Source – .nytimes.com – On the 74th floor of the Time Warner Center, Condominium 74B was purchased in 2010 for $15.65 million by a secretive entity called 25CC ST74B L.L.C. It traces to the family of Vitaly Malkin, a former Russian senator and banker who was barred from entering Canada because of suspected connections to…
Source – democraticunderground.com – As long as their have been human societies, there have been criminals. Despite the best efforts of lawmakers and religions, humans can’t be trusted to do the right thing, even when we’re aware of the consequences. The prison system used to be a last resort, a place you sent people when…
Source – wagingnonviolence.org – McKinsey, one of the world’s preeminent business consultants, released a sobering new report this week detailing that, worldwide, total debt has risen by 40.1 percent — or $57 billion — since the financial crisis of 2008. “Debt,” here, can mean many things: debt to other countries and international institutions, as in…
Source – tfrnewshub.com – (Editors Note: DEAD MEN DON”T TALK) http://www.tfrnewshub.com/economic-media/gallup-ceo-fears-he-will-suddenly-disappear-for-exposing-unemployment-rates-big-lie/
Source – thefreedomreport.us – A crackdown in corruption in China that has hushed the once frenzied Macau casino business image: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png took its toll on Wynn Resorts in the company’s fourth quarter.Labor delays, for one, have pushed back the company’s image: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png opening date of Chinese New Year 2016 for its $4.1 billion Wynn Palace…
Source – libertyblitzkrieg.com – Nowhere is the fraudulent and criminal “oligarch recovery” more on display than in my hometown of New York City. Despite benefitting more than any other community from an enormous taxpayer bailout of the industry that destroyed the economy, financial services, the vast majority of the wealth has been allocated to a…
Source – investmentwatchblog.com – Gregory Mannarino of TradersChoice.net says, “We are watching epic events occur. People have been saying for years, where is the collapse, where is it? It’s now. Look at the actions of the world central banks. They are becoming more and more desperate. They are slashing interest rates and there are negative…
Source – peakprosperity.com – I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous. ~ Nomi Prins Today, the ‘revolving door’ connecting our political and financial systems is evident to anyone…
Source – smh.com.au – Who is killing the Great Bankers of Europe? This was almost the name of a good Ted Kotcheff movie about a jealous chef (spoiler alert) who poisoned all his competitors in order to become the best. The person or persons behind the litany of mysterious deaths of bankers worldwide in the…
Source – zerohedge.com – With NIRP raging in the Eurozone and over €1.5 trillion in European government bonds trading with negative yields, many were wondering when any of this perverted bond generosity will spill over to other debtors, not just Europe’s insolvent governments (who can only print negative interest debt because of the ECB’s backstop…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.ca – “They can’t really grasp the fact that everything they’ve built has stopped working, because their ideology forbids them from doing it. So that’s identical with what was going on in the Soviet Union.” -Dmitry Orlov Orlov’s perspective on collapse is informed by his extended trips to his former homeland before and…
Source – theguardian.com – Hedge fund managers are preparing getaways by buying airstrips and farms in remote areas, former hedge fund partner tells Davos during session on inequality With growing inequality and the civil unrest from Ferguson and the Occupy protests fresh in people’s mind, the world’s super rich are already preparing for the consequences.…
Source – wakeup-world.com – As many have heard by now, the leaders of the so-called BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – used the occasion of the 6th BRICS Summit in Brasilia, Brazil to announce the creation of the long-awaited BRICS Development Bank. Formally the “New Development Bank”, it will be…
Source – zombiemarkets.com – Via Hoisington Investment Management, Deflation “No stock-market crash announced bad times. The depression rather made its presence felt with the serial crashes of dozens of commodity markets. To the affected producers and consumers, the declines were immediate and newsworthy, but they failed to seize the national attention. Certainly, they made no…
Source – .visualcapitalist.com – Bre-X Scandal: A History Timeline Sponsored by: BDO and BDO Natural Resources LinkedIn Group This infographic documents the rise and fall of Bre-X. From initial private offerings at 30 cents a share, Bre-X stock climbed to more than $250 on the open market. Near the peak of Bre-X share prices, major…
Source – zerohedge.com – Since last May (and likely long before) when the topic of “de-dollarization” was first uttered in official circles (and not just tin-foil-hat-wearing blogs), the rest of the world (un-isolated as they are) has been warming to the idea that perhaps – just perhaps – it is time to de-dollarize (more or…
Source – constantinereport.com – Family dynasty behind BMW admits to using 50,000 slave labourers during Nazi era Magda Goebbels’ descendants own a 46.7 per cent stake in BMW Her son from a previous marriage, Harald Quandt, inherited a huge fortune German family are now the richest in Germany, overtaking Aldi’s owners Harald was the only…
