The Age of Discord
It’s very difficult to find common ground that supports cooperation in the disintegrative stage of scarcities, rising prices, catastrophically centralized power and social discord…
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WHITHER GOEST THOU SILVER? IT GOES WHERE IT’S LOVED
It might come to pass that silver is simply not available no matter the prices offered. Junk bullion will go crazy in price and stackers will see their…
Continue readingWhy China’s Property Bubble Is a Big Deal
No economy has been able to ignore a property bubble and even less so offset it and continue to…
Continue readingThe Stimulus Boom Is Already Over: Now Comes Stagnation
Cheap money, increased public intervention, and massive stimulus plans have not worked as…
Continue readingMonetary and Fiscal Policy Won’t Help The Economic Reality We’re Facing
The next two decades of U.S. growth would look like the last two decades in Japan. Not a collapse, just a slow, prolonged stagnation…
Continue readingMonetary and Fiscal Policy Won’t Help Lift Us Out Of The New Depression
The next two decades of U.S. growth would look like the last two decades in Japan. Not a collapse, just a slow, prolonged stagnation. This is the…
Continue readingConsumer Spending Will Not Rebound…Here’s Why
Any economy that concentrates its wealth and income in the top tier is a fragile economy…
Continue readingThe New (Forced) Frugality
There are only two ways to survive a decline in income and net worth: slash expenses or default on debt…
Continue readingSmart Gold Investors Ask: What Would The Zombification Of The Economy Imply For Gold?
“…investors should acknowledge that Europe is much more zombified than the US, so – unfortunately for gold prices…”
Continue readingTechnology Is Not Just Disruptive, It’s Disastrously Deflationary
Deflation eats credit-dependent, mass-consumption economies alive from the inside…
Continue readingNo Fix For Recession: Without A Financial Crisis, There’s No Central Bank Policy Fix
There are no extreme “fixes” to secular declines in sales, profits, employment, tax revenues and asset prices…
Continue readingAnother Nail In The US Economy’s Coffin: Consumer Confidence Plunges In March
The MSM was shocked with the plunge in consumer confidence, though it should really come as no surprise. Here’s why, and what it means for the economy…
Continue readingHow Empires Collapse In Four Easy Steps
The promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies…
Continue readingRon Paul: Inflation Is Destroying The Middle Class – Blame The Fed
Two jobs to stay afloat. Shrinkflation. Record debt. The Fed is destroying the Middle Class. Here’s Ron Paul to explain…
Continue readingThe Dynamics Of Decadence Are Weakening The Social And Economic Order
Conditions have been created that favor a loss in faith in the status quo and the failure of key institutions within our society. Here are the details…
Continue readingWhen Does This Travesty Of A Mockery Of A Sham Finally End?
Credit bubbles aren’t engines of sustainable employment, they’re engines of malinvestment and wealth destruction. This will come to an end. Here’s when…
Continue readingThe Fed Has Created Stagnant Wages In An Age Of Plenty
For most people wages have been stagnant since the 1970s. There are very clear reasons why that is the case. Here are the details…
Continue readingHousing Crisis 2.0 Now In Full Swing: Colorado Eviction Courts ‘Overwhelmed’ And In ‘Crisis’
“The rent (and everything else) is too dang high” as individual and family budgets In Colorado are beyond stretched. Here’s the details…
Continue readingThe Solutions To Our Financial Problems Must Come From Outside The Status Quo
“the organizational structure attempts to meet the challenges by doing more of what’s failing: since every layer of bureaucracy now has…”
Continue readingCharles Hugh Smith: Are You Better Off Than You Were 17 Years Ago?
Charles Hugh Smith looks at the “official” numbers to find out if we are really 35% better off than we were 17 years ago…
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