Editor’s Commentary: When Y2K was supposed to collapse the economy, I didn’t believe it. When the housing crash of 2008 was supposed to collapse the economy, I didn’t believe it. Today, reports of doom and gloom are far more credible. When Michael Snyder says the various forces in motion against us are going to crash the economy, I’m starting to believe it.
Yes, things are looking very grim. At best, we are facing an uphill economic fight that will take years if not decades to win. It’s not just inflation that’s threatening to destroy the economy. It’s, well, EVERYTHING. People aren’t working and apparently aren’t willing to work. Ships are sitting off the coast of California with no place to go. Shelves are emptying. The energy sector is going dim. DC is spending money faster than they can print it. If this isn’t the beginning of an economic crisis that could quickly turn into a full-blown implosion, then God forbid we ever see things get worse than this.
I’ve spent most of my journalistic career debunking economic Chicken Littles. In 2021, I’ve started to heed the warnings because the signs are clear. We’re in for a bumpy ride, one that could truly represent an existential threat to the United States of America. I take no pleasure in posting Michael’s article below. I hope he’s wrong. I fear he’s not…
They Have Lost Control, and Now the Dollar Is Going to Die
I think that they actually believed that they could get away with it. I think that they were actually convinced that they could create, borrow and spend trillions upon trillions of dollars without any serious long-term consequences. But they should have known better. The people running things are very highly “educated”, and after spending decades getting to their current positions they are supposed to be “experts” that we can trust with very difficult decisions. Unfortunately, the “experts” have put us on a path that leads to currency collapse and financial ruin.
All throughout history, there have been many governments that have given in to the temptation to create money at an exponential rate, and it has ended badly every single time. So our leaders should have known better.
But it is just so tempting, because pumping out money like crazy always seems to work out just great at first. For example, when the Weimar Republic first started wildly creating money it created an economic boom, but we all know how that experiment turned out in the end.
This week, the mainstream media is full of talk about inflation, and many of the talking heads seem mystified that things have gotten so bad. But anyone with half a brain should have been able to see that this was coming. Just look at what has been happening to M2 since the start of the pandemic.
What we have been doing to the money supply is complete and utter lunacy, and this is inevitably going to kill the U.S. dollar eventually. Next, I would like for you to take a look at how rapidly the Fed balance sheet has been rising. This is the sort of thing that you would expect to see in a banana republic.
I think that our leaders deceived themselves into thinking that they could get away with creating money so recklessly, but they haven’t.
Very painful inflation is here, and on Wednesday we learned that prices have been rising at the fastest pace in more than 30 years…
The consumer price index, which is a basket of products ranging from gasoline and health care to groceries and rents, rose 6.2% from a year ago, the most since December 1990. That compared with the 5.9% Dow Jones estimate. On a monthly basis, the CPI increased 0.9% against the 0.6% estimate.
If inflation continues to rise at about 1 percent a month, it won’t be too long before we are well into double digits on a yearly basis. Of course I don’t actually put too much faith in the inflation numbers that the government gives us, because the way inflation is calculated has been changed more than two dozen times since 1980.
And every time the definition of inflation has been changed, the goal has been to make inflation appear to be lower. According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if inflation was still calculated the way it was back in 1980, the official rate of inflation would be close to 15 percent right now.
This is a real national crisis, and it isn’t going away any time soon. One of the factors that is driving up the overall rate of inflation is the price of gasoline. If you can believe it, the price of gas is almost 50 percent higher than it was last year at this time…
Gasoline prices last month shot up nearly 50% from the same month a year ago, putting them at levels last seen in 2014. Grocery prices climbed 5.4%, with pork prices up 14.1% from a year ago, the biggest increase since 1990. Prices for new vehicles jumped 9.8% in October, the largest rise since 1975, while prices for furniture and bedding leapt by the most since 1951. Prices for tires and sports equipment rose by the most since the early 1980s.
