Will the Stock Market Be Dragged to the Guillotine?
The Fed’s rigged-casino stock market will be dragged to the guillotine by one route or another.
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Goodbye Middle Class: Half Of All American Workers Made Less Than $34,248.45 Last Year
Once upon a time, a single income could easily support a middle class household in most cases, but those days are long gone. The cost of living has…
Continue readingThe Shoddiness of ‘Big Think’ Media
It is indoctrination, not information, that they actually purvey…
Continue readingCorruption Is Now Our Way of Life
Systemic corruption and the implosion of the social contract have consequences: It’s called collapse…
Continue readingThe Bill for America’s $50 Trillion Gluttony of Inequality Is Overdue
The battle to claw back a significant percentage of the $50 trillion is just beginning…
Continue readingAmerica In 2020: Sacrifice For Thee But None For Me
The banquet of consequences for the Fed, the elites and their armies of parasitic flunkies and factotums is being laid out, and there won’t be much…
Continue readingIsn’t It Obvious We Need a New System?
Why do we tolerate such a corrupt, undemocratic, exploitive, elite-dominated system? Because we have no other choice? No, we do have a choice…
Continue readingAmerica’s Metastasizing Class Wars
Class wars are the inevitable result of an economic system in which ‘anything goes if you’re rich enough and winners take most’…
Continue readingPoster Child Of The ‘Crowded Trade’: Beyond The Surreal And Navigating The Silver Minefield
Last Tuesday’s near-vertical decline happened far too quickly for a bottom to have formed. Once the overbought conditions are resolved…
Continue readingThe US Economy And The Global Economy Are Mortally Wounded
A fully financialized, totally debt and speculation-dependent economy is terminal once leverage and debt stop expanding exponentially…
Continue readingA Deeper Dive Into US Household Wealth Distribution & The Wealth Gap
Between now and November politicians and political operatives of all kinds will be arguing over this issue, as well as how to “fix” it…
Continue readingThe Nation Is Falling Into the Abyss Between Wall Street and Main Street
The abyss between the Fed’s illusion of phantom wealth for Wall Street and the collapse of Main Street is bottomless, and our descent is accelerating…
Continue readingWhy Does It Feel Like We’re in “Life During Wartime”?
The laughably hopeless hope is that by propping up the corpses, the populace will discern some faint flicker of life and return to their free-spending ways…
Continue readingIs the West repeating India’s mistakes?
The recent tensions and the riots that started in the US and spread throughout the West, all seemed to have the notion of inequality and…
Continue readingInequality Is America’s Monster Id
What they don’t understand is inequality is America’s Monster Id: the more you try to suppress it, the more powerful it becomes…
Continue readingWhat Will Be the Most Desirable Status Symbols in the Greater Depression?
Virtue-signaling selfies and texts from $100 million yachts no longer impress. They enrage…
Continue readingWhat Makes You Think the Stock Market Will Even Exist in 2024?
Given the extremes of the stock market’s frauds and even greater extremes of wealth/income inequality it has created, tell me again why the…
Continue readingGold, The Nixon Shock, And The Economy: What Went Wrong In 1971
What are the most significant developments that have occurred since 1971?
Continue readingThe New Normal: Extremes of Neofeudalism, Incompetence, Authoritarianism & Relocalization
The pendulum swung to an extreme of globalization, financialization, centralization and monopoly, all of which created extreme systemic fragility…
Continue readingFor the Rich to Keep Getting Richer, We Have to Sacrifice Everything Else
They’re hoping the endless circuses and trails of bread crumbs will forever distract us from their plunder and the inequalities built into America’s…
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