Search Results for: Michael Snyder

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

It is becoming clear that we are in far more trouble than we are being told.  In recent months, all forms of traditional energy have become significantly more expensive, and this is fueling price increases all over the planet.  This new global energy crisis is directly responsible for the astounding rise in fertilizer prices, it … Read more

They just have to suffocate anything that smells like freedom, don’t they?  After alienating and persecuting so many other groups of Americans, now the Biden administration is coming after cryptocurrency owners.  Biden administration officials are promising to bring “coherency” to the industry, but just like everything else that they touch it is far more likely … Read more

This was supposed to be the year that things “got back to normal”, but here we are at the end of January and things have only gotten worse.  As we move forward into February and beyond, there are two key global shortages that we are going to want to keep a very close eye on.  … Read more