What if the Fed doesn’t rescue the next downturn? What if the resulting rout will be used to trigger The Great Taking machinery which will then provide the cover for the rapid adoption of CBDCs? Germany’s stock market powering to illogical new highs tells us something is ‘off’ and we’re trying to figure out what.…

More than two months after the first assassination attempt against trump we still don’t know the answers to shockingly basic questions.By Chris Martenson

The “apolitical” Fed cut rates by an emergency amount just 6 weeks before a major and contentious election thereby rewarding incumbents. As always, they did this even though it will reward existing asset owners and punish the young who are starting out in life. It’s just who they are, to their bones.…

The second Trump assassination attempt is proving to be as revealing and instructive as the first one. For some reason it’s HARD to protect Trump properly. The DNC is responsible for fanning the social flames that have brought us to these attempts, but they seem unable to do much more than DARVO and (perversely) blame Trump. Click Here for Part 2…

This is the audio from my livecast regarding the second Trump assassination attempt.By Chris Martenson

Would it be foolish to think ‘this time is different?’ Of course! It’s never different. There has to be a balance between claims on the economy and the real economy’s outputs. Today those are historically stretched beyond recovery. It’s time to plant a garden – or start a farm!By Chris Martenson

Paul and I discuss a few of the major economic topics that were evaded and avoided during the Trump-Harris debate. We deserve a discussion and some answers because of the gravity of the situation.By Chris Martenson

Do you pay property taxes? Do you rent? In either case you’ve been ripped off by local taxing authorities who have been running a widespread but illegal operation that has systematically overvalued properties for the purpose of fraudulently collecting higher taxes. Their motivation? Their paychecks, presumably, but that’s just a guess. It could be …

Currencies, Oil, gold, stocks and bonds. Everything is in flux at the moment and markets have the feel of being ‘toppy.’ Things could get really bumpy over the next few months.By Chris Martenson

We need to keep the pressure up while we can in hopes of finally getting the right questions asked of the right people.By Chris Martenson

Good health is your birthright. It should be your baseline. Sickness should be a temporary departure from health. But most foods have been specifically designed to make people unhealthy. Getting back to excellent health begins, and often ends, with eating right.By Chris Martenson

What an we trust anymore from or government. It turns out the consensus is “very little.” Well, we still have to make decisions and carry on with our lives, which makes your team and information sources more important than ever.By Chris Martenson

At what line do we say someone’s forced labor crosses over from ‘voluntary’ to being a slave? Certainly that happens at 100% of one’s labor. I would submit that’s still true at 99%, and so now the argument is where exactly is that line?By Chris Martenson

We’re in the grip of a cult that worships death and disease. One that thinks nothing of harming children, for life. It’s sad, but true. Now that we know that, let’s reject its failed ideology and instead create a world worth inheriting. One based on reason and science, and wisdom.By Chris Martenson

It’s important that we get to the bottom of the Trump assassination attempt. The near-total silence from the FBI and the Secret Service about the many lines of inquiry and necessary bits of evidence reeks of a cover-up. By answering these three basic questions, we believe the crime scene may finally give up its secrets.…

The Harris-Walz ‘plan’ for taxes and the economy are guaranteed to lead to ruin. But they make for great policies rooted in envy and resentment – the twin sources of fuel for all Communist-Marxist movements throughout history. Please take heed and move your wealth out of harms’ way.By Chris Martenson

Big Food, Pharma and Medicine have all failed in their responsibilities to be good and caring entities. They have knowingly conspired to make people chronically addicted and sick. They have specifically targeted children too in their quest to create life-time customers for their crap products and symptom-masking services.…

Given the paucity of people on the West side of Crooks’ shooting position, how did all the LEOs on that side manage to miss him? And why do we not yet have any body cams from LEOs on that side? Tune in to find out more…By Chris Martenson

The FBI has done everything it can to obstruct the investigation into the J13 incident. I think there’s only one conclusion to be drawn here…By Chris Martenson

The equity markets are going to have a hefty correction at some point…but the signs say “not yet.” At times like these, having a defined strategy with rock-solid rules is essential.By Chris Martenson

We are now at the heart of the case. Unraveling the locations and actions of the two ‘overwatch’ snipers will determine the trajectory of this case. Why they weren’t on the roof? Why did Greg Nicol leave his post? How it was possible for Secret Service to have such a different version of events about the AGR protection detail?…

We’re chewing through the local LEO body and car cams to crips up the timeline as any good investigation should. It’s still a mystery why this is being left up to all of us to accomplish, but perhaps it’s because the errors and gaffes (if that’s what they were) were terminally embarrassing or even completely inexplicable.…

Where did the blood in the bathroom come from? How did that “operator” get to the bathroom? Not through the only door we know was operating on the East side. Was there another door? If it didn’t come from an ‘operator’ then who did it come from?By Chris Martenson

The Butler police body cam footage provides an abundance of information, settling some mysteries while stoking a host of others. On the whole, they did nothing to tamp down the speculation that somebody ‘let it happen.’By Chris Martenson

The collectivist mindset cannot be reasoned with. It is immune to logic and resistant to any countervailing facts on the ground. Join Peter Boghossian and I as we struggle mightily to grasp a mindset that might as well be alien to us.By Chris Martenson

The Secret Service’s many lapses before during and after the near-assassination of Trump are gone over in detail. Acting SS Director Ronald Rowe is caught in obvious distortions of the truth that rise to the level of intentional lying.By Chris Martenson

