(SchiffReport) – February 2nd, 2013 – Read the rest of this entry »

(SchiffReport) – A just released Fox News Presidential Poll confirms that inflation is a bigger concern for voters than unemployment and the housing market combined. In fact, more than twice as many registered voters are concerned about the “inflation” tax as are worried about all other federal taxes combined! Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – The price of gold shifted higher late last week as investors looked at the precious metal to stave off inflation expected in the wake of yet another QE “stimulus” move by the Federal Reserve. Read the rest of this entry »

(NewAmerican) – Everybody knew it was coming. With the economy continuing to founder, it was only a matter of time before Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve decided to turn once again — like the proverbial pig to its wallow — to printing money in a vain attempt to jolt the moribund American economy back to life. As with the first two such feckless efforts, they’re dressing this one in fancy verbiage — “quantitative easing” — that fools no one. Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – In the video below, Alex breaks down how billionaires like Warren Buffett are the biggest beneficiaries of the “rule” they are now forcing through Congress. The net effect? Stealing the expanded tax revenue via banker bailouts and shutting down the middle class to eliminate competition for the big boys. Read the rest of this entry »

(VisionVictory) – Interesting interview for those of us who believe we are going to see radical inflation over the coming years. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (AP) – OECD pushes for $1.3 trillion eurozone crisis fund – Read More Here

Also: (BusinessWeek) – Spanish Economy Enters Second Recession, Bank of Spain Says – Read More Here

(ZeroHedge) – A voluntary confiscation of Gold is being pushed around the world to allow countries to devalue their currency to pay off their debt. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (Telegraph) – George Osborne: UK has run out of money – Read More Here

(USAWatchdog) – A good friend of mine, who has family living abroad, called me this weekend. One of the first things out of his mouth was about his sister in London and how she was dealing with “terrible inflation.” No doubt he was talking about the spike in gasoline prices that have risen to more than $8 a gallon. (The official inflation rate in the UK is around 3.6%, but I’m sure the numbers over there are as reliable as the inflation numbers in the U.S. where fuel and food are not counted in the so-called “core” inflation.) Read the rest of this entry »

(VisionVictory) – December 22nd, 2011 – Read the rest of this entry »

(SchiffReport) – November 18th, 2011 – Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – On Friday new numbers are going reveal what is occurring in the employment sector, but many economists say the outlook is grim. The unemployment still lingers at around nine percent and Congress has fallen short of creating jobs for many Americans. The Federal Reserve is believed to step in again with more quantitative easing, but is this really the solution to the US’ economic problems? Peter Schiff, president at Euro Pacific Capital, will help answer some questions. Read the rest of this entry »

(SchiffReport) – May 13th, 2011 – Read the rest of this entry »

The following article was originally written in Feb. 2010 to bring to readers’ attention the rapidly escalating Food inflation problem that may or not lead to a food shortage problem but will still cause multitudes to die of hunger because they just will not be able to afford even a subsistence level diet. I decided to post this article once again after reading this headline on Yahoo News:

Indian farmer suicides rise to 17,000 a year

Monsanto Farmer Suicides – You Tube Video Read the rest of this entry »

(C4L) – According to Paul Krugman, getting out of this depression is as easy as cranking up the printing presses at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. However, I believe, as a card-carrying member of the “Pain Caucus” (foolishly, or maybe my motives are darker), that the government’s current economic policies of borrowing and spending might not do anything but dig our economic hole even deeper.

Krugman and many other economists believe that the government is much too stingy and that what it needs to do is not cut back on spending and borrowing but rather throw the spending levers full forward. I present their views (as fairly as possible) and then look at them from another perspective. Read the rest of this entry »

(EconomicCollapse) – Buckle up and hold on – a new round of quantitative easing is here and things could start getting very ugly in the financial world over the coming months.  The truth is that many economists fear that an out of control Federal Reserve is “crossing the Rubicon” by announcing another wave of quantitative easing.  Have we now reached a point where the Federal Reserve is simply going to fire up the printing presses and shower massive wads of cash into the financial system whenever the U.S. economy is not growing fast enough?  If so, what does the mean for inflation, the stability of the world financial system and the future of the U.S. dollar?  Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s great debate basically between the US and Europe is – should the Fed go full bore by implementing a second quantitative easing? In part it is a moot point, because they have been doing just that in the repo market for four months without letting anyone know what they were up too. Their mandate is to reduce inflation and create full employment. Real inflation is 7% and unemployment is 22-3/4%. Read the rest of this entry »

