This Is the Way the World Ends

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

Feel like we’re on the ragged edge of something new and awful? You are not alone….

Top 9 Ways the World Could End | Live Science

That “singularity” so many blab about is not what they think it is: the merging of human intelligence with Bill Gates’s Office products, leading to an orgasmic nirvana of infinite memoranda from your HR department concerning new diversity, inclusion, and equity policy. Rather, I speak of the magic moment when the necromancers of finance discover that the proverbial can they’ve been kicking is filled with Schroedinger’s cat food… and the road they’ve been kicking it down actually comes to a dead end up their own highly-credentialed wazoos. Economics will never be the same hereafter.

The bond market has gone south, and that spells The End for the great game of financialization. The bond market is Moby Dick compared to the little blowfish that is the stock market. The global money system is based on bonds, which are… what? That’s right: loans… promises to pay you X at some future moment. So, what happens when a daisy-chain of promises-to-pay gets broken? Or, perhaps more precisely, when all those promises lose their last shred of plausible reality? Why, the money that these broken promises are denominated in loses its essential cred. Trick question: how much is worthless money worth? (Answer: not enough to pay for a can of Scroedinger’s cat food.)

Which is where all this folderol leaves a lot of ordinary people all over Western Civ (and beyond!) trying to scratch up enough increasingly worthless money to feed the family and pay the landlord. Many will never understand what happened. But they will not be any less pissed off at the result.

This is the way the world ends for the hapless phantom known as “Joe Biden” the child-sniffing ectoplasm that haunts the White House these days of late empire. Somehow, the bamboozled nation has so far passively accepted the pranks and punishments laid on them by the backstage managers behind the Figment-in-Chief. Eight-plus percent inflation? No problemo, right? Eighty-five thousand new IRS agents on-board to drive you batshit while destroying your household and your posterity (ha!)? Half the population of South America flooding across  the border? (The vibrancy! You no like?) A hundred dollar fill-up at the gas pump, and no heat for you this winter? (But… Netflix!) Drag queens to amuse and edify your children about the delirious realm of sexual pathology. All that…and how about a Russian hypersonic nuclear missile up your ass if the preceding somehow failed to move you? (Because: Russia, Russia, Russia…!)

Meanwhile, a trend is manifesting in other lands. The people of, first, Sweden and now Italy are voting in “right wing” nationalist governments — the horror — sending their equivalent of our Party of Chaos to the showers. This has irked the President of the European Union, one Ursula von der Leyen, no end. She has threatened to send Italy to its room without supper for the effrontry. Of course, Madame von der Leyen’s fellow Germans have already been sent to their room without so much as a kartoffelklop, plus no heat or hot showers for you, Hansel and Gretel. Embrace the suck.

You may be sure that we’re in for the business here in America, too. The thermometers are trending down and Halloween won’t be so much fun when the little goblins come home to a house that’s the same temperature inside as the night air outside. Little Skippy’s face is turning blue, and not because he went trick-or-treating as Robert the Bruce.

The aforementioned Party of Chaos, the gang that queered the last big election, is surely gearing up to run a whole lot of work-arounds for massaging the November 8 midterm vote in their direction. Nothing is beyond them. One of their avatars, the podcaster Sam Harris, said it out loud a month ago: that lying and cheating is perfectly ethical in service to the Left’s being able to continue imposing its will upon all of us. Whoops! He let Schroedinger’s cat out of its hypothetical sack. The punishments must continue until morale improves! (Hope you enjoyed your career Sam.)

And so it begins… as they intone in the horror movies when the contents of the family’s raised ranch, chattels, children, mom, dad, the golden retriever all get sucked out of the universe via some quantum portal in the television. Today the markets, tomorrow our beloved country will be overrun by what’ll look like an alien invasion of re-po men. This is the way the world ends… not with a bang… but with a physics lesson: the lonesome sound of Schroedinger’s cat’s meow.

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Putin it where it counts
Putin it where it counts
September 26, 2022 9:41 am

Whole lot of noise, not a lot of substance unfortunately. So things are bad. What news that is.

Stucky
Stucky
  Putin it where it counts
September 26, 2022 10:23 am

Go stick your dick in a light socket.

Zedder
Zedder
  Stucky
September 26, 2022 10:30 am

Now that’s helping I support. Stucky did you forgot to do something this morning for 7-8 mins? You seem kinda angry today???

countryboy
countryboy
  Stucky
September 26, 2022 8:04 pm

Mercy.

Two if by sea.
Two if by sea.
  Stucky
September 26, 2022 10:29 pm

Gotta love fucking new Jersey.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Putin it where it counts
September 26, 2022 10:44 am

Another week at TBP, another troll cunt.

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
  Putin it where it counts
September 26, 2022 11:16 am

This slow motion train wreck that began nearly two decades ago is finally picking up a little more steam.
The wheel nuts just loosened another .0005 of an inch.
Hurry up and get on with it already.
Not that I want to invite pain but the sooner it starts the sooner we’ll all be done with it.
Allllll aboard! Get your tickets for the ride.

Red River D
Red River D
  Eyes Wide Shut
September 26, 2022 11:26 am

“…The wheel nuts just loosened…”

Thanks for reminding me, EWS. I have to tighten up the nuts on the Kubota and I had forgotten all about it until just now!!!

