domestic economic collapse leading to fuel shortages leading to energy cuts. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210813-nothing-left-in-crisis-hit-lebanon-bread-too-is-scarce Lebanese flocked to bakeries before dawn Friday, desperate to find affordable bread in a country where fuel and...

Wondering who others follow and/or listen to on this forum for financial news? Mainstream media (Fox, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc.) have no credibility. They are just propaganda machines for the zombies. So here are some that I watch when I have the time, typically watch these on...

The monthly employment report was released at 8:30 EDT Friday. Surprisingly, it was very bullish. Private non-farm payrolls grew by 2.5 MM, the market had expected a drop of 8 MM. The headline unemployment rate fell to 13.3% when it was expected to rise to 19.7%. The broader U6 unemployment...

Listen everybody, your town square isn't the middle of town anymore. Our nation's capital has NO business being on the eastern seaboard next to an ocean. I just started a petition on the White House website to move the nation's capital to the middle of the country, near Kansas City...

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/29/baby-boomers-feeding-america-aarp-food-insecurity-health "The study, released last week by Feeding America – a nonprofit network of food banks – with funding from the AARP Foundation, a lobbying group for older adults, found that roughly 8...

http://fusion.net/story/104184/ferguson-home-values-are-plummeting-and-residents-are-feeling-the-pain/ No surprise.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/mapping-king-countys-disappearing-middle-class/ Note that the greater Seattle economy has remained relatively healthy since the 2008 crash. There are many well-paying employers such as Amazon.com, Boeing, Costco, Expedia, Google, Microsoft...

Simply put for short term shtf there isn't enough time for them to come into play. Even in a teotwawki senario not everyone has precious metals, so how would they trade? If they traded goods for pm to get in the system my question would be whats the logic? Trading supplies for something...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/china_appears_ready_to_dump_its_us_treasury_bonds.html Anyone here familiar with Lombard Street Research? Or have other information regarding the potential for China to sell its U. S. treasury bonds to keep its economy humming? This is really beyond my...

Tens of millions of customers at Target, Neiman-Marcus, Michaels -- as many as 20 retailers -- have been hit with point-of-sale related cybercrime breaches: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/23/us-target-databreach-fbi-idUSBREA0M1UF20140123 When the banksters went looking for bailouts, I...

Things that make you go "Hmmmm..." Found at VOA News, but the original report was from Reuters: http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-russia-economy-set-to-disappoint-again-in-2014/1816567.html "Investment by firms disappointed and international money has been flowing out of Russia, in part due...