Let’s begin an overview of the climate alarmist position by considering a few of their claims in the light of real science:
The Green Fraud: How Climate Alarmists Are Scamming You (Part Three)
The climate is changing as it has for billions of years. Climate change is one of the most complex phenomena ever addressed by science and perhaps the most difficult to model.
The Green Fraud: How Climate Alarmists Are Scamming You (Part Two)
The climate crowd now has the political power they need to push their agenda using fear and the regulatory state to attack your means of transpiration, your personal conveniences, and your consumer choices.
The Green Fraud: How Climate Alarmists Are Scamming You (Part One)
Readers don’t need an introduction to the topic of climate change. It gets saturation coverage in the media and is impossible to avoid. What is needed is careful consideration of the claims and counterclaims combined with real scientific data — not the bogus data you hear so much about.
Welcome to the Global Financial Crisis of 2023 (Part Six)
Will this new financial crisis continue? We know that a banking crisis has already begun. Here’s the casualty list
Welcome to the Global Financial Crisis of 2023 (Part Five)
Former House Financial Services Chair, Barnett ‘Barney’ Frank, who was co-author of the 2010 Dodd-Frank banking reform legislation, also served on the board of directors of the failed Signature Bank.
Welcome to the Global Financial Crisis of 2023 (Part Four)
The new banking crisis is by no means limited to the California tech world.
Welcome to the Global Financial Crisis of 2023 (Part Three)
One of the most fascinating aspects of the SVB collapse and the subsequent bank runs is how quickly global bank regulators abandoned carefully worked-out ‘bail-in’ rules and reverted to a weird hybrid of bail-in and old-fashioned bailouts. The putative result was short-run calm. The real result was total confusion among bank depositors and a further loss of confidence in the whole banking system.
Welcome to the Global Financial Crisis of 2023 (Part Two)
The SVB fiasco threw a monkey wrench into the Fed’s carefully laid plans to raise interest rates to head off inflation. That alone threw markets into confusion and increased volatility. A global recession that was developing anyway is now a near certainty and will be worse than would otherwise have been the case. A global financial crisis is here.
Welcome to the Global Financial Crisis of 2023 (Part One)
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was an FDIC-insured commercial bank regulated by the State of California and the Federal Reserve System, based in Santa Clara, California. On Friday, 10 March 2023, the FDIC abruptly closed the bank, moved some deposits to a newly created bank controlled by regulators, wiped out large deposits, and began a process of selling bank assets and repaying creditors.
