Category: Economics & Investing

Something Stunning Is Taking Place Off The Coast Of Singapore – “I’ve been coming to Singapore once a year for the last 15 years, and flying in I have never seen the waters so full of idle tankers,” – B.B. o o o JWR’s interview on the Kennedy Financial Podcast: Ep. 53-JAMES WESLEY, RAWLES, Capitalism, Gold, Silver & MORE! o o o 407,000 Workers Stunned As Pension Fund Proposes 60% Cuts, Treasury Says “Not Enough” – B.B. o o o Preparing For Much Higher Gold And Silver Prices o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors …

Balance Due: Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic – G.G. o o o Swift Banking Network Struggles With Wave of Cyberattacks – It would be prudent to have cash, even when traveling around. Local banks might take an outage if the Swift network goes down. – P.S. o o o Crony Capitalism And The Feudal America Of Trump And Clinton – J.B. o o o Two-Thirds Of Americans Would Struggle To Cover $1,000 Emergency – G.G. o o o The Biggest Winner Of The Oil Bust: Interview With Aeromexico – Airlines have thrived throughout the oil bust …

Huge Trend Changes Point To Something Big In The Gold Market o o o The Coming Catastrophic Collapse Of The American Middle Class – B.B. o o o U.S. debt dump deepens in 2016 – B.B. o o o A third of cash is held by 5 U.S. companies o o o Extreme rental living in Los Angeles: Want to live in a van, near the river? Or maybe a RV is more your taste? o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Landlords Are Catching Retail’s Cold – RBS o o o In some towns, the strip malls can’t die fast enough – RBS (Warning: This site may require a login to access.) o o o Texas shelters, churches fear sudden influx of Cuban migrants will overwhelm them – W.C. o o o Obama on track to double national debt – B.B. o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Fed Puts June Rate Increase on Table Provided Economy Says Go – For your daily comedic relief, it’s amazing what these folks will say with a straight face. o o o SurvivalBlog and …

Hugh, The the Amazon story is great. I have very little time and live in a rural area. By using Amazon I save a lot of time and money. I also can’t say enough for the customer comments. However, my comment is more advice to anyone who wants to sell on Amazon. I am in the wine business, and it’s very regulated. However, with the recent changes of state-by-state shipping laws, we can now ship direct to 38 states. Along comes Amazon and BOOM my sales with them have skyrocketed. Not to say, they are way easier to deal with …

Stan Druckenmiller: The Bull Market Is Exhausted; Make The Move To Gold o o o Why new overtime rules will raise payroll costs for employers of all sizes – RBS o o o The effects of raised minimum wages now begins to hit: Wendy’s Serves Up Big Kiosk Expansion As Wage Hikes Hit Fast Food – That $15/hr wage doesn’t do you any good when you lose the job to a worker that never goes on strike or complains. – P.S. o o o The Humungous Depression o o o Once upon a time, there was a middle class: This …

Our National Debt Will Grow To $31 Trillion by 2023 o o o Watch Venezuela, Because Food Shortages, Looting And Economic Collapse Are Coming To America Too – Submitted by B.B. o o o Burlington College Feels the Bern! Will Close Thanks to Crushing Debt Acquired by Mrs. Bernie Sanders – B.P. o o o Graham Summers: The Fed Is Finally Coming Clean About Inflation o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Squatters in Las Vegas and all the problems that come with them. – P.S. o o o OFFICIAL SOURCE: Global Silver Supply Deficit Surges On Revised Data o o o Pew Research Study – The American Middle Class Declined in 90% of Metro Areas From 2000-2014 – H.L. o o o Legend Warns Risk Of Total Global Collapse Is Greater Today Than Any Time In History – G.G. o o o Cyberattacks on Swift financial network ‘worthy of freaking out’ about: ex-Treasury official o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our …

Items from Professor Preponomics: US News Restructuring the National Debt (Mises) Excerpt: “US presidential candidate Donald Trump made more waves yesterday by suggesting he might attempt to reduce the US national debt by renegotiating with creditors.” …and of course there is follow up! From Zero Hedge… Trump on Debt Renegotiation: “You Never Have to Default Because You Print the Money” Warning: Commentary following article may contain bad language and/or inappropriate avatars. Puerto Rican Debt Crisis is Coming to a Head (Barrons) Excerpt: “Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank, which plays a key role in the island’s finances, defaulted on $3.9 billion …

Jeff Gundlach: I See The S&P 500 Going To 1,600 o o o Pension Debt Exceeds 40k Per Household o o o Japan: An Economy of Zeros o o o Soaring Silver ETFs to Snap Up as Metals Shine o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

J.C. Penney Still On Bankruptcy Path o o o Physical Gold Flows East as Manipulated Paper Markets Lose Credibility o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Raw Venezuela: Looter Burned Alive, While “Streets Filled With People Killing Animals For Food” – We really have been hid from what is going on in this collapsing country…. Stop Blaming Consumers, They Can’t Help It! Former Brazilian Soccer Star: Don’t Come To The Rio Olympics – This will be interesting and yet another collapsing economy, maybe not as bad as Venezuela Senate Appropriations Bill Spends More Than Obama Requested – A Republican Senate …

Frank Holmes: Gold Is Crushing It So Far this Year o o o Soaring Silver ETFs to Snap Up as Metals Shine o o o Items from Professor Preponomics: US News Free Markets Do Not Need Negative Interest Rates (Mises) Excerpt: “An almost line-by-line critique of this article would be necessary, for the arguments in it are so ill-conceived and fallacious that it is hard to ignore them.” Freddie Mac Narrowly Avoids Tapping Treasury for Money (Washington Examiner) Excerpt: “Lawmakers and officials have been concerned that, as government stewardship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stretches into an eighth year, …