People are starting to catch on. First, how it is surfacing:
(Zero Hedge) ...”traders are paying bumper premiums for immediate supply” … “Commodities are severely undersupplied” … “The shortage of, well, everything has translated into record price of virtually all commodities: the Bloomberg Commodity Spot Index, which tracks 23 energy, metals and crop futures, has touched a record this year. That has been driven in part by surging oil prices, which have hit their highest level since 2014.” (read more)
CTH readers are specifically well positioned to understand what is happening in the background we have discussed two specific issues:
(1) In any era of hyper-inflation, we always see the advanced purchasing of inventory for profit. Meaning, when prices are quickly rising multinationals use their size and power over commodity goods to store, physically or through contracted future purchases, goods that are held until a specific target price is reached and then sold for a bigger profit. In 2022 the “supply chain disruption” is being used as a cover.
(2) In the modern era, the major multinationals control the supply of originating products. There’s no such thing as a free market. In the modern era it is a controlled market.
Long before the word “inflation” hit the 2021 headlines, April/May of last year, CTH specifically identified where we are right now.
In the background right now, the multinationals are exploiting the two issues above. The Zero Hedge article “Shortages of Everything” is discussing the surfacing symptom, i.e. goods traders willing to pay premium prices to secure inventories, not necessarily the root cause.
All of these current outcomes are the results of a predictable sequence of events once you understand the correct cornerstone.
CTH has been asked to revisit that foundational aspect so that current events are given a clearer and more predictable context.
Many Americans are recently awake to the singular ideology that surrounds DC politics. The UniParty political fraud also applies to our political economy.
However, just like the election, understanding the deception in modern economics means understanding previous false and promoted assumptions.
Economically speaking, Bernie Sanders supporters and the various left-wing advocates therein, are correct in stating the greatest financial and economic benefits have been delivered to the top 2% wealthiest people, the Wall Street class per se’.
Factually, while not resenting the wealth, most intellectually honest conservatives admit this is also the current reality. The wealth disparity in the U.S. increased substantially over the past two decades. It was only under the economic policy of Donald Trump, when the wealth gap actually began to close for the first time in decades.
Additionally, the professional political class would like both sides on the political continuum to continue disunity, argument/disagreement on the outcome and avoid discussing the root cause. It is within a comprehensive understanding of the root cause where Americans find unity.
We’ve already discussed how two entirely divergent economies, a Wall Street economy, and a Main Street economy, were created by exploitation of financial interests and the accompanying legislative priorities.
Regardless of mid-1980’s political motives, the result was the creation of two entirely disconnected economies. The professional political class merely pandered to the demands of their most influential legislative donors. Hence, TARP, Bailouts, etc.
Main Street’s economy was/is a more traditional economy, based on “Americanism” and economic patriotism. Wall Street’s economy is purely financial (mostly paper) and based on the multinational financial instruments that underline “Globalism“.
This is not to say that all Wall Street engagements or activities are bad, they are not. Financial instruments and corporate interests have a large place within our traditional economy. However, global financial instruments may, or may not, have a similar positive influence.
Given the historic rise of global corporatism and massive multinationals, it’s easy to spot the inherent anti-nationalist sensibility. Wealth doesn’t spread without a spreader; and American wealth doesn’t spread, without an American wealth spreader.
So, we end up with two economies, which, over time, have grown further and further apart. The wealth disparity between the middle class and the “well off” class, tracks identically with the separation of these two economies. – SEE HERE –
[…] there had to be a point where the value of the second economy (Wall Street) surpassed the value of the first economy (Main Street). [This important acceptance is just common sense. The U.S. GDP is currently around $20 trillion, but the total valuation of the Wall Street stock market is much larger than our GDP. Wall Street is more valuable than Main Street. It is a simple albeit important reality to accept.]
Investments, and the bets therein, needed to expand outside of the USA. Hence, globalist investing.
However, a second more consequential aspect happened simultaneously. The politicians became more valuable to the Wall Street team than the Main Street team; and Wall Street had deeper pockets because their economy was now larger.
As a consequence, Wall Street started funding political candidates and asking for legislation that benefited their interests.
When Main Street was purchasing the legislative influence, the outcomes were beneficial to Main Street, and by direct attachment those outcomes also benefited the average American inside the real economy.
When Wall Street began purchasing the legislative influence, the outcomes therein became beneficial to Wall Street. Those benefits are detached from improving the livelihoods of main street Americans because the benefits are “global” needs. Global financial interests, investment interests, are now the primary filter through which the DC legislative outcomes are considered.
There is a natural disconnect. (more)
President Trump was confronting multinational corporations and the global constructs of economic systems that were put in place to the detriment of the host (USA), ie YOU. There are trillions at stake. It is all about the economics; everything else is chaff and countermeasures.
The road to a “service-driven economy” is paved with a great disparity between financial classes. The wealth gap is directly related to the inability of the middle class to thrive.
Elite financial interests, including those within Washington DC, gain wealth and power. The U.S. workforce is reduced to servitude – “service”, of their affluent needs.
