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.]
AI
- Angry Robots Cinematic Motif Playing Out With Staggering Precision
- AI doomsday scenarios gaining traction in Silicon Valley
- CEO Fires 90% Staff, Saying Machines Outperform Them
- Why are actors so worried about AI?
ANTS RISING
- UPS strike could be costliest in century
- Striking SAG Actors in Disbelief Over Studios’ Dystopian AI Proposal
- Hollywood Stars Go on Strike: Celebrities Walk Off the Job Bringing TV and Movie Production to a Historic Halt
CENSORSHIP
- COVID censorship killed people, Wall Street Journal admits
- Veteran reporter facing ultimate censorship by Washington bureaucracy
- Mayo Clinic doubling down on censorship to silence criticism of transgenderism, leaked memo shows
- Flagging content for removal has “nothing to do with censorship,” claims former head of Disinformation Governance Board
- World’s top climate scientists told to ‘cover up’ the fact that the Earth’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years
CYBER
ECONOMIC
- UPS strike could be costliest in century
- Central Banks Are Increasingly Interested in CBDCs, Says BIS Survey
- Do we get value for money by paying our taxes?
- U. Mich. Inflation Expectations Unexpectedly Rebounded In July; Democrats’ Confidence At 2-Year Highs
- Budget deficit nearly triples
- Dollar’s Epic Drop
- Vast Hordes Of Americans Are Being Forced Out Into The Streets As The Middle Class Disintegrates
- Biden Administration Moves To Grant $39 Billion in Student Loan Breaks
- ‘Star of Death’: Costco Customers Say Chain May Stop Restocking Bud Light
- Makeup company roasted for using bearded cross-dresser in lipstick ad
- Russia Will Begin Testing A Digital Currency Next Month
- Budget Deficit Increases 156 Percent as Expenditures Soar, Revenues Shrink
- Most Federal Agencies Using Less Than 25 Percent of Office Space: GAO
- MUST SEE: Maybelline taps bearded bald man to sell lip gloss to women on Amazon Prime Day
- Disney World Summer Numbers Dropping as Families Skip School and Take Kids Somewhere Cheaper
- Hair salon won’t serve LGBTQ patrons
- World’s largest cruise ship that’s 5 times larger than the Titanic set to make its debut
EDUCATION(AL)
- All His Training Pays Off: Slackliner Wins Carnegie Medal for Ski Lift Rescue Over Cables
- Biden Administration Moves To Grant $39 Billion in Student Loan Breaks
- DC Council Passes Emergency Bill As Crime Rates Soar
- Moms for Liberty Has the Education Establishment Terrified
- Gallup Poll Reveals Americans’ Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools
- Can Airline Seating Get Any Worse? ‘A New Form of Torture Chamber’
- Seattle public schools will offer ‘gender affirming care’ to students as young as 11 years old at no cost – as critics say it’s a ‘whole new level of awful for schools to be involved’
- Teacher instructs 10-year-old to ‘make sure this email is deleted’ after private communications about student’s gender identity in Olympia, Washington
- FDA Approves 1st Over-The-Counter Birth Control Pill Amid Falling US Birth Rates
- ‘Evidence Of Backsliding’: Students’ Math And Reading Scores Aren’t Bouncing Back From School Closures
- The ESG Movement Was Never Designed to Help the Environment
- 83-Year-Old History Buff Takes on Professors Over How History Will Be Taught to Students
ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE
- Climate Change Crime – Depopulation in the Name of Human Rights
- Biden Releasing $20 Billion for ‘Clean Energy Projects’ to Defeat Fossil Fuels
- China Is Quietly Building A Green Energy Empire In Latin America
- World’s top climate scientists told to ‘cover up’ the fact that the Earth’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years
- Paris Olympics Gets 11,000 Stadium Seats Made of Recycled City Plastic
FOOD
- Veteran-Owned ‘Clean Beef’ Company Says It Would Rather Shut Down Than Accept mRNA Injections In Cattle
- Florida orange harvest sees worst season since before World War II
GEO-POLITICAL
- Nuclear EMP Strike Poses ‘Major Threat’ to US
- Could The U.S. Shoot Down An ICBM From North Korea?
- Russia Will Begin Testing A Digital Currency Next Month
- China decides ‘not to engage’ with U.S. to counter fentanyl surge
- Committee Slams Govt For Taking China Cash, Influence Penetrating Every Part of UK Economy
- China Has ‘Aggressively Penetrated’ Whole of UK Economy, Admits Govt.
- China Is Quietly Building A Green Energy Empire In Latin America
- Pakistan’s Prime Minister Sharif launches $3.5 billion Chinese-designed nuclear energy project
- Major Libyan Oilfields Halted As Global Supply Disruptions Grow
- Russian parliament bans gender reassignment surgery for trans people
- Iraq Records 377 Cases Of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever This Year
- Irish children to be taught about white privilege, gender, and sexual diversity
UKRAINE
- Biden Declares Victory in Ukraine, With 20% of The Country Still Under Russian Control.
