WE SHUT DOWN THE WORLD FOR THIS?

by Jim Quinn What have we become? This flu doesn’t rise to the level of a pandemic. The past year has been a pandemic of idiocy, fear mongering, government incompetence, and listening to pompous assholes like Fauci and Gates. Even the .03% is fake. Only 6% of all the deaths can actually be soley attributed … Read more

Total Collapse Of Middle Class: American Living Cost Soar 400% But Wages Only Increase By 29%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9AFvjGMXYw Speculative bubbles are pushing the U.S. middle-class to the brink of financial ruin, as the cost of living continues to soar, wages have been on a persistent downfall, and debt just keeps on accumulating throughout the current economic recession. Over the past year, more than 8 million middle-class workers have fallen straight into poverty, … Read more

Peak in Yields Is Close

by David Brady via Sprott Money When it comes to FOMC meetings, I always say “Don’t trust the first move” immediately after the announcement and the follow-up press conference. Yesterday was no different. The initial response to the announcement was that the Fed was “uber dovish.” Bond yields eased back from their peaks earlier in the day, the … Read more

Tesla building a giant battery bank to stabilize grid power in Angleton, South of Houston.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/3/8/elon-musks-tesla-building-giant-battery-to-plug-into-texas-gri https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/report-tesla-is-secretly-building-a-giant-100-mw-battery-in-texas/ https://abc13.com/tesla-batteries-battery-storage-facility-angleton-location-texas-power-grid/10407112/#:~:text=Electric%20carmaker%20and%20energy%20company,Street%20and%20Murray%20Ranch%20Road. 7 acre site packed with LION batteries. 100 MW capacity. (It would have been more useful if they stated the watt-hours of energy it can hold). Just a drop in the bucket compared to the actual power used in the region. Seems pointless but mildly interesting. A super high voltage DC power … Read more

VP Harris’ pot-smoking past draws scrutiny after WH purge

The White House revealed that a handful of staffers were let go over past pot use, even though Vice President Kamala Harris has publicly admitted to smoking weed in college. Then-senator Harris, who was also a 2020 presidential candidate, supported legalizing marijuana at the federal level in 2019, saying that she smoked pot in college during an interview with a radio … Read more

Taliban expect US withdrawal in May; vow to restore Islamic rule..as the us spent blood and treasure for 20 years…

MOSCOW — The Taliban warned Washington on Friday against defying a May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan, promising a “reaction,” which could mean increased attacks by the insurgent group. The Taliban issued their warning at a press conference in Moscow, the day after meeting with senior Afghan government negotiators and international … Read more

THOMAS FRANK: Liberals want to blame rightwing ‘misinformation’ for our problems. Get real.

via theguardian: These days Democratic politicians lean on anyone with power over platforms to shut down the propaganda of the right. Former Democratic officials pen op-eds calling on us to get over free speech. Journalists fantasize about how easily and painlessly Silicon Valley might monitor and root out objectionable speech. In a recent HBO documentary on … Read more

Just Before the “Everything” Bubble Explodes: Stock Market Mania in 2021

From Birch Gold Group Is the market going insane? Is an enormous “everything bubble” – inflated with cash flowing into overvalued investments – headed for a historic explosion? Is the market in a “mania” phase right now? With every passing day, it’s getting more challenging to answer “no” to any of these questions. “Hyper-speculative,” “blindly courageous” stock market … Read more

How We Stumbled to the Edge of the Cliff

by Charles Hugh-Smith Oops. Looks like the Fed’s magic (and our luck) have finally run out. Now that we’re teetering on the edge of the cliff, it might be a good idea to retrace how we stumbled down to this crumbling, precarious ledge. As I’ve discussed for the past 15 years, there are a handful of … Read more