by Mark Nestmann: Last week, on a day the Dow Jones index fell more than 700 points, I ran into an old friend at a monthly dinner meeting I regularly attend. “I’m screwed,” he told me. “My money manager has me almost fully invested in stocks. And they’ve lost almost a quarter of their value…
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by Michael There have been many times in the history of this country when we have seen tremendous outbursts of anger, but most of those faded fairly quickly. For example, the rioting that we witnessed in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death was horrifying, but it only lasted for a matter of weeks. This time…
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Via Birch Gold Group From Peter Reagan There is no doubt, when inflation accelerates like it is right now, the lower income class has their financial worlds turned upside down. After all, that’s what happens when most of the food that we eat and fuel we use every single day suddenly becomes 10% – 43%…
by Charles Hugh-Smith The mercantilist dependence on exports for growth, a winner for the past 70 years, has reached diminishing returns. Rather than be a source of growth, it’s a source of stagnation. Conventional wisdom holds that geopolitical power is inevitably shifting from West to East. It isn’t quite this simple. The real shift is…
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From Peter Reagan at Birch Gold Group “This crash beneath the surface showed something had broken, that magic had died, that hype and hoopla were suddenly unable to carry the day.”– Wolf Richter When one signal indicates a market crash that could lead to a full-blown recession, it’s pretty easy to downplay or just ignore…
aslysun / Shutterstock.com When my circa-1987 all-gray kitchen finally underwent a much-needed renovation, my husband and I had to take every single thing out of our cupboards and drawers. It was kind of like an archaeological dig, as we discovered mysterious gadgets, orphaned appliance cords and even a 1990 receipt for a coffeemaker purchased by…
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by David Stockman on David Stockman’s Contra Corner: The Biden Administration’s utterly ridiculous plan to enact a three-month holiday from the 18.4 cents per gallon Federal gas tax should be a wake-up call with respect to a far broader and more destructive threat. To wit, the US economy has lost its market-based bearings and is…
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by Michael Almost everyone has heard about the rapidly growing global energy crisis by now, but most people assume that this crisis will eventually go away because they think the authorities have everything under control. Unfortunately, that is not true at all. This crisis has taken our leaders by surprise, and now many of them…
by Michael There are dark clouds on the horizon, and those who choose to ignore them do so to their own peril. When World War I started, nobody thought it would be the most horrifying war that Europe had ever witnessed. The “war to end all wars” resulted in approximately 20 million deaths, but of…
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by Martin Armstrong Britain’s Military Chief of the General Staff had just taken that position and he has already told the army they need to prepare for war against Russia in Europe. He has told every soldier to prepare to fight Russia in a potential World War III. He has pledged to forge an Army…
