The world is receiving a disturbing lesson in dementia and cognitive decline as we watch Joe Biden wither away in real-time. Biden yet again exposed that he is barely capable of reading off of the teleprompter – “Four more years – PAUSE!”
The “crowd” began chanting, “Four more years!” after Biden’s mumbled attempt to incite excitement over his re-election bid. The audience is clearly a group of actors. All the support surrounding Joe is completely staged.
Biden traveled to Tampa, FL, during his most recent campaign attempt and I can say that there was absolutely no coverage of his visit. When Trump came through years ago, there were boat parades and people chanting through the streets. Traffic was as-usual during Biden’s visit and his wish to turn Florida blue is a Hunter pipe dream.
(Biden before losing his cognitive skills, — still a skillful liar)
Can a mentally impaired person legally run for the most powerful office in the world? Yes. To become president one need only be over 35 years of age, a natural-born citizen who has resided in the United States for at least 14 years. One cannot hold a federal office while serving as president, hence people in Florida were concerned DeSantis would leave his governor position if elected. A president cannot have a criminal record that includes a felony under the Gun Laws Moral limitation. A history of domestic violence could also disqualify a candidate. Anyone who has engaged in espionage or has been a threat to national security is also disqualified.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The Qualifications Clause set forth in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 requires the President to be a natural-born citizen, at least thirty-five years of age, and a resident of the United States for at least fourteen years.
I believe Joe Biden should be disqualified due to his backroom dealing with China and Ukraine that I have covered extensively on this blog. The incident with his daughter could be considered an act of domestic violence and certainly should have been investigated. Biden has a history of moral misconduct that would prevent anyone conservative from running for POTUS.
Perhaps the Founding Fathers believed the voting public would be intelligent enough to elect a mentally fit leader. It is beyond comprehension that anyone would support a man who is clearly declining. Take a look at Joe Biden years ago when he was vice president or further back when he was a senator. There is a drastic difference in his speech and mannerisms.
A pilot or doctor could not hold office if he or she were mentally incapacitated. The president is also making life or death decisions on behalf of others, and yet, he is not held accountable or demanded to undergo a cognitive test. He was found too mentally inept to face charges for mishandling classified files. Still, he is mentally sound, according to the Democrats, to run for office and make decisions that will affect not merely our generation but generations to come.
Unfortunately, there is nothing in the Constitution that disqualifies someone with an overt cognitive impairment from holding office, and hatred has surpassed common sense, as many voters would prefer a corpse over a conservative.
Posted originally on Apr 22, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell essentially said he was unimpressed by the “strong” jobs report, and it certainly was not enough for the central bank to even consider dropping rates. I wrote how the BLS report was skewed; Americans are working more than one job and still struggling to keep up with the cost of living amid inflation. Another reason that the March jobs report was “strong” was due to the US government hiring 194,000 additional personnel to the private sector within the first three months of the year and 71,000 jobs in March alone.
These public sector positions are now on the taxpayers’ payroll. The public sector produces absolutely nothing and will not add to GDP growth. By comparison, government grew by 11% during the first three months of 2019 before Biden. The private sector rose by 4.3% in 2022 before slowing to 2.3% in 2023. The public sector, not the private sector, is growing at an alarming pace. Government hiring rose a full percentage point from 2022 to 2023 by 2.7%, marking the highest annual increase since 1990.
The government cannot hire manufacturing jobs and added a total of 0 new manufacturing roles in March. Police agencies have been defunded and are operating with a dangerously low number of officers. The government is increasingly created unnecessary agencies to solve nonexistent problems like DEI and climate initiatives. I discussed in a previous post how the public sector leeches off of the taxpayer and has become a form of welfare that is used as a political weapon.
Now, the Biden Administration has been blocked from hiring even more public sector employees. Without pushback, the Biden Administration would have multiplied the IRS and other agencies that are intrinsically unpatriotic and are used as weapons against the American people, the very people funding these agencies through taxation.