Ken31`
Ken31`
  Red River D
September 26, 2022 1:18 pm

Next time I have to take a wheel off the tractor the bolts are going straight into a lock box, is all I am going to say.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Red River D
September 26, 2022 9:18 pm

Well, then … what the hell are you doing here? Get to it … that Kubota won’t fix itself …

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Eyes Wide Shut
September 26, 2022 11:26 am

It began centuries ago.

Jacob Worm
Jacob Worm
  Anonymous
September 26, 2022 7:31 pm

Try millennia. If you don’t know who you are or who your enemy is, you will lose every battle.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Anonymous
October 5, 2022 9:08 pm

It began with the immigration changes in 1924 — when we allowed (((them))) to enter the United States in unlimited numbers …

Like every other Nation, that was the beginning of the end for US …

Muscledawg (not to be known as Delusionaldawg)😉
Muscledawg (not to be known as Delusionaldawg)😉
  Eyes Wide Shut
September 27, 2022 6:04 am

No need for tickets. It’s a free ride, ALL are invited, no, required to have a seat on this train headed for Cassandra’s crossing, and no one gets off b4……

Russ Wood
Russ Wood
  Eyes Wide Shut
September 27, 2022 8:05 am

Kipling’s “Sons of Martha” had “They do not preach their god will wake them, a little before the nuts work loose…”

olde reb
olde reb
  Eyes Wide Shut
September 27, 2022 9:07 am

the SMTR was launched in 1913.

Civil disturbances are not created to be solved; they are created to distract attention from the cause.

As is being proven every day, if you do not attack the funding of corrupt bureaucrats, civil disturbances, and Great Reset/globalism/war mongering, legions of new programs and corrupt bureaucrats will replace the old exposed ones.

The civil chaos of the USA government/society, and the Rothschild Great Reset oppression, are submitted to be funded by two methods of questioned legality.

First: An Income tax on Sovereign Citizens is not consistent with Constitutional authorization nor does statutory authorization for such a tax exist. Ref. https://stateofthenation.co… THE INCOME TAX SCAM & 87,000 ARMED IRS AGENTS |

Second: The Federal Reserve system covertly transfers ‘profit’ derived from auctions of Treasury securities to unknown shareholders. All profit of the Rothschild’s Fed legally belongs to the government. The relevant accounts have never been audited. Ref.

THIS IS OUR BANKING SYSTEM

THIS IS OUR BANKING SYSTEM

Both methods involve financiers – BEYOND GOVERNMENT – who are the chief beneficiaries.

If this nefarious funding of corrupt politicians and Great Reset is not exposed, all far-right legislation will be futile.

Italy deposed ” former Goldman Sachs banker Mario Draghi.” The USA has an embedded globalist cabal identical to the cabal Benjamin Ginsberg identified in western Europe of ages past. Europe survived, after much chaos.

motley
motley
  Putin it where it counts
September 26, 2022 3:50 pm

The truth?

VOWG
VOWG
  Putin it where it counts
September 26, 2022 5:35 pm

It would seem that basic truth is not welcome.

Zedder
Zedder
September 26, 2022 9:46 am

It seems everyday more and more people are choosing to go out with a Bang! Bang! Fuckin Cop….. Bang! Bang! Fuckin Wife….. Bang! Bang! Fuckin Boss. Oh well Fuck me Bang! ——- Bang! <FBI Had to make sure his suicide was successful.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Zedder
October 5, 2022 9:09 pm

Just imagine how much ‘banging’ there will be with 87,000 new IRS ‘special agents’ armed to the teeth — 90% of them AA candidates …

They’ll make Chicago’s summer weekends look like a children’s birthday party …

Ananon also
Ananon also
September 26, 2022 9:54 am

WooHoo!

“I’m from the govt. and I’m here to help you”

‘County Clerk’s Office’ is what Siri announced.

‘Hello?’ (Court House has more extensions than beyonce & cardi b. put together, NOT gonna waste the time breakin’ them down, other than by Dept.)

“Hey willy!, how are ya doin’?”

‘Old & Fat’. First giggle from her.

“As you are aware, was on vacation. WV now draws EXCLUSIVELY from DMV for Jury “Duty”. Your Check Affidavit is in the mail as of this morning. Just fill it out and return it, I’ll personally make sure that you are removed from the registered voter eligibility list.”

We chatted a bit ‘bout this-n-that, and then she added…”I must say, was somewhat Shocked, Shocked I say! 🤣 to hear of your inquiry. Given your history, why the sudden disinterest? Are you no longer concerned with Whom is running for What?

We chatted a bit more. She giggled several times along the way. (Historical opening maneuver, everywhere, over time)

In closing i added…’Rampant Speculation on my part, but it looks like sooner, rather than later, They Will ALL be running’.

She actually laughed fairly hard. Shoe IN.

Told her i was recently married, be 2 yrs, Feb.

“Well, it was nice to talk to You again, Lots to catch up on here. You should get the paperwork soon, take care”.

Gonna hand deliver it. Will report back. Small segment will be relevant/related to this post.

