by Michael The head of the United Nations just warned that we are heading into an “unprecedented global hunger crisis”, and people are already dropping dead of starvation in Africa. For months I have been documenting the signs that severe food shortages were on the way, and now they have begun. Of course there are…
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by Mark Nestmann: Last week, on a day the Dow Jones index fell more than 700 points, I ran into an old friend at a monthly dinner meeting I regularly attend. “I’m screwed,” he told me. “My money manager has me almost fully invested in stocks. And they’ve lost almost a quarter of their value…
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by Michael There have been many times in the history of this country when we have seen tremendous outbursts of anger, but most of those faded fairly quickly. For example, the rioting that we witnessed in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd was horrifying, but it only lasted for a matter of weeks….
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At the risk of dating myself, I will tell you that grew up in the 80s – that decade of excess that was half drab and half brightly colored, depending on where you looked, and how much money you had for stuff like Memphis design. Technology seemed to move quickly in almost every aspect of…
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Via Birch Gold Group From Peter Reagan There is no doubt, when inflation accelerates like it is right now, the lower income class has their financial worlds turned upside down. After all, that’s what happens when most of the food that we eat and fuel we use every single day suddenly becomes 10% – 43%…
They were the unlikeliest of all European champions and to this day remain the poster boys for all underdogs. Denmark, the Euro 92 winners, gave hope to generations of teams that would follow them onto the big stage. How could a nation with a population of a little over five million in 1992 sweep away…
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by Charles Hugh-Smith The mercantilist dependence on exports for growth, a winner for the past 70 years, has reached diminishing returns. Rather than be a source of growth, it’s a source of stagnation. Conventional wisdom holds that geopolitical power is inevitably shifting from West to East. It isn’t quite this simple. The real shift is…
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From Peter Reagan at Birch Gold Group “This crash beneath the surface showed something had broken, that the magic had died, that hype and hoopla were suddenly unable to carry the day.”– Wolf Richter When one signal indicates a market crash that could lead to a full-blown recession, it’s pretty easy to downplay or just…
Rising inflation and increase in cash rates has not slowed down Adelaide’s buoyant property market with a new report revealing 123 suburbs that are now considered as ‘rising’ markets. The winter edition of Hotspotting’s Price Predictor Index report analyzed sales data across Adelaide’s metropolitan area to determine where property prices are likely to rise or…
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by David Stockman on David Stockman’s Contra Corner: The Biden Administration’s utterly ridiculous plan to enact a three-month holiday from the 18.4 cents per gallon federal gas tax should be a wake-up call with respect to a far broader and more destructive threat. To wit, the US economy has lost its market-based bearings and is…
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