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US Unemployment rises with ECM

August 2, 2024

COMMENT: Marty, I just had to write to congratulate you on Socrates’s truly amazing ability to forecast so many markets and economic statistics without opinions that are far too often colored by personal biases. I made a friendly bet with a friend in the bank that unemployment would start to rise in July. I won. […]

$2.4 Billion Daily – Servicing the US National Debt

August 1, 2024

Serving debt is the largest cost of Washington’s debt crisis; America currently spends $2.4 billion in daily interest fees alone. The debt and spending simply cannot keep up with what America is bringing in. The federal govt spent $658 billion on interest fees in 2023, a 38% jump from the $476 billion in servicing debt […]

The Confusion over Quantitative Easing

August 1, 2024

There has been so much disinformation and sensationalizing of Quantitative Easing that this has led to academic economists who lack any trading experience to propose Modern Monetary Theory for its seems nobody actually comprehends what the hell is really going on. Much of the problem stems from this ancient theory that if you increase the […]

DEI the Hidden “REAL” Global Agenda

July 29, 2024

COMMENT: It’s akin to a multi-billion marketing campaign I have family in UK, Sydney, and Galway, Ireland All are getting “diversity” pushed. It’s like a weapon now to prevent unity, common heritage against govt I made these for friends. The end game of diversity? There will be OLYMPIC teams in 30 years! RL REPLY:  The […]

It’s a Recession Not a Depression

July 26, 2024

The government insists that the economy is fine, thriving perhaps, and has asked the public to pay no mind to their current financial situation. No one, aside from those living off government assistance, are better off now than they were four years ago. Americans cannot be gas lit into believing the economy is sound when […]

US Banks Experiencing Rising Unrecoverable Debt

July 23, 2024

I’ve long been sounding the alarm on the private debt crisis sweeping the Build Back Better nations. US government debt equaled 122.3% of the nation’s GDP in 2023, a cost that will be passed on to the taxpayers. As of Q1 2024, US household debt stood at $1.77 trillion; $12.44 trillion held in mortgage debt, […]

Corporate Bankruptcies Surpass Pandemic Levels

July 23, 2024

Americans are opting to file for bankruptcy at a faster pace as they cannot repay their debts. A few major banks came out to say that they lost over $4.1 billion last quarter due to unpaid debts. Bankruptcy filings in the US rose 15% in the first half of 2024, reaching 217,000. Consumers aren’t spending […]

Is Powell Political?

July 18, 2024

@60minutes Fed chair says he worries about the national debt #nationaldebt #60minutes #federalreserve #debt ♬ original sound – 60 Minutes Donald Trump believes that Federal Chairman Jerome Powell will make decisions for the central bank based on politics. I must say that I do disagree with Trump’s stance on the role of the central bank […]

Canada’s Job Market – Where are the Jobs?

July 10, 2024

Unemployment in Canada ticked up by 0.2% in June to 6.4%, yet the economy lost 1,400 jobs. Around 1.4 million Canadians were looking for work as of June 2024, a 42,000 person increase from May. Overall employment has fallen in eight of the past nine months to 61.1% in June. So where are all the […]

June Jobs Report is WEAK

July 9, 2024

The June jobs report revealed better than anticipated results with 206,000 new jobs now added to the US economy. Is Bidenomics working? Absolutely not. The jobs reports are inflated because the Biden Administration has been multiplying the public sector. Of the 206,000 new jobs, 70,000 were created within government, surpassing the 49,000 government jobs created […]

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