The destruction of the U.S. industrial and manufacturing base is EXACTLY WHY the middle class has struggled, and exactly why the wealth gap exploded in the past 30 years.
Behind this dynamic, we find the international corporate and financial interests who were inherently at risk from President Trump’s “America-First” economic and trade platform. Believe it or not, President Trump was up against an entire world economic establishment. Conversely, Joe Biden is an ally of the multinational corporations.
When we understand how trade works in the modern era, we understand why the agents within the system are so adamantly opposed to U.S. President Trump.
♦The biggest lie in modern economics, willingly spread and maintained by corporate media, is that a system of global markets still exists.
It doesn’t.
Every element of global economic trade is controlled and exploited by massive institutions, multinational banks and multinational corporations. Institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Bank control trillions of dollars in economic activity.
Underneath that economic activity, there are people who hold the reins of power over the outcomes. These individuals and groups are the stakeholders in direct opposition to principles of America-First national economics. Collectively they are known as “The Big Club”.
The modern financial constructs of these entities have been established over the course of the past three decades. When you understand how they manipulate the economic system of individual nations, you begin to understand why they are so fundamentally opposed to President Trump.
In the Western World, separate from communist control perspectives (i.e. China), “Global markets” are a modern myth, nothing more than a talking point meant to keep people satiated with sound bites they might find familiar. Global markets have been destroyed over the past three decades by multinational corporations who control the products formerly contained within global markets.
The same is true for “Commodities Markets”. The multinational trade and economic system, run by corporations and multinational banks, now controls the product outputs of independent nations. The free market economic system has been usurped by entities who create what is best described as ‘controlled markets’.
U.S. President Trump understood what had taken place. He used economic leverage as part of a broader national security policy; and to understand who opposes President Trump specifically because of the economic leverage he creates, it becomes important to understand the objectives of the global and financial elite who run and operate the institutions. The Big Club.
Understanding how trillions of trade dollars influence geopolitical policy, we begin to understand the three-decade global financial construct they seek to retain and protect.
That is, global financial exploitation of national markets.
FOUR BASIC ELEMENTS:
♦Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national outputs (harvests and raw materials), and ancillary industries of developed industrial western nations. {example}
♦The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks. (*note* in China it is the communist government underwriting the purchase)
♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
♦With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.
Against the backdrop of President Trump confronting China, and against the backdrop of NAFTA renegotiated, and against the necessary need to support the key U.S. steel and aluminum industries, revisiting the economic influences within the modern import/export dynamic will help conceptualize the issues at the heart of the matter.
There is a myriad of interests within each trade sector that make specific explanation very challenging; however, here’s the basic outline.
For three decades economic “globalism” has advanced, quickly. Everyone accepts this statement, yet few actually stop to ask who and what are behind this – and why?
Again, I’ll try to retain the larger altitude perspective without falling into the traps of the esoteric weeds. I freely admit this is tough to explain and I may not be successful.
Bulletpoint #1: ♦ Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national elements of developed industrial western nations.
This is perhaps the most challenging to understand. In essence, thanks specifically to the way the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established in 1995, national companies expanded their influence into multiple nations across a myriad of industries and economic sectors (energy, agriculture, raw earth minerals, etc.). This is the basic underpinning of national companies becoming multinational corporations.
Think of these multinational corporations as global entities now powerful enough to reach into multiple nations -simultaneously- and purchase controlling interests in a single economic commodity.
A historic reference point might be the original multinational enterprise – energy via oil production. (Exxon, Mobil, BP, etc.)
However, in the modern global world, it’s not just oil; the resource and product procurement extend to virtually every possible commodity and industry. From the very visible (wheat/corn) to the obscure (small minerals, and even flowers).
Bulletpoint #2 ♦ The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks.
During the past several decades national companies merged. The largest lemon producer company in Brazil, merges with the largest lemon company in Mexico, merges with the largest lemon company in Argentina, merges with the largest lemon company in the U.S., etc. etc. National companies, formerly of one nation, become “continental” companies with control over an entire continent of nations.
…. or it could be over several continents or even the entire world market of Lemon/Widget production. These are now multinational corporations. They hold interests in specific segments (this example lemons) across a broad variety of individual nations.
National laws on Monopoly building are not the same in all nations. Most are not as structured as the U.S.A or other more developed nations (with more laws). During the acquisition phase, when encountering a highly developed nation with monopoly laws, the process of an umbrella corporation might be needed to purchase the targeted interests within a specific nation. The example of Monsanto applies here.
Bulletpoint #3 ♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
With control of the majority of actual lemons, the multinational corporation now holds a different set of financial values than a local farmer or national market. This is why commodities exchanges are essentially dead.
In the aggregate, the mercantile exchange is no longer a free or supply-based market; it is now a controlled market exploited by mega-sized multinational corporations.
Instead of the traditional ‘supply/demand’ equation determining prices, the corporations look to see what nations can afford what prices. The supply of the controlled product is then distributed to the country according to their ability to afford the price. This is essentially the bastardized and politicized function of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This is also how the corporations controlling WTO policy maximize profits.
