Look Over My Shoulder - What's Dennis Reading This Week
Each week, we look over Dennis’ shoulder and provide links to the articles that he is reading to prepare for client meetings, write newsletters, and create the weekly Headline Round-Up broadcast presentation that’s open to all clients and prospects.
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September 2024
The real reason the Fed cut rates?
https://vongreyerz.gold/a-global-snapshot-stupid-broken-evil
Fed cuts; mortgage interest rates rise
https://mishtalk.com/economics/mortgage-rates-rise-following-feds-big-interest-rate-cut/
Tupperware files for bankruptcy
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/business/tupperware-files-bankruptcy/index.html
Housing bubble unwinding? Florida real estate update
https://buildingelements.com/is-floridas-housing-bubble-bursting-builders-offer-deep-discounts/
US home sales near 14-year low
Saudi’s ditch dollar, buy gold
Sobering debt math
https://internationalman.com/articles/the-debt-spiral-crosses-the-point-of-no-return/
Housing collapse beginning?
Car loan defaults rising
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/13/car-payments-behind-auto-borrowers
Buffet continues to dump Bank of America stock
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/warren-buffetts-bofa-dump-thon-nears-7-billion-questions-swirl-why
Doug Casey on the Fed pivot
Social Security underfunded by $63 trillion
Credit card defaults soar
https://citizenwatchreport.com/credit-card-defaults-soar-a-generation-on-the-brink/#google_vignette
Middle class too poor to shop at Dollar Store
August 2024
Unrealized capital gains tax coming?
https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/taxing-unrealized-gains-would-obliterate
Ford cancels plan for EV SUV – $1.9 billion loss coming
https://mishtalk.com/economics/ford-cancels-plans-for-electric-suv-expects-a-1-9-billion-loss/
A gold standard what if
https://rubino.substack.com/p/a-world-priced-in-gold
More easy money coming
https://mises.org/mises-wire/powell-more-easy-money-coming-soon
Pento: Economic Assessment
https://pentoport.com/the-monetary-juggling-act-continues-but-the-clowns-arms-are-getting-tired/
Von Greyerz: Desperation
https://vongreyerz.gold/this-will-not-last-desperation
Casey: Gold’s future
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-golds-next-explosive-move/
Price controls coming?
https://mises.org/mises-wire/kamala-wants-price-controls-and-its-not-because-she-has-good-intentions
Price controls never work
https://www.cato.org/commentary/remembering-nixons-wage-price-controls
More on price controls
AI Bubble Popping?
Dow to Gold Ratio Update
https://dollarcollapse.com/dave-skarica-dow-to-gold-ratio-when-will-they-meet/
Will Stimulus Fail This Time?
https://dollarcollapse.com/dave-skarica-dow-to-gold-ratio-when-will-they-meet/
Misery Index on the Rise
https://mises.org/mises-wire/americans-are-poorer-united-states-misery-index-rises-again
US Government Borrowed $5 Billion per Day This Fiscal Year
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_93933f16-55c4-11ef-931a-7f6b58e338ae.html
Japan’s death spiral
https://rubino.substack.com/p/japan-enters-its-death-spiral
What would Warren Buffet Do?
Employment Numbers Point to Recession
https://mises.org/mises-wire/bidenomics-new-employment-numbers-say-recession-here
Easier to raid 401(k)’s
July 2024
76% of personal income tax payments required to pay interest on US Government debt
https://blockonomi.com/u-s-national-debt-approaches-35-trillion-interest-consumes-76-of-income-tax/
Is housing ready to crash?
https://rubino.substack.com/p/housing-is-seriously-rolling-over
Credit card delinquency rate hits 12-year high
Home sales tumble in June
World’s largest food company reports bad numbers
Unemployment Claims Surge
How Long Can US Reckless Spending Continue
Fund Managers Avoiding Long Term US Government Debt
Corporate Bankruptcies Reach Record Level
Mortgage Delinquencies Rising
https://mishtalk.com/economics/three-top-reasons-mortgage-delinquencies-are-rising/
Does an inflationary depression loom?
https://dailyreckoning.com/welcome-to-inflationary-depression/
Dimon: Higher interest rates and higher inflation ahead
Stockman: Are we Rome?
