Is The Economy Just Now Falling Apart

[Mad as Fish]

A brilliant summary of the EU capitulation.
And these people tell us what to do!

In which Trump makes the EU pay $1.35 trillion for the privilege of paying 15% unilateral tariffs on exports & lectures the Eurotards on the stupidity of wind turbines for good measure

Also open thread.

www.eugyppius.com

Yep, as has been pointed out before, the Americans have elected a businessman not a politician, and now it's beginning to show. Ursula and co are totally out of their depth.

Have a feeling that the Turnberry agreement will come to be seen as a landmark moment in the decline and (hopefully) dissolution of the EU, it tried to act as an empire but simply didn't have the the cohesion, power or brains.

 

[jpc]

Yep, as has been pointed out before, the Americans have elected a businessman not a politician, and now it's beginning to show. Ursula and co are totally out of their depth.

Have a feeling that the Turnberry agreement will come to be seen as a landmark moment in the decline and (hopefully) dissolution of the EU, it tried to act as an empire but simply didn't have the the cohesion, power or brains.

Populating it with political dilettante and national rejects is also to be factored into the equation.
And the string pullers underneath.?
Who knows!!!

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

In light of yesterday's tariff meeting in Scotland

Our leprechaun economics revenue model is finished.
Grim times are coming.

A period of economic straightening might be just what John and Mary need to finally practice some national and personal introspection. The best thing that could happen is the end of bi-annual Spanish holiers

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Richard Werner, the author of one of the most important books on banking and economic history ever written, Princes of the Yen, explains why Europe is economically stagnant, and in doing so, inadvertently provides a hint at what might be the real reason Shinzo Abe was assassinated three years ago.

Europe's Coming Lost Decades - Vox Popoli

Richard Werner, the author of one of the most important books on banking and economic history ever written, Princes of the Yen, explains why Europe is economically stagnant, and in doing so, inadvertently provides a hint at what might be the real reason Shinzo Abe was assassinated three years...

voxday.net

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Japanese Lesson: Crises are Created to Centralise Control and Destroy the Middle Class.

The Slow-Growth Experiment as Model for the West - A Primer on how the economy really works

rwerner.substack.com

 

[céline]

The problems with the economy are not due to Muslim immigration but due to the technological centralization of resources in cities which lead to Socialism & Communism.

 

[Mad as Fish]

Meanwhile, over in the UK building work is slowing -

THE latest quarterly survey from the Mineral Products Association (MPA) shows that concrete volumes hit a 62-year low in the second quarter of 2025, fuelling fears of plummeting business confidence, stalling investment, and further driving down construction demand.

Concrete market plumbs new depths as business confidence slips

New industry figures from MPA reveal concrete volumes hit 62-year low in second quarter of 2025

www.agg-net.com

 

[Declan]

Ideally, Britain collapsing first would be a great spectacle

 

[jpc]

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Ideally, Britain collapsing first would be a great spectacle

Be an absolute nightmare for companies here.

 

[Declan]

It would, but my view is that the only hope Ireland has is an economic collapse

 

[jpc]

It would, but my view is that the only hope Ireland has is an economic collapse

Ah have a few kids in college or apprenticeship and talk to me.

 

[Declan]

Well the alternative is worse imo

 

[jpc]

Well the alternative is worse imo

For who?

 

[Declan]

For the native irish, which are my only concern really

 

[jpc]

For the native irish, which are my only concern really

I'd like my own native Irish to be able to stay and work in their own country.
I lived through the 80s as a youth.
Don't want to go back there.

 

[jpc]

On the subject of falling apart.

American Power https://share.google/EilagW9Mx6OCbGbQs

 

[willows68]

Now ye all know I'm hardly an economic genius. I can balance my cheque book so to speak. I have been speaking these last few days with old friends in a tourist town way Wesht - where I have been coming to for decades.
All of these old friends are SME/ sole traders. They all say that after last winter they are only now starting to break even with the 2nd VAT just around the corner .
Business is there but with everything from electricity to gas to basic supply costs rocketting sky high there will be many many going out of business because they are only working for the taxman at this stage.
The promised VAT cut will be too late for thousands of small businesses in the West
Government sits on their hands as one pillar of our economy crumbles and falls away.
I feel very bad for hardworking people who didnt gauge prices but provided the tourism product we were famous all over the world for.
Dole doors will be slapping come autumn and I am worried. Add to that the global debt monster they created..
As Celente says ' When all else fails, they take you to war'
Or am I wrong?

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

As Celente says ' When all else fails, they take you to war'
Or am I wrong?

In Ireland's case, that will be mostly be an internal, civil conflict. Unless of course the 'new' Irish have been brought in to round-up the old Irish for conscription in foreign lands

 

[jpc]

From the UK.
So all the materials that are manufactured are going to be imported ar higher prices.
Genius!

Britain’s biggest chemicals plant at risk of closure https://share.google/DoJNbrF5GmS5wu9RM

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

From the UK.
So all the materials that are manufactured are going to be imported ar higher prices.
Genius!

Britain’s biggest chemicals plant at risk of closure https://share.google/DoJNbrF5GmS5wu9RM

Pretty obvious the UK is being systematically dismantled right now.

 

[willows68]

Pretty obvious the UK is being systematically dismantled right now.

Same with that former powerhouse Germany. And everyone else, us included.
Meloni has agreed to give work visas to hundreds of thousands of Africans. All the while her youth unemployment runs in the double digits. We still jest - but very soon we will be at the point of no return. Civil unrest will be the excuse for martial law and those hotel guests will be our executioners or jailers.
Backed legally by the Lisbon Treaty.
Ye didn't think all those barbed wire cabins were for THEM, did ye.
The Grey Zone comes to life.