Back to the lemons. A multinational corporation might hold the rights to the majority of the lemon production in Brazil, Argentina and California/Florida. The price the U.S. consumer pays for the lemons is directed by the amount of inventory (distribution) the controlling corporation allows in the U.S.
If the U.S. lemon harvest is abundant, the controlling interests will export the product to keep the U.S. consumer spending at peak or optimal price. A U.S. customer might pay $2 for a lemon, a Mexican customer might pay .50¢, and a Canadian $1.25.
The bottom-line issue is the national supply (in this example ‘harvest/yield’) is not driving the national price, because the supply is now controlled by massive multinational corporations.
The mistake people often make is calling this a “global commodity” process. In the modern era this “global commodity” phrase is particularly nonsense.
A true global commodity is a process of individual nations harvesting/creating a similar product and bringing that product to a global market. Individual nations each independently engaged in creating a similar product.
Under modern globalism this process no longer takes place. It’s a complete fraud. Massive multinational corporations control the majority of production inside each nation and therefore control the global product market and price. It is a controlled system.
EXAMPLE: Part of the lobbying in the food industry is to advocate for the expansion of U.S. taxpayer benefits to underwrite the costs of the domestic food products they control. By lobbying DC, these multinational corporations get congress and policy-makers to expand the basis of who can use Food Stamps, EBT and SNAP benefits (state reimbursement rates).
Expanding the federal subsidy for food purchases is part of the corporate profit dynamic.
With increased taxpayer subsidies, the food price controllers can charge more domestically and export more of the product internationally. Taxes, via subsidies, go into their profit margins. The corporations then use a portion of those enhanced profits in contributions to the politicians. It’s a circle of money.
In highly developed nations this multinational corporate process requires the corporation to purchase the domestic political process (as above) with individual nations allowing the exploitation in varying degrees. As such, the corporate lobbyists pay hundreds of millions to politicians for changes in policies and regulations, one sector, one product, or one industry at a time. These are specialized lobbyists.
It is ironic when we discuss corporate financial payments to government officials in foreign countries we call them corrupt. However, in the United States we call it lobbying, the process is exactly the same.
EXAMPLE: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
CFIUS is an inter-agency committee authorized to review transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person (“covered transactions”), in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States.
CFIUS operates pursuant to section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) (section 721) and as implemented by Executive Order 11858, as amended, and regulations at 31 C.F.R. Part 800.
The CFIUS process has been the subject of significant reforms over the past several years. These include numerous improvements in internal CFIUS procedures, enactment of FINSA in July 2007, amendment of Executive Order 11858 in January 2008, revision of the CFIUS regulations in November 2008, and publication of guidance on CFIUS’s national security considerations in December 2008 (more)
Bulletpoint #4 ♦ With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.
The process of charging the U.S. consumer more for a product, that under normal national market conditions would cost less, is a process called exfiltration of wealth. This is the basic premise, the cornerstone, behind the catchphrase ‘globalism’.
It is never discussed.
To control the market price, some contracted product may even be secured and shipped with the intent to allow it to sit idle (or rot). It’s all about controlling the price and maximizing the profit equation. To gain the same $1 profit, a widget multinational might have to sell 20 widgets in El-Salvador (.25¢ each), or two widgets in the U.S. ($2.50/each).
Think of the process like the historic reference of OPEC (Oil Producing Economic Countries). Only in the modern era massive corporations are playing the role of OPEC, and it’s not oil being controlled. Thanks to the WTO it’s almost everything.
Again, this is highlighted in the example of taxpayers subsidizing the food sector (EBT, SNAP etc.), the corporations can charge U.S. consumers more. Ex. more beef is exported, red meat prices remain high at the grocery store, but subsidized U.S. consumers can better afford the high prices.
Of course, if you are not receiving food payment assistance (middle class), you can’t eat the steaks because you can’t afford them. (Not accidentally, it’s the same scheme in the ObamaCare healthcare system)
Agriculturally, multinational corporate Monsanto says: ‘all your harvests are belong to us‘. Contract with us, or you lose, because we can control the market price of your end product. Downside is that once you sign that contract, you agree to terms that are entirely created by the financial interests of the larger corporation, not your farm.
The multinational agriculture lobby is massive. We willingly feed the world as part of the system; but you as a grocery customer pay more per unit at the grocery store because domestic supply no longer determines domestic price.
Within the agriculture community, the (feed-the-world) production export factor also drives the need for labor. Labor is a cost. The multinational corps have a vested interest in low labor costs. Ergo, open border policies. (i.e. willingly purchased Republicans not supporting border wall etc.).
This corrupt economic manipulation/exploitation applies over multiple sectors, and even in the sub-sector of an industry like steel. China/India purchases the raw material, coking coal, then sells the finished good (rolled steel) back to the global market at a discount. Or it could be rubber, or concrete, or plastic, or frozen chicken parts etc.
