Source – slopeofhope.com – “…The inflationary 1970s had been very kind to the Hunts and their businesses. Surging prices in soybeans, crude oil, silver, Texas real estate, and many other commodities augmented the family fortune by billions. The 1980s were a mirror image for the family’s assets. Texas real estate fell in value precipitously, and crude…
Source – mattstoller.substack.com – “…In a fair economy or well-run economy or political system, could Warren Buffett exist? – No, I mean, right from the outset, he couldn’t exist because the way in which he created his business is through creating an insurance conglomerate and using the payments for these large investments. And now he…
Source – slopeofhope.com – “…On January 17, the Hunts had $4.5 billion silver, $3.5 billion of which was profit. By the closing bell of Silver Thursday, the picture had changed dramatically: now the Hunts silver misadventure had $1.5 billion in assets (the bullion itself) and $2.5 billion in liabilities. The Hunts were presented with just…
Source – goldswitzerland.com – “…if hyperinflation takes hold, which I think is very likely, we could see $100 billion gold. At that point I would expect the ratio to collapse in line with most stocks and be substantially below 0.5 to 1. Gold at $100 billion might sound sensational but remember that the world has…
Source – zerohedge.com – “… Bunker chartered a fleet of 707 planes for the sole purpose of jetting the hoard of silver overseas, and he needed some serious security to ride with the jets to ensure their safe passage….To this end, the Hunts held a shooting contest at their Circle K Range, hosting a multitude of cowboys…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…Graham says that bankers, principally Rothschilds and Morgan’s, wanted a massive war that would greatly expand US national debt. By acquiring this debt and having legislation passed that would designate the debt as reserves for the issuance of money and credit, the banks would be able to use their power to…
Source – grrrgraphics.com – “… You won’t see dollars in wheelbarrows any time soon. Most of the Federal Reserve’s dollar printing goes directly to a handful of fantastically wealthy people at the top of the pyramid. Many of them own the Federal Reserve. The Fed is propping up a market that is mostly owned by the top. We The People are…
Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com – “…In short, what we have is a government-ordered depression, not a macroeconomic recession that is purportedly remediable by a huge dose of monetary and fiscal stimulus. So the truth is, the Virus Patrol, not the Fed and Washington’s everything bailout brigade, is in charge of the recovery from the Q2 disaster”…
Source – peakprosperity.com – “…Where the Great Financial Crisis in 2008 could have been — and should have been — a wake-up call to operate the system more equitably and sustainably, it was used instead as an excuse to make things even worse. No bank executives were charged or even went to jail for any crimes…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…Now comes defense attorney and former public prosecuter John Remington Graham. Was there a deeper underlying cause, an agenda unbeknown to the southern states and perhaps also to Lincoln? Graham puts forward an intriguing thesis that bankers spent a decade fomenting hatred between North and South in order to provoke a war that…
Source – gizadeathstar.com – “…So why Africa? I suspect you know the answer…he’s already on record as wanting to make sure blacks get his “vaccine” first. And, oh, look, he’s chosen the poorest (and therefore, most illiterate and therefore, least likely to resist) parts of Africa to test it. I call that the real “systemic racism” ‘Biometric…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…While a wave of bankruptcies continues to wash over the country as a result of the pandemic (and just poorly run businesses), that hasn’t stopped the executives of some of the biggest trainwrecks in recent business history from collecting fat bonus checks…Out of the 100 companies that have filed for bankruptcy…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…Dick Cheney was now Halliburton Chairman and CEO. Cheney now struck a more business-like tone, cutting oil deals with Saddam Hussein. According to the Financial Times, from 1998-2000 Halliburton did nearly $24 million in business selling oil drilling equipment and services to Iraq. Cheney & Company circumvented the US embargo by…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…It appears global bond investors were “made an offer they could not refuse” as, according to financial and legal documents seen by the Financial Times, they bought bonds backed by the crime proceeds of Italy’s most powerful mafia…An estimated €1bn of these private bonds – backed in part by front companies charged with working for the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…In short: unless the Fed wants another market meltdown on its hands, it better pre-emptively stimulate and do so to the tune of trillions. In other words, having injected over $3 trillion in liquidity in the past three months, JPM argues that this is nowhere near enough, and incidentally, the House of…
Source – sovereignman.com – “..By 2008 the inflation rate in Zimbabwe was so extreme that no one could even calculate it anymore. Economists estimated that it was as high as 800 TRILLION percent….Policymakers around the world, including in the US and Europe, are racing to become Zimbabwe as quickly as they can. But they’re crazy enough…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…First world work forces were re-enserfed as part-time jobs with no health or pension benefits replaced the security of a middle class existence. Corporate investment in the US ceased as corporations used their profits to buy back their own stocks, thus raising share prices and maximizing executive bonuses and shareholders’ capital…
