By Brandon Smith One of the more difficult aspects of working in economic analysis is the problem of rampant disinformation that you have to dig...
Food Is Now an Investment – Here’s Why Inflation Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon
Authored by Brandon Smith via The Burning Platform blog Global reserve currency status allows for amazing latitude in terms of monetary policy. The Treasury Department...
IMF Prepares Financial Revolution – Say Goodbye To The Dollar
Authored by Jesse Smith via TruthUnmuted.org The gauntlet has been cast by the media-censorship complex. Just prior to this year’s annual globalist confab in Davos,...
Op-Ed by Brandon Smith If you’re getting the feeling like the globalists are really pushing hard for WWIII these days, you’re not alone. In the...
World War III Is Now Inevitable – Here’s Why It Can’t Be Avoided
By Charles Hugh Smith What Kafka got right is how societies can become busily dysfunctional. For self-evident reasons, the fictional visions of Orwell and Huxley...
Op-Ed by Brandon Smith I have said it many times in the past but I think it bears repeating once again: If you want to...
Globalists Claim Mass Immigration Helps The US Economy – Here’s Why That’s A Lie
By Brandon Smith People who have been reading my analysis for a long time are well aware of my expectations on the eventual outcome of...
Cereal For The Peasants? How The Elites Use “Skimpflation” To Control Our Eating Habits
By Brandon Smith One of my favorite false narratives floating around corporate media platforms has been the argument that the American people “just don’t seem...
The US Economy Looks Good On Paper – Here’s Why It’s Actually A Disaster In Progress
By Charles Hugh Smith The financial analysts gloating over the prospect of higher corporate profits resulting from firing workers overlook the collapse of customer satisfaction,...
If AI Is So Great, Why Is Managing the Digital Realm Eating Us Alive?
By Brandon Smith If there is one reality that Americans need to accept, it’s that every system has a breaking point and there are no...
From Trucker Boycotts To Grid Down – There’s Only One Way To Survive A Food Crisis
By Brandon Smith In early 2020 in the midst of the covid lockdowns, blue states run by leftist governors pursued mandates with extreme prejudice. In...
Globalists Will Use Carbon Controls To Stop You From Growing Your Own Food
By Charles Hugh Smith Politicians and corporate managers have an enviable record of self-enrichment but very little to show in terms of putting the long-term...
How to Navigate Our Low-Trust, Increasingly Dysfunctional Society and Economy
By Brandon Smith There has been a lot of buzz lately about a recently released film by Netflix titled ‘Leave The World Behind’ based on...
Obama’s Weird New Movie And America’s Extreme Vulnerability To Cyber Attack
By Charles Hugh Smith Speculation has its own expiration dynamics, and they don’t depend on us recognizing speculative excess for what it is. They will...
By Brandon Smith When I first encountered the concept of 4th Generation Warfare around 20 years ago I was studying the basics of propaganda and...
4th Generation Devastation: The West Has Been Targeted In A Cowardly Globalist Mind War
By Brandon Smith Several years ago I predicted that the US would ultimately be confronted with the debilitating economic conundrum of stagflation, something which the...
Grinding Down Into Deflation: The National Debt Disaster No One Is Talking About
By Charles Hugh Smith This is not to suggest living/working overseas is a panacea or easy–it isn’t. There is an inescapable irony in The American...
By Brandon Smith If you’re not familiar with a little organization called the “Council For Inclusive Capitalism,” don’t worry, most people have never heard of...
Rothschild Wants Merger Between Corporations, Governments And AI To “Save Capitalism”
By Charles Hugh Smith What’s no longer affordable is eventually jettisoned, including high-rent homes and apartments. Recency bias can stretch back 40 years. It’s been...
What Happens When Millions of Renters Can No Longer Afford High Rents and Move Back Home?
By Charles Hugh Smith Can an economy in which 10% of the households qualify as middle class claim to offer widespread opportunities for secure prosperity?...
By Charles Hugh Smith As in the Gulag it replicates, the innocent are swept up with the guilty in a disconcertingly unjust ratio. The human...
The Invisible Court’s Verdict: You Are Hereby Exiled to Digital Siberia
By Charles Hugh Smith Maybe the question isn’t just “how much do you spend on food,” but “what value are you getting for what you...
By Brandon Smith Not long ago at the height of fear over the global pandemic the US underwent a change that many people argued would...
Wider War Will Bring Inevitable Attempts At Martial Law In America
By Charles Hugh Smith If things unravel, these risk-reduction strategies quickly shift from “nice to have” to “essential.” But by then, it will be too...
By Brandon Smith Few people are familiar with a little event around 1200 BC called the Bronze Age Collapse in the region known as the...
It’s A Trap! The Wave Of Repercussions As The Middle East Fights “The Last War”
By Brandon Smith Historically speaking, inflation/stagflation has always been a disastrous affair. One is hard pressed to find any legitimate examples of a country that...
The Societal Effects Of Inflation – How You Know Things Are Really Going Bad
By Charles Hugh Smith Something has been going very wrong in the US economy for a very long time, and whatever is going wrong accelerated...
How Great Is Our Economy If the Bottom 50%’s Share of the Nation’s Wealth Has Plummeted Since 2009?
By Charles Hugh Smith Does anyone really believe that the renunciation of massive, sustained stimulus of speculation in housing would leave housing valuations unchanged because...
By Brandon Smith Last month in the middle of the surreal “Bidenomics” hype I published an article titled ‘Nothing Is Over: Inflation Is About To...
Governments Start Calling For Price Controls – Rationing And CBDCs Come Next
By Brandon Smith In July of last year as the hype surrounding the covid pandemic was finally dying out I published an article about a...
Rothschild Admits ESG Failure As Globalists Shift To “Inclusive Capitalism” Agenda
By George Ford Smith No one today talks about the death penalty for debasing gold or silver coins as established by section 19 of the...
By Charles Hugh Smith Editor’s Note: This article is satire … possibly. In stock market news, toilet paper manufacturers continued rallying while tech and luxury-brand...
September 1, 2025: Fed Reaches Inflation Target, Cheese Sandwich Costs $120
By Brandon Smith As I have noted in the past, the Western world came within a knife’s edge of being completely subjugated and placed under...
From Covid To Climate Change: Vehicles For Global Authoritarianism
By Charles Hugh Smith This is how bubbles collapse: the “vital few” 4% sell at whatever the market will bear, pushing prices down, and the...
By George Ford Smith It won’t be long before governments around the world, including the one in Washington, self-destruct. Strong words, but anything less would be...