Agent Provocateur: a person employed to encourage others to break the law by pretending sympathy with their aims to incite them to some incriminating action so that they can be arrested. In recent years, mostly due to the rise of internet accessibility, the American people have been undergoing a rapid awakening. Some stories once considered so absurd Read More…
Politics
Economic Reality: Bottom 50% Of Americans No Longer Matter
The Fed likes to brag about the “We saved the world” recovery. However, the unfortunate truth of the matter is a record Half of American Families Live Paycheck to Paycheck. Does it Matter? Let’s investigate. Unprepared for Nearly Anything 50% are woefully unprepared for a financial emergency. Nearly 1 in 5 (19%) Americans have nothing set Read More…
Who is More Biased: Liberals or Conservatives?
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. –Friedrich Nietzsche When it comes to politics, there seems to be more division now than ever. Disagreements over how the government should handle (or refrain from intervention in) certain issues has reached fever pitch. Liberals and conservatives have long argued about Read More…
Globalization 2.0: China Ushering in Newer, Shinier New World Order
Two weeks ago I discussed the baby steps that China and Russia are taking toward creating an alternative financial infrastructure to the SWIFT Network and the Washington Consensus (read: Wall Street Consensus). The steps may be small, but they’re all going in the same direction: away from a US/NATO-led world order and toward a world Read More…
Hedge Fund CIO: What Central Banks Have Done Is “Stunning, Unprecedented”
We start a quiet Sunday with a big picture anecdote from Eric Peters’ latest weekend note explaining why what central banks are trying to do is impossible, why the trend of inflation over the past 70 years is “stunning and unprecedented” and why “volatility suppression” always eventually fails. “Anecdote”, by Eric Peters of One River Read More…
US Media: Simple Tricks To Provide Distorted Picture Of Political Reality
How biased are the US media, really? This is a frequently asked question. The answer is – they are biased very much and they know how to instill the vision of things in a quiet and unobtrusive way. Here is an example to prove the point. “Defense Secretary Mattis Arrives at Only US Base in Read More…






