Category: Economics & Investing

Every Central Bank for Itself o o o More indications of the state of the economy and how people like you are responding to it: A SurvivalBlog reader reports that time to delivery of his PM shipments are averaging about 133 days from order to delivery. o o o Items from The Economatrix: 20 Price Increases That Are Breaking America’s Middle Class Families Retailers Still Have A Lot Of Heavy Lifting To Do Despite March Gains Russia Announces Decoupling Trade From Dollar The U.S. Dollar: Currency Masquerading as Money Goodbye American Middle Class: New Report Reveals That 62 Percent Of …

. The West’s Slow-Motion Collapse o o o Items from The Economatrix: IMF Warns U.S. Over Potentially Bumpy Exit From Extraordinary Monetary Policy Massive U.S. Credit Bureau Data Breach Has Experts Worried Real Americans Are Ready To Snap 20 Price Increases That Are Breaking America’s Middle Class Families

Economics and Investing: Why Meat Prices Will Continue To Soar – DB o o o Will There Be A Global Currency Revaluation? – FTM o o o Items from The Economatrix: For Long-Time Unemployed, Full-Time Work Is Elusive Why Companies Are Wary To Hire Long-Term Unemployed 16 Signs That Most Americans Are Not Prepared For The Coming Economic Collapse

40 Central banks are betting this will be the next reserve currency – H.L. o o o The Great Depression II o o o Items from The Economatrix: Senate Votes To Extend Jobless Benefits Jobs: Slow Recovery From Winter Lull Gold and the US Dollar Fight to the Death-Paul Craig Roberts Video: U.S. Economy on Brink of Systemic Failure

Meltdown America: A Warning From Survivors o o o The USA: Worst Government That Money Can Buy o o o Items from The Economatrix: Richard Russell – Silver & The Nastiest Stock Market In History What In The World Is Happening To The Nasdaq? Job Openings Highest In More Than Six Years For Long-Time Unemployed, Full-Time Work Is Elusive

Doug Casey on the Continuing Debasement of Money, Language and Banking in the Modern Age o o o The Lions in the Grass, Revisited Items from The Economatrix: CEO Of Liechtenstein Bank Frick Murdered In Broad Daylight (This is about the 12th bankster, if you haven’t been following it.)

US Threatens Russia Over Petrodollar-Busting Deal – C.V. o o o Renewed Estimates of Chinese Gold Demand & their Geopolitical Strategy Items from The Economatrix: Baltic Dry Drops 9th Day In A Row; Worst Q1 In Over 10 Years Nomura’s Chief Economist Richard Koo – U.S. Heading For 1900 Percent Inflation Rate This Is What Employment In America Really Looks Like… Why You Should Fear Inflation: The CPI Understates The True Nature Of Inflation. BLS Only Allocates Less Than 2 Percent To Tuition In CPI. Missing Big On The Biggest Expense In Housing.

Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Everyone Should Know – B.R. o o o How Europe is incubating an even bigger debt crisis by letting deflation take root – H.L. o o o Items from The Economatrix: Jeremy Grantham: The Fed Is Killing The Recovery Is a 1987-Type Market Crash 37 Days Away? 1,311 Trading Day After The Start Of The 1982 Bull Market That The Standard & Poor’s 500 Suffered Its Biggest One-Day Crash In History On Oct. 19, 1987. Jim Willie: Lightning Speed Global Economic Change Through System Breakdown

Bond yields to hit fresh lows as world recovery wilts, growls Saxo bear o o o Items from The Economatrix: David Stockman: “A Gang Of Unelected PhDs Have Staged An Economics Coup D’Etat” ADP Jobs Miss For 4th Month In A Row; Job Market “Emerging From Deep Winter Slumber” Says Mark Zandi Billionaire Warns: Yellen Collapse ‘Will Be Unlike Any Other’

Time to Ditch Swinging Cyclicals? o o o Bunkum of Corporate Carbon Reporting o o o Items from The Economatrix: The Real Value Of Minimum Wage Over The Years Spotlight On Economy: Falling Jobless Claims Point To Fewer Layoffs Small-Business Jobs Creation Edges Up In March: NFIB

Why Is the U.S. Dollar Collapsing in Value All of a Sudden? – C.S. o o o Why a Soft First Quarter Offers Hope – EWS o o o Across the pond: How your taxes are REALLY spent: Millions to be sent statements showing exactly where their cash goes – and a QUARTER of it pays for benefits – JBG o o o Items from The Economatrix: Underground Commerce Is The Real Economy 9 Of The Top 10 Occupations In America Pay An Average Wage Of Less Than $35,000 A Year

Market Uptrend Intact as U.S. Stocks Climb To New All-Time Highs What Does Declining Gasoline Consumption Mean? We are being lied to by the mass media. The much-vaunted “recovery” is smoke and mirrors, created by QE. Stocks are going up but in part because of the decline of the U.S. dollar as a currency unit. Welcome to the Mushroom Growth Recovery: Where the American people are being kept in the dark and fed horse manure. – JWR o o o Items from The Economatrix: We Are Nearing The Dawn Of A New Economic World Order The Odds Are Never In …

Why Are The Chinese Buying Real Estate All Over America o o o Items from The Economatrix: The Looming Retirement Train Wreck: Pension Issues, Lack Of Retirement Savings, And Extending The Date Of Retirement All Part Of The Current Economic Future. <<a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.marketwatch.com/story/yellen-feds-extraordinary-aid-to-last-for-some-time-2014-03-31-10103729″>Yellen: Economy’s Recovery Feels Like Recession To Many Mark Faber: The Old World Order Is Over $4 Trillion In “Fake” Euro Bonds Seized At Vatican Bank Martin Armstrong Warns This Is The Age Of Civil Unrest

Will Inflation Make A Comeback In 2014 – D.B. o o o Will China Choose Russia or America in the Coming War? – J.R. o o o Items from The Economatrix: Picturing Our Dystopian World – Where Less Is More The Fallacy Of Home Ownership – Why People Believe The Myth February Personal Outlays Sustained By Service Spending Surge; Durable Goods Spending Slides

Welcome to SurvivalBlog’s Precious Metals Month in Review, by Steven Chochran of Gainesville Coins. Every month, we’ll take a look at the “month that was” in precious metals (PMs), covering everything from price action to the information that’s driving the numbers. Major Factors Affecting Precious Metals Of course, the thing that dominated the news in March was Russia’s invasion of the province of Crimea in Ukraine and annexation of the area into Mother Russia. Something, that got less attention but had just as much effect on gold, was the failures in China of “shadow loan” funds. UKRAINE. Russian troops poured …