Source – thesaker.is – “…QE has thus screwed up the natural world, and when the QE-bubble pops there is going to be a geopolitical reordering. The collusion Prins’ title alludes to – prop up US banks at all costs – is a reminder that the QE era has been precisely to avoid a geopolitical reckoning…
Source – dailyreckoning.com – “…We’ve been in a full-scale war with Iran for two years now. It’s just that most people don’t realize it. It’s not a kinetic war with troops, missiles and ships (except Iran’s use of terrorist bombs and the U.S.’ use of drones). And it’s severely damaged the Iranian economy, which has…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…Rather than “efficient allocation of capital,” we have monopolies and cartels profiting from a staggeringly wasteful landfill economy based on extracting ever greater quantities or energy to squander on traffic congestion, destructive addictions and planned obsolescence. Rather than an “invisible hand” benefiting everyone, we have a self-serving state-cartel system that squashes…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…In essence, the ultra-rich (i.e. the top .01%) get a huge megaphone to blare their thoughts, many of which are deliberately used to disorient and confuse the common man through the major media and so-called higher institutions of learning. Hence, we get common folk actively fighting for policies and laws that…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com – “…What was this smoke and mirrors all about? Just imagine how much more public anger there would be against Wall Street’s fat cats and their bailout kingpins at the Federal Reserve if the media had reported the real unemployment rate along with the fact that Wall Street banks and their foreign…
Source – project-syndicate.org – “…Nobel laureate economist Angus Deaton call deaths of despair, caused by alcohol, drug overdoses, and suicide…The only time I have seen anything like these declines in health – outside of war or epidemics – was when I was chief economist of the World Bank and found out that mortality and morbidity…
Source – econimica.blogspot.com – “…The UN projects that the decline in births (excluding Africa) taking place since 1989 will only continue. But I’ll show why significantly lower annual births are far more realistic than the UN projections. And given nation after nation is reporting “shocking” declines in births in 2018 and again 2019…the estimated numbers…
Source – cobdencentre.org – “…Whereas in a hard money system the amount of savings sets an upper limit to the amount of borrowing, today’s imbalance between savers and would-be borrowers can be simply circumvented by governments and banks siphoning off purchasing power from others by inflating the currency. Never mind credit expansion and the business…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.com – “…The US economy will crash much harder. Like Russia in 1998, the US is extremely import-dependent. But here the US government is not the only large borrower: most of US corporations are zombified corpses bloated with debt. For many years they have been borrowing at artificially low interest rates in order…
Source – ellenbrown.com – “… The Fed Protects Gamblers at the Expense of the Economy – By Ellen Brown Although the repo market is little known to most people, it is a $1-trillion-a-day credit machine, in which not just banks but hedge funds and other “shadow banks” borrow to finance their trades. Under the Federal…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…Financialization is the mass commoditization of debt collaterized by previously unsecuritized assets, a pyramiding of risk and speculation that is only possible in a massive expansion of low-cost credit and leverage for those at the top of the wealth-power pyramid: financiers, banks and corporations” The Fed Can’t Reverse The Decline Of…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com – “…If the Federal Reserve was looking for a media lockdown on news about the trillions of dollars in cumulative repo loans it has funneled quietly to Wall Street’s trading houses since September 17 of last year, it could not have found a better cloud cover than Donald Trump. First the impeachment…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com – “…The obscene money spigot from the New York Fed to Wall Street’s trading houses didn’t start with the epic financial crisis of 2008, as most Americans believe. It started following the dot.com bust, which was fueled by fraudulent research from Wall Street’s trading houses. The money from the Fed to Wall…
Source – truthdig.com – “…It reminds me of Moldova after the fall of the Soviet Union: oligarchs running wild, stashing their gains in buildings,” James Wright, an attorney and former Treasury Department bank examiner, told me…“Back then, you’d walk down the street, and people would say, ‘That building is a washing machine.’ Everyone knew it.…
Source – thesaker.is – “…The godfathers of modern banking have a lively lexical imagination. They invented a brave new vocabulary that simultaneously informs and misinforms, leads and misleads, darkens and enlightens, depresses and amuses…In other words, the Cabal (or the political establishment, or the deep state) creates its own reality. Which brings to mind Donald…
Source – peakprosperity.com – “…Paying any government to lend it money is a swindle. Buying Greek national debt with a lower rate of return than US Treasury debt is a swindle. These and a thousand others completely obvious swindles, and yet here we are with the vast machinery of state and corporate journalism aligned to…
