Ruminations

Behind the screen

Category: Economics

  • What Is the Spell?

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    How Social Engineers Convinced You to Want Things So Badly You Won’t Push the Button to Stop Child Trafficking—And How You Helped Build Your Own Cage I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you – a world without rules and controls,…

  • Breaking the Spell

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    In December 2025, money manager Ed Dowd—who correctly predicted the 2008 financial crisis—released a report that should have made headlines everywhere. Instead, it was largely ignored. Dowd identified three fundamental risks converging in 2026, each one severe enough to trigger a crisis on its own. Together, they create what he described as unprecedented danger: “I…

  • The Dollar’s Reserve Currency Collapse is Nigh

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    What January 2026 Revealed About the End of American Monetary Hegemony “I have never seen risk like this before in my career.” — Ed Dowd, December 2025 Ed Dowd called 2026 “the year.” He was right. In January 2026, gold spiked to $5,500 per ounce and silver hit $123—parabolic moves that marked not a speculative…

  • What’s the Deal with Greenland?

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    It’s not even about “acquiring” Greenland. It’s not like any Americans want to move there. The new flood of AI Data Centers requires both a massive supply of energy AND a huge heat sink to dissipate all the heat put off by GPU’s plus the excess heat from electricity generation from dozens of nuclear power…

  • The Absurdity of It All

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    Dr. Skidmore has found questionable spending after FASAB 56 was implemented, and the figures are staggering when compared to official budgets: Post-FASAB 56 findings: For fiscal year 2019 alone (after FASAB 56’s implementation in 2018), the Department of Defense reported $35 trillion in accounting adjustments, which was 47 times the $738 billion in authorized DOD…

  • Who really has the power?

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    Whether government or big business is in control largely depends on the longevity of the actors involved. It used to be that corporations could just buy their representatives in Congress, and replace them for “unsatisfactory performance”. Now with the current gerontocracy in all branches of government – holding power for decades and above the law,…

  • The Enemy Within

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    Is the Marxist plague about to destroy America? It’s a nice story but looks at only “symptoms”. This play started over 120 years ago when certain British elites planned the destruction of the German and Russian empires (cf. Gerry Docherty) . They conspired to start WW1 against both of them. When Germany was about to…

  • Obama’s War on America’s Energy Infrastructure.

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    No, going into green energy is not a good thing if it is not economical, and it is not. Obama blew $150 billion, stolen from the taxpayers, on these essentially “crony capitalist”, anti-free market projects. Obama Subsidizes U.S. Solar Energy Spain’s economy was basically destroyed by the fanatical green energy movement there – Spain’s Green…

  • Blacks are worse off under Obama/Clinton!

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    I was wondering about how polls could say 95% of black voters are for Killary, when all the numbers says blacks are much worse off now after 6 years of “Democratic leadership”. Townhall – Blacks worse off under Obama Expansion of black misery under Obama National Review – blacks worse off under Obama I’m thinking…

  • The Greater Fool

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    I have heard repeatedly people say they can’t fathom how anyone would lend money to a government for a negative interest rate. This is true only if they keep the bond to maturity, and they have no intention of doing so! If investors expect future interest rates to become even more negative, then the value…