International Forecaster Weekly

Throughout history, man has tried his best to avoid getting ripped off by monetary inflation. The most successful way of doing that has been through holding gold and real estate. Thus, you often hear the cry that the only way we can get back to a more stable world of monetary value, is by going back to some form of a gold standard. But is that really true in the digital age? Frankly, no and for several reasons.

EVERYTHING they tell you is a lie. Not just the bogus numbers out of the Labor department, but virtually all the economic data you get has been altered, doctored and tarted up to the point its own mother wouldn’t recognize it.

...before the Bitcoin evangelists get bent out of shape, I am not saying that Bitcoin does not have the potential to be a currency... But a currency that you can't use in your day to day life is not much of a currency at all... I encourage you to look for a place within 10 blocks of wherever you are sitting that accepts Bitcoin.

Don't expect future rhetoric to change. Don't expect future talks faring better than others. Don't expect longstanding US/Israeli anti-Iranian hostility to soften.

That the public bought into the ruse is all to be expected. What was not expected (at least by me), was the reaction of the so-called truth community to this transparently contrived media spectacle.

As is the way of such things, there has been no formal agenda released to give any forward indication of what will be discussed at the gathering this weekend. Speculation is rife that it will follow the “3-8-3 plan,” a roadmap drawn up by various government think tanks in recent years.

This kind of change can't help but bring with it a fundamental reordering of global geopolitical relations, and the type of change we would expect to be seeing is exactly what we are seeing now with the Saudi shift away from the US.

This is the picture of our economic “reality” in this day and age. In an era where markets are ruled by perception and gossip reigns supreme, those with the most entertaining tales end up being king.

China, too, is playing its growing clout on the international stage with an eye on the long game.... Economically, politically and militarily, China has begun the process of turning its resources to the task of feeding and equipping a rising superpower.

While I will never in my life forget that evening, most people don’t realize that we see magic performed almost daily in the equity market and the economic reporting systems... on Tuesday we watched a transformation just as astounding as the girl that turned into a tiger in front of my eyes 35 years ago. I’m talking about the jobs reporting.

Someone like Bob could tell more about the direction of the markets or the future of geopolitics from a mere glance at a stock ticker or a read-through of a newspaper than most of us could from a year of study on the internet. This is because there is more to forecasting than mere data. It requires experience, discernment, and gut instinct, as well as decades of refinement of these faculties.

...it will never be easier for first time buyers to get into the market or current homeowners to upgrade their property...until the expected surge in demand hits the small supply and the already inflating prices, that is. When everything is taken into account, this is the perfect recipe for an overinflated government-pumped housing bubble on steroids.

Critics have long said that the war on terror, being a war on an abstract noun, has no end by definition. After all, what conceivable set of conditions could meet the criteria for a declaration of victory over “terror.” The end of groups trying to use fear or bloodshed to achieve their political ends? The end of fear itself? Whatever the case, this is something that is scarcely conceivable, let alone realistically achievable in our lifetime.

Of course, it could be that “nobody really understands gold prices” not because they inhabit some strange strata of the economic universe where the laws of economics fail to apply, but because the price is heavily manipulated from top to bottom.

...at least with the United Nations people know what they are getting. In the economic sphere, so much of the push toward globalization is taking place in secret and behind closed doors that most people don't even have a clue that it is taking place. Case in point: the TPP.