ECONOMY
Doug Casey on Corporate Cowardice, Government Surveillance, and the Creeping Fascism
Matt Smith: Doug, I’ve failed to keep up with the constant firehose of news—or more accurately, disinformation and noise—so I don’t have a long list today. But I know there were a few things that caught your attention. Doug Casey: Well, it’s not that I’ve researched them. They are things that […]
A Real Life Economic Nightmare: How Would You Feel If You Had Applied For 900 Jobs Without Any Success At All?
If you have applied for hundreds of jobs and still find yourself out of work, you are certainly not alone. In many industries, it is absolutely brutal out there right now. U.S. employers have been laying off hundreds of thousands of workers in 2025, and there is immense competition for any good […]
Trump’s Unknown Frontiers
Trump is rewriting the rules of politics, economics, and culture—and no one, not even the experts, knows what happens when the old orthodoxy finally breaks. Donald Trump’s far-ranging counter-revolution, to quote the old Star Trek mission statement, seeks “To boldly go where no one has gone before.” Because no conservative […]
Retail and Tech Jobs At-Risk in the US
US employers have reduced their workforce more in the first seven months of 2025 than in all of 2024. The DOGE cuts to the public sector were the primary driver of layoffs; however, there has been a notable drop in retail and technology positions in the private sector. July alone […]
Deadline Day Is Here And The BRICS Countries Are Not Cooperating – So How Will The “Wall Of Tariffs” Impact The U.S. Economy?
It was nice while it lasted. Nations all over the globe had until August 1st to agree to a trade deal with the Trump administration. Some of them made deals, but most of them did not. Those that did not will now be hit by a “wall of tariffs”, with […]
Is The Federal Reserve Purposely Trying To Destroy The U.S. Economy?
Oops, they did it again. Even though the housing market has been in a depressed state for an extended period of time and even though economic conditions are slowing down all over the country, the Federal Reserve has once again refused to lower interest rates. What in the world are they […]
Sanctions – the Neocon Tool That Has Never Worked Even Once
The fact that Trump is threatening sanctions against India for buying Russian oil and to hammer Russia to somehow force Putin to his knees and accept whatever terms Europe demands, proves that Trump is now taking advice from Lindsey Grachm, NATO, their puppet EU leaders, and the Neocons with the […]
New Rule: Companies Like to Brag About Layoffs
Bosses like to tout shrinking head counts as AI accomplishments. If you are reducing headcount, and can attribute it to AI, then brag about it. The Wall Street Journal reports CEOs Trumpet Smaller Workforces as a Sign of Corporate Health Big companies are getting smaller—and their CEOs want everyone to know […]
War Bankrupts Empires, Nations & City-States – Here We Go Again
France was on the brink of its Fifth bankruptcy in 1720. France defaulted in 1558 under Henry II, following the costly Habsburg-Valois Wars (also known as the Italian Wars), the outright repudiation of debt, and currency devaluation. Then in 1648, a Debt Crisis occurred under Louis XIV (Early Reign) with the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) and the […]
Bank Branches are the Latest Creative Destruction Casualty
Over 8,000 bank branches are expected to close worldwide in 2025. Approximately 3,200 of those closures will take place in the United States. Q1 experienced 148 net branch closures in the US, with all major banks slated to close branches throughout the year. These are merely bank closures and not bank failures, […]
