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I warned you that inflation was going to get worse.  On Thursday, we learned that the consumer price index was 7.5 percent higher in January than it was a year ago.  We are being told that this was the highest reading since February 1982, and that sounds really bad.  But it isn’t exactly honest, because … Read more

The last couple of years have not been pleasant, and so nobody wants to hear that more trouble is ahead for the U.S. economy.  Unfortunately, that is precisely what the mainstream media is telling us right now.  A year ago, so many of the talking heads on television were assuring us that a new golden … Read more

Teetering on a precipice can seem exciting until something comes along that knocks you over the edge.  Unfortunately, the events of the past couple of years have perfectly set the stage for a global economic collapse of unprecedented size and scope.  Inflation is out of control all over the planet, the worst global supply chain … Read more

The lack of critical thinking that we see in the world of journalism today is absolutely frightening.  Way too often, the mainstream media simply takes the information that it is being fed and packages it as “truth” for an unsuspecting public.  And since the general public does so little critical thinking at this point, most … Read more

When you get big enough, it can be tempting to believe that you can treat those that you do not like any way that you want.  But if you treat people like garbage long enough, it is going to bite you in the rear end.  Executives at Facebook apparently thought that they could viciously shut … Read more

That sure didn’t last long.  Over the past two years, the U.S. government borrowed and spent trillions of dollars that we did not have, and the Federal Reserve unwisely pumped trillions of fresh dollars into our financial system.  Of course all of that money was going to be a short-term help for the economy, but … Read more

The United States and Russia are on a collision course.  Unfortunately, the guys running the show in both countries are not exactly sane, and they deeply, deeply distrust one another.  So what happens when a bunch of lunatics decide to play a game of chicken with the fate of the entire world at stake?  Unfortunately, … Read more

I am going to try to make as much noise about this crisis as I can, because we have never faced anything like this in modern times.  Global fertilizer prices have tripled, and we are being warned that this is going to have a catastrophic impact on food production all over the world.  On Monday, … Read more