I am tired and weary of the bullshit from every side of the political continuum -particularly the professionally republican idiots- that continue to hide the reality of the situation. We are adults, let us talk honestly in the framework of reality; that will allow prudent preparation for the massive crisis we are about to experience.
When the tenant realizes they have a leaking fish tank, they realize they are going to be financially responsible for the water damage. The tenant concocts a plan to avoid responsibility. The tenant intentionally loosens a pipe in the bathroom creating water damage, thereby hiding the fish tank leak.
The owner is now on the hook for the repair. The tenant escapes liability.
The people behind Joe Biden knew their radical transformation of energy policy was going to create massive economic damage.
The people behind Biden used the opportunity of the Ukraine-Russia conflict to trigger economic sanctions they knew would worsen the global inflation damage they were creating through energy policy.
Economic sanctions against Russia were as used as the broken pipe in the bathroom to hide the energy policy fish tank leak. All of the media discussing the situation are now pretending not to know this. The conservative pundits are a combination of pretending and too stupid to actually see what is happening.
BLOOMBERG – […] There’s no sign that administration officials feel their sanctions policy was a mistake or that they want to dial back the pressure. If anything, officials have said a key US goal is to ensure Russia can’t do to other nations what it has done in Ukraine.
But the collateral damage from the sanctions has been wider than expected.
When the invasion began, the Biden administration believed that if penalties exempted food and energy, the impact on inflation at home would be minimal. Since then, energy and food have become key drivers of the highest US inflation rates in 40 years, a huge political liability for President Joe Biden and the Democratic party heading into November’s mid-term elections.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said that she “was wrong” in believing last year that inflationary pressures would pass. One of the results that she’s now seeing is related to the spike in prices due to unexpected self-sanctioning, according to one person familiar with her thinking.
So while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged US businesses to cease operations in Russia, telling a joint session of Congress that the Russian market was “flooded with our blood,’’ the Biden administration has been encouraging some commerce, including for agriculture, medicine and telecommunications. For instance, the US government is quietly encouraging agricultural and shipping companies to buy and carry more Russian fertilizer, according to people familiar with the efforts, as sanctions fears have led to a sharp drop in supplies, pressuring food costs. (read more)
Bloomberg is running this article as a distraction, directly implying the Biden administration did not realize how much additional damage the sanctions against Russia would create. There are many articles of a similar nature by multiple outlets. All of them are designed to ignore the reality of the situation.
We are rapidly assembling data now that will allow us to give CTH readers a real-world estimate of just how damaging things are going to be.
Tracking raw materials, supply chain costs, distribution limits, advanced and sequential purchase orders, as well as inbound costs associated with the supply chain for essential goods and services, we are nearing enough data to make a prediction.
In the fall of 2021 CTH was able to provide a 100-day countdown window to the first major wave of inflationary impacts. Purchase orders cycling in net terms of 30, 60, 90 or 180 days allowed us to see the increases in product costs that were aggregating in the supply chain. Readers watched in real time as those weeks and months passed giving us the exact outcome we expected.
While we still need a little more data to make the best possible prediction for the next 120-day forecast, I am relatively certain we can give an advanced estimate today.
A current shopping cart of traditional staple items at the supermarket (full basket) is roughly $300 representing about a $75 increase in price since early January 2022. The $300 typical basket is essentially enough product to create 10 days of multiple purpose meals for the average family (4 people).
Using that $300 basket as the new baseline, I can predict the next wave of price increases will drive that single basket cost to $500 by late fall. This is the scale of inbound inflation that is going to arrive at approximately the same time as the mid-term election.
As you can tell, the next wave of price increases is significantly larger than the two that preceded it. The $300 shopping cart is going to cost around $500 when all of the increased costs are fully matriculated in the retail supply chain. This is the scale of food store inflation you should be preparing for now. Offsetting this cost increase is the challenge you should be considering right now.
More details will follow, but the final numbers are going to be close to this scale.
I am down to only buying perishables in the grocery store, as I’m well and truly stocked for canned goods and basic meal components. These include eggs, milk, fruit, and vegetables. While I’m not planning to buy a cow, I may very well build a chicken coop. And I think I’m going to see if I can grow mushrooms.
The garden is aleady planted with beans, peas, squash, potatoes, and corn. I’ve been unable to grow tomatoes and peppers (altitude, cold, short season), but I’m in the process of putting in a small greenhouse to see if that can make the difference in environment I need. If it works, I’ll build a bigger one.
Dunno what else I can do. Neither of us can stand powdered milk or eggs.
can freeze milk
Thanks…I forgot that. But it’s difficult to freeze a large amount of it, say 100 gallons. At least, not without buying another couple of freezers…
can freeze cheese too as long as you leave it in the original packaging.
Can freeze cheese food saver packaging if you buy in bulk or from a restaurant supplier
And, you can also freeze cheese food saver packaging if you buy in bulk or from a restaurant supplier in blocks. Then you could also go ahead and slice it before freezing. I’ve had nicer slices if I do it before the first freeze.
The worry about freezing is — what happens when they burst a few EMPs over North America + Western Europe or cripple the electrical grid with “cyber attacks”?
You can get a freezer full of beef from local farmers but for the likely worser case scenarios — freezers would require long-term alternative energy sources….
Then ALL bets are off at that point for anything remotely resembling a ‘civilized’ society.
It’ll sort-of be like ‘The Walking Dead’ in many ways.
Make some jerky, for that emergency stash.
Put the e-juice to work whilst things still persist to function with a smidgen of normalcy. When the freezer’s empty, and the meat contained therein is ‘really off’ .. well, you’ll be glade for your dehydrator. Or whomever you might of borrowed one from..
A movie that is worth watching.
The Road.
It has Viggo Mortensen in it.
Also Robert Duvall.
Reason I note the actors name is that there is another movie by the same name.
Estimates long ago were that 90% of the US Population would be – dead – within months of an EMP —- and that was back when FAR MORE people still had basic knowledge about procuring their own food + medicinal plants + so on…
My grandparents were raised during the Depression.
My parents didn’t take on the knowledge they had. They handed down even less to my sister + myself.
What about those born in the 1990s + later….?
I actually ordered used copies of the first few Walking Dead seasons. What was once entertainment may become valuable info soon.
Energy Rationing is also a problem with using freezers…. + the same goes for most home gardening… Home gardening was a big target in the Agenda 21 plans way back in the early 1990s…
They know what we will do in response to The Great Reset. They took decades before launching it because they had good estimates about how long it would take to build the infrastructure + conditioning for — Surveillance + Control…
I wish my grandparents’ property had running water on it…
I wish I had the funds right now to get the well up + running again or a new one dug + installed…
I wish I had the funds right now for more solar power + power storage.
