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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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Payroll Tax Deal Is Middle Class Tax Hike, Fannie/Freddie Perma-Nationalization In Drag

Count on Washington to always find a sleazy, back-door path to forge a reprehensible bi-partisan “deal” that actually screws the people rather than helps them.

26Dec2011 | | 2 comments | 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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Walker’s “Dying Economy” Resurrects Dead Argument

“It’s the monetary system, stupid” — not computers, eliminating employment opportunities.

13Sep2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Punditry Aside, Market Crash Is Continued Liquidity Panic

this isn’t a “normal” trading market; it isn’t responding to the “big news” events in a common-sense way (much beloved by omnipresent j-school financial writers), if at all. It is only responding to what is happening with liquidity. And that is clearly draining out. Will we get the same Fed reaction (QE) we got in 2008? Most likely.

8Aug2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Economic Rape of Europe Nearly Complete, Part III

In this installment I will focus on the second strategy for completing the looting of Europe. It is a mere two-word phrase, and arguably the most-odious two-word combination in the realm of 21st century economics: “loss guarantees”. It is the ultimate form of “welfare” for both the banker Oligarchs and the bond parasites

28Jul2011 | | 2 comments | 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
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Fiscal Suicide, Part II: A Swirling Motion

Medicare cuts (or lack thereof), government-sourced personal income, emergency loans to the states, and more. Russ discusses how it is hard to see how we’ll get by without some of this being renewed — and none of it is factored into the deficit projections.

19Jul2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Fiscal Suicide; The Point of No Return

The bottom line here is that the gravy train of no accountability, no consequences spending is over.

19Jul2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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