The ‘America First’ Trump-Trade Doctrine upset the entire construct of this multinational export/control dynamic. Team Trump focused exclusively on bilateral trade deals, with specific trade agreements targeted toward individual nations (not national corporations).
‘America-First’ was a specific policy at a granular product level looking out for the national interests of the United States, U.S. workers, U.S. companies and U.S. consumers.
Under President Trump’s trade and tariff positions, balanced and fair trade with strong regulatory control over national assets. Exfiltration of U.S. national wealth was essentially stopped.
This put many current multinational corporations, globalists who previously took a stake-hold in the U.S. economy with intention to export the wealth, in a position of holding contracted interest of an asset they couldn’t exploit.
Perhaps now we understand better how massive multi-billion multinational corporations, the World Economic Forum and the political institutions they pay for, were/are aligned against President Trump; and they would never relent in their need to see the risk he/we represents destroyed.
In 2022 it surfaces like this:
In the early 1900’s there were significant monopolies in rail, steel, and oil. They were owned by tycoons like Rockefeller and Carnegie.
These monopolies were eventually broken up and laws were passed to prevent such things from reoccurring. But as usual, laws are ignored and words are invented which are then used to do the same thing under a different label. It’s obvious and pathetic but it suits the elite so nothing happens.
All the monopolies that have arisen to control commodities and other aspects of the supply chain should again be broken up. Moreover, Paul Ryan’s “corporate person” legislation that gave multinationals free license to engage in politics should be rescinded. Finally, personal criminal liability should be imposed on all senior management and boards of directors as regarding corporate actions that violate the law.
“Corporate person” legislation made Oligarchs all-powerful and subjugated the middle & working classes by neutering their Voting Power with Corporate-Person Donations and cancelling their Rights & Freedoms.
Some “persons” are more equal than others.
We know exactly what animates these people, all manner of evil.
And don’t forget that de-growthers see hyperinflation as a good way to slow consumption. None of this is accidental.
And the most excitement of late for “de-growthers” are for engineered viruses to DEPOPULATE the world to THEIR satisfaction. Find out yourself: do an internet search on certain names + “DEPOPULATE”. Names like Gates, Schwab, Rockefeller, Oprah yields some interesting reads.
“These monopolies were eventually broken up …”
That was when America had a homogeneous WASP ruling class capable of, after protracted struggle, policing itself because it was in their collective best interest. That ruling class was destroyed by the current (what we now call) multicultural ruling class that conquered and displaced them by the late 1960’s.
Authority is not the same thing as power. There are certainly plenty of WASP’s in authority (example: Congress) but they are overwhelmingly employees who do what they are told by those with power. They are puppets who dance on strings made of money for the financialists who have the power to print as much fiat currency as they need for bribes and incentives to ensure that institutions with authority stay under their control. It’s why they hated President Trump so much: he didn’t need or want their money so they had no leverage over him.
So, these new monopolies are not going to be broken up by the current multicultural ruling class. They are not going to reform the system by destroying the very monopolies over which they are all fighting each other for control. We need a new ruling class which embraces the civilizational mission of ending international corporatism.
Thank you for the analysis and summary of our current economic situation!
Capitalism as defined with the term “free markets” has not existed for 90 years, i.e. since The New Deal and its deliberate interference in markets and the general economy, distorting everything from production to consumption.
One could also easily date the end of free markets with the 16th Amendment, a class-warfare law which was originally promised only to “tax the rich,” but which now has a massive bureaucracy and a massive, inscrutable tax code to confiscate as much wealth from ALL Americans as possible.
The “fruits of our labors” shrivel as too much of the tree’s fruit goes to local, state, and federal governments!
I will write more later about how this will undoubtedly collapse under its own impossible sustainability.
Repost from yesterday:
“METACISM” – The Metastasizing Malignancy that’s globalizing Communism, Fascism and Totalitarianism in a Metaverse that integrates Transhumanism.
The roll-out of METACISM is relentlessly accelerating
METACISM will metastasize throughout humanity unless the PEOPLE “Take the Money” and “Excise the METACIST CABAL”.
“Oligopoly-Impoverishment” of the middle & working classes.
”under UniParty-Enablement” [aka Congressional insider-trading]
”through Bureaucratic-Weaponization” [aka SEC neglect & AG/DA non-prosecution]
We’ve seen that movie. The details of creating the Metacistic world were missing, but the results were at least symbolically the same.
Don’t complain about the price of food with your mouth full.
“Believe it or not, President Trump was up against an entire world economic establishment”
proof – we saw what their Forum did to us.
Yes he was,
Trump was fighting against this entire conglomerate practically alone and with many deceivers and traitors everyone was against him.
Trump is as favorable popular as he has ever been. Not just in the United States but all over the World. TRUTH SOCIAL is going to be a huge success. and along with it the United States Constitution.
People are waking-up and the Canadian Truck Convoy is a visual for many people to see and identify. None of this is just one thing. It is a movement of many parts. It becomes a “feeling”.
i agree. the America Experiment going contagious across the world will weaken small group controlling large populations.