Used car prices plunging
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/10/used-car-prices-drop-evs-pickups-suvs
The end of restaurants as we know it
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/end-restaurants-we-know-them
Free checking about to become extinct?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/head-chase-bank-warns-customers-era-free-checking-likely-over
Recession now imminent?
https://www.aier.org/article/june-u-3-jobless-rate-triggers-sahm-rule-recession-ahead/
The swimming pool economic indicator
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/03/swimming-pools-us-economy-construction
Insurance costs continue to skyrocket
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/02/florida-california-insurance-crisis-spreading-your-state-next.html
Three of Four Americans say they are not financially secure
Student Loans: Half of borrowers not paying
You can’t taper a Ponzi scheme
https://internationalman.com/articles/you-cant-taper-a-ponzi-scheme/
Target stores limit amount of stuff you can steal
Three reasons to be cautious with stocks
https://rubino.substack.com/p/crash-alert-an-unbalanced-market
Inflation expectations jump to highest level in 30 years
Will the next bull market be in commodities?
https://dailyreckoning.com/the-emerging-commodities-supercycle/
June 2024
Von Greyerz: Fundamentals Driving Gold
https://vongreyerz.gold/as-dominos-fall-gold-will-stand-stronger-than-ever
McHugh: Top Heavy Stock Market
Internal Retail Numbers Look Weak
The Breadstick Indicator and the wealth gap
More Americans moving ‘off grid’
US headed for hyperinflation?
Powell admits Biden administration is overstating jobs
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-chair-powell-admits-biden-admin-overstating-jobs
Income needed to live comfortably in each state
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/income-needed-live-comfortably-every-us-state
America moving to a cashless society
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/visualizing-americas-shift-cashless-society
Cause of stagflation
https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-causes-stagflation
More evidence of the wealth gap widening
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/07/us-millionaire-population.html
More evidence the wealth gap is widening
Home Prices Falling
Could this be the next world reserve currency?
https://www.schiffsovereign.com/trends/gold-will-soon-displace-the-us-dollar-and-americans-are-missing-out-151007/
More Bank Failures Imminent?
CAMELS explained (see reference in prior article)
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/camelrating.asp
Red Lobster to Close More Restaurants?
What is the Chicago PMI?
https://www.investing.com/economic-calendar/chicago-pmi-38
Chicago PMI contracting to depression levels
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/chicago-pmi-unexpectedly-craters-depression-levels
Commercial real estate set to clobber pension funds
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/commercial-property-meltdown-clobbers-pension-funds-439d8347
Should you become a Palm Beach housekeeper?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/23/palm-beach-housekeepers-massive-demand.html
Louisiana reaffirms gold and silver as money
Think inflation is done? Think again
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/think-inflation-is-done-think-again
May 2024
More inflation reporting manipulation
Americans now nearly $18 trillion in debt
Wealth gap widening
Rickards’ shocking gold forecast
https://dailyreckoning.com/27000-gold/
Consumers surrendering to inflation
https://www.profstonge.com/p/consumers-are-surrendering-to-inflation
Social Security – 9 Years from Broke
https://www.schiffsovereign.com/trends/social-security-will-run-out-of-money-in-nine-years-150811/
Deflation? Used Car Prices Continue Slide
Billionaire predicts many, many bank failures
Schiff on Banking
https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/to-prevent-a-banking-crisis-the-fed-must-cut/
Cost of the “American Dream” skyrockets
The reality of stock valuations
https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/new-inflation-floor-will-be-3-mark
Commercial real estate collapse begins
An Analysis of Fed Policy About to Fail
https://internationalman.com/articles/david-stockman-on-the-elephant-in-the-room/
Retail Slides
Americans Say Inflation Is Their Number One Financial Problem
https://news.gallup.com/poll/644690/americans-continue-name-inflation-top-financial-problem.aspx
April 2024
Another bank failure
On the road to stagflation
China continues dumping US treasuries
Biden proposes huge capital gains tax increase
Worldwide government debt snapshot
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-debt-to-gdp-ratios-have-changed-since-2000/
Meanwhile in Argentina
Central Banks Buying Gold at These Prices
https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/central-banks-are-buying-the-gold-top/
US Cities Continue Disintegration
Auto insurance rates jump more than any year since 1971
Hidden taxes we all pay
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hidden-cost-progressivism-part-i
Housing starts collapse
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-housing-starts-collapsed-march-biggest-drop-covid-lockdowns
Is this a sign of inflation?
