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...
Cross Posted from Class Unity.
Class Unity: Hello everyone and welcome to another Class Unity event. Today we're joined by a returning guest, Professor Michael Hudson, as well as Professor Dirk Bezemer. Michael Hudson is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, and the author of many books and papers on political economy, the history of economics, economic history, finance, and imperialism.
Par Fátima Martín
Les entreprises liées à l'intelligence artificielle (IA) contribuent à gonfler la dette mondiale, qui avoisine déjà les 346 000 milliards de dollars, soit 310 % du PIB, selon le Global Debt Monitor de l'Institut de la finance internationale (IIF) publié en décembre dernier, intitulé « Une nouvelle vague d'accumulation de dette se profile : cette fois-ci, cela pourrait-il être différent ? » http://newsnet.ovh/1
par Les affaires mondiales en contexte
Dans la vidéo d'aujourd'hui, je traite des sujets suivants :
• La Chine a discrètement demandé à ses grandes banques de limiter et de réduire progressivement leur exposition aux bons du Trésor américain - une directive transmise verbalement, sans annonce officielle.
• Les régulateurs ont présenté cette mesure comme une gestion d
par Grand Angle
Les États-Unis croulent sous 38 000 milliards de dollars de dette. Mais et si l'histoire était sur le point de se répéter ?
Dans cette vidéo, je vous explique comment les USA ont réussi à imposer le dollar au monde entier en 1944 grâce aux accords de Bretton Woods et comment ils pourraient bien rejouer le même coup aujourd'hui avec Bitcoin et l'Intelli
By Jeff Thomas
International Man
February 11, 2026
The image above shows a one-kilo bar of gold (worth roughly $150,000 at present).
Although my associate was joking when he placed one in his back pocket once, the gesture serves as a reminder of a basic principle of gold ownership:
Keep your bullion in a place where you maximise your control over your ownership of it, whilst minimising the control others (such as banks and governments) have over it.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
February 11, 2026
This isn't "Capitalism," it's Model Collapse ushering in the inevitable conflagration.
One of the most peculiar hyper-normalized hallucinations about "Capitalism" is that markets and the economy "should always go up" and if they don't, something is terribly wrong and somebody better do something to fix it.
Remarkably, this hyper-normalized hallucination is the exact opposite of real-world "Capitalism," which relies on the periodic clearing of excesses of debt, leverage and speculation as its essential mechanism of self-correction and adaptation.
© RIA NOVOSTI Source: Sputnik
Le drapeau national allemand flotte au-dessus du bâtiment du Bundestag à Berlin.
Depuis 2020, l'économie allemande a accumulé des pertes estimées à près de 1 000 milliards d'euros. Confrontée à une série de chocs - pandémie mondiale, conflit ukrainien, tensions commerciales avec Washington - l'Allemagne n'est jamais parvenue à retrouver une dynamique stable.
SchiffGold.com
February 9, 2026
On his latest appearance with Glenn Diesen, Peter lays out a sober case for why investors should consider gold as a primary hedge against a coming dollar and sovereign debt crisis. He walks through what he sees as the consequences of prolonged credit expansion, a bloated housing market, misdirected trade and military policies, and the political fallout that could follow.
Des lingots d'or empilés (à gauche) et le bâtiment de la Banque centrale de Russie à Moscou (à droite), symbole de la stratégie financière nationale axée sur les réserves d'or.
Portée par la flambée mondiale du prix de l'or, la Russie est parvenue à reconstituer la quasi-totalité des actifs gelés par les pays occidentaux depuis 2022.