke?
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03.22.23- Powell's Problem: KISS Vs 'Too Clever By Half'
I think Powell needs to deliver one simple message:
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03.21.23- Get Ready for the Distressed Equity Bonanza
Last week after Silicon Valley Bank went poof in a matter of hours, I wrote that this financial catastrophe is just getting started: “Like Lehman Brothers in 2008, SVB is just the tip of the iceberg. . .” Within days, several other banks were on the verge of collapse. And now today, of course, major banks in the United States (including JP Morgan) are rallying to save the First Republic Bank. Read More |
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03.20.23- Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse proves the US is in obvious decline
For example, historians often point to 476 AD as the year that the Western Roman Empire fell, when Odoacer and his barbarians forced the abdication of the Emperor Augustus— even though it was obvious that Rome was in decline way before 476. Read More |
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03.18.23- SVB + FTX + SBF = WTF?
The net effect of all the lying propaganda laid on the public by the people running things lo these many recent years is a peculiar inertia that makes us seemingly impervious to gross political shocks. Momentous things happen and almost instantly get swallowed up by time, as by some voracious cosmic amoeba that thrives on human malignancy. Case in point: the multiple suicide of several giant banks just days ago that prompted “Joe Biden” to nationalize the US banking system. Read More |
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03.17.23- Real Deposit Insurance
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03.16.23- 'Time Is Not Our Friend': Solvency & Liquidity Meet Liquency & Solvidity
Solvency & Liquidity Let’s start with extreme and obvious examples. Read More |
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03.15.23- Watch Israel, Because I Believe That Events Of Historic Significance Could Soon Happen
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03.14.23- Mass |
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03.13.23- The Collapse Of SVB
The failure of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), $212 billion in assets until only recently, is a huge mess and a possible foreshadowing. Its fixed-rate bond holdings declined rapidly in market valuation due to changed market conditions. Its portfolio crashed further due to a depositor run. And it all happened in less than a few days. Read More |
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03.11.23- Is SVB Just the Beginning?
That is because the fellow is a nearly perfect “contrarian indicator.” If he says x you can very reliably wager on y. SVB stock was trading hands at $320 that day. Today it trades hands at $0. It has vanished from existence. Read More |
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03.10.23- Could Fauci Be Charged With Negligent Homicide For COVID Crimes?
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03.09.23- The Truth They Won’t Tell You About Social Security
Maybe you think that’s how it does work? If so, I’ve got some bad news for you. Read More |
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03.08.23- Parents Majoring In The Minors
We recently were informed that some schools are now ending their honors programs so they can promote “equity” (racism). It seems that lots of the white kids do well in the honors programs so that now must cease and we must begin to enforce a stultifying conformity, a “one size fits all” program they have mislabeled as “equity,” Read More |
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03.07.23- How A Country Goes Bankrupt...
Now, with money getting tighter, not just businesses and individuals but some governments are staring at the “suddenly” part of that old saying about bankruptcy. Read More |
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03.06.23- A Nanny State Idiocracy: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best
It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that has little regard for the rights of American citizens), or if we’ve gone straight to an idiocracy. Read More |
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03.04.23- Fly Away from Your Own Destruction
I don’t think any of us really knows what it’s going to take to turn life in America around and place it back on a more reasoned and moral path, but it’s a certainty that the nation will soon self-destruct, if it doesn’t soon abandon the policies being implemented by Joe Biden’s anti-American regime. There isn’t any nation that can survive forever being torn between two antithetical ideologies in such a nonsensical, irresponsible and subversive and treasonous manner. Read More |
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03.03.23- Inflation Smokescreens
Some might say they were ignorant. Read More
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03.02.23- When Nations Collapse |
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03.01.23- Market Morons Finally Forced
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02.28.23- Biden aims to shatter record for fastest tax increase
Those 155 Americans had managed to reduce their federal tax liability to essentially zero by using perfectly legal deductions and credits in the tax code. Read More |
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02.27.23- The Next Bear Market Shoe
The path represents the underlying fundamentals of the company or the market, and the dog represents investor sentiment and market valuation about said company or market. As the man walks down the “fundamentals” path, the dog strays wildly, side-to-side, on the leash. First to the far left side of the path, then back to the right - and in the interim, everywhere in between. It’s distracted, chases woodland creatures, tries to smell items and is just generally excitable. That’s investor behavior. Read More |
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02.25.23- Weaponizing Global Depression
One important asymmetry is energy, with exporting (producer) nations on one end and importing (consumer) nations on the other. A very small number of nations/regions occupy the middle: they export or import relatively little energy, as they are largely self-sufficient and can make do with what they produce themselves. They aren’t reliant on exports for income or imports to keep their economy from collapsing. Read More |
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02.24.23- The World vs. the Khazarian Mafia |
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02.23.23- The Lesser Rewriters
I bring news from my other adopted country, the United Kingdom. You may know I lived in London for nearly ten years and consider myself a cultural Anglophile. (But not a political one; the British polity lost the plot ages ago.) Read More |
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02.22.23- Pfizer Knowingly Allowed Dangerous Components in its Vaccines (Part 1)
The issue of truncated mRNA led the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to raise a “major objection” before its December 2020 conditional approval of the vaccine. What has happened? How have these issues been considered resolved? This two-part series article will address the matter in depth and examine its potential consequences for human health. Read More |
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02.21.23- The United States And Russia Are At War. You Do Realize How This Is Going To End, Don’t You?
