originally on Posted Feb 4, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to an inquiry on rising egg prices by blaming the prior administration. Leavitt was correct when she stated that the Department of Agriculture was directed to kill over 100 million chickens, leading to a mass shortage. Prices steadily rose throughout Biden’s term, as an average dozen cost only $1.60 in February 2021.
Egg prices increased by 20% to $1.93 during Biden’s first year in office. We saw the avian flu outbreak in 2022, which along with other factors brought egg prices up another 30% on a yearly basis to $2.51. Egg prices continue to rise in 2023, reaching around $3.50 per dozen during February but slightly decreasing by year-end of $2.50. We saw egg prices surge significantly by 60% from 2023 to 2024. The Agriculture Department believes that egg prices will rise by another 20.3% in 2025.
As reported by the USDA:
“Retail egg prices increased by 8.4 percent in December 2024 and continue to experience volatile month-to-month changes. An outbreak of HPAI that began in 2022, with recent detections in January 2025, contributed to elevated egg prices by reducing the U.S. egg-layer flock. HPAI continued to drive egg price increases in 2024. Egg prices in December 2024 were 36.8 percent higher than in December 2023 but still below peak prices in January 2023. Egg prices are predicted to increase 20.3 percent in 2025, with a prediction interval of 0.1 to 45.3 percent.”
The bird flu is certainly a main factor here. The USDA stated that 108 million chickens have died since 2022, but an additional 13 million have died in recent MONTHS. The Animal Health Protection Act permits the USDA the authority to kill off infected herds and flocks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claim that chickens have at best a 10% survival rate after contracting the bird flu.
Culling has been a standard practice that cannot be avoided if we are to believe the flocks were indeed infected. Alarmingly, bird flu has been detected among cattle and depopulation efforts are underway, which will raise the prices of milk and beef. The USDA believes milk prices, which are already up 11.7% on the yearly, will rise by an additional 1.3% in 2025. Beef prices, up 4.9% annually, are expected to rise by 1.5%. Food prices have been on the rise for years, and I have long warned to stockpile food in case of supply shortages.
Our models do not indicate that food inflation will ease in 2025. In fact, I have repeatedly warnedthat people may want to stockpile food for the next two years as there will be weather events and supply chain shortages. Our model warns that we may see another severe drought, probably between 2025 to 2027, in both the US and Canada. The drought conditions are already beginning, which is in line with our model, which warns it will expand into 2025-2027.
Posted originally on Feb 3, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Medical insurance and pharmaceutical companies are predatory. The number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States is health care. This is a growing concern as our population ages. Unfortunately, we have all lost someone to cancer. A troubling but important statistic from the American Journal of Medicineexplains that 42% of cancer patients will lose their entire life savings within the first two years of treatment.
The total cost of cancer care in America reached an estimated $183 billion in 2015. Ten years later, that figure is set to rise by 21% to $222 billion. Different cancers require different treatments. The US currently allows Big Pharma and insurance companies to charge and cover what they see fit. CAR T-cell therapy, for example, treats lymphoblastic leukemia but can cost up to $475,000 per patient. Kimmtrak treatment for melanoma could cost $975,520. T-cell lymphoma patients could pay $842,585 for Folotyn treatments. The costs are simply astronomical, as are the profits for Big Pharma.
Turning back to the study by the American Journal of Medicine, around 85% of cancer patients will be forced to leave the workforce at no fault of their own. Within the first two years, 42.4% of patients empty their entire life savings on treatments, with the average net worth declining by $92,098. By year four, 38.2% deplete all their assets and are forced to pay $51,882 on average.
I am not advocating for universal health care where the quality of care drastically declines. I am advocating for measures on the pharmaceutical and insurance companies that have free reign over the lives of millions. Few politicians on the right or left speak out against this mass injustice because these same organizations line their pockets.
The Inflation Reduction Act allowed Medicare to negotiate the price of certain drugs based on what Big Pharma sees as a “maximum fair price.” Part D drugs will be subjected to this law in 2026. Donald Trump, in his first term, demanded transparency from hospitals and required them to list the prices of procedures, but that has not been adopted on a large scale basis.
Look at the most recent election. Eli Lilly under the Lilly PAC donated over $180,000 to politicians running for the House and Senate on the right and left. Then individual CEOs donated the maximum individual contribution permitted by law. CEO David Ricks paid off Republican Congressman Brett Guthrie from Kentucky and donated to two PACs, including the Carolina Victory Fund, which donates solely to Democratic candidates.
