- Follow Desultory Heroics on WordPress.com
-
Categories
Featured Newscasts
Follow me on Twitter
My Tweets-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Tag Archives: financial crisis
Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up
By Michael Hudson Source: The Unz Review The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse of supporting shelving is the rising … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Central bank, derivatives, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Quantitative Easing, recession, S&Ls, Silkicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, SVB, Technocracy, Treasury securities
Leave a comment
The New Normal: Death Spirals and Speculative Frenzies
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds There is an element of inevitability in play, but it isn’t about central bank bailouts, it’s about Death Spirals and the collapse of unsustainable systems. The vapid discussions about “soft” or “hard” … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Autocracy, Bailouts, central banks, currency devaluation, Death Spirals, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, New Normal, Oligarchy, Titanic
Leave a comment
Prepare to Be Bled Dry by a Decade of Stagflation
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The Great Moderation of low inflation and soaring assets has ended. Welcome to the death by a thousand cuts of stagflation. It was all so easy in the good old days of the past 25 years: … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged A Great Stagflation, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Hyper-financialization, hyper-globalization, Inflation, stagflation
Leave a comment
The Cost Of Living Has Become Extremely Oppressive And 57 Percent Of Americans Cannot Afford A $1,000 Emergency Expense
By Michael Snyder Source: Activist Post I don’t have to tell you that your money doesn’t go as far as it once did. You see it every time that you go shopping. Our leaders flooded the system with money and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Cost of Living, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, food crisis, Housing Crisis, Inflation, McDonalds, Technocracy, Unilever
2 Comments
A Dollar Collapse Is Now In Motion – Saudi Arabia Signals The End Of Petro Status
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.us The decline of a currency’s world reserve status is often a long process rife with denials. There are numerous economic “experts” out there that have been dismissing any and all warnings of dollar collapse for … Continue reading
Posted in Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Carlyle Group, CBDCs, China, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, Gold Reserves, Inflation, Mohammed Bin Salman, PIF, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US Dollar, Xi Jinping
1 Comment
De-Dollarization Accelerates: The Beginning of the End for US Dollar Hegemony in Southeast Asia?
By Timothy Alexander Guzman Source: Silent Crow News The US is facing major moves by the global community to de-dollarize their economies. The reserve status of the US dollar will eventually come to an end, maybe not anytime soon, but … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Africa, Cambodia, CEIP, China, devaluation, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, Russia, US Dollar
2 Comments
An Inconvenient Revolution
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Convenience isn’t just about small appliances. It’s also about ruling nations. Let’s start with the semantics of ruling nations. Some labels might be viewed as somewhat inflammatory (Kleptocracy, anyone?), so let’s stick with … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, police state, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Big Tech, capitalism, Convenience, Corruption, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, opting out, Rebellion, Revolution, Ruling Elites, Social Media, surveillance state, Technocracy
Leave a comment
Ransacking the World Economy until ‘You’ll Own Nothing’ (Part 2)
The Coup de Grâce–>The Great Reset By Robert J. Burrowes Building on millennia of learning how to structure and manage an economy to accumulate and consolidate control and wealth in particular hands, as explained in Part 1 of this investigation, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, Inequality, NATO, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Bill Gates, BIS, Catherine Austin Fitts, CBDC, central banks, CIA, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, Cryptocurrency, culture, Digital Currency, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, food crisis, Food Security, G20, geopolitics, Global Elite, Klaus Schwab, NATO, propaganda, society, Technocracy, The Great Reset, Transhumanism, WEF
1 Comment