"Americans are very slow to escape from the false reality in which they live. Americans are a thoroughly brainwashed people who hold tightly to their false life within The Matrix... Sooner or later it will dawn on them that there is nothing they can do but violently revolt."

Hidden in plain sight is an intimidating Chinese weapon that allows it to hold a quarter of the world’s population hostage without firing a single shot. While much attention has been given to the nation’s fearsome new military hardware, a formidable component in its arsenal has largely escaped notice: dams.

"We've created a generation of anger addicts who can't read past the first page of a book. This is why the howls of outrage from within the ranks of the news media about Trump's election ring a little bit false. What the hell did we expect would happen? Who did we think would rise to prominence in our rage-filled, hyper-stimulated media environment? Sensitive geniuses?"

"With the potentially bad situation we could face," Grant Williams, co-founder of Real Vision TV, said in a recent extended Metal Masters interview  that "holding physical metal, somewhere safe, somewhere outside the banking system, is just a sensible precaution to take."

"So we’ve officially entered the kick-the-can season. You can count on Paul Ryan to spin and misdirect in order to obfuscate what’s actually going on. The House Speaker is about to capitulate again to the nation’s fiscal doomsday machine. Expect clever maneuvers designed to hide the truth through yet another election cycle."

"...jawboning is really part of the OPEC playbook. And I think you’re going to see it in the next two weeks now..."

"...the site tried to legitimize violence against police officers ...in an expression of an attitude that tramples human dignity.... This is absolutely unacceptable and incompatible with our liberal democratic order..."

So, what do you do when your sales are stalling because you've already financed new cars for every man, woman and child with a credit score north of 500?  Well, you simply abandon credit scores in the underwriting process and instead explicitly mandate that your loan officers approve every potential car buyer that walks through the door with a pulse. 

Dispelling the magical thinking behind the hype...