The Woad To Wooin’

My preferred pronoun is M’Lord

“Quick, Watson, not a moment to lose! There’s bumbledickery afoot.”

And with that, our intrepid hero became part blood hound, jutting his ample proboscis into the moist London air, as he spun ‘round and began chasing the trail of fetid rancidity into the dense fog.

Since Merka’s Election Month and a Half, my Bumbledick associates — particularly in the US — have grown increasingly quiet. This from folks who have been berating and haranguing me for the better part of a decade, because I refuse to genuflect and cross myself before reading from the Holy Scripture of the New York Times. Continue reading

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Biden-Harris Admin Aims to Forgive $4.65 Billion in Ukraine Loans

The Biden-Harris administration has informed Congress that it intends to forgive $4.65 billion in loans provided to Ukraine earlier this year.

Matthew Miller, a U.S. State Department spokesman, confirmed during a Wednesday press briefing that the Biden-Harris administration plans to forgive roughly half of the economic loan the U.S. offered Ukraine in April. Continue reading

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How the Hell Did Democrats Leave the IRS $20 Billion in the Red?

Democrats forgot to read the fine print on a bill and spoon-fed a huge victory to Republicans who want to kill the IRS.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the IRS’s tax enforcement fund, which allowed the IRS to better audit corporations and the wealthiest households, is now $20 billion in the red – leaving the fund’s future up in the air.

In 2022, when Democrats had a trifecta hold over the government, they put $80 billion toward the IRS, which was supposed to help the agency hire, modernize, and enforce through the next decade. Continue reading

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Time is UP!

It’s a common misconception that Benjamin Franklin first proposed daylight saving time. He did recommend that people rise early to be healthy, wealthy, and wise. He knew it was biologically natural for humans to wake up when the sun rises and sleep when it sets.

President Woodrow Wilson officially signed daylight saving time in to law in 1918, which was another bad decision on his part. (He also got us into WWI and helped create the Federal Reserve). Continue reading

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America’s Middle Class In 2024: Aging Vehicles, $300 Carts Of Groceries, and Mountains of Credit Card Debt

Have things been getting better for the middle class, or have things been getting worse? Needless to say, the answer to that question is obvious. The cost of living is absolutely crushing us, we can’t afford to replace our rapidly aging vehicles, debt levels are exploding, and the proportion of the country that is living paycheck to paycheck has been steadily rising. Our economy is a mess, and America’s middle class is getting smaller and smaller. Sometimes I feel like I am watching a very tragic version of musical chairs. If you are still holding on to your chair, you should be very thankful, because more people are slipping out of the middle class and into poverty with each passing day.

If you are old enough, you can still remember a time when many middle class families would purchase a new vehicle every few years. Continue reading

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The Looming Debt Crisis: Is America Following the Path of Collapsed Empires?

Debt can topple even the most powerful empires.

Whether it’s Rome, Spain, France, Britain, or the Soviet Union, excessive debt has played a critical role in their decline.

The typical pattern in these examples of collapsing empires is: Continue reading

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Are You Unknowingly on a Suicide Mission? Chasing the Wild Goose

“We’re a creature of Congress, we’re not in the Constitution.” ~ Fed Chair Jerome Powell, December 4, 2024

The transfer of wealth from workers and savers to the government and the big banks rolled on this week with Swiss-like precision. The process is both mechanical and subtle. Here in the USA the automated elegance of this ongoing operation receives little attention.

NFL football. Holiday BOGO offers. Trump’s cabinet picks. Hunter Biden’s pardon by the big guy. You name it. Bread and circuses like these – and many others – offer the American populace countless opportunities for chasing the wild goose. Continue reading

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The ‘Great Gold Rally’ Could Continue Through 2025

Falling interest rates and consistent central bank demand could sustain gold’s rally through 2025, according to Lina Thomas, commodities strategist at Goldman Sachs Research.

“Since 2022, gold prices have surged 40% even as US interest rates were climbing,” Thomas said in an update published Monday. “That is very strange. Typically, higher interest rates make gold less attractive – because gold doesn’t pay any interest, unlike bonds.” Continue reading

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Even After 30% Rally ~ Silver Looks Cheap in 2025

Silver prices have managed to hold critical support above $30 an ounce and are currently trading above $31. However, one market analyst notes that the precious metal continues to underperform gold –  at least for now. Continue reading

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32¢ on the Dollar and Getting Screwed Faaaaaast!

Originally published on the Federal Observer, April 21, 2009. Maybe it’s coming ’round again. ~ J.B.

You spend your entire adult life living life the right way. You buy a car on ‘time’, you pay your debt. You get retail store credit cards, such as JC Penney, Sears, Best Buy, etc. – You pay your bills on time or before they are due.

You purchase your first home in 1972, another in the Spring of ’76, sell it and buy another in the Fall of the same year. In ’79 your daughter is born, you pay the bill to the hospital because you have no insurance and you buy another house, and then another in ’80 and ’85, move to the Valley of the Scum in 1990 and buy another house, and another in 2003, sell it in 21 months and make a killing, and buy another in 2005. Continue reading

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