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02.20.23- Here’s Your Proof of a Rigged and Stolen 2020 Presidential Election
I’m not talking about millions of mail-in ballots with no Voter ID, no safeguards in place, and no signature match. Nor am I talking about ballot harvesting or ballot drop boxes- both literally criminal enterprises that would make the Gambino Crime Family blush. Read More |
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02.18.23- PPI: Told ‘Ya So
The index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services rose 0.6 percent in January 2023, the largest advance since moving up 0.9 percent in March 2022. For the 12 months ended in January 2023, prices for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services increased 4.5 percent. The days of "hide the sausage" fiscal policy irrevocably ended with the Ukraine/Russia conflict as a direct result of our, and Europe's, sanctioning actions. It's gone and not coming back. Read More |
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02.17.23- The Question The amount of b.s. in the world is truly off the charts. You and I are accused of “misinformation” by people who couldn’t stop lying if their lives depended on it. Read More |
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02.16.23- The Horrifying Endgame in Ukraine
But today I’m discussing what is by far the most alarming topic on the geopolitical landscape today. That’s the war in Ukraine and the dangers of escalation. Read More |
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02.15.23- How to Survive AI Mania
The frothy action has launched several languishing stocks back into the stratosphere. Traders are gobbling up shares of every AI-adjacent stock they can find. The financial media are cranking out fantastical stories of a bold future filled with sentient chatbots able to write term papers for lazy students – and even pass the bar exam. Growth speculators can’t get enough of the hype. They’re waking from their 2022 hibernation, ready to bet the farm on tech’s next big thing. Read More |
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02.14.23- Capitulation All Along The Watchtower
I’m there. I’ve had enough. I’ve been venting, ranting, and writing about topics I judged worth my effort for about fifteen years. My fervor is dead. I’m fighting too many battles on too many fronts. I’m picking the battle that is most important to me ~ ME! Read More |
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The White House warned of the potential for harassment and the singling out of U.S. citizens for detention by Russian government security officials. Just like the Biden administration does to January 6 Trump supporters. Read More |
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02.11.23- Weekend Rant: What Can We Learn From the Biggest Lies People Believed About Covid?
People were supposedly dying en masse in China, but the communist country refused to give accurate data on the situation and to this day their reported covid death rate is highly suspect. After a period of uncertainty, suddenly, there was a rush by the media and by government officials to predict the worst case scenario. Read More |
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02.10.23- - Setting the Record Straight; Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine
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02.09.23- The Banksters Want Your Money
I’m sure you’re wondering, “Why the hell is he writing about bailouts? Isn’t this an ancient topic?” I don’t blame you. Back in 2008 in the US, bailouts were the order of the day. And in 2011 in the European Union, depositors at Cypriot banks were bailed in. Allow me to set the stage… Read More |
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02.08.23- How "Prosperity" Ends
This bubble-generated “wealth” then fuels a vast expansion of credit and consumption as assets soaring in value increase the collateral available to borrow against, and the occasional sale of soaring assets generate capital gains, stock options, etc., which then fund sharply higher consumption. Read More |
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02.07.23- Maine Town Declares
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02.06.23- A History of how Corruption has Grown in the Federal Government
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02.04.23- Just Beneath
Don’t let the vapid artificiality of mainstream culture cause you to miss the weird magic of life as it actually is. Don’t let the barrage of advertisements screaming “THIS IS NEVER ENOUGH” distract from the symphony of joy in your cells at simply being alive. Read More |
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02.03.23- US pension funds are on the brink of implosion – and Wall Street is ignoring it
Earlier this month, PitchBook – the go-to news outlet of the private equity industry – declared that “private equity returns are a major threat to pension plans’ ability to pay retirees in 2023”. Read More |
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02.02.23- The Forgotten Lessons of 2008:
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02.01.23- The Cancellation of a Civilization
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01.31.23- An Idiot’s Guide to Bitcoin (Part 1)
You’re wrong about crypto! Yes, I am wrong. In fact, I’ve ignored crypto for years – so I’ve been wrong. The only positive aspect of my crypto-indifference is the consistency. Even when bitcoin was mooning, I remained skeptical. Read More |
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01.30.23- There is Far More Going On Behind the Scenes Than Most People Ever Imagined…
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01.28.23- Nearly Everyone Fails This Basic Diversification Test
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01.27.23- Dangerous Days
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01.26.23- Welcome to the Hotel California, Where You Can Check Out,
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01.25.23- A Bit of Good News
The neoconservative attack on Russia and China has a silver lining. It has killed Globalism. Russia and China and the countries dependent on Russian energy and Chinese goods and financing have been cut off from the WEF’s effort to unify the world under US hegemony. Globalism was never anything but a way for Washington to exploit the rest of the world. As Ms. Blinova says, the World Economic Forum is an elite club that intended to dictate Washington’s rules to the rest of the world. Washington would rule under the guise of “globalism.” Read More |
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01.24.23- Valuable Lessons For Life In 2023
In a world of instant gratification, all of us, including myself, become impatient. We want results, and we want them now. Read More |
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01.23.23- We Are Witnessing An Enormous Wave Of Bankruptcies And Layoffs
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01.21.23- Weekend Rant: The Price History of Campbell's Tomato Soup
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01.20.23- How The Economic Machine Works |
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01.19.23- Biden Bucks and Gas Stoves
I’ve also written frequently about the false science of climate change and the extreme climate alarmism embraced by global elites and their flunky pseudo-scientist collaborators. They’re meeting right now in Davos, by the way, figuring out new ways to try to run your life. The Biden administration itself has a long history of using this alarmism to try to control your life. Their most recent offense might just be their worst… Read More |
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01.18.23- Net Zero Will Lead to the End of Modern Civilisation, Says Top Scientist
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01.17.23- Too Wet? Too Dry?
