By George F. Smith
February 4, 2026
The culprit responsible for the Crash and the Great Depression can be easily identified: government.
To protect fractional reserve banking and (later) provide a buyer for its debt, government in 1913 created the Fed, putting it in charge of the money supply. From about July, 1921 to July, 1929 the Fed inflated the money supply by 62%, with the result being the Crash in late October, 1929.
By Jeff Thomas
International Man
February 4, 2026
Inflation is an elusive term. In 1983, Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary defined Inflation as:
However, Investopedia states:
A quick check will reveal that Investopedia is not alone in their current definition. The definition has moved away, in large part, from the previous definition of the root cause to now describing a symptom.
Peter W. Logghe
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Les chiffres du bureau de conseil aux entreprises Falkensteg montrent que le nombre de faillites de moyennes et grandes entreprises (entreprises dont le chiffre d'affaires est supérieur à 10 millions d'euros) aura augmenté de 25% en 2025 par rapport à 2024. Depuis la crise du coronavirus, le nombre de faillites de moyennes entreprises a triplé.
Par Brandon Smith − Le 21 janvier 2026 − Source Alt-Market
Au début de l'année 2020, alors que l'hystérie pandémique commençait à s'installer, j'ai remarqué que la panique liée au Covid semblait coïncider parfaitement avec l'accélération des taux d'intérêt et le délitement des actifs par la Réserve fédérale. J'ai alors avancé que cette tendance était le signe avant-coureur d'un scénario Catch-22 contre lequel je mettais en garde depuis un certain temps.
By Douglas French
Mises.org
February 3, 2026
Historians often view the Panic of 1857 as being caused, not by economic events, but political ones. Such disparate events as the end of the Crimean War in 1856 involving England, France, Russia and Turkey, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, the battle over slavery in the Kansas Territory, even the sinking of the SS Central America are all part of the developments bound together as causes of the 1857 panic.
SchiffGold.com
February 3, 2026
Peter took to the mic on Wednesday to walk listeners through a dramatic day in the markets and to explain what it all means for ordinary savers. He focuses on runaway gold and silver prices, a plunging dollar, and what he sees as a Federal Reserve that refuses to face the monetary signals staring it in the face. He ties the market moves to politics-especially the consequences of Donald Trump's trade posture-and urges listeners to protect themselves with real assets.
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La Chine entend accroître l'usage international du yuan, selon le Financial Times. Dans cette optique, Pékin viserait à en faire une monnaie capable de rivaliser avec les principales devises de réserve dans le commerce mondial et les flux financiers.
Le président chinois, Xi Jinping, a appelé à faire du yuan une monnaie de réserve mondiale et à en élargir l'usage dans le commerce international, l'investissement et les marchés des changes, rapporte le Financial Times (FT).
Professor Michael Hudson's interview with Lena Petrova
January 24, 2026
LENA PETROVA:
Thank you for joining us. I'm Lena Petrova with a new episode of the World Affairs in Context podcast. Today, I'm absolutely honored to be joined by Professor Michael Hudson.
Please follow Michael at michael-hudson.com, where you can find transcripts of his recent interviews and a variety of articles on current events.
By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack
February 2, 2026
On January 30th, the BBC headlined "UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns", and reported:
António Guterres said the organisation's money could run out by July
The United Nations is at risk of "imminent financial collapse" due to member states not paying their fees, the body's head has warned.
António Guterres said the UN faced a financial crisis which was "deepening, threatening programme delivery", and that money could run out by July.
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Avant le 1er février, l'Ukraine doit effectuer son plus important paiement unique de 2026 au FMI, soit environ 187,6 millions de dollars. Cette échéance intervient dans un contexte de déficit budgétaire record, de paiements manqués et d'une aide occidentale en baisse, accentuant la pression financière sur Kiev.
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La capitalisation totale du marché mondial des cryptomonnaies, qui avait atteint un record d'environ 1 100 milliards de dollars début janvier, a perdu près de 200 milliards de dollars. Ce décrochage est principalement lié à l'effondrement du bitcoin, dont la valeur a chuté pour la de
SchiffGold.com
January 30, 2026
Last week, Peter joined Daniel Horowitz on the CR Podcast to lay out a clear, sweeping case for why gold is not merely a safe haven but the logical outcome of decades of monetary mismanagement. He walks through his long-standing gold forecast, why the dollar's reserve role is unraveling, how bonds are signaling inflation, why tokenized gold beats Bitcoin, and why a collapse of today's paper-economy is unavoidable.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
January 30, 2026
Maybe this arrangement isn't as stable and sustainable as the winners imagine.
Here's the US economy in a nutshell: corporate/state concentrations of financial, market and political power are the winners, and everyone outside these fortresses is losing ground. The Wall Street Journal is generally viewed as pro-business, and so it's particularly striking when the WSJ published this:
Il est plus facile pour la Chine et l'Europe de dire qu'il faut se débarrasser de leurs bons du Trésor américains, mais des ventes lentes et régulières nuiront davantage aux États-Unis que Trump ne l'admet. La bataille est visiblement engagée au plan financier avec ses conséquences sur l'ensemble mondialisé, et les observateurs supputent les chances de Trump et celles de ses adversaires dans les marchés, au sein de la classe dominante.
By George F. Smith
January 29, 2026
One of history's greatest ironies is that gold detractors refer to the metal as the barbarous relic. In fact, the abandonment of gold has put civilization as we know it at risk of extinction.
The gold coin standard that had served Western economies so brilliantly throughout most of the nineteenth century hit a brick wall in 1914 and was never able to recover, or so the story goes.
By James Anthony
American Thinker
January 29, 2026
In a so-called great inflation, politicians borrow and spend faster than usual by having crony bankers inflate the quantity of dollars faster than usual.
The added dollars start inflating asset prices, then start inflating producer-product prices, then start inflating consumer-product prices, and then start increasing wages. The purchasing power of wages recovers as fully as it can only after the political regime changes, reducing the uncertainty and the spending and inflation, and businessmen then resume their usual value-adding.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
January 29, 2026
This is why a recession will catalyze a collapse of the credit-asset bubble-dependent economy down to its foundations.
Narrative control works by having a pat answer for every skepticism and every doubt. Boiled down, the dominant narrative holds that the Federal Reserve (central banking) and the central government have the tools to quickly reverse any dip in GDP, a.k.a.