The United States is 4% of the world population. It consumes 25% of the oil in the world. Most it goes to transportation. So by monitoring the status of transportation one can get an idea of how well the economy is doing. This is just the total vehicle being sold. Let us look at the… Read More »
When you see cheerleaders and puppeteers working hard to persuade the public that we are just going to a small short time glitch, you better know that things are very serious. And if the 30+ million unemployed have not convinced you of that yet we can take a look at some of the sale numbers.
I find that figuring out how things work is probably the most interesting things of life. And every time something seems “mysterious”, it turned out that one can explain it with a bit more learning and effort.
Carl Marx talked a great deal bout the importance of owning the production tool for any society, socially governed society that is. However, as times change, the emphasis is no longer on the production tool, but rather it has to be broaden to become “wealth acquisition and redistribution mechanism”.
Many blame the “online” shift for the death of the mall in America. Although the “online” commerce is growing but let us ask a more fundamental question, how did we get here.
The financial talking heads on every financial propaganda main stream media cannot remind you enough how we are hitting all times high, and they act as if it is an amazing phenomena and no one can explain. Well, let me help all these gurus out.
The more I listen to financial news, the more I believe that they are not news, but rather propaganda. An actual question by on of the puppets on CNBC:”We are going to tell you why markets are rising.” Really, no please let me tell you why markets are going up.
This is a “thing” that came out of the 2008 crisis. There are plenty of sources that describe it and talk about it, as shown in the references below. But, you have to have know about it to find it of course.
The natural progress of the world cannot be stopped. The US ailing empire has been loosing its economic advantages but now I think it has entered the nursing home. The only thing keeping the Ponzi scam alive, is the interference of the FEDs and loopholes that big corporations are going through, from bringing overseas cash… Read More »
A big deal is made about the yield curve inversion (what is the yield curve inversion) and bunch of variations of it, such as 10-years to 2-years. And it is always presented as an “indicator” for a coming recession. But reality it is really a results of interest rate cycle (source).