I also highlighted that these newly created nonprofit government-funded agencies are inefficient. An audit in California found that the $24 billion granted to numerous agencies to combat homelessness was never regulated or required to show results. Instead, homelessness more than doubled and you have people within these nonprofit agencies raking in hundreds of thousands per year to do absolutely nothing.
We have seen what happens when governments grow to disproportionate figures and it never ends well. The longest reigning empire, the Roman Empire, fell as a direct result of an oversized public sector that bankrupted Rome. The private sector produces economic growth, while government is a public servant consuming the wealth generated by others.
Posted originally on Mar 20, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Anyone with access to the internet from 2019 to 2020 can tell you that Google did, in fact, meddle in the 2020 US Presidential Elections in favor of then-candidate Joe Biden. Media Research Center found that Google interfered 41 times over the last 16 years, which is a drastic underestimation. Google continues to interfere in politics by using its algorithm to favor pro-Biden and anti-Trump results; even its failed AI system, Gemini, refused to criticize the Biden regime.
The issue is that Google is the most popular search engine. “Google” has become a verb; “Google” [insert search criteria here] for information. Not many realize that the information they are seeking on Google is censored, filtered, and deliberately presented to users in certain areas to align with its interests. Google heavily lobbies governments globally, but has an extreme sway over politicians within the establishment on the right and left.
“MRC researchers have found 41 times where Google interfered in elections over the last 16 years, and its impact has surged dramatically, making it evermoreharmful to democracy. In every case, Google harmed the candidates – regardless of party – who threatened its left-wing candidate of choice,” MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider and editor Gabriela Pariseau co-authored. Again, Google targets ANY anti-establishment candidate, but the study found that the search engine pushes “electoral victory [for] the most liberal candidates, regardless of the party, while targeting their opponents for censorship.”
This has been going on for many years, and the public is unaware that they have been subconsciously deceived. Google tried to protect Hillary Clinton in 2016 by suppressing unfavorable search results, and it protected Barack Obama in 2008 similarly. Google interferes in elections and business globally and has partnered with the World Economic Forum and other globalist cabals. The forces are doing everything in their power to remove our access to information amid this private wave where the public has lost all trust in the establishment.
Millions of people use Google daily to access information that is heavily censored and skewed in favor of left-leaning establishment politics. You can try it for yourself to see what search results appear when attempting to look up information about a particular situation or candidate. Google is not only altering information, but it is collecting your data while doing so.
I will explain in an upcoming blog post how Google and META bought the entirety of Congress. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, and other search engines are far superior to Google. Bing, Google, and Yahoo, three of the most popular search engines, have all been compromised.
Posted originally on the CTH on March 10, 2024 | Sundance
Gary Cohn appears on Face The Nation to discuss the finance, the economy and the pain felt by consumers. He won’t say it directly, for obvious reasons, but what Cohn describes in terms of political support boils down to Main Street business supporting Donald Trump and Wall Street Multinational Corporations supporting Joe Biden. That is ultimately what is obvious at a macro level.
I’m starting the video at 03:08 for the purposes of emphasizing inflation. What Cohn says about U.S. inflation is essentially accurate and I have a Cliff Notes, tldr, HERE. However, what Cohn says about tariffs creating inflation is not accurate, as outlined by the 2017 through 2020 results of Trump tariff policy. Cohn says, “No one absorbs tariffs, except the consumer,” this is false. As we saw in 2017, 2018, and 2019 China, Asia and the EU essentially dropped their export prices to retain access to the USA market and offset tariff costs. That’s just a statistical reality.
The transcript is HERE; however, I want to draw attention to a geopolitical aspect that is not getting enough attention. Specifically, the cost of FOOD PRODUCTS and the attached inflation.
Why is food inflation continuing to be a problem? Why is food inflation not just a USA problem? Why are the EU farmers protesting? These questions are easily answered, and yet no one in the Western financial press will explain.
