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With lockdowns and the current political and economic chaos, the global empire has come home to oppress us all in the most personal possible way.

We are back to the wisdom of the 1970s. Stick with what’s real and true and unchanging, in morals, finance, and in investment. That’s the path to survival over the long term.

We need dramatic change and fast, if only to save the country and its ideals from these vagabonds who have wrecked so much so fast.

The American taxpayer is going to be on the hook for decades of funding of fake degrees for people to work in fake jobs to contribute to fake data that shore up the illusion of prosperity, all of which we know is fake.

Even if the Fed gets some guts and increases the federal funds rate dramatically the damage is already done. We are going to live with this inflation for a very long time.

Time prices show we have so much money compared to our needs that just a bit of thrift could make most of us financially secure.

The collapse of public education in the major cities offers a tremendous opportunity for those bold enough to take it.

Why anyone thinks the Fed can control interest rates in globally traded financial markets is a mystery to me.

This country longs for normalcy. We won’t get it anytime soon. The regime in charge has no clue what the way out is, and they aren’t really seeking that anyway.

The more they fail, the angrier they get. And each day these people are forced to look at the polling charts showing that Biden is sinking more each day.

Let’s not be naive about the prospects for change. It is going to require far more than merely electing a new class of supposed rulers.

We like inflation in assets we own and despise it in consumption goods we have to buy. It’s human nature however inconsistent.

Our best hope is that the government is thoroughly rotten at doing everything. It has a tendency to screw up everything it touches.

It’s a truism in the investment world that you buy gold and silver not for its short-term return but for long-term security

The Biden folks have a pretty good case, just as they have a pretty good case that inflation will be transitory.

China does have a lesson for America, but it’s not what the hawks think.

One gets the feeling that DC just thinks we will all eventually get used to it, same as we came around to various restrictions on liberties during the pandemic

The fact is the CHIPS Act is the biggest package of pork our government has ever foisted upon the American taxpayer

That’s the ruling-class vision of our future: poor, foraging for food, out of gas, paying through the roof for electricity, unemployed and living off welfare, vaxxed up, and testing constantly for the presence of the Coronavirus. Or maybe Monkeypox.

Republicans have not left Reagan behind. Just the opposite. They have gone all pre-Reagan.

Here we are now with a preventable inflation pandemic and the realization that we have to learn to live with inflation. Soon we’ll realize that we have to live with recession at the same time.