(EconomicCollapse) – When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a speech about the U.S. economy, it gets a whole lot more attention than when Barack Obama gives a speech about the U.S. economy.  Why is this true?  Well, it is because Bernanke has a whole lot more control over the U.S. economy than Obama does. It is the Federal Reserve that controls monetary policy and interest rates. It is the Federal Reserve that can create money out of thin air. Read the rest of this entry »

(GlobalResearch) – The question keeps swirling around regarding the Fed and just how much Treasury paper they can buy from the market under current rules. Our guess is about $1.7 trillion. A good part of that may well be in notes, which will probably keep long dated rates low. On the other hand they may increase the current limit, and buy everything in sight. Read the rest of this entry »

(FSK’sGuidetoReality) – In the USA and Europe, there is massive inflation to bail out the banksters. Aiming for stable exchange rates, other countries are also inflating their money.

Politicians in other countries value their exports to the USA. As dollar inflation occurs, prices of non-US goods rise relative to US-produced goods. To keep exports at the same level, the other country must also inflate. Read the rest of this entry »

(NIA) – One of the Federal Reserve’s original stated purposes was to manage the nation’s money supply through monetary policy that provides for stable prices without inflation or deflation. Shocking just about the whole world except for NIA members, the Federal Reserve this past week shifted its purpose from being an inflation fighter to now being an inflation advocate. Charles Evans, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is now saying that inflation in the U.S. is too low and the Federal Reserve needs to publicly declare a new goal of having inflation that is much higher than its informal 2% target. Read the rest of this entry »

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to high office.”
– Aesop

(ZeroHedge) – As the recent Pentagon scandal makes all too clear, truth is treason in the empire of lies.  Which is why attempting to shoot the messenger – by imprisoning the whistleblower and/or slandering the publisher – makes perfect sense for an arm – indeed, the very arms – of the United States government.  So if we are to understand its logic (as all of its actions, however insane, are perfectly logical to it), we must understand the pathology that lies at its core.  For unless and until we do, we cannot understand why government per se – i.e., the state, defined as “a monopoly on the use of force within its borders” – does what it does; why its functionaries lie so shamelessly on its behalf; and, most importantly, why its presumed masters – We the People – put up with it. Read the rest of this entry »

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(InternationalForecaster) – As quantitative easing again gets underway the failure of QE1 becomes more obvious. The crisis worsens and the illusion of any recovery is light years away. Over the past three years almost $13 trillion that we know about has been thrown down a rat hole to bail out banking, Wall Street, insurance and selected elitist entities. The dollar figure is probably much higher. We will never know, because the privately owned Federal Reserve makes its own rules. Everything they do is a state secret. Read the rest of this entry »

(Inflation.US) – September 17, 2010 – Read the rest of this entry »

(InternationalForecaster) – Gold has again broken out to new highs and silver is on the cusp of doing so as well. Unfortunately more than 95% of the pundits were not on board; they believed it was going lower.

The fight for monetary supremacy between the dollar and gold for over the past 16 months has been won by gold and that is why gold is moving higher and the dollar lower. The recent intervention in the currency markets by Japan, ostensibly to weaken the yen, assisted by the US and foreign central banks, won’t strengthen the dollar for any appreciable period of time. The US dollar has broken down and there is no going back. Read the rest of this entry »

(Goldseek) – Ron Paul talks to Chris Waltzek on GoldSeek Radio. Topics of discussion include the Financial Reform Bill, competing currencies, the gold price, and 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – We are broke.

On June 5th, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Emergency Banking Act which declared America bankrupt and insolvent.  Twenty years after the 1913 Federal Reserve Act authorized a private central bank to loan money to the government at interest, the country declared its bankruptcy.  Twenty years after the Federal Reserve Act was passed, Congress enacted House Joint Resolution 192, to “Suspend the Gold Standard and Abrogate the Gold Clause” and the nation became insolvent.  Just twenty years after the Federal Reserve Act became law, gold at twenty dollars an ounce was inflated by FDR to twenty-nine dollars an ounce, confiscated with the passing of the Gold Reserve Act in 1934, and then inflated again to thirty-five dollars an ounce. Read the rest of this entry »

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(RussiaToday) – This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals of box office manipulation in China, $9 billion missing in Iraq and contango in commodities. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Internet sensation George Hemminger about his experience with financial collapse in America. Read the rest of this entry »

(CharlieVLog) – July 13, 2010 – Read the rest of this entry »

(SteveWatson) – Gold Prices Heading For Record Highs

Gold futures surged toward record highs Thursday as the stock market and the U.S. economy continued to flounder, leaving investors seeking a safe haven in hard assets. Read More Here

(BusinessInsider) – CHART OF THE DAY: Food Prices Are About To Explode – Read More Here

