By Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'n Guns  

August 5, 2026

I'm an 80's child in the end. That means when I start working on a new project some random song or movie moment comes unbidden into my head from that weird and wonderful decade.

The movie Real Genius  youtube while Tears for Fears sets the tone for the fade out, of a house destroyed by popcorn. This classic comedy about smart kids outsmarting their professor, the odious Jerry Hathaway played to slimy perfection by Bill Atherton, who has them working on a "lasers from space" project for the MIC so he can make money is where my brain went today.

By Milan Adams
Preppgroup 

August 5, 2026

Three years ago, the prevailing assumption across Wall Street, the City of London, and most government institutions was remarkably simple: inflation would normalize, supply chains would heal, interest rates would eventually decline, and precious metals would once again retreat into the background as investors chased higher returns elsewhere. Gold, according to that narrative, had already enjoyed its moment.

L'économie occidentale a connu des changements profonds au cours des quatre dernières décennies: si par le passé la richesse était créée par la production, aujourd'hui, la prospérité apparente est déterminée par les marchés financiers.

par Dario Tagliamacco

Source: cese-m.eu

Au vingtième siècle, la richesse d'une nation reposait principalement sur sa capacité productive, sur l'industrie, le secteur énergétique et les manufactures.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

August 4, 2026

The last time the US economy received a helping hand from policymakers was the Reagan tax rate reductions. The high tax rates on inflated nominal incomes by the "guns and butter" Vietnam War policy reduced the after-tax earnings of labor and new capital investment, and the economy was experiencing the "malaise" of stagflation. The Reagan tax rate reduction, which I drafted and saw through to passage, indexed the tax system for inflation, so that inflation, if properly measured, could not push purely nominal incomes into higher brackets.

Le Royaume-Uni pourrait entrer en récession en 2027 si le détroit d'Ormuz reste fermé jusqu'au début ou au milieu de l'année 2027, selon le rapport du cabinet britannique d'audit financier et de conseil EY citées par The Independent.

Le rapport avertit qu'une interruption prolongée de l'une des routes maritimes les plus importantes au monde pour le transport d'énergie affaiblirait considérablement les perspectives économiques britanniques, principalement en raison de la hausse des coûts de l'énergie et des pressions inflationnistes.

par Kla.TV

Après être resté longtemps à un niveau bas, le cours de l'argent a littéralement explosé à partir de la mi-2025. L'argent a atteint un record historique en janvier. Mais dès le lendemain, les marchés des métaux précieux ont connu leur plus forte chute depuis 2013. Comment en est-on arrivé là ? Tout ce qui s'est passé ressemble à un roman policier.

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Geopolitical Economy Hour with Michael Hudson — Trump, the Democrats, and the 2026 Midterms

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By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics  

August 1, 2026

There are very few economic statistics that actually matter. Most of what governments publish every month is little more than political theater. They constantly revise GDP, unemployment, inflation, and virtually every other number after the headlines have faded. One measure, however, deserves attention because it tells you whether government is expanding faster than the economy that supports it.

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com 

July 31, 2026

The government gets the privately collected data and in return dismantles or disables the guardrails that once protected the public from state and private-sector encroachments on privacy.

One of the core traits of a 1984-type totalitarian dystopia is 24/7 surveillance of every prisoner, oops, I mean citizen. Surveillance collects the data that leverages the tools of control: without surveillance, the structures of control do not have the data needed to monitor, track and control the populace in a profitably fine-grained manner.

publié le 30/07/2026 , série initiée le 01/03/2022 Par Olivier Berruyer

Tous les gouvernements promettent le retour de la croissance. Aucun n'est fidèle à sa parole et les chiffres expliquent pourquoi. En Belgique, en Suisse et au Canada, la croissance du PIB par habitant est revenue, en 2026, à ses plus bas niveaux historiques : il faut remonter aux années 1930 pour la Belgique, à 1850 pour la Suisse et le Canada.

And Nobody's Counting the Bodies

By Milan Adams
Preppgroup 

July 29, 2026

The numbers came in just after dawn on the East Coast, and they told a story that no amount of White House spin could obscure. Oil futures had stabilized at $86 per barrel overnight-a figure that would have seemed catastrophic eighteen months ago but now represented a temporary reprieve from the $119 spike that had crippled global markets in April.

By Tim Hartnett  

July 29, 2026

In the July 18/19 Weekend Financial Times Jinu Koola wrote about the differences in wealth distribution and social status perception going on between Oslo and her native United States. "What," she asks, "has the dependence on meritocracy given America?" Later noting, "The economist Raj Chetty shows that only half of America's young adults earn more than their parents, down from 92 per cent in the 1940s." The article, "Norway and the case for mediocracy," takes on the question of whether so-called "meritocracy" is fair, justified or an overall benefit to society.