Economic, Social and Political News with Commentary for Our Chaotic Times
Why subscribe to daily doom?
The title is somewhat tongue-in-cheek humor, but not entirely: Our world is roiling in chaos to a greater degree than most of us have ever experienced. It can feel destabilizing. Culture wars have split America and are doing much the same in many European nations. Russia and Europe are constantly on the edge of direct war with each other. The Middle East is more embroiled in war than it has been in decades. Trump is swinging through American government like a wrecking ball. Many say the carnage was long overdue in taking down the “deep state” and saving us from debt destruction. Others wonder what will be left when the wrecking is over and feel the czar has gone mad.
However, The Daily Doom is not about bringing you more bad news (doom porn), but about helping you sort through it all. My take with The Daily Doom is to provide a daily editorial (Monday-Thursday) of common sense for people who prefer to hear things called out for what they are, but who also don’t care who that hits politically — people who take their reality straight up, no sugar coating. (If that’s not you, that’s OK; not everyone can handle the truth, and there is nothing wrong with recognizing your limitations. If you are someone who can handle bold flavor, please read on.)
The Daily Doom is also a collection of this editor’s picks of the most significant headlines of the day with a deep focus on economic and political disruption in the US and globally.
The following is a full list of the regular topics you’ll find in The Daily Doom:
Economania (national & global economic collapse + stocks & bonds)
Real-Estate Rubble (housing, commercial & global real-estate bubble trouble)
Money Matters (monetary policy, metals, cryptos, currency wars & cashless)
Inflation Factors (due to too much money chasing too few goods because of weather, sanctions, tariffs, quarantines, agricultural destruction, etc.)
Wars & Rumors of War, Revolts, Hacks & Cyberattacks + AI threats
Political Pandemonium & Social Senescence (major socio-political issues)
Deep Domination (globalism, unelected government, invasive government, unconstitutional government & censorship)
A Pox Upon Us (the plagues, pandemics & health police of the 2020s)
Calamity, Catastrophe & Climate Craziness
Doomer Humor
You can get The Daily Doom delivered “to your doorstep” every Monday-Thursday if you subscribe. That gives everyone my introductory editorial about the most important headlines related to the economic, political and social chaos of these times, hopefully infused with a little humor to help diminish the chaos.
Free subscribers get the weekday editorials and occasionally get the headlines, too. Paid subscribers get the headlines every Monday-Thursday along with the editorials. The headlines distill the stories I find most interesting each day as I do my research for my daily editorial and can save you a lot of time. On Fridays or weekends, paid subscribers also get a deeper-analysis article, instead of headlines, called “The Deeper Dive,” which many have said they value the most. It digs into what I saw as the biggest story of the week or the stories that didn’t get an editorial. My Deeper Dives also contain all my economic predictions. If you want to know if those predictions have been highly accurate, check out the testimonials below from paying subscribers.
(Since this is a one-man operation, there will usually be no publication on holidays and on up to three weeks per year of vacation—or sick days, but only if I’m really so sick that I just can’t do it. I try to be very disciplined about this.)
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Digging deeper into The Doom
If it’s not Right, what’s Left? The Daily Doom is neither. The Daily Doom is not MAGA, and it’s not “Bidenomics.” It’s wholeheartedly independent, though it leans conservative in values. It is about who is doing what to us, regardless of where they’re coming from or whose hero they are. It’s about good economic sense, not good politicians. It exposes unscrupulous politicians with fervor wherever they are found.
The Daily Doom is an equal-opportunity critic because, if any party really had the answers, we wouldn’t have been on a multi-decade crash course into deep chasms of debt, regardless of who was in power. It’s also about exposing the daily follies of the Fed and feds as much as possible.
It's about social decay, civil unrest and wars that are increasingly adding chaos to our lives. It’s also about how we are becoming unhinged from the most basic ways in which we once viewed and understood ourselves for thousands of years but now no longer do. The world has started to look like the novel 1984 since the Covid lockdowns. Words are losing meaning. What are women’s sports? What is a woman? The modern Western woman may now tell you she has no idea…. Eventually, she will have to tell you she also has no idea what Black is because she is not a biologist. Next, people will start declaring their race, regardless of their genetics. Then comes declaring one’s species on a birth certificate because actual human dysphoria extends to species, too. At a time when the world is descending into chaos, an editorial voice of practical reason can help give some stability to one’s footing.
It's also about global central planners and elitists whose ideas may stuff all of us into an authoritarian abyss because they don’t evaluate the potential greater costs they bring against humanity … or possibly just don’t care.
Swimming in the stream but not just mainstream
The Daily Doom draws on mainstream news sources and the alternative press, so you can get it all, but it seeks to avoid most conspiracy theories because who needs fantasy doom when we’re already feeling like we are being swirled in chaos? That said, sometimes conspiracies are real; so, those that look like they really have a fighting chance in swimming against the flow are sometimes included here, too. They are just not the main course.
For example, the idea that Covid came from a Wuhan lab was once considered pure conspiracy theory. Now it’s mainstream, largely accepted fact. At one time, the claim that Trump colluded with Russia to win the election was mainstream news. Now the story about collusion is considered by many to be the actual conspiracy of a deep-state intelligence apparatus that tried to take down Trump with fake news. At one time the Davos crowd at the World Economic Forum was shrouded in conspiracy theory, but now WEF leaders like Klaus Schwab brag openly about what they are scheming to do to you in stunningly brazen and bizarre terms. They act as if they no longer need to hide what they are up to.
The Daily Doom will do its best to present the news that looks like it has a probable basis. There is no need to try to be extreme when the world right now is extreme.
One other great feature about The Daily Doom is that ALL of the news stories collected in my daily headlines are from sites that do not charge a subscription, that do not have a paywall, and do not even require you to sign on for a free membership that may, then, enlist you in all kinds of spam (which The Daily Doom will never do to you). When a subscription source like the Wall Street Journal has a good story, The Daily Doom will look for another free source so you don’t have to do the looking.
The only exceptions will be stories on subscription sites when the headline or introduction or leading video says it all and is the only source and where just the headline is important enough that you will not want to miss it. Even then, if the same story can be found on a free site, that’s the article you’ll find posted in The Daily Doom. I do the searching for you. So, a subscription can save you hours of looking by distilling the most important content for you.
When there are many headlines covering one story, The Daily Doom concentrates the news to present the 2-3 best ones covering that story and tries to make sure the second and third ones have something more to say or additional photos you will want to see to broaden your perspective and not just repeat things.
(Note from the editor: To keep Doomers from becoming Gloomers, I also occasionally write my own humor that lampoons either party in the US two-ring political circus. It’s free. If you lean Right, you’ll like The Malarky Musket. If you lean Left, let me recommend The Trumpette Gazette. I laugh at everyone, including myself, because it keeps the doom a little lighter while making the chaos a little more comedic eases the tension. I’ve divided my satire into sister publications, however, so you can pick the one you find agreeable and ignore her sassy sister. Laughter is the purpose, so choose the one you’ll love and ignore the other.
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