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12 Ways To Cut the Chains of Financial Serfdom

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6/10/2023

Look Around and What Do You See? Social Defeat

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6/9/2023

What Happens When the Competent Opt Out?

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6/6/2023

A Nation of Junkies: The Empty Future of a Stimulus-Speculation Economy

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6/3/2023

Higher Unemployment Won’t Stop Wages from Rising

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6/1/2023

Wages Going Up for Good: Catch-Up and Blowback

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5/26/2023

Are You Ready For a Real Recession?

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5/24/2023

2023: Echoes of 1973

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5/22/2023

How Many Dominoes Must Topple Before One Falls on Us?

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5/19/2023

What If AI Is Only a Cost and Not a Profit Bonanza?

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5/17/2023

Our Two Deep States, One Public, One Private

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5/15/2023

Doom Loops Are Multiplying

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5/12/2023

Once Trust Has Been Lost, There’s No Going Back

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5/10/2023

What If the Fed Has Lost Control?

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5/5/2023

Crystal Balls, Soothsayers, and AI, Oh My!

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5/3/2023

What If the Whole Shebang Unravels?

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4/28/2023

America’s Social Contract Is Broken

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4/26/2023

The Housing Bubble: Owners Trapped by Low-Rate Mortgages, Buyers Thwarted by High-Rate Mortgages

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4/19/2023

This Housing Bubble Is Different: It’s Much More Precarious

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4/15/2023

Why Interest Rates Are Not Going Back to Zero

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4/7/2023

Here’s How We’ll Have Labor Shortages and High Unemployment at the Same Time

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4/5/2023

The Everything Bubble and Global Bankruptcy

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3/28/2023

Bull or Bear? The Ultimate Source of Market Instability

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3/25/2023

Welcome to the Era of Warring Elites

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3/23/2023

We’ve Forgotten That Business-Cycle Recessions Are Essential

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3/22/2023

Funny Things Happen on the Way to ‘Restoring Financial Stability’

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3/18/2023

Banks, Banks, Banks: The Elephant Nobody Even Sees

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3/16/2023

Chart of the Month: Any Questions?

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3/13/2023

If AI Can’t Overthrow its Corporate/State Masters, It’s Worthless

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3/11/2023

What if There Are No Solutions?

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3/10/2023

What If the Whole Point Is To End ‘The Fed Put’?

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3/7/2023

Stainless Steal

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3/1/2023

Weaponizing Global Depression

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2/27/2023

What ChatGPT and DeepMind Tell Us About AI

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2/21/2023

A World Without Finance

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2/17/2023

The New Normal: Death Spirals and Speculative Frenzies

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2/15/2023

Why People Move from Blue States: It’s Not Just High Taxes

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2/10/2023

Seven Points on Investing in Treacherous Waters

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2/6/2023

What Goes Up Also Comes Down: The Heavy Hand of Bubble Symmetry

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2/2/2023

The Race to the Bottom Accelerates

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1/28/2023

You Want Truly ‘Sound Money’? A Thought Experiment

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1/26/2023

The 1970s: From Rotting Carcasses Floating in the River to Kayak Races

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1/25/2023

Contrarian Thoughts on the Petro-Yuan and Gold-Backed Currencies

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1/21/2023

Want to Know Where the Economy Is Going? Watch The Top 10%

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1/19/2023

Who Would Benefit from a Severe Global Recession?

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1/9/2023

How Easy Is It To Become Middle Class?

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1/6/2023

Misunderstanding War, Money and Prosperity

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1/4/2023

It’s a New Era

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1/2/2023

An Inconvenient Revolution

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12/29/2022

Will 2023 Be ‘Just an Average Recession in an Average Year’ or Will It Be Transformational?

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12/27/2022