It’s a numbers game. And of course like most games, those dealing the cards can rig the game. Oh what wonderful news last week. With more jobs created than The Street anticipated, equity markets soared on the “news” that despite the Bankster Bandits raising interest rates for the 10th time in a row, nonfarm payrolls increased 253,000 for April.
A newly released poll showed clear vulnerabilities for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign as his job approval numbers hit new lows and more Americans than ever question his mental sharpness.
Warrantless searches on American citizens by U.S. intelligence agencies have reached epidemic proportions.
The big news on The Street is that after yesterday’s collapse of First Republic Bank, the second largest bank failure in U.S. history which followed the third largest bank failure in U.S. history when Silicon Valley Bank went bust on 10 March—two days before the fourth largest bank failure in U.S. history when Signature Bank went under—is that Happy Days are Here again... and everything is just fine.
The combination of the remote-work revolution and rising interest rates “could be worse than anything corporate landlords have experienced before,” The New York Times said in a 26 April analysis.
China, the U.S., U.K., Brazil, Japan, South Africa, and Turkey are likely to increase their national debts by five percentage points of GNP from now through 2028, Vitor Gaspar, policy director of the International Monetary Fund, said last week in comments quoted by the Financial Times.
Gerald Celente has long said the business of China is business, and the business of the U.S. is war.
In March of 2022, we forecast that the U.S. was hastening the demise of the dollar as a world reserve currency by trying to weaponize the financial system against its enemies: “the unprecedented use of the existing modern international financial order crosses a line from which there is no going back…
Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s the garden variety fake news that is not really “news” so much as it is titillating, tabloid-worthy material peddled by anyone with a Twitter account, a Facebook page and an active imagination.
As we have greatly detailed over the weeks and as illustrated in this issue of the Trends Journal, it is a new world order. Much of what used to be emerging markets have emerged to large global economies providing products and services that were once dominated by the United States.
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Judge Andrew Napolitano, Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil and Gerald Celente
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