By Doug Casey
International Man
May 16, 2025
International Man: What's your perspective on the claims Elon Musk and others made about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during the campaign, and how would you assess the actual progress they've achieved since then?
Doug Casey: I hate to sound pessimistic, because the idea of DOGE was excellent, but it's not making much in the way of progress.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
May 14, 2025
If you want to escape immiseration, that option is available-upgrade to Premium.
I propose we set aside the conventional economic measures (GDP, unemployment, corporate profits, etc.) in favor of a more real-world metric: how many times we're hectored to "upgrade to Premium" to regain services that were once part of what we already paid for.
I submit that this metric is a far better measure of what's really going on in the economy than abstractions like GDP which say nothing about our real-world quality of life or whose getting the lion's share of the spoils.
By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
May 14, 2025
It might be all over except the shouting. We are talking about the last chance to meaningfully curtail the nation's headlong plunge into fiscal disaster. Since the Dems are hideously obtuse and feckless on the fiscal front, the only remaining hope was that the GOP would finally screw-up the courage to take sweeping bites out of Federal spending and borrowing in the process of enacting the Donald's "one big beautiful" reconciliation bill.
par Al-Manar
«Les banques et les courtiers en Asie constatent une demande accrue de produits dérivés de devises qui contournent le dollar, alors que les tensions commerciales ajoutent de l'urgence à l'éloignement du billet vert qui dure depuis des années», selon Bloomberg.
Les sociétés financières ont signalé «une demande croissante de transactions impliquant des instruments de couverture qui ne sont pas basés sur le dollar, mais plutôt sur des devises telles que le yuan chinois, le dollar de Hong Kong, le dirham des Émirats arabes unis et l'euro».
Logo Daedalus, READ BOOKS VLT. Interview
April 24th, 2025
LOGO DAEDALUS: Well, I just wanted to say thank you. First off, your books have been extremely important to me. I've done, I think, some good work in helping to popularize them on Twitter or X, I guess we're calling it these days.
But when I first found your work, I was really coming from more of a literary studies sort of perspective.