 

[jpc]

Statistical blip
Inflation had a similar explanation a while back.

Jump in unemployment dismissed as ‘statistical noise’ by Davy – The Irish Times https://share.google/aEoIe217FRxi329id

 

[Mad as Fish]

Statistical blip
Inflation had a similar explanation a while back.

Jump in unemployment dismissed as ‘statistical noise’ by Davy – The Irish Times https://share.google/aEoIe217FRxi329id

Family member is out looking to have some building work done and reckons builders are looking for work again. Plumbers and electricians are still a nightmare to get hold of but quotes for her small extension were not coming in as steep as she feared.

 

[jpc]

This should get your attention.

Arnaud Bertrand on X: "This is, without exaggerating, one of the most extraordinary things a US Treasury Secretary ever said. It should be mandatory viewing for all citizens of US "allies", Europeans first and foremost. What Bessent is saying is that the US will now treat US allies' wealth as an https://t.co/IdNFMW33P7" / X https://share.google/HplmkO1ZvewHGTRpe

 

[clarke-connolly]

This should get your attention.

Arnaud Bertrand on X: "This is, without exaggerating, one of the most extraordinary things a US Treasury Secretary ever said. It should be mandatory viewing for all citizens of US "allies", Europeans first and foremost. What Bessent is saying is that the US will now treat US allies' wealth as an https://t.co/IdNFMW33P7" / X https://share.google/HplmkO1ZvewHGTRpe

Have the Americans officially taken over the 26 Counties yet ? !

 

[jpc]

The German political system doesn't give a fuck about the future of the country.

Germany's Industrial Core Is Collapsing Under The US Trade Deal And The Green Agenda | ZeroHedge https://share.google/3y1fyggnxAEXLx2XW

 

[Mad as Fish]

The German political system doesn't give a fuck about the future of the country.

Germany's Industrial Core Is Collapsing Under The US Trade Deal And The Green Agenda | ZeroHedge https://share.google/3y1fyggnxAEXLx2XW

Yet both politics and business refuse to conduct an honest diagnosis

And therein lies the problem. There appears to be a mass paralysis in Europe when it comes to questioning the EU narrative, even when it’s biting them hard in the backside!

 

[jpc]

Yet both politics and business refuse to conduct an honest diagnosis

And therein lies the problem. There appears to be a mass paralysis in Europe when it comes to questioning the EU narrative, even when it’s biting them hard in the backside!

That's the part that gets me.
If a few of these worthies say publicly the green ideology bollox is going to make paupers of the ordinary people.
Wise up fuck the elites who won't be impacted.
Must be a lot of comprimat about.

 

[jpc]

And this is the patronising sound bite bollox we get for Pascal.
Nothing about taxes regulatory overreaching from Brussels or green ideology.

https://share.google/pfX9iKjCWDusHpXAM

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Yet both politics and business refuse to conduct an honest diagnosis

And therein lies the problem. There appears to be a mass paralysis in Europe when it comes to questioning the EU narrative, even when it’s biting them hard in the backside!

The Greater Israel Project requires the West to fail, so it can become the premier seat of global power. This has long been the plan. Prepare accordingly.

 

[jpc]

Ideology and morons.

Merz's Germany: 100 Days Of Economic Deep Freeze | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[Anderson]

Its getting close, the UK Economy is a basket case and now this from Germany!

Welfare state is not sustainable, says German chancellor​

Friedrich Merz calls for fundamental reassessment of benefits system and insists he will not be scared away from making necessary reforms

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[willows68]

Its getting close, the UK Economy is a basket case and now this from Germany!

Welfare state is not sustainable, says German chancellor​

Friedrich Merz calls for fundamental reassessment of benefits system and insists he will not be scared away from making necessary reforms

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Well he could start by making benefits exclusive to those who contributed for 5 years and more. Then enforce laws re polygamy and stop child benefit after child 3 ( for father or mother if ye get my drift
Stop sending billions to Uke and other similar new countries with a hat fetish.
Enforce borders, maybe.
But he won't. Mr Blackrock wants pesky caucasians gone sooner rather than later and follows clear instruction from his handlers.
And what in the hell is with this effers hairdo? Merz? Man, he has a landing strip on his bulbous five- head.

 

[jpc]

Its getting close, the UK Economy is a basket case and now this from Germany!

Welfare state is not sustainable, says German chancellor​

Friedrich Merz calls for fundamental reassessment of benefits system and insists he will not be scared away from making necessary reforms

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Well if they hadn't shut down their nuclear plant's and been less retardedly dogmatic about greenery.
And that applies doubly so to the heads of German industrial federations who never seem to have pointed our to the German public this was all bollox and going to destroy them financially.
And let's not forget NS2.
There's something ultra cucked in Germany since the discovery the US were after eavesdropping the Germany government secure communications about 15 years ago
But the biggest problem the bureaucratic state that kills everything in Germany.
If turkey neck Merz was really serious.
Pigs will fly sooner.

 

[Declan]

Let’s see the Nivdia earnings in a few minutes

 

[Declan]

Despite good numbers , it is down over $6. Each dollar represents 25 billion dollars with this company , the biggest on earth I believe

 

[willows68]

Despite good numbers , it is down over $6. Each dollar represents 25 billion dollars with this company , the biggest on earth I believe

None of this will end well for the average punter. Precious metal is clearly being suppressed. Gold ought to be well above 2400 ...but is hovering

 

[Declan]

The mining stocks are racing ahead, IAG above $9

 

[willows68]

The mining stocks are racing ahead, IAG above $9

Fair enough - sino- american state of play being what it is. Re rare earths....hmm

 

[Declan]

The employment figures released next Friday week will surely be disastrous and the fan will be spluttering. And about time, $40 and $3500 are it seems lines in the sand