The Build Back Better agenda, known in the USA colloquially as the Green New Deal, carries with it massive increases in cost for energy products. Fertilizer, which needs natural gas, and farming, which needs large amounts of fuel, diesel and fuel oil, uses costly energy products. Packaging, plastics (petroleum derivatives) and cardboard also require large amounts of energy.
The manufacturing (heating, cooling, freezing) as well as storage and transportation of food products also use massive amounts of energy. Additionally, and specifically because of the nature of their consumption, the increased energy costs associated with generating food travels quickly through the supply chain.
Food inflation is always the first thing you notice when the prices of energy products skyrocket. This is well known and not subject to debate; everyone accepts this.
In the past 30 +/- years, large multinational corporations known as Big Ag have created a system where the USA generates a massive amount of the global food supply.
The advent of modern farming fertilizer, pesticides, seed genetics and other farming products/equipment that increase crop yield, has also been a big factor in the capacity of the USA and Western farming world to increase production. As the globe became more reliant on the production efficiencies of the Big Ag “Western world,” they simultaneously became dependent on the outcome. That dependency put them at risk of feeling the impact of inflation when you think about the farm products.
The result was that when Western Ag farming costs skyrocketed, the high cost of harvest outcomes were not just felt in the USA and/or Western nations. As food production costs increased, the higher costs of production transferred into all the exported products. Food inflation was exported globally.
The Western Build Back Better and Green New Deal energy policies subsequently meant the world was going to pay a higher price for food globally. That’s what happened.
The Yellow Zone was responsible for a higher percentage of global food production. The Yellow Zone is also the place where energy policy was changed in such a radical format that massive increases in energy costs were created.
The Yellow Zone (geopolitically the “West”) drove up the cost of farming, the Gray Zone pays a higher price. This was all by design and not accidental. The corporations who supported the BBB/GRD agenda all benefit. The citizens who need to eat, do not benefit.
So, when you see EU farmers protesting against the ridiculous ENERGY POLICY changes of the West, you must accept the USA bears a greater responsibility for creating and demanding the increased prices that farmers globally are having to deal with.
In Gray Zone areas, where domestic food production costs are not subject to the changed energy policy, there is little to no food inflation. However, the more dependent the country is to food imports (ingredients or final product) the more they are impacted by rising farming costs.
Grey Zone countries that can self-sustain on the production of food and have no energy agenda have little food inflation.
The more the country is strangling energy production and driving up energy prices, the higher the cost of farming and subsequently the higher index on food inflation. The two metrics are directly related.
Food inflation globally is a big problem. Western energy policy is exactly why!
Posted originally on Mar 7, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Those who follow this blog already knew that the Federal Reserve would not drop rates in the future due to unsustainable fiscal policies paired with America’s increasing involvement in foreign wars. All of the talking heads were preaching that rates would significantly decline to pandemic levels, as if that were the historical norm. Every fiscal policy in recent years has exacerbated inflation and the Fed cannot keep up with government spending. QE FAILED. The artificially low interest rates of the recent past were completely unsustainable and relied on outdated theories.
The outdated understanding based on Keynesian Economics remains to increase the supply of money and it MUST be inflationary. The Fed raises rates to reduce consumption and lower rates to stimulate consumption. It’s a very nice theory, but when actually tested, it utterly fails. Lower rates will NEVER cause people to invest UNTIL they believe that there is an opportunity to invest. We are watching the big players withdraw from equities, let alone government debt. We are in a private wave where money is running off the grid at a rapid pace.
The peak in interest rates took place in 1899 at virtually 200%. Yet, 1929 was the real bubble top and it peaked with 20% interest rates in call money on the NYSE. In theory, the biggest boom should have been met with the highest interest rate. In truth, the “real interest rate” as I have defined it is when the interest rates exceed expectations. If you think the stock market will double, you will pay 25% interest.
As you can see, while interest rates hit nearly 200% in 1899, the share market did NOT crash percentage-wise anything as it did following 1929. Look, there is a lot more to this than meets the eye. Everything must be addressed on a global scale for it all depends also on the direction of capital flows. There is just a lot more to this than simply the money supply and interest rates.
