Martin Weiss is a respected economist/financial analyst who periodically offers his increasingly Faber-esque installments in Money and Markets. His latest warning about the looming Derivatives Monster is foreboding, but the problem is much, much worse than he (or apparently anyone else) is able to grasp. First of all, we are looking at OCC derivative figures dating from 6/30/09 in his [...]

To all the working class peoples of the world; to all races, creeds, religions and political persuasions, and to all patriots among the sovereign nations of the world, we here at letthemfail wish you and your families a bountiful and restful Thanksgiving. If you do not traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving in your part of the world, please know that [...]

It was one of those “inconvenient truths” that dispelled Al Gore’s global warming theory, and whether or not Gore had good intentions initially bears no relevance on the fact that recent scientific data points to a pattern of smaller, cyclic warming and cooling trends, and that we are now at the tail end of a cyclic warming trend that [...]

These Scarlet letters are interchangeable my friends, and they are taking their toll. For Geithner and Summers to merely step down or be fired is not enough, but at least I’ll be able to remove these two offensive faces from letthemfail and replace them with the next, lesser pair of criminals to tar and feather. [...]

There’s a reason that Doddering Dodd had his mug plastered where Obama’s is right now to your left, but Obama’s indescretions dethroned Dodd once he was elected and failed on his promises. Dodd, you’re a hypocritical IDIOT, and here’s why. It’s not your job to “end staggering greed“. There’s no way in Hell you’ll ever do [...]

As I count the day’s fresh new crop of coffin nails for Tiny Tim, until he finally resigns (or is better yet INDICTED) a sudden inexplicable FLASHBACK to my formative years back in Baltimore, when CRACK THE SKY played live at the glorious SAND BAR, flickered into my psyche–with a sudden realization of how few words need to [...]

I have several times made clear in this blog the purpose and intent of ObamaCare, and recent events reinforce the conclusions of such intent. Clearly, as Eric Sprott and others have been shown to understand, both Social Security and Medicare are to be decommissioned, and it is just a matter of the severity of the next global [...]