It is highly likely it is only a matter of time before they start Water + Energy Rationing for whatever reasons they choose to give — with the real purpose being – making Self-Reliance as hard to achieve as possible….
Klaus already said they were going to bring down the electrical grid with a cyber attack. Everyone should have enough solar to power at least their electrical devices. Keep at least 100 lbs of salt on hand in case of electrical outage if you stocked up on meats. A natural wood smoker is not a bad idea either.
Someone else mentioned dehydrating meats and you can do vegetables + fruits too. I have no experience with that but it is on my purchasing + experimentation plans.
There are some good solar powered lamps that aren’t expensive. I’ve been adding some of those here + there.
The ability to collect + purify rain water is a good idea.
Pressure can meat now while we still are able to.
Do the crops you grow need to be reseeded and planted every season? I assume stocking up on various seeds is a good idea?
Most plants will grow their own seeds, some require that you let them finish their life cycle to get the seeds.
Thanks, I know nothing about growing food. Does that mean most crops need to be re planted every season? My uncle recently passed away and while others were taking the electronics, I chose to take all the gardening tools. I just dont know yet how to best utilize them.
Regarding Plants: some are “perennial” and some are “annual”. Perennials will regrow every year. Annuals will need to be planted every year. Most vegetables are “annuals”.
Regarding Seeds: make sure to plant non-gmo seeds. I buy my seeds at rareseeds dot com and at MIgardener dot com. After the first successful season, you can save the seeds for future gardens.
Regarding knowledge: youtube is chock full of gardening channels. Gardening success is highly dependent upon your USDA growing zone, good soil, water.
My all time favorite gardening books are written by Eliot Coleman. There are many books out there.
A possible strategy for you:
I have a giant garden and it’s one of the things that keeps me sane. Best wishes to you!
excellent. Thanks
An easy start is lettuce it is a good cool weather crop
for spring and fall planting..
If you have room for an apple tree, plum or citrus, they produce a lot of fruit.
Also if your soil is iffy, as is ours in NE NC, you can always do container/pot gardening. Even a few simple 5 gallon buckets and a grow bag for taters will get you started. Many many YT and FB resources to help you begin.
Yes, unless it’s a perennial plant like asparagus, rhubarb etc. You must plant every year and during a couple of seasons. So yes buy seeds check out all the books on gardening for your area and learn all you can and get your hands dirty, also buy a pressure canner and jars so you can put it up so you can eat all year. That is another learning process but is easy.
Oh yeah buy extra fertilizer and store out in back yard covered.
for fertilizer find local farmer who raises cows, rabbits and or chickens. All good fertilizer–cow and chicken manure need to be aged before use.
. Also start own compost pile. Lots of videos for that as well.
Also good to start composting to add some “black gold” to your soil.
Lots of do it yourself videos on youtube for all the key vegetables + other prep items. It isn’t as hard as it might look + doesn’t take a whole lot of space unless your family is large…
Definitely make sure of your growing zone before planting. I know many people are happy with hybrid varieties (my father included), but I made the switch to heirloom several years ago (except for peppers).
Depending on your location seeds can be directly sown in the ground after your last frost date, or started indoors and planted outside once your last frost date has passed. Several crops can actually be planted early in the season & then again in late summer for an early fall crop.
If you are near a farm then natural fertilizers are great. I actually have a fish pond & use waste when cleaning the filter with compost (dead leaves, vegetable peeling, coffee grounds, etc.) and my plants love it. One important note: do not use grass clippings if you have used any lawn chemicals/weed killer.
Also, watch plants for blight or insect infestation. I try not to use many chemicals, but I will use 7 dust insecticide sparingly or Dragon fungicide. Most organic chemicals also work pretty well, but are rather $$.
There are lots of resources available online. Start small with easy to grow crops & work yourself up as you get more confidence. If you try to do more then you are ready for you could get overwhelmed because there will be lots or weeding & watering involved.
Next, you’ll have to get a pressure canner and can your hard work – that’s when the real fun begins lol.
This is very good information and thank you so much for posting.
A lot of good YouTube channels out there that can hopefully help you.
If you are new to gardening start with hybrids so you can eat but don’t save seed as you wont get the same plant next year. After you have learned enough to eat then start planting heirlooms so you can save seeds.
Saved hybrid seeds have a 50% chance of regrowing as a hybrid and 25% chance of the dominant gene as a pure seed and 25% chance of being the recessive gene which probably will not be quite as good of plant. Hybrid seed will definitely give you a better chance of a good crop. You still have to defeat the critters (Voles, ground hogs and rabbits) (Solar power electric fences help to control and are easy to set up) from eating your sprouts. Insects usually can controlled. Fungi attacks will require using Copper fungicide such as Kocide 2000. Since all covid vaxed humans are now GMO, you may want to try to get a few GMO basic seed types that are resistant to many fungi and repel many insects. Remember the bottom line in crisis situation is producing a crop that you can eat and preserve. You may want to stock up on water soluble fertilizers such as the miracle growing stuff. Unless you have animals for manure it is hard to make enough compost for a sizeable crop production. You may have to sacrifice some of your scruples to produce enough in a small area for a family of 4.
You can purchaae grains, like barley and dried lentils, or peas for soup. A little goes a long way. Frozen marrow bones are great for soup stock. These items are easy to store for a long while , easy to prepare, if you are needing to stretch meals.
Flour and instant yeast in a dutch oven, are all you need to make an easy no knead bread.
Don’t forget candles and matches, firewood in case of power outages.
Yes, been stashing seed since 07 and I still keep buying and all we are doing is square foot type garden but it’s the first success we have had in Fl. Seems weird to grow in the winter. Our garden this year was all 09 seed and all germinated.
It’s not as hard as it might seem to a complete beginner.
I did an experiment this year — took a couple of tasty tomatoes + cherry tomatoes bought from the store —- + buried them in their own pots with just a little dirt over the top. This was in December.
The idea being to see if they would seed new plants the way Nature does it with things that fall from the vines/plants.
I wondered about store-bought vegetables today with their GMO-ness + such not reproducing the natural way —- but — those plants are doing fine right now. Pick some fruits from them each day…
Look into Composting with trashcans + such too —- to prepare for times when fertilizer might be nonexistent or too expensive.
Lots + lots of videos on homesteading + survival prep + so on…
Practice + $$$ are the primary needs at the start.
One problem to focus on is — Calories.
I love being able to pick lettuce + spinach + cucumbers + tomatoes for salads multiple times a week — but they don’t offer much in terms of Energy your body can convert.
Beans are good but I really only like Green Beans + they are low on Energy too.
Root crops like potatoes are important. Other beans.
