The 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…
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America 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 readingThis Is How It Ends: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
While the Fed and the Billionaire Class push the stock market to new highs to promote a false facade of prosperity, everyday life will fall apart…
Continue readingAusterity Bad, Inflation Good: Inflation Is Stealth Austerity
Rather than decry austerity, which demands an open political discussion of trade-offs, we should decry inflation’s stealthy reduction of purchasing power….
Continue reading2020 Will Be a Record-Breaking Year for Debt. How Long Can This Last?
Most Americans don’t seem particularly concerned about this…
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 readingTikTok and our Last-Ditch Desperation for Social Mobility
Social media offers hope of achieving higher social status, something that is increasingly out of reach in our winner-take-most economy…
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 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 readingWhat Lies Ahead: Destabilizing Social Stratification
The bill for extreme wealth/income inequality is now overdue, and the penalties for ignoring the bill will be as extreme as the inequality…
Continue readingRe-Opening the Economy Won’t Fix What’s Broken
Re-opening a fragile, brittle, bankrupt, hopelessly perverse and corrupt “normal” won’t fix what’s broken…
Continue readingThe Pandemic Gives Us Permission To Get What We Always Wanted
Dear Corporate America: Maybe you remember the old Johnny Paycheck tune? Let me refresh your memory: take this job and shove it…
Continue readingOur Economic, Social & Political Fate Is Sealed: Four Long-Term Cycles Align
Cycles have aligned and nothing can stop the unraveling of all that was foolishly presumed to be permanent…
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 readingWhat The Pandemic Revealed: A Morally Bankrupt Culture
Monopolies, quasi-monopolies and cartels are inherently exploitive and thus evil…
Continue readingThe Fed Is Fueling a Revolt That It Cannot Control
It’s not that hard to forecast a populist revolt against the parasitic class that’s grown obscenely wealthy as a direct result of Fed policies.
Continue readingEconomic Mother Earth Purges 20,500,000 Jobs From The US In April, Unemployment Rises To 14.7%…Gold & Silver Shrug
What happens when you build an economy based on a 24/7 Fed & Government intervention and manipulation? Here’s what…
Continue readingWhile the Top 10% and the Fed Cheer Stocks Rebounding, the Bottom 60% Lose their Livelihoods and Lives
If you have any doubt that the Fed and Wall Street will some day be dismantled, please re-read this “real life in America” list again…
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