Neither borrowers nor lenders can predict the actions of government people and cronies. But with every action on fixed-rate mortgages, elites gain and borrowers lose.
By James Anthony
February 19, 2026
Fixed-rate mortgages sound simple. But they help government people and cronies unduly deprive persons of property.
Government people, crony bankers, money-users, and borrowers
Government people spend more by borrowing and by forcing people topay this debt.
publié le 19/02/2026 Par Olivier Berruyer
Avez-vous remarqué à quel point l'inflation a grignoté votre pouvoir d'achat, sans que vos livrets d'épargne ne compensent la perte ? Ce n'est pas une fatalité, c'est une politique délibérée. Derrière le jargon technique des taux d'intérêt se cache une gigantesque machine de transfert de richesses. En plongeant les taux réels en territoire négatif, les banques centrales ont littéralement taxé les épargnants prudents pour subventionner les emprunteurs et sauver un système financier à l'agonie.
par Paul Derogis
Pékin ne détient plus que 683 milliards de dollars d'obligations émises par le Trésor américain
C'est le minimum depuis 2008, contre 769 milliards de dollars l'année précédente.
Dans le même temps, les réserves d'or de la Chine augmentent pour le quinzième mois consécutif, atteignant 370 milliards de dollars, un nouveau record.
La Chine recommande à
By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
February 18, 2026
Trump's cancellation of the so-called "endangerment finding" with respect to CO2 made by the Obama White House back in 2009 is so profoundly important as to make up for a legion of Trump's spending, borrowing, easy money, and tariffing sins. Among countless others.
The entire notion that fossil-fuel-based industrial civilization threatens to boil the planet alive is sheer crackpottery.
By Jeff Thomas
International Man
February 18, 2026
History repeats. (Or it rhymes, depending on your choice of words.)
Throughout history, there has been an extraordinary tendency for governments (and cultures) to follow similar paths. Even regarding eras thousands of years apart, we see people behaving in much the same way, over and over. This is particularly true in the case of "wrong moves." Over and over, people and their governments make the same mistakes, seemingly never learning from past errors.
par Brochu TV
"Qu'on le veuille ou non, ça reste la devise de référence, pour la bonne raison qu'il n'y a pas de remplaçant. On a toujours pas trouvé de remplaçant et personne ne veut être le remplaçant".
François Meylan
source : youtube
reseauinternational.net
By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
February 14, 2026
Here's one of the greatest certainties facing every household in America beyond the proverbial prospect of death and taxes: Namely, the monthly electric bill, as it arrives like clockwork either in the mail or by auto pay. And, according to Grok 4, there are approximately 143 million customers getting a metered bill each month.
By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack
February 14, 2026
Semafor is a rapidly rising new U.S. news-medium that was designed to appeal especially to the top executives at U.S. corporations, and that is achieving it. Consequently, the following statement on February 12th, from its Business Editor, Liz Hoffman, is implicitly an indication that the neoliberal (or as Americans call it "libertarian," meaning that the system is designed to increase the freedom for wealth, and that therefore it decreases the freedom for persons) economic system is now in extreme counterproductive stress:
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
February 14, 2026
This leaves out the purpose of money, which is facilitating social organization.
I've thought a lot about "money" and wrote two books that explore what few understand about money: that it's fundamentally a social construct with a social purpose and structure. The books are Money and Work Unchained and A Radically Beneficial World.
The conventional understanding of money is that it's a financial unit with economic functions-store of value, means of exchange and unit of accounting- defined by its intrinsic nature as a material that's valuable or convenient.
SchiffGold.com
February 14, 2026
Peter joined Michael Simmons on Reality Check last week to explain why the recent drops in gold and silver are exactly the kind of price action investors should welcome. He connects the sell-off to forced liquidations in other markets, walks through decades of Federal Reserve (the Fed) policy mistakes, and warns that continued dollar creation to finance debt makes precious metals a prudent hedge.
Par Prof Rodrigue Tremblay
« Lorsque chaque pays mit l'accent sur la protection de ses propres intérêts particuliers, l'intérêt public mondial s'est effondré, et avec lui les intérêts particuliers de tous. », Charles Kindleberger(1910-2003), historien économique américain, (dans son livre 'La dépression économique mondiale, 1929-1939', 1973).
« Nous faisons présentement face à une rupture, pas à une transition...