Credit Bubble Bulletin – Doug Nolan
McAlvany Intelbrief
The McAlvany Intelbrief is a round-up of the day’s important news from a multitude of sectors that can and do impact the financial markets.
[FYI – Repetition of items is on purpose because the item fits into 2 or more categories, not a mistake by me.]
ANTS RISING
- Ohio School Owes $400K for Trying to Force Prof. to Use Trans Pronouns
- Florida Judge Voids U.S. Mask Mandate for Planes, Other Travel
- Retired Veterans Step Up to Run for Congress
- TSA: Bare-Face Now Legal In USA
- Group Launches to Combat ‘Woke Healthcare,’ ‘Race-Based Formulas for Rationing’ Medicine
- California Gives up on Trying To Force Kids To Get Covid Shots
ECONOMIC
- Social Security Recipients to See Historic 8.9% Cost-of-Living Raise
- Secret Service Seizes More Than $102 Million In Crypto Assets
- U.S. Summer Gasoline Price Set To Be Highest Since 2014
- Margin debt drops further, not a good sign for stocks
- Georgia Declares a State of Emergency Over Supply Chain Shortages
- JPMorgan: Immediate EU Ban On Russian Oil Could Send Prices To $185
- Putin has launched the first economic world war, and the EU and the West are his targets
- In Biden’s Annual Economic Report, The Word “Gender” Is Used 40 More Times Than The Word “Inflation”
- Hot Economy, Inflation: Fed Never Fixed Problem Like This
- More Housing Market Cracks: Continued Demand Slide Leads To Accelerating Price Cuts
- Rivian CEO Warns Of Coming EV Battery Supply Shortage
- ‘Stain on Democracy’: 25 Richest People in U.S. Paid True Tax Rate of Just 3.4%
- Inflation rate in US reaches 8.5%
- Even Californians Are Revolting Against High Taxes
- A Couple Of Thoughts On Big Numbers
- COVID-19 Accelerates The Trend Of People Abandoning The Largest Cities
- Americans’ taxes used to be public — until the rich revolted
- States scale back food-stamp benefits even as prices soar
- 16 Republican States Demand Biden Reinstate Keystone XL Pipeline
- Inflationary Psychology Has Set In. Dislodging It Won’t Be Easy.
EDUCATION(AL)
- Vaccine Skeptics Are the True Critical Thinkers
- Florida School Chief Rejects Math Textbooks Over ‘Attempts To Indoctrinate Students’
- Under the Guise of Convenience, They Want You Microchipped
- Classroom Surveillance: Computers Monitor Students’ Emotions
- Enough is Enough! Parents Sue MA School District For Keeping Trans Children’s New Pronouns a Secret
- Alabama officially bans transgender grooming of children
- Woke British university tells professors to disregard white, male scholars
- New Mexico to use funds for college tuition costs for prisoners, illegals
ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE
FIRES
FOOD
- We’re Beyond the Point of No Return on Food Shortages
- Is Food Inflation Secular Or Cyclical? Part 1
- Corn Exceeds $8 A Bushel For First Time In Decade On Shortage Fears
- Food supply tips: 7 Vegetables to grow for your food stockpile
GEO-POLITICAL
- North Korea Tests “Guided Weapon” to Improve “Tactical Nukes”
- Putin, Saudi Prince Vow To Continue OPEC+ Cooperation
- Pakistan Hit With Power Blackouts As It Struggles With Fuel Shortages And Technical Problems
- Deleted Web Pages Reveal Dean of National Defense University Visit with Chinese Communist-Run Think Tank
- Woke British university tells professors to disregard white, male scholars
- Putin has launched the first economic world war, and the EU and the West are his targets
- Putin signs decree to remove Russian stocks from overseas exchanges in huge blow to the nation’s billionaires
- UK shuns Moscow Stock Exchange in fresh blow to pariah Putin
- China ‘unlikely to be able to hold any gains over time’ if it moves against Taiwan
UKRAINE
- Russia launches full-scale offensive in eastern Ukraine, declares ‘another stage’ of invasion has started
- Zelensky Warns: “Prepare” For Russia To Use Nuclear Weapons
- Ukraine war: Russia bombards cities as eastern offensive begins
- Ukrainian Intelligence Believes Russia Munitions Production Faltering
- Lavrov Denies Russia Could Use Nukes In Ukraine
- Greece impounds Russian tanker as part of EU sanctions against Moscow
GLOBALIZATIO
IMMIGRATION
- ‘Open Borders’ Biden Is Remaking America