Source – telegraph.co.uk, By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in Davos – The economic prophet who foresaw the Lehman crisis with uncanny accuracy is even more worried about the world’s financial system going into 2015. Beggar-thy-neighbour devaluations are spreading to every region. All the major central banks are stoking asset bubbles deliberately to put off the day of…
Source – alternet.org – America is the most unequal country in the developed world. We also pay the lowest taxes among all developed nations. Is there a connection? Runaway inequality and declining taxes are linked together through a set of economic policies called the “Better Business Climate” model which came to America around 1980. (By…
Source – hiddensecretsofmoney.com – In this preview of the Wealth Cycles Report for January 2015, Mike Maloney gives some insight via historical examples to show you that the global ramifications of the Swiss currency revaluation may be a lot more severe than you think. “This is desperate. The central banks are now backed into a…
Source – dr-rath-foundation.org – The Laws of the Pharmaceutical Business with Disease Some people may say that the pharmaceutical industry cannot be that bad. Unfortunately, it is. Fortunately, however, it is very easy for everyone to understand why this industry has such a detrimental effect on millions of human lives. It is not about individual…
Source – armstrongeconomics.com – Welcome to Armstrong Economics where our mission is provide a public service for the average person to comprehend the global economy and for professionals to access the most sophisticated international analysis possible. We provide an integrated understandable global model approach that is free of personal bias, bravado, or other nonsense to…
Source – naturalnews.com – Most Americans could never find the tiny former Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan on a map, but the energy-rich nation recently something that could certainly have global implications. As reported by Agence France-Presse (AFP) and financial analysis website Zero Hedge, Turkmenistan just devalued its currency against the U.S. dollar — for now,…
Source – zerohedge.com – Back in November, before most grasped just how serious the collapse in crude was (and would become, as well as its massive implications), we wrote “How The Petrodollar Quietly Died, And Nobody Noticed“, because for the first time in almost two decades, energy-exporting countries would pull their “petrodollars” out of world…
Soiurce – wakingtimes.com – Shortly after the Federal Reserve (Fed) was established in the USA in 1913, the international Banksters changed the process of how banks lend money to the American people and the rest of the world. They did this by removing the gold backed US dollar and replaced it with fiat currency that…
Source – .thefiscaltimes.com – It’s getting serious now: On Wednesday, West Texas Intermediate futures tested a low of $46.83 a barrel before rebounding. That’s down nearly 57 percent from the summertime high of $107.68 and pushing toward the depths last seen during the 2008 financial crisis and recession that followed. Wholesale gasoline futures tested a…
Source – davidstockmanscon – Crude oil is not the only commodity that is crashing. Iron ore is on a similar trajectory and for a common reason. Namely, the two-decade-long economic boom fueled by the money printing rampage of the world’s central banks is beginning to cool rapidly. What the old-time Austrians called “malinvestment” and what Warren Buffet…
Source – prospect.org – This last year saw the pace of job growth pick up, a welcome development. Yet the economy remains far from healthy. In 2014 the twin issues of income inequality and stagnant wage growth for the vast majority of Americans took center stage. Better late than never. The top charts of 2014…
Source – truththeory.com – Princes of the Yen” reveals how Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda and desire of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept entirely in the dark about this. Based on a book by Professor Richard Werner, a visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan during the 90s crash,…
Source – firstrebuttal.com – So they got away with $9 trillion. And they did it right before our very eyes. Let me show you how they did it. The thieves counterfeited $6 trillion in ‘printed’ money and then washed that money through the US markets resulting in manipulated gains of $12 trillion. Now obviously the…
Source – globalresearch.ca The world is still hell-bent for hydrocarbon-based energy. Russia is one of the worlds largest producer of energy. Russia has recently announced that in the future she will no longer trade energy in US dollars, but in rubles and currencies of the trading partners. In fact, this rule will apply to all…
Source – naturalnews.com – Most politically active Americans are aware of the massive amounts of money spent on political campaigns. And most are also aware that corporate dollars, which fund so-called superPACs (political action committees), give hundreds of millions ever election cycle. In fact, according to a new study by the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan…
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