1 The Ancient Silk Route 2 The First Battle of Eurasia (1914-1918) 3 The Second Battle of Eurasia (1939-1945) 4 The American Century(1945-1990) 5 The Unipolar Period (1991-2020) 6 The Third Battle of Eurasia (2020-current) 1 The Ancient Silk Route The main story at the moment has to do with the turmoil in the Middle […]
The Ice-Nine Scenario In a 1963 comedy novel, a scientist created a substance called ice-nine. Ice-nine was a poly morph of water, a rearrangement of the molecule H2O. Ice-nine has two properties that distinguish it from regular water. The first was that ice-nine was frozen at room temperature. The second was that when a molecule of ice-nine […]
The current state of the global economy and its financial system is on the verge of an implosion. This state of affairs was a long time coming. Many of us wondered when this would be. The key signal was the August Great Repo Crisis on Wall Street in August 2019, which led to the lockdown […]
Following the 2008 financial crash, the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates to nearly zero. Banks then lent this money to favored clients, who then used this “free money” to speculate on the stock and commodity markets, earning a higher returns than what they were borrowing. Their hope was that these profits would go a long […]
The Fed Tightens As a result of the Fed’s relentless tightening blitz, both US capital markets (the S&P 500 is down -24%, and 10 year US treasuries are down -17% and bonds were down -10%) and the US economy have been left reeling. One should note –WHY IS THE FED RAISING INTEREST RATES? The day […]
The Start of Derivatives More than other financial product, derivatives is responsible for the destruction of the Western banking system. Here, we will attempt to show you how this started, and its poisonous role in destroying the current western-styled banking system. Around the early 1980s, a currency swap deal was done between the World Bank […]
The Collapsing Machine-Tool Sector The battered world physical economy, if it is to survive, must draw from and be energized by the machine-tool design sector. However, the machine-tool industry’s capability is being destroyed. This year, orders for this sector have fallen by more than half. This indicates a desperate situation for the world economy. It […]
Most people don’t understand what derivatives are. Unlike stocks and bonds, a derivative is not an investment in anything real. Rather, a derivative is a legal bet on the future value or performance of something else. Just as one can bet on the horse, or the outcome of a sports game, financiers in London and […]
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