2020 Was a Snack, 2021 Is the Main Course
2021-01-04
One of the dishes at the banquet of consequences that will surprise a great many revelers is the systemic failure of the Federal Reserve’s one-size-fits-all "solution" to every spot of bother: print another trillion dollars and give it to rapacious financiers and corporations.
U.S. Healthcare Is Unraveling
2020-11-19
The confidence that there will always be facilities and professionals to care for us is no longer realistic. I’ve covered the systemic problems of U.S. healthcare for over a decade, and as a result I’ve attracted numerous healthcare professionals as correspondents.
Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Covid Vaccines (Because You Can’t Be Bullish Anymore)
2020-11-12
In such a highly polarized, politicized environment, is such a scrupulously objective study
even possible?
Now that we’ve had the happy-talk about Pfizer’s messenger-RNA (mRNA) vaccine (and
noted that Pfizer’s CEO sold the majority of his shares in the company immediately
after the happy-talk), let’s dig into messenger-RNA (mRNA) vaccines
which are fast approaching regulatory approval.
Some people have concluded vaccines are not safe, regardless of their source or mechanisms.
These people will never take any Covid vaccine.
Others will also decline a vaccine because they’ve concluded Covid is overblown.
Fair enough. But many other people conclude Covid is dangerous, partly because so little
is known about its long-term effects (Long-Covid, Long-Haulers). Covid’s low mortality
Forget GOAT, Look at GBOAT: The Greatest Bubble Of All Time
2020-11-09
So enjoy the GBOAT (greatest bubble of all time) but watch the clock. Sports fans debate who qualifies as GOAT–the greatest of all time: in hoops, Kobe, Jordan, Kareem, Magic; in boxing, Ali, and so forth. What we have today is GBOAT–the greatest bubble of all time That it’s GOAT is beyond doubt, as the charts below reveal.
ALICE Doesn’t Work Here Anymore
2020-10-30
What the political class and the Financial Nobility don’t yet grasp is that ALICE will never go back to her insecure, low-wage job, ever.
Things Change
2020-10-05
Things change, supposedly immutable systems crumble and delusions die. That’s the lay of the land in the The Empire of Uncertainty I described yesterday.
Helicopter Money and the End of Taxes
2020-10-01
Rather than right the ship, the “easy fix” is to distribute “free money”–not just to billionaires and corporations but to everyone.