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The housing crisis in the US is at the level of a calamity: Researchers examined the median home prices last year for roughly 575 U.S. counties and found that home prices in 99% of those areas are beyond the reach of the average income earner, who makes $71,214 a year, according to ATTOM. Homes “unaffordable” … Read more
It was supposed to be simple – the US was going to apply the Afghanistan playbook in Ukraine against Russia. It was going to bog it down in a low-level conflict that would starve it of money and resources. It would strain the Russian society and it would put economic and political pressure on the … Read more
Just, until a year ago, the US economy relied on a very specific paradigm. Taking advantage of the international reserve currency status of the dollar, it ran on a cash-aflush economy into which high amounts of dollars kept entering through mechanisms like the Federal Reserve and the fractional reserve lending of private banks. This setup … Read more
You can kill only so many of a people before they start to fight back. There is a tipping point for this kind of stuff. And apparently it was this one. Since mid 2000s when social media came to being and mobile phones with video capability propagated, there were frequent cases of police brutality documented … Read more
There is a reason for that, and the reason lies in the backdrop of these events: Coronavirus varieties were being worked on in dozens of countries’ bioweapons labs for years. Its not a new thing. WHO shouldn’t allow any bioweapons labs, but actually it does. Not that many countries would shut down their bioweapons labs if … Read more