(Leap2020) – Global systemic crisis / Second half of 2010: The global system’s four single points of failure

Each day the news confirm the extent to which the global systemic crisis has now entered into the phase of global geopolitical dislocation, even if the media only timidly begin to interpret the historic upheavals which unfold before our own eyes. For LEAP/E2020, the second half of 2010 will thus correspond to a new step in the global geopolitical dislocation, characterized by an acceleration in the process of strategic, financial, economic and social convulsions centered on four single points of failure Read More Here

(MSNBC) – Home builders won’t lift the economy this time

Homebuilders are sending a message: They won’t be able to contribute much to the economic recovery now that government home-buying incentives have vanished. Read More Here

(InterForecaster) – Federal Reserve Purchases U.S. Sovereign Debt – Bob Chapman

We believe an inflationary depression began in February of 2009, and little has changed. Since then factory output has increased, as have inventories and other outward signs, such as retail sales. We believe that one-year spurt is ending, unless a new stimulus program is put in place. Read More Here

(ZeroHedge) – 100 Italian Economists Say Austerity Will Destroy Europe

The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard points to a letter signed by 100 Italian economists (technically Keynesianites, but in the great Ponzi, the two have become synonymous) in which they note that “the austerity strategy imposed by Brussels/Frankfurt risks tipping Europe into a self-feeding downward spiral. Read More Here

(TheStreet) – Gold Prices Reach for $1,254

Gold prices were gunning to break their record high Thursday as an uncertain stock market fueled demand for gold as a safe haven asset. Read More Here

(CNNMoney) – Out-of-work job applicants told unemployed need not apply

The last thing someone who is unemployed needs to be told is that they shouldn’t even apply for the limited number of job openings that are available. But some companies and recruiters are doing just that. Read More Here

(Reuters) – More Than 90 Banks Miss TARP Payments – Read More Here

(June 16) – Video: Alex Newman Reveals Fed Manipulations & ‘Bernanke’s Trillions’ on Alex Jones Tv

New American journalist Alex Newman talks with Alex about his latest article, Fed Manipulations in the Crosshairs. “It turns out that under the guise of “stabilizing” the economy, the Federal Reserve banking cartel had set in motion a series of actions that would eventually transfer trillions to the bankers at taxpayers’ expense, all while decimating the investments of countless average Americans,” writes Newman. Alex also covers the news and takes your calls. Read the rest of this entry »

(WPost) – 8 House members investigated over fundraisers held near financial reform vote

The Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating eight lawmakers who held fundraisers within 48 hours of a major House vote on a Wall Street reform bill or received substantial donations from business people with a financial stake in the bill, according to congressional sources and letters. Read More Here

(Money&Markets) – Two Consequences of the Stimulus Programs Washington Wants You to Ignore! – Read More Here

(BullionBullsCanada) – Fannie Mae Proposes Bulldozing U.S. Homes – Read More Here

(EconomicPolicyJournal) – Bank Run in Spain and Its Destabilizing Ramifications for the Entire EU

According to FT, Spanish banks borrowed €85.6bn ($105.7bn) from the ECB last month. This was double the amount lent to them before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and 16.5 per cent of net eurozone loans offered by the central bank. Read More Here

(InternationalForecaster) – The Fed’s Purchase of US Sovereign Debt: “The US Treasury is under the Control of the Fed’s Owners”. – Bob Chapman

US, UK and European financial systems are on the way to collapse Read More Here

(MarketWatch) – U.S. home building craters after tax break expires

Housing starts fell 10% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 593,000 in May, the lowest level since December. The details were even worse, as starts of single-family homes plunged 17% to a seasonally adjusted rate of 468,000, the lowest in a year. Read More Here

(LewRockwell) – Amnesty for the Banksters, Debtor’s Prison for the Serfs – Read More Here

(SoColPatriotsClub) – House Democrats Drop Ron Paul’s Audit of Federal Reserve

Yes, you read that right. Ron Paul’s push to audit the Federal Reserve Bank and see who received how much money in the last few years has been drastically reduced. Read More Here

Video: The Greecing of America, Simplified

The repercussions from Greece’s fiscal crisis are starting to ripple around the world. But are lessons being learned? – View Video Here

REPOST – (RussiaToday) – Video: Greece was used as trojan horse by Washington and Goldman Sachs, to damage Eurozone

“The whole attack on Greece and the attack on the euro originated from a concerted strategy of Wall Street and US Institutions to permanently cripple or try to cripple the only alternative reserve currency anywhere in the world that can challenge the dollar,” Engdahl told RT. Video Link Here

Video: Instead of budgeting, Congress is….

