Holy Lord, America. We have to import ALL our arsenic needs from abroad? Shame!
What We Lack
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
The New Coup Review
Wham, Bam, Thanks Japan
All central banks are crooked Ponzi schemes, but Japan’s makes that of the United States look relatively virtuous. True Japanese prosperity ended in the late 1980s. Since then, it’s just been a Kabuki theatre of increasingly laughable nonsense, with the central bank thrust into the humiliating farce of being the country’s only customer for its bonds and actively gobbling up equities which are, under a harsh eye, actually worthless.
As such, the Japanese Yen is beginning to resemble toilet paper, as even the pathetic U.S. dollar looks positively Herculean in comparison. I suspect strength will beget strength.
Like a Really Sore Thumb
The United States has spent decades buying up way more goods than it sells to the rest of the world, but this chart really makes that clear. At this point, the only things left that the U.S. actually manufacturers is litigation and pornography, so it’s no surprise we’re in the position we’ve found ourselves.
Global Growth