World War Zeke
World War Zeke
  Ananon also
September 26, 2022 1:40 pm

Cyber Command has finally figured out how to use their GPT-3 license at more than one Agency Standard workstation. <slow clap>

Stucky
Stucky
September 26, 2022 10:22 am

“The bond market has gone south, and that spells The End for the great game of financialization. “

When it comes to finance articles I only read two authors; our Admin when he writes a featured article, and Michael Hudson …. both write in clear ways whereby I can actually sort of understand.

Well, there’s an interview with Hudson on the Saker right now === “Financialization and its Discontents” === it’s long but mesmerizing and informative. I urge you to check it out.

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https://thesaker.is/financialization-and-its-discontents-2/

flash
flash
  Stucky
September 26, 2022 10:45 am

“For the Marxist reviled the man of faith and ideals as bitterly as he did the financial exploiter. It was his creed that nothing existed in the world but matter and that no motive could animate and man but self-interest. The great-organized institutions and societies based on faith and love and maintained by self-sacrifice though which man had raised himself above the primeval slime were to be ruthlessly destroyed and their adherents liquidated. First, they were to be undermined by criticism repeated again and again until the corrosive ate into the old State so thoroughly that finally crumbled to pieces. Mob violence was to finish the process. The world would then be ready for an international order that admitted of neither separate race, nor tradition, nor religion and in which all men would be subordinated as unthinking automatons to a single ruling clique Marxist intellectuals and bureaucrats .

For Hitler was accurate enough to realize that the Marxists did not stand for the freedom they pretended, but for a despotic uniformity, enforced by terror and annihilation of all who opposed them. In this, they differed only in their superior violence from the international financiers and exploiters they professed to supplant. Like Belloc and other earlier modern socials philosophers, Hitler perceived the twin roads down which mankind was being herded toward the servile state. First came the economic development which changed the social structure of the nation and substituted for its old feudal rulers, who at least had a certain sense of responsibility and noblesse oblige, the financier and the middle man who had none. Under the joint-stock company system, the search for profits became the sole guiding principle for life. The small artisan class slowly disappeared and the factory worker, who took his place, had scarcely any chance establish an independent existence of his own, but soon sank to the proletariat level. His present and future passed into the sole power of the man of figures who, calling himself his employer or master, acknowledged no responsibility for his moral or physical wellbeing. The hungry sheep looked up and were not fed.

The member of the new social class so created were “disinherited “in a treble sense. They were deprived of their independence. They were herded together in vast factory towns under conditions of living and employment that not only ruined their health, but robbed them of all faith in their country and its system of justice. And they were made to feel that the manual labour by which they lived was degrading and inferior to other forms of work. The ancient Order of the Peasantry, as Disraeli had once called it, had been transformed into a herd of helot without privilege or status.

But the process of social leveling was not yet complete. The poor were enslaved, but the higher and middle orders-the last repositories of culture and national social tradition of the past- still remained independent. Their independence was the final barrier that stood between the architects of constructive chaos and their goal. To destroy it no effort could be too great, And here the archenemy of the nation and society, the eternal and denationalized Jew, whom Hitler in his strange obsession saw in all places working to destroy the living state, seized his opportunity. By a masterpiece of ingenuity -“one of the most infamous deceits ever practiced”- the Jew turned the bitterness of the poor, whom his own usurious and irresponsible capitalism had dispossessed, against those who had till now escaped enslavement. “At first he had used the bourgeois class as a battering-ram against the feudal order; now he used the worker against the strongholds of the bourgeois. Just as he had succeeded in obtaining civil rights by intrigue carried on under the protection of the middle class, so now he hoped that joining in the struggle which the workers were waging for their existence he would be able to gain absolute power over them….He kowtowed to the worker, hypocritically pretended to feel pity for him and his lot and even to be indignant at the misery and poverty he had to endure….He showed himself eager to study his hardships, real or imaginary. He strove to waken a longing in the masses to change the conditions under which they lived. Artfully the Jew enkindled that innate yearning for social justice which is a typical Aryan characteristic. Once that desire became conscious it was transformed into hatred against those in more fortunate circumstances of life. The next stage was to give a precise philosophical explanation of this struggle for the elimination of social wrongs. And thus the Marxist doctine was invented.

Yet, the ultimate objective of that sinister Movement was not, it appeared, the triumph of the proletariat, but the domination of those who by exploitation had created the Proletariat – the Jews. ”Without knowing it the worker is placing himself at the service of the very power against which he believes he is fighting. In appearance he is made fight against capital, while all the while he is furthering capitalistic interests.” The ultimate aims of Marxism and international Capitalism were in Hitler’s eyes the same: the concentration of all power in the hands of a few, and the elimination of every independent agency that could resist the process.

Hitler’s real quarrel with the capitalist and Marxist system alike was that they stopped things from growing. They were concerned not with creation, but the one making with making the quick profits and the other with establishing an unnatural and sterile uniformity. Both were destroying quality throughout the world – the quality, not only of things, but , of what was far more serious, of men and women” “

Arthur Bryant – Unfinished Victory (1940)
https://archive.org/details/ArthurBryantUnfinishedVictory1940V1/Arthur%20Bryant%20-%20Unfinished%20Victory%20%281940%29%20-%20v1

“I do not believe that this primal difference between gentile and Jew is reconcilable. There will be irritation between us as long as we are in intimate contact. For nature and constitution and vision divide us from all of you forever . . . I have no doubt that when Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or name or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours . . . We have joined your capitalistic world in deliberate emulation and rivalry: yet Jewish socialism and Jewish socialists are the banner bearers of the world’s “armies of liberation.” . . . But you feel our disruptive difference most keenly, most resentfully, in our deliberate efforts to change your social system. Seen in the dazzling lights of your desires and needs our ideal is repellently morose . . . Because your chief institution is the social structure itself, it is in this that we are most manifestly destroyers. We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands.”