Rice is good to store. Next year, I want to try some grains that are high in Energy to see if I can grow them with limited space. Might be a long shot but — experimenting + gaining experience is vital…
After being overseas much of the past 20+ years, I came home for good in 2020 + started preparing for the worst as soon as I saw the news building up in Dec 2019 about a virus coming out of Wuhan a handful of scientists in India told us had to be made in a lab…. I knew The Great Reset was for real + they were going thru with what they’d warned us about for decades….
Seeds + Water Storage + Alternative Energy Sources for prolonged emergencies are a good idea to go along with storable food stuffs like canned goods.
I’ve thought about a chicken coup too.
Need to get the well at the old home working again.
Need storage capacity for solar panels.
PS – Also got started on the learning curve for growing my own food. Haven’t messed around in a garden since I was a kid with my grandparents. My parents gave it up after a few years + I haven’t been in places to do it…
It isn’t easy where I’m living with my elderly mother due to the amount of shade all over her yard — but I’m doing some prep at grandparent’s old place I bought that has a much better setting for a garden — once I fence it in to avoid the deer….
— The $$$ that has been diligently preparing for this Regime Change Operation aimed at Civilization itself plan on reducing the Earth’s Population by the billions……Simply surviving will be on everyone’s mind in a few more years…..
Look into an electric fence it can be built in layers to stop not only Deer but raccoons, ground hogs, rabbits and if you have fruit bears. You can get solar powered units that will charge up to 15 miles of wire. If used for residential areas your charge when weeds hit wire will still be OK since you are using so little wire in a yard. 1000 ft of aluminum wire #18 and 2 ground rods is all you need. You can find wire holders made from plastic from many sources online. I use Tr. Supply for my materials.
I know you’ll keep your personal weapons handy. Deer won’t be your only problem…….
Nope. You are 100% correct – but – as the type of Christian I am, I can’t see myself shooting people to protect my supplies…. If I were still married + had children, it would likely be a different story….as is…..I’ll trust in God + if it is my time to go, I’ll be transitioning to a far better existence anyway….
God Bless you. I respect your position, but unfortunately someone has to do the heavy lifting.
To me, there is a difference between serving in a military during wartime + using weapons to defend your own food supplies…
Again, if I had wife + children to protect from physical harm, it would be a different matter in my mind.
I’d guess too that adequate defense if the worst happens will have to be collective — because the people coming to loot supplies for their own survival are going to be armed + in numbers….
I’ll concentrate my limited funds on other priorities…
sounds like you are in an ag area…befriend a dairy farmer and you could possibly even get periodic beef off them as well
I plan to stretch it by using a 50/50 mix at least we can tolerate that.
You are in very good shape.
Consider dotting the eyes and crossing the T’s. Please have a look at sprouting (Mason jar and/or trays). You get nutritious food with vitamins and tons of anti oxidants. AND, you get it in a few days instead of weeks and months. No its not huge quantities to live on, but vitamins and antioxidants are needed to stay healthy.
Recommend increasing and maximizing your root vegetables in your garden.
Soy 1 cup = 310 calories
Yams 1 cup = 177 calories
Corn 1 cup = 160 calories
White potatoes 1 cup = 136 calories
Peas 1 cup = 124 calories
Sweet potatoes 1 cup = 114 calories
Parsnips 1 cup = 100 calories
The name of the game is CALORIES.
The greenhouse is a real good idea. Build the biggest greenhouse you can afford. (Do a search on how much garden food is needed to survive and you’ll see that you need a LOT.) Need to learn how to can to preserve that garden food. Since you live in a cold climate you should be able to store those taters easily for long term.
Consider a few herbs that can be grown indoors. It will be a welcome addition after a few days / weeks / months / years of bland / unseasoned food.
Again, good job. This is hard to plan for and you’ve been diligent and have a good plan. Just remember there is no end to prepping and since we finally know what the threat is that is even more true.
Blessings to you and all.
Stay vigilant.
R&R
My take is that we will “stand powdered milk or eggs” when the going gets touch and we have
no other choices.
Just a note for those who are lactose intolerant. There is a lactose
free powdered Milk you can get from Amazon..
I just recently bought 1/2 cow, which will give us a year plus of meat already in the freezer. Lots of dried beans. We’ll be drying a lot of fruit this summer.
Goats thrive where cows fear to tread.
That’s my aspiration.
My wife started raising chickens 2 years ago.
They’re wonderful to have.
Fresh eggs everyday.
Fresh chicken if we need it.
We sell our roasters for extra cash.
Only thing is if you have a garden make sure it’s protected, they will eat all your veggies
What are you doing for Calories long-term in terms of gardening? Anything besides potatoes?
I’m trying non-green beans this year. Only really like green beans but they are low in Energy like salad greens.
I’m trying converting the sunporch into a makeshift greenhouse to grow salad vegetables all year + things like dwarf tomato plants. The DIYers on Youtube said it isn’t too hard to do.
Bought a couple of plum trees for large pots + will add dwarf pear trees in the Fall. Will try Pecans on my other property this fall too since they don’t come in dwarf varieties.
Loads of blackberries grow in this area + can be frozen or used for preservatives.
I stored a lot of rice but would like a renewable source like that to grow in limited space…
We are not voting our way out of this. They stole one election, now they’ll go for two.
Too bad if Biden admin carried over Trump Policies Dems would be hero’s. Instead corporate interest for green machines and purposely increasing inflation to lower government debt on backs of citizens.
Victory garden for everyone.
The Fed’s gonna find out that interest-rate-hikes won’t put a dent in this current inflation-stagflation-shrinkflation
Only part of the current inflation is demand-driven (too many dollars chasing too few goods)
The other part – I’ll wager the MAIN part – is structural
By that I mean that much of the price increases in goods are driven by the intentional attack on energy
… raising costs at production level (farming, ingredients, transportation of fertilizer and ingredients, etc)
… and adding to the cost of shipping goods, once produced
… essentially, the ‘supply chain’ increases Sundance describes
Interest-rate-hikes won’t touch those aspects of the economy
They’ll just punish people with variable-rate mortgages, new mortgages and car loans, credit-card debt, businesses who need to borrow, and on and on
They are too far behind in interest rate increases, which they undoubtedly know. Today’s is simply a feint. LaGarde in Europe is in the same position, per their “emergency” meeting today which accomplished nothing. (Autocorrect changed her name to “laggard”, which in truth is a perfect name for her). In the meantime, Russia has shut down 40% of Italy’s gas and Germany’s as well.
The whole world is one lit match away from imploding….or should I say Western world.