With all of the attention on the BP oil spill, the European debt crisis and even financial regulatory reform, the fact that Congress hasn’t passed (and will likely not pass) a federal budget for fiscal year 2011 is flying under the radar. View video Here

(WPost) – More college-educated jump tracks to become skilled manual laborers – Read More Here

(LewRockwellShow) – Podcast: We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet – Lew with Gerald Celente

What does the state-bank-military complex plan next? As the second stage of the financial crisis hits, says Gerald Celente, we can expect them to start another war to divert people’s attention from the wholesale robbery of the productive. Listen to Podcast Here

(LewRockwell) – Bailing Out Politicians Now? – Patrick J. Buchanan – Read More Here

(WRMEA) – U.S. Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact – Read More Here

(MarketWatch) – Fannie, Freddie to scrap NYSE stock listings – Read More Here

(EconomicPolicyJournal) – Bloomberg Considering Former-Goldman Man for Deputy Mayor – Read More Here

REPOST – (Snard) – More Than 1 In 5 American Children Are Now Living Below The Poverty Line

Perhaps the greatest victims of the economic nightmare that is unfolding right in front of our eyes are our children. Read More Here

(AlterNet) – “Lure People Into That Calm and Then Just Totally F–k ‘Em”: How All of Us Pay for the Derivatives Market

Derivatives are a hotbed of abuses and bailouts. So why are taxpayers footing the bill? Read More Here

(Infowars) – Why You Should Buy Gold and Silver – Mark Dice – Read More Here

(FinancialSense) – Gold Going to Parabolic Top of $10,000 by 2012 – For Good Reasons

No wishful thinking here! As I see it gold is going to a parabolic top of $10,000 by 2012 for very good reasons – sovereign debt defaults, bankruptcies of “too big to fail” banks and other financial entities, currency inflation and devaluations – which will all contribute to rampant price inflation.

Not surprisingly, I have company in that view: Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – Moody’s Cuts Greece Government Ratings to Junk

Moody’s on Monday downgraded Greece government bond ratings into junk territory, citing the risks in the euro zone/IMF rescue package for the debt-laden country. Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – Bulging Inventory Signals Next Leg Down in Housing – Mike Whitney

Did the Federal Reserve collude with the big banks to hold millions of houses off the market until the Fed finished adding $1.25 trillion to the banks reserves? Did the Fed do this to make it appear that its bond purchasing plan (quantitative easing) was stabilizing prices when, in fact, it was the reduction in supply that stopped prices from plunging? It sure looks that way. This is from Bloomberg News: Read More Here

(HuffingtonPost) – “Dr. Death Says The U.S. Is Really, Really Sick.”

According to Roubini, for the US, the second half of 2010 will be worse than the first. US industrial capacity has fallen from 70 to 65%. Restocking depleted inventories is complete.

The United States, 25% of the global economy, can’t rein in its spending or cut debt. President George Bush inherited a surplus and went on to create the biggest deficit in US history (excepting WWII). Now, President Barack Obama is making matters worse by piling on more unsustainable debt. Read More Here

(DailyBell) – Doug Casey Revisits the Greater Depression and Explains the Realities of Investing in the 21st Century – Read More Here

(MoneyNews) – Volcker Warns: We Are Running Out Of Time

America is running out of time to fix its huge economic and fiscal problems, warns former Fed chair Paul Volcker, who now heads a financial advisory board to President Obama.

“Restoring our fiscal position . . . sorting out a reasonable approach toward limiting carbon omissions, and producing domestic energy without unacceptable environmental risks all take time,” Volcker writes in The New York Review of Books. Read More Here

(MarketWatch) – Bearish Schultz says hyperinflation may happen suddenly

Commentary: Crash-predicting letter says recovery might not come until 2028 Read More Here

(WPost) – Obama pleads for $50 billion in state, local aid

President Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid “massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters” and to support the still-fragile economic recovery. Read More Here

(Bloomberg) – Economy in U.S. Slows as States Lose Federal Stimulus Funds – Read More Here

(PaulWatson) – Central Bank Hid Housing Market Crash Forecast

New revelations concerning how the Irish Central Bank hid data in a 2006 report indicating that a housing market crash was imminent underscores once again how financial elites covered-up signs of the coming economic turmoil in order to exploit the crisis at the expense of the people.

