Fox News host Tucker Carlson just interviewed a British rapper who gives a — gasp — reasonable assessment of the modern world. It’s nice to be reminded that sanity still survives out there:
Today’s Chart: Gold Breakout Coming?
Sometimes it helps to zoom out a bit. For gold (at least when priced in US dollars), the past few years’ action has seemed boring, one might even say directionless. But move the starting date back and flip the graphical relationship between metal and currency, as 321Gold’s Stewart Thompson recently did, and the picture looks […]
Today’s Chart: Those Covid Vaccines Are, Um, Different
The CDC maintains a database called Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) that tracks the problems reported by vaccine recipients. Problems range from a brief headache to sudden death, and reporting is optional, so VAERS is by design incomplete and not always easy to analyze. But the current data do seem a bit odd. America […]
Top Ten Videos — September 19 2021
Jim Rogers: The ‘worst bear market of our lifetime’ is nearing fast … Dan Oliver: $10k gold, credit collapse, dollar devaluation; this is the ‘course of the empire’ … George Gammon: How Australia became a prison … Glenn Greenwald: Democratic officials continue to threaten tech companies to censor more … Lynette Zang: Why the Evergrande […]
This Evergrande Thing Is Serious
China’s Evergrande has been in the news lately, but not always in an understandable way. The real estate developer is just too big and its financial arrangements too obscure to be easily grasped by people with a lot of other things on their plates. Plus, China has had plenty of corporate implosions in the recent […]
Creeping Fascism – September 17 2021
Let’s start with this video clip in which an Alberta, Canada official informs the unvaccinated that they’re no longer allowed to have a cup of coffee with their next-door neighbor. From there, let’s move south to the US, where the Bill of Rights apparently no longer includes freedom of speech: Elizabeth Warren Demands Amazon Censor […]
Top Ten Videos — September 12 2021
Simon Black: The money printing can’t stop … Russell Brand: Are you disgusted by this?? … George Gammon: The US will fall into Depression in 2022 … Peter Schiff: Why is the rising tide of inflation not lifting gold’s boat? … Max Keiser: Zero rates are causing deflation … Find previous Top Ten Video pages […]
Charts For A Crazy World: Stats That Contradict The Official Line
A lot of headline numbers show an economy that’s in pretty good shape. Official unemployment is 5%. GDP is growing at a totally acceptable 3% rate. Stocks are at all-time highs. Bonds, from US Treasuries to corporate junk, are priced as richly as they’ve ever been. These are all signs of robust health. Until you […]
Top Ten Videos — September 5 2021
Mike Maloney: Five charts show why real estate has gone insane … Rick Rule: Precious metals do well in times of fear … Lobo Tiggre: Silver is unlikely to track gold, may never be money again … Peter Grandich: The Fed is doing things we’d be thrown in jail for … Alasdair Macleod: Dollar days […]
SPACs Tank. Are NFTs Next?
Towards the end of financial bubbles, two things generally happen. First, legitimate ways to put capital to work become scarce as prices outrun expected cash flows. Second, large numbers of traders, who have grown used to seeing everything they buy go up, start chasing “innovations” with exciting stories but (in retrospect) insanely high risks. One […]
Matt Taibbi: “NPR Trashes Free Speech. A Brief Response”
An absolutely essential deconstruction of censorship from Matt Taibbi’s Substack: In an irony only public radio could miss, “On the Media” hosts an hour on the perils of “free speech absolutism” without interviewing a defender of free speech. The guests for NPR’s just-released On The Media episode about the dangers of free speech included Andrew […]
Michael Pento: The Great Deflation Of 2022
From the Pento Report: It is not very surprising to me that nearly every talking head on Wall Street is convinced inflation has now become entrenched as a permanent feature in the U.S. economy. This is because most mainstream economists have no clue what is the progenitor of inflation. They have been inculcated to believe […]
Top Ten Videos — August 30 2021
David Morgan: Banks will seize your money in the coming financial crisis … Gerald Celente: Afghanistan is yet another war that America started and lost … Rick Rule: Beware of mining stock value traps … Danielle DiMartino Booth … Why Palantir and Tesla are adding gold and Bitcoin to reserves … Brent Johnson: A dollar […]
Ridiculous Bluff: Fed Threatens To “Get Aggressive” With Inflation
You can summarize the current mood in Washington DC as “Please don’t let this be a return to the 1970s.” For younger readers, that was a decade in which excessive government spending and money printing combined with inept foreign policy to create the impression that the US was fading into global irrelevance. Everyone everywhere dumped […]
Do Empty Shelves Count As Inflation?
The prices of a lot of things are up these days, which fits the common definition of “inflation.” Meanwhile, an increasing number of products are appearing at the same price but in smaller packages.This is inflation’s slippery first cousin “shrinkflation.” Here’s a sampling from a recent study: • Bounty paper towels: The triple back has […]
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