source: @Scott_Wiener on X San Francisco State Senator, Scott Weiner, probably gets the most hate from the Right of any California politician besides Gavin Newsom, and perhaps Nancy Pelosi. To conservatives, Scott Weiner epitomizes everything wrong with California liberalism. Some of the online hate targeted at him from the Right has anti-Semitic and homophobic undertones,... Read More

Hardly a day passes without some mainstream western media publishing another article about China's coming economic collapse. Even the empirically debunked, much ridiculed China doomsday-sayer Gordan Chang seems to be getting a new lease on life as a Fox News commentator and frequent panel guest elsewhere. No doubt there are many challenges in the Chinese... Read More

Signs are proliferating that the US is losing the major power struggle against China - its trade and tech wars are failing (the fact they are doubling down is the best indicator of desperation and ineffectiveness), its currency is losing ground as a reserve currency, its treasury/state/commerce secretaries came out gun-blazing about China's industrial "overcapacity"... Read More

Since COVID, the Chinese economy has been on a wobbly recovery path. A lot of stale conventional wisdom has been aired again for a fresh lease on life. One key such argument is that China has a massive underconsumption issue. While there is some truth to the relative low level consumption vs. the US, it... Read More

Rumble link Bitchute link FFWN link Partial transcript The lead story for this broadcast is the BRICS meeting in Kazan, where they are now creating an alternative to the SWIFT international payments system. It could be a new Bretton Woods such that the American Zionist sanctions regime run by the Global International Banking Crime Syndicate... Read More

Speculating the demographic impact of the Recession on California: Part I (Who is most likely to leave California) Speculating the Demographic impact of the Recession on California: Part II (The demographic future of White Californians) The state of California Real Estate with the incoming Recession The next several years, with the recession, will be a... Read More

Distributism is an alternative third way economic theory that critiques capitalism and socialism as two heads of the same coin, as far as being monopolistic. Socialism leads to State consolidation over the economy while capitalism leads to oligarchy. From a Distributist standpoint, when the economy and institutions are heavily centralized, it does not matter whether... Read More

Source: @ChrisUnits on X Proponents of abolishing inheritance include many leftists, from French socialist economist, Thomas Piketty, to the Jacobin’s Ben Burgis, on standard wealth redistributionist or equity grounds. Basically, that privilege is bad so we must eliminate all privilege. There are also concerns about racial inequities in inheritance, such as arguments that repealing the... Read More

Source: @NewsLambert on X Last year, there was a shift in real estate, with markets stronger in the Eastern US but a slowdown in the West. The West rose disproportionately during the tech boom and was hit harder by going remote and tech crashing, as well as Progressives ruining cities. While the Bay Area escaped... Read More

The Great Class Swap (Introduction) Matt Yglesias endorses the Great Class Swap Radically Unconventional Solutions to Inequality (including Universal Orphanhood) What would the Great Class Swap look like if implemented The Great Class Swap is more of a thought experiment, philosophical outlook, and metric to judge a society by rather than a concrete political agenda.... Read More

Harry Dent is a bearish financial journalist and trends forecaster, who early last year, insisted that there would be an epic crash in June. In a recent interview, Dent seemed almost irate about markets taking so long to crash. Basically Dent said that if the bubble does not burst this year, he will retire from... Read More

Earlier this year, Arnold Schwarzenegger put out a video, calling out hate and antisemitism, which he denounced as a horrible loser ideology. This was probably in response to Kanye West and Nick Fuentas meeting with Trump, though it was reposted after the Hamas terror attack. Schwarzenegger made a similar video in response to Charlottesville, that... Read More

Fed Chair, Jerome Powell, is considering a pause in rate hikes, and then three rate cuts in 2024. In response to talks of a pivot, the Dow soared to near all-time highs, with overall market sentiment hyper bullish. However, yesterday stocks plummeted like last week never happened. We are still hearing the same propaganda about... Read More

Part 1 Source: 1CoastalJournal Twitter Peter Zeihan has a video about why California’s lucky streak is running out. Zeihan points out that immigration is no longer enough to offset California’s ageing population. The other point is that since California’s economy is so heavily linked to globalization, both tech and the shipping industry, its economy will... Read More

The Great Class Swap is a philosophical response to the societal problem that too much wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few while too much population growth is in the underclass, with both trends squeezing out the middle. The Great Class Swap is a social experiment in which wealth is redistributed from the... Read More

I have been following financial commentator, Peter Schiff, since the Ron Paul movement and his Senate run. Schiff was one of several, including Michael Burry, to forecast the 08’ financial crash. Now he is predicting a Depression that will be much worse than the 1930s. That is because it will be inflationary rather than deflationary.... Read More