Costco selling $200 million in gold monthly
https://oilprice.com/Metals/Gold/What-Costcos-Gold-Bar-Bonanza-Tells-Us-About-the-Economy.html
US Postal Service Reacting to Inflation
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/stamp-prices-rise-8-second-time-4-months
Insurance companies changing business interruption coverage anticipating possible climate lockdowns
March Inflation Accelerates
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/10/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-march-2024-in-one-chart.html
Living expenses a huge burden to many Americans
NFIB Survey Pessimistic
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-small-business-optimism-slides-11-year-low-bidenomics-fails
Is it about to hit the proverbial fan?
https://mises.org/mises-wire/americas-fiscal-collapse-accelerates
Bank of America: Imminent financial crisis looming
Here’s what people are giving up to pay the rent or the mortgage
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/06/housing-rent-mortgage-sacrfices-redfin-report-2024
What a great jobs report – NOT
Dollar store chain to close all 371 locations
Credit card debt makes another all-time, new high
Fast food industry tells California ‘no’
https://mishtalk.com/economics/california-restaurants-cut-jobs-as-fast-food-wages-set-to-rise/
Insurance industry tells California ‘no’
Interest rates are rising with no Fed action
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/treasury-yields-rising-fed-interest-rate-expectations-4a157a85
is the US approaching a Minsky moment?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/americas-minsky-moment-approaches-5617153
Whiskey – a great investment!
Brooklyn Tower up for auction
IRS: $1 billion in income tax refunds are unclaimed
March 2024
Home foreclosures rise
Junk Bond Defaults Surge
https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/junk-bond-default-surge-continues-in-2024/
Auto values falling
https://qz.com/car-values-loans-underwater-1851341320
Warren proposes a wealth tax – again
Rickards on Stocks
https://dailyreckoning.com/a-house-of-cards-on-stilts/
Fed Still Forecasting Interest Rate Cuts But with Less Enthusiasm
Price controls coming?
Inflation explained
Credit card delinquencies by state
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/credit-card-delinquency-rates-us-by-state/
Bullish news for silver?
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/silver-stars-2024
Yellen regrets calling inflation transitory
Spring buying season and home prices are falling
February 2024
Collecting Social Security? How does your benefit stack up?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-social-security-did-high-151500357.html
Cost of food to income at highest point in 30 years
Corporations state 2024 will be a cost-cutting year
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dozens-major-companies-say-2024-will-be-year-cost-cutting
Housing market re-freezes
Economy collapsing in slow motion
New Argentina President balances budget in one month
Sentiment Indicator: is recession dead ahead?
https://news.gallup.com/poll/610133/less-half-americans-satisfied-own-lives.aspx
US living on borrowed time
https://vongreyerz.gold/the-us-is-living-on-borrowed-time
Americans racking up debt
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/american-households-are-entering-a-debt-trap-5585949
Housing starts down in January
Silver a better buy than gold?