- Joe Biden’s Promised Cluster Bombs Arrive in Ukraine
- Pentagon may activate up to 3,000 reservists for Russia deterrence
- Ukraine civilians held in Russian prisons
- U.S. and Britain Sour on Giving Continuous Arms to Ungrateful Ukraine: We’re ‘Not Like Amazon’
GLOBALIZATION
- Cyber Crisis as the Next Stage of the Great Reset
- China Has ‘Aggressively Penetrated’ Whole of UK Economy, Admits Govt.
IDENTITY
- Trans biker wins race … to prove men have unfair advantage!
- Portland Drag-a-Thon Sets World Record for Longest Drag Show
- HHS’s Levine: Can’t Limit ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ to Adults Because ‘Puberty Is Hard’ Especially if It’s ‘the Wrong’ One
- First Transgender NFL Cheerleader Stands Proud in Face of Hateful Trolls
- Fox News Becomes Worse Than CNN During Segment on the ‘Misgendering’ of Dylan Mulvaney
- MUST SEE: Maybelline taps bearded bald man to sell lip gloss to women on Amazon Prime Day
- Two Cisgender People Were Killed in Separate Attacks Motivated by Transphobia
IMMIGRATION
- Half of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany Want to Stay ‘Forever’
- Spike of Chinese nationals entering U.S. tied to cartel drug smugglers
LEGAL / CRIMINAL
- USA sets grim milestone with deadliest six months of mass killings
- Wired Magazine suggest “Ring” cameras are bad because they could catch black people committing crimes
- Portland man released without bail after allegedly killing 11-year-old, fleeing gang shootout
- Homicides Soar 96% In Washington State After Passage Of Gun Restrictions
- Secret Services ends White House cocaine investigation
- ‘No fingerprints, DNA sample or leads’
- Cover-up claims
- Kentucky man in skull-filled home arrested, tied to nationwide body part-selling scheme
MEDIA
MEDICAL
- Iraq Records 377 Cases Of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever This Year
- Doctors RE-ATTACH ‘decapitated’ boy’s head after horror accident
- WHO: Aspartame may cause cancer
Coronavirus-19
- The Great COVID-19 Laundering Scheme
- PPP Fraud Is ‘Worst In History’: $200B Stolen And Splurged On Lamborghinis, Beach Houses And Bling
VACCINE
- Medical School Students Are Being Forced To Get The COVID Booster
- Big Pharma gets paid by governments for vaccines whether vials get used or not
- CDC is caught fraudulently altering Death Certificates to hide COVID Vaccine Deaths
- Veteran-Owned ‘Clean Beef’ Company Says It Would Rather Shut Down Than Accept mRNA Injections In Cattle
NATIONAL SECURITY
- Nuclear EMP Strike Poses ‘Major Threat’ to US
- Pentagon may activate up to 3,000 reservists for Russia deterrence
- Is The U.S. Losing The Battle For Naval Superiority To CCP China?
- Could The U.S. Shoot Down An ICBM From North Korea?
POLITICAL
- Tulsi Gabbard calls on Congress to ban atrazine and other dangerous crop chemicals linked to chemical castration of children
- US Oil Reserve Won’t Be Replenished for Several Years
- Most Federal Agencies Using Less Than 25 Percent of Office Space: GAO
- Watch: America’s ‘AI Czar’ Kamala Harris Explains “First Of All, It’s Two Letters”
- HHS’s Levine: Can’t Limit ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ to Adults Because ‘Puberty Is Hard’ Especially if It’s ‘the Wrong’ One
- Kerry erupts after his private jet use is mocked in House hearing
- GOP Doctor: Biden Has Classic Sign of Dementia – But There’s Something More Obvious on the Outside
- Pentagon may activate up to 3,000 reservists for Russia deterrence
- Anti-‘Woke’ DEI Director Tabia Lee Sues California College over Firing
POWER GRID
PREPAREDNESS
- On Nuclear War Survival
- 50 Mistakes Even The Most Advanced Preppers Make
- $100 Prepper Walgreens Medicine Run
- A self-sufficient legacy: 12 Useful prepping skills to teach the next generation
- Stop Storing These Foods In Their Original Packaging
- Could You Live Off Your Land, Right Now?
- Bottled Water Tastes Like Plastic When Kept In A Hot Car
- When Is the Best Time for Bugging Out?
- Designing an Earthship Shelter: 7 Things You Need to Know
- Third World Living: Austerity Lessons
- A Comprehensive Guide To Preserving Your Car’s Exterior
SECOND AMENDMENT
SOCIAL / CULTURE
- FDA Approves 1st Over-The-Counter Birth Control Pill Amid Falling US Birth Rates
- These Are The Safest Cities In America
SPACE
- Is Bizarre Activity On The Sun Causing Catastrophic Disasters All Over The Globe?
- India Makes Second Moon Landing Attempt as Space Race Heats Up
TECHNOLOGY
WATER
WEATHER
- Is Bizarre Activity On The Sun Causing Catastrophic Disasters All Over The Globe?
- Miami, Keys Smash Records
- Epic Sunday Set For Az
- Europe Could Reach Its Hottest Temp Ever… Athens Closes Acropolis
- Extreme weather is terrorizing the world. It’s only just begun.
WOKE