January 30, 2014
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
What if the state of the union is a mess? What if the government spies on all of us all of the time and recognizes no limits to its spying? What if its appetite for acquiring personal knowledge about all Americans is insatiable? What if the government uses the microchips in our cellphones to follow us and listen to us as we move about?
There is so much discussed in the 30-minute interview below with former Senior Counsel to the World Bank, Karen Hudes, who although reappointed, has since been barred from serving. Hudes, working within the US political system, is determined to protect American’s from the inevitable financial fallout America’s political class created and continues to enable. [Read more…]
November 2, 2013
by Valentin Katasonov
Strategic-Culture dot org
Foreign holders of American debt
As has already been noted, in recent years the share of non-American holders of US Treasury securities has been wavering around the 50 percent mark. However, there has also been a visible trend to reduce the share of non-residents (from 52.9 percent at the end of 2008 to 47.9 percent in the middle of 2013). [Read more…]
(Ed. note: The article below was translated from Germany’s Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, DWN, news journal posted on September 19, 2013)
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is the current situation on the financial markets as worse than before the Lehman bankruptcy. [Read more…]
by David A. Stockman
The New York Times
Artwork by Mark Pernice
GREENWICH, Conn.
The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be very afraid. [Read more…]
“We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans” says former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. [Read more…]
World War III: The Unthinkable Cost of Preserving the Petro Dollar
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
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As noted by many of our readers, one of the key topics omitted from our article on the inevitability of economic collapse was the petrodollar system. Due to its significance, we felt that this subject deserves its own article. If you have never heard of the petrodollar, don’t be surprised. There’s a good reason for this. [Read more…]
With the acceleration of economic and monetary events McAlvany Financials produced a short film series detailing the future of the US Dollar currently serving as the world’s reserve currency. The pressure being brought to bear to collapse the dollar and replace it with another currency is enormous. [Read more…]
h/t Zerohedge
“This is the final abomination” is how David Stockman begins his epic rant on the Federal Reserve and crony capitalism in this clip. The “undiluted lunacy” of their actions prompted him to address the Fed’s decision to “print ourselves to death” by saying [Read more…]
by Eric Peters
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In the original Matrix movie, there’s a character named Cypher who decides that life is more comfortable for him within the confines of the false-reality programming that is the Matrix. He betrays his comrades, in return for being plugged back into the Matrix [Read more…]
by Paul Craig Roberts
Cross-posted from Paul Craig Roberts
The article about the Libor scandal, coauthored with Nomi Prins, received much attention, with Internet repostings, foreign translation, and video interviews. To further clarify the situation, this article brings to the forefront implications that might not be obvious to those without insider experience and knowledge. [Read more…]
by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul
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Waiting for the rally in gold to begin? Don’t. Global policymakers plan to institute the vital element of surprise to trap unsuspecting investors into bearing viscous currency devaluations. [Read more…]
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“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax –
Of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot –
And whether pigs have wings.”
The Walrus and The Carpenter – Lewis Carroll (from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872) [Read more…]
SupportCreditUnions.com covered the infamous Max Keiser in a rare, albeit colorful, presentation in L.A.’s Chinatown. If you are a Max Keiser and Stacey Herbert fan you won’t want to miss this “major rant against the big banks.” [Read more…]
May 11, 2012
by Brandon Smith
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For the past four years I have been covering the progression of the global economic crisis with an emphasis on the debilitating effects it has had on the American financial system. Only once before have I ever issued an economic alert, and this was at the onset of the very first credit downgrade in U.S. history by S&P. [Read more…]
by Mike Krieger
The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. [Read more…]