https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/the-gold-silver-ratio-says-silvers-still-cheap/
Arrogant Media
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/wsj-readers-save-money-maybe-you-should-skip-breakfast
Cocoa prices hyperinflate
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/hershey-ceo-warns-historic-rise-cocoa-prices-hyperinflate
World central banks continue gold buying
Ford lost about $65k for every electric vehicle sold
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/ford-lost-47b-on-evs-last-year-or
Putin: US is killing the US Dollar
https://watcher.guru/news/brics-us-killing-the-dollar-with-its-own-hands-says-putin
Car loan defaults rise
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/garbage-deals-dealership-puts-customers-cars-3000-monthly-payments
Credit Card delinquencies soar
These articles confirm the centuries-old forecast of Thomas Jefferson, who said that if the American people ever put private bankers in charge of monetary policy, there would be inflation followed by deflation. We are now seeing signs of both.
Recently reported inflation higher than expected
The inflation secret the government doesn’t want you to know
Inflation has consumed the ‘rainy day’ funds of many Americans
https://nypost.com/banking/emergency-savings-survey-1000-expense/
Another inflation sign: car insurance
https://www.aol.com/finance/latest-inflation-scourge-car-insurance-123906577.html
Another bank on the ropes?
Evergrande – a $300 billion default
Deflation is emerging worldwide
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/deflation-is-spreading-should-investors-worry/ar-BB1hlKef
January 2024
Time to sell your clients more silver
https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2024/01/25/silver-gold-ratio-signals-silver-on-sale-002954
Mainstream media imploding
Biden halts natural gas exports
Will 2024 be the year?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macleod-summary-dangers-facing-us-2024
Deficit spending is the only thing keeping the economy out of recession
Is housing crashing?
Ford Cutting EV production – demand for EV’s wanes
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ford-prepares-cut-f-150-lightning-electric-truck-production
President of the Heritage Foundation goes toe-to-toe with Davos elite
https://modernity.news/2024/01/19/video-conservative-speaker-slams-davos-globalists-to-their-faces/
Is the American Dream Dead?
https://www.infowars.com/posts/car-ownership-unaffordable-for-majority-as-most-say-american-dream-doesnt-hold-true/
Mainstream Media on the Ropes?
https://modernity.news/2024/01/19/wsj-editor-in-chief-tells-davos-elites-we-no-longer-own-the-news/
https://modernity.news/2024/01/19/wsj-editor-in-chief-tells-davos-elites-we-no-longer-own-the-news/
2024 could be a tough year for the US Dollar
https://schiffgold.com/peters-podcast/2024-could-be-horrible-for-the-dollar/
Housing Market Update
Bankruptcies surged in 2023
US Debt Reaches $34 trillion
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-debt-hits-record-34001-trillion
US Dollar Decline Continues
December 2023
As predicted, the Fed talks pivot
Two weeks to look this much different?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/now-it-all-makes-sense
Freelancing: the latest American job trend
Costco sells $100 million in gold bars
https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-sold-100-million-in-gold-bars-last-quarter-2023-12
Mortgages dip below 7%
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/14/mortgages-7-housing-fed-interest-rates
Natural gas reserves highest in 4 years
Homelessness at record high in America
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/homelessness-soars-to-record-high-in-america-5547881
Central banks continue to buy gold
Central banks bought most gold on record in 2022
Inflation Isn’t Dead
Money Supply Contracting Most Since Great Depression
https://mises.org/wire/money-supply-continues-its-biggest-collapse-great-depression
Ready for Your Carbon Passport?
https://modernity.news/2023/12/07/the-media-is-hyping-up-carbon-passports-to-restrict-travel/
https://bombthrower.com/coming-soon-your-travel-will-be-restricted-by-personal-carbon-allowances/
French Farmers Use manure to protest
Inflation reporting manipulation and the real inflation rate
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/11/never-mind-bogus-measures-of-inflation.html
Google search “trailer parks near me” reaches all-time high
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/why-are-searches-trailer-park-near-me-erupting
Boat sales reach ten-year low
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-boat-sales-set-sink-decade-low
Pending home sales drop to record low
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/30/pending-home-sales-drop-to-record-low.html
Americans Know the Effects of Inflation
Trade wars and inflation on the horizon
November 2023
Housing prices crash to the lowest level since 2010
Sobering US Government Finances – Doug Casey
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-imminent-bankruptcy-of-the-us-government/
Right-wing win in Netherlands
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/be-wildering
Another right-wing/libertarian win in Argentina
Kamala’s gas stove
https://twitter.com/VP/status/1727805481580728555
Big brother wants to control your car as you drive it
Many employers shunning college graduates
https://www.wnd.com/2023/11/colleges-worked-job-report-charges/
Last hurrah for the US Dollar?
