Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via The Daily Reckoning,
This is the reality: the American Dream is now reserved for the top 0.5%, with some shreds falling to the top 5% who are tasked with generating a credible illusion of prosperity for the bottom 95%.
The question about who still has access to the American Dream is starkly answered by this disturbing chart:
by Dominic Frisby of Money Week
Every year, Ronald-Peter Stoeferle and Mark J Valek of investment and asset management company Incrementum put together the report In Gold We Trust – 160-plus pages of charts and thoughts, mostly gold-related, on the state of the world’s finances.
There’s so much to look at and consider. It’s a sort of digital equivalent of a coffee-table book.
Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com,
The fate of asset bubbles under the new regime.
Authored by Gilbert Berdine via The Mises Institute,
Enter “outrageous drug prices” into Google and you will receive plenty of examples. As reported here, Marathon Pharmaceuticals planned to charge $89,000 per year for its Emflaza brand of the corticosteroid deflazacort. Deflazacort was introduced in 1969 and is available outside the U.S. for less than $2 per tablet. US patients with muscular dystrophy have been obtaining the drug for around $1,500 per year from foreign sources.
Submitted by Jeff Paul
The US government likes to pretend that the rising cost of living is under control. People in Southern California know better. According to a new report in the Los Angeles Times, median house prices in Southern California have doubled in the last five years.
LA Times reports:
In many corners of Southern California, home prices have hit record highs. And they keep going up.