Yes, agree that they’re late and too far behind
My point was – even if they weren’t – rate hikes won’t control this current inflation because it’s different in nature than demand-driven inflation that can be countered by rate hikes
This episode of inflation is caused mainly by the intentional war on energy that the Leftists are waging, and the compound amplification of energy costs up the product chain that Sundance describes
Rate hikes work to cool down demand
The gasoline and diesel prices we’re seeing are not demand-dependent … people still need to fill their tanks to get to work or make their trucking deliveries
Recreational trips will be curtailed – that small portion of demand –
— but that’s just tinkering around the margins
The fool keeps sending our taxpayers dollars to zelenskyy. Eventually he won’t have any left.
He hates us and he’s an idiot.
I heard a quick blurb on a financial segment somewhere, that talked about layoffs coming. This nonsense of people not wanting to work, I believe it to be a smoke screen and companies are not really hiring.
Then what? No income tax dollars. No tax dollars for spending/buying items, either, people have already shut down their spending.
I remember the horror I felt with the lock down/martial law being initiated…I think “we ain’t seen nothing yet!”. I am feeling that same horror right now.
TPTB knew high prices would bring high interest rates. Scary times.
We need more than one blue seat flipping red in south TX!
Some one needs to cut off Zelensky’s allowance!
Maybe Russian sanctions accelerated inflation, but the energy and economic policies were going to get us there with or without the sanctions. One thing they did that was also predictable is to positively enhance the Russian economy.
The Russian sanctions have nothing to do with our inflation honestly, it’s the Biden Regime’s heavy handed approach against us peons.
When they tell you they are gonna tax everything moving, the price will reflect that and they did. If the commies are gonna tax you more, you charge more simple as that. Eventually nobody will be buying though, we are at that stage now.
Only the Liberal Loons believe this BS anymore. I never realized that Russia was so powerful that they could take the USA down.
Russia isn’t taking us down. Biden’s puppet masters are! They needed a brain dead fool to pull it off. Their previous choice was a greedy, urine soaked, alcoholic, sociopath called Clinton. They didn’t cheat enough for her.
Remember this is LGBTQ Let’s get Biden to quit
month.
I like that one.
I’ve been shouting for months. We all should be vocalizing to people you know and social media that public pressure will win out
Demand his regime to resign. They’ve totally committed organized sedition and treason to destabilize the country
“What happened?” – HRC
You stated it clearly Sundance, reflecting how most of us are feeling. So doggone tired of the bullshite, the continuous gaslighting, the outright lying, the Resident thinking he’s anything more than a demented tool of the Marxists behind the curtain… the whole thing is untenable.
I’ve been trying to listen to the Fed Chair… He stoutly pretends not to know things and uses the C19/Ukraine/Russia excuses, per the usual.
These people, the Globalist/Communists aided by our Government, have intentionally inflicted harm on the American people, and others around the world, and a reckoning will come.
This cabal they have
they have laid us to ruin.
U.S. goods imported FROM Russia totaled $22.3 Billion in 2019.
US TOTAL imports were at $2.5 Trillion in 2019.
So, a partial impact on < 1% of the imports to the US was a big impact???
Need a whole box of curious cats for this one.
Ron Paul says it best. “We need honest & integrity in the marketplace & from politicians.” We have neither.
If it helps Sundance I have been following boneless skinless chicken breast (frozen) at Sam’s club in LaMarque, Texas. 3/15 10 lbs was $18.00. As of Saturday 6/11 it is $34.55. Between then and now they changes the packaging to 5 lbs to it appear to cost less. That failed and now back to 10 lbs. packaging.
Your chicken example comes out to 92% increase
92% inflation in 3 months
The price has essentially doubled
If our SAMs club even has it available. We live nearby and will buy for ourselves and others when in stock.
Monday in Snellville, Ga, Sam’s had the full chickens at $.95 lb or the breast, thighs and legs with bones and skins for roughly the same price. De skin and debone them yourself at half the price.
and make and freeze broth. Use for soups in the winter. Add dried vegies and some meat and rice.
Now they’re going to the Feds to help fight the Biden Show. Just raised interest rates 3/4. Next up…higher taxes for all.
there was a great article about how raising rates may cause even more inflation in commodities because easy money will chase the seemingly safer returns of investing in commodities. truly turning into a broken system.
report from Treasury last week was HISTORIC tax receipt to date at this time of the year….the problem is NOT income, it is as it has always been SPENDING
……..and for insatiable Big Government there is no such thing as “enough” money, ever.
Is the treehouse under DNS attack? The connection to this site, at least for me, is spotty.
Yep, keeps blinking in and out.
The error message on MS-Edge and Fire Fox, shows a “timeout” error is occurring between CTH and some server located in Atlanta, GA.
This happened about 6-months ago, same error message. A search on the name of the company that runs the servers in Atlanta, at the time, yielded key names that used to work for Google. I’ll do a new search next time the error message appears, as I forgot to write down the name of the server owner in Atlanta.
Same at my end.
Just got back on.
If things get bad enough they will kill the Treehouse.
Question: How do we mostly like minded people get together if/when that happens?
Are any Treepers on Truth?.. CAn you create a room on Truth like on
Gab make it private?
I’ve been unable most of the day.
Biden Regime is attacking the site, they are also sending out their goons to track you both via car and air helicopter, etc.
Been having this issue with multiple web sites, not just Treehouse.
Using Brave.
Tried Google, which I seldom used, and it didn’t seem as bad
I’ve had the same problem today, and another time a while back. I found I could go to Sundance’s twitter site, and then click on one of his articles on The Last refuge, which seemed to bypass the problem.
On top of all this we have become the sickest generation
“Cohort Trends in the Burden of Multiple Chronic Conditions Among Aging U.S. Adults”—The Journals of Gerontology: Series B | Oxford Academic
“The beginning of the most unhealthy generations in modern history, with all the ‘advanced’ science we developed”
Full study is behind a paywall
https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/geronb/gbac070/6591182?login=false
We are sick because addiction to electronic devices and sedentary jobs are death sentences.
Did Putin cancel the Keystone pipeline too???
No worries! Biden just threatened the oil companies and told them to refine more oil, or else he’ll dust off the Defense Production Act.
As I said before, you are awesome!
Thanks for all your hard work and keeping all of us informed.
I pray you are feeling much better, health wise.
Take care of yourself, and those you love.
There will be a reckoning.
Soulless is all I can say for these people. How can anyone hate so many people with so much disdain? It is just unfathomable for the average citizen. Once they destroy the country then what? Is this some Charles Manson plan where all the elites hide out in the desert only to reappear and rule once the revolution has ended? Good Grief! I think not. We will come for you too.
It’s self loathing that drives them.
They are all miserable people.
They demand we be miserable with them so they can feel superior to us troglodytes.
To quote Brent Burns one of my favorite beach rock singers they want to drag us down to that subterranean place they found.
No, they are waiting to totally take over less and less pubs will be elected or stolen from and in a few years none wow now they will come for all you have.