You Gentiles
By Samuel, Maurice, 1895-1972
https://archive.org/details/YouGentiles

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control. … Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
~ Larry P. McDonald
U.S. Congressman, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets
in “Introduction” to The Rockefeller File, by Gary Allen (1975)
https://archive.org/details/TheRockefellerFile

Anonymous
Anonymous
  flash
September 26, 2022 7:56 pm

lol at the loser mason-lovers downvoting. what is wrong with you thick-headed, misinformed maroons downvoting literal facts? The rest of you need to move to a red state, and secede already. Quit whining about your problems, and fix them for once.

-OfftheHingeZ

pyrrhuis
pyrrhuis
September 26, 2022 10:27 am

Jim can really write, no doubt about that! Good summary too…

Red River D
Red River D
  pyrrhuis
September 26, 2022 11:29 am

No doubt about it. He uses words like ‘folderol’ and says things like: the child-sniffing ectoplasm that haunts the White House

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
September 26, 2022 10:29 am

Serious question. Are the central banks in a race to the bottom currency war? What is the prize for being the first to destroy your currency?

Ok, one more serious question. Is the bond market really going to implode at this time?

I was kinda hopin the Fed would hold things together for just 10 more months. But at this point I’ll take 3 more months.

I know the strong $ is killing other countries and according to zerohedge they are wanting the Fed to do something about that. But so far the Fed is staying on course raising rates. I thought other countries would uncouple from the $ but so far they haven’t except for Russia and the countries who are if not supporting Russia outright, they are not supporting the US either.

Seems like the Fed is ready to let the world burn.

Boogieman
Boogieman
  Mary Christine
September 26, 2022 11:14 am

The true Schrodinger’s cat experiment. The fed is dammed if they do and damned if they don’t. Their betting on opening the box and seeing the cat still alive. Hedge accordingly.

J&G
J&G
  Mary Christine
September 26, 2022 12:53 pm

Serious question. Are the central banks in a race to the bottom currency war? What is the prize for being the first to destroy your currency?

Hey MC – I think to understand what the U.S. is attempting to accomplish, you need to take a 100,000 foot view. Combine that with the understanding of the game being played (and if a State refuses to play, they will be forced to play or forced into submission to be ruled):

The Game Is Risk. The Goal is World Domination. The Rules are NONE.

Also, we are now racing to the top to strengthen the currency – that destroys zombie corps (and people!), but strengthens the U.S./dollar-currency (moving closer to Au on a horizontal line with Au in the center). YOU and me and other peons will be sacrificed financially (PAWNS – all of us in the eyes of the State) to “win” the game of Risk.

As Jefferson Stated:

“If the American people ever allow private banks (SO, THE FED) to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered…”

Except, it won’t just be the U.S. that is conquered via “finance”….that already happened over 100 years ago. It will be the planet and that is the goal and what is going on RIGHT NOW. The inflation/deflation game has had many iterations so far, and is called “The Business Cycle”…an apt euphemism for giving competitors (like other countries) “the business” in that mafia-sort-of-way. It’s a “cycle” of dealing out “the business” mafia style (NOT Eddie Hascal style).

FIRST, the U.S. as holder of the World Rerseve Currency, INFLATED to high heaven (late 90’s til now). In this case inflation/deflation are NOT referring to prices – they are referring to quantity of ciruclating money supply.

The U.S. INFLATED over the last 25 years or so, we increased currency/credit in circulation and lowered interest rates. (this is a better picture of a “race to the bottom” currency way)

NOW, that “we” have as many in debt to “us” (we/us is the banksters) as possible, we can OWN THEM by rasing the shit out of rates and clearing our (the Fed) balance sheet (net seller from net buyer).

This is called a “rug pull”. And the U.S. money system/Fed is doing it right now to ANY STATE that took credit.

As you mention, it would seem like a simple thing to just stop using dollars as another country…but that is not how international trade works TODAY (no dollars, no oil or limited access at best – peasant revolt at best). IF a country stops using dollars, a number of immediate hazards present themselves, not least of which is U.S. troops showing up to instill “democracy”. The jackals will be unleashed if cooperation is put on hold – cooperation meaning: You WILL use the dollar for ALL oil transactions OR ELSE. So, threats and real, violent action combined with financial punishment (for king and peasants and peasants even more to bring pressure) will be exercised on those that question the current world-wide monetary SCHEME. AND it is a SCHEME – one that every State wants to get their hands on, scheme or not…it is the Ultimate Rendition of having “Fuck You Money” (if you have seen Ozark – it means you have enough resources to tell almost everyone to piss off when called for).

The U.S. has a one time “opportunity” (pointing it out only) to WIN the game of Risk being played.