Johnson and Johnson has the J&J PAC that paid out $500,000 from 2023 to 2024 to both Republicans and Democrats. AbbVie has its own super PAC as well, and CEO Robert Michael pays into the PAC monthly. Merck & Co. has the Merck PAC and paid out over $300,000 to members of the House and Senate. CEO Robert Davis shelled out the maximum personal contribution to candidates on both sides. Amgen has the Amgen PAC and a CEO who also donates to candidates but favors Republicans. Pfizer, of course, has become a Democratic-leaning organization. The Pfizer PAC donated 63% of funding to Democrats compared to 37% to Democrats.
America permits pharmaceutical super PACs from outside the US to influence our politicians. Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Roche, and AstraZeneca all donated to candidates during the 2024 election period. Yet, everyone was concerned about foreign interference.
Two wings on the same bird, Washington is filled with corrupt individuals who serve their own private interests. These companies could charge a fair amount for procedures and still make a profit. There is absolutely no reason for people in the richest nation in the world to face bankruptcy when they fall ill. Who will be brave enough to tackle Big Pharma and the insurance companies? Or should I say, who cannot be bought?
Posted originally on Feb 3, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
A new Quinnipiac poll revealed that the Democrats have completely fallen out of favor with the American people. Only 31% of voters see the party in a favorable light. The people look at the past administrations of Jefferson, Jackson, Kennedy, Clinton, Obama and Biden with a 57% unfavorable rating – a historic low.
Once they seized power under Biden in 2020, they reached at best 51% compared to Clinton, who had captured 58%. Biden attempted to implement new societal norms with woke ideology that completely backfired. The economy will always sway elections and favorability. Build Back Better and Bidenomics failed. The average American does not feel represented or seen by the Democratic Party. Not a single person can honestly say that they were better off under Biden.
Yet, they cling to Marxism in hopes of reliving the glory days of Franklin D. Roosevelt. That was the only time that Americans welcomed socialistic messaging but the timing was on point and it also coincided with the state of the American economy. The Party of Jefferson split into the Democrats vs. Republicans (South vs. North) over slavery. The Democratic Party of today will soon be a relic of the past.
Even those on the far left like Bernie Sanders have admitted that their party is crumbling. “The business model, if you like, of the Democratic Party for the last 15 years or so has been a failure. People sometimes don’t see that because there was a charismatic individual named Barack Obama,” he once said. Moreover, he declared that Kamala LOST because the Democrats ABANDONED the public:
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
Bernie has always been clear on his stance. Does anyone know what the overall Democratic Party stands for? We have the center liberals who condone the war in Gaza and Ukraine. Then we have those who support Ukraine but want to abandon Israel. This is no longer the party of peace who opposes war. Then we have the Democrats like Nancy Pelosi who are overtly profiting on their position in the public sector through lobbying and insider trading. Even AOC has come out and said that this overt corruption must end. The people see this as a massive slap in the face amid the cost of living crisis.
Younger Democrats under 35 are far more likely to sympathize with Palestine, as a Quinnipiac University poll from last February found that 69% disapprove of how Biden handled the war, but older Democrats (77%) did approve.
Kamala attempted to use abortion to sway undecided and one issue voters. A June 2024 Cygnal survey found that Americans are understandably more concerned with other issues plaguing the nation. No one is concerned with abortions when they cannot afford shelter or food. Illegal immigration was stated as the second highest priority for voters, with 19.7% of voters voicing concerns after inflation (27.9%). Immigration has become another issue that the Democrats are divided over. Countless sanctuary cities have realized that their budgets cannot handle these newcomers. Their voters are disgruntled and many Democrats now agree that that there must be some order at the border. But on the other side, we have the likes of California’s Gavin Newsom who said he will fight ICE at every step.
Everyone forgets that Donald Trump was once a Democrat. Countless members of his cabinet from Tulsi Gabbard to RFK Jr were also once Democrats. The party has spiraled into a disorganized mess that lacks any core values or strong platforms. They are divided and will break apart as voters continue to flee and the centrists and socialists collide.
Posted originally on Jan 27, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
The Democrats completely flipped the position against illegal immigration mainly because they have to be the opposite of whatever Trump did, regardless of the issue. They hated Trump because he was not a politician, and how dare anyone think they could be elected and upset their cozy thiefdom. If Trump wants to build a wall, they must tear it down. This is what 2032 will be: a reset for the government, which is no longer for the people. It is for them only.
