What is China really doing? I share with you my possible anticipation.

Today we discuss the BRICS meeting, the portable ports-potties in San Francisco are off to a rough start, and did we get flagged by Google for talking bad about them? We also take a look at American Hubris of the rich and how china is trying to work its way out of its own real estate debt crisis, but their government isn't bailing them out. Is there a lesson to be learned there?

Embrace the boring as C Thomas Printer discusses the craziness of the bond market and why it could be more risky than previously thought.

Today in Looking Backwards Looking Forwards we discuss anti-politician music going number 1, self-created traffic jams and new mobile porta potties, and Argentina voting right and getting their currency devalued as a response. The upcoming Brics meeting is in our sights and Egypt's, a Kansas newspaper gets raided "gestapo style" and kids in Montana get a climate ruling protecting their delicate sensibilities. I've attached a picture of the climate damage being done to Montana.

We are seeing the effects of higher rates already.

In this week's Looking Backwards Looking Forwards we discuss the inflation prints, the fire in Maui, and Sam Bankman-Fried going back to jail. Looking Forwards we are watching Ecuador and their elections, tire wear from EV vehicles, and the Brics meeting Aug 22 in South Africa.

Today we discuss the Fitch down grade of the credit rating of the US along with other factors that could impact the treasury markets and ultimately interest rates.

Today we discuss the US credit downgrade by Fitch, bank faliures, and how India is not exporting any more rice. We also discuss the US spending problem, possible Kenyan default on Eurobonds, and another comany trying to go woke and go broke.

This week's Bygone Relics: Every superpower in world history that thought themselves invincible made a bad series of decisions over time that had unintended consequences. Do you think that the US just have a Hurricane Andrew/Burmese python moment?

This week's LBLF show opens with Yellow Corp's inability to make pension payments. C Thomas and Austerity Jones then continue talking about Barbenheimer, Messi's Inter Miami debut, FED raising another 25 bps, coup d'etat in Niger, and the US stock market. To access the articles we read this week, visit cthomasprinter.com