Months before the Irish housing market started to crumble in early 2007, which was followed by a wider collapse in the UK property market, the Irish Central Bank buried data from a crucial report which suggested that a 15 per cent fall in house prices was around the corner. Read the rest of this entry »

(Fox) – Video: Ron Paul on FOX Business News about Gold – Video Link Here

(BeforeItsNews) – Into the Abyss: The Cycle of Debt Deflation

One of the most famous quotations of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises is that “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. Read More Here

(ZeroHedge) – US Mint Out Of Not Only Silver But Gold American Eagles As Well – Tyler Durden

Update: After following up with the Mint, any shipments and deliveries of American Eagle 2010 edition both gold and silver are TBD and the mint has no idea on when these will be received if at all this year. A small shipment of American Buffalo gold coins will go on sale on June 3 at noon. The mint expects these to sell out promptly. Read More Here

(PaulWatson) – Bilderberg 2010: Globalists Panic Over Euro Collapse

Elite to seek reassurances from Spanish leaders that ultimate agenda for global currency will not be derailed Read More Here

(RawStory) – Goldman Sachs sold $250 million of BP stock before spill

Firm’s stock sale nearly twice as large as any other institution; Represented 44 percent of total BP investment Read More Here

Goldman Sachs Sold 44% of its BP stock three weeks before the Deepwater Horizon explosion – View Stocks Here

US MINT OUT OF SILVER

Production of United States Mint American Eagle Silver Proof and Uncirculated Coins has been temporarily suspended because of unprecedented demand for American Eagle Silver Bullion Coins. Currently, all available silver bullion blanks are being allocated to the American Eagle Silver Bullion Coin Program, as the United States Mint is required by Public Law 99-61 to produce these coins “in quantities sufficient to meet public demand . . . .”

The United States Mint will resume the American Eagle Silver Proof and Uncirculated Coin Programs once sufficient inventories of silver bullion blanks can be acquired to meet market demand for all three American Eagle Silver Coin products.
Update: Due to the continued, sustained demand for American Eagle Silver Bullion Coins, 2009-dated American Eagle Silver Proof Coins will not be produced.

(ZeroHedge) – US Mint Sells More Gold Coins In May Than Any Month Since January 1999 – Tyler Durden

If anyone wants to know the reason why PHYS is once again trading at about a 10% premium to NAV all over again (yes mere days after the follow on offering) look no further than the US mint. Reuters reports that “The U.S. mint sold 190,000 1-ounce American Eagle gold coins in May, the largest number since January 1999, and the most in any month so far in 2010, according to a spokesman for the U.S. agency.” At least the mint still has gold coins to satisfy record demand. Buyers in Europe unfortunately are not so lucky, which is why in Greece recently an oz of sold for as high as $1,700. Read More Here

(ZeroHedge) – Another Blatant EUR Intervention Leads To 150 pip EURUSD Move In Seconds

With all the grace of a drunk Keynesian at an Austrian economists meeting, the Central Banks once again kill the EUR shorts and intervene to prop it up, for a ridiculous 250 pips intraday move. Read More Here

(CNBC) – Euro to Go Under $1.20 ‘Almost Certainly’: Gartman – Read More Here

(PaulWatson) – Iran To Dump 45 Billion Euros For Gold Bullion & Dollars

The Central Bank of Iran is set to dump a whopping 45 billion euros in exchange for gold bullion and dollars as Gulf states also prepare to flee from the ailing single currency amidst debt turmoil in Europe that threatens to disintegrate the entire region.

According to the Iranian state website Press TV, Iran’s central bank has already begun converting its euro reserves into gold and dollars as a response to the “downward spiral” of the euro, in the first of a three phase movement to flee from the currency. Read More Here

REPOST – (Blacklistednews) – 25 Questions To Ask Anyone Who Is Delusional Enough To Believe That This Economic Recovery Is Real

If you listen to the mainstream media long enough, you just might be tempted to believe that the United States has emerged from the recession and is now in the middle of a full-fledged economic recovery. In fact, according to Obama administration officials, the great American economic machine has roared back to life, stronger and more vibrant than ever before. But is that really the case? Read More Here

(LVRJ) – Problems continue in high-rise condo market

It really didn’t take a $40,000 study from the Sierra Club to determine that Las Vegas was overbuilt, putting a strain on natural resources. Just look at the vacant buildings. Read More Here

(BusinessInsider) – How The U.S. Is Faced With Both Rocketing Inflation And Deflation At The Same Time

Calafia Beach Pundit shows how the U.S. has been experiencing both long-term inflation and deflation at the same time. Essentially, the cost of services has been rocketing higher, just as the cost of durable goods has been rocketing lower: Read More Here

(Neithercorp) – REPOST – Warning Signs Of Full Spectrum Collapse Are Everywhere

The sovereign debt crisis in Greece and many other European nations has, at least for the moment, opened a gap in the wash of financial disinformation that has prevailed in the mainstream media for the past year. The average American is now more aware of the terrible costs of living in an artificially driven and widely manipulated “global economy”, and has also been exposed (at least for the moment) to the very real frailties in our own markets, which have been hidden or downplayed by the government as well as disingenuous establishment economists. Read More Here

(June 1) – Video: Webster Tarpley Details TIm Geithner’s “America is Finished” Comment to China on Alex Jones Tv

Alex also talks with researcher and author Webster Tarpley. Alex also covers the latest news following the holiday and takes Read the rest of this entry »

(BusinessInsider) – Tomorrow Rand Paul will take a major step towards being the highest ranking “Tea Party” politician in the country.

