Decline, Decay, Denial, Delusion & Despair The majority of Americans seem OK with just waddling through life, accepting the lies and misinformation blasted from the boob tube and their various
Economic Report Card - Fail We are now three and one half years into Barack Obama's presidency. I thought a few pertinent charts would help us assess the success of his economic
Who Destroyed the Middle Class, Part 1 The Federal Reserve released its Survey of Consumer Finances last week. It's a fact filled 80 page report they issue every three years to provide a fi
Asleep at the Wheel Americans have an illogical love affair with their vehicles. There are 209 million licensed drivers in the U.S. and 260 million vehicles. The U.S. has
2012 - The Year of Living Dangerously In December 2010 I wrote an article called Will 2012 Be as Critical as 1860? [2], that pondered what might happen with the 2012 presidential election
Obama's Reelection Jobs Plan I was still steamed by Obama's $450 billion "JOBS" plan. His new plan was touted as an infrastructure plan when it is nothing but a "screw future gene
Bernanke Impoverishing Grandmothers to Benefit Wall Street Bankers The utter failure of QE2, hollow Congressional spending "cuts" that will keep the National Debt on track towards $23 trillion by 2021, S&P downgrade a
It's the Debt, Dummy It should be clear to anyone that we have a bit of a debt problem. The government solutions jammed down our throats since 2008 have added $7 trillion
The Manipulation of Data to Spin the Economic Situation is Blatant The top 1% takes home 25% of the national income and control 40% of the financial wealth in the country. Their lives have improved considerably. Twent
Will 2012 Be As Critical As 1860? We are approximately five years into The Fourth Turning Crisis. Every previous Fourth Turning had an economic dimension that eventually led to a do or
Who's Lying? Have you noticed the latest sound bites coming from the punditry in the corporate mainstream media? Here is the latest wisdom flowing from the lying m
The Child of The Mother of All Bubbles There is no doubt the home price bubble inflated by Alan Greenspan between 2000 and 2006 was the Mother of All Bubbles. Robert Shiller clearly showed
Is China's Recovery a Fraud? The China growth miracle has resumed its vertical trajectory. We know this because the Chinese government says it's so. And, of course, governments ne
It Was A Wonderful Life The year was 1946. It marked the inauguration of the last High in America. A Crisis had begun abruptly with the 1929 Black Tuesday stock-market crash.
Recession, Depression, or Systematic Breakdown As crooked politicians, Federal Reserve hacks, and cheerleading media pundits inform you the recession is over, you probably have a sneaking suspicion
21st CENTURY BREAKDOWN Political leaders and the mainstream media have been blindsided by the sudden mood shift of the country in the last few years. The reason they have be
Where Will US Job Growth Come From? Despite the Federal Reserve's extraordinary printing and the U.S. Government's extraordinary spending measures during the last twelve months, it looks
Feeds the Rich, Buries the Poor Luke Jackson, as portrayed by Paul Newman, in Cool Hand Luke is a classic American character. He is a rogue who marches to the beat of his own drummer
BRAVE NEW WORLD 2009 Aldous Huxley wrote the dystopian novel Brave New World in 1931 at the inauguration of the last Crisis period in America. Dystopia is the often futuri
ALL YOU ZOMBIES Everyone is familiar with the story of Noah. God was angry at the evil and wickedness of mankind. God instructed Noah to build an ark in order to save
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH Stephen Stills wrote the song For What It's Worth in 1967. It was composed three years into the Second Turning, the Consciousness Revolution. The song
THE NANNY STATE "The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting s
Those who believe our Crisis has passed need to study the past "An Awakening arrives with a dramatic challenge against the High's assumptions about benevolent reason and congenial institutions. The outer world now
The Social Stigma of Gambling is No More Americans throw away close to $100 billion per year gambling in casinos and playing lotteries. This only includes the amount spent legally. Illegal ga
FOUNDING FATHERS OF OUR NEW COUNTRY The ruling elite, backed by the powerful banking cartel, who control the political reins, the mainstream media, the military industrial complex, and t
WISH YOU WERE HERE As I survey what passes for governance in this country today, I yearn for the days past when truth meant something. The supposedly "progressive" polit
LIVING IN BEVERLY HILLS For the last three decades millions of Americans have been living in Beverly Hills. How can this be? Only 35,000 people reside in Beverly Hills, Calif
PEAK WATER The notion of peak water probably sounds crazy to most people. The earth is 70% covered by water. The water cycle replenishes water on a continuous ba
THE FEDERAL RESERVE MUST DIE I've read and witnessed various pundits during the Presidential campaign describe Ron Paul as crazy. The corrupt tax and spenders in Congress know the
AMERICAN IDIOTS According to the CDC, 66% of adults over the age of 20 are overweight or obese. That is approximately 140 million adults. Somewhere between 15 and 20
DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE After ruling much of the known world for centuries, Rome fell due to a number of factors that, historians believe, would not have been fatal in isolat
Animal Farm - 2009 "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." George Orwell Animal Farm The United States has gradually degenerated fro
BOOMERS WINTER IS COMING Thus might the next Fourth Turning end in apocalypse or glory. The nation could be ruined, its democracy destroyed, and millions of people scattere
ABBY NORMAL The pundits on CNBC who appear every morning proclaim that things are returning to normal. It amazes me that such supposedly intelligent people have n
CHINA RISING 21ST CENTURY JUGGARNAUT Do you ever get the feeling that we are being pursued by someone who wants to kill us? No matter what we do, they are still in pursuit. They never let
AIN'T NO REST FOR THE WICKED Money doesn't grow on trees for most of America. We sit down at our kitchen tables and write out checks to the phone-company, electric company, credit
JESUS OF SUBURBIA Beneath the finely groomed blissful suburban façade of America lurk desperation, denial, hypocrisy, and anger. The kids of suburbia today have an ent
IF YOU BELIEVE BORROWING LEADS TO PROSPERITY The 1970's were a simpler time. As kids, we listened to All The Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople on our portable record players. We would cut Monkees' .
IF YOU BELIEVE BANKS ARE RECOVERING The conspiracy theorists of the world believe the U.S. government faked the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon. They also believe 9/11 was an inside job
KEEP ON ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD The American Republic is 226 years old. The Roman Empire lasted 13 centuries before collapsing. The Roman emperors attempted to stave off the collapse
WASTING A GOOD CRISIS: RESULT - $200 OIL Rohm Emanuel's famous quote regarding the current financial crisis, "Never let a serious crisis go to waste...it's an opportunity to do things you cou
WHEN AMERICA RULED THE WORLD America has squandered the human sacrifice, blood, sweat and tears of two generations in less than seventy years. We have been an independent country
THE POTHOLE - HOLY COW!!! Americans have been on the escalator of life for the last 30 years. The escalator has been going up for the vast majority of that time. Since Ronald R
GRAND ILLUSION THE FEDERAL RESERVE The whole world is in a state of complete confusion. Americans are coming to the realization that their lives have been a grand illusion. You thought