Transhumanism — they are going to Evolve homo sapiens into a part-silicon being with almost eternal Life + limitless Knowledge —- basically what Lucifer promised in the Garden of Eden…
Get the book or audiobook for C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength. The British Intellectual Elites were letting us know thru fiction what was being planned behind closed doors.
This was always dismissed as Conspiracy Theory Nonsense — until recently when they fully decloaked — but their think thanks have been telling the world what to expect for many decades now….
“Offsetting this cost increase is the challenge you should be considering right now.”
How have you great people been offsetting these costs? Any more creative ideas?
I did buy plenty of ingredients to make my own laundry detergent btw…
We are just doing the best we can based on our experiences during the Carter years.
Some will not accept it yet.
But they will be forced to before too long.
lol…
–Can use vinegar, baking soda (not together LOL) for many cleaning jobs – white vinegar
–Rice and beans make a complete protein and are still relatively inexpensive. Good replacement for meat. Freeze leftovers for later use.
–Plant what you can. Get seeds now for next year. Store in cool, dark, dry place.
Can grow lettuce and some other vegetables inside in small bin and water — look for videos online hydroponics.
–Also can grow sprouts quickly – good source of vitamins and minerals – just rinse well!
–Go to farmer markets and if available smaller markets – asian are good choice.
–if in cold area reduce living space to reduce heating bill. Curtain off or shut doors of areas not using. Mostly close down heat registers down in those areas.
Plastic and heavy drapes on all windows to conserve heat. Insulate the attic. During summer keep blinds/curtains closed during the day and open windows only at night to cool down home. Close windows in the early morning hours.
–Repurpose everything, use dishtowels and glass/plastic containers instead of disposable bags and paper towels.
–Find second hand stores for clothes; if you have kids trade clothes with friends and family. Learn to repair basic clothing issues — buttons, zippers, snags and tears.
Keep equipment – indoor and outdoor in good running condition – do maintenance and cleaning, Repair minor problems early.
–Consolidate trips go to every place in the same area in one trip. If have family, have one shop/run errands for all – rotate who does it.
–Go to you pick farms and pick fruits and vegetables — usually less expensive.
Great website for finding those in your area, also has recipes and info on canning and preserving.
https://www.pickyourown.org/map.php?state=United%20States&thisfile=/Prices.php&stateabbr=US
–Buy on sale and in season. Prep and freeze or dehydrate excess.
–Put electric equipment on a power strip and turn off strip when not using those items, particularly computer equipment.
At some point there is nothing left to pare off what you are spending — none of this is easy and all of it is time consuming mostly because it is such a paradigm shift from the way we once lived… only a year or two ago.
I have not used laundry detergent for years – do keep a supply on hand in case my family runs out.
I use Shout on stains.
Don’t forget to stock up on toothpaste, soap and shampoo, razors. Or, one can use baking soda as a replacement
for tooth paste.
Also stock up on vitamins and supplements..
Taking 1st born should get some response.
not that optimistic…
They’re already doing that with their warmongering.
Looks like they are working toward that:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/just-fda-advisors-recommend-emergency-authorization-modernas-covid-19-shot-young-kids-6-months-5-years-age/
The dosage is lethal to your kids!
Dear Sundance:
Thank you for your hard work and dedication with the website. It is greatly appreciated!!!
Excellent article. I went to the store the other day and bought a box of cereal. It was almost $7. I do not shop regularly but I thought that seemed excessively high. Turned out I was correct. I know there are a lot of variables here that I overlook, but this got my attention anyway. I am fairly well off and can, at this time, afford whatever I, my wife or my family want…. within reason. Those less fortunate are going to be in a world of hurt very shortly shortly, if not already.
Today the FED raised discount rate by 75 basis points. THIS IS HUGE! The FED is admitting that inflation is out of control. Biden and the Democrats, with the help of many Republicans, have gone too far. The FED is in a box. One of their own making. Economic weakness is showing worldwide. The next 6 months will be a slow motion unfolding disaster. The old Wall Street saw, “There’s Blood in the Streets” will prevail. My opinion only…
I sold ‘some’ equities positions today. Good old hard cash might not be a bad thing to have some of. In any case, the risk accepted in that transaction is that one will miss out on any large upticks in these markets going forward. Raising interest rates is NOT conducive to this happening and holding! We’ll see. Can anyone say dead cat bounce? We’re in for few.
Lastly, any Americans servicing large credit card debt, large vehicle payments, large hard to service mortgages and other forms of debt are in for an economic hell.
This downturn should be interesting. I say that because there are so many things in play here. Job openings everywhere accompanied by unemployment, millions living off government entitlements, vaccine injuries and deaths being covered up, worldwide sovereign debt in the hundreds of trillions of dollars, the list goes on and on.
Most of the rank and file Democrats that voted for Joe Biden will get slaughtered…. economically speaking. These people will learn nothing. They never do. As a matter of fact I believe there will be an effort to somehow disrupt the upcoming mid terms in November. Another lock down, mail in voting only, etc. Something? If Republicans do win the narrative will then be turned to blame them for the current economic disaster. Actually there’s a certain amount of truth in that. They are certainly not without sin in this.
Lastly, I’d like to observe that Donald Trump has NEVER spoken out against this vaccine fraud or EVEN the totally unconstitutional mandates. His operation “Warp Speed” has a lot to answer for!! Trump has so far been able to dodge this important question. The bottom line sad truth is that most Americans, even many right here on CTH, cannot ‘think critically’ for themselves.
I personally do not despair. The worm is turning slowly, but inexorably, and there will be a new spring. It’s just going to be very painful getting there…..
PDJT has never supported any mandates and has stated that consistently.
Curt needs to catch up. He’s way behind.
Yes, exacty abigail… thanks for correcting Mr. Curt..
with a continuing Bear market, I would not attempt to try to time those transient “upticks”
He never supported mandates. EVER
Try being President and tellng everyone a virus so hyped up by the press is BS. Then marry it to the fact people can see granny dying with their own eyes. They don’t comprehend granny would have died from a cold/flu anyway. See the optics?
Read “In Trump Time” by Peter Navarro. He and others tried to warn Trump that Fauci was very dangerous. Trump would NOT listen. He stated that ‘Fauci was a nice guy’ !! Millions of deaths and injuries are a direct result of Operation Warp Speed.
Believe it or not I actually like Donald Trump and contributed approx. $6000.00 to his last campaign. I think his advisor Col. Doug Macgregor said it best. He stated that Trump is a truly nice person who meant well but he made many bad appointments. He was overly impressed with the 4 stars on some uniforms. Think Jeff Sessions, Christopher Wray, Mad Dog, and so many more that were stabbing Trump, and by extension ‘us’ in the back. According to Macgregor it took Trump too long to figure out that he was being undermined by his own staff and appointments. This from a person who ran on a “Drain the Swamp” platform!!
