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The UK has no choice but to start cutting its welfare bill, this could happen here in the US. The UK faces the doom loop of rising borrowing costs, growing deficits and a government facing a lot of bad choices to raise revenues. Yields on 30-year gilts have reached their highest levels since 1998. (1 …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The moral rot of unlimited debt looks “free” but it’s unaffordable in the end. We like to think we’re special and this moment in history is special, but alas, we’re still running Wetware 1.0 which was coded between 300,000 and 60,000 years ago, when the last “out of Africa” migration finally got …
“.. The findings highlight that many workers don’t have a rainy-day fund.” Link to article:https://t.co/w6wkWBVBqv — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) June 24, 2025 More Americans are tapping their 401(k)s just to get by. Hardship withdrawals from retirement plans have quadrupled since 2019. This is the downstream effect of money printing, inflation, and a decade of …
Completed (ready-to-occupy) new homes climbed to 119K in March…an increase of 34% from a year earlier pic.twitter.com/XhGu9dtuRi — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) April 24, 2025 🚨 Home prices are falling in 11 major U.S. cities – the most widespread decline in over 19 months. Cities like San Antonio, Oakland, and Jacksonville are leading this trend, …
China has spent 7 yrs making “bad economic choices” to prepare itself for decoupling it has anticipated since 2018. It has diversified trade partners byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts China 🇨🇳 may be the world’s biggest exporter, but its economy isn’t nearly as export-dependent as most people think. In 2024, exports made up just 19.7% of GDP—down sharply …
The Producer Price Index (PPI) for January jumped by +.4%, exceeding the forecasted +.3%. This unexpected rise highlights ongoing inflation pressures, which could have significant effects on both consumers and businesses. The PPI gauges the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers for their output. When the PPI is higher …
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1688125097276583936 She has no idea whats comes next…pic.twitter.com/6gh4mjC1Da — Chris Martenson (@chrismartenson) August 6, 2023