ilene's blog

"The surge in commodities was becoming an enormous problem"

The economy is hanging by a thread. Loan demand is weak, wages are flat, and markets are on a knife-edge.

All those digital Dollars, Yen, Pounds or Yuan you have in your bank accounts are nothing more than arbitrary numerical records of transactions and each individual note is literally not worth the paper it is written on OTHER THAN the faith you have in the issuing government not to "cheat."

I'm trying to get more bullish, really I am – but to do so I end up reading and my reading leads to stuff...that SHOULD NOT BE IGNORED.

Of course the Government is still borrowing $140Bn a month and the Fed is still "easing" by handing their Bankster buddies another $120Bn a month so our run rate, at the moment, is still $3.1Tn a year to keep all these plates spinning.

Posted below are 21 statistics about college tuition, student loan debt and the quality of college education in the United States….

We are right on track for the next American revolution but it's a slow train so grab those fish while you can, my friends - you may need them to barter with down the road!

When I met Phil the other night, he was on fire, enraged by what he believes is the scam of the century that no one wants to talk about, because so many powerful people armed with legions of lawyers want unquestioning allegiance, and will sue you into silence.

Ben lies: we're sheep; No more; and by being sheep we suffer the heart-ache and the thousand pricing shocks unmeasured by the CPI, 'tis a consumer tax, despite what you had wish'd. Ben lies; we're sheep: living a dying dream: Aye, there's the rub; when fleecing sheep what jobs may come when we have scuttled all their buying power?

About 50% of what’s going in from the Fed now is rollover money... (The Fed) is buying 85% of the Treasury notes. They can’t stop. How could they stop? Who’s going to buy?

My big picture, we call this The Meatball Marketplace.

As competition for food supplies increases, food prices are going to go up. In fact, at some point they are going to go way up.

We are living in a weak-dollar fantasy and partying like it's Germany in early 1921 as the Gold Bug Speculators celebrate their wise investments as gold crosses 1,500 an ounce - unfortunately, the value of every other Mark-denominated asset was down 50% by the end of the year.

Things like this don't all happen at once, today just happens to be a day that the S&P happens to mention that we are standing dangerously close to the ledge. Brazil was much smaller than Greece when they defaulted in 1983 and they took the US economy down with them...

Unfortunately, when the price gets high enough, it hits an immovable object called demand destruction.