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01.16.23- CyberAttacks and |
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01.14.23- What Is The US "Gas Stove Ban" Really About?
The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a “hidden danger”. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows – as usual – it’s not really about what they say it’s about. Talk of banning gas stoves and “unregulated indoor air quality” could be a Trojan horse designed to get even more “smart” monitoring technology into your home. Let’s jump in. Read More |
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01.13.23- Decline of Empire: Parallels Between the U.S. and Rome, Part 2
When the law was short and simple, the saying “Ignorantia juris non excusat” (ignorance of the law is no excuse) made sense. But as the government and its legislation became more ponderous, the saying became increasingly ridiculous. Eventually, under Diocletian, law became completely arbitrary, with everything done by the emperor’s decrees—we call them Executive Orders today. Read More |
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01.12.23- Americans Don’t Realize
We Americans are frogs. We are frogs wallowing blissfully in a pot of fatally warming water. We boil gradually away, unaware… comfortable… arrogant… and ignorant. Read More |
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01.11.23- Insurrection Anybody?
Insurrections galore spark off all of a sudden, and 2023 was just born days ago! Want to know why? Because the business model of the global economy is broken and the supposed remedy for that is centralized control of populations and super-strict regulation of all their activities — that is, techno-tyranny (with Marxist characteristics, as the Chinese like to put it). Not everybody wants to ride that bus, and so an epic economic problem becomes an arduous political struggle, here and elsewhere in the world. Read More |
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01.10.23- The Benefits of a Saving Culture
It is probably too late now but encouraging people to save by removing all taxation from savings makes an enormous contribution to reducing price inflation and trade deficits, while enhancing national wealth. This is evidenced empirically and demonstrated by reasoned theory. Read More |
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01.09.23- Fear Of COVID Is
But I haven’t died “from Covid.” Like the super-vast majority of people, I was never at any risk of doing so. Read More |
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01.07.23- 11 Signs That The Economic "Tipping Point" That Everyone's Been Waiting For Has Arrived
The “experts” on television are endlessly debating about whether or not we are going to have a “recession” this year, and meanwhile economic activity is imploding all around us. The number of homes being sold in this country each month has already fallen by a third. The number of job cuts in November was 417 percent higher than it was during the same month a year earlier, and at this point even Amazon is laying off thousands of workers. Read More |
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01.06.23- Are You Prepared
The sentiment is welcome. The outcome, however, can be a grave disappointment. If you recall, 2022 was supposed to be a year of redemption and prosperity. After the ugly coronavirus fiasco, the economy was finally reopening. The general belief was that the resurgence of economic activity was going to bring a new boom and a new cycle of prosperity. Read More |
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01.05.23- Decline of Empire: Parallels Between
As some of you know, I’m an aficionado of ancient history. I thought it might be worthwhile to discuss what happened to Rome and based on that, what’s likely to happen to the U.S. Spoiler alert: There are some similarities between the U.S. and Rome. But before continuing, please seat yourself comfortably. This article will necessarily cover exactly those things you’re never supposed to talk about—religion and politics—and do what you’re never supposed to do, namely, bad-mouth the military. Read More |
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01.04.23- How to Be Your Own Bank: Holding Actual Custody of Your Digital Assets
I realize a lot of hardened crypto veterans will probably roll their eyes as if to say “duh.” But I didn’t realize this stuff when I got into the uncharted technological territory that is a cryptocurrency, and it has important implications for your financial health. Read More |
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01.03.23- Predictions –
I just read that it’s the law that if it’s raining in Sweden you have to have your headlights on. How am I going to know if it’s raining in Sweden? Read More |
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01.02.23- It's Not a Lie if You Believe it
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Read More |
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