Have you seen the videos of people in Italy who are boycotting the “Green Pass” restaurants and are eating their own food out in the streets in front of said restaurants?! Picnic parties at night, in the cold. Just one example, but people want FREEDOM!!!
Yes, this is just the beginning although it has been a work in progress since the day Trump came down the escalator. Things are going to be moving along at a quicker pace from now on. This is not about just one Nation, but Nations around the World.
People have to feel embolden and not the “Woe is me” mind-set. The “Woe is me” mind-set is a guaranteed failure. Too many Americans have become the “Woe is me” variety.
The Canadians are demonstrating another option. I hope Americans begin to see and feel it.
I think we feel it. The J6 sent a chilling message. We need to get over it, the Canadians articulated it eloquently. More terrorist tactics – the threat to come after Americans who donated.
One group was fully on his side even though they were doubters in the beginning and that was his economic team. Unlike many groups there were still economists who believed more in money answers and solutions than political answers and solutions. They found out almost all of their economic answers had been wrong and President Trump’s economic answers were correct. Since they were not political Marxist they believed in numbers and results. It was wonderful to see them in action once they were fully on board. If only he’d had that kind of help from so many others around him.
trump was up against the republican and democrat parties.
Always has been a good article to read concerning the current and past international trade dynamics.
Refining and adding ongoing details fills in more about the big picture, where it has been, and will go.
Your essays should be included in the historical record as being invaluable.
i’d like an article or some insight on why China was starving under PDJT.
TARFU.
Things
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First, I cite the “Chicago School” of business. The Chicago Cubs were know to sell their tickets to scalpers, knowing they could beenfit from the markup of their popularity.
2ndly, I cite the electronics industry, my wheelhouse. We have growing evidence that component “brokers” scooped up tons of semiconductors before all chaos broke out, and the semi firms were complicit in the deal. These knuckleheads come calling now, trying to interest me in the latest technology, and I ask , “Why should I design in THAT new thing, when you cannot even keep your ship date commitments made 18 months ago?”
I came to trust no one.
Finally, Sundance’s report makes everything make sense.
Gee, is it just a coincidence that the product where we have all known for some time that what Sundance describes was going on, on steroids?
PHARMACUETICALS, of coarse! Big Pharm. A pill that costs $10 in U.S. costs $0.50 in Mexico or India.
And why? Well in part because in Mexico and India, you don’t need a Rx.
And then we wonder why so many Drs “go along with” the scamdemic?
Sheesh!
I spent this year completing a construction project, just to keep my mind off of everything else going on. I have dealt with shortages of so many things, it would take an hour for me to type the list. I have had to make changes to whatever I could get. In some cases things worked out better. However, all the contractors are saying the same thing. They have been pulling from inventory in the USA for the last year. Their warehouses are empty. They spend part of their week shopping at every Lowes, Home Depot and small town hardware stores to gobble up whatever they can’t get, professionally. Which is now taking inventory away from do it yourselfers. The shortages are going to get worse. We should have all learned to stock up on supplies during this coup d’etat. Remember, if they hadn’t stolen the election, none of this would be happening. They are, literally, doing everything WE voted against by a super majority! Our entire government has gone rogue. The world’s bad actors needed US out of the way to further their world domination goals. This is WW III.
Amen
It is WWIII. The sooner we realize that it is all a manufactured crisis and done purposefully, the sooner we can get on about the business of getting creative. A shortage of “everything” is going to be extremely frustrating. Every day, as I go through my day, whatever I do, whatever product or tool I use, I think “okay, what if this is not available tomorrow, what are my options?” Sundance’s post about making one’s own laundry detergent was just a sliver of a sliver of what we should be thinking about.
While securing food stores (and a way to grow food) is the critical first step, we can’t store everything we could possibly need for the next decade. This has caused me to think differently about everything. Tools, well made, good, manual, tools become very important. If I can’t buy something, I’m going to have to be able to fix what I have, etc.
An oldie, but a goodie: https://survivalblog.com/2005/09/04/start-with-a-list-of-lists/
Making a List of Lists sounds very overwhelming to someone new to “prepping” for an extended disaster. Don’t look at it that way. Just pick a category and work on it. Don’t let the realization that things are falling apart paralyze you. Keep walking forward. You must. Godspeed y’all. God wins in the End.
survivalblog is a very good website loaded with a lot of information…
Estate sales are a great resource. 👍🏻👍🏻
They should have been paying attention…
“We’re out of everything!”
https://mobile.twitter.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/1490644117575114753
absolutely depressing reading that person’s IQ on these topics – I feel like we are in twilight zone.
people should be aware of CTH – it could save them years.
I don’t have a twit account but someone with access ought to reply to her: “Looks like y’all ran out of analytical forward-thinking abilities a few years back. “
The only thing missing from Sundance’s essay is his own very accurate description of the desired end game … an up-side down fascist system, with Financiers holding CENTRALIZED Control over National Government Franchises.