The “markets” are busy shaking themselves apart on the one hand and being propped up and rescued by central banks on the other. Which force will prove to be greater over the next few months?By Chris Martenson

To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, once you’ve run out of ways to make excuses based on rank incompetence, you are left with less savory explanations. The timeline of how the precise gap was left that Crooks perfectly exploited repels the mind. It’s unbelievable.By Chris Martenson

They’re convinced they are right. I am convinced they are wrong. Perhaps you find yourself in the same position with friends and family. We are being driven apart, and that’s by design. Cui Bono?By Chris Martenson

The data is leading us right back to the conclusion that there were two shooters that day in Butler taking shots at Trump and the stands. Audio analysis keeps pointing right back to our initial conclusion. Also, we can now rule out the lower windows in building 6 as the source of the first three shots (and realistically the next five as well).…

Crooks’ unbelievable ‘luck’ in evading all the LEOs around the AGR buildings in his unlikely path to the roof is where this investigation needs to focus. The timeline stinks to high heaven. We are missing something here and we can all smell it.By Chris Martenson

The incredible Copenhaver film shows Crooks running across the AGR rooftops 3 minutes before the first shot rang out. This settles some questions, but raises many others, most notably how exactly are we supposed to believe that that the Secret Service agent in charge of placing the sniper teams was THAT incompetent?…

An attempted assassination. A Democratic coup. Kamala wasn’t the border czar. Conservatives are “weird.” And a bizarre opening ceremony at the Olympics in France. We live in crazy times, right? But the markets just shrug these narratives off.By Chris Martenson

An ESU agent may be the hero of July 13th, 2024 having fired the 9th round and stopping Crooks from firing more. But the Secret Service comes off looking even worse for attempting to take credit for ending the threat while also throwing local police under the bus as often as possible. Truly deplorable behavior and I use that word carefully.…

What were all the security personnel doing that day all around the AGR beside somehow entirely missing the presence of Crooks who a host of civilians spotted and were yelling about? There’s something quite fishy in this part of the story. It’s time to take a step back and apply first principles…By Chris Martenson

The official story is collapsing and the data is piling up! The “Stewart Film” is even more damning to the current official story than the Zapruder film was to the JFK fiction. Audio analysis re-confirms that the shots 1-3 are distinctly different sounding and quantitatively unlike shots 4-8. This best maps to the Two Shooters hypothesis.…

The evidence is clear – Sniper Team #2 was in a perfect AND elevated position relative to Trump and therefore should have easily been able to spot Crooks. It’s possible they could have seen Crooks without him raising his head or being all the away to the ridge. Also, the lack of crime scene splatter isn’t consistent with Crooks’ head intercepting a…

The PA State Police are now at odds with the local Butler County authorities and that means there’s a chance this story could break open. So much hinges on exactly who failed to secure that two-story building and how the police could have fumbled Crooks being on the roof with a gun for so long. Hopefully one of them speaks up about the orders they …

The Investigation by the FBI and Secret Service is a complete clown show. Our ongoing investigation is firming up and has resolved the high likelihood of two shooters; it also raises troubling questions about who was in the building overlooking both the event itself and Crooks’ position.By Chris Martenson

Cheatle stonewalls and lies, while the grey-suited man raises questions. Meanwhile things look very bad for whoever was in the two story building and really tough and troubling questions emerge. The Citizens’ Investigation plows on!By Chris Martenson

More evidence that a second shooter (or more) were involved has emerged. Whoever was in that other building looking down at Crooks right before the shooting began has a lot of explaining to do. At a minimum…By Chris Martenson

Things are just getting weirder and weirder on the financial and economic landscape. Can they hold it all together until the elections? If so, how much longer after that?By Chris Martenson

Unless he had some help, it’s virtually impossible that Crooks managed to skulk about on a roof, with a rifle for so long without being stopped or challenged. And, how did the Secret Service miss placing one of their two sniper teams on the very best possible spot that would have stopped anyone from being where Crooks was shot dead?…

There’s zero doubt. Two separate weapons were fired toward Trump and the Crowd. One fired 3 rounds, the other(s?) 6 or 7 depending on how many sniper rounds were fired at Crooks. This indicates a conspiracy to assassinate Trump.By Chris Martenson

There’s no path back to monetary sanity. That means more printing and more undeserved rewards to Wall Street insiders while a front of economic despair marches steadily northward through the social ranks.By Chris Martenson

If CBDC’s are broadly implemented, it’s over. There will be no more privacy, no more freedom, and our lives will be controlled by unseen people and AI programs nudging us toward thinking, saying and buying only the “right things.” Click Here for Part 2By Chris Martenson

Watch what they do, not what they say. Stocks are busy telegraphing the signal that ‘all is well!’ while bonds are sneaking out the back door.By Chris Martenson

The yen slices right through Japan’s defensive line at 160, housing sales slump as prices make one last push into truly insane territory and the equity “”markets”” are not behaving as if they are tethered to either economic data or geopolitical risk.By Chris Martenson

We’re facing attacks on many fronts, but food has been on the main attack vectors on American health and well-being for a very long time. Click Here for Part 2By Chris Martenson

We’ve come to the end of the road. There’s no more ‘can-kicking’ to be done. The US is now in the exponential blow-off phase of fiscal irresponsibility and the Fed is out of options. Save the Dollar or save the Treasury bond market. The BRICS have long-since figured this out. Now it’s time for Western investors to catch on.…