ECONOMY
Two weeks before leaving office, Joe Biden f*!ks America again
The year was 1901, and it was pretty much a who’s who of American business and finance at the time. Andrew Carnegie. JP Morgan. Charles M. Schwab. Elbert Gary (namesake of the city Gary, Indiana).It would be as if Elon Musk, Billy Gates, and Carl Icahn all got together on […]
The Stale US Real Estate Market
Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics Home sales in the US rose to a four-year high after rising 12.1% YoY, according to a new Redfin report. As I stated, we are entered a buyer’s market in May of 2024 in line with the ECM. Gone are the days of bidding wars and skipped inspections. […]
Popular Seattle “Safe Space” Waffle Shop Forced To Close Due To Inflation And New $20 Minimum Wage
by Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge A waffle shop in Seattle is being forced to close down over the city’s new $20 per hour minimum wage law, according to a new report by the New York Post. The owner of Bebop Waffle Shop said she was forced to close after the city’s new $20.76 minimum […]
Trump’s Plan to End Currency War 3.0
James Rickards, The Daily Reckoning There has been a lot reported in recent days about the return of currency wars. With Trump 2.0 about to begin, let’s review his last term and what to expect in the second. Trump badly bungled his transition after first being elected president in 2016. […]
Ability to Read, Write, or Do Math Is No Longer Required to Teach in New Jersey
Mike Shedlock, MishTalk Teachers’ unions prevail in New Jersey. Kids will suffer. Literacy Not Requited to Teach CampusSafety reports New Jersey Teachers No Longer Required to Pass Basic Literacy Test New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy passed Act 1669 as part of the state’s 2025 budget in June to address a […]
The System’s Self-Destruct Sequence Cannot Be Turned Off
The artificial hill of pottery shards is puny and localized; the consequences of our 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 […]
44 Statistics From 2024 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Michael Snyder, The Most Important News 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 of […]
How My 2024 Predictions Went – And Some Predictions for 2025
Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter The Burning Platform 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 year, I’m mostly wrong.” Back then, I predicted that “I think […]
Doug Casey’s Top Prediction for 2025
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 […]
Read Between the Lies: A Pattern Recognition Guide
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 […]