Rand — whose father Ron Paul is well-known and beloved by money –appears to be a shoo-in to win his Primary contest in Kentucky.

Current polls have him solidly leading establishment rival Trey Grayson, who was endorsed by sitting Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. That didn’t help much.

A quick look at his big issues should be familiar to anyone whose follow Ron Paul: Inflation, debt, sovereignty, guns, and ending bailouts. – Source: Business Insider

(InflationUS) – NIA believes Meltup is the most important economic documentary ever produced in world history. The Second American Revolution has begun! Please share this documentary with all of your friends and family members immediately!

See Also:

The Dollar Bubble

Our new must see documentary on the collapse of the U.S. dollar! Become educated so that you can survive and prosper while many Americans enter poverty! ***The best spent 30 minutes of your life! Read the rest of this entry »

What this country is coming to
I sure would like to know
If they don’t do something bye and bye
The rich will live and the poor will die
Doggone, I mean the panic is on!

–Song from the Great Depression

(RevoltofthePlebs) – As the Great Depression of the 1930’s was getting underway, President Herbert Hoover refused to acknowledge it.  In the weeks following the events of Black Tuesday, Hoover called the economy “fundamentally sound.”  Months later, he still insisted that the strength of the American economy was “unimpaired.”  However, by 1931 he could no longer hide the truth.  With the economy in shambles, Hoover was forced to declare that America was indeed in a ‘depression’.  He chose the word ‘depression’ because he believed it to somewhat innocuous and far less provocative than terms like ‘panics’ or ‘crises’ that had previously been used to refer to significant economic downturns. Read the rest of this entry »

(SicSemperTyrannis) – There has been lots of talk about a coming food crisis due to the massive looting of the nations under the cover of an “economic crisis”. Recently, a report published by The Trumpet has shown food prices spinning out of control.

In the article it shows some of the most startling year-over-year price increases in the U.S. markets: Read the rest of this entry »

(PaulWatson) -  As Europe is bailed out to the tune of nearly $1 trillion dollars, Congressman Ron Paul warns that the constant monetization of debt, allied with taxpayer-funded bailouts, will inevitably lead to runaway inflation and the collapse of paper currencies.

Under the terms of the Federal Reserve’s credit swap deal with the EU – in addition to an additional IMF bailout of which U.S. taxpayers will be picking up 20 per cent ($57 billion dollars) of the tab, Paul pointed out that not just taxpayers but “anybody that buys anything” will be funding the European bailout because of the attendant inflationary consequences. Read the rest of this entry »

(TheRealNews) – May 2010 – Jayati Ghosh Professor of Economics: Food prices set to surge due to Wall Street speculation Read the rest of this entry »

(RollingStone) – The Feds vs. Goldman

The government’s case against Goldman Sachs barely begins to target the depths of Wall Street’s criminal sleaze – Read More Here

(EconomicCollapseBlog) – Will The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Be An Economic Disaster That The Gulf Coast Will Never Recover From? – Read More Here

(EconomicCollapseBlog) – How Is The U.S. Economy Supposed To Succeed When Our Politicians And The Big Banks Are Making Billions Of Dollars Betting Against It?

Most people around the globe think of America as a great “capitalist” economic machine, but the truth is that the U.S. financial system is essentially one massive betting parlor at this point. In fact, there has been a whole lot of easy money made in this betting parlor over the past several years by our politicians and by the big financial players down on Wall Street. So how did they make all of this money? They did it by betting against America. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Covert Economic Agenda Beneath Immigration Reform – Shamus Cooke

How convenient for Goldman Sachs. Just as most working people were demanding that the Goldman bosses and other Wall Street criminals either be massively fined, jailed or worse, the nation’s attention is suddenly forced to react to the racist immigration law in Arizona. And although the two incidents are not directly related, they represent a trend that is likely to increase in the months and years ahead. Read More Here

(YahooFinance) – Video: Congress Refuses to Outlaw Insider Trading For Lawmakers

Even a cynic can find Washington’s hypocrisy shocking at times. The Wall Street Journal reports today a House bill that would force lawmakers to make greater disclosures on financial transactions and disallow them from trading on nonpublic information is going nowhere fast.