That’s right, National Governments become FRANCHISES of the Global Financial System. Like a business with divisions and franchises they compete, merge and seek to be the top dog in terms of profitable operation. Then go back to Sundance’s article from yesterday where he describes the US Government as a “BUSINESS”.
Even the likes of avowed Communists like Sanders is a Businessman seeking more of the money pie. Notice that Comrade Obama is building his 3rd Multi-Million dollar home in Hawaii.
Communism is merely a useful ideology. Communists do NOT practice communism.
Yes so true, it just a name to sucker in followers. It has been that way for over 100 years, since 1917, where ever Socialism-Communism has been installed. It is always ideas and promises to sucker in the weak minded who never match performance to words.
Again, this is why Civics is no longer taught, our History is being destroyed and critical thinking is no longer required in out education system. These spawn the questions; what, when where, why, how, etc. that totalitarians cannot tolerate if they are to survive.
CONmunism.
Does anyone writing today even remotely compare to our dear Sundance? Hell no! My sincere prayer is that DJT and his inner circle are in direct daily communication with CTH. Also Durham better use this forum . And as long as I am praying, how about Sundance or partners make a
Cliff Notes version of his screeds to entice a wider reading audience. God bless Sundance!
The Last Refuge on twatter is the Cliff Notes, seems to me.
Amen, Amen,
Amen
This^^^^^^^
So what does everyone think? When is this going to actually collapse? When are people going to start bouncing checks even though they just got paid this weem? I’m not seeing any shortages in my area and it seems that those around me are acting as if everything is going to be fine.
I think a lot of the treepers are prepared now and just wondering when the music is going to stop. Its hard to keep doing business eveeyday with something so terrible looming ahead.
I’m starting to think its entirely possible for the middle class to completely collapse and the stock market doesn’t react at all.
A false assumptions is that there is going to be a “crash and collapse”. Nothing could be further from the truth. Does it make even the smallest bit of sense that after effecting a Global System the Puppet Masters will let it collapse??
Then there is the perverse fact that if the Puppet Masters have to back off their plans and delay parts or even all of it, they can and will, while still holding their very same level of importance to finance progress. History points to this being a fact.
I believe your last sentence is confirmed by the Main Street vs Wall Street exemplified by Sundance
“…its entirely possible for the middle class to completely collapse and the stock market doesn’t react at all.”
That’s exactly the end objective that the Globalists have been trying to achieve as part of their “Great Reset.”
The vaxx was supposed to achieve most of that but it failed to kill enough people. So now they figure they’ll starve the middle class from having normal access to basic necessities until we beg to be their permanent servant class slaves.
So how do we de-couple? As individuals how can we create a second economy or shadow economy? Barter? Bitcoin? Private markets where items (food, services, manufactured goods) can be sold directly to individuals and business? There needs to be a lending system that could finance the existing and start-up businesses outside of the Big Club who would naturally want to crush any competition.
The first major battle to be won is for National Governments like the “5-Eyes” to keep their capitalistic identity and above all THE POWER TO SET VALUE & EXCHANGE RATES OF A NATIONAL CURRENCY.
The number one objective of the Globalists is the gaining total control over the ability to set value and exchange rates.
That is why the 5 -Eyes national Governments, especially the US, have to be destroyed or brought under control.
This is so that BEFORE we are lost to communist rule and OWNERSHIP, we will be unable to blame communism for our suffering. “You can’t blame Communism! This happened before the Democratic Communist Party took control to save the people!”
They want to destroy the economy in order to make way for a communist party to take over and “save the people.”
Do you think the “Great Depression” was an accident? Do you think the solutions to the problems created by the great depression were an accident?
Similarly, do you think the patriot act was created “AFTER” 9/11?
Patterns.
Yes…they want to destroy the economy and blame it on the failure of Capitalism, pushing a Socialist agenda of price controls….all the while blaming Repubs as the party of Capitalism.
To complete this task they will have to crater the Stock Market…insiders of the scheme will profit tremendously from shorting positions…the rest of us will suffer.
Sundance mentions CFIUS. Another federal statute of interest is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Essentially, it is supposed to prohibit activities in foreign countries that would be illegal here, even if they are standard practice in the foreign country. An example would be if you were attempting to win a contract in a foreign country and had to pay a bribe to the purchaser – it was standard behavior there – it is still illegal because it is “illegal” in the U.S. You can be prosecuted here. Understand, you will likely only be prosecuted if you were of the wrong political persuasion (e.g., non-uniparty aka MAGA). Sundance does such a wonderful job explaining the co-opting of the markets. We need fair, bi-lateral trade agreements and dissolution of the WTO and WEF. Send them packing with the UN.
I’m very probusiness so don’t take this any other way. One other thing about an inflationary environment that doesn’t often get discussed is that it makes it easier to raise prices, so many will, even when not facing increasing costs. Something that would have never happened during the deflationary environment that existed under President Trump.
Inflation will indeed impact greed.
Until we make it illegal to bribe congress nothing will get fixed, nothing.
Congress writes laws which specifically enables their own corruption.
