Truth? or Consequences?

The choice has been made

Third World Ambition: 35 Years of Class Warfare

American "Socialism" Visualized

Reagan-era Supply-Siders decided long ago that the economy is a zero sum game between profits and wages

Wages, GDP and Profits: baselined to "100" as of 1969:

Dumbfuckistan: home of the low wage drone
Faux News was created to brainwash Dukes of Hazard nation. The rest as they say, is history: Lower wages and continuous warfare to occupy the masses. 

The real deficit is the moral deficit. Until that gets "fixed", nothing will get better. This will be a lesson in humility for people who just assumed that "it can't happen to me".

"Who Wants More Kool-Aid?"

"Has monetary policy aided and abetted risk-taking? I hope so. That's why we did it"  
- Bank of England Chief Economist, Andy Haldane, July 2014

Natural Selection. Doing a fine job.

Cumulative Fragility

End Game for a comfort seeking society

People and "things" that never experience duress or adversity are extremely vulnerable to the effects of unanticipated systemic shocks. 

Which explains why this society went straight into the fetal position in 2008 and has remained that way ever since...

The All Importance of Hubris and Spectacle

The role of foreign wars is to distract the sheeple from what is happening at home

This just in: 

"More Americans Know about ISIS than the Unemployment Rate" (MW: October 2nd, 2014)

"Foreigners like to knock Americans for not knowing much about life beyond the U.S.’s borders. But the fact is that Americans may well know more about foreign affairs than the economy."

Good job everybody. Keeping right up there with the geography. Only a third knew that the "unemployment rate" is 6%. .0001% know that it's a total fucking fabrication.

Play Foreign Invasion: 

A Milton Bradley Production

This is All Just a Confidence Game Now

Continuous lying is the only thing keeping this shit show running

ZH: This just in:
*OBAMA SAYS ECONOMIC PROGRESS HAS BEEN 'STEADY'; 'IT IS REAL'

CIA:
"Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households"

Stocks versus Jobs. Guess which is which:

The role of the Manchurian Candidate is to con dunces and ditto heads into believing that the "liberal agenda" is working, while billionaires and frat boys continue the estate sale.

Skepticism is Survival

Cynicism is eager self-burial

Fortunately, the stoned sheeple ignored OWS...

Lifestyles of the Filthy Rich: The New "Socialism"

Sodom And Gomorrah 2014

First, the daily dose of Man-boy Denialism:

ZH: Sept. 29, 2014

"America is 70% Communist already"

You can't make this shit up. Of course, here is the Inconvenient Truth:

"the majority of American households would be in jeopardy after an unexpected expense of only $400" 

- Janet Yellen, Sept. 18th, 2014

First on CNBS: "The Filthy Rich Guide": How the .01% spend their Money

"Spending money may seem easy, but there is an art to spending obscene sums without anything to show for it, except for a good time"

Who Will Work For the Slave Owners?

When the Economy is configured like a Ponzi Scheme, the odds of achieving success are a lottery

Billionaires and boy-men tell us all day every day that their obscene wealth was solely due to their hard work and entrepreneurial brilliance. They tell us that they are the "job creators", even as the employment ratio is at a 30 year low. Perhaps they mean the "Chinese job creators". As most excellent as this line of bullshit may be, nevertheless, these disaster capitalists are still heavily reliant on the rest of us ne'er do wells who serve some role in their offshore cash accumulation scheme...

Belief in the great American Lottery will be tested...

A Glimmer of Hope: Wall Street Shit Canned

Fannie Mae: From $.20 to $6 and down again...

The latest trend is Wall Street firms looking to profit from the carcasses of 2008...