Source – revealnews.org – “…America’s cities are being bought up, bit by bit, by anonymous shell companies using piles of cash. Modest single-family homes, owned for generations by families, now are held by corporate vehicles with names that appear to be little more than jumbles of letters and punctuation – such as SC-TUSCA LLC, CNS1975…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…Our crisis isn’t just political—it’s structural…the organizations that dominate our economy—centralized corporations and government—become destined to fail. We see this failure in both the soaring inequality that has hollowed out the American Dream as well as in the rising tide of social and political disunity” Neofeudalism Isn’t a Flaw of the…
Source – truthdig.com – “…As the economist Karl Polanyi wrote, that there are two kinds of freedoms. There are the bad freedoms to exploit those around us and extract huge profits without regard to the common good. And there are the good freedoms—freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, freedom of meeting, freedom of association, freedom…
Source – tomdispatch.com – “…Gordon Adams, who went on to be the top defense budget official in the Clinton White House in the 1990s, wrote a seminal study, The ‘Iron Triangle’, while I was at CEP. That book laid out in a memorable fashion the symbiotic relationships among congressional representatives, the arms industry, and the…
Source – riggedgame.blog – ” …December 12, the New York Fed announced that over the next month it would shower the trading houses on Wall Street with a total of $2.93 trillion in short-term loans. The money is for a Wall Street liquidity crisis that has yet to be explained in credible terms to the…
Source – williamengdahl.com – ‘…Two major events define the true Volcker legacy. First was in August 1971 when he was a senior official in the US Treasury under Nixon. The second was as Jimmy Carter’s Fed chairman beginning in October 1979. These define the events that led to the deindustrialization of the United States and…
Source – aier.org – “…Oddly enough, Senator Warren and other capitalism critics seldom ask how the system got rigged and what might be done to undo the rigging. But of course, the rigging is done in Washington, sometimes when special interest groups—including corporations—lobby congress for favorable treatment. And how might that be undone? By trimming…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…Facebook in particular has trampled the privacy of its users, manipulated users unwittingly through involuntary experiments and controls what many people around the globe see while online – most of the time without users even realizing it. But imagine instead of just silencing and marginalizing opponents or controlling the information the…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…Leading families of Venice moved their operation out of the lagoons during the 17th century in order to become the Anglo-Dutch Empire. This valuable research recounts the creation of a new system of private central banking innovated by Venice’s Banco della Piazza di Rialto of 1587 which morphed into the Bank…
Source – gizadeathstar.com – ‘…Human trafficking – that’s simply a nice, convenient, modern euphemism for slavery, so as not to upset our modern “sensibilities”. Modern slave masters, unlike those of previous centuries, now have the technology to do precisely that. Hence, as I averred in my blog on hidden finance earlier this week, human trafficking…
Source – schiffgold.com – “…Remember, a lot of the stuff we’re buying, and probably almost all of the stuff we’re buying is imported. We’re not making it. It’s made in other countries. So, we’re buying it on a national credit card as well as an individual credit card. So, whatever we spend just means larger…
Source – plata.com.mx – “…Thanks to the elimination of Kings and their royal right to create money, and their substitution with weak, vacillating Democracies around the world, the International Banks wormed their way into actual Sovereignty in the course of the 19th and 20th Centuries. It is the International Banks that rule our world; Democratic…
Source – counterpunch.org – “…Several of the other presidential candidates are calling for various forms of wealth taxes. If the most rigorous of these were enacted, Bloomberg’s grand fortune would shrink substantially — by more than $3 billion next year, according to one estimate. In other words, by undercutting wealth tax advocates, Bloomberg would save…
Source – alt-market.com – “…For the past several decades the dollar as the world reserve currency was the core of globalist influence, this is about to change and we can see the signs today…The death of the dollar and physical cash is only the primer for a new and even more invasive world order” The…
Source – – “…U.S. deficits are going to jump to over $2 trillion a year…the national debt will run up towards $40 trillion over the next decade. The Fed, through YCC or some other wild scheme, will take on the dirty deed of monetizing this debt. They’ll create money from nothing and loan it to…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…The Supreme Court even ruled in 2010 that “companies are persons” and “money is speech”. Former representative Mick Mulvaney summed it up in 2018: “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you”…
