The Bear Awakens

by Charles Hugh-Smith The bear has awakened, and it will not be limited to the stock market. The bear awakens from a long, uneasy slumber and the everything bubble is in trouble. I’m not going to make the bear case with charts or price-earnings ratios or sentiment readings or anything remotely financial. My bear case is a crisis of belief as … Read more

Lagarde Pivots on ECB Rate Hikes as Switch in Guidance Seen Soon (US 10Y Yield Up 5BPS, Mortgage Rates To Follow)

by confoundedinterest17 Its the same all over the WESTERN world as sovereign yields are starting to rapidly rise. (Bloomberg) — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is no longer ruling out an interest-rate hike this year, a pivot toward the tightening stance of global peers that officials privately see materializing with a shift in policy guidance as soon as next … Read more

The Most Devastating speech in Congress EVER!

The path to American national security does not lie in American international interventionism. It lies in securing our southern border, not the Russia/Ukraine border. Our greatness is forged in our resistance to interference. pic.twitter.com/G1X3jiRkcU — Team Cawthorn (@teamcawthorn) February 2, 2022 h/t NukemHell

Germany: Fuel company hacked – can’t deliver fuel to gas stations Update: now Europe wider!

A hacker attack has placed the fuel tank has a warehouse of the company Oiltanking lame. Are affected by the Loading and unloading systems of the company, the loaded tank cars to provide to your customers – including mid-sized tank and corporations such as Shell. The tank logistics company Oiltanking has been the victim of … Read more

To Hike or Not to Hike

 by Craig Hemke via Sprott Money News That is the question. Oh sure, The Fed may attempt to hike the fed funds rate as soon as next month. They may even attempt another hike in April or May. But what happens after that? Answer that question and you’ll find a timetable for gold prices in 2022. As February … Read more

Censorship by Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship

Via Ron Paul Inst Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience with being throttled into invisibility by Silicon Valley algorithmic suppression that will ring all too familiar for any online content creators who’ve been sufficiently critical of official western narratives over the last few years. “My blog posts once attracted … Read more