Even Joe Biden is using the term “exceedingly high” to describe the current state of gasoline prices. Other forms of energy are also becoming a lot more expensive…
The price of electricity in October increased 6.5% from the same month a year ago while consumer expenses paid to utilities for gas went up 28%, according to numbers released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fuel oil rose 59%, and costs for propane, kerosene and firewood jumped by about 35%, the data show.
It is going to cost you a lot more money to heat your home this winter. I hope that you are prepared for that. Speaking of homes, they continued to shoot up in price during the third quarter…
The median price of single-family existing homes rose in nearly all — 99% — of the 183 markets tracked by the National Association of Realtors in the third quarter, with double-digit price increases seen in 78% of the markets.
If our paychecks were rising fast enough to keep up with inflation, then at least our standard of living would remain the same. But that isn’t happening, is it? In fact, the Labor Department’s own numbers show that real average hourly earnings are going down…
The Labor Department reported Friday that average hourly earnings increased 0.4% in October, about in line with estimates. That was the good news. However, the department reported Wednesday that top-line inflation for the month increased 0.9%, far more than what had been expected. That was the bad news – very bad news, in fact.
That’s because it meant that all told, real average hourly earnings when accounting for inflation, actually decreased 0.5% for the month.
What this means is that our standard of living is going down. And it is going to keep going down.
In a desperate attempt to maintain the status quo, many Americans are taking on more debt than ever before…
American households are carrying record amounts of debt as home and auto prices surge, Covid infections continue to fall and people get out their credit cards again. Between July and September, US household debt climbed to a new record of $15.24 trillion, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday.
How in the world did we allow ourselves to get 15 trillion dollars in debt? Of course many would point out that the federal government is an even worse offender. Very shortly, the U.S. national debt will cross the 29 trillion dollar mark.
As our leaders in Washington continue to engage in the greatest debt binge in world history, the U.S. dollar will steadily lose value. This is going to deeply affect everyone and everything in our society. For instance, just check out the pain that inflation is causing for one food bank in the San Francisco area…
In the prohibitively expensive San Francisco Bay Area, the Alameda County Community Food Bank in Oakland is spending an extra $60,000 a month on food. Combined with increased demand, it is now shelling out $1 million a month to distribute 4.5 million pounds (2 million kilograms) of food, said Michael Altfest, the Oakland food bank’s director of community engagement.
Pre-pandemic, it was spending a quarter of the money for 2.5 million pounds (1.2 million kilograms) of food.
I warned you way ahead of time that this was coming, and what we have experienced so far is just the beginning. The “experts” running the Fed and our politicians in Washington aren’t going to suddenly reverse direction. In fact, Congress just passed another gigantic spending bill that Joe Biden desperately wanted.
Our course has been set and there is no turning back. Our destination is economic collapse, and life in America will never, ever be the same again.
***It is finally here! Michael’s new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.***
Image by Intellectual from Pixabay. Article cross-posted from The Economic Collapse Blog.
Big Pharma’s Five Major Minions that Everyone, Vaxxed or Unvaxxed, Must Oppose
This is not an “anti-vaxxer” article, per se. It’s a call for everyone to wake up to the nefarious motives behind vaccine mandates, booster shots, and condemnation of freedom.
The worst kept secret in world history SHOULD be that the unquenchable push for universal vaccinations against Covid-19 has little if anything to do with healthcare and everything to do with Big Pharma’s influence over the narrative. Unfortunately, that secret has stayed firmly hidden from the vast majority of people because of the five major minions working on behalf of Big Pharma.
What’s even worse is the fact that Big Pharma’s greed is merely a smokescreen to hide an even darker secret. We’ll tackle that later. First, let’s look at the public-facing ringleaders behind the vaccine push, namely Big Pharma. But before we get into their five major minions, it’s important to understand one thing. This is NOT just an article that speaks to the unvaccinated. Even those who believe in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines must be made aware of agenda that’s at play.