I have no problem with him running again. Will he have the will to STOP these deadly injections and bring the perpetrators of these vile crimes to justice? Their defense will be; Hey, we were doing our best to accomodate operation warp speed….. Trump pushed too hard. I can hear it now!
Don’t you have a bridge to live under?
Yeah, how long did it take us? Decades?
You know it really pisses me off when people post nonsense
like this. He was working with the republican party who are
wolves in sheeps clothing don’t yah know?
He did not know how bad it was and neither did we.
So please cease posting nonsense that leads people to
believe President Trump was stupid and we the almighty
voters are so much smarter. Not true.
Here is a very interesting article documenting the incredible increase in the death rate as the vaccine mandates were implemented. This, from Lincoln National Life Ins. Co., showing that total death benefits paid out went up 6 billion dollars! A HUGE increase over normal death rates.
This evidence is starting to assert itself. Take the time:
https://crossroadsreport.substack.com/p/breaking-fifth-largest-life-insurance?s=r
Excess mortality is the thing to watch going forward. Thanks for the link!
Exactly. The media is lying and spinning the truth as usual. It’s extremely difficult to hide the bodies. To quote Edward Dowd, “These psychopaths have crossed a bridge too far”.
Me, thinking critically, also do not despair.
And Trump, he opened ALL of our eyes, no matter what else…I am grateful to him for that.
Rugen: Come, sir. We must get you to your ship.
Westley: We are men of action; lies do not become us.
One thing I constantly see left out of articles like this is the Federal Reserve’s 10-15 trillion in money printing in the last few years. It’s not like that hasn’t happened before. They go crazy with the money printing and loans to the banks and then they shut of the spigot, which causes rapid inflation and causes a panic, which results in a recession or depression.
$300 represents a $75 increase. So, the starting price was $225. Then $500 in the fall for the same thing that cost $225 in Jan. 2022. That is about a 122% increase. That is going to be very accurate based on what I am seeing in grocery store. Add a 300% increase in gas and we are up shit creek without a paddle. Also add 300% increase in nat. gas for heating this winter and we are really up shit creek and the boat is sinking in a river of shit caused by FJB and F UNIPARTY.
All in all, a pretty shitty outlook for the future.
To me, the biggest Elephant in the room is China. No one is talking about the fact that it was U.S. policy to outsource just about everything we need (medicines, parts, etc.) to China. China decides to lock down (over and over and over) – call it economic warfare or whatever you want. China has us by the shorthairs, while really stoopid people like Bill Gates are talking about how we have to eat bugs, and the ClimateCultists thinking cow farts are ruining the planet… eyeyayay… I’ve never seen so many stupid, incompetent, arrogant, people in my lifetime.
How does anyone with any number of brain cells think an electric vehicle, that needs to plug into the grid to recharge, save anyone on anything? This is perhaps the worst group of nonThinkers (sorry Elon).
Our politicians got filthy rich, a lot of them, on deals with China. And now we can’t make the things we need to survive. We are in the worst possible economic situation since the founding of the country. I’m not sure we’re going to be able to dig our way out of the rubble. But, if nothing else, make sure your kids, grandkids, and great grandkids understands what has happened and vows to never let it happen again if we get another chance.
The globalist communists have just been waiting for the perfect opportunity to crush us. They found their moment.
Bill Clinton and other insider Democrats (Rhode Scholars, Brookings, etc.) outsourced our industry to China in the 90’s because the Queen controlled the territory somewhat. Their goal was to help the British, and harm America. Look at all the billionaires who profit hugely off of China Manufacturing base, they almost all lean left and promote the whole Queen, Harry, Obama talking points. The leftist celebs are rewarded for leaning left and promoting Obama, Biden, etc. For instance some models are given magazine covers by the Queens friend Winnour…. then they have to post their leftist talking points on IG, Facebook Twitter, etc. It’s like a requirement to get on the cover. So the only cover girls promote leftist agenda’s…. it’s all a conspiracy to undermine our country and values.
When the Rockefeller’s, Kissinger and Nixon opened up China for our security don’t you know, that was the intent all along. GATT/NAFTA/TPP all designed to diminish the USA and eventually kill us off. .
Make no mistake about it, our government has been actively selling us out since 1913.
Then there is the theory that if the US goes down, China goes with it.
Russia Iran India Trade Route Will Shift The Existing Geopolitical Order
A shipment of 41 tons of wood laminate sheeting from Russia is on its way to India. The cargo itself isn’t noteworthy, but the fact that it’s passing via Iran is—potentially signaling the start of a major new economic corridor that enhances Iran’s ties with India…and has important geopolitical ramifications.
https://greatgameindia.com/russia-iran-india-trade-route/
Amen.
That is what I’m talking about when I ask why the vast majority of the Opposition seems to have so much faith that the Midterms are going to make a big difference…..
For years, I’ve been saying — why do so many chalk the things Obama + the likes did up to — stupidity + ineptitude —– when the negative consequences were what they were hoping to generate?
If we can’t admit the fundamentals of the situation — we only hamper our collective ability to do something effective about it….
They put Infected people into Nursing Homes in the early days of Covid — clearly a move designed to spike the death count early — and they got away with it…..
These debt bubbles + derivative blackholes are not accidents. They aren’t signs of blind greed. They knew what they were doing….
Marxism (neo-Feudalism) has never been a grassroots effort of the Have Nots…. It has always been a product of the Want it ALLs….
The Housing Market crash was not a product of unintended consequences or blind greed. Handing out more + more loans to people who couldn’t afford it was a plan to make a handful of people billions of $ — knowing the Government had their backs with our hard-earned tax $ — to destabilize the Economy, discredit free market capitalism + prepare conditions for The Great Reset…
Go look at the Eugenicists of the late-19th + 20th century.
See what class of people they predominantly came from. See how much wealth they had….
Their children + grandchildren began telling us thru the Club of Rome + Rockefeller + other foundations + think tanks what to expect from the future + even gave us a timeframe to expect them to be ready to make their Big Moves to forward their Final Solution —- 2020-2040…
That is who we are up against.
Until the Average Person internalizes that reality ——-
Your points are spot on. It’s nice to see some critical thinking……
THAT is where the FED consortium of European bankers extracted $8T in American wealth and spirited it home
They had to discredit Capitalism while poisoning it from within while they built up China as the Model Home for what they plan to do to the whole Earth….
