At Bygone Relics show, we continue discussing five of the very worst hyper-inflations and the ramifications of a currency collapse and juxtapose these historical events against the US situation today.

A very busy week for the markets: US CPI came out on Tuesday, FED interest rate decision on Wednesday, ECB on Thursday, and finally BoJ on Friday. All these and more are in today's Looking Backwards Looking Forwards show.

This week's Bygone Relics show is discussing five of the very worst hyper-inflations and the ramifications of a currency collapse and juxtapose these historical events against the US situation today.

Here is this week's Looking Backwards Looking Forwards program: Who blew the Ukrainian dam up? Who blew the Nord Stream pipeline? How do we not know these things?

The US has raised the debt ceiling and avoided defaulting on its debt. That’s a good thing, right?

This week on our Looking Backwards Looking Forwards show we have news from the UK and the US: price caps for basic food, e-bikes exploding, ChatGPT hallucinating, the housing market on the decline, and tight jobs market.

The Great Depression was a huge expansion of government that has never receded. If the current Federal Reserve moves to tame the inflation by contracting the money supply and raising interest rates left on this track, a recession or depression would likely follow. But here is the problem we face: Consumers can't stop spending...

Therefore the question of this week's Bygone Relics show is this: Which pain is next? A recession or high inflation? Or, is there a third option we hadn't thought of? C Thomas answers.

This week's Looking Backwards Looking Backwards show has a lot to tell!

Tune in here, or watch us on YouTube, and go through the news we discuss in the episode on cthomasprinter.com!

This week's Bygone Relics show:

What does depression mean?

Where are we at the economic cycle?

Are the banks in bad shape? Why?

Will we see a bank run or is what we are having a "bank walk" ?

How likely for the banks to get a hit from the real estate loans they had extended?

Will the downtown office spaces never be in high demand again?

What happens when we don’t let banks fail?

How is the fight against inflation going? Are we seeing declines in prices?

Is something more insidious than the Great Depression ahead?

Looking Backwards Looking Forwards at CTPC:

Is Twitter a place of censorship?

What is really behind of the tension between Disney and Desantis?

How did a public vote in Arizona make billionaires upset?

Is it wise to invest in Japan, for chipmakers for instance?

Is it wise for UK to announce a ban on Russian diamonds and imports of metals from Russia?

What is Michelle Obama after with her offering of "healthy" beverage for kids?