A perfectly predictable thing happened when the Great Oil Price Plunge of 2014 pulled the rug out from Venezuela's oilconomy: Foreign creditors stopped lending to Venezuela, the debt-saddled government devalued the currency to cover budget deficits, inflation spiraled...
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Down With The Ship: Meet Jay Powell, the New Fed Chairman
by Corbett | Feb 17, 2018 | Newsletter
Paul Volcker began his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in August of 1979. In October, the S&P 500 index dropped 11% on its way to a 20% drop in 1980. Alan Greenspan was sworn in as Fed chairman in August 1987. On October 19, 1987, the...
An Open Letter to Olivia Solon
by Corbett | Feb 11, 2018 | Newsletter
The Corbett Report Subscriber vol 8 issue 05 (February 11, 2018) Message From James Greetings, Friends. Welcome to The Corbett Report Subscriber, the weekly newsletter for members of The Corbett Report website. My editorial is always available for free at...
Fake News of the Year: Honorable Mentions
by Corbett | Feb 4, 2018 | Newsletter
As you'll no doubt have seen by now, The Corbett Report issued its REAL Fake News Awards yesterday to some of the worst fake news offenders of 2017. And if you haven't seen it by now, here it is. But as you can imagine, it's impossible to cram in all the lowlights...
True Lies: The Financial Press Just Admitted the Markets are a Sham
by Corbett | Jan 21, 2018 | Newsletter
Take a recent story that bubbled up amid all the hype about the all-time record highs in the "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" manipulated stock markets. You might have seen it. It was reported all over the usual MSM dinosaur fake news financial press outlets. Here's...
4 Privacies You Didn’t Know You Lost
by Corbett | Jan 14, 2018 | Newsletter
We all know that privacy is a thing of the past, right? Followers of The Corbett Report will see past the metadata lie and the PRISM limited hangout to the underlying reality of the all-pervasive Big Brother surveillance grid. CALEA and the Stellar Wind. The CIA...
5 Ridiculous New Year Predictions (Guaranteed To Not Come True!)
by Corbett | Jan 7, 2018 | Newsletter
Happy New Year, everybody!... ...Right? It is going to be a happy new year, right? Regime change operations in Iran and nuclear button talk in North Korea and biometric banking and a million other concerns beside, it is going to be a happy new year, isn't it? You see,...
2017: The Year of Technocracy (Confirmed!)
by Corbett | Dec 30, 2017 | Newsletter
As you no doubt remember, dear reader, I kicked off 2017 with my customary look at the year ahead. This year's prediction? "2017: The Year of Technocracy." As I observed lo those many months ago: "I find it more and more difficult to shake the conviction that...