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By Ted Dunlap, on January 9th, 2021 
The SCAM-DEMIC was used in a plan to close all small businesses (the heart of our culture and economy), turn most of us into “UNEMPLOYED” – then force all future transactions and employment opportunities to be with big corporate, big government, welfare or camps [can you pronounce “forced labor” or “slavery”?]. I am not saying they have lost, but we are winning a few skirmishes. Witness the unemployment chart to the right – courtesy of Shadowstats.com – important to note that the charts from Shadowstats.com are REAL DATA, not manipulated numbers… nice that we have that resource available. The HUGE spike in unemployment was the government shutting down small businesses. Almost all employment in this country is self-employed, working […]
By Ted Dunlap, on January 5th, 2021 
. The “grownups” in this country are being bribed with $600 each to keep quiet about $940,000,000,000 the congresscritters are ordering out of thin air. That, by the way, is 94% of a trillion dollars. I help you picture that on the right. Blow that image up and look it over at a legible size… rather impressive… and quite clear. Multiply that generous $600 bribe per adult times the USofA Census Bureau adult count and we spent $158,000,000,000 on money to keep the peasants from complaining about a trillion in self-serving corruption and graft. That is 17% of the total, graciously earmarked for us. Figuring the worldwide co-conspirators skim off 50% before they send it back to 535 members of […]
By Ted Dunlap, on November 22nd, 2020 
… and imminent, by expert G Edward Griffin … who literally wrote the book on it: The Creature From Jekyll Island. As if we don’t have enough trouble. This is a look at another one of the apocalyptic horsemen I have been warning about. Stephan Molenaux and G Edward Griffin discuss the final phase of one more fiat currency that will bite the dust just as they always do. Unfortunately, that currency is the one we use. The global, one-world-order cryptocurrency they plan to replace it with will me several magnitudes worse. Prepare to live under the boot or outside the world they are planning. There is no third choice… unless you count “Give me liberty or give me […]
By Ted Dunlap, on October 29th, 2020 
The scam-demic is killing the small businesses that are the USofA’s foundation. Entrepreneurs are reporting their businesses will never recover. The numbers reported by government agents are radically different from the numbers we see, feel and live with every day. John Williams created the Shadow Stats website to show the dramatic difference between the phony numbers federal agents report and the real world. Today ShadowStats.com is not available. It has ALWAYS been there. Today as Trump brags about wonderful economic reports ShadowStats.com is unavailable for the first time ever. [Update October 31st: ShadowStats is back. Go there to see the current REAL economic numbers in chart form.] Record Recovery: U.S. GDP Grew 33.1% in Third Quarter After Lockdowns Lifted Mighty […]
By Ted Dunlap, on October 18th, 2020 
While cooking the numbers started in the Reagan administration, Slick Willy took it several levels beyond. If the lie is bold enough and told often enough it becomes reality. They removed trivial things like food, housing and energy from the inflation numbers as they were “too volatile and confusing to regular people”. Unemployed people were no longer unemployed after 6 weeks. Tell that to them, eh? Cooking the books and reporting the fictions is the new normal. Unless you visit John Williams’ Shadowstats.com. He uses the “old fashioned way” of calculating those things… ya’know that obsolete concept called The Truth. Today, the reality is harsh. This is not recoverable. It also is matched by nearly every other economy on […]
By Ted Dunlap, on May 23rd, 2020 
On May 19th I published crushing Mom’n’Pop here discussing how crucial small business has been to our economy, life, liberty and property. Small business is either the prime target or one of the intended victims of the Covid terrorist attacks. Today I found this poster describing the country’s largest employers as very much NOT the target. I websearched the numbers and found modest variance with the figures below, but nothing that would change the point being made here.