Eugenicists -wealth of info on family trees, etc. at Encyc – Eugenics Archives
Rockefellers at The Rockefeller Plan excerpted from the book Seeds of Destruction The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation by F. William Engdahl
Rockefeller Foundation & Global Business Network 2010 planning at Rockefeller Foundation.pdf
Liars lie, that’s what they do. Joe Biden has been a liar most of his life since I have known of him. He was Obama’s house boy much like Samuel Jackson’s character in D’Jango Unchained–he didn’t care, his side job as a Washington, DC gatekeeper was raking in the millions for his family, so when he became president he allowed others to run the show as long as they kept him out front where he could feel important…he is and always has been a bought and paid for clown.
Liars love this type of mask, Biden loves playing the role of mask. Voters choose their candidates much like those who visit a horse track and pick what they feel will be winners. How they pick such animals is just like how many vote for leaders. There is a small group running this show, they are true believers who have an agenda they will do anything to put into place, anything. They don’t give a damn if you suffer as they rush to get their goals in place, not one bit!
The question remains if the voters can sense those in control are ruining their lives. Many love this administration, many not. Your focus should be on a verifiable and honest voting process, a simple process, honest up front and honest in the back where counting takes place: One man, one vote is where you should start.
Those who argue against such a direction are the liars. Look around, they are everywhere. The best I ever saw was and is Obama–and he is still running around.
At what point does the propaganda pandemic become journalistic terrorism?
Politicians who outright and knowingly lie to the American people on a daily basis should be charged with TREASON!
It happened about the time George Stephanopolous became the face of ABC News….
I saw the first major premonition today. Was at Krogers….$6.99 for Kroger brand butter. Many things still own sale but higher by 25% than a couple of months ago. Armageddon for the average family.
Sundance, can you write an article about the dearth of available autos for sale? The long term aim of DS to take away our right or opportunity to drive. I am. staying with what I have for now, but should I buy something much newer while I can. I am thinking about buying a small car for better mileage since I have t wo gas guzzlers now.
I know a regular auto salesman here in a Greater Vancouver Dealership that earned $45,000 dollars in the month of May.
Prices are sky high, inventory sparse and wait lists for certain electric import models are often 18-24 months.
Don’t worry about most of the dealerships yet..maybe in a couple of years if things don’t change, but for now, their margins are huge.
I suggest holding on to what you have.
We can buy new, as we have a few relatives in the business.
However we own 95 GMC 2500 4×4 x cab.
A 97 Suzuki Sport Sidekick JLX ( for off reading)
Our daily runner is a 2009 Honda Fit ( if anyone reading here is looking for a fuel sipper, the Fit is hard to beat).
Cheers!
We the people do not consent and we don’t believe their excuses. Mamet principle 24/7 with these traitors
My senator barrASSo has a solution!
“U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), joined Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Steve Daines (R-MT), and James Lankford (R-OK) Tuesday in introducing legislation to provide relief and protections for middle-class savings.”
“The proposed legislation would target relief for Americans by excluding a reasonable amount of interest income from being subject to tax, $600 for married couples and $300 for individuals; more than doubling the size of the zero percent (lowest) tax bracket for long-term capital gains and qualified dividends, and indexing the income thresholds to inflation; eliminating the marriage penalty that exists in the current Net Investment Tax—which subjects some income to an additional 3.8 percent tax—and indexing its income threshold to inflation, and increasing the maximum ‘savers credit’ an individual may receive for contributing to qualified retirement accounts and expanding the availability of this credit to more taxpayers.”
I just cant wrap my brain around such stupidity.
It should be $10,000 at a minimum.
We need to totally clean house on the GOP side of the Senate. They are one of our biggest problems. It sounds bad but I truly wish McConnell would pass away. Baby boomers like him are destroying the country to grab what they can on their way out.
Better check your ignorance. McConnell is not a Boomer.
Stop with the generational bs, it’s not productive.
Imagine if this had been the outcome of President Trump’s policy with China? It would’ve been yet another impeachment!
Controlling food supply, isn’t that what hostage takers do to the people they abduct to gain compliance from them? The new norm, the woke green diet , no more meat . I have known some seriously deranged vegetarians and being stable is not applicable to their personalities. The vegetarians that haven’t turned their diets into religious fanaticism are few.
It’s to do with Mind Control. Cults always control the diets of members along the same lines.
But Russia….the TV mannequins said so.
got the bubble headed bleach blonde that comes on at five…
she can tell you ’bout the plane crash, with a gleam in her eye…
It’s intresting when people die, give us dirty laundry…
Dirty little secrets, dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry
-Don Henley
https://genius.com/Don-henley-dirty-laundry-lyrics
Any economic chart of the last 18 months will prove this to be a lie. Russia did not invade Ukraine in February of 2021.
Bottom line………
Virtually ALL in Congress must be voted out and replaced with individuals who 100% support MAGA, the people, the rule of law and the US Constitution.
Folks like McConnell, Graham, Cornyn and McCarthy and so many other RINOS, are as harmful to this great Republic, the rule of law and the US Constitution as the libs.
I see no difference between Pelosi, Biden, Obama and these jokers.
It is time they all get voted out of politics forever!
Yesterday at Publix I picked up a few things Walmart does not carry and some future price offsetting carried it out in 2 hands 5 bags for $85, ouch. This news isn’t good as it appears things will go much higher then we even thought possible. Kim Dotcom had a good thread the other day that was less than hope for the future he thinks this goes on to hyper inflation as we are BROKE!
I am fully stocked, freezer, and pantry. My own canned goods are sufficient for two years, and I have also accumulated 2 years supply for my dogs. I have stock piled water filters because bottle water will be going away. Stabil for stored fuel, batteries, and generator are all in order. Most used screw sizes, nails etc are all organized.
All round I am good for 2 years, and will be grateful for the return of the REAL President!
If that fails I will be dining on sweet potatoes, peppers, tomatoes and beans from the garden. FJB NO SURRENDER EVER!
Can I rent your spare room? 😉
“The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNOW estimate of economic growth based on data published through today fell to zero from 0.9 percent a week ago. The figure was dragged down by a variety of economic data released over the past week, including retail sales, and consumer prices.”
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/06/15/atlanta-feds-gdp-now-falls-to-zero/
Layoffs are coming.
Art imitates life (or we can hope it does, in this case).
The asshats do not want to have an adult discussion; they want to destroy the country.
I can be patient, for when the hour is near for justice.
In the meantime, there’s cold anger and an accounting of offenses.
Absolutely correct!
Sundance, you know what the sadly funniest thing is about all of this?
Knowing all that I now know (red pilled via your website for years now), I easily see the comically BAD acting job these dolts perform when LYING to the world.
Zelenskiy was a bad actor anyway, and he over acts his role today.
Biden is a total puppet, and cannot hide his strings nor his depends.
Obama was probably the master of leftist “cool”, which along with massive white guilt, got him elected twice (plus the selected fall guys nominated via the RINO cabal).
