Mish Shedlock

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish Shedlock discuss:

• The B.S. Spewed By The BLS
  • The birth-death model outputs have become a huge joke
• It's Getting So Bad They Have To Lie
  • We're getting more fake stats to try to hide reality
• Dirty Politics
  • From the US primaries to the Brexit, dirty tricks are the norm
• Crony Corporatism
  • How the government is enabling companies to gouge consumers

"When it becomes serious, you have to lie"

~ Jean Claude Juncker, former head of the EU

Statistics that can not possibly be believed by anyone looking at the actual evidence. Election results that in no way match the exit polls. Yet, somehow, the outcomes tend to overwhelmingly favor those on the side of maintaining the status quo.

We are at the point in this global journey where it's getting harder and harder for those in power to hide the weakness, injustice and rot within the system. So, like Juncker, they're resorting to more and more lies, more deception, more backroom swindling to maintain the facade that everything is working fine.

In this week's Off The Cuff, Chris and Mish use recent economic statistics and the elections in the US and the EU to show just how desperate the lies are becoming. Which is an important sign that we're getting close to the point when..