When the economy slows down, layoffs inevitably happen.  We witnessed this on a very large scale in 2008 and 2009, and now it is happening again.  U.S. economic numbers are rapidly getting worse, and companies all across America don’t…

Nancy Pelosi knows exactly what she is doing.  She knows that going to Taiwan without China’s permission will create a major international incident, but she is doing it anyway.  It is being reported that Pelosi will arrive in…

It is starting to look a lot like 2008.  Extremely long lines are forming at food banks all over the country, job losses and layoffs are starting to spike, countless small businesses are right on the brink of going under, a housing…

Pending Home Sales Fell 8.6% in June New home sales are recorded at signing. Existing home sales are reported at closing. Pending home sales in June is a leading indicator of the existing home sales reports for July…

Under normal circumstances, this would never happen.  Normally, you would never have raging inflation and a housing crash at the same time.  But thanks to the Federal Reserve that is precisely what we are now facing.  The Fed…

How would you feel if your power bill went up by 50 percent this winter?  How about 100 percent?  Unfortunately, these kinds of price increases are already being announced.  The world was heading into a major energy crisis…

It looks like we are going to get official confirmation that a recession has already begun when the GDP number for the second quarter comes out later this week.  But that isn’t what we should be focusing on. …

American investment banker and former public official who served as managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. and, during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, as United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing Catherine…

Prices of commodities have plunged from recent highs. Has inflation peaked? The Wall Street Journal reports There Are Signs Inflation May Have Peaked, but Can It Come Down Fast Enough? Growing signs that price pressures are easing suggest that…

Sky high diesel prices continue to impact the trucking and farming industry. Diesel-powered equipment helps farmers get their crops harvested and it help truckers get that food to the stores. With prices continually going up, we can expect…

You may not want to buy a house right now.  What goes up must eventually come down, and we have just entered the “down” side of that equation.  Over the past two years, home prices in the United…

The United Kingdom just took a big step toward initiating a slave-style social credit score. This “score” will be tied to your central bank digital currency and you won’t be allowed to use your own money if you…

American investment banker and former public official who served as managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. and, during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, as United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing Catherine…

When you keep making horrible decisions, eventually the consequences are going to catch up with you. That is true for individuals, and it is also true for entire nations. Here in the United States, previous generations handed down…

The purchasing power of the dollar is not nearly as strong as it once was, and as a result our standard of living is rapidly going down.  The overall rate of inflation has been rising faster than our…

Do you remember what economic conditions were like in 2008 and 2009?  Well, what is ahead of us is likely to be significantly worse.  There will be severe pain for those that get blindsided by this new crisis,…

There has been a lot of talk recently about “the death of the dollar”, but the truth is that the euro is in far bigger trouble.  Inflation in the eurozone has risen to truly frightening levels, and the…