Americans are dissatisfied. Pitfalls to avoid when it comes to investing. The current state of the stock market. Venezuela designates every Friday a ‘holiday’. Essential information for you to understand as to why you must take your money out of the banks. The horrors of the current degree of corporate debt as a percentage of GDP. Janet Yellen’s grotesque misrepresentation of the unemployment situation. Orders of big rigs continue to collapse. Rail carload declines confirm this trend. Men losing jobs at double the rate of women. U.K manufacturing data continue grim. Stan Druckenmiller (30% gains every year with no losing year) predicts America heading for an economic disaster. Some recent U.S. economic statistics showing continued, serious economic decline.     

Britain’s worst peace-time current account deficit ever. IMF predicts it will worsen. Anatomy of a derivatives trade potentially gone horribly wrong. Regulators don’t even understand them! Cost to hire China container ships plunges to historic lows. Worse than 2008. No pending bailouts. No incipient V-shaped recovery. No ‘Official Financial Crisis’. The sad story of Valeant Pharmaceuticals. Even the IMF is now predicting growing risks to the global economy. Veterans who don’t tow the party ‘patriotism’ line are vilified. The sickening story of two vets’ experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. An economy totally built on debt. Totally unsustainable. Factory orders collapsed in February as did durable orders. Dramatic payroll cuts.

Why NATO needs to go. Why Russia represents no threat to the U.S. whatsoever. How the end of the Cold War (1991) left the U.S. with no enemy of any kind anywhere. Why this was unacceptable to the Warmonger Party in Washington. What they have done to ‘redress the balance’. Personal burnout as Americans work harder than ever to ensure the continuation of their jobs. Terrible Japanese retail sales. A Bill Bonner winner. Many older Japanese men are so desperate, they want to go to jail to ensure their survival. Another scandal. The Pentagon officially announces it’s sending massive amounts of materiel to Eastern European countries along the border with Russia.  Fantasy ‘from the other side’.

America needs to stop defending Saudi Arabia, thus supporting terrorism. The definitive answer (in my opinion) as to why there have been no criminal prosecutions following the greatest financial crisis of all time. Interview with Jesse Eisinger. Grim unemployment prospects for those in their prime working years. GDP prospects have just collapsed. Credit ratings companies issuing dire warnings. The ever-growing threat of war instigated by a major, dominant power (the United States) against a competing power (China). This is history repeating itself and it is inevitable.

Americans are rightfully angry about trade. The intractable nightmare over retirement. No apparent solution is at hand. This is my first comment in over ten years on this subject. A genuine voter revolt against the establishment and the rich is at hand.  The deathly illiquidity of the western banking system. Profile of the dust-up of a major bank in action. Investors appear finally to be seeing through the stock buy-back trickery. We shall shortly see that reflected in the market. Central bankers know perfectly well that ‘QE’ doesn’t work. A quick stock market recap. Trade deficit/surplus, balanced trade 101.

The deadly consequences of negative interest rates. Why stock analysts are always, permanently bullish on stocks. One man’s account of relocating to Cambodia. Business sales fell in January yet again. Corporate America is paying out more cash to shareholders that it earns in profits. $8 trillion has been confiscated from savers in lost interest. The meaning of ‘crony capitalism’.  Stock buybacks are almost entirely responsible for the rise in the stock market. The sense of panic at central banks’ policy failures worldwide is palpable.  Areas where investors are guaranteed to lose money. Borrowing in the U.K. is still surging. Americans feel they are individually exempt from job losses due to robots.

The concept of learning. The limitations of knowledge from which to derive information to help us with the future. The despair of hopelessness in Britain. Its decline mirrors the U.S. and useless-measure-after-useless-measure tries to stem the rot. The economic decline has no ready explanation. Recent addiction to massive and unprecedented debt has finished the country off. Business sales in the U.S. peaked in 2014. Since then companies, hand-in-hand with government, have tried to paint lipstick on the pig. The horror of painkiller-drug addiction in the U.S. Robobanking is coming to a bank near you. The Danes are once again the happiest people on earth. The U.S. trade deficit worsened again in January. The core belief of the Establishment is that the State should run everything.

A short article from a main-stream hack telling us how wealthy we all are and to shut up and stop complaining! The lies and nonsense fed you by the Wall Street mouthpieces about corporate earnings in particular. An analogy to the dangerous notion that something we all know is untouchable and impregnable, corresponding to the unsinkable nature of the financial system. Chinese emigration to the U.S. – now operating in reverse. Spotlight on the sub-prime auto loan market, The Fed’s “free lunch”. Break-down of the neat order of things and our vain efforts to maintain order among the ensuing chaos. A final comment about ‘happiness’.

Another international skills-set survey sees America in bottom place among 18 industrial countries. Debating why the U.S. economy is so sluggish. Credit-card debt at an all-time high. Another word on negative interest rates. China’s shadow banking sector keeping the system alive. Relations between China and the U.S. deteriorating rapidly.  The BIS is always prescient when it comes to forecasting. Hear what they have to say now. Robots are gradually taking over from doctors, especially with regard to diagnosis. The ECB must tolerate continued deflation which it is powerless to stop. The Greek economic crisis: no solution. Don’t make important decisions late-in-the-day! Final comment about the ‘happiness’ piece I did here last week.

China’s success has been due to seat-of-the-pants trial-and-error and raw, hard work. An extraordinary achievement. But, like over-exuberant children, they don’t know when to stop. Japan has been in a down-turn for over 25 years and it’s going to be devastated by its debt. Problems of the lower-middle class. The failure of the Fed is really quite simple to identify. A quick word on the stock market. Central bankers’ new toy: negative interest rates. Yes (no…?), there’s still no recovery! The absurd ‘growth’ in federal crimes. Mortgages with 3% down? They’re back! Job losses due to the TPP. Brazil’s collapse. Italy also hitting the skids.