That’s right. Members of Congress are currently allowed to profit on insider trading! View Video Here

(WashingtonPost) – Illegal Immigrants cost feds more than $10 billion a year

A report that found that illegal immigrants in the United States cost the federal government more than $10 billion a year — a sum it estimated would almost triple if they were given amnesty — has drawn criticism from immigration advocacy groups. Read More Here

(WashingtonPost) – Effort to expand audits of Fed picks up steam in Senate

A contentious effort to expand audits of the Federal Reserve that sailed through the House despite heavy criticism appears to be picking up steam as the Senate considers broad new financial regulations. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Cutting Public Debt: Economic Science or Class War?

In The Bullet no.345, Ingo Schmidt showed how the credit rating agencies have sparked an assault by international bondholders on the sovereign debt of Greece, where workers are being made to pay heavily for the fiscal crisis of the state. Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – The Fed Must Be Audited: The Fraudulent Practices of the Federal Reserve

In March 2004, when Alan Greenspan was Fed chairman, he suppressed the opinions of those Fed officials who knew that there was a housing bubble.

Congressman Alan Grayson points out that – because the Fed unilaterally decided to hand out half a trillion to foreigners without any Congressional oversight, and that Bernanke testified that he didn’t know who got the loot – the Fed must be subject to an audit. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Greece: Poverty and Social Implosion in the Wake of the Financial Bailout – Finian Cunningham

“This is not our debt, but we are being made to pay for it,” said one angry Greek worker, explaining why he like thousands of other Greeks are taking to the streets in protest at their country’s bail-out plan.
The so-called rescue package of €110 billion ($143 billion) facilitated by the European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not just aimed at shoring up Greece from total economic collapse. At stake too is the solvency of several other Eurozone countries – Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain – and even the euro currency itself. Read More Here

(USAWatchdog) – Inflation and Bailouts Go Hand in Hand

Pick a financial fire and you can be sure the U.S. government will hose it down with gallons of money. AIG, General Motors, Chrysler, insolvent states, FDIC, Fannie, Freddie and all the banks are just a few of the blazes Uncle Sam has sprayed money on

Now, the Federal Reserve is printing up another $105 billion to send to Greece to help with its debt problem. Is the bailout cycle getting ready to take another turn bailing out the Banks? Read More Here

(CNBC) – European Union, Currency Are Headed for Collapse: Gartman

The current European debt crisis likely will not end until the euro collapses as a currency and takes the entire European Union with it, said Dennis Gartman, hedge fund manager and author of “The Gartman Letter.”
“I think the whole thing will go down to defeat, the whole thing will eventually unravel,” Gartman said in an interview with CNBC.com. Read More Here

(SmirkingChimp) – US Government Now 96.5% of the Mortgage Market Q1, 2010

If You Were NOT Paying for Your Neighbor’s Mortgage, How Many Home Sales Would There Be?

The US government IS the US housing market. Read More Here

(ABC30) – Video: City of Fresno Declares Fiscal Emergency

The city of Fresno is facing a $30.6 million budget shortfall and the mayor announced she wants to cut hundreds of city jobs. Video Link Here

(Bloomberg) – US Households Lost $100,000 From Crisis, Study Says

The financial crisis and recession cost US households an average of about $100,000 in lost wealth and income, according to a study by former Treasury Department economist Phillip Swagel. Read More Here

(InternationalForecaster) – Global Financial Conflagration: The World of Fiat Money is Buckling under the Pressure of Unpayable Debts – Bob Chapman

America and the world face a financial conflagration of immense proportions. The world of fiat money and massive credit is buckling under the pressure of unpayable debt. Each day the safe haven of gold and silver related assets become more attractive. We ask where else do you go for safety? A conflagration is a fire out of control and that is exactly the conditions the world faces today. The inflationary depression has smoldered for 14 months and it will soon accelerate. Read More Here

(IPSNews) – U.S. States Consider Starting Their Own Banks

At least eight U.S. states are considering proposals to start state-run banks in the wake of an economic crisis where many private banks ceased or greatly decreased their lending, literally shrinking the money pool available in state economies. Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – Should a Stock Market Decline Stop the Goldman Prosecutions?

As of 2007, the bottom 50% of the U.S. population owned only one-half of one percent of all stocks, bonds and mutual funds in the U.S. On the other hand, the top 1% owned owned 50.9%.

