Financial
No Money, No Growth
by John Rubino Last August, the US Fed stopped creating new currency out of thin air and dumping it into the banking system. Which is another way of saying the US money supply stopped growing. […]
Inflation
Media
Mediocre Is The New Perfect
by John Rubino Three things happened this morning: The Labor Department reported a big jump employment; the financial markets responded like kids on Christmas morning; and — with a few hours lag — level-headed analysts […]
Commentary
Is A Trap About To Be Sprung?
by John Rubino Green’s point is that two big trends are intersecting: 1) The push by workers for their fair share of record corporate profits, in the form of a higher minimum wage and better […]
World Affairs
OPEC Going Broke, Dumping Dollars. Is That Good Or Bad?
by John Rubino When oil prices fell out of bed last winter there was much hand-wringing over the fate of the former beneficiaries of high-priced crude. Trillions of dollars of junk bonds issued by frackers, […]
Commentary
Clueless In The Middle East
by John Rubino Starting with the CIA’s overthrow (and some would say murder) of Iran’s democratically-elected president in the 1950s and continuing through our serial invasions of Iraq and our arming of Al Qaeda and […]
Wealth Abuse
The Price of Ground Beef Has DOUBLED Since the Last Financial Crisis
Michael Snyder Since the depths of the last recession, the price of ground beef in the United States has doubled. Has your paycheck doubled since then? Even though the Federal Reserve insists that we are in […]
Financial
THE REAL REASON THE AMERICAN DREAM IS UNRAVELING
Via The Burning Platform Marketwatch posted an article this week titled Why the American Dream is Unraveling, in 4 charts. As usual, the MSM journalist and the liberal Harvard academic can create charts that reveal a […]
Financial
Who Decides What Is Money?
By John Rubino The following is an edited excerpt from The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops: During a 2011 congressional banking subcommittee hearing, Texas congressman Ron Paul asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke […]
Commentary
FOURTH TURNING – THE SHADOW OF CRISIS HAS NOT PASSED – PART TWO
By The Burning Platform In Part One of this article I laid the groundwork of the Fourth Turning generational theory. I refuted President Obama’s claim that the shadow of crisis has passed. The shadow grows ever larger […]
Wealth Abuse
When This Ends, Everybody Gets Hurt
Wikimedia When This Ends, Everybody Gets Hurt And the end is uncomfortably close by Chris Martenson Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 10:45 PM Central banks around the globe have taken us all into unchartered territory, where […]