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Economic Predictions for H2 2022, Conclusion: A Bifurcated World of Woes Awaits

Writing is a tough balancing act, especially when you know a fair number of people in your regular audience are not likely to like what you write. That is made even more precarious in a world so far off balance that it is now dividing like an amoeba into Left and Right halves and cracking […]

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Epocalypse Revisited Part Three: Monetary War in the new New World Order

I’m making Part Three of my “Epocalypse Revisited” series available to all because it introduces where the series will go in examining the world’s transition to a global, digital cashless society, countering the notion that globalism just fell off a cliff and dispelling rumors about gold-backed rubles and the mighty yuan trouncing the dollar.

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Epocalypse Revisited Part Two: The New Globalism

I promised my two-part Patron Post would lay out how the war and all the global sanctions will likely bring profound shifts to the “world order,” altering and accelerating the path toward globalization and control. I realize that is the opposite of what many are saying; and, as we’re on the leading edge of this, […]

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Central Banks All-in on Cashless Cash

In my September Patron Post, I promised to compose an article that would bring us up to date on what the central bankers of the world have been saying about their plans, particularly with respect to digital currencies. This is that article. (I felt it more important to get out my other Patron Post this […]

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CASHLESS SOCIETY 2020: Central Banks Exploit the Coronacrash to Bring on Coronacash

Central banks, as I’ve laid out in past months of Patron Posts, have been publicly laying the road for a transition to digital currency for many months. Now the coronacrisis is playing directly into their hands. Central banks conduct germ warfare on dirty cash The war on cash has gone viral. Early in March, Zero […]

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Hexit? EU and Hungary Deepen European Crisis over Corona Pandemic

From Eurocrisis to Coronacrisis, the EU and Hungary fracture over national pandemic responses and civil-liberties. Hungary could be the next Brexit. European leaders see an existential threat to the Union as Hungary’s PM seizes full dictatorial power.

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Did Trump Trade Wars Just Escalate to Germ Warfare?

Europeans are feeling like President Trump just dropped a COVID-19 economic bomb on the European Union. In response to his March 11th talk from the Oval Office, EU leaders said they did not see this coming. Was this a COVERT economic attack on the EU as some in the EU think?

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The Whacky Wonderland of Sovereign Debtors and their Central Banksters

Before delving further into the schemes of central banksters for saving their debt-addicted sovereigns from monsters the banksters created in their own laboratories, I thought it might be helpful to present an overview of just how wild their brave new world has become.

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You Know Things are Falling When…

…when the stock market’s decade-long bottom trend becomes its new top trend and then it can’t even make it back up to that line as a top trend.

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A Week in the Life of a Topsy-Turvy Wildly Whirling World

Let’s review this past devilishly whacky week to see if we can divine the way the world is turning and why the markets are churning. It was 2019’s worst week in stocks and, well, just about everything economic all across this crazily spinning planet. Volatility lifted its head back out of the water like Loch […]

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2019 Economic Headwinds Look Like Storm of the Century

2018 was the year Wall Street was wrong about everything. You can trust your stock broker if you want, but 2018 doesn’t give much confidence in her ability to stop talking her book and start talking straight. However, this overview of global economic headwinds — greater in number and more severe than I can ever […]

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Return of the Euro Crisis: Italy Quakes, Rest of the World Shakes and Merkel’s Empire Breaks

Europe’s many fault lines are spreading once again, bringing the endless euro crisis saga back in 3-D realism. Italy gained a new anti-establishment government last week, even as Spain elected a new Socialista government that could crack Catalonia off from the rest of Spain. All of Europe fell under Trumpian trade-war sanctions and threatened their own retaliation. […]

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