- Former Border Chief: Biden Handed Operational Control to Drug Cartels
- Migrant Crossings Spike as Biden About to Lift Title 42
- More Ukrainians to receive US immigration protections
- Migrant crossings spike
- Morning Greatness: ICE Spent $17M on Unused Hotels for Migrants
- New Mexico to use funds for college tuition costs for prisoners, illegals
LEGAL / CRIMINAL
- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas returns to bench after illness, hospitalization
- ‘Beyond troubling’: Current, former government officials tied to human trafficking probe in Georgia
- Philadelphia: 50 Shot, Nine of Them Fatally in Violent Easter Weekend
MEDIA
- China’s TikTok now reveals users’ locations when they post
- Fed-up sheriff running for Congress tells off major U.S. newspaper in epic fashion
- Apple Includes “Pregnant Man” Emoji In Latest Software Update
MEDICAL
- The Next ‘Great Pandemic’ Claiming Astronomical Death Counts is Now Being Marketed to the Public
- Group Launches to Combat ‘Woke Healthcare,’ ‘Race-Based Formulas for Rationing’ Medicine
- Prialt drug, derived from animal VENOM, is approved by FDA but causes hallucinations, depression and psychiatric problems
- Highly contagious bird flu found in two Idaho chicken flocks
Coronavirus-19
- The wreckage of AIDS & its parallels with Covid-19
- Fauci and others KNEW China was withholding data on COVID-19 as pandemic began
- The Fear-Mongering Continues: China’s “COVID Crisis” Could “Spawn” New Variants
- COVID-19 Accelerates The Trend Of People Abandoning The Largest Cities
- Florida judge voids mask mandate for planes
VACCINE
- UK Gov. report admits 19.2 million people in England have not had a single dose of a Covid-19 Vaccine, and another 12 million have refused a 2nd or 3rd Dose
- Fauci Admits Brutal Lockdowns Used To Extort People Into Getting Vaccinated
- A Staggering Number of Athletes Collapsed This Past Year
- Dr. Bryan Ardis reveals BOMBSHELL origins of covid, mRNA vaccines and treatments Part 2 Part 3
- Moderna Updated COVID Vax: Original, Omicron Combo
- Vaccine Skeptics Are the True Critical Thinkers
- Omicron Specific Vaccine Cleared For Clinical Trials
- Did the Booster Shot Cause This 24-Year-Old’s Sudden Death?
NATIONAL SECURITY
- Cost of Throwing Weapons Away to Ukraine Becomes Clear: US National Defense Stockpiles Depleted
- Inside The Ukraine-Induced Defense Contractor ‘Gold Rush’ At The Pentagon
- U.S. Air Force ships military equipment to Ukraine
- Breakdowns, Ripped Clothing and Dying Batteries: Army Commits to Arctic But Still Figuring Out What Soldiers Need
- US Army document details plan to update WWII-era ammo plants and depots
POLITICAL
- ‘Open Borders’ Biden Is Remaking America
- New Group to Elect Female Republican Governors Brings in $1 Million
- The national fight for survival is not over
- Techno-Fascism, Techno-Feudalism, Or Indentured Servitude?
- Georgia Declares a State of Emergency Over Supply Chain Shortages
- Dems already infiltrating for 2024 election, plan will deploy 5,000 operatives, likely more
- The End Of Civilization As We Know It Is Coming – And That Is Actually Really Good News
- Biden Says the End of White America Is a Good Thing
PREPAREDNESS
- Time to gather your ‘Round House Provisions’ – Exclusive: Chuck Norris asks, ‘Do you have the right personal survival items?’
- Georgia Declares a State of Emergency Over Supply Chain Shortages
- Family Planning, Emergency Communications & Binders
- Pakistan Hit With Power Blackouts As It Struggles With Fuel Shortages And Technical Problems
- Food supply tips: 7 Vegetables to grow for your food stockpile
- Getting Home During a Disaster Isn’t Always Easy
- What you and your community need to do within the first 90 days of a catastrophic collapse
- Prepping must-haves: Medical supplies and first aid kits
- Zelensky Warns: “Prepare” For Russia To Use Nuclear Weapons
- Essential Tools for the Off-Grid Home
- Three Things You Can Do To Save Big At The Pump
PRIVACY
SECOND AMENDMENT
SOCIAL / CULTURE
SPACE
- The James Webb Space Telescope Is Now One of the Coldest Objects in Space
- Peek Inside the Space Balloon Lifting Passengers 100,000 Feet Above Earth’s Surface
TECHNOLOGY
TERRORISM
