Choose One, But Only One: Defend the Billionaire’s Bubble or the U.S. Dollar and Empire

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by Charles Hugh-Smith The Empire is striking back, protecting what really counts, and the Billionaire Bubble sideshow is folding its tents. One of the most enduring conceits of the modern era is that the Federal Reserve acts to goose growth and therefore employment while keeping inflation moderate (whatever that means–the definition is adjustable). This conceit is extremely handy … Read more

The FSB Stopped the Illegal Activities of the Network of “Crypto Farms” in Dagestan

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by Chris Black As a result of operational-search activities in Kizlyar and Makhachkala, 4,343 units of computer equipment worth more than 500 million rubles were found and confiscated.  According to experts, the total capacity of illegally consumed electricity was about 8 megawatts per hour Cryptocurrencies may fall under large-scale regulatory bans in the world, more … Read more

If They Can’t Even Define What a Woman Is, How Can Anyone Then “Transition” to What is Unknown?

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by Chris Black Society has degenerated so badly that “two genders” discourse from ~5 years ago actually serves a purpose now. Gotta hand it to Matt Walsh, he is by far the most based of American mainstream conservative commentators. Here’s the part on Dr Phil where I demonstrate that the “gender experts” cannot even define … Read more

Peloton & its stock are imploding.

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Where are the next Pelotons? Look to Tesla, crypto, SPACs, NFTs, high-flying tech stocks, and more. Whatever was "hot" during the malinvestment bubble of the past year-and-a-half is suspect.https://t.co/SdM9tLBZDL — Jesse Colombo (@TheBubbleBubble) January 20, 2022 From CNBC: Peloton is temporarily halting production of its connected fitness products as consumer demand wanes and the company … Read more

Investing Legend Jeremy Grantham Turns Apocalyptic, Expects Stocks To Crater 50% In Largest Wealth Destruction In US History

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It was several years ago when Jeremy Grantham quietly turned from stock bull to vocal permabear, and while his market notes turned breathlessly alarmist (if only to those who were long his multi-billion fund GMO), such as this from June 2020 “Stock-market legend who called 3 financial bubbles says this one is the ‘Real McCoy,’ … Read more

Small caps -18% from the November highs…. Inflation and slowing growth are driving the market down like ‘fire and ice’

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https://t.co/hIyV5rrzYC — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) January 20, 2022 🇺🇸Philly Fed Mfg Index Update🧐 pic.twitter.com/mNmNJnH60b — Antonio Pérez-Algás (@apanalis) January 20, 2022 A broad measure of money (that includes institutional money assets like treasury bills) is back to its pre-crisis growth rate. Other, narrower measures of money still show higher growth rates. But as @RebelEconProf & … Read more

Steve Bannon and Jason Miller’s social media network are being funded by Chinese communist money

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For example, let’s take a look at Guo Wengui, the obvious CCP agent behind Jason Miller’s social media network and funder of Steve Bannon. Here’s Wang Yanping (“Yvette”), who runs operations for Miles Guo/Guo Wengui, the reputed CCP agent behind Gettr. She’s saying in September 2017 that she’s still a CCP member. She signed the … Read more

CBS REPORTER ASKS ABOUT FAIR MIDTERMS:, REPLY, was the quiet part said out loud about legitimacy

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Former-Vice President Joe Biden held only his second press conference since taking office, and in the process of doing so, he proved why the people who control him don’t allow him to do press conferences. He’s an imbecile who gets confused and cannot answer difficult questions. Regarding the Democrats’ push to federalize election law, one … Read more