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Thursday, October 22, 2020

The Slow Venezuelization of America

 

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Is this the ‘least’ important election ever?

The New York Times, the ‘paper of record,’ recently wrote a piece called, “Venezuela, Once an Oil Giant, Reaches the End of an Era.”

The article, though 1,800+ words long, mentions only in passing the country’s “gross mismanagement” of the economy, instead placing much of the focus on the impact of U.S. sanctions. Though indeed the U.S. sanctions were undoubtedly devastating, the Venezuelan government, which has micro-managed its economy into oblivion, hasn’t done its country many favors.

Widespread political corruption, seizure of businesses, and driving out anything with a whiff of private enterprise certainly played no small part in turning the once-wealthy nation into South America’s “Hey, at least we’re not [fill in the blank].”

Hyperinflation, price controls, and barely symbolic minimum wage raises: “It’s a repeat of the never-ending cycle that we’ve been entrapped for so many years now,” says Venezuelan Christian K. Caruzo, “except now it comes with a twist: The ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has disrupted everyone’s lives and has greatly exacerbated those three heads of the socialist hydra.

“The added novelty,” Caruzo adds, “if it can be called that, is that the mandatory masks visually cover your astonishment (or lack thereof) when something you bought last week is suddenly twice as expensive.”

But, as they say…

If you can’t convince someone of their mistakes, make very similar mistakes, but double down X1,000 and really show ‘em how it’s done.

(Or something like that.)

The Slow Venezuelization of America 

“Yesterday,” our macro maven Graham Summers pointed out, “the U.S. PPI and Core PPI (two key metrics of inflation) recorded a 0.4% increase in inflation for the month of September. This sounds like a very small move until you consider that it was largely due to just one component (food inflation) surging 1.2% over the same time period.”

Even 1.2%, to the untrained eye, doesn’t sound like a big deal in the grand scheme, especially given what’s happening elsewhere in the world.

(Unless, of course, you’re already finding it difficult to put food on the table… which is, of course, tragically, true for millions of Americans.)

Whatever the case, this trend, Graham says, should be on everyone’s radar.

“Because,” he writes, “according to the Fed’s own research, food inflation is the single best predictor of future inflation in the U.S. And a 1.2% increase in a single month for food prices across the board (not just one area like meat or dairy) is a BIG deal.”

Point blank: “higher inflation is seeping into the financial system.”

Despite what it looks like on the surface, the markets aren’t completely asleep at the wheel.

“Which is why,” Graham points out, “gold has erupted higher against every major currency (the $USD, the Euro, the Swiss Franc, and the Japanese Yen).”

And why wouldn’t it? “After all, central banks and policy makers have gone NUCLEAR in their money printing in the last six months.”



One strangely-worded CNBC headline from August says it all: 

The Least Important Election… Ever?

Along this vein, John Rubino of the Dollar Collapse blog recently penned a piece on why he believes the upcoming election is the least important election of our lifetimes.

Of course, 99.99% of those who read it will vehemently disagree -- so much so, it could even spark another one of those screamy TikTok videos -- but Rubino’s point was this:

No matter who gets into office, we’ll be faced with financial turmoil on a level beyond what can reasonably be controlled, let alone turned on its heels in four years.

“The pandemic,” he wrote, “turbocharged a process of hyper-financialization that was already underway, and now whoever is in charge next will have no choice but to keep bailing out everything in sight with tens of trillions of newly created dollars.

“This,” Rubino suspects, “will shift the pressure from bankrupt states and insolvent companies to the currency. Prices will start to rise as the dollar falls. And the fears of today’s voters will seem in retrospect like quaint fantasies from a simpler and embarrassingly naïve time.”

And that’s when the true “Venezuelization” of America could occur.

Right or wrong…

You might find the conclusion of Rubino’s piece a tad more agreeable than the premise:

“Buy Gold”

We can’t predict the future. But whatever happens, you’re never without options. There are a few time-tested ways to protect yourself from any potential fallout.

One of them, of which we have long made the case, is gold.

Furthermore, our friends at the Hard Assets Alliance have long held the “skeleton key” for any investor looking for safe and simple exposure to precious metals.

All aboard the Biden Venezuela Express to socialist disaster…

What part of this Biden admission to extortion don’t Dems get-Why do these hypocrites support him?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html

 

According to PEW, 40% of US students are favorable to socialism - thanks to the Marxist teachers who have indoctrinated our kids...

SIDEBAR:

A shortage of ammunition in the U.S. is set to continue following records firearms sales this yearNewsweek reports. Reasons suggested for the high arms sales figures include uncertainty amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming presidential election, and civil unrest seen in recent months across the country. “During President [Donald] Trump's administration, the number of concealed handgun permits has soared to over 19.48 million — a 34 percent increase over 2016,” said a Crime Prevention Research Center report released earlier this month. The report also said 17 states “no longer provide data on all the people who are legally carrying a concealed handgun because people in those states no longer need a permit to carry.”

Bombshell videos reveal why Biden, Obama may 'hang for treason'

According to numerous firsthand sources and witnesses, a treasure trove of audio, video and photographic evidence exists that reveals Obama, Clinton, Brennan and Biden to be complicit in outright treason against America.

These traitors ran a multi-billion dollar payoff and bribery operation with Iran, staged the fake killing of Osama Bin Laden, then had the entire Seal Team Six that carried out the Bin Laden raid executed in a staged accident to cover up their own crimes.

See the full story and videos here.

 

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Former Twitter CEO says capitalists will be the first to be shot in the revolution

The CEO of the digital currency exchange Coinbase recently banned politics at work, and he offered generous severance packages to anyone who didn’t like that decision.

But the former CEO of Twitter from 2010-2015, Dick Costelo, thinks staying out of politics deserves a death sentence.

Costelo, apparently a recovering capitalist, tweeted: “Me-first capitalists who think you can separate society from business are going to be the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution. I’ll happily provide video commentary.”

This is what these woke Bolsheviks stand for-- death to infidels, burn the witches, off with their bourgeois heads!

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4 comments:

Bob said...

Thatcher of the UK said it best-Socialism works until you run out of other people's money!

Rona said...

My Dad always swore something was wrong w/ hippies of the 60s-they all became teachers & indoctrinated kids into Marxist madness!

Mark said...

Socialist-Dems are a disease and must be stopped. trump stands in their way & we support him!

Mark said...

After watching 'lyin Biden' last night & the many socialist efforts he plans- we need to support Trump!