Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. And it bears mention that most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today’s focus is on the national debt bomb. (See the Economy & Finance section.
Precious Metals:
Millennials And Gold: First A Car, Then A House … And Then Gold
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Large Gold Bullion Shipment Moves From London To Dublin Gold Vaults As Brexit Concerns Deepen
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How Venezuela Turns Its Useless Bank Notes Into Gold
Economy & Finance (National Debt Bomb):
Reader G.G. flagged this report at The Hill: Americans Have $1 Trillion Problem. Here is a key quote: “While large numbers defy comprehension, Americans should try to wrap their minds around the huge sums of money owed on the fastest growing segment of the federal budget. The interest expense on the national debt will hit the $1 trillion mark in a decade then become a consistent $1 trillion outlay each year. While economists generally track spending, revenues, and deficits as a share of gross domestic output, there is something to be said about the sheer magnitude of an annual interest cost of $1 trillion, and the profound effect that a bill of that size would have on the budget.” [Emphasis added]
JWR’s Comments: At this point, the best that we can hope for is to locate ourselves in the most conservative and survivalble states (such as Idaho or Montana) and hope that DC fully implodes in its own debt mess. In the aftermath constitutional conservatives could rebuild a new currency and government that is truly constitutionally-limited. That would mean: Honest, gold-backed money. Zero deficit spending. Term limits. A flat tax. The balance of power returned to the 50 states. Eliminating most Federal agencies.
The chances of that are slim. Ditto for a popular uprising. The alternative is just witnessing the continuing gradual descent into socialism, social engineering, social credit scores, eugenics via abortion, socialized medicine, civilian disarmament down to just kitchen cutlery and harsh language, a 100%-tracked (and horribly taxed) electronic currency, non-answerable and entrenched politicians-for-life, sovereign states in name only, a top tax rate of 90%, an eventual ban on privately-owned cars, a ubiquitous surveillance state—the whole Nanny State Shebang. So pray hard, folks!