The artificial hill of pottery shards is puny and localized; the consequences of our self-destructing system will bring down the system in ways the system is completely blind to. Charles Hugh Smith, Substack We’re all familiar with the plot device of the self-destruct sequence counting down while our hero / heroine frantically tries to find […]
Michael Snyder, The Most Important News, brings you the latest 2024 statistics. 2024 was definitely one of the wildest years that any of us have ever experienced. During the past 12 months, Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury, he was almost assassinated, he won the presidential election, and he was named Time Magazine’s Person […]
Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter The Burning Platform. This post includes a 2024 predictions review and looks ahead to what might happen in 2025. In my January 1, 2024, column entitled “Top Twenty Terrible Predictions for 2024,” I noted that, “Every year, I offer you my predictions for the coming trip around the Sun, and every […]
Doug Casey, International Man International Man: Looking at the intersection of finance, economics, politics, and culture, what is your most significant prediction for 2025? What major event or trend should people prepare for that most are currently overlooking? Doug Casey: The trends that appeared, seemingly against all odds, in 2024 are going to accelerate. The climate changed with […]
Josh Stylman Brownstone Institute When Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, announced during Event 201’s pandemic drill in 2019 that they would “flood the zone with trusted sources,” few understood this preview of coordinated narrative control. Within months, we watched it unfold in real time—unified messaging across all platforms, suppression of dissent, and coordinated narrative control that fooled […]
Michael Snyder The U.S. government is currently constructing the most colossal monument in the history of the world. It is a monument of debt, and we will forever be remembered as the nation that piled up far more debt than anyone else ever did. For decades, this generation has been recklessly spending the money of […]
The Economic Collapse by Michael Snyder We have come to accept that we are permanently trapped in an endless cycle of debt and money creation. But the only reason why debt and money grow at an exponential rate is because that is what our system was designed to do. The Federal Reserve and other central banks around […]
Mike Shedlock, Mish Talk An energy policy battle is brewing and I believe Trump will win on day one. Pulling the Plug on EV Mandates The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Can Pull the Plug on EV Mandates Overly stringent emissions targets ignore American consumers’ preferences and block economic growth. They’re also restrictive, costly and unachievable […]
The Burning Platform Guest Post by Martin Armstrong The first three Liberty bonds and the Victory Loan, sold to fund World War I, were indeed retired during the 1920s. However, because the terms of the bonds included a Ponzi Scheme that allowed the bondholder to swap them for the newer bonds, with superior terms, most of […]
Doug Casey’s International Man by Mona S International Man: As we approach the end of the year, let’s take a step back, review the Big Picture, and assess 2024’s major developments to better understand what may come next. Before we drill down into specifics, what’s your high-level view of what happened in 2024? Doug Casey: Let’s break it […]