It is simple: raise rates to 10%-15% over the next 25 years. Never down, always up or left unchanged. The exact opposite of the last 25 years.

By doing this the U.S. can dominate for the next several generations. An outsized portion of all available FDI, at any given time, will flow to the U.S., along with a high probability of maintaining a lock on World Reserve Currency by sowing economic chaos in almost every other country on earth.

Any assets that have been pledged by a foreign State (like tollways, ports, infrastructure like water, etc.) are likely to be “owned” by the U.S. in the future (in whole or in part) because as rates continue to climb, whatever the loans were used to contruct or invest in, gets to be (at some point) underwater.

ALL of this – all the weirdo shit going on, all the upside down, clown-world insanity at every turn…ALL OF IT has to do with the game of Risk being played.

The real globalists know the U.S. (*U.S. peasants and guns) is the ONLY thing standing in their way. They also know their power will be extremely limited (and limited “forever”) if the U.S. wins the current game of Risk. Therefore, they ATTACK day and night, relentlessly on the only fronts they can: culture, morality and intensified immigration advocacy.

In the end, I think the U.S. will “win” (and I know, win isn’t winning) the current game of Risk being played. For a while, the game will be put away and the players will grab snacks and take a piss.

Then the next game will start.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  J&G
September 26, 2022 1:29 pm

Bonds are selling off. The 10 yr just keeps going higher. I don’t think the Fed can win this game. I think they think they can control things. I don’t believe they have control anymore. Russia can sell oil to the BRICS nations and the only way we can try stop them is to get directly involved in a war.

Zedder
Zedder
  Mary Christine
September 26, 2022 1:39 pm

That’s the pain trade. Thinking that “they” don’t know what they’re doing.

Jdog
Jdog
  Zedder
September 26, 2022 6:35 pm

The Fed is not in control. They never have been. Anyone who knows anything at all about how the system works knows the Fed simply acts in lockstep with the short term treasury rates. LOOK AT A FUCKING CHART. First the short term treasury’s move, then the Fed moves the overnight rate in the same direction. The Fed does not have the horsepower to influence the bond market. They just have everyone believing they do. The Emperor has no clothes. They are the ultimate con man, and people who believe they are some kind of god in control of the markets are doomed to get their financial asses handed to them.
The Fed was created originally with the promise they would stop recessions, by being the stabilizing entity in the financial markets. Since that promise, there have been 18 recessions at just about the exact same frequency and severity as before the Fed was created. The truth is the Fed is powerless to influence the economy in any way. They are simply the cropper, the skim a certain amount off the top, and keep things working in favor of their member banks with government regulation and bail outs when things go south.

Jets and Gamers
Jets and Gamers
  Jdog
September 26, 2022 9:29 pm

I agree that the FED is a worthless middleman and parasite.

However, anytime I hear, “Anyone who knows anything at all…”

I am immediately put into bullshit detection mode because of the blatant logical fallacy and bullying found in that statement.

Maybe you are right, but I have a simple question:

You state that the FED acts in lockstep with “short term treasuries”, and just reacts to them and moves AFTER the rates move and in the same direction. This is said to be based on, “Looking at a fucking chart”.

“Short Term Treasuries” refers to anything 3 years or less. 1 Year and less is a Bill (then notes, then bonds). Within the 1 Year or less category alone, there are Bills commonly issued with terms of: 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 13 weeks, 26 weeks and 52 weeks.

There are like 10 categories of “Short Term Treasuries”…each has it’s own graph. They are far from all being exact copies of each other.

Which specific short term treasury graph are you using to overlay on a chart of Fed Rates to show the correlation you cite where Fed Rates always follow, and flow in the same direction, as “Short Term Treasury” rates?

Jdog
Jdog
  Jets and Gamers
September 26, 2022 10:09 pm

For whatever reason I am having trouble posting links, lets see if this works

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiCmrCk8bP6AhXJMTQIHZ5bBjoQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.columbiathreadneedleus.com%2Fblog%2Fchart-the-fed-funds-rate-vs.-10-year-treasuries&usg=AOvVaw378XHT1l8mCLQurd35pudQ

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjO6uz98bP6AhUlAzQIHQGrAoAQFnoECDAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.macromicro.me%2Fcollections%2F51%2Fus-treasury-bond%2F762%2Fus-fed-funds-rate-treasury-bonds-rate&usg=AOvVaw1oN-3sTNHCwJgUhhSfcODw

If you study the charts, you will see the short term treasuries and bonds almost always move well in advance of overnight rates. The Fed is not leading the bond market, it is following the bond market.
The 2yr on the second link is about the easiest to read. The first chart shows even the 10yr follows the same pattern.

J&G
J&G
  Mary Christine
September 26, 2022 6:25 pm

Zedder is correct MC. Try trading on the belief of they don’t know what they are doing. In fact, trade options based on that because options give you a direct path to challenging whether or not, “they know what they are doing”. Come talk to me when you have lost your first $10K.

They can stay short, long, or any way they want longer than any other player has resources to contend with it. They also have 100 other tricks to manipulate everything from consumption to de facto interest rates. They also frontrun and game all potential moves (or damn near all) far in advance.

