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Bubblegeddon

Trump Tweets the Stimulus Rug Out from Under the Markets

But if printing $1.6 trillion is a good thing, why isn’t printing $2.4 trillion a better thing?

Schiff Gold 8 Oct 20 338 4

The Flat Curve Society

The Virus Maos Have Wiped Out 500 Million Jobs Worldwide

Globally workers have so far suffered $3.5 trillion in lost income

Fergal O\’Brien 2 Oct 20 434 5

Instead of Fighting the COVID Cult, Airlines Are Lining Up for Free Government Currency

Why we're not seeing a big business rebellion against the Cult-occupied government

Wolf Richter 1 Oct 20 342 3

Trade War Joys

3,500 American Companies Sue Trump Administration Over Punitive Tax on Goods Bought in China

David Shepardson 29 Sep 20 357 15

China’s Northeast Adjacent to Russia Is Depopulating, but the West Still Fantasizing About Chinese Takeover of Siberia

Why would people who are escaping China's rural north, flood into Russia's?

Orange Wang 28 Sep 20 763 3

Lockdown Stone Age

I’m Sorry, but the Economy Is What’s Keeping You Alive

Economy is life. "Poverty is easily the biggest killer man has ever known. Nothing else comes close."

John Tamny 27 Sep 20 439 17

Lockdown Stone Age

6 Months Later 25 Million Still on Unemployment in the US

Up from just 2 million before the politicaly-mandated shutdown

Wolf Richter 27 Sep 20 285 2

Persia Under SiegeThose Pesky Persians

Iran Bucks US Sanctions to Export Venezuelan Crude

What's the Empire going to do? Sanction it?

Lucia Kassai 23 Sep 20 876 10

Mind Virus-19The Flat Curve Society

Mind Virus Lockdowns Have Accelerated Macro Trends in China’s Favor

If you don't get a mind disease, you win

Jim Mccormick 20 Sep 20 783 7

Brilliant Ideas

Senate Democrats Roll Out Plan to “Counter China”: Print Up $350 Billion and Dump It on Big Business

Keep digging -- the Imperial City's solution to everything

Catie Edmondson 18 Sep 20 511 5

Our Benevolent Empire

Germany Offered the US to Spend $1.2bn on LPG Terminals for Dropping Nord Stream 2 Sanctions

Was was not going to be accepted anyway since Washington knows its "freedom molecules" can not compete on price

Guy Chazan 17 Sep 20 484 8

Empire WoesThose Pesky Chinese

No Decoupling for the EU. China and EU Concluding a Deal to Build MORE Economic Ties

A 'Comprehensive Investment Agreement' by year-end then even more

German Foreign Policy 17 Sep 20 609 4

Our Benevolent EmpireTerrorist Huawei

US Sanction Threat for Sales to Huawei to Cost Japanese Tech Giants $10 Billion per Annum

They now have $10 billion reasons per year to ditch US machine tools

Yoichiro Hiroi 16 Sep 20 791 10

Russia-Belarus Monetary Integration Would Actually Make a Lot of Sense

A German banker explains

Gunter Deuber 14 Sep 20 545 5

Economic War With China Is the Final Step Before the “Great Reset”

The public isn't quite ready yet to embrace the neo-feudal future, more crises are needed

Brandon Smith 13 Sep 20 1753 8

Empire WoesPersia Under Siege

Russia to Defy ‘Maximum Pressure’, Link Its Power Grid to Iran’s

Via Azerbaijan which is also participating

Tsvetana Paraskova 13 Sep 20 1477 11

Bubblegeddon

America’s Metastasizing Class Wars

"The winners in this system are protected by the State, while the losers are stripmined by crushing taxes or humiliated by their abject dependence on the state".

Charles Hugh Smith 12 Sep 20 907 6

Narendra HitlerThe Covid Rouge

Under Modi’s Lockdown India’s GDP Collapsed an Incredible 24 Percent

In a place where millions still live on the edge of malnourishment how many lives is that? (This is the real, and not "annualized figure as in the US case.)

Vrishti Beniwal 10 Sep 20 468 1

Bubblegeddon

In the Footsteps of Rome: Maybe It No Longer Matters Who’s Emperor

As long as the Fed can keep the decline pain-free for the elites. pretense and PR will be preferred to perilous reform

Charles Hugh Smith 8 Sep 20 809 0

51st State Adventures

After UAE Deal Israel Set to Make a Killing Transporting Gulf Oil

Using a little known pipeline it had built in the 1960s with Iran

Jonathan H. Ferziger 7 Sep 20 482 1

Those Pesky ChineseTrade War Joys

China Wants to Decouple From US Tech, Too

China will be just fine

Rana Foroohar 7 Sep 20 1244 0

Western ‘Experts’ Predicted COVID-19 Would Lead to Russia’s Economic Collapse & ‘Topple’ Putin…They Were Wrong (Again)

The needless and idiotic lockdown was at least relatively brief so that Russia is on track for 'just' a 4% contraction, 2-3 times less than Western powers

Paul Robinson 6 Sep 20 1118 0

Bubblegeddon

If the “Market” Never Goes Down, the System Is Doomed

"Markets are fundamentally clearing houses of information on price, demand, sentiment, expectations and so on"

Charles Hugh Smith 4 Sep 20 685 0

BubblegeddonFinancing the Empire

US Issued $4.5 Trillion (!) in New Debt Over the Past Year. Foreigners Bought Just 9% of That

Little foreign taste for the inflato-dollar. The Fed had to buy nearly half of it outright

Wolf Richter 2 Sep 20 1178 0

Goodbye Petrodollar

Gold at All-Time Highs Just Means Fiat Currencies Are Weaker Than Ever

Paper is not scarce and can be debased with abandon

Thorsten Polleit 24 Aug 20 714 3

The Rich Got Richer During the Lockdown, Fed Bailouts Are Kinder Than Markets

The Fed threw $2.3 trillion at the top 10% to make sure they have no skin in the shutdowns

Wolf Richter 24 Aug 20 437 3

Lockdown Witch Doctors Are Priming You for a New Serfdom

We were already on the road to neo-feudalism, now that has greatly accelerated

Joel Kotkin 21 Aug 20 1929 21

The Junior Empire

EU’s Lockdown “Rescue” Package Is a Blueprint for a European Superstate

Every (elite-made) crisis is cause for more centralization

Claudio Grass 18 Aug 20 532 6

Bubblegeddon

Here’s Why the “Impossible” Economic Collapse Is Unavoidable

There is no "new normal" for the economy

Charles Hugh Smith 18 Aug 20 1439 6

Those Pesky Chinese

China: In School, No Masks, and a Runaway Stock Market

And on track to record 3% GDP growth this year

Kenneth Rapoza 17 Aug 20 1462 26

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