SEE YOU ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Written in December 2019. Reposted in honor of the 50th anniversary of the album

And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon

 Brain Damage, Pink Floyd


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And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon

Brain Damage, Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd’s 1973 Dark Side of the Moon album is considered one of the greatest albums of all-time. It stayed on the Billboard 200 charts for 937 weeks. Roger Waters concept was for an album that dealt with things that “make people mad”. The Dark Side of the Moon’s themes include war, conflict, greed, the passage of time, death, and insanity, the latter inspired in part by former band member Syd Barrett’s worsening mental state.

The five tracks on each side reflect various stages of human life, beginning and ending with a heartbeat, exploring the nature of the human experience, and empathy. The themes of this album are timeless and are as germane today as they were forty-six years ago, if not more relevant. The country and world are awash in conflict, driven by the greed of evil men. Decent, law abiding, hard-working, critical thinking Americans see the world going insane as the passage of time leads towards the death of an American empire.

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The Mother of All Crashes Is Coming in April 2023

Guest Post by Brandon Smith

The Mother of All Crashes Is Coming in April 2023

The signs of the coming economic contraction are already both present and obvious, but the overall economic picture probably won’t be acknowledged in the mainstream until the situation becomes much worse.

It’s a problem that arises at the onset of every historic financial crisis – mainstream economists and cable-news commentators deliberately mislead the public about the severity of the challenges and the chances of recovery. They feed their audiences false reassurances in the hope of lulling people back to sleep.

Even now with inflation pummeling the average American family, they tell us that there is nothing to worry about. The Federal Reserve’s “soft landing” is on the way. Continue reading “The Mother of All Crashes Is Coming in April 2023”

Why the Media Is Desperately Hiding the Truth About the Economy

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Why the Media Is Desperately Hiding the Truth About the Economy

From Peter Reagan

A classic sign of late-stage speculative bubbles is sentiment-based market action, instead of an approach based on fundamentals.

Market sentiment is a fairly simple concept:

the feeling or tone of a market, or its crowd psychology, as revealed through the activity and price movement of the securities traded in that market. In broad terms, rising prices indicate bullish market sentiment, while falling prices indicate bearish market sentiment.

The problem is, the current sentiment portrayed by the mainstream media isn’t supported by technical fundamentals at all. Instead, media talking heads are grasping for so-called “good news” which inspires risky investor behavior. Continue reading “Why the Media Is Desperately Hiding the Truth About the Economy”

Markets Are Expecting the Federal Reserve to Save Them – It’s Not Going to Happen

Guest Post by Brandon Smith

Markets Are Expecting the Federal Reserve to Save Them and It Is Not Going to Happen

I have said it many times in the past but I’ll say it here again: Stock markets are a trailing indicator of economic health, not a leading indicator. Rising stock prices are not a signal of future economic stability. When stocks fall, it’s usually after years of declines in other sectors of the financial system.

Collapsing stocks are not the “cause” of an economic crisis, they are just the delayed symptom of a crisis that was already there.

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Meme Investors Speechless as Their Usual Tricks Fail Spectacularly

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Meme Investors Speechless as Their Usual Tricks Fail Spectacularly

From Peter Reagan

During my career, I’ve watched three speculative financial bubbles inflate, and two of them pop (the dot-com bubble, the 2007-08 housing bobble and today’s Everything Bubble).

These bouts of “irrational exuberance,” to use Robert Shiller’s trenchant description, are remarkably similar. They follow well-established patterns. Yet somehow people delude themselves with what Sir John Templeton called “the four most costly words in the annals of investing.” Continue reading “Meme Investors Speechless as Their Usual Tricks Fail Spectacularly”

The Great Depression II

Via International Man

Whenever a movie has been a huge hit, the film industry tries to follow it up by doing a sequel. The sequel is almost invariably far more costly, as there’s the anticipation by those who create it that it will be an even bigger blockbuster than the original.

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Fed Chair Faces the Ultimate Lose-Lose Decision

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Fed Chair Faces the Ultimate Lose-Lose Decision

The U.S. economy teeters between two catastrophes: wild and untamed hyperinflation that turns cash into wallpaper, or an epic crash that would make 2008 look like a day at the beach. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has led the U.S. government’s monetary policy to this point.

