Economy
We Just Witnessed Something That Hasn’t Happened Since The Last Housing Crash
During the days of the Great Recession, rapidly falling home prices caused all sorts of havoc for our major financial institutions. Unfortunately, home prices are starting to plummet once again in many areas of the country. And just like during the last housing crash, we are also seeing a surge in […]
Empire
Why Is the Establishment Ignoring the Recently Declassified JFK Files?
New documents expose how CIA spymaster James Angleton concealed Lee Harvey Oswald’s movements, hid a secret Israeli liaison, and lied to Congress. Overshadowed by the recent revelations in the Epstein files, the 62nd anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination came and went with little notice. Yet new documents relating […]
Activism
Great Was Its Fall
When it comes, it comes on slowlyThe day feels holy, a hush falls downWhispered names, remembered facesFrom desperate places, all gather ‘roundTom Paxton, “Come on, Holy” Early morning and the first heavy snow is falling. It is beautiful. I walk around the lake in the holy hush. Alone except for two […]
Health
A foggy future: Cognitive problems spike in young adults, defying age expectations
In a dramatic shift that is alarming neurologists and public health experts, cognitive difficulties like memory loss, poor focus and brain fog are rising at an unprecedented rate among young Americans. A landmark study published in Neurology reveals that self-reported cognitive disability among adults aged 18 to 39 nearly doubled between 2013 […]
Tech
KaBoom! Big Tech’s AI Debt Will Crash The Economy
AI is a bag of hot air, a gaslight operation, a Ponzi scheme. If you believe for a second that erasing all the jobs in society will result in abundance and a “golden age”, you are nuts. If you were worried about illegal immigration under the Biden Administration taking jobs […]
Crypto
Argentina Moves to Let Banks Offer Bitcoin and Crypto Services
The Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), is reportedly drafting rules that would allow commercial banks to offer bitcoin. Argentina is considering a major shift in its approach to bitcoin. Argentina’s central bank, the Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), is reportedly drafting rules that would allow commercial banks to […]
Podcasts
Solutions
Update: Budget Preparedness–Survival Isn’t About Stuff, It is About Skills
JWR’s Introductory Note: This is an update to an article that I wrote for SurvivalBlog back in June, 2008. It includes an adenda from my first wife Linda (“The Memsahib”), who passed away in 2009. It is part of a series of SurvivalBlog 20th Anniversary update re-posts, in recognition of the […]