by Charles Hugh-Smith Nothing stays the same in dynamic systems, and it’s inevitable that the current glut of low costs / cheap stuff will give way to scarcities that cannot be filled at current low prices. One of the books I just finished reading is The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an … Read more
The London property market is already in trouble. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. The British government has suddenly realized that the London property market is “becoming” a “destination of choice” for laundering the proceeds of overseas crime and corruption. And it has done what it always tends to do in delicate situations: it … Read more
by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market Public sentiment on the economy is generally influenced by to two false indicators — the national unemployment rate and stock markets. This is not to say the average person tracks either of these numbers very vigorously; they don’t. What they do is hear these numbers on the morning news, the radio news on … Read more
by Yojimbo, TBP https://youtu.be/GGPgW_4xmTA Mark Collett was the former chairman of the Young British National Party, and is quite well-spoken and redpilled on the problems Britain faces. Here he discusses how “Tolerance is an ideological sledgehammer that has been used to attack the fabric of our society.” We must do whatever we can to end the corrosive … Read more
by Duane Norman, Free Market Shooter The “March for our Lives” took over Washington DC last weekend to campaign for more stringent gun control in the US. After spending $5 million in DNC, Bloomberg, and wealthy donor funds, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens followed up on the march’s demands with an Op-Ed for The New York … Read more
via Doug Short Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague about the specific indicators on which they base their decisions. This committee statement is about as close as they get to identifying their method. There is, however, a general belief that there are four big indicators that the … Read more
Authored by Doug French via The Mises Institute, Every 10 years or so there is a banking crisis. We are due. However, the furthest thing from most people’s minds with the Trump boom is a banking/financial crisis, except for a few folks at the Brookings Institution, who just released a paper entitled “Liquidity Crisis in the Mortgage … Read more
by John Rubino Facebook is an epic growth story. It now has an astounding 2 billion active users and a stock that – from an already richly-valued level – rose by 53% in the previous year. In February its market cap peaked at $560 billion, a number that exceeds the GDP of many countries. Over … Read more
by Chris Black The war on conservatives rages on, and now it’s Fox News’ host Laura Ingraham’s turn to get a progressive slap over the head for daring criticizing the new Messiah of the left, a young punk named David Hogg who now pretends to be the spokesperson of a generation. Hogg is left-wing media … Read more
Magazines aren’t even guns. I suggest a law preventing new laws from being enacted until after a reasonable waiting period, to prevent emotional garbage like this crap. Also, this will increase crime, and so I may have to move out of this state before it becomes unlivable: http://archive.is/YpysT