No amount of pretending will wish away a crucial fact: borrow enough money for long enough and you’ll go broke. From Matthew Piepenberg at goldswitzerland.com:
I recently blew the dust off an old Rudyard Kipling poem, “If,” which many have castigated as a bit overly romantic, despite its high praise from Mark Twain and T.S. Eliot to India’s Khushwant Singh.
The fact, moreover, that “If” was written by a Victorian era colonial in 1865 as a father’s advice to a son, could easily put its otherwise timeless insights at risk of being cancelled by the woke elite as potentially misogynistic or regionally insensitive…
Notwithstanding such critiques, financial readers might equally be asking what Kipling has to do with global markets, the currency wars, inflation/deflation tensions or the US bond market?
Well, given the fact that each of these financial topics, when examined closely or even broadly, are now signs of open madness, yet still consistently ignored or down-played by our leaders and media midgets, I could not help but consider the following (and opening) line of advice:
“If You can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs…”
Well: Can we?
What is Happening All About You? A Complete Denial of Debt’s End-Game
As headlines from an increasingly distrusted 4th Estate debate everything from a challenged USD (the recent BRICS gold hysteria) and weaponized State Department (Raytheon’s war in the Ukraine graveyard) to an equally weaponized/politicized justice system (Hunter vs. Trump’s legal woes), most of America seems blind to a ticking time bomb.