Let’s start with some facts. The unvaccinated do NOT spread Covid-19 more rampantly than the vaccinated. Even Anthony Fauci acknowledged the viral load present in vaccinated people is just as high as in the unvaccinated. This fact alone should demolish the vaccine mandates as it demonstrates they have absolutely no effect on the spread of the disease. But wait! There’s definitely more.
This unhinged push to vaccinate everyone defies science. Those with natural immunity may actually have their stronger defenses against Covid-19 hampered by the introduction of the injections which fool the body into creating less-effective antibodies. Moreover, the push to vaccinate young people is completely bonkers. The recovery rate for those under the age of 20 is astronomical. Children neither contract, spread, nor succumb to Covid-19 in a statistically meaningful way. What they DO succumb to more often than Covid-19 are the adverse reactions to the vaccines, particularly boys.
All of this is known and accepted by the medical community, yet most Americans are still following the vaccinate-everybody script. It requires pure cognitive dissonance and an overabundant need for confirmation bias to make doctors and scientists willingly go along with the program. Yet, here we are and that should tell you something.
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Who does Big Pharma control? It starts with the obvious people, the ones who most Americans believe are actually behind this push. Our governments at all levels as well as governments around the world are not working with Big Pharma. They are working for Big Pharma. Some are proactive as direct recipients of cash. Others may oppose Big Pharma in spirit but would never speak out because they know anyone who does has no future in DC.
This may come as a shock to some, but it’s Big Pharma that drives the narrative and sets the agenda for the “experts” at the CDC, FDA, WHO, NIH, NIAID, and even non-medical government organizations.
Most believe it’s the other way around. They think that Big Pharma is beholden to the FDA for approval, but that’s not exactly the case. They need approval for a majority of their projects, but when it comes to the important ones such as the Covid injections, Big Pharma is calling the shots. They have the right people in the right places to push their machinations forward.
That’s not to say that everyone at the FDA is in on it. Big Pharma only needs a handful of friendlies planted in leadership in order to have their big wishes met. We have seen people quitting the FDA in recent weeks for this very reason. The same can be said about the other three- and five-letter agencies. Too many people in leadership have been bribed, bullied, or blackmailed into becoming occasional shills for the various Big Pharma corporations. Some have even been directly planted by Big Pharma. That’s the politics of healthcare and science that drives such things as Covid-19 “vaccines.”
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All of this analysis is correct, but the one unanswered question that continues to enable our national nihilism remains: “When will it collapse?” Because nihilists never snap out of it until death takes hold of them personally. Americans won’t recognize that America has died (a long time ago) until they are dying themselves. So…when? I predict it will occur before 2022 elections because (1) the destruction of the USA is deliberate, not due to incompetence, and (2) the Fraud Machine doesn’t yet control all states /districts that will probably ALL flip from Dem to GOP. The GOP is also a tool of our destruction, but too much of its membership are oblivious to their pawn status. So the GOP cannot be relied upon to meet a tight timetable and specific objectives. Thus, if the GOP reclaims Congress, then the Globalist Cabal’s demolition plans will slow. Clearly, though, the Cabal smells blood in the water since its huge wins with election fraud and genocidal gene-editing. These satanists simply can no longer contain their lust for annihilation. So they will not be willing to risk further delay with an inertia-ridden GOP reclaiming control. Therefore, we MUST assume the hammer and sickle will fall across our necks sometime before Nov 2022. Sigh, but almost no one will prepare until it’s too late!
In the meantime, we are going to give illegal aliens $450,000 for breaking our laws and we are going to import 10 million poor, illiterate people before the end of 2022, most of whom will be sucking at the taxpayers teat just as the profligate, unprincipled, immoral and corrupt people in DC do.
The good news is that those people in DC really have no life skills so when the dollar collapses and their $20 million / $ 100 million stashes turn out to be worth a lb of country fried steak, they will be suffering worse than those of us who know how support ourselves with real life skills.
