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…
Continue readingIt’s very difficult to find common ground that supports cooperation in the disintegrative stage of scarcities, rising prices, catastrophically centralized power and social discord…
Continue readingIt 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 readingNo economy has been able to ignore a property bubble and even less so offset it and continue to…
Continue readingCheap money, increased public intervention, and massive stimulus plans have not worked as…
Continue readingThe 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 readingThe 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 readingAny economy that concentrates its wealth and income in the top tier is a fragile economy…
Continue readingThere are only two ways to survive a decline in income and net worth: slash expenses or default on debt…
Continue reading“…investors should acknowledge that Europe is much more zombified than the US, so – unfortunately for gold prices…”
Continue readingDeflation eats credit-dependent, mass-consumption economies alive from the inside…
Continue readingThere are no extreme “fixes” to secular declines in sales, profits, employment, tax revenues and asset prices…
Continue readingThe 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 readingThe promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies…
Continue readingTwo jobs to stay afloat. Shrinkflation. Record debt. The Fed is destroying the Middle Class. Here’s Ron Paul to explain…
Continue readingConditions 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 readingCredit 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 readingFor most people wages have been stagnant since the 1970s. There are very clear reasons why that is the case. Here are the details…
Continue reading“The rent (and everything else) is too dang high” as individual and family budgets In Colorado are beyond stretched. Here’s the details…
Continue reading“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 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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