How to speak “Fed”

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by polloponzi Quick cheat-sheet to understand better the Fed jargon: “Love tap” = a strong kick to the nuts “Bring supply and demand in balance” = the destruction of businesses, wealth, families, and individuals “Soft landing” = a recession “Softish landing” = a deep painful depression “Transitory” = persistent “Landing” = crashing “Quantitative tampering” = … Read more

Reality of Inflation: Almost every commodity is in extreme backwardation, 10y breakeven inflation is less than 3%, US Dollar Index is up 15+% YoY

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by lulzcakes Backwardation A commodity’s spot price trading lower higher than some given future contract is, in cases, normal (e.g. seasonality or perishable commodities). The backwardation we are seeing today is extreme by any standards. [Sorry, typo. Backwardation is spot > future. Although this was clarified in the following sentence, the above typo may have confused some people.] … Read more

The Crypto Apocalypse Is Here

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by Michael Over the last seven months, we have witnessed a cryptocurrency collapse that is so epic that it is truly difficult to put it into words.  Last November, the total market capitalization for all cryptocurrencies crossed the three trillion dollar mark.  This week, the total market capitalization for all cryptocurrencies actually dipped below one trillion … Read more

The New Fear: A Stock Market-Recession Spiral

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https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/bear-market-recession-spiral-fed-51655159287?mod=mw_latestnews Economist Paul Samuelson famously quipped that the stock market had predicted nine out of the last five economic recessions. By this he meant that the stock market tends to be overly pessimistic about the economic outlook. Before taking comfort in Samuelson’s quip, we might pause to think that there are good reasons to believe … Read more

SEC Charges Weiss Asset Management with Short Selling Violations

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https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-106 SEC Charges Weiss Asset Management with Short Selling Violations FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2022-106 Washington D.C., June 14, 2022 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that investment advisory firm Weiss Asset Management LP has agreed to pay approximately $6.9 million to settle charges that it violated the federal securities laws when it unlawfully … Read more

What is Conservatism, but Yesterday’s Liberalism?

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by Chris Black Brave young men take enormous risks, expense, self-sacrifice to go out and confront the GloboHomo police state—-and what do conservatives do?   Take the side of trannies, fags, freaks and antifa TO STAB THEM IN THE BACK. In inverted America, powerless Whites bravely standing up and saying ‘no’ to the mandatory degeneracy of … Read more

TV Watchers are the Downfall of Western Civilization

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by Chris Black As the TV generation enters its twilight, it’s a fitting end that the country circle the drain with them, while they binge on comfortable movie delusions of a patriotic cavalry swooping in to save the country they destroyed through their gluttony and inaction. I’ve come to accept that the primary racial genocide … Read more

Weimerica White Pill

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by Chris Black The sheer fact that Bathhouse Barry is being trotted out to campaign for more internet censorship is a clear sign that this mulatto drag queen pig empire is losing the narrative war it’s waging on Americans as it continues perpetrating The American Holocaust/Great Replacement Policy. NOW – Obama: "We have to take … Read more

The FBI Will Not Publish Crime Data For 2021

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by Chris Black TLDR; the FBI did a forced upgrade to its new NIBRS system that prevented local law enforcement from uploading data unless each department purchased extremely expensive upgrades or manually uploaded each record. This was done intentionally and without warning to create a gap in crime reporting in the midst of one of … Read more

Piepenburg: Backfiring Sanctions, Tanking Cryptos and Loyal Gold

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By Egon von Greyerz In this brief interview with Michael McCrae of Kitco Mining, Matterhorn Asset Management principal, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses the interacting ramifications and core themes of the 2022 market economy to date. Matthew begins by addressing the manifold ways in which Western financial sanctions against Putin have backfired, from the slow reduction of the … Read more

What Happens When the Workforce No Longer Wants to Work?

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Workers are voting with their feet, and that’s difficult to control. When values and expectations change, everything else eventually changes, too. What happens when the workforce no longer wants to work? We’re about to find out. As with all cultural sea changes, macro statistics don’t tell the full story. The sea change is … Read more