The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
America's Demise In One Simple Chart – The Path To A FIRE Economy
We originally posted this chart in February 2011, which we just updated also breaking out the real estate industry from FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate). It is still just as shocking as it was back when we first produced it.
Story and two valuable graphics below the fold.
Continue reading “Zero Hedge: Is Real Estate the Sucking Chest Wound in US Economy?”
13 American Gray Swans – Week 22 – Farm Apocalypse
Most Americans are not aware, and not paying attention to the Apocalypse happening to our farming industry. Unfortunately most will only get the wake-up call when there is no food. Understand, a perfect storm is not forming, it is already here.
It is not just one thing, but a multiple attack on our food production. But let us just review a few things before diving into the issues. The wealth of a country is measured in its Manufacturing, in its Natural Resources and Mining, and in its Agriculture and Farming.
Continue reading “J. C. Cole American Gray Swans 4 June 2019”
Amazonia
List Only, Click Above for full report.
13 American Gray Swans – Week 21 – Martin Tower
Sunday May 19th 2019 the icon of Bethlehem Steel – Martin Tower – was taken down by controlled demolition.
For those living in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania, and especially those that went to Lehigh University or Moravian College in Bethlehem it seemed like the end of an era. Bethlehem Steel was at one time the 2nd largest steel maker in the world, the largest ship maker in America, and the 14th largest industrial company in the country.
Continue reading “J. C. Cole American Gray Swans 29 May 2019”
We need a radical overhaul of the monetary system itself, and that means rethinking what money is and how it enters the economy.
We need a new economic model, one designed to elicit the abundance of which the economy is capable. Implementing that sort of systemic change is not as radical as it sounds. Over the course of three centuries, US money has evolved from government-issued scrip in the American colonies to government-minted coins when the colonies became a nation, to nearly all privately issued money today. Dissatisfaction with an extractive and outdated banking system, along with revolutionary developments in software technology, have prompted a wave of proposals for redesigning the monetary system and the currencies it uses.
This book looks at how our banking system really works, the inherent contradictions in the model, and why regulation has not worked to fix them. It then explores some new developments and proposes a model that bypasses exploitation for private profit, turning banking into a public utility that serves the people and the economy.
Continue reading “Worth a Look: Ellen Brown, New Book Banking on People”