Now, Powell continues to explain to the public that VOLATILITY and economic conditions are beyond the control of the Fed. “We believe that our policy rate is likely at its peak for this tightening cycle,” Powell said. “If the economy evolves broadly as expected, it will likely be appropriate to begin dialing back policy restraint at some point this year. But the economic outlook is uncertain, and ongoing progress toward our 2% inflation objective is not assured.”
All the news ofinflation waning, including recent data, is inaccurate propaganda intended to calm recessionary fears. Even by the government’s data, inflation is up 3.1% compared to last year. It was an unprecedented moment when Powell broke with Washington and criticized the government for their unsustainable spending. The Fed NEVER criticizes the government, despite the two being separate.
Hence, I say to stop blaming the Fed. They are not the ones creating all the money but are working to match monetary policy with unsustainable fiscal policies. We are looking at trillions in deficits per year. There is no restraint when creating new massive spending packages. Then people blame the central bank with no concept that it’s only a fraction of “money;” the real issue is CONGRESS.
Listen, interest rates cannot decline in the face of war. The 2020 yearly array showed a turning point for a high in 2022 and a possible correction into 2024. I explain this in more detail on the Socrates private blog but buckle up for the year ahead.
Posted originally on the CTH on March 7, 2024 | Sundance
The Daily Mail has an article detailing dozens of violent crimes perpetrated by Joe Biden’s illegal alien border invasion [SEE HERE]. The subject theme is “the grim toll of a migrant crime wave sweeping across the United States.” The article details the graphic and horrific nature of multiple violent criminals who came into the country illegally and murdered, raped, assaulted and organized into groups for the purpose of robbery and theft.
Additionally, in Polk County Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd outlines a sting operation called “March Sadness” where 228 people were arrested and 13 victims of human trafficking were rescued by the police unit. The details shared by Sherriff Judd are sobering as he outlines exactly what was taking place and how the illegal alien trafficking system is creating victims from many of the female migrants. [ARTICLE HERE] – WATCH (prompted):
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The details of these articles and press conferences are likely not a surprise to CTH readers as we have discussed exactly these scenarios in our SAF (slowly at first) ground reports. Unfortunately, the outcomes described by the Daily Mail accounting and the sting operation by Sherriff Judd are likely only the tip of the iceberg.
What Judd outlines about the federal government giving the illegal aliens free airline tickets is infuriating. Watch that video above for details.
Some people just cannot fathom that the fake news spear-headed by Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law at the Institute for the Study of War never peace; they demonize Putin as they routinely do to anyone they oppose. My father taught me a lesson that you MUST always listen to your opponent because it is a window into his thinking process. I have read Marx not because I believed in what he was saying but to comprehend his thinking process and what led him to the conclusion that he killed more than 200 million people and still counting.
When you listen to Putin’s speech, he focuses on what many perceive as American culture. When we look deeper into American politics, the stats are revealing. They explain why many view the United States as out of control because of these extremely progressive ideas of attributing even pronouns, etc. Indeed, 93% of college professors gave to Biden. Just 7% gave to former President Donald Trump. That explains why we all know that a college education today may not be so desirable. The goal seems to indoctrinate our children to accept the political philosophies being taught in schools even though they have a proven track record of failure – consistently.
When I would interview students who wanted to work in our firm, I would ask them what were their opinions about various economists and their theories. When I asked about Marx, I was shocked. They said that social studies – not economics. I could tell what college they attended if they answered the question instead of looking befuddled. If they never studied Marx in economics, it explains how socialism is the panacea for the future because it hands the government more power. With each passing generation, attitudes shift and change.
