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Only 10% of U.S. Population Now ‘Middle-Class’

As we see the “Occupy Wall Street” movement beginning to gain traction across the U.S., it is clear that the 80% of the U.S. population living as serfs and the 10% of the population clinging to middle-class status have finally had enough. Enough lies. Enough hypocrisy. Enough of the incompetence in our top-down economic hierarchies.

11Oct2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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What the Lamestream Media has Missed: Occupy Wall Street Is a Memo To Obama And The Establishment

The smooth arc from the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, and how the establishment and the media have put themselves on the wrong side of history.

6Oct2011 | | 20 comments | Continued
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The Great Commodities Heist

Bankrupt and near-bankrupt Western governments are stealing billions of dollars worth of various commodities from commodity-producers around the world… There can be no rational/economic explanation for the severe plunges in commodity prices other than the fraudulent manipulation of markets.

3Oct2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Breaking: ML-Implode Warned Government Of Taylor Bean Fraud A Year Before Collapse

ML-Implode staff has confirmed that the advance tip about the Taylor, Bean and Whitaker mortgage company mentioned in the Federal Housing Finance Authority (FHFA) Office of Inspector General’s June 2011 Complaints Process Audit came from ML-Implode, confirming our longstanding suspicion. The details and implications are discussed herein.

31Aug2011 | | 3 comments | Continued
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The GDP And The Government’s Inflationary Hall of Mirrors

What’s the best way to calculate a “real GDP”, and what does it mean for the economy”?

29Aug2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Crumbling Infrastructure Symbolizes U.S. Economy

Remember all of that “infrastructure spending” which was (supposedly) part of the stimulus package, which in turn supposedly led to a “U.S. economic recovery”? It never happened. Just like the supposed “recovery” itself, it was nothing but smoke-and-mirrors. No recovery, no investment in infrastructure. Only the debts from all that “stimulus” were real.

19Aug2011 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Why 2011 Is Not 2008

With many investors now having descended back to full-fledged “panic mode”, we explain why 2011 could never be another event like the Crash of ’08, as the nature of any such crash would be remarkably different.

8Aug2011 | | 3 comments | Continued
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The Two ‘Faces’ of U.S. Debt-Ceiling Deal

Mercifully, it appears that the U.S. debt-ceiling farce has finally ended – with an anti-climactic “thud”. It is only fitting that the two-faced regime which negotiated such an agreement should present us with a scenario which has two distinct interpretations.

2Aug2011 | | 7 comments | Continued
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Such a Deal

So they made a deal… in a week’s time the Treasury will need to hit the market and raise around $150 billion in new cash, with Primary Dealers and other market participants having virtually no advance notice of what type of paper will be sold when. The last time the market faced anything like that was when they were raising money for the TARP in late August and September of 2008, and we know what happened to the stock market then. Splat!

31Jul2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Dinosaurs, Dodo Birds, Wooly Mammoths, and Free Markets

Connecting the dots of recent revelations of the Fed’s market manipulations jointly with the money center banks amidst the bailouts, as well as the public oil market manipulation, with evidence of long-running gold and silver markets manipulations and interest rate manipulation through derivatives.

22Jul2011 | | 0 comments | Continued