By Ted Dunlap, on May 1st, 2020 
This is on my regular route of media absorption – for very good reasons. I’m sure you know that OB/Gyn Doctor Ron Paul spent decades in Congress known as “Doctor NO” because his Occam’s Razor was: Is it legal for Congress, Is it Constitutional, are we really allowed to do this? Thus he voted NO to darn near everything Congress did during his tour of duty there. He had a heckuva run at President of these United States. Millions of us were ready to vote REPUBLICAN, but the criminal element did what they do, keeping us from having the opportunity to vote him in. His brushfire popularity scared them a bit… and excited a lot of us, though we were […]
By Ted Dunlap, on April 30th, 2020 
Payola nearly always flows TO the politicians. That is their primary source of income. Today the graft came TO US from the politicians. If only I didn’t understand economics. I could be happy with this little “gift” and grateful to the benevolent rulers who sent me spendable electrons. Problem #1: The billionaire club got most of the money – business as usual. The upper 1% got 99% of the “stimulus money”, as they are calling it this time, while the bottom 99% received 1% of it. That little spit divided among 300 million of us is HUSH MONEY – pure and simple. Problem #2: Every existing dollar in cookie jars, bank accounts or wherever little people stash their cash is […]
By Ted Dunlap, on April 26th, 2020 
Ex-Treasury undersecretary paints a stark view of our economy. In the video below, Greg Hunter interviews Paul Craig Roberts. His credibility is of the highest order. His message is something we should be aware of. The man responsible for the creation and implementation of the popular Reagan-onomics is warning that the economic trajectory looks very bad. We can no more print our way out of this depression than one can dig their way out of a hole.
By Ted Dunlap, on April 23rd, 2020 
The Reagan administration began “CORRECTING” and “ADJUSTING” economic, employment and other data they reported to the people. For the rulers, it was a breakthrough. The hidden part of the Reagan economic miracle was that they printed their way to economic success. The real magic was that people did not know because the published numbers were cooked, I mean “adjusted” to make sense for the little people. Cooking the books has been “improved” regularly ever since. There are ways to cut the fog, but it does take work. John Williams does the work and publishes the real data side by side with the cooked data. He sells subscriptions with in-depth analysis, but gives away the charts and information I show below. […]
By Ted Dunlap, on April 14th, 2020 
Gasoline prices in the teeth of incoming hurricanes are an excellent example of how price signals clue people to minimize their purchases where the supplies are rapidly dwindling and unlikely to be replenished at normal prices. Instead of having the first two motorhomes wipe out the supplies, faced with significantly higher prices, they buy just enough to get out of the evacuation zone, leaving more for the next arrivals at the storm-front gas station. Each purchaser buys only what they need to get out of the impact zone and out to suppliers where prices are normal. At a high enough price, someone will truck fresh supplies of gasoline into the teeth of the incoming storm, replenishing the depleted supply. No […]
By Ted Dunlap, on April 11th, 2020 
Gasoline prices in the teeth of incoming hurricanes are an excellent example of how price signals clue people to minimize their purchases where the supplies are rapidly dwindling and unlikely to be replenished at normal prices. Instead of having the first two motorhomes wipe out the supplies, faced with significantly higher prices, they buy just enough to get out of the evacuation zone, leaving more for the next arrivals at the storm-front gas station. Each purchaser buys only what they need to get out of the impact zone and out to suppliers where prices are normal. At a high enough price, someone will truck fresh supplies of gasoline into the teeth of the incoming storm, replenishing the depleted supply. No […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 29th, 2020 
In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them, at gunpoint if necessary! Mary Ruwart “Just as there is a very short distance between the U.S. and Cuba, there is a very short distance between a democracy and dictatorship where the government gets to decide what to do, how to think, and how to live. And sometimes your freedom is not taken away at gunpoint, but […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 26th, 2020 
We are avoiding Meat-Space in droves. Little towns, big towns, grand malls … they are all hollow echoes of their ever-so-recent past. THE MASSES have discovered online ordering. We don’t touch keypads a hundred others have touched. We do not handle paper money a hundred others have recently handled. We aren’t gripping shopping cart handles a hundred others have grabbed in the last two days. ONLINE ORDERING HAS EXPLODED. Big box stores were right on top of it. Minor chains were hot on their tails. Mom-N-Pop were right behind them, sometimes in front. Darn near everybody whose income HAD depended on floor traffic have come up with ways to deliver their services (and get paid for them) while minimizing virus […]
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