https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/the-future-for-fiat/
Chinese central bank loads up on gold
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pboc-hurry-buy-gold-covertly-bought-593-tonnes-gold-ytd
Consumer debt grows….again
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/americas-growing-economy-brought-you-visa-mastercard
America loves pickups
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-best-selling-vehicle-in-every-state/
Debt crisis is worldwide
https://www.ft.com/content/b8a9fd5d-868c-41c8-b03c-e9c0cc01aecd
Powell – not sure about much
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/watch-live-will-fed-chair-powell-downplay-policy-easing-hopes
Does the Fed have no plan?
https://mises.org/wire/fed-has-no-plan-and-just-hoping-best
If the Fed has a plan, they won’t achieve it
https://schiffgold.com/peters-podcast/peter-schiff-the-fed-wont-achieve-either-of-its-mandates/
Signs of deflation; used vehicle prices crater
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/used-vehicle-prices-record-largest-maximum-drawdown-history
Retailers expecting a weak holiday sales season
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/retailers-expect-weaker-holiday-season
The beginning of the end – US interest costs now exceed $1 trillion annually
Foreign investment in US Government debt is drying up
Banks pulling back on business loans
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/growth-business-lending-stalls-banks-160345307.html
More evidence that consumer discretionary spending is contracting
von Greyerz on coming collapse
https://goldswitzerland.com/the-cycle-of-evil/
Bank bailout fund use hits record high
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/money-market
Capitalism vs communism in pictures
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1719527635628273873
Citizen Bank fails
Why target date funds are failing investors
https://realinvestmentadvice.com/why-target-date-funds-fail-investors-a-3-trillion-delusion/
Is $2,000 gold just the beginning?
“Give car back” now a highly searched phrase
Gold about to replace US Treasuries as safe haven asset?
October 2023
Generational Wealth Realities
“Will I get Drafted Into War” Google Search Rockets to Highest Level Since 2007
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-zennials-are-terrified-military-draft-war-looms
Food Insecurity Levels Grow
Death to Savers
https://economicprism.com/death-to-savers/
Japanese Central Bank Actions – A preview of coming attractions in the U.S.?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-10-25/are-we-about-witness-first-major-central-bank-failure-decades
Beef Prices Rocket Higher
Mortgage rates reach 23-year high, near 8% on 30-Year Mortgage
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-mortgage-rates-soar-highest-more-than-23-years-2023-10-25/
Musk: US went too far in weaponizing US Dollar
https://www.rt.com/business/585713-musk-dollar-weaponization-russia/
Many Western economies are terminal patients
https://goldswitzerland.com/a-sick-us-patient-with-a-100-trillion-debt/
Fed’s favorite inflation measure disappoints them
https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/feds-favorite-inflation-measure-revised-higher/
Unsinkable American consumer is drowning in debt
Oil and gold’s “golden” dawn?
https://goldswitzerland.com/a-1987-crash-in-stocks-with-a-golden-dawn-for-oil-and-gold/
Cost of dining out is skyrocketing
https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-cost-of-eating-out-is-skyrocketing-are-you-cutting-back/
Worst bond selloff since 1792
https://www.aier.org/article/worst-us-bond-selloff-since-1792/
Housing affordability getting a lot worse
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/18/housing-affordability
Ex Wal-Mart CEO – Consumers reaching a breaking point
Is this a joke? Krugman says inflation battle is over
Major banks close 3000 branches nationwide
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/major-banks-close-3000-branches-nationwide-recent-50/
Strategic petroleum reserve nearly exhausted
Have central banks lost control of the gold price?
