Instability Rising: Why 2020 Will Be Different
In 2020, increasing monetary and fiscal stimulus will be the equivalent of spraying gasoline on a fire to extinguish it…
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409Ks, 90% Gains, The Fed And Darth Vader’s Warning
The worship of mortals as demi-gods and faith in Golden Idols triggers a turn in the karmic wheel as near-infinite hubris invites divine retribution…
Continue readingThe Fed Can’t Reverse The Decline Of Financialization And Globalization
The global economy and financial system are both running on the last toxic fumes of financialization and globalization…
Continue readingWas Marx Right About Capitalism Destroying Itself From Within?
What are the internal contradictions that could unravel capitalism from within?
Continue readingThe Fed’s “Not-QE” And The $33 Trillion Stock Market In Three Charts
One day the stock market ‘falcon’ will no longer hear the Fed ‘falconer’, and the Pavlovian magical thinking will break down as the market goes bidless…
Continue readingThe Hour Is Getting Late
After 11 years of “the Fed is the market” expansion, the Fed has now reduced its bloated balance sheet by 6.7%. This is normal, right?
Continue readingA “Market” Crash Is Baked In–Here’s Why
Anyone looking at the hollowed-out, fragile shell of a Fed-managed “market” as a system realizes a crash…
Continue readingWelcome To The Era Of Intensifying Chaos And New Weapons Of Conflict
Geopolitics has moved from a slow, relatively predictable chess match to rapidly evolving 3-D chess in which the rules keep changing in unpredictable ways…
Continue readingSkyrocketing Costs Will Pop All The Bubbles
The reckoning is coming, and everyone who counted on “eternal growth of borrowing” to stave off the reckoning is in for a big surprise…
Continue readingOK Boomer, OK Fed
Eventually the younger generations will connect all the economic injustices implicit in ‘OK Boomer’ with the Fed…
Continue readingWhy “This Sucker Is Going Down”
Once the contagion starts spreading, loose money won’t put the fires out…
Continue readingCharles Hugh Smith: The Taxonomy Of Collapse
The higher up the wealth-power pyramid the observer is, the more prone they are to a magical-thinking belief that the empire is forever…
Continue readingThe COSTS Of Essentials (Housing, Education & Healthcare) ARE SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL
And how do we pay for these spiraling out of control costs? By borrowing more, of course…
Continue readingCrunchtime: When Events Outrun Plan B
Not only will events outrun Plan B, they’ll also outrun Plans C and D…
Continue readingCould America Survive A Truth Commission?
A nation no longer capable of naming names and reporting what actually happened richly deserves an economic and political collapse to match its moral collapse…
Continue readingWe Can Only Choose One…Our National Economy, Or Globalization
The servitude of society to a globalized economy is generating extremes of insecurity, powerlessness and inequality…
Continue readingDarn, This Is Inconvenient: Apple Is Destroying The Planet To Maximize Profits
The planet’s most widely-owned super-corporation is destroying the planet to maximize its smartphone sales and profits…
Continue readingWhat’s Been Normalized? Nothing Good Or Positive
What’s been normalized are policies and cultural norms that seek to enrich and protect the few at the expense of the many…
Continue readingPolitical And Social Conflict Are Accelerating: Here’s Why
All the status quo “fixes” only hasten the collapse of the status quo. That economic, social and political conflict is accelerating is self-evident…
Continue readingIf QE Is “Not-QE”, Then Is A Blow Off Top “Not A Blow Off Top”?
The Fed’s level of panic is noteworthy, as is the absurd transparency of its laughable attempt to conceal its panic…
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