bill bonner describes our current location and situation succinctly;

My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking. – Marshal Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – A new year! A new decade! And it’s going to be great.

Back in the 18th century, people went to insane asylums to laugh at the crazy people. Today, we only have to turn on the TV or read the news.

That’s progress! And it just gets better and better.

But we need to put it in perspective…

Colossal Bungles

As longtime Diary sufferers know already, we think the U.S. empire peaked out in the late ’90s. Then, two colossal, but predictable, knucklehead mistakes – one in 2001, the other in 2008 – sealed the deal and sped the slippage.

And in the elections of 2016, Americans faced a critical choice: stay the course… or try something new. For better or for worse, with the help of the Electoral College system, they took the riskier choice.

But while the new president made the fur fly, he did not change the direction of the country. Instead of turning around or even slowing down, he stepped on the gas.

And now, thanks to demographics, entitlements, fake money, the Federal Reserve, and Deep State politics, the decline and fall is unstoppable.

But we’ll get to all of that in due course. Today, a souvenir of our holiday…...http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/01.20/rules.html