Posted originally on Mar 20, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |
The video above is an accurate depiction of how Millennials and Gen Z are operating in today’s economy. They were told that working hard and obtaining a higher education could afford the American Dream. Instead, they are unable to access home ownership, begin families, and are crippled by debt. Analysts now seem perplexed at the birthrate crisis and why the younger generations are not having families. Those unfamiliar with stark differences in the cost of living over the last few decades do not understand that the promises made to the younger generations were built on lies.
The ad above was put forth by Coinbase, and while I have explained that crypto is NOT the solution, I do believe the solution will begin when the younger generations rise up. Those in Congress will not live to see the implications of the bills they pass. Once upon a time, a family could live comfortably on a salary of one. The head of the household need not have an extravagant job to support a family, as a worker at a factory could manage to supply his family with all they needed.
Even in 1985, when the average person in the Baby Boomer generation turned 30, the average home in America was $82,800. In 2019, when Millennials turned 30, the average home price soared to $313,000. Gen Z is looking at a home price over $400,000. Now, the average income in the 1980s was around $23,464, meaning it would only take a few years to pay off a home that continued to appreciate in value. Yet we must factor in everything such as the price of tuition, inflation (goods, food, energy), the need for dual income and childcare services. There are endless variables but it all leads to a dead-end American dream for the youth.
This year, 2024, begins a sharp change in sentiments and a directional change followed by a major turning point in 2025. I have not seen the computer project something like this since 1985. Four of six models show a Trump victory, but the establishment simply will not let him win. Neither side will accept defeat, and we are looking at massive civil unrest paired with a war that will likely escalate over the summer months prior to the election that may be the last election held in the US. The computer shows real GDP in the US will decline into 2028, and inflation will rise due to international wars that produce absolutely nothing.
The Great Reset set for 2030 is NOT the solution, and their plan will fail. The world will change by 2032, but not due to the Great Reset. We are looking at the collapse of republican forms of government. By the time we get to 2032, that will be the light at the end of the tunnel. The USA will eventually break into three primary regions: 2) the South & Midwest Bible Belt will join together against, 2) the Northeast, and 3) the Pacific States will be their own la-la-land. The volatility will begin in 2024, but by 2032, the United States of America will not exist as it does today. The dollar will no longer be the reserve currency, as the yen will take its place. This does not mean that the world is ending, but rather, revolution is coming as the current system is collapsing before our eyes.
Posted originally on Mar 11, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
The June 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision has left reproductive measures in the hands of individual states. Organizations like Planned Parenthood are now looking to target men in states where abortions are no longer permitted. The rate of sterilization for childless young men in states without access to abortion is rapidly rising.
I have discussed the origins of Planned Parenthood, including its founder and her main objective for the organization. The historical basis of Planned Parenthood cannot be denied, regardless of where you stand on abortion.
States like Indiana and Kentucky are experiencing a rise in Planned Parenthood locations despite the recent ruling because they are marketing their services toward men.
The International Journal of Impotence Researchreported a 35% increase in vasectomy consultations, with around 22.4% resulting in sterilization, since the Dobbs ruling. The median age for vasectomy services in America is now 35. Around 8.6% of men who opted for sterilization were childless pre-Dobbs, but that number has nearly doubled to 16.9%. “Younger men, especially those under 30, as well as childless men were significantly more likely to seek consultation Post-Dobbs compared to the prior reproductive legal climate,” the report found.
The majority of men who opt for vasectomies have children and are done expanding their families. The FDA has numerous forms of male birth control options but has not released any to the public. Planned Parenthood states that although potentially reversible, the goal of the procedure is complete sterilization. “Vasectomies are meant to be permanent. You should only get a vasectomy if you’re 100% positive you don’t want to be able to get someone pregnant for the rest of your life,” Planned Parenthood states on its website.
Now, 10.3% of men undergoing this procedure were under 30 before Dobbs, compared to 23.9% today. White males are more likely to volunteer to undergo this procedure than other races, as it is commonly taboo in various cultures, but celebrated among social justice warriors who believe we must curtail the population to reduce our carbon footprint.
The trend of sterilized, childless young men in America is expected to rise as the family unit is no longer celebrated or valued. There is no information from Planned Parenthood on whether these men can still become pregnant, but it is likely that population replacement will come from migrants rather than new births.
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 16, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Lawmakers should be required by law to pass a financial literacy test before taking office. California has repeatedly raised the minimum wage as the cost of living continues to rise. They have not lowered the amount of taxes that the state will collect from these workers. California has the highest debt of any state in the US, with some reports estimating it to be around $520 billion. The cost of living continues to rise, but would raising the minimum wage actually help?
Now, I am not against raising the minimum wage. In Florida, I voted for a hike in the minimum wage in 2020 that would increase the minimum wage gradually to $15 an hour. Under the mandate, Florida’s minimum wage rate increased to $10 an hour in September 2021. The minimum wage then will increase by $1 each year until it reaches $15 an hour in 2026. The minimum wage rate applies to all public and private sector employers, regardless of size or number of employees. I voted for it because by 2026 we should see a rise in inflation due to shortages.
I would prefer to see the minimum wage qualified by age. The youth should not be discouraged from seeking their first job due to wage mandates that force employers to downsize. Small businesses were decimated after COVID lockdowns and increasing health care costs have made it difficult for small businesses, especially those service-oriented, to hire additional staff. This is why we see an increasing number of self-check-out options, automated jobs, and outsourced customer service positions in countries outside of the US.
Barbara Lee, a Democratic candidate in California, is advocating for a $50 minimum wage, which would equate to approximately $104,000 per year for a full-time worker. “In the Bay Area, I believe it was the United Way that came out with a report that very recently $127,000 for a family of four is just barely enough to get by,” Lee said. “Another survey very recently: $104,000. For a family of one, barely enough to get by low income because of the affordability crisis.”
California already has a $20 minimum wage in place. Countless employers were forced to let go of employees and raise their prices to meet this requirement. In no reality should a minimum wage employee receive a six-figure salary as it simply is not worth the cost to the employer or consumer. Minimum wage jobs were intended to be entry-level. Inflation will continue to rise
I believe they are seeking to raise the minimum wage to unsustainable levels in an attempt to usher in Universal Basic Income. The Federal government is not permitting migrants to work and using them as the test subjects for UBI. The cost of living will continue to rise as government spending is only rising with no chance of stopping due to numerous wars. Politicians should not be allowed to toy with the minimum wage to buy votes as it is detrimental to the economy.
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.
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