The Bear Awakens
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Charles Hugh SmithThe bear has awakened, and it will not be limited to the stock market.
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The bear has awakened, and it will not be limited to the stock market.
With the Federal Reserve set to begin raising rates in a few weeks I thought it time to dive back into a discussion of crypto now that the 'easy money' era post-COVID is over.
Fidelity, the multinational brokerage giant, released a paper on Bitcoin titled Bitcoin First.
The hard asset, commodity, trade has sprung to life over the last couple of months. Such is commensurate, and logical, with the surge in inflation.
It appears talk of looser monetary policy has pricked the bubble. Peter Schiff talked about it in a recent podcast.
Cryptocurrency is not merely a bad investment or speculative bubble. It's worse than that: it's a full-on fraud.
The Empire is striking back, protecting what really counts, and the Billionaire Bubble sideshow is folding its tents.
"We have just seen the tip of an inflationary iceberg..."
The impossible happened in the late-1970s. Inflation and unemployment simultaneously went vertical. Leading economists were baffled. This contradicted their academic training.
International Man: By now, most people have heard about the World Economic Forum's (WEF) "Great Reset" agenda led by Klaus Schwab.
I don't think I can overstate the danger that the U.S. economy is in right now as we enter 2022. While most people are caught up in the ongoing drama of Covid-19, a REAL threat looms over the nation in the form of a stagflationary tidal wave.
The Freedom Cell Networks presents The Greater Reset 3: Integration
In this segment from the Operation Freedom radio show, Dr. Dave welcomes long time guest Rob Kirby to discuss the current financial / economic state of affairs. They discuss the road ahead and what the forthcoming "financial reset" may look like.
Less discuss Ponzi scheme and the biggest one that hardly anyone sees.
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How are the dollars and cents of your life changing as we move into 2022? Peter Schiff joined University of Miami Business School Dean John Quelch and host Holland Cooke on RT's "Big Picture" to talk about the year ahead.
Libor has now been replaced with much more solid and reliable benchmarks. How it works: Banks make money from lending money out at a higher interest rate than their own cost of funds. Libor was supposed to be a measure of banks' cost of funds, so
In this interview with Italian journalist Costantino Ceoldo, the Canadian Patriot Review's Matthew Ehret discusses the origins of the Green New Deal and the rebirth of Malthusianism which became hegemonic in the post JFK era.
Many assets, from Bitcoin to gold to wheat, enjoyed a tremendous rally in 2021. Can these assets repeat their strong performances in 2022?
The interesting feature of the 'last chance to get out' is nobody sees it until after the crash has done its damage.
When economic crisis wrecks a nation, the underground economy is what keeps people fed. Do you know what it takes to survive?
The Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol is a beloved piece of literature, a mainstay of the holiday season.
It's gearing up to be an expensive winter, especially for those grappling with rising heating costs.
Earlier this month Reuters produced a report which didn't receive nearly enough attention among the American public - its contents would be sure to alarm most people concerned with the outbreak of yet more 'global catastrophes'.
On my latest podcast, and my last podcast of 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with my favorite economist, Peter Schiff. Peter is an American libertarian, stock broker, financial commentator, and radio personality.
Update (1515ET): Manchin on Monday laid out possible changes to the $2 trillion Build Back Better economic agenda which might encourage him to reverse his "no" on the legislation.
Bloomberg is mercilessly mocked after advising Americans to 'spend their pay check immediately' and 'borrow lots of money' to tackle inflation in similar advice given to economic basket case Argentina
Most emerging and developed market currencies have devalued significantly relative to the United States dollar in 2021 despite the Federal Reserve's aggressive monetary policy.
The emergence and acceptance of Modern Monetary Theory has turned our economic system upside down. Skeptics of its substance and sustainability have been brushed aside temporarily but expect the MMT experiment to collapse and end in ruin.
The value of these super-abundant follies will trend rapidly to zero once margin calls and other bits of reality drastically reduce demand.