Warrantless searches on American citizens by U.S. intelligence agencies have reached epidemic proportions.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
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.
SPOTLIGHT: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
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.
MAJOR ECONOMIES MUST REIN IN BORROWING, IMF SAYS
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.
U.S. RAMPING UP WAR WITH CHINA
Gerald Celente has long said the business of China is business, and the business of the U.S. is war.
AS FORECAST: U.S. WEAPONIZATION OF FINANCIAL SYSTEM HURTING US, NOT THEM
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…
FAKE NEWS CURATED BY THE DEEP STATE: GOVERNMENT SPIN DOCTORS CONTROL THE NEWS CYCLE
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.
SPOTLIGHT: BYE, BYE BUCKS—THE DEATH OF THE DOLLAR
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.
RUSSIA: U.S. IS OUR MAIN ADVERSARY
The Kremlin last week updated its 2016 foreign policy doctrine and made several noticeable changes, including identifying the U.S. as its main threat while stating that it is on a “unique historical mission.”
BYE, BYE USA: SAUDI’S SHIFTING EAST
Saudi Arabia is continuing its shift from the West after its cabinet last week approved the move to become a dialogue partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which was set up to rival the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.