I would point out that all “others” (bond holders, stock holders, corps, etc.) are simply pieces on the board that aren’t “the King”. If you are unfamiliar with chess, that means all pieces but the King may be sacrificed at any time in service of the King. Same as real life in most ways. The “King” is the U.S. State.

To believe they don’t know what they are doing or don’t have control is pure fallacy. Sun Tzu comes to mind…”When strong feign weakness”…or maybe more like, “when informed, feign ignorance”.

They know exactly what they are doing and they don’t care about pain caused to others or if the 10 yr keeps going up or if bonds sell off – this is all part of the ebb and flow of Risk. The question is:

Who is dealt the MOST pain?

Answer: EVERYONE but the KING.

Russia may indeed try to sell oil to BRICS and the U.S. may, indeed, have a response for that…the U.S. has more levers than World Reserve Currency – that one is just the base that others have been built from.

Note, I am neither advocating or abbrogating here. Just pointing out what I think is going on.

Again…

The Game Is Risk. The Goal is World Domination. The Rules are NONE.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  J&G
September 26, 2022 7:06 pm

The Federal Reserve can create depressions, recessions, inflation and hyperinflation. They print money at will, trillions, gazillions, whatever, it has no value except what they say it has and never, ever forget they collect interest on every dollar ‘loaned’ back to the government. The Congress has the power to create the coin of the realm, there is absolutely no need whatsoever for anything resembling a central bank that controls and manipulates every dollar printed.

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world — no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

Woodrow Wilson

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  J&G
September 26, 2022 4:09 pm

Russia is now going to do direct exchange with India. India will accept Rubles and Russia will accept Rupees. One more Domino falls. FJB!

ICE-9
ICE-9
  Mary Christine
September 26, 2022 3:00 pm

The prize is the global digital currency (domiciled in Basel) liked to a digital ID. Completely controllable “money” that transforms money from a medium of exchange into a tool of political control. Because there is zero intrinsic value in this “new money” it is merely a form of granting or withholding privileged.

Zedder
Zedder
  ICE-9
September 26, 2022 3:11 pm

I was explaining to my mom why gold is going down right now aside from dollar strength. The paper is finding its intrinsic value of zero. When it hits zero the hunger games will be well underway.

motley
motley
  Mary Christine
September 26, 2022 3:54 pm

So consider this … what if ‘the powers that be’ … control both sides of the chess board? What if all central banks inevitably are working together? What if a global conflict is merely contrived to the benefit of a select core group of people. What if Shakespeare was telling the truth? … ‘All the world’s a stage…”

Zedder
Zedder
  motley
September 26, 2022 5:51 pm

More people should be spending time on the what if’s.

Jdog
Jdog
  motley
September 26, 2022 6:41 pm

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

Who do you think he is talking about?

Long Time Lurker
Long Time Lurker
  Mary Christine
September 26, 2022 4:13 pm

The Bankster$ only care about das Dolla, as the $ is still accepted everywhere (sans Russia), and is the source of all their power and control. As Ice-9 has stated many times, all will be sacrificed to keep ((their))) global homo power intact. Europe must die first, then U.S. is next….

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Mary Christine
September 26, 2022 9:22 pm

My guess is that this is just one of the ways to the CBDC that everyone in power is feeling so orgasmic about … finally — and with little fanfare — total financial and other control over everyone, everywhere — to the last detail of their lives … permanently.

CDBC appears to be seen by TPTB as the final chapter in their push toward domination … and, quite frankly, I’d be surprised if they’re not wondering just what took them so long to get to this point …

Jekyll Island was in 1913 — the same year as the income tax was created … and the bank$ter$ have had all of US by the snarglies ever since … except for the fact that we were still able to spend our hard earned money how and when and where we chose … assuming any was left after taxes and such.

This is their Nirvana … the Holy Grail of the Rothschilds and the rest of their pestilence that has been with US for centuries …

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Anthony Aaron
September 26, 2022 9:49 pm

Well, as Fleabaggs always says, the grid is their friend. Not ours. You need a well functioning grid to control people electronically like that. I’m no electrician, at least not anymore, but even I can tell our grid is held together with duct tape and rubber bands.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 26, 2022 10:33 am

This seems as good a place as any to put this:
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/bug-out-bags-underground-bases-the-denver-international-airport/

Why are Denver, CO officials suddenly giving away bug-out bags to citizens and telling them to be ready to vamoose any time now? The fact-checkers assure us it’s nothing. ‘Cause new normal, y’know. Like teen athletes dropping like flies from defective heart muscle. Normal.

MORE on the bizarre mystery that is Denver International Airport:
https://www.bitchute.com/search/?query=denver%20international%20airport&kind=video

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 26, 2022 10:41 am

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/two-teenage-boys-die-in-their-sleep

Goddamned divide and conquer. The antivaxxers fighting amongst themselves:
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/viviane-fischer-makes-public-accusation

If ever humanity needed unity . . .

Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, International Lawyer Has All The Evidence That Pandemic Is Crime

https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=reiner+fullmich

Jdog
Jdog
September 26, 2022 11:17 am

I am curious just what percentage of the population really understand who their enemy is.