“Gender equality and social justice” will be out the window along with CRT. Survival will be the order of the day.
The bad news is that the DC swamp will be sending out the FBI to confiscate all weapons.
Not much consolation, but some.
Feds have been pouring so much money into the economy, it is acting as a spending stimulus, most people spend every dollar they get from the government. When the government stops printing money is when the bad times come for quite a few of those highly leveraged debt ridden, no jobs, dont work people. Inflation is caused by too many dollars chasing too few goods. Expect poverty to increase, middle class to continue shrinking, rich get richer but at a lower rate. And Biden and dems DO NOT CARE about people. They care about their causes, such as their ‘existential’ fascination with the fraud of global climate change, the too many people which is why they are focused on ‘sustainable’, means they want you to die off, and lately the VAX, and the great reset of the WEF.
So how are the elitists planning on preserving THEIR wealth, if the dollar collapses? Where are they putting THEIR money? Gold & silver? I doubt it. PM markets are notorious for manipulation, ditto for the cryptos.
I’m thinking energy and related utilities, perhaps certain high-demand base metals like copper, nickel or lithium. Mid-stream oil pipeline operators with +8% quarterly distributions or regular dividends look interesting. Why? Because all they do is transport crude and refined product via pipeline. Biden admin. may block construction of new pipelines, but trying to shut down existing ones will be problematic for a whole host of legal and practical reasons.
Even if the dollar collapses and no longer considered a reserve currency, electricity and essential energy products MUST flow; if not, we end up going back to the 1800’s. The only reason the dollar hasn’t collapsed thus far is there’s really nothing else out there to replace it in terms of the global financial systems. Think China’s Yuan is safe? Think again. At some point the Eurotrash financial centers will have to do something to prop up the USD lest they go under as well.
“Money is gold, and nothing else.” – J. P. Morgan, 1912
China, Japan and LEH Inc
In 1989 Japanese Zaibatsu Conglomerates acquired Pebble Beach, Rockefeller Center and Tishman properties at what turned out to be peak prices.
New York Times trumpeted these as shrewd moves and Debt Rating agencies looked the other way.
Not too much later the acquirers puked up these properties at distressed prices with cascading mortgage defaults.
In 2008, Lehman Brothers pursued similar highly leveraged policies that ended in overleveraged Bankrutpcies, leading to the largest global market collapse since 1929.
Today we have a Cayman Islands domiciled China Inc Company Evergrande making what appear to be similar violations of economic natural law, while media and raters assure us All is well.
History may not exactly repeat, but it does echo and rhyme…
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The government has given permission to steal when you can’t afford things. It’s going to get dangerous quickly.
Destroying the US dollar is a deliberate act, all a part of the multitude of Cloward-Piven strategies in everything from open borders to refusing to enforce laws against Leftists, that all together are aimed at destroying our country. The US is the last bastion of armed, free citizens in the entire world–and we stand in the way of the Globalists’ plans for their New World Order global government, which will be an unbreakable tyranny the likes of which the world has never seen. If you think the Covid mandates are an illegal, unconstitutional infringement of our rights, “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” Either resist and preserve our freedoms, or accept being controlled by your government and learn how it feels to lose all the freedoms we used to have.
What makes you think “the rich” DON’T want the US to collapse? The Globalists are looking beyond mere sovereign nations to a New World Order; the US MUST collapse (taking Europe with it) in order for that to happen, because we stand in their way. Proof will be assigning a new reserve currency to replace the US dollar (possibly a cryptocurrency, which is easily manipulated), which will finish off the US along with other countries with any remaining shreds of freedom, and allow elitists to rebuild whatever they want–which is a global government, a tyranny from which NOBODY escapes, and controlled by those same elitists. Just because we average citizens will no longer have electricity doesn’t mean the elitists will have to do without it; they won’t. Their motivation isn’t wealth; it is power.