by jessefelder It’s no secret that for the past decade and a half the Federal Reserve has made it its mission to create a “wealth effect” in the economy by boosting asset prices. Back in 2010, Ben Bernanke explained, “…higher stock …
Government is slavery, but they pretend they are controlling the slave for their own good and giving them freedom. This illusion is going to be permanently shattered soon as the incoming FedCoin will be overt and obvious enslavement. The United …
by Chris Black At the end of the day, conservatives kept their main Brexit promise. Britain is free of white immigrants from inside the EU, but is replacing them with a record influx of Indians and Nigerians instead. Huge changes …
by Frank Shostak via Mises Most experts tend to assess the strength of an economy in terms of real gross domestic product (GDP). The GDP framework looks at the value of final goods and services produced during a particular time interval, usually a …
by Charles Hugh-Smith By incentivizing speculation and corruption, reducing the rewards for productive work and sucking wages dry with inflation, America has greased the skids to collapse. Of all the mass delusions running rampant in the culture, none is more …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Beneath the illusory stability of rising GDP, the extremes of debt, leverage, stimulus and speculative frenzy required to keep the ‘phantom wealth bubble’ from imploding are all rising parabolically. Imagine being at a party celebrating the vast …
by Shaun Richards Saturday night brought something really rather extraordinary as the worlds of finance and entertainment came together at least for a while. Here is The Hill on Saturday Night Live which was on NBC in the US. Musk …
by confoundedinterest17 If we look at the US Personal Consumption Expenditures Core Price Index YoY, “inflation” is a modest 1.41%. However, the largest item for households in typically housing. And housing is rising at over 10% YoY. Then we have S&P …
by Thinker Another failed investigation, case against the 45th POTUS, Donald J. Trump. Mueller is getting kicked out of the “Be Best” club for not telling the “TRUTH” that Trump is trying hard to reestablish back in government. Take an …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIoiIFmVMMI Fox is pushing Ed Henry. He’s deep state all the way. He’s married to a CNN producer. AC
From Birch Gold Group It’s been 10 years since Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, and other financial institutions went bust. When that happened, thousands lost their jobs. The real estate market dried up, and the mortgage industry’s exotic loan products put subprime …
UK housing home values have now declined for five consecutive months in a row. The real estate bubbles around the world are popping. The entire central bank economic recovery illusion is now coming to an end, the economy will continue …
The housing crisis in Australia is being exposed, it is much worse than everyone thinks. The economy is not improving, real wages are now stagnant for 2 months in a row, we are at the end of the central banking …
HEADLINE UNEMPLOYMENT IS 4.0% – pretty good right? The number implies 96% of people are employed. Is this true? What is this number obscuring? ❌Doesn’t include people that STOPPED LOOKING for work ❌Doesn’t include part time workers that want or …
via Mauldin Economics: Market makers are banks that are active in trading markets like stocks and bonds, providing everyday trading liquidity. Combine a drastically curtailed market making function in the wake of Dodd Frank with fund bidders who have no …
More and more indicators are popping up and showing us that the economy has not improved at all but declined since 2008. Nothing has been fixed and the illusion is starting to disappear, it is getting harder to hide what …
via Intelligent Investing Mirror, mirror, on the wall: The markets look so beautiful, is there anything to worry about at all? Everything is great! Just look at how none of your earnings per share fall! This week I’ve been trying to …
Uk retailers getting hit hard, just like in the US. This is spreading to all countries. Credit card usage starts to slow, people are maxed out, we saw this right before the crash of 2008. Half the companies are losing …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LnSLB4j3A4 He is correct about the crash. This isn’t some minor crash like 2008 he is talking about, he is talking about the United States defaulting on debts, credit downgrade, and other nations calling in their chips. We will be …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezC3oOokB78 Alex Jones reflects on the weird scenes inside the globalist bubble. Where the arrogance has reached such high levels of shallow ridiculousness, it’s as if it had been written by Hollywood.
by AMY S. With his first year in office drawing to a close, the US president has been talking up his economic record in typical Trump style. But one man who does not share Trump’s optimism is former congressman Ron Paul. …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LnSLB4j3A4 With his first year in office drawing to a close, the US president has been talking up his economic record in typical Trump style. But one man who does not share Trump’s optimism is former congressman Ron Paul. He …
by Mark Angelides As President Trump is just now discovering, the actual governance of the US has very little to do with him, and is in fact, designed to purposely frustrate changes in policy and pursue its own agenda. There …
by Mark Angelides “It’s like a hostile force announcing ‘I am invading you’. China has reason to be nervous,” Chen Xindong, a China chief economist, said last month after George Soros declared that he was shorting Asian currency. The Chinese …
