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by Martin Armstrong Birthrates are rapidly declining across the West primarily due to economic factors. Over 163 million new lives emerged in 2025, far surpassing the 63 million deaths. The countries with the least tend to produce the most children. Over the past year, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, and Somalia all experienced population growths …
SOFR rate is plunging which means liquidity is flush throughout the system. Ignore all of the other noise around $2000 stimmies and the end of the shutdown. This surge in liquidity alone will push equities and gold higher at least in the short term. https://t.co/tCTGfKPvLE — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) November 10, 2025 SOFR did drop …
At its core, it’s just the marking to market of how 2008 was handled IMO. Wall St did so well with 2008’s bailout socialism, 15 yrs later young voters be like “what could possibly go wrong?!” — Luke Gromen (@LukeGromen) September 10, 2025 The mayor is a joke, but the wealthy control the city, this …
After months of speculation about what duties will be implemented, we are finally starting to fully see the impact of tariff policies in the government cashflows data. Today the blended rate stands at around ~17.5%. pic.twitter.com/94MZRJOiFj — Bob Elliott (@BobEUnlimited) June 2, 2025 The treasury daily statement gives insight into the duties collected in pretty …
by Michael Experts are telling us that the supply chain disruptions that we are facing are likely to be more severe than anything that we witnessed during the last pandemic. Anyone that believes that we can easily replace 438 billion dollars of imports from China is just being delusional. There are thousands of products that are made in …
via naturalnews A flesh-eating parasite, the New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), is spreading across Central America, posing a growing threat to both livestock and human health. The screwworm primarily targets livestock but also infects humans, causing a condition called myiasis. The larvae burrow into open wounds, feeding on living tissue, causing excruciating pain, infection …
Biden doesn’t look all the way there. You can see it in his eyes. Remember, he’s supposedly still the President of the most powerful nation on Earth. This is both sad and humiliating for our country. — News Nomad 🗞 (@The_Nomad_News) August 20, 2024
by 2ndSifter Saylor goes balls to the walls in this one with nearly 7 mentions per page. This company has more outstanding convertibles than a car dealership next to an army base, and probably thinks a sinking fund is just another name for the Titanic. The amount of cash they have on hand might be …
It’s not just Claudine Gay. Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, lifting large portions of text without quotation marks and even taking credit for a study done by another scholar—her own husband—according to a complaint filed with the university on Monday and a Washington Free …
via wikipedia: The candy bar protest, also known as the 5 cent chocolate war, the 5 cent war and the chocolate candy bar strike,[1] was a short-lived 1947 protest by Canadian children over the increase in price of chocolate bars from five to eight cents.[2][3] The strike began in Ladysmith, British Columbia, and spread across …
UK citizens are furious Sadiq Khan is installing ULEZ (Ultra low emission zones) recognition cameras throughout London. Those who can’t afford electric vehicles will be fined £12 pounds ($15) every time they drive past them. Citizens are fighting back by taking them down as soon… pic.twitter.com/8AsvWYPbfA — Pelham (@Resist_05) August 13, 2023
Your tax dollars at work Kyiv has a fancy new mister system throughout the city! How is Ukraine in the middle of a war nicer than the United States 😭 pic.twitter.com/gF3OevWs9Y — Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) August 9, 2023
by mark000 Will there be a European banking crisis which will spread to the US and North America? Will commercial property woes in the US sink regional and big banks? via pensionpulse: Nobody really knows what is going on, it feels to me like they’re trying to mask the size of the problem but if …
by Dismal-Jellyfish FIC-GOV Alert! GSD Capped Contingency Liquidity Facility® (CCLF®) will reset each Netting Member’s CCLF Cap on 7/1/23. If a member defaults, the FICC would tap into the CCLF, which could drain liquidity from other members. A CCLF failure could trigger a liquidity domino effect throughout the market. https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/pdf/2023/6/15/GOV1495-23.pdf What is the Capped Contingency …
