Tag: Inflation
‘Us Versus Them’ Is Always a Scam
Why would taxes on the rich suddenly be so popular? Easy…the middle classes think they’ve been cheated. Many thought Donald J Trump would set things right. Now they look to the tax code.
We’re Losing Our Originario ‘War’
The more you travel, the more you want to travel light. And that means we need to dump the heavy claptrap out of our luggage. The more ground we cover…the more we discover we don’t really need it. We find plenty more wherever we go.
Prepare for the Financial Volcanic Eruption
I’m in New Plymouth, on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand (NZ). The bolthole search continues. You’ll find more on that below.
US Stocks Are Playing Russian Roulette
Top macroeconomists are calling for a recession ‘before the end of 2020.’ What? We’ve already been waiting for years…
The Real State of the Union
Americans are now among the most heavily policed people in the advanced world. There were three federal crimes in 1789; there are more than 4,000 today.
Trump Missed His Last Great Opportunity
What kind of a Commander in Chief would describe brave and heroic achievements from more than half a century ago, but lack the courage to confront an ongoing pattern of wasted lives and wasted trillions?
What the Super Bowl and the Crusades Have in Common…
Mounting auto inventories and slumping house sales suggest that the expansion may be reaching its end. This is nearly the longest recovery ever recorded; a recession can’t be long coming
The Deep State Has Tamed Donald Trump
Since entering the White House, Mr Trump has been partially, but not completely, tamed by the Deep State. He no longer sees any evil in bubbly stock prices. He no longer hears any evil in the Pentagon’s overseas misadventures.
On the Front Lines in Nicaragua
Nicaragua, like Venezuela, is in the middle of a power struggle. The proximate cause is a tax increase. But the trouble runs much deeper…
Venezuela’s Great Dream Was Always a Scam…
You put a pot on the burner. Eventually, it boils. Government is always a way for the few to exploit the many. But it’s not always the same few.
Bill Bonner: Seeing Eye Human
Untying the US economy from China is not possible. The relationship is sick…but symbiotic. The US provides the fake money. China provides the cheap stuff.
Trillion-Dollar Deficits From Here to Eternity
In America today, it is almost impossible — politically — to cut government spending or to raise taxes. That leaves debt as the only way forward.
Mr Market Will Have the Last Laugh
The US government funded the boom of the last 30 years with debt — which increased, year after year, 2-4 times faster than the GDP needed to pay it.
The Most Absurd Myth of the 21st Century
Assets, markets, companies, and empires rise and fall. But now comes the most absurd myth of all — that the feds can ‘manage’ and ‘guide’ the economy,
She’s Not Serious…Is She?
One smart cookie believes we should keep interest rates at zero. But how can we do that and not have crippling runaway inflation?