Paul Craig Roberts: The Rise Of Robber-Capitalism And The Enslavement Of The Working Class
The pendulum has swung to robber-capitalism. The only mark of success is money. How you get it doesn’t matter anymore…
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Investors & Traders Just Can’t Dump Their Gold & Silver Fast Enough After June 2019 Jobs Report SMASHES ALL EXPECTATIONS!
Gold & silver’s “sell-off” has afforded stackers with a flash sale. Here’s what happened, and here’s why the flash sale may not last all that long…
Continue readingSilver Punches Through $15 As Govt Reports A Pitiful Number Of Jobs (75,000) Created In May
Gold nearly breached $1350 at the release of the jobs report, and the dollar plummeted. Here’s an update…
Continue readingTechnology Is Not Just Disruptive, It’s Disastrously Deflationary
Deflation eats credit-dependent, mass-consumption economies alive from the inside…
Continue readingMILLIONS OF AMERICANS ON EDGE: ONE PAYCHECK AWAY FROM FINANCIAL DISASTER
For nearly half of Americans in the workforce, financial disaster would occur from missing just ONE paycheck…
Continue readingFrench Incomes Place Below Some of America’s Poorest States — And the Protesters Know It
If we compare France to individual US states, we find that France’s disposable income may rank below every US state except Louisiana. Here’s more…
Continue readingA Different Kind Of Wage Inflation Heralds This Cycle’s End
Late-cycle dynamics are now in play, and employers are finding creative ways to attract and retain workers…
Continue readingCharles Hugh Smith: Unrealistically Great Expectations, A Shrinking Pie
Our expectations have continued ever higher even as the pie is shrinking in more ways that one…
Continue readingGold & Silver Rise After Release Of The Spectacular Employment Situation Report For April, 2019
President Trump & Fed Head Powell, we have a problem, and it’s not about gold or silver but about Trump’s demands and current Fed policy…
Continue readingThe Accelerating Decay Of The Middle Class
Ironically, the top wage earners’ ample compensation allows them to avoid the poor-quality services they’ve designed for everyone below them…
Continue readingIf The Economy Is So Great, Then Why Are So Many Workers Miserable?
The mental well being of the American worker hit an all-time low in 2018. That’s a bit shocking considering the economy is booming and…
Continue readingFeedback Loop Of Doom: Creative People & Capital Abandoning Disfunctional, Unaffordable Cities
When the 4% who generate the jobs & tax revenues have had enough and leave, the effects are quickly felt. Political leaders who felt invincible suddenly…
Continue readingThe Sauds, The Petro-Dollar, Gold, And Income Inequality
What do the Sauds, the Petro-dollar, gold, and income inequality have to do with each other, with the US, and with Trump? Craig Hemke explains…
Continue readingWe Give Up! The Fed Is “Resigned” To Blowing Bubbles
After raising rates and getting slapped around by the markets last year, the Fed now appears to accept that future monetary policy can only be easy…
Continue reading2019 Is Starting To Look Like The Oil Crisis And Stagflation Of The 1970s
The U.S. hasn’t had a serious bout with stagflation in quite a while, but it appears that we may be moving in that direction…
Continue readingIt’s 2016 All Over Again, Or Is It?
In 2016, growing weakness in the global economy and wobbling financial markets caused the world’s central banks to absolutely freak out…
Continue readingHousing Starts Collapse With The Worst Annual Drop Since 2011
Builders remain wary even as lower mortgage rates and steady wage gains offer support to consumers. Here’s a look a the ‘unexpected tumble’…
Continue readingBernie Sanders Tells America: Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps
We can see from Sanders’s own success in selling books that inequality is not necessarily a result of the wealthy exploiting the poor…
Continue readingMinimum Wage Hike DISASTER! The Truth You’re Not Being Told
This misconception perpetuates the very thing creating the problem in the first place. Mass centralization and control of the populace and it works…
Continue readingBlind Faith Vs The Bottom Line That The Facts Matter
There is more than a little “let them eat brioche” in the blind faith that the masses’ patience for pillage is infinite…
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