Source – whowhatwhy.org – “…As a gateway to Latin America, Mexico seemed destined to be a US subsidiary, not a partner. So it was doubly ironic when the United States “sneezed,” as it were. The recklessness of the US banking system and insufficient oversight by its key regulator, the Federal Reserve, caused a US financial…
Source – consortiumnews.com – “…This idea of the plutonomy was actually leaked out in a Citigroup analyst note several years ago…It read: “The world is dividing into two blocs – the plutonomies, where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy few, and the rest. …”What are the common drivers of Plutonomy? Disruptive…
Source – ellenbrown.com – “… While the public was distracted with protests, riots and lockdowns, BlackRock suddenly emerged from the shadows to become the “fourth branch of government”…BlackRock also owns major interests in nearly every mega-bank and in major media…BlackRock is not actually working for us, although we the American people have now become its…
Source – silverdoctors.com – “…Alasdair Macleod returns to Liberty and Finance / Reluctant Preppers to alert us that his latest research indicates we have recently passed an inflection nexus of numerous critical indicators, signaling a probable systemic failure of the banking system within months, and a collapse of the USD this year” “The Day Everything…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com – “…The Federal Reserve has authorized 11 financial bailout programs thus far. Despite Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s reassurances at his press conferences that these programs are to help American families, a full 10 of these programs are actually bailouts of Wall Street banks or their trading units” The Fed Just Pulled Off…
Source – riggedgame.blog – “…You may think that such a crisis is unlikely, with memories of the 2008 crash still so fresh. But banks learned few lessons from that calamity, and new laws intended to keep them from taking on too much risk have failed to do so. As a result, we could be on…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com – “…The plan was rolled out in August 2019 at the G7 summit of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming – months before the public was aware of any financial crisis….Helicopter money is also spelled out in the BlackRock plan, which explains why simultaneously with the $454 billion Congress carved out for…
Source – themostimportantnews.com – “…The madness that has been unfolding on Wall Street? Even though we are in the middle of the worst global pandemic in 100 years, and even though rioters and looters have been turning our major cities into war zones, stock prices have been going up day after day. In fact, the…
Source – maalamalama.com – “…Currently, the viral pandemic and the George Floyd protests have provided the perfect cover for the continued looting of the banking class from everyone else as all the measures that were implemented by Central Bankers to transfer near limitless amounts of money from the working class to the top bankers in…
Source – morningporridge.com – “…One way may be through the magic of Modern Monetary Theory. The way QE works is for a National Treasury to sell bonds in the morning, the government to spend the money by lunchtime, and the Central Bank to buy the bonds in the evening. The result is a liability on…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…In the Plantation Economy, the Company suppresses any innovation that threatens its monopoly and the state enforces whatever means the Corporation deploys: buying up patents and small companies, predatory pricing to bankrupt competitors, etc. The Plantation Economy is a mono-culture of large corporations and their partner in rentier skimming, the state.…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…Britain continued to pursue total control of Iran, not through colonial occupation, but rather through economic “agreements”. In the midst of carving up the empire’s new “jewels” of the Middle East from the Sykes-Picot fraud on the Arabian people and the illegal British occupation of Palestine, the notorious Anglo-Persian Agreement of…
Source – michael-hudson.com – “…Economist Michael Hudson explains is not a “bailout” but a massive, $6 trillion giveaway to Wall Street, banks, large corporations, and stockholders. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the enormous financial scam with Hudson, who reveals how the economy actually works, with the Federal Reserve printing money so rich elites don’t…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…By stripping fraud and predation of moral consequence, we’ve covered the putrid rot with a thoroughly modern amorality which we can summarize as anything goes and winner takes all. Monopoly, quasi-monopoly and cartels (i.e. Warren Buffett’s entire portfolio) are presented as the natural order of things rather than an evil construct…
Source – phoenixcapitalmarketing.com – “…Elites knew well in advance that another crisis was coming, and they put in place legislation that would allow them to: 1) Freeze bank accounts and use them to “bail-in” financial institutions/ banks. 2) Close the “gates” on investment funds/ money market funds to stop you from getting your money out.…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “….Once housing and real estate valuations fall, that will trigger a decline in the value of all other costly, narrowly owned assets, which will reinforce the reverse wealth effect. This is the systemic payback for concentrating ownership of assets in the hands of the few: when their bubble-era priced assets plummet…
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