In US and also in some areas of EU, there are shady ways to hide job numbers, using the labour force participation rate for example, where... while it appears like there's a lot of job growth, you find that that's not actually the case. They just stop considering people unemployed after a certain amount of time without finding a job. And of course this goes for other things as well. Like ...inflation. Sure we're raising the minimum wage for example,

but not in the in collaboration with the real inflation rate. That's also why the purchasing power of usual Joe is constantly going down. People are making less and less, getting taxed more and more, the government is spending more and more... it is just a recipe for disaster.

To say that in words, everybody understands.... you are paying 10% higher price for everything - or you may be getting 10% less of the same products or service (and you may not even notice ) - every year! And while you're doing this, the quality of your life is getting lower and lower.

In France, "Yellow vests" are still on the streets

Just yesterday French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has announced plans to punish people who hold unsanctioned protests after seven weeks of anti-government unrest.

His government wants to draft new legislation that will ban troublemakers from protests and clamp down on the wearing of masks at demonstrations.

He said 80,000 members of the security forces would be deployed for the next expected wave of protests.

Drawing an overall assessment of the dispute, Edouard Philippe said that 5,600 people were placed in custody and some 1,000 convictions have been pronounced by the court since the beginning of the mobilization on November 17, 2018.

As an answer to policemen's behaviour, protesters smashed down the gates to a government office this weekend :)

Bond markets is at 37 years of a bull market and that seems to be rolling over; as well as it's a big secular move and change in paradigm shift in the bond market, geopolitics, in stock markets, gold markets (which are already breaking out to the upside), Bitcoin as the "new kid in town" now becoming a strategic reserve for countries around the world.

Looks like real values are becoming a big thing. That was not seen for decades. Now, when people have seen that "fakery" just does not work as they wish it would, all pumped prices are losing value pretty quickly.

I can barely wait to see big fall. You?

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*Photos of people, revolting in the streets of Bordeaux, France are taken by artist JohanPx
*Graphs are from Shadowstats
Values of government bonds around the world are easily viewable on Investing

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