bankruptcies

The Gilded Age of Robber Barons Giving Rise To Muckrakers

Posted on by Helena

First half of 2026, small business bankruptcies jumped by 50% compared to 2025.  Large corporate bankruptcies are at levels of 2010 during the recession. Personal bankruptcies continue to increase by 10% to 11% 2025 and 2026.  Trump is too busy with all his Wars to pay attention to America priorities ~according to him. But These Are The Golden Years. In history, the Golden Years were touted from 1924 thru 1929 before the stock market crashed and the Great Depression took hold. Is that what Trump is alluding to?

Before the Golden Years we had the Robber Barons.  In 1859, the New York Times coined the phrase as applicable to the Vanderbilts who extracted shipping tolls. The term coincided with the wealthy, the powerful, and the unethical who used exploitive practices to amass wealth. 

Muckrakers: Investigative Journalists who began a campaign of informing the public of the corruption imposed by our Government beginning in 1900.  Turning away from the journalism of time – sensationalism, the Muckrakers uncovered and exposed. Teddy Roosevelt embraced the Muckrakers – creating the label from Pilgrims Progress.  Today, we have degraded significantly wherein lies, propaganda, sensationalism, and abject libel are the basis of most of our MSM.

The Robber Barons tactics included unfettered consumption and destruction of natural resources, influencing high levels of government, wage slavery, squashing competition by acquiring their competitors, and the creation of monopolies and trusts to evade taxes and control markets. It became known as The Gilded Age.  In addition to the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, Morgans, and Carnegies were notable for their corruption – The Big Club is centuries old – not decades.

Trump has amassed a small fortune from his wars, but it pales in comparison to his Pay-For-Play Pardons. Get out of jail free cards are being handed out like candy canes. IF you can afford them given the price tag is $2 million – technically, a form of extortion.  These ‘pardons’ release these convicted criminals from restitution amounting into the billions as taxpayers who were defrauded now get nothing.

The original purpose of presidential pardons was to provide mercy, fix legal mistakes, and help the country heal after a crisis. Mercy denotes forgiveness in order to serve the public interest. But Trump’s pardons have been about serving the Trump interest. It isn’t about mercy, it is about lining his pockets – it is illegal and will never be prosecuted any more than Trump intends to prosecute any former political figures.

Ruining the legacy he maintained during his campaign, the drudging up of the 2020 election is irrelevant to Taxpayers. The Biden economy is irrelevant. Demonizing Democrats is yet another boring eyeroll. Trump’s Advisors would seem to have an IQ factor in the double digits as Trump pushes forward on behalf of the Israeli Military Industrial Complex.  Boeing has a backlog of orders pushing 6180 unfilled orders that many countries are now looking to cancel outright. Lockheed has a backlog of $230 Billion.  Northrup has a backlog of $104.69 Billion. All records.

Part of the backlogs are due to the unavailability of Rare Earths – a risk factor due to Trump’s refusal to bend to China. Just as in the Strait Was Open – before Trump, Rare Earths were plentiful – before Trump.  Service members are coming home crippled or in caskets – because of Trump. Grids are at risk because money is redirected to weapons and wars. All of which become an exponential number in futures. Playing catchup is ALWAYS a formidable challenge. The weapons inventory depletion can no longer be ignored. Catchup could take years leaving American industries in the twalette as alternative sources mean losing contracts and ‘respect’.

The idea that Trump would hand over more THAAD and Patriots to Zelenskky is preposterous at this juncture. But the choices for agency heads is Trump’s overall downfall given their abject incompetence when addressing the issues they are assigned to direct. In that vein, Jay Clayton, with zero intel experience, has been nominated by Trump to take over the open position as Director of National Intelligence.  Clayton is a lawyer who served in the SEC during Trump 1.  During his tenure insider trading was ignored, and he voted with Democrats 1/3 of the time. Leading us to presume The Don Cartel needed Clayton to layoff investigations concerning his family.

According to some complaints filed by the SEC recently, it appears to be aligned with Martha Stewart style reparations; Someone profited by $4600 on Insider Trading… Another is a judgement to pay $1970 in 2 installments.  And yet another final judgement for tax evasion wherein the defendant is not charged any penalties but must pay what he owes plus interest. 

 EXAMPLE:  SEC reported total receipts for FY 2025 – $17.9 billion, the majority of which was from receipts from a 2009 case.

This is similar to Kash Patel taking credit for cases that were finalized well before he took office by making the claim “The FBI has rescued…” while failing to mention it is a cumulative number over a decade. Or, “While working with such and such police department, we collectively…”. It is a form of manipulation formerly attributed to manufacturer ad campaigns which highlighted performance stats and comparables that didn’t exist to sell a product.  In this case it is Patel ‘SELLING’ himself.