What a massive, self absorbed, compromised and selfish cluster of users we have in government. What a decrepit lot of puss instilled within this swamp.
Thank You Sundance. Your intelligence sharing is an add on to all of us who are focused on preparation.
I truly believe the American economy is going to take a blow like we’ve never experienced in our livetimes, or read about. Time to stock up and plant a varietal garden. Summer / Winter items. Potato’s, Beets, radishes, etc…
The non-human scum that are driving this want us all dead. They think at this point in time that they have the upper hand and are more brazen and have no fear of sharing their intentions.
I’m almost 65 now and may not live to see the resurrection of America The Good, but rest assured, it will happen.
Meantime, prepare Treeps. The Satanists stand ready to unleash hell, without even a modicum of thought that they will be consumed in the fires they are lighting.
Prepare and be alert and aware.
It’s very hard to underestimate any negative impact, when the economic destruction is by design.
With food and energy at today’s prices, durable goods are beginning to stack up. Inventory simply has no place to go. Now, fast forward to early September, when the mid-terms will be 2 months out. Food prices will skyrocket once production and processing costs for this season’s yield reach the supermarket. But people have to eat, so there will be more cost saving measures invoked. The market for durable goods is going to collapse. This is the time to look for bargains.
But it is also the time for China to invade Taiwan. A collapsing US market will cause still more unrest in both rural and urban China, which are already beset by multiple crises, notably the ongoing collapse of the real estate market, and a steadily increasing drumbeat of bank runs. Xi needs a distraction– and so does Biden. Historically, voters rally around the President in a moment of great foreign crisis, so the Dems want China to invade Taiwan because they know that this is the only thing that might minimize the damage at the polls.
Will the stratagem work?
Doubtful.
After Afghanistan and Ukraine, another foreign crisis will reinforce the image of total incompetence, and this may do even greater damage in the polling booth.
Interesting times.
I can’t vouch for the projected timeline, but I absolutely agree that it was Biden ‘energy policy’ that created the dangerous inflation we see now, and nearly all the yet worse inflation we will see soon.
In addition, if Biden really wanted to stop Putin in Ukraine, the FIRST thing he would do is get out of the way of US producers, including frackers, and write into law that the govt will stop messing with them LONG TERM. Putin’s Russian oil and gas industry has been getting WINDFALL PROFITS because Biden eliminated Russia’s American competitor from the market.
In other words, Biden is paying Putin to grab Ukraine.
STOP IT.
I call it the “fractional reserve lie”. You can take one lie, and make 9 more lies out of it. Then it just branches out from there. It’s like “fractional reserve banking”. Everything these people push is fiat, meaning it’s based on nothing; except lies and a political ideology, known as Communism.
I have a question for someone smarter than me that reads this site
I watched the heating oil futures price hit an all time high today at 4.54 gal, even as gasoline prices dropped a little.
This is a low demand time of year for heating oil and I’m reckoning this would put the retail price between 5.50-6 dollars a gallon. (last year my retail price at this time was around 2.00 dollars a gallon
This is scary
My question is:
Is this just oil speculators driving up the futures contract price to make a profit without ever intending to actually take delivery of any oil but to only flip a piece of paper for a profit to another speculator?
And all I am is roadkill along the way as I try and buy heating oil from my local distributor during this BS game?
Heating oil is nearly identical to Diesel, hence the unlikelihood of it falling unless shipping/diesel falls.
Regardless of “speculation” (Which I Highly Doubt); The US Dollar is going to continue to Decline in purchasing power, thus there will be continuing higher prices for Essential Products.
I have “back up” 100 lb propane tanks for a home heater. My primary energy is electric. I just filled my propane tanks.
Cold is worse than any possible speculative road killing. imo.
As long as the JoBama marxists rule from the WH, their NWO RESET pogrom will continue.
got silver miners?
ag first majestic
asm avino silver and gold mines
cde coeur mining
exk endeavor silver
fsm fortuna silver mines
gpl great panther mining
hl hecla mining
lode comstock mining
mag mag silver
mux mcewen mining
paas pan american silver
plg platinum group metals
silv silvercrest metals
ssrm ssr mining
svm silvercorp metals
usas america’s gold and silver
I didn’t do an exhaustive check, but I was surprised to see how low Hecla, Fortuna, AG First Magestic currently are trading. Does anyone know why that is? The price charts show that these seem to be clearly cyclical but given the news concerning ‘the price of commodities’, I would have thought mines would be up. I don’t know anything about mining so would appreciate comments –
I did have my oldest buy silver eagles recently – I know silver (and gold) prices are heavily manipulated through the use of paper financialization, so using the dealer I trust and buying to the first price break was the extent of my due diligence.
See my comment above. Certain banks are chosen in New York and London to buy and sell futures to control prices, this is why the prices of silver and gold, and the miners are not increasing with inflation yet.
I expect prices will be allowed to react a bit to maintain their charade but don’t expect supply and demand to govern until the insiders decide it is time to make some money. Insiders will know when to buy and when to sell, but you won’t.
Check the silver chart for April 30, 2011, and May 1, 2011.
The price of silver and gold (and therefore mining stock prices) are totally in the control of the
New York and London markets through buying and selling futures contracts. Prices will increase when US and UK governments let them and will fall when governments demand.
Remember we are also bidding against the EU for this type of fuel. It’s only going to get higher
Gas hit $1250-1300 for a thousand cubic meters in the EU today due to Gazprom having to reduce supplies from their Nord Stream delivery.
To answer the question, which is a very common one, the short answer which is partially correct to a tiny degree is yes, there are speculators driving prices up, and down, and all around, all the time. Some few attempt to make a profit by arbitrage which is the tactic of making tiny profits on small transactions of large quantity which is something very few can do unless you have truly free trading abilities which are highly restricted. Most of us pay something to buy or sell. It is a tough row to hoe anyway you look at it because they are trading on technical measures of market movement while the market itself is subject to fundamental forces which can prove difficult to forecast or predict especially in more turbulent times. Like in the movie Trading Places, the firms involved make a living executing the transactions and earning a commission whether the market goes up or down for any particular thing and doing many other things. That is a small piece of the puzzle and actually helps keep the market honest as anyone attempting to manipulate a market can be discovered by another and if it appears something is amiss others will soon join to bet against the manipulator bringing the market back into equilibrium. For any commodity, the fundamental drivers of cost/price is the cost of raw material acquisition, the equipment(capital) and labor required to transform it into something we want to purchase and the rules or government imposed constraints or requirements upon producers impacting cost in various ways again difficult to forecast especially when things are really in flux. All you really need to know is that abandoning fossil fuels by gubmint fiat is going to make them very very expensive to obtain from what is increasingly a black market.