From the San Francisco Chronicle: Read More Here

(TimesOnline) – Merkel misled Germans

She was initially hailed as the “Iron Chancellor” for holding out against a bailout for the Greeks. But this weekend Angela Merkel was accused of having misled voters after it emerged that Germany would contribute more than €25 billion (£21.7 billion) towards a rescue package. Read More Here

(Uruknet) – Confessions Of A Wall St. Nihilist: Forget About Goldman Sachs, Our Entire Economy Is Built On Fraud – Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Pakistan facing bankruptcy

Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves are so low that the country can only afford one month of imports and faces possible bankruptcy. Read More Here

(BitsOfNews) – Pol/Econ: The 401k Scam

“The 401(k) will turn out to be the greatest systemic financial hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.” – William Wollman, The Great 401(k) Hoax
Like most people I was told to plow as much money into my 401k pension plan as possible. So like millions of other workers out there, I did as I was told. By 2003 I had accumulated a nice little nest egg…that I couldn’t touch. Then one day I was in a bookstore and I happened across a book called The Coming Generational Storm. What I read about 401k’s that day made me immediately stop all contributions. Read More Here

(Bloomberg) – Carnivores’ Dilemma Widens as Pork Signals Record Meat Prices

U.S. meat prices may rise to records this summer after farmers reduced hog and cattle herds to the smallest sizes in decades, the result of surging feed costs linked to demands for more ethanol. Read More Here

(CatoInstitute) – Video: Advice to Tea Partiers

The Tea Party movement may endure, but its endurance will be a testament to its ability to understand that cutting government means having a long-term focus. John Samples, author of The Struggle to Limit Government and Director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government, offers an assessment of what Tea Partiers should do if they want to sustain an effort to cut government. Read the rest of this entry »

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(OnlineJournal) – The Big Six banks are shorting the American Dream

The Big Six investment banks, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, are “shorting the American Dream,” according to economist Simon Johnson and entrepreneur James Kwak in an interview on April 16, “Financial Regulation and Regulatory Capture” on Bill Moyers Journal. Here’s a summary of the big and important ideas and issues on the table. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Break up the Banks and Combat Financial Crime – Danny Schechter – Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – What Really Triggered the Financial Crisis? – The Shadow Banking System Blew Up – Mike Whitney Read More Here

(ZeroHedge) – Will Goldman Sachs Prove Greed is God?

The investment bank’s cult of self-interest is on trial against the whole idea of civilization – the collective decision by all of us not to screw each other over even if we can Read More Here

(FinancialSense) – Reports of Our Recovery Are Greatly Exaggerated – Peter Schiff

From all outward appearances, it seems that a grim chapter in U.S. economic history has come to an end. Newsweek magazine declares that “America is Back,” government statistics indicate revival, and our stock market has put in a rally for the record books (by rate of ascent, not highs – we are still more than 25% below the 2007 peak). Read More Here

(SilverBearCafe) – The Middle Class Game Is Up: We’re Heading to a Slave Labor Planet Read More Here

(FinancialTimes) – US prepares to push for global capital rules

The US is preparing to pivot from domestic regulatory reform to a push for a tough new international capital regime after the weekend’s G20 and International Monetary Fund meetings glossed over differences between leading economies. Read More Here

(USAWatchdog) – Housing Sales and Inflation Surge

The big news in the economy last week was new home sales jumped 27% in March. It was the best monthly increase percentage wise since John F. Kennedy was in office. What the mainstream media did not tell you was new housing starts jumped up from a very low level– like the lowest level in history! This chart from shadowstats.com illustrates the point: Read More Here

(TimesOnline) – Greek meltdown in danger of spreading

Germany, France and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) must act quickly to bail out Greece to prevent a slide in confidence in financial markets, Alistair Darling said yesterday. Read More Here

(CNNNews) – Obama Sends Mixed Message on VAT as Fiscal Commission Prepares First Meeting Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – Unemployment for Those Who Earn $150,000 or More is Only 3%, While Unemployment for the Poor is 31%

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney succinctly summarized a recent study by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies regarding unemployment rates for different income brackets: Read More Here

(PaulWatson) – Video: Obama Debt Czar Says Tax Hikes “On The Table”

The Democratic co-chairman of President Obama’s debt commission, Erskine Bowles, told Fox News Sunday that tax hikes for Americans are “on the table,” despite Obama’s election campaign promise that no individual earning under $200,000 dollars a year would be hit with any tax increases. Read More Here

Video: Gold, Cash, Currency, and Inflation Trends

Pastor Timothy Neptune (First Baptist Church of Marco Island) discusses the realities of our current economic crisis with Steve Meyers of Grainbelt Commodities. For more information, including the complete viewing of each study, visit us at www.fbcmarco.com Read the rest of this entry »