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The Foreclosure Fraud Fantasy

A deal does not fix the housing market; it only makes things worse by permanently entrenching all this systemic fraud into the U.S. legal system. It throws away the states’ right to compensation at a time when they still don’t have the slightest idea of the total extent of Wall Street fraud.

9Feb2012 | | 3 comments | Continued
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Deadbeats ‘Bailing Out’ Deadbeats

Surely even the media drones and market “experts” can understand the concept that one deadbeat with no money cannot (financially) bail out another deadbeat with no money?

7Feb2012 | | 5 comments | Continued
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Exposing Silver Mythology, Part II

Judging by its own words, the CFTC apparently sees no need to actively “regulate” the silver market until silver inventories hit zero – and the entire market implodes. At best this can be described as “willful blindness”, and calls into question the presumption that this official regulator of the silver market has been acting in good faith.

6Feb2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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“Trading Commodities Bankruptcies”

I just watched “Trading Places” for the first time in a long time yesterday, and couldn’t resist…

31Jan2012 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Exposing Silver Mythology, Part I

What then are we to make of the fact that the self-described (mainstream) “experts” on the silver market, the “official” sources for data on the silver market, and the primary regulator of the silver market all regularly and consistently demonstrate complete ignorance of even the most elementary of economic principles? Are we to attribute this to gross incompetence, inherent bias, or an intentional attempt to deceive?

24Jan2012 | | 1 comment | Continued
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“Corporate Personhood” Highlights Misunderstanding of The Role of The People vs Constitutional Government

More local control of government and the economy is good, but Constitutional government is not to blame for our ills, including Citizen’s United and “corporate personhood.”

23Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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The ‘Perils’ of a Gold Standard?

A gold standard does not “cause” depressions (governments do). However, at the same time, a gold standard is also not a magical, economic panacea. Specifically, imposing the fiscal discipline inherent in a gold standard will not lead to a good economic outcome in the hands of a corrupt government (i.e. one which governs for the benefit of the privileged few as opposed to the majority).

19Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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The Myth of U.S. Consumer De-Leveraging

The supposed “de-leveraging” which the mainstream media boasted of was nothing but propaganda mythology. However, the new consumer debt which Americans have piled on since the beginning of 2010 is very, very real. And all the resulting U.S. auto-loan defaults, credit-card defaults, student-loan defaults, personal bankruptcies, and foreclosures in the months ahead will be very, very real as well.

18Jan2012 | | 4 comments | Continued
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The Fed’s Sleazy Idea Of “Transparency”

Don’t believe the propaganda — whenever the Fed offers “more transparency”, they are only looking to twist the knife in Main Street’s back further. Their latest announcement about publishing “interest rate projections” is no different…

6Jan2012 | | 6 comments | Continued
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Is The Gold Bull “For Real?”

For those not following closely, gold just put in its 11th consecutive yearly price increase, with an approximately 14% rise on the calendar year… but you probably haven’t heard of it. In fact, you probably think that “gold is going down”, based on what you’ve heard in the media recently (if not continuously for the past 5 years or so). An interesting question then remains: why has this disconnect occurred?

4Jan2012 | | 4 comments | Continued
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