Meanwhile, the biggest donors to President Trump were farmers, truckers, entrepreneurs, mechanics, and construction workers – not academics. Biden’s repeated failures in economics from his green agenda with agencies being overturned as violating the constitution regularly add to Biden’s woke extremism of progressives in general. Trump is not only winning over farmers, truckers, entrepreneurs, mechanics, and construction workers but also Black Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans, as well as immigrants who had to come here with a skill to get in. Add to that young people who see Trump as energetic compared to a feeble old man.
Add to this, it’s becoming so obvious that the political system that’s just not working. It is dying from the cancer of corruption within. The perception of this also differs between generations. The Baby Boomers tend to be galvanized into Republic or Democrat, with Independents being at best 10%, accounting for the swing between them.
There are clearly four generations in the workforce: Baby Boomers (oldest), Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z. These generations were raised in different social and political atmospheres. I recall having drills for a nuclear blast and hiding under my desk, which seems comical today. Each generation had different childhood upbringings and familial environments. These all inspire different values, wants, and needs in adulthood, shaping our most basic views of morality.
The environment in which an individual is brought up in, namely the things that they lack or are deprived of in their childhood, strongly influences their value development throughout adulthood. When communism fell, being those borders, people rushed to get what they were deprived of. That is how even gold became what it is seen as to this day. It was at first reserved only for kings, for it was believed to be the tears of the sun god. For about 2600 years, gold was not money. It was reserved for kings. As more gold became available, the aristocrats suddenly wanted gold that had been forbidden. This gold first appears as jewelry.
Gold was finally plentiful enough to be used as money only from about 800 BC. It was first traded in lumps, and then it was fashioned into standard weights. It finally became a coin when a king stamped his badge on it to guarantee its weight and purity. While the baby boomers see gold as money, the younger generations do not. In India, the second largest market for gold, we see shifts in generational attitudes. Millennials in India aren’t buying gold the way their parents did. It has worsened for Generation Z (1996-2010), where the World Gold Council study highlighted that this generation lacks an emotional connection with gold.
In the Bronx, a Republican won for the first time in 40 years. This is a district where the Democrats outnumber Republicans 4 to 1. Things are shifting, and the press is so out of date; they keep preaching the same narrative of hating Trump because they are run by the Baby Boomers, who are the most leftist of the lot.
If Trump left New York and swam across the Hudson River, the headline would be – Trump Cannot Walk on Water. There is a major shift in attitudes between the generations. We are showing that the younger generations are much more pro-Trump than the Baby Boomers who run the press.
But how exactly does this tie into the ever-changing workplace and the rise and fall of politics? Certainly, we can generalize these individual upbringings that influence different adulthood values to the changing social and political leanings. However, the idea of women’s rights and the bra-burning days of the ’60s are over. The girls in our office were in their 20s when Hillary was running. They were told they were not a woman unless they voted for Hillary. They called her a female Nazi. The attitudes changed, and the younger generations also do not know the horrors of war that the Baby Boomers are creating as their last horah before they die.
The message of Marxism and equality for all is fading. We have had a black president, and things are not as stark as they were in the ’60s. With the passing of time, attitudes change. This enabled Christianity to rise as people became disenchanted with praying to Roman and Greek gods, and nothing happened. Jesus, the son of God sent to Earth, was not so foreign from the concept that Hercules was the son of Zeus sent here to help humanity. Attitudes shift and change with the passing of generations. We see that even in fashion, girls today wear jeans that are torn to represent what was actually during the 60s – not by fashion. Men’s ties widen and then narrow. Women’s skirts rise and fall. Even looking at the portraits of Roman women over a 224-year period shows the changing style and attitudes.
The Democrats are in trouble. The old Marxist storyline is fading into the sunset. Most of the rights the unions were formed to defend are now regulations today, and many see unions as becoming irrelevant. Like NATO, which always wants war, unions always want confrontation. The days of working conditions are long gone. What our model is showing is that the Democrats are pushing for war. This will be their own demise. Things have changed – but the Democrats cannot leave Socialism. They cannot even envision a world without Marxism.
What Putin addressed was the image of Biden’s extremism with this transgender, pronouns, and wokeness. Looking at America from the outside in, many are shaking their heads, asking what is going on.
