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Only 10% of U.S. Population Now ‘Middle-Class’
As we see the “Occupy Wall Street” movement beginning to gain traction across the U.S., it is clear that the 80% of the U.S. population living as serfs and the 10% of the population clinging to middle-class status have finally had enough. Enough lies. Enough hypocrisy. Enough of the incompetence in our top-down economic hierarchies.
11Oct2011 | JeffNielson | 1 comment | Continued
The Great Commodities Heist
Bankrupt and near-bankrupt Western governments are stealing billions of dollars worth of various commodities from commodity-producers around the world… There can be no rational/economic explanation for the severe plunges in commodity prices other than the fraudulent manipulation of markets.
3Oct2011 | JeffNielson | 0 comments | Continued
Volatility Does Not Equal Risk
Unfortunately, virtually the entire realm of business “journalism” regularly sabotages any discussion of risk by mixing-in issues of volatility… yet over the long term, volatility is nearly irrelevant. Implications for the practical investor … and anyone trying to save any wealth whatsoever.
29Sep2011 | JeffNielson | 3 comments | Continued
Does Anyone Else Find This Disturbing? (Money Supply Spiking)
The US money supply started spiking when you weren’t looking. So what does it mean?
23Sep2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Walker’s “Dying Economy” Resurrects Dead Argument
“It’s the monetary system, stupid” — not computers, eliminating employment opportunities.
13Sep2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Salvation For Western Pension Funds
The days when Western pension fund administrators could draw fat salaries for serial-failure are over (one way or the other). Allowing these pseudo-professionals to remain on their present course will result in nothing less than mass-bankruptcies throughout our pension systems (shortly followed by riots in the streets).
7Sep2011 | JeffNielson | 0 comments | Continued
Western ‘Pension Crisis’ Reflects Investment Incompetence
Proving that you can always “make a bad situation worse”, the administrators of pension funds have also mirrored the incompetence of most mainstream financial advisors – who have gone from being architects of “wealth creation” to the implements of “wealth destruction”.
6Sep2011 | JeffNielson | 3 comments | Continued
The GDP And The Government’s Inflationary Hall of Mirrors
What’s the best way to calculate a “real GDP”, and what does it mean for the economy”?
29Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
‘Unsinkable’ Gold
A solvency crisis is an economic nightmare several orders of magnitude worse than a mere deflation. In a solvency crisis, “deflation” implies nothing less than bankruptcy… In an ordinary deflation, “cash is king” (even arguably worthless paper currencies). However, in a solvency crisis “cash is trash” unless that cash is directly backed with precious metals.
29Aug2011 | JeffNielson | 0 comments | Continued
Gold, Silver, and ‘Leaky Buckets’
…even the most brainwashed mind should still be capable of understanding the difference in “utility” between a ‘leaky bucket’ guaranteed to fail in its sole purpose, and buckets which have demonstrated themselves to be leak-proof over thousands of years.
19Aug2011 | JeffNielson | 0 comments | Continued
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Further to my comment of 9 August 2016, unlike the old Bank Rate system with its high interest rates, Quantitative…