Now he’s attempting a nearly impossible feat…

He will need to thread the needle between the two economic disasters, between the frying pan and the fire, to return the U.S. economy to any form of sustainable prosperity.

Is that kind of miracle even possible?

The frying pan: 40-year-record-high inflation

We will start with the obvious issue: December’s inflation report of 7% year-over-year price increases. That’s at the end an entire year where inflation rose steadily for eleven of twelve months. August, the exception, saw a 0.1% decline.


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In addition, what Powell endlessly assured us was merely “transitory” inflation, a “blip,” caused by “supply chain snarls” and so on? It’s the highest we’ve seen in 40 years.

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THE COLLATERAL CRISIS NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT

I keep seeing a bunch of articles about Blackrock buying up a bunch of real estate and the most popular theory is they’re trying force people into being permanent renters for their creepy NWO plan. But, I believe they’re expanding their real estate holdings by buying property 20-30% above asking price to hold as collateral in an attempt to delay margin calls.

David Stockman on How the Stock Market Got to be Out of Touch with Reality

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International Man: Thanks to the shutdowns, economic activity on main street is at a standstill. Government, corporate, and personal debt is skyrocketing. Yet, the stock market is in a mania. Has the stock market become out of touch with reality, and if so, what are the consequences of that?

David Stockman: Both ends of the Acela Corridor have lost their marbles. This year, Uncle Sam borrowed $4 trillion in six months, the Fed printed $3 trillion in three months, and Wall Street drove the S&P 500 to 52X reported LTM earnings in the context of a deeper economic plunge than occurred in the worst quarter of the 1930s.

Therefore, Washington has become disconnected from any semblance of fidelity to sound money and fiscal rectitude, while Wall Street has turned into an outright casino, valuing stocks based on endless Fed liquidity injections and the delusion that momentum chasing is an investment strategy.

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Trump Instructs Aides To Turn Stock Market Chart Upside Down

Via The Babylon Bee

WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Donald Trump instantly solved the stock market crisis today by instructing aides to turn the stock market charts they were showing him upside down and backward.

Trump seemed grumpy as they showed him how all the stock markets had seemed to crash. But the president — the most genius president ever — is an outside-the-box thinker and approached the problem with a unique solution.

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2020 – YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY

“A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.”

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The shocking crime being committed during this century under the unscrupulous initiative of a few evil men is ongoing and no longer hidden from those willing to open their eyes and see the truth. As conspiracy theorists have proven to be right through the sacrifice of Snowden, Assange, and other patriots for truth, the Deep State psychopaths have double downed and are blatantly flaunting their power and control over the levers of government, finance and media.

Never in the history of mankind have such devious, unscrupulous, arrogant, narcissistic and downright evil men seized hegemony over global finance, trade and politics. A minority of billionaire oligarchs and their highly compensated apparatchiks, ingrained in government bureaucracies, surveillance agencies and media outlets refuse to relinquish their dominance and would rather burn the world to the ground than lose their ill-gotten riches, un-Constitutional power and unlawful control.

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Stock Market Cheerleading: Why Do We Celebrate The Super-Rich Getting Richer?

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

It’s not too difficult to predict a political rebellion against the machinery of soaring wealth and income inequality.

The one constant across the media-political spectrum is an unblinking focus on the stock market as a barometer of the national economy: every major media outlet from the New York Times to Fox News prominently displays stock market action, and TV news anchors’ expressions reflect the media’s emotional promotion of the market as the end all to be all: if stocks rose, the anchors are smiling and chirpy, and if the market fell then their expressions are downcast and dour.

This cheerleading of the stock market is based on an implicit assumption that the rising stock market raises all boats: a rising market is assumed to reflect an expansion of sales and profits that trickle down to the masses in higher wages, more jobs and rising 401K retirement accounts.

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The “Secret” Reason Trump Is Ready To Fold And Cut A China Trade Deal

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Robert Lighthizer and his band of “China hawks” have made no secret of their unhappiness with President Trump’s insistence that they deliver a trade deal with China, even if it means compromising on demands for structural economic reforms, intellectual property protections, market access and enforcement. As one Twitter wit pointed out, “they’re not even pretending anymore” (the timing of Trump’s tariff deadline delay, which came just 20 minutes before futures opened, left little room for doubt):

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