This will be a very interesting week as Russia stands poised to annex the 4 regions of Ukraine now voting overwhelmingly to join their ethnic home. This is pretty much the red line in the sand. Once Russia annexes those regions, any attack on them, will be considered an attack on Russia itself, and require a full response.
The US is now going to either accept the annexation, or risk expanding the war exponentially.
Meanwhile the west continues to expand fascism in the form of censorship and ever growing governmental tyranny.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Jdog
September 26, 2022 11:32 am

The true enemy is always within – the bad wolf.

None of the people, whom we claim have power over us, have any power over us, beyond the leverage of the institutions we believe in and support, which act as amplifiers to those who seek to rule humanity. None of the rulers are supermen. Their power over us is merely the power we allow them to have over us. How else could ordinary people – which everyone is – rule over masses of other ordinary people?

Overthrowing the State

All human institutions are imperfect at best and immeasurably evil at worst.

But it’s still down to we great, compliant masses. “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

DISSENT. REFUSE. REBEL. UNPLUG. RESIST. SECEDE. ABOLISH.

Claim self-ownership.

Resistance is not futile – it is essential. We own this. We can change it.

There is no “we”:

Our Greatest Earthly Enemy

Fuck all collectivism. There is no we. I am one sovereign nation of one. I have no right (nor even desire) to rule another. Stay alert, armed, polite, respectful of boundaries.

Boundaries of Order

https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=shaffer+boundaries+order

Red River D
Red River D
  Jdog
September 26, 2022 11:35 am

“…I am curious just what percentage of the population really understand who their enemy is…”

0.054

Which runs to approximately 202,500 people in the US.

The percentage is lower in the EU. Russia is in between the US and the EU. Australia, Asia, Central- and South America barely even score at all.

morongobill
morongobill
  Red River D
September 26, 2022 11:50 am

That’s about the same number as Jehovah’s Witnesses say will go to Heaven.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Jdog
September 26, 2022 11:38 am

I’m excited to see how they spin the annexation of those regions into Russia proper as a victory for Zelensky.

morongobill
morongobill
  hardscrabble farmer
September 26, 2022 11:52 am

Even an accomplished writer such as Jim Kunstler might not be able to do that.

Ken31`
Ken31`
  morongobill
September 26, 2022 2:26 pm

It would help to remember that persuasion is not their goal.

Jdog
Jdog
  hardscrabble farmer
September 26, 2022 5:20 pm

They will ignore the vote all together, and equate the annexation with Hitler invading Czechoslovakia.
Replaying old war footage over and over until the brainwashing takes hold.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  hardscrabble farmer
September 26, 2022 7:20 pm

“I’m excited to see how they spin the annexation of those regions into Russia proper as a victory for Zelensky.”

The dog has been wagged so thoroughly that it is nothing but tatters…

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ICE-9
ICE-9
September 26, 2022 12:28 pm

There is a credible theory that the Mayan civilization collapsed in the early 10th century AD after the Toltecs cut off the supply of Jade to these people. The northern Toltecs had a monopoly on this rock which was the integral part in all Mayan construction projects as it was the only rock hard enough yet could still be worked to fashion the saw blades needed to cut the limestone blocks used in the cities and temples. As most all Mayan civilization revolved around these construction projects, the loss of this single component could have led to civilization collapse. They were not invaded as none of the cities and temples reclaimed from the jungle show any evidence of damage resulting from siege operations. They appear to have just given up.

Civilization collapse cold be as simple as the sudden disappearance of some component vital to its function. Like fiat currency.

The Philosopher Kings giveth, and the Philosopher Kings taketh away.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ICE-9
September 26, 2022 1:48 pm

1) jadeite not jade
2) not especially credible

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
September 26, 2022 1:58 pm

Whether the poster is correct in the asserted particulars or not, the general idea is sound: our civilization rests on a small number of essential continuing processes. Those processes – especially food and fuel (which are essentially the same, energetically speaking) – are indispensable. The poster’s point was that the customary components of our survival are currently threatened (with mass consent).

The greater threat is that the majority still believe that the very system which threatens them cannot and should not be dispensed with. The majority- including Christians, of whom I am not a member – believe that some fellow human, such as Trump, or DeSantis – is the only solution to our problems. I posit that only we, as temporarily, voluntarily united individuals, can be the solution to these problems.

Someday, hopefully soon, self-described Christians will cease believing that any human is a king, to be trusted with god-like power over the rest of humanity. Who Would Jesus hold down and inject? Or starve? Or kill? Or eject from society? Or cancel? Or hate? He washed the feet of mortal children of his father’s. And he never stfu.

Mass belief in the system is the problem, and it only continues with the consent of we masses. Resist. Refuse. Do not consent to your subjection (nor anyone’s). Stop paying blood money to .gov. https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=romans+13

ICE-9
ICE-9
  Anonymous
September 26, 2022 2:09 pm

Your glowing. I spelled it that way just for you.

Been a real full court press from Team Anonymous lately. How’s the weather in Foggy Bottom?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ICE-9
September 26, 2022 2:12 pm

I think I understand your meaning.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ICE-9
September 26, 2022 3:25 pm

If I make up a handle, it means I couldn’t be working for Langley? I’ve given up posting under a handle, since Jim doesn’t require it (which makes him better than ZeroHedge, which has cancelled me three times now, after many upvotes). You might consider not falling for brand names. I use to post here – for years – as Rube Goldberg’s Razor, but some brain dead 3tard said that that was a ((name)) that couldn’t be trusted.

