Market Snapshot
- S&P 500 futures down 0.3% to 4,019.75
- MXAP down 1.1% to 167.63
- MXAPJ down 1.4% to 548.11
- Nikkei down 0.4% to 27,327.11
- Topix down 0.4% to 1,975.27
- Hang Seng Index down 1.0% to 21,842.33
- Shanghai Composite down 0.4% to 3,255.67
- Sensex down 0.1% to 59,437.41
- Australia S&P/ASX 200 little changed at 7,476.66
- Kospi down 1.0% to 2,425.08
- STOXX Europe 600 down 0.7% to 451.36
- German 10Y yield little changed at 2.29%
- Euro down 0.3% to $1.0822
- Brent Futures down 1.1% to $83.95/bbl
- Gold spot down 0.9% to $1,905.51
- U.S. Dollar Index up 0.20% to 102.49
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The above information is a small snippet from a long list of financial information across the world. The word “suddenly” definitely comes to mind after reading the entire article. As I read it, I kept thinking “how much of this information is manipulated?” I suspect the financial section is much worse as all Western governments are suppressing the real news.
David DeGerolamo
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“The question you might ask these days: how did we weaponize everything in American life against ourselves? Can you name an institution that is not at war with the people of this land? The exact mechanisms for all that bad faith stand in plain sight these days, and persons responsible can be easily identified. What’s missing are discernible motives. For now, it just looks like the greatest collective act of ass-covering in history.”
From today’s James Howard Kunstler blog:<https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-war-against-us/>
It is said that an economic collapse will occur slowly, then suddenly.
We are close.
In the above, “we” is not we, the American People, but “we” as in all who work for FedGov, both elected and bureaucratic. They have made us their enemy, even though we finance their malignant enterprises. All of the alphabet agencies and their minions (orcs, basically), and all of the upper echelon of their fascist co-conspirators in Pharma, Media & I.T., are to blame.
At ground level as I travel through various U.S. transportation depots, large cities and the like, I realize that we no longer have anything representing a culture; we “own nothing,” so to speak, when it comes to having beautiful & safe cities, a hope for the future, a stable/growing economy, etc. We don’t even have a birth rate that counters our death rate.
The latter means extinction.
All has been taken from us and it is by intent, not by accident.
It is unforgivable.
The Empire is losing the petro dollar. Soon. Then the reserve currency status of the US dollar will be diminished. Standard of living out the window. To the point of abject poverty. Third world poverty.
I’ve said for a decade that “…we are an emerging Third-world nation.” Not anymore. We have arrived. We are a (wealthy) Third-world nation but a cruise through our cities at street level is reminiscent of the street level of Nairobi, Kenya.
Not the Kenyans’ fault; there is great poverty there. In the U.S? With our massive taxation for social welfare programs ostensibly being doled out to street people, why do we see the nightmare of L.A, Baltimore, Detroit, Flint, etc.?
What do WE get out of these taxes?
Well, one answer is that we get a lunatic in the White House, fronting for the Deep State & the Dept. of State, maniacally backing the ruinous ongoing clusterfuck that is Ukraine. Worse? Since Ukraine is losing--badly--the fools are actually talking of the unthinkable (nuclear engagement).
We are in a form of Hell and it is not of our making.
An accounting shall have to be made.