Pick Your Poison

Joel S. Hirschhorn One of the hardest truths to accept is that for most sources of pain hitting humans there seems to be nothing effective for government to do. Nowadays, those of us who do not gobble various distractions but work to stay connected to reality see two dreadful conditions. Nature seems mad as hell. [...]

What I have been afraid to blog about: The ESF and Its History_Part 1

Financial Repression: A Sheep Shearing Instruction Manual

Daniel Amerman Overview “Financial Repression” is currently a hot buzzword in the global economic community, and its effects are even worse than it sounds. Like other recent economic buzzwords such as “monetary sterilization” and “quantitative easing”, the average person will never understand the meaning, if they hear the phrase at all. That is too bad, [...]

This Is No Double Dip

Vox Day “The Great Depression 2.0 is what is presently developing, although due to a reactive wave of positive social mood, statistical obfuscation, and understandable denial, it will take about a year for the consensus opinion to cycle through the various scenarios in descending order of optimism before the grim reality finally becomes apparent to [...]

10 Tipping Points Which Could Potentially Plunge The World Into A Horrific Economic Nightmare

The Economic Collapse June 7, 2011 The global economy has become so incredibly unstable at this point that it is not going to take much to plunge the world into a horrific economic nightmare.  The foundations of the world economic system are so decayed and so corrupted that even a stiff breeze could potentially topple [...]

Big time trouble dead ahead thanks to the Federal Reserve

Free market Economics The paper money dollar experiment of the last 40 years has reached an unsolvable impasse. Since 1971, when Nixon defaulted on the dollars convertibility into gold there has been no restraint whatsoever on the Federal Reserve’s ability to finance the U.S. government’s boondoggle spending programs both foreign and domestic. The government doesn’t [...]

Private Property

Don Stott One of the most important facets of freedom, and a free people, is private property. Our Fifth Amendment states that, “No state shall…deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law..” Even Jesus said, at Matthew 20: 15, “Is it not lawful for me to do what I want [...]

More Catalysts for the Impending Crisis

Addison Wiggin Somewhere in the sad tale of Raymond Zack lies a warning about the future – the new financial crisis the catalysts for which we were searching yesterday and the day before. Zack, depressed and on disability, walked into San Francisco Bay on Monday…and allowed the tide to wash him away to his death. [...]

The Sky Is Falling, It Is Time To Panic And The U.S. Economy Has Fallen And It Can’t Get Up

The Economic Collapse June 3, 2011 So many economists and financial pundits seem absolutely shocked that the U.S. economy is slowing down again.  It is as if this latest wave of bad economic data has caught them completely by surprise.  Now, in the mainstream media we are seeing all kinds of headlines declaring that the [...]

After the Dollar: What Comes Next?

Peter Schiff My readers are familiar with my forecast that the US dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression. The clock is ticking until the dollar faces a crisis of confidence like every other bubble [...]