I was wrong: doing more of the same has solved all our problems.
Time for a mea maxima culpa: I’ve been wrong about everything: the stock market, the economy, globalization, energy, everything. Heck, I’ve even been wrong about the American di…
Sickcare, the fast-food/packaged food industries, the entertainment industry and the Marketing/Mainstream Media complex are all facets of one system.
In America, the implicit belief system promoted by marketing is that you can eat anything you wan…
The “big story” of the U.S. economy is that we have substituted expansion of debt for meaningful increases in productivity.
For the past 30 years, the U.S. economy has become increasingly dependent on explosive debt expansion for its “growth” rath…
The Corporate Media in the U.S. is a handmaiden to the Financial and Political Elites, issuing simulacra of “news” and “analysis” in service of the Status Quo.
If there is any America “industry” ripe for widespread discrediting, it is the U.S. Cor…
Constant State and Central Bank intervention and manipulation is not the foundation of a free, transparent market–it is perception management in service of Elite control and looting.
You can fool Mother Nature for awhile, but not over the long-te…
A sudden sharp decline in stocks may not thrill retail investors, but it would be catnip for big trading desks that used the melt-up rally to get short.
One of the more useful Wall Street fictions is the naive notion that big players and small-fry…
Dear U.S.A.–your overdraft protection is about to be pulled.
Dear United States of America: We regret to inform you that your withdrawals exceeded your deposits last year by $1,600,000,000,000 ($1.6 trillion), including your “supplemental ap…
The Savior State has pulled out all the stops to prop up the Status Quo. Its gargantuan borrowing and spending have fixed nothing. Contraction is replacing expansion as the new normal.
For the past 67 years, Americans have been conditioned to expe…
We can understand the systemic flaws in the U.S. “healthcare”/sickcare system by examining how doctors choose to die, which is quite different from the experience of their patients.
Explaining how the U.S. “healthcare” complex is actually a sickca…
Depending on Central State/central bank borrowing and spending to prop up the Status Quo is a doomed strategy.
I think the thread between these three seemingly disparate stories is clearly visible. I am indebted to longtime correspondent Joel…