Posted originally on Feb 15, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
“I promise you if I’m elected president, you’re going to see the single most important thing that changes America,” Biden announced on his campaign trail in 2019. “We’re gonna cure cancer!”
Many have since forgotten the loftiest, most absurd campaign promise in recent years. Sadly, there are those who actually believed funding and research would be put toward cancer research instead of killing off the young and healthy at war. The National Institutes of Health has identified 100 different types of cancer that develop for various, largely unknown reasons. The FDA permits known carcinogens to exist in our food and common households products, citing that they have minimal risk. Has anything been done under Biden’s presidency to aid in researching cancer?
The Biden Cancer Moonshot is a White House initiative aimed at reducing the deadly impact of cancer and improving patient experiences in the treatment and survival of cancer. Over $330 million has been earmarked for this project, a small cost compared to government’s spending on less important matters. The objectives of this initiative include reducing the cancer death rate by 50% over the next 25 years, improving access to cancer screenings, understanding and preventing toxic and environmental exposures, and preventing more cancers before they start. No, Biden was not able to “cure cancer” during his first term, but he is hoping this forgotten program will reduce the rate of cancer in 25 years.
The American Cancer Society believes that cancer cases will hit an all-time high in 2024, with two million Americans receiving that awful diagnosis. Cancer among those between 55 and 64 has risen, with colorectal cancer being the leading cause of death for men, while breast is the most lethal cancer for women. Genetics? Environmental? Other? Researchers are uncertain.
Americans cannot afford cancer treatments, and healthcare issues are the leading cause of bankruptcy. Drug companies, insurance companies, and health providers are permitted to extort Americans for top dollar and no one is intervening in a meaningful way. As this was Joe Biden’s promise to America, he certainly could have passed legislation preventing Americans from being decimated by these industries.
There was a Senate hearing on February 8, 2024, involving the CEOs of Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck. Senator Bernie Sanders confronted the CEOs, highlighting the obvious discrepancy between drug prices in the US and those in other countries. He underscored the findings of a majority staff report, which revealed that these companies charge Americans the highest prices globally and have substantially increased prices over the years. The report noted that from 2004 to 2008, the median price of new innovative drugs from these companies was $14,000, which surged to a median price of $238,000 from 2019 to 2023. The CEOs defended their pricing and are refusing to lower costs.
Do not believe promises made on the campaign trail, as these politicians will pretend they can solve every crisis known to man. The Biden Administration could focus on improving cancer research now, not in 25 years, and they could certainly curtail these sinister health agencies from profiting on the pain of the American people.
Posted originally on the CTH on February 13, 2024 | Sundance
Republican senators Boozman, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cramer, Crapo, Hoeven, Ernst, Grassley, Kennedy, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Romney, Rounds, Sullivan, Thune, Tillis, Wicker, Young, and Cornyn all voted to send $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to protect their borders while leaving our borders unprotected.
Most people just don’t realize the nature of the opposition we face. ¹The elected representatives simply don’t care what our opinion is, they will do whatever serves their interests and too hell with the voters.
WASHINGTON DC – The Senate approved $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan aid by a 70-29 vote early on Tuesday morning, sending the bill to an uncertain fate in the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson is giving the legislation a frosty reception.
Despite a last-ditch effort from conservative opponents of the bill, Johnson‘s cold water and former President Donald Trump’s attempts to kill the legislation, Republican support for the deal actually grew overnight, with 22 GOP senators voting in favor of the package — a kind of rejection of those in the party, like Trump, who argued any aid should be structured as a loan. (read more)
¹Now, imagine if we had some simultaneous triggering mechanism that could abruptly initiate a total work stoppage, a general labor strike, in the states or hometowns of the aforementioned senators. Perhaps that would get their attention.
At least there are a few states where both senators held the interests of their voters in mind. Florida, Missouri, Vermont, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Nebraska all voted against the Ukraine spending bill.
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