Tag Archives: money

The scam enabled by today’s financial ““markets”” coupled with lots of easy cheap credit flowing to big monied interests is every bit as egregious as the company store of old; only today’s victims are mostly blind to the way that the system is rigged against them.

Run this scam long enough and one day we’ll discover that the banks and their proxy agents — private equity funds, hedge funds, endowments, and family offices, etc — own all of the productive farmland, all of the mines, all of the oil wells, all of the timberland, and every other means of primary wealth production.

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Every so often, our work in the premium side of PeakProsperity.com is deemed so important that our paying subscribers request we share it with the general public. Last week's 'Off The Cuff' podcast received so many of these requests that we are releasing it to all here.

In last week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris delivered a very personal message about how we each decide to live our lives.

A growing number of people are watching the “prosperity” around them — record high asset prices, record-low unemployment, new technologies, etc — and yet feeling that we're making the wrong trade-offs as a society. All that wealth is flowing into fewer and fewer pockets, ecosystems are faltering and an alarming number of species are dying off, depression rates (especially among the youth) are skyrocketing.

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Until you see clearly how the rules of society work, you will be trapped within a system of control.

What you mistake for reality is instead a fabricated simulation, designed to keep you trapped right where the system wants you.

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We've enjoyed years of “recovery” since the Great Financial Crisis by literally papering over our problems with newly-printed money, instead of addressing their root causes.

But we've now arrived at the awkward part of the story; when all of our prior mistakes finally catch up with us, and the plot heads in a much darker direction.

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• Parks chief warns of 'massive cuts, huge layoffs' as soon as 2020 (Chicago)
• No more excuses. Fix Pa. pension funds | Editorial
• Who’s Going to Pay for LA’s Unsustainable Pension Plans?
• ECB Official Warns QE Exit Could Spell Trouble for Italy's Debt
• U.S. recession chances edge up, risk Fed delivers fewer hikes: Reuters poll
• BOJ's Kuroda rules out early end of negative rate policy (Japan)
• Unthinkable?
• Bitcoin-Rigging Criminal Probe Focused on Tie to Tether
• NY BitLicense Approval, Blockchain for Energy Commodities, CFTC Enforcement, Advertising Use Cases and More

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• Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise
• A deadly storm is coming in Syria 
• Report: Trump Admin Denying Passports to Citizens Along Border
• So Much for The Great California Bail Celebration
• Elections board takes less than a minute to reject proposal to close 7 of 9 polling places in majority-black county 
• Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
• Attention, Shoppers: Kroger Says It Is Phasing Out Plastic Bags
• U.S. court orders Trump administration to enforce chemical safety rule

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• Study: Some public pensions funds could run dry in downturn
• Report: Pennsylvanians carrying $33.2 billion in credit card debt
• Venezuela warns businesses not to halt payments amid currency overhaul
• Soros warns new global financial crisis looming
• Why are nearly 1 in 4 Millennials still living with mom? Lack of affordable housing
• Italy’s debt bubble pop heard around the world
• Copper supply shock hits India as Vedanta group's Tuticorin plant ordered to close
• Lawmakers approve $366 million sales tax bill (Louisiana)
• Billionaire George Soros outlines his plan to save Europe
• Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says
• Hepatitis A is usually not a problem to recover from. But in Michigan, 27 people died since this outbreak began.
• With urgency, VA deploys new capabilities to fix services almost every day
• NASA virtual exoplanet tours bureau lets anyone ‘vacation’ in space
• Oil Is Still Going To $80
• Scientists Are Hinting at The Existence of a Strange New Type of Particle
• Garbage Island: An Ocean Full Of Plastic

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• Bills aimed at expanding WA voter participation signed by Inslee
• Christian Care Home workers strike ends with agreement that includes wage increases, insurance provisions and seniority protection
• Immigrant Reunited With Child Months After Separation by U.S.
• Seeking a Roadmap for the New American Middle Class
• Federal court orders EPA to implement smog rules
• U.S. loses bid to halt children's climate change lawsuit
• Empty half the Earth of its humans. It's the only way to save the planet
• Why Forests Give You Awe

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• Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class
• More Than 30 Trump Aides Lose Top-Secret Clearance, Sources Say
• It’s a Good Time to Buy Gold
• Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong
• The Flu Is Finally, Finally Going Away
• Trump’s Trade Wars Could Spark A Massive Drop In Oil
• Interior Dept. wants to lower royalties that offshore oil, coal companies pay
• Harvesting the Sun for Power and Produce – Agrophotovoltaics Increases the Land Use Efficiency by over 60 Percent 

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