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Pharma pushes new drugs hard while hiding how deadly side effects can be. SJS and TEN can kill or scar for life.

U.S. FDA Approves PADCEV® plus Keytruda® as Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Treatment for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Regardless of Cisplatin Eligibility First and only treatment regimen for adults with MIBC, regardless of cisplatin eligibility, representing a platinum-free potential standard of care Broadened approval supported by Phase 3 EV-304 data showing a nearly 50% reduction in the risk …

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Why AI Malware (and Harmful Second Order Effects) Are Out of Control

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Fixing all this doesn’t scale. What scales is the spread of uncontrollably harmful consequences. When something scales faster than it can be absorbed or controlled, the resulting extremes break the system. That’s the problem of asymmetric scaling. Let’s take a current example: the malicious use of AI and the runaway expansion …

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An oil spike in a weakening economy is not inflationary – it is contractionary! FED needs to LOWER rates to counter the effects of higher Oil Prices. “The Income Effect” is the reason. Morgan Stanley still expects Fed cuts, oil shock threatens growth. $150 oil warning, recession risk climbs to 20%

Let me be very clear! An oil spike in a weakening economy is not inflationary – it is contractionary! The FED is extremely misguided if they are going to treat a Supply-Driven Oil-spike as an inflationary trigger. FED needs to LOWER rates to counter the effects of higher Oil… — Henrik Zeberg (@HenrikZeberg) March 17, …

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Little Tariff Effects! US Q3 Real GDP Growth At 3.5%, Real Estate Construction Growth Remains Negative

by confoundedinterest17 The US economy is goin’ home! The hysteria about tariffs is nonexistant. Latest estimate: 3.5 percent — December 05, 2025 The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2025 is 3.5 percent on December 5, down from 3.8 percent on December 4. After this morning’s personal income …

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Rising yields threaten Japan’s financial system. If Japan loses control, the ripple effects will be felt everywhere.

The 10-year Japanese Government Bond (JGB) yield has hit a 16-year high, creeping toward 1.75%. That may not sound extreme by global standards, but in Japan’s fragile system, even small increases in borrowing costs send shockwaves through the economy. The Bank of Japan has spent years suppressing rates with aggressive bond-buying. Now, markets are testing …

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The Real Economic Effects of Trump’s Policies: A Deep Dive

Tariffs on Mexico and Canada begin on February 1, or do they? Whether President Trump is merely posturing or not, the threat is real and the situation globally they would be starting from makes for a difficult mix. That’s why the dollar is rising, rates are falling, and real economy variables are already experiencing significant …

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Rise of gene-editing technology in Australia and beyond ‘could have profoundly devastating effects’ on Western society

Australia is unleashing gene-editing technology like CRISPR across agriculture, medicine, and biology, revolutionising everything, from horses to humans. It works like molecular scissors, cutting DNA at specific locations and enabling modifications to correct genetic errors or enhance desired traits. A recent study on editing the NCF1 gene has raised serious concerns that should make everyone …

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Beyond Energy: Inflationary Effects of Metals Price Shocks in Production Networks. An IMF Working Paper

ABSTRACT: We examine the role of metals as economic inputs by using a production network model, calibrated for various countries using input-output (I-O) tables. Empirically, we employ local projections to study how metal shocks influence inflation, testing country-level heterogeneity in the sensitivity to these shocks. Our findings indicate that metals price shocks have significant and …

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19 nursing homes declare bankruptcy due to pandemic effects, labor shortages, and new regulations.

19 nursing homes in Pennsylvania and West Virginia declared bankruptcy. This includes facilities operated by Guardian Healthcare, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company cited the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, labor shortages, wage inflation, and new staffing regulations as contributing factors. This situation is part of a broader trend affecting senior care facilities …

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FDA sued by scientist urging sexual side effects warning for widely used depression drugs

The FDA is being sued for allegedly ignoring evidence that anti-depressants leave patients’ sex lives permanently ruined – even years after stopping the meds. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) drugs like Prozac and Zoloft began carrying a label warning telling users they may cause erectile dysfunction, low libido, vaginal dryness and trouble orgasming only after …

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US Could Feel Effects of De-Dollarization as Soon as 2024

The U.S. faces a global movement to join the Russia-China-controlled BRICS trade group away from G10-controlled SWIFT, to remove the dollar as the world’s currency. While most predictions claim it will be a slow process, not everyone agrees. Some experts say the pain will begin this year. Watcher Guru: Among the greater BRICS de-dollarization plans, one …

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Stagnating Bonds and Market Zombiefication: The Lingering Effects of a Zero Interest Rate Environment in the US

by 21plankton Germany financial sector facing dark clouds, Bundesbank warns FRANKFURT, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Germany’s financial firms may be well capitalised now but face challenges ranging from rising interest expenditure and weak loan demand to unrealised losses, Bundesbank Vice President Claudia Buch said on Wednesday. Interest rates have risen at the fastest pace on …

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The Societal Effects Of Inflation – How You Know Things Are Really Going Bad

This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group Historically speaking, inflation/stagflation has always been a disastrous affair. One is hard pressed to find any legitimate examples of a country that experienced an aggressive inflationary event that came out better for it. A rare scenario would be one in which …

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Bearish curve’s steepening impacts risk assets through collateral effects and liquidity.

The bearish curve steepening we feared is fast becoming reality. The impact on risk assets occurs less through the textbook arbitrage channel and more via negative effect on collateral and hence on #liquidity @au_shareplicity @johnauthers https://t.co/VuMvsqnJQ4 — CrossBorder Capital/ GLIndexes (@crossbordercap) August 14, 2023 It's not the height of rates that destroys the economy but …

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Turns out when you making victimhood profitable, it has horrific effects on society.

by KnowledgeAndFaith   80 years ago American men were selflessly storming the beaches in the Pacific, dodging flak in bombers over Germany, hunting U-Boats in the Atlantic, and racing armor across the deserts of North Africa. And women were working 12-hour shifts in factories, doing manual labor without complaint, to make the weapons the men …

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One Bubble Is About to Pop…and No One Is Talking About It, Office space and its effects on the economy and cities

The Biden administration, the media, Democrats, and Republicans are all either willfully ignorant or blithely unaware of the looming economic crisis that’s about to hit. Inflation is part of the problem, but we’re going beyond job creation reports and the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank. It’s a crisis that could cause all the dominoes to …

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