If you just want to suppress the symptoms but leave the financial disease untouched, Delusionol ™ is the drug of choice.
Inside sources are reporting that there’s a new drug of choice circulating in the hallways of power–the White House, Fede…
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Charles Hugh Smith
In Praise of Horrendously Costly Lessons
by Charles Hugh Smith • • 0 Comments
The feedback of failure, loss and defeat is our most helpful teacher.
I want to praise horrendously costly lessons, as those are the only ones we really learn from. We hype the value of “book learning” and give lip-service to “learning fr…
Charles Hugh Smith, Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
You Can’t Fool Mother Nature For Long: Financial Markets
by Charles Hugh Smith • • 0 Comments
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…
Charts, Economics, Email Bulletins Archive, Lee's Free Thinking
First Time Claims Data a Renoir
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Every week the US Department of Labor and Birth/Death Adjustments dutifully reports two sets of numbers on first time and continuing unemployment claims. One set is the actual number of people filing claims as tabulated by the 50 states. The other is a fictionalized number which purports to smooth out the seasonal variances so that…
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Unemployment Claims Data and Economists’ Exploding Brain Syndrome
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
With the mainstream media reporting the seasonally adjusted first time unemployment claims down by 6,000 it’s time for a reminder that this number is fake, and may or may not give an accurate representation of the trend. If it does, it’s purely a coincidence. Economists and financial journos are in love with the seasonally manipulated…
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Economic Charts- Factory Orders, the Stock Market and the Fed
by Lee Adler • • 1 Comment
Economic pundits and the Wall Street captive media are fond of telling people that the stock market is a discounting mechanism and that it leads the economy. I’m just as fond of showing that the market does neither. Both the market and the economy are mechanisms that respond to changes in macro liquidity. The Fed…
