"Only The Beginning": How To Profit From The Asymmetric Warfare Boom

Re-Arranging The Global Game-Board 'Bigly'... Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Resource Scramble “Trump has done so much damage to libtardery that the Democrats will need a decade of uninterrupted power to undo it, which they're not going to get.” - Matt Forney on X If you learned anything from this week’s extravaganza in Beijing, it is that Donald Trump is aggressively re-aligning world relations so that the USA does not end up one of the losers in the global resource scramble that lurks darkly behind all current events. China does not intend to be...

The US Economy In A Nutshell: Privatize The Gains, Socialize The Costs Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Correspondent Simons Chase insightfully summarized this dynamic: Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Costs. In my post Five Dynamics That Make Sense of an Increasingly Chaotic World, #3 is the distribution of risk, costs and consequences to a diffused populace while concentrating the gains into the pockets of insiders/owners: Those seeking to reduce their private risks and increase their private gains seek to concentrate the gains generated by control structures and distribute the risks and costs to...

"We're On Borrowed Time": Vitol LNG Chief Warns Of Coming Food Price Shock Pablo Galante Escobar, the head of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Vitol, warned the audience at the FT Commodities Summit earlier today that the "world is on borrowed time" and that the Gulf energy shock will develop into a food crisis unless LNG flows resume through the Hormuz chokepoint. "We are on borrowed time. Every day this trade remains closed and every day production does not come back, we are building a problem for the future, and...