“Ten years ago, people who were stealing were hiding products in their jackets or down their pants. These days they’re filling up a trolley and pushing it back out the front door and they don’t care who sees them.”

Cost-of-Living Stress Fuels Crime Wave in Australia, New Zealand (Bloomberg) — A man strolls out of a New Zealand supermarket carrying bags stuffed with nine stolen legs of lamb. Another pushes out a shopping cart stacked with NZ$1,500 ($896) of …

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Tightening policies worse than officially stated, the collateral value of fixed-income assets is diminishing rapidly and we are starting to see the huge deficits of the US government are pushing interest rates even higher

The significant decline in the market value of Treasury notes, bonds, and mortgage-backed securities, which make up over 80% of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, could potentially reduce the Fed’s assets by about $1 trillion, surpassing the impact of their …

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The NATO Crisis Pushing Us into War

by Martin Armstrong   I have been very busy with the whole NATO meeting and questions coming in from important sources. Fortunately, there are some who are looking at our model’s forecast. Nato has stated that while Ukraine can join …

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