You'd Never Know the World from the Skank Media

If any of these links lead to stories that clash with what you have heard in the mainstream media, welcome to the world. The modern news media is not in business to tell you what the world is like, or what is really happening in the world. When the skank media is not slanting the news to sell advertising space, it is collaborating with political insiders to help a helpful friend remain in positions of power.

The stock market is not the economy

Putting horns on a bear doesn't make him a bull

Subtext of a false recovery

Yet more subtext

All the things that created the crisis are still in play H/T SimoleonSense

Derivatives are still a stone around the economy's neck

High energy costs will hamstring economic recovery


Volcker not optimistic for quick recovery

Banks fail, economy shrinks

Keynesian stimulus wrong approach

The fake housing recovery

Stealthy bugout through enemy territory