Are you saying you don’t like what I posted? Or you don’t know me? You don’t know me, anyway. And people who have access t o you – people you trust – are the ones with the most opportunity to fuck you. And here I was, thinking you were complimenting me. You are too easy to fool – like everyone else. That’s how they get us. You probably believe in .gov, too, after all this rape.

P.S.: I posted as “Euell B. Assimilated” this morning, for effect. You are insufferable. Humanity is getting what it has gone along with.

Zedder
Zedder
  Anonymous
September 26, 2022 5:27 pm

A whole lot more to come. Humans really deserve the horror show its about to get. Peeps already breaking and the sun isn’t even up yet…..

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ICE-9
September 26, 2022 3:40 pm

Jeezus, you irredeemable moron! You’ve upvoted and responded positively to stuff I’ve posted here recently! Did you just have a brain fart? A sleepless Sunday night? WTF? You like what I’ve written, but you don’t know me? Never mind. I’m repeating myself. Fuck you. We are truly done for. You are sofa king easy to fuck with. Do as you’re told, bitch. Vote harder.

Nearly every Rockwell link is from me. Now bend over and receive .gov.

Two if by sea.
Two if by sea.
  Anonymous
September 26, 2022 10:39 pm

Geezus Anon…have you nothing to do?

m
m
  Anonymous
September 26, 2022 2:27 pm

temporarily united

Ah, the spoils of unfettered individualism!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  m
September 26, 2022 3:31 pm

“Spoils”?

m
m
  Anonymous
September 27, 2022 3:00 am

“Spoils of victory”?

ICE-9
ICE-9
  Anonymous
September 26, 2022 3:48 pm

Hey over-educated he / she/ it / whomever – this is The Burning Platform. You gotta take your lumps. A whole lotta lumps.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ICE-9
September 26, 2022 5:18 pm

seems like a hell of a stretch when there are much more obvious reasons aplenty.. environmental degradation from deforestation, soil depletion and erosion, lowering crop productivity as well as disrupting aquifers, multiplying the pressure on the whole society already developing as an enlarged population resulting from the previous era of exuberance and relative prosperity, now desperately tried to make any kind of living from degraded land and trying to clear more poor rainforest land. social power structures are always based primarily on controlling and redistributing wealth, and if it’s arbitrary tokens for wealth like surpluses spent on art projects/monumental construction/etc, those can be substituted pronto if e.g. the jadeite gets hard to find, but when it’s the very basic essence of wealth, food stockpiles and the like, there’s no substitution. When there’s not enough to go around those with power can only hang on for so long before everything goes to shit. how ugly they get while they try to hang on, varies from place to place and time to time dependent on many many variables. the nimrods in charge of the current empire think that by deliberately shocking the rest of us into living with less, or even plunging below the survival threshold, that they will somehow increase their control over us. They think they can demolish the foundations of their empire from the inside without it falling down on their heads. it will not go the way they want it to, but it will still be a huge fubar the rest of us will have to try to survive through, with one hand tied behind our backs trying to still deal with their empire of fuckery while it still lasts, and as it goes through its most brutal phase yet.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
September 26, 2022 2:34 pm

Nothing new about this. Save evil, different package….that’s all.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 26, 2022 3:27 pm

Wheres all this doom and gloom? Here in my pocket of the sunny seaside deep south we got plenty of chow, cold beer and booze, guns and very few liberals and non whites. Life is good so far just turn off the tv.

John Holmes
John Holmes
September 26, 2022 4:32 pm

Does anyone remember Obama constantly saying that he was going to “Fundamentally Transform America”. He is the puppet master, this is his revenge on whites.

olde reb
olde reb
September 26, 2022 4:53 pm

Civil disturbances are not created to be solved; they are created to distract attention from the cause.

As is being proven every day, if you do not attack the funding of corrupt bureaucrats, civil disturbances, and Great Reset/globalism/war mongering, legions of new programs and corrupt bureaucrats will replace the old exposed ones.

The civil chaos of the USA government/society, and the Rothschild Great Reset oppression, are submitted to be funded by two methods of questioned legality.

First: An Income tax on Sovereign Citizens is not consistent with Constitutional authorization nor does statutory authorization for such a tax exist. Ref. https://stateofthenation.co… THE INCOME TAX SCAM & 87,000 ARMED IRS AGENTS |

Second: The Federal Reserve system covertly transfers ‘profit’ derived from auctions of Treasury securities to unknown shareholders. All profit of the Rothschild’s Fed legally belongs to the government. The relevant accounts have never been audited. Ref.

THIS IS OUR BANKING SYSTEM

THIS IS OUR BANKING SYSTEM

Both methods involve financiers – BEYOND GOVERNMENT – who are the chief beneficiaries.

If this nefarious funding of corrupt politicians and Great Reset is not exposed, all far-right legislation will be futile.

Ottomatik
Ottomatik
September 26, 2022 8:29 pm

What an opener!
A fine craftsman. I always appreciated Kurzweil, but this was excellent:
“That “singularity” so many blab about is not what they think it is: the merging of human intelligence with Bill Gates’s Office products”
fuckin priceless