What we need is a constitutional amendment which requires ANY law which excludes the congress from being subject to or specifically benefits the congress, must be approved by the executive, reviewed by the judiciary AND is voted on by the public of eligible citizens.
At the moment, we just have legislators voting themselves raises and the ability to legally trade with inside knowledge and many other things they shouldn’t be enabled to do.
Didn’t Sundance say the corporations write the bills, and lobbyists pitch them to elected persons..?
Would that be like getting a “corner on the market”?
A cartel . . . but it’s OK?
But what if those who are doing this are operating in collusion with individuals in the federal government whose policies, decisions and activities are creating – deliberately – the conditions that are favorable for these massive profits –
then those in the federal government who participated in this scheme receive a share of the profits.
RICO.
Would that be Huber or Durham prosecuting that?
“This is not to say that all Wall Street engagements or activities are bad, they are not. Financial instruments and corporate interests have a large place within our traditional economy. However, global financial instruments may, or may not, have a similar positive influence.
Given the historic rise of global corporatism and massive multinationals, it’s easy to spot the inherent anti-nationalist sensibility. Wealth doesn’t spread without a spreader; and American wealth doesn’t spread, without an American wealth spreader.”
The emphasized part jumped out at me as One World Fascism.
In order for the middle class to survive, I suggest we don’t purchase anything from big corporations; let their
big business be overseas; let them gouge someone else.
I think it is time we for the most part only took care of our group.
Sundance, I’ve suffered a head injury. I can’t comprehend a lot of text all at once.
Having said that, thank you for this article and all the work (and knowledge) put into it. I spent six months in the UK and have no idea what is going on here. This post (and links to previous posts) will help me bigly. I’m going to take the article in small bits throughout the day. Appreciated.
Molly, most of us read his essays at least a couple of times over to properly absorb them.
Otherwise we risk a head injury!
LOL thanks. 😂 haha
Prayers Molly. Hang in there. I experienced the same. Head injury in 1980. Memory improved in time. The short time memory not the same. Have just made do by writing things down. Short grocery list. main points in an article, or maybe computer program. It does help.
Thank you, Lee for your encouragement and prayers. 2018 for me. I’ve just started reading eBooks again. Life is good. 😉
Why is obama and biden and clinton so filthy rich? Why are so many pols so filthy rich?
How will people understand the complexity of the “Uniparty” when they never ask the most basic question in politics. How do they all leave office so wealthy?
One extension.
“To the benefit of the lesser developed nation state.” Well, they do get the super low paying slave like jobs. And they get all the bribes and graft the leaders strive for. But the real beneficiary is the multinational company. The vast majority of the money exfiltrated from us goes to them and the international banks that fund them.
They wouldn’t be doing this if somebody else benefited.
Some guy told us this would happen.
I’m trying to remember who it was.
I’m pretty sure that guy ran for President and I voted for him
The current condition of the world is right in line with Reichsfurher Schwab and the WEF by 2030 you will own nothing and be happy. Communism is IMO just a modern label for feudalism. The financial elites become the modern version of “monarchy” and the rest of us are feudal serfs. Climate change, covid, et al are schemes the elite uses to achieve this. But first the US must collapse because, unlike Europe, NZ, Australia and Canada who have throughout history had a monarchy/government rule over the people and treat them as such, the US is the world’s economic powerhouse that was founded on the belief “… that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness….”. Something that was unheard of until our founding. The US is the beacon of hope for the world, even though we are currently being destroyed within. If the US falls then global serfdom wins. That IMO is why the globalist corporations and politicians wanted him gone.
It went from free enterprise to capitalism to crony capitalism and eventually an Oligarchy globalist ruled market adhering to a Communist governance.
Thank you Sundance. Will be sure to share the above information and outline.
Keep in mind Bullet Points 1-4 in Sundance’s Article do not occur if there is no control over Agencies within the Executive Branch that Control Export Licensing. Export licensing is the glue that legitimizes and legalizes ALL described in his article dealing things Multi-National.
The one statement we all make time to time on CTH is that the laws are flaunted. We are WRONG when we make that statement. Everything done is “BY THE BOOK”. The problem is in who holds and interprets “THE BOOK”.
Recall from the threads discussing the Rice CYA memo covering the meeting in the oval office, when Comrade Obama was appraised of spying on the Candidate Trump’s Campaign in 2016. We all thought Obama’s by the book statement was CYA … it wasn’t. since the deep state controlled the book, he was telling the coup plotters to stay within the guidelines of the BOOK becuase the BOOk was being used AGAINST Candidate Trump.
By staying within Export Licensing Guidelines and Review Process, the BOOK legitimized ALL the technology transfers, international banking, academic exchanges, business mergers etc. It is the actual Achilles Heal with respect to US Multinationals. An honest President in control of the State Department and DoJ, supported by the US Senate could sink the enterprise as it exists inside the US Borders. This is why simultaneous, total corruption of ALL 3 branches of the US Government is necessary. If the balance of powers within the constitution even sees the slightest light of day, there will be problems.
BBB isn’t for everyone.