Trump is a Robber Baron.  Every Lawyer he appoints to head a government agency is onboard the Piracy Train and LAW is nonexistent.  He has created an Empire Run By The Cartel while telling the peasants to get over ourselves and accept the slop doled out to us.

 

The Fourth Industrial Revolution Under A Psychopathic King

Posted on by Helena

Silver is not the only metal rising, it is simply being given the scrutiny because it has been so heavily manipulated for decades until 2025.   Gold, Palladium and Platinum have also seen a significant run graphed exactly the same with spikes and dips.  All have various industrial uses – silver has simply been the lowest priced despite those uses.  The AI industry is pushing markets in an array of directions including warehousing, data centers, chips, and grid demand.  Trumps buy into metals and fusion energy is all good and dandy as long as the buy and all subsequent profits revert to taxpayers and not fraud…

But there is a sidelined aspect that is not being discussed nearly at all:  large commercial bankruptcies. With 717 this year alone, these bankruptcies directly affect the banks who hold their loans and their numbers have hit a 15 year high.  Big Write-off Losses.   While Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan may have created the leverage to ‘enhance’ these losses, the purpose would be to either absorb or shut down the competition and consolidate banks.

Given currencies can be manipulated despite them having no intrinsic value (Bank of England), the idea that all stocks and assets are NOT manipulated is rather naïve at this point.  Metals are a future value with limited resource potential.  Neodymium is a rare earth mineral used to make magnets – it’s trajectory follows that of metals – up 150%. 

We are witnessing the 4th Industrial Revolution.  Massive shifts.  The 3rd Industrial revolution incorporated baby steps in internet, 5G, robotics, 3D printing and renewable energy comparably.  The 4th is about to change how we think, how we perceive, how we live.  Musk has expressed his belief that AI will make ‘everyone wealthy’.  An impossibility, simply because humans will always demand a class system. 

The bankruptcies have been across multiple industry sections including auto, fintech, hospitality, genetic testing, airlines, trucking, retail, you name it.  The largest share was Industrials.   Each bankruptcy seemed to have one commonality – liabilities over $1 billion. Tariffs are the baseline cause.  Real Inflation the secondary cause (not the fake numbers the WH gives us).  Which create a decline in sales.  Contrary to the ‘FEED”, Americans are pinching pennies for staple items.  When the need for a new refrigerator of washer cut loose the price tag is a shock point that can derail any budget with prices triple what they were just a decade ago.

Example:  The Second Industrial Revolution (roughly 1870–1914) was a period of significant economic volatility marked by frequent banking panics and major depressions, leading to high rates of business and personal bankruptcies. 

People are not given the opportunity to re-train.   Jobs become obsolete.  The domino effect ripples thru economies and virtually no one is immune.  Trump attempting to pretend that everything is grand and glorious only does more harm to an already precipitous climate.  Feeding more money into Israel and wars further depletes the impetus that could be better spent fixing our economy which is virtually stagnant.   Manufacturing down.  America cannot compete.   Sanctions significantly impair Americans who need to buy the cheaper item from China.  Tariffs became the final push off the cliff.  Passed on to prices, Americans pay more, buy less, triggering bankruptcies. An obvious to those who follow Economics 101.

One would think that knowing the history of three previous Industrial Revolutions, we would know how to mediate the Fall.  But our government does not work for The People.  They work for their stakeholders as decried by the World Economic Forum a decade ago when we didn’t listen…

Lesson Learned:  AI is the future.  Therefore, all industrial metals and minerals are the future.  Mining – a brutal livelihood often relegated to slave labor.  AI.  Can you imagine answering to your boss who is a robot?   Adding to the upcoming instability is an entire generation who have zero skillsets.  Purposefully driven by the same stakeholder agenda which requires useful slaves.

King Leopold II of Belgium:  Known as one of the most brutal slave lords in all of history, he owned Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.  He plundered the nation of its ivory and rubber utilizing punishments for slaves who did not meet their quotas.  He was known for his torture, flogging and murder including amputation of hands and feet of men, women and children.  The death toll is upwards of 15 million, as a low count.

Netanyahu and Trump have jointly decided that any Palestinians remaining in their land will become the slave laborers to build the New Gaza with American Taxpayer Funding.   This would include men, women and children. 

We are in the middle of a 4th Industrial Revolution and Reign of Psychopathic Brutality like we have never seen.  We will become the Congo under our present administration which seems to be ruled by King Bibi.  There are two choices…