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/have-central-banks-lost-control-over-the-gold-price
How are Americans dealing with inflation?
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/how-americans-responded-inflation-crisis
US adds $ ½ trillion to debt in less than 3 weeks
https://www.rt.com/business/584657-us-national-debt-surge-record/
Zimbabwe adopting gold backed digital currency
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-zimbabwe-gold-backed-digital-token-payment-method
½ of Americans say high prices are eroding living standards
Central banks continue gold buying binge
https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/central-bank-gold-buying-continued-to-sizzle-in-august/
Iraq to fully de-dollarize by year end
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/iraq-to-fully-de-dollarize-cash-transactions-by-years-end
Debt time bomb about to explode?
Wealth gap widens
https://www.statista.com/chart/30962/share-of-total-assets-in-us-held-by-the-bottom-50-percent/
Banks bracing for recession
Business Chapter 11 Filings Up 61%
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chapter-11-filings-businesses-soar-61-so-far-year
Rising interest rates to purge zombie companies?
https://www.reuters.com/markets/fall-zombies-why-corporate-failures-could-surge-2024-2023-10-06/
Home sales crash
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/us-new-home-sales-crashed-august
10 signs the US economy is poised to crash
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/10-numbers-which-prove-us-economy-has-hit-major-pivot-point
Bank credit card losses surging
US Banks facing $600 billion in unrealized losses
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/10/01/trigger-for-next-financial-implosion/
Great economy? Americans aren’t buying it
https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/americans-arent-buying-the-great-economy-narrative/
Retail theft hurting companies
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unprecedented-theft-contributed-112-billion-193759257.html
Is this the end of the road for the US Dollar?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macleod-end-road-dollar
September 2023
Affluent households changing dining habits
UAW strike backfiring?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/permanent-strikes-continue-gm-lay-2000-workers-result-uaw-strike
US Treasury Yields Highest Since 2000
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/feds-dots-imply-highest-treasury-yields-2000
Will Corporate profits fall 50%?
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/09/six-reasons-why-corporate-profits-will.html
Indonesia joins anti-dollar movement
US Government Debt Tops $33 Trillion
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-national-debt-hits-33t-first-time-history
Inflation heats up
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/producer-prices-soar-august-goods-inflation-reignites)
Home deals falling through at near record pace
Gas prices move higher
Rent and shelter costs begin a decline
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/manhattan-rental-market-peaks-affordability-wanes
Some corporate executives hoping for a bad economy to fix the labor market?
UAW launches strike against big 3
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/15/1199673197/uaw-strike-big-3-automakers
Ron Paul on the BRICS coalition versus the US Dollar
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ron-paul-will-brics-smash-dollar
GDP rising with interest rates is a bad combination
https://goldswitzerland.com/rising-gdp-rising-yields-a-major-sign-of-uh-oh/
31% of US Government debt will mature over the next year
https://invezz.com/news/2023/09/08/should-you-sell-the-us-dollar-as-the-deficit-surges-again/
Suspending the second amendment for a ‘public health emergency’
Biden not popular, at all
https://public.substack.com/p/twilight-of-the-democrats?r=6okjy
77% of US Youth not qualified for military service
https://asiatimes.com/2023/09/77-of-us-youth-unqualified-for-military-service/
Corporate America is worried about the drag student loan payment resumption will have on the economy
“Live off the grid” a frequent internet search
American consumers having a hard time paying credit cards
Zillow making another bad move?
UAW votes to authorize a strike
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/almost-time-rage-uaw-vote-authorize-strikes-gm-ford-stellantis
More unintended government consequences?
BRICS expands – now about half of world oil production part of coalition
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/visualizing-brics-expansion-4-charts
Hedging the end of fiat
https://schiffgold.com/alasdair-macleod-commentary/hedging-the-end-of-fiat/