Well, it’s now official: Inflation did become the hottest news of 2022 as predicted in 2021: “Inflation Becomes The Leading Global Concern In 2022.” The next step in the forecast was that the Fed greatly over tightens because it doesn’t realize we’re already in a recession, and here is proof step-two is nearly complete:
Guest Features Archive
Lance Roberts: Fed Rate Hikes Approaching The “Breaking Pointâ€
Posted October 22, 2022 By David HaggithBill Bonner: “A Very Slight Recession”
Posted October 16, 2022 By David HaggithWe are breathing a lot easier, how about you? We had been worrying that a devastating recession would plunge the US into chaos… losses… and confusion… giving the Fed the smokescreen to go back to what it does best – causing inflation… and dooming Joe Biden and his fellow democrats to a single 4-year spell […]
MN Gordon: Debt Markets Get Trampled
Posted October 15, 2022 By David HaggithAnyone with half a brain knew there would be hell to pay for locking down the economy and simultaneously printing and spewing out trillions of dollars of confetti money. The bill has finally come due…
MN Gordon: Who Else Bought BlackRock’s LDI Swindle Products?
Posted October 9, 2022 By David HaggithFinding and filling gaps in the market is one path for entrepreneurial success. The first to tap into an unmet consumer demand can unlock massive profits. But unless there’s some comparative advantage, competition will quickly commoditize the market. Profit margins will decline to just above breakeven. “You should either be first or be better than your competition.â€
MN Gordon: Why Bonds Are Behaving Like Risky Assets
Posted October 2, 2022 By David Haggith“When the [credit] delusion breaks, people all with one impulse hoard their money, banks all with one impulse hoard credit, and debt becomes debt again, as it always was.  Credit is ruined.†– Garet Garrett, 1932, A Bubble that Broke the World
MN Gordon: Facing Down a Wrath of Biblical Proportions
Posted September 25, 2022 By David Haggith“The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.â€â€“ 1 Samuel 2:7 An enterprising entrepreneur did a comedic graphic of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell captioned: “IN JPOW WE TRUST.†You may have seen it.…
Bill Blain: Welcome to the New Age – Same Old, Same Old.. But Different!
Posted September 25, 2022 By David HaggithThe Old Age is over, and its welcome to the new, which is going to be little different – just a lot more complex. Thriving in a confused new economy of energy scarcity, inflation, recession and geopolitical threat isn’t easy – as the UK is about to discover. by Bill Blain on Blain’s Morning Porridge: […]
Why So Many Cling to Covid Panic
Posted September 24, 2022 By David Haggithby Mark Oshinskie on Brownstone Institute: When I was 10, I had a 12-year-old sister, Denise, and two brothers. Lenny was 14 and Danny was 5. We boys slept in the same room in a small, single-story house in a modest, riverside neighborhood known as Pleasureland. The neighborhood’s name derived from a nearby park with […]
JB Shurk: Why the World Economic Forum’s Plutocracy Should Be Dissolved
Posted September 24, 2022 By David HaggithNo matter how noble its stated intentions, the “Great Reset” is at its heart a program for driving political power away from individual citizens and toward the controlling interests of a small international class of financial elites. This shift in society’s balance of power has fundamentally changed the relationship between Western citizens and their national […]
Jeffrey Tucker: A World on Fire
Posted September 18, 2022 By David HaggithEvery day, news reporters, traders, and workers of all sorts the world over wake to do their work as they always have. Part of that requires that everyone pretend that life is normal, fixable, and more or less stable. All of this is temporary. It will come and go and really not be that bad. […]
Charles Hugh Smith: Why This Recession Is Different
Posted September 18, 2022 By David HaggithThis time is different because we face structural dynamics that won’t go away in a few months or even years. This time is worse than anything we’ve ever faced in, at least, sixty years … maybe even worse than that…. by Charles Hugh Smith on Of Two Minds: Let’s explore what’s different now compared to […]