#BidenBoomBullshit
Remember when politicians mercilessly attacked the oil and gas industry with windfall profit taxes on a margin of 10%?
Against a vital industry that must reinvest more of it’s income in exploration and equipment than almost all others?
If the same government applied the same approach to the current profits of pandemic pirates and sent the money back to the people they stole it from, everything would improve very quickly.
But then again you can’t Build Back Broke if you don’t break the most successful system that ever existed first.
The Party of Death & Destruction!
and on a granular level, i resent – bitterly –
the purveyors of global economics shipping our quality USA meat, produce, and foodstuffs overseas,
while sending us questionable beef, sub-standard produce, and tainted ready-to-eat products in return.
instead of florida strawberries, nebraska beef, and california avocadoes,
we get to pick and choose products from chile, honduras, guatemala, costa rica, and a variety of other third world markets.
(and since when did dole outsource ALL it’s pineapple production from hawaii to outside the usa?)
it’s not worth the time or the money to buy rotten lemons, curiously hard strawberries, and blueberries from south america no less (!), when we can and do produce theses items right here in the usa.
sign me a “VERY disgruntled shopper”.😆
Russia sure is flexing their muscles with $90/barrel.
We had the same under Obama. Not with Trump though.
So can we see a pattern???
I mean Russia, Russia, Russia!!
And BTW are those Russian soldiers on Ukraine border wearing masks, socially distancing?
Curious minds want to know.
I’m sorry. Can’t get to edit to remove errant post. Please remove!
WOW, was this Sun dances longest post?,i did skip a little.the smart ones in the comments will break it down for this old old high school grad.
Many, many readers will read it more than once, Tom. Take it in pieces. Chew it slowly. Enjoy the process of learning. Sundance is a great teacher.
The Uniparty began to merge together in the early to mid 80’s, with the Chrysler bailout, plus the bailout of an investment house/bank (little noticed at the time).
Then came the 1986 tax laws, which brought on the S&L bailouts, a total Uniparty bailout.
Mexico and South Korea bond traders got bailed out in the 90’s, fully cementing the Uniparty construct. NAFTA and the WTO were created by the Uniparty to further enserf us.
The 2008 crash was a done Uniparty deal. The govt was now on Uniparty autopilot.
Now it’s just a matter of putting down resistance to all this tyranny.
Did somebody forget to set margins?
Or, is this my mess?
Naw, happening on my screen too, almost feel like I’m having to scroll all the way to the east coast to read just one line!
F k em, we do know what the answer is, they will not leave us be , ergo they must be brought to heel .
Thank you SD for the awareness of this subject.
It’s really a shame that such manipulation exists!!
We really need “American First” policies. How can we confront this monopoly? We are censored everywhere…our vote is suppressed and we are lead by a corrupt Administration…ugh
“…surging oil prices, which have hit their highest level since 2014.” well joe feels comfortable with 2014, back to the obama era.
You have to see this! I have never been to one because of the crowds, but oh my! The area down stairs where you go to buy is empty!
I sold my house last year and stupidly didn’t buy again right away, now prices have soared even more. Should I try to get back in or wait it out? Asking for some CTH readers’ astute advice. I remember SD posting awhile ago house prices would fall. Makes sense to me, but it’s going in the opposite direction. Like the things they don’t want us to have (cars, homes) are scarce all of a sudden
Check the foreclosure listings in your area. They are going up and there are bargains to be had. Whatever you do don’t pay the current asking prices!
Yes. Hire a Buyer Broker (the seller pays with your money) and find a couple of properties to choose from. Then make an offer. Negotiate.
Ownership, after taxes and insurance, will put you on the escalator of rising prices and devalued currency.
Consider buying a smaller, easier to care for property.
Chose a ‘free’ state.
Best wishes.
That’s why I sold in CA – looking to get the hell out of here like every patriot. Was going to stay and fight until the joke of a recall and all the legislation that came after. They’re destroying this state with no check!!
ZH is generally frowned upon, across my journeys through the web.
But I started reading there during Obama, and things have changed.
Not hitting ZH much anymore, personally
I don’t remember SD using many ZH links in the past.
Not that I care, just saying.
Great post SD.
‘And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”’
Revelation 6:6 (ESV)
We are there.
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if the fundamental goal of your life is to amass lots of consumers goods – well, they’ve beaten you
but, if the fundamental goal of your life is to live according to Christian principals in order to live happily with Him forever – you have beaten them
this does not mean craven submission; it means fearless, prudent action because they can’t touch your fundamental goal which is Heaven.
As my Momma said: thank Heaven for heaven, because if this is all there were – I’d be madder than Hell
Beautiful post Laurel
In MBA school we learned how great multi-national corporations were making the world. Now WE KNOW they have CORRUPTED the world. They have become communist interlopers who destroy competition and control countries and markets in conjunction with evil governments and policies. During the FLU crisis – why were the BIG BOX stores allowed to stay open as small businesses were closed? This is the very definition of CORRUPT POLICY under the guise of MEDICAL TYRANNY and ASSAULT.