ECONOMY
The Year When Everything Happens in No Particular Order
The pool of speculative fervor will be drained, as impossible as that seems in this moment in history.2025 may go down as The Year When Everything Happened in No Particular Order, tracking William Gibson’s famous line that “The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.”Those expecting inflation will […]
The Demographic Time Bomb Threatening Your Retirement
America’s aging population, combined with shrinking birthrates and falling immigration, mean fewer workers fund Social Security. Here’s how this demographic reversal could trigger a retirement meltdown… Retirement: That dream of living comfortably, traveling where you want, spending time with who you want when you want, enjoying good health, and getting […]
U.S. Relations With China Just Went Down The Tubes, And So Brace Yourself For Much Higher Prices And Shortages Of Certain Items
Did we just witness the economic trigger event that will cause the dramatic stock market crash that we were just warned about? On Friday, U.S. stock prices absolutely plummeted once President Trump announced that China’s new rare earth export restrictions would be countered by “a massive increase” in tariffs on Chinese imports […]
The Inevitable Collapse of the Bloated State
Shutdown Showdown At the time or this writing, the federal funding for the new fiscal year (FY 2026) has lapsed. The federal government bureaucracy is in partial shutdown. In Washington, D.C., and in federal offices across the nation, nearly a million people are either furloughed or clocking in for work […]
Gold Is Screaming: Are You Listening?
Is this “it?” Has the West finally lost pricing control of gold and silver? If so, is it going too far to suggest that there’s a gigantic monetary and financial reset on the way? Gold is screaming higher, and that’s concerning to everybody who is paying attention. Gold’s price has […]
U.S. Farmers Are Facing The Worst Economic Downturn In At Least 50 Years
The agriculture industry in the United States is deeply broken. Farmers are the foundation of it all, but they are being financially squeezed from every direction. They are being squeezed by the giant monopolies that control the seeds, fertilizer and machinery that they need. And they are also being squeezed […]
A Nation Managed by Misreads: Payroll Revisions, Rate Suppression, and the Debt Crisis
The BLS has come out with another huge rug-pull on its nonfarm payroll count. And also, predictably, this has triggered loud blathering from both Wall Street and the White House on behalf of exactly the wrong conclusion. To wit, we don’t need any more Fed rate cuts! And we don’t […]
Look Out Below
As I often note, making Plans B and C is free. The stock market is always looking past “bad news” to front-run “good news.” Once it became clear that the Titanic was indeed going to sink, the stock market would rally on the prospect of sharp growth in lifeboat shares. In other words, […]
Inflection Point: US Government Shutdown And Strange Economic Signals
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group The US economy has been experiencing what I would call a form of “stasis” for the last year; it’s floating in the deep ocean, waiting for a catalyst. Either it finds dry land soon, or another anchor […]
Gold @ $4,000/Oz – A Small Step for Gold; A Giant Blow to the Fiat Monetary System.
There has been a relentless rise in gold prices over the last three years. From a bottom of around $1640 in October 2022 to $4000/oz today, Gold has delivered a 35% CAGR over the last three years. Most analysts remain oblivious of the underlying causes and attribute the move in […]