Confidential sources explained that Biden really thought opening the border as he did on day one would be his legacy. He thought he would go down in history as the next FDR and allow the country to be flooded with illegal immigrants regardless of skills or language.
This is why our computer is projecting 2032, and it is also projecting the collapse of the Democratic Party, for it will split like the Federalists, for there are conservative middle-of-the-road Democrats who simply do not agree with the completely opposite position the Party is taking. They MUST resist regardless of the issue.
The press is sealing their fate and the fate of Western Civilization. The Economist, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Washington Post have opposed every single executive order Trump has issued simply because he issued it. Forget the substance. I do not agree with everything he has done. That does not mean I oppose every order simply because he issued it. This is WHY our governments in the West will fall – there is no other option.
Biden’s level of vindictiveness is off the charts. Biden struck a secret deal with the British Prime Minister to sign away the joint UK-US military base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, perhaps the most important military base in the Middle East, to create a geopolitical mess for Trump. Starmer and the outgoing Biden administration wanted to get an agreement to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands – including Diego Garcia – to Mauritius before President Trump could take his oath. Biden tried to screw our military just to be vindictive to Trump? Starmer was on board, but sources say the British Neocons stopped the secret deal. When history writes the account of Biden, he will go down, I believe, as the most corrupt and vindictive president in American history.
Posted originally on Jan 27, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: Dear Marty
I read your article about Fauci’s pardon being unconstitutional, but I have something to add.
The basis for pre-emptive pardons being unlawful can be found in ancient English constitutional law, see the Prince of Orange’s 1688 Declaration of Reason that preceded England’s 1688 Bill of Rights. This carries over to USA via the 9th Amendment “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” A pre-emptive pardon also violates due process of law, see 5th & 14th Amendment and can therefore only be done after conviction, see this passage from the Prince of Orange’s (Future King William IIIs) Declaration of Reason.”For though the King may pardon the Punishment that a Transgressor has incurred, and to which he is condemned; as in Cases of Treason or Felony; yet it cannot be, with any Colour of Reason, inferred from thence, that the King can intirely suspend the Execution of those Laws relating to Treason or Felony, unless it is pretended, that he is cloathed with a despotick and arbitrary Power, and that the Lives, Liberties, Honours, and Estates of the Subjects, depend wholly on his goodwill and Pleasure, and are intirely subject to him; which must infallibly follow on the King’s having a Power to suspend the Execution of Laws, and to dispense with them.” Prince of Orange’s Declaration: 19 December 1688 | British History Online
This leads to Art.1 of the 1688 Bill of Rights: “That the pretended Power of Suspending of Laws or the Execution of Laws by Regall Authority without Consent of Parlyament is illegall.” King/President may pardon after conviction but only Parliament/Congress may suspend the law.”
This has similar meaning as Article II of the US Constitution that requires the President to ensure “that the Laws be faithfully executed”
This all goes back to due process of law, the President cannot interfere with due process through the prerogative of pardon or mercy.
Going back to the old world, citing Sir Edward Coke, The US Supreme Court stated in 1855 that The words, “due process of law” (in the 5th & 14th Amendments), were undoubtedly intended to convey the same meaning as the words, “by the law of the land”, in Art.29 Magna Carta 1297. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/59/272.html
The Scottish 1689 Claim of Rights states the same thing in different language in Art.1, “That all Proclamationes asserting ane absolute power to Cass annull and Dissable lawes… are Contrair to Law”” and it states in the pre-amble, “Wheras King James the Seventh… Did By the advyce of wicked and evill Counsellers (Secretaries of State) Invade the fundamentall Constitution of this Kingdome And altered it from a legall limited monarchy to ane Arbitrary Despotick power and in a publick proclamation asserted ane absolute power to cass annull and dissable all the lawes particularly arraigning the lawes Establishing the protestant religion and did Exerce that power to the subversion of the protestant Religion and to the violation of the lawes and liberties of the Kingdome”
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REPLY: Excellent research. The Common Law is supposed to apply in the USA. I hope Trump’s team reads this. As the outgoing president, Joe Biden gave pardons to five family members literally minutes before Donald Trump was sworn into office. This was not just an abuse of power; it was to confirm the ultimate corruption of the Biden Crime Family. They have pocketed untold amounts of money laundered through Ukraine, and this leaves a stain on his reputation for all of history, even though they were unconstitutional. Assuming Trump criminally charges these people, it would still be decided by a jury of the people – not by Trump.
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