Commentary
November Surprise?
Can you picture what will be? So limitless and free… Desperately in need of some stranger’s hand… In a desperate land…. — The Doors Welcome to the season of chaos, sponsored by the Party […]
Financial Chaos
Freedom
Please Don’t Pop Our Precious Bubble!
September 8, 2021 It’s a peculiarity of the human psyche that it’s remarkably easy to be swept up in bubble mania and remarkably difficult to be swept up in the same way by the bubble’s […]
Financial
America Is Exceptionally…Kleptocratic: Wealth/Power Inequality and the Slide Into Disorder
The sheer weight of this outlandish asymmetry of wealth and power is pulling the nation into disorder. The U.S. Constitution doesn’t address a small elite owning most of the nation’s private wealth and using a […]
Financial
Why the Financial System Will Break: You Can’t “Normalize” Markets that Depend on Extreme Monetary Stimulus
Central banks are now trapped. In a nutshell, central banks are promising to “normalize” their monetary policy extremes in 2018. Nice, but there’s a problem: you can’t “normalize” markets that are now entirely dependent on extremes […]
Commentary
The Sound of One Wing Flapping
And suddenly the storms of early Trumptopia subside, or seem to. The surface of things turns eerily placid as the sweets of May sweep away the toils of an elongated mud season. Somebody stuffed Kim […]
Financial
On the Brink of a Market Crisis
The tremor that shook the stock market in recent days — namely the fear of higher interest rates from the Federal Reserve — remains a key focus here in Bermuda at the Total Wealth Symposium. […]
Financial
Unknown Voluntary Servitude
Richard (Rick) Mills Ahead of the Herd Page 1 of 4 As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information Here’s a long debated topic. […]
Commentary
In The Next Emergency These “Key Items Will Be Completely Gone” From Shelves
Michael Snyder This article was written by Michael Snyder and originally published at his Economic Collapse blog. Editor’s Comment: America has become crisis prone. The pressure points have been identified, and provoked. Civil unrest could […]
Financial
The Day The Dollar Died
BY JAMES RICKARDS The Day The Dollar Died Part I Will history record September 4th, 2016 as the day the dollar died? Before continuing, let me make it clear that you aren’t going to wake […]
Financial
Why Real Reform Is Impossible: We Can’t Believe the Mighty Titanic Could Actually Sink
Unfortunately for those partying on the upper First Class decks, they are as doomed as the steerage passengers when the ship goes down. Why did passengers remain on the Titanic even as its bow sank deeper into […]