Category Archives: News

Had a most interesting conversation with Clif about how the attack by a lone gunman at the Discovery Channel in Maryland on Wednesday is an important temporal marker in the developing mass rejection of “The Big Lies” that are propagated … Continue reading →

Sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight as was the case when a news release from the Census Bureau crossed my desk on Tuesday: “The nation’s 89,526 state and local governments employed 16.6 million full-time equivalent employees in 2009, … Continue reading →

You know that Second Depression I’ve been writing about since 1996?  It’s here now and playing out on global markets around the world.  Take Japan’s Nikkei, please.  Down 3.6 percent in overnight trading.  Early trading in Europe supports the hundred-something … Continue reading →

Can’t tell you how many people have asked me “George, what happens to the price of gold in a real depression?” but the number is substantial.  And when I answer, most seem less than pleased that I frown (or whatever … Continue reading →

While skimming through Paul Ferrell’s post “Wall Street Psycho: 15 signs of moral and ethical pathology, soul-sickness” related to  how the investment world works, I was particularly struck by the observation that “Moral Issues are PR glitches” since a lot … Continue reading →

I should have mentioned in yesterday’s report that we were sort of expecting a ‘mass casualty’ event in this timeframe because whenever the market gets into a particularly vulnerable position (chart-wise) it seems that we get a mass horror case … Continue reading →

It’s really one of those good news – bad news affairs.  Yes, it is a Depression, since the only way the economic numbers can be read is that we’re out of bubbles to inflate, there are millions of jobs that … Continue reading →

I find myself asking an odd question as we’re a couple of hours yet from the opening of the markets as this morning’s column spills out of the fingers: What if Global Markets are entraining for a crash? The reason … Continue reading →

No, I’m not giving you financial advice to flee from the stock market on any rally in today’s action.  You spend your money your way, I’ll spend my money Ure way.  BUT, seems that a lot of small investors have … Continue reading →

Lookout below!  (Remember: The Crash Window is open, yeah?) Every so often I’ll get a note from a reader wondering “George for such a good economics and markets site, how come you waste so much time on woo-woo, web bots, … Continue reading →