Lindsay Williams interviewed me earlier today. I talk about the coup, and a stock that went up 1000% in 36 hours.
The U.S. Capitol building was stormed by an angry pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6. Overall, five people died as a result of the riot – one woman shot as she tried to break into a room of lawmakers, three people who died of medical emergencies in the crowd and …
The Washington Post counted 1,000 people in the U.S. who were killed by police in 2020. In 2018 and 2019, about an equal amount of people died this way. As the below infographic shows, most of those killed by policeare male and white. While around 432 …
As the weekend approaches, people remain limited in their choices on what to do in their spare time. While businesses have widely reopened across the United States, the majority of Americans are still uncomfortable returning to “leisure as usual”. Acco…
Even though I knew it was coming, and I warned about it here and elsewhere for the past couple of years, I’m having difficulty processing the Trump coup attempt.
I’m still not sure that it has failed. I’m not at all confident that things are under control, and that the US will have a functioning government.
2020 saw an increase in the number of people killed in air crashes around the world despite the Covid-19 pandemic leading to a dramatic reduction in the number of operational flights. Aviation Safety Network data released in early January shows that th…
The World Bank released its latest Global Economic Prospects report this week, providing us with an updated look at the coronavirus pandemic’s effect on the world economy. Striking a cautious tone, the report finds that global economic output will like…
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
The Federal Reserve and other central banks represent a clear and present danger to future financial stability. I’ve been saying for a while central banks are fueling an asset bubble and as […]
All the tricks to hide our unaffordable cost structure have reached marginal returns. Reality is about to intrude.