Category Archives: Inflation

The Four Dimensions of the Fake Money Order

Posted on July 12, 2019 by MN Gordon

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there,” is a quote that’s oft misattributed to Lewis Carrol. The fact that there’s ambiguity about who’s behind this quote on ambiguity seems fitting. Continue reading →

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Feeling the Heat of a Civilization on the Downside

Posted on June 21, 2019 by MN Gordon

The political, financial, economic, and social foundations that have been in place over the last 75 years – and perhaps, over the last 220 years – are breaking down.  And no policy directive, no interest rate adjustment, no trade tariff, no five year plan, no extraordinary measures, no green new deal, and no technocratic prevarication is going to stop it.  Big Government doesn’t stand a chance. Continue reading →

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The Ugly End of Globalization

Posted on May 31, 2019 by MN Gordon

About this time, something even more historic happened.  Roughly one billion Chinese workers, who were willing to work for less than peanuts, joined the global workforce.  As a result, the U.S. was able to export its inflation – and jobs – to China and other emerging economies over the next three decades. Continue reading →

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Workers of the World, Unite!

Posted on May 24, 2019 by MN Gordon

Several decades of perpetual credit creation courtesy of the Fed’s artificially low interest rates have had countless unintended consequences for the global economy. In short, the economy’s reconfigured itself in ways it otherwise wouldn’t have. One example is the offshoring of U.S. jobs to China and the massive trade imbalance between the two countries. Continue reading →

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