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Mickey D’s pulled its 2 for $2 menu in favor of a 2 for $5 option. It was a surprising move but it could pay off.

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via PeakProsperity.com,

That the dramatic upheavals of war, pestilence and environmental collapse can trigger social disorder and revolution is well-established. Indeed, this dynamic can be viewed as the standard model of social disorder/revolution: a large-scale crisis—often a bolt-from-the-blue externality—upends the status quo.

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Why pay for college when you can get paid? Well, it depends.

The market consolidated today, likely taking a pause to prepare for more decline. Even with some resistance levels at February highs being overcome, not everyone is participating which tells me to be on the lookout for a bull trap. Scoreboards remain unchanged. They highlight the short-term rising trend the market is in, but overall internal weakness abounds on the major

We’ve written quite a bit about the decline of America’s once proud manufacturing industry which is now but a shadow of its former self and long ago ceded its place in the public’s heart and mind to the service industry, as US citizens are far more concerned with whether they can get a $6 latte than with whether the economy provides enough breadwinner jobs to keep the majority of the population from having to… well, serve $6 lattes for a living.

And if it was already bad, it’s getting worse.

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By EconMatters

A positive week for risk assets, we consolidated recent gains and even finished the week higher in most risk assets. Gasoline had a stellar week, and points to a bottom in the Oil Market.

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Change is coming, but it’s riding in on a crippled donkey that won’t get here anytime soon if it ever does.