Russia’s top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, said Monday that a primary reason Moscow invaded Ukraine was its attempt to end the U.S. drive for world domination. A trend that the United States has been on since the beginning of the 20th century. (See “War Is A Racket” by Major General Smedley Butler.) “Our special military operation...
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GET OBESE, DIED OF COVID
The public has been aware that COVID-19 is far deadlier for individuals who become infected with co-morbidities or are older. But new studies have shown that the people who seem to be among the highest risk categories are diabetics. The New York Times reported that researchers believe up to 40 percent of those who died from...
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MARKETS OVERVIEW
LAST WEEK: U.S. stocks and bonds gave ground. U.S. equity markets slumped last week amid continuing inflation, uncertainty over the impact of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s looming rise in interest rates, and fallout from the war in Ukraine. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3 percent, the NASDAQ sank 3.9 percent, and the Standard &...
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SELLING THE SYNTHETIC UNREAL
Should people care whether conversations they have with others are real, as long as they’re “authentic”? Should people worry about pervasive surveillance at their jobs, in their vehicles, and even their homes, if the surveillance is providing more efficiency? Should people strive to have real experiences, when illusory ones can engage and satisfy, and even...
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WEAPONS POURING INTO UKRAINE, NO TALK OF PEACE, JUST MORE AMMUNITION
At the beginning of the Ukraine War, President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly said he needed more ammunition, not a ride, and ever since then, the U.S. has been flooding Ukraine with a historic amount of weapons. Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, said last week that Washington will send an additional $100 million in weapons...
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RECESSION? DEPRESSION? WORSE?
By Gregory Mannarino, TradersChoice.net Let’s start off with this… “IF the US would go into a recession, that would be a step UP from where we are now.” — GM Today the global economy is “functioning”, or should I say being driven, into a deliberate crisis-to-crisis mechanism which assures only one thing— CENTRAL BANKS WILL...
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ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
How low can we go? This isn’t ancient history. Go back to Chinese Lunar New Year 2020: The Year of the Rat In January, when the coronavirus was launched in the city of Wuhan, Beijing locked the city down, and others, to beat the virus. In lockstep, Italy picked up the sword to defeat the...
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Each week, we report instances where the money junky hedge funds, private equity groups and the already big companies swallow another piece of the global economy. Here are some more of what the BIGS have been gobbling up and how the Bigs keep getting bigger and the rich keep getting richer. BAIN CAPITAL MULLS TOSHIBA...