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Federal Withholding Tax Data Says US Already In Recession

Lee Adler looks at tax withholding data and finds an ominous sign that the economy may have dipped into recession again. See his charts and arguments and decide if you want to believe the Mainstream Financial Media or your own lying eyes!

28Jun2011 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Thirty-Year Mortgages = Mortgage Rape?

Bloomberg had managed to find an anecdotal account of a U.S. homeowner who had actually shortened the term of their mortgage… but in the real world, for every U.S. homeowner shortening the length of their mortgage there are ten other mortgage-holders (twenty? one hundred?) increasing the length of their mortgage. Indeed the favorite “mortgage modification” being offered by the banksters to homeowners on the verge of foreclosure is to dupe them into refinancing over a longer term.

16Jun2011 | | 7 comments | Continued
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The False-Flag Attacks on ‘Speculators’

The media attacks on “speculators” continue unabated. The goal: to demonize commodities-investors in the eyes of the deluded masses, to punish then with malicious regulatory actions (like that perpetrated by the CME Group in both the silver and oil markets), and ultimately to try to bully these people into letting go of their (safe) commodities – and returning to banker-paper, where the bankers can then continue their relentless stealing-through-money-printing.

14Jun2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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The Real Truth on U.S. Phantom-Jobs

In terms of the “unemployment rate”, the numbers are unequivocal: the percentage of employable Americans who are without jobs continues to go up every month – due to the combined effect of the still extremely high weekly lay-offs, plus the fact that the number of “new jobs” doesn’t come close to even matching the growth in population.

We’ve already been through this charade in the U.S. housing market. Again we were told by countless media talking-heads and “experts” (on countless occasions) that the U.S. housing market had “bottomed” in 2009. These shills even had the audacity to claim there was a “recovery” taking place in the U.S. housing market – as opposed to merely a “dead-cat bounce” after the worst real estate crash in the history of the U.S. economy. Returning to the real world, we have now seen U.S. housing prices plunge through that supposed “bottom”, meaning that even the propagandists have been forced to abandon their lie about a “recovery” in this sector of the economy.

3Jun2011 | | 2 comments | Continued
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The Price-Myth Regarding U.S. Foreclosures

“… when propaganda outlets like Realty Trac write that “the average discount for REO [bank-owned] properties is 35%”, this is a complete myth. The reality (when we reverse the arithmetic) is that the average non-foreclosed home in the U.S. is being priced at a 50% premium above the real price… The only way that someone could argue that these foreclosure prices are merely “temporary anomalies” rather than the future of the U.S. housing market was if there was some end in sight to these millions of foreclosures. There isn’t.”

26May2011 | | 8 comments | Continued
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Why Ron Paul Is Pushing For a US Gold Sale

The New York Sun is reporting, as part of the debt ceiling debate, that Rep. Ron Paul (among others) is actually calling for a US gold sale to ameliorate the situation… Astute observers may note that Rep. Paul is doing something very shrewd here.

18May2011 | | 3 comments | Continued
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Silver Price Suppression: How, Why and Effect

This paper is written as a response to market observers who opine, “how can the price of precious metals be suppressed when their prices have empirically gone up 4 fold and more over the past 10 years?” The following graph depicts the price performance of silver over the course of 2010, paying special attention to […]

28Mar2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Slate’s Strange Currency On Monetary Gold

Slate magazine recently published an article by Annie Lowrey called “Strange Currency” excoriating various efforts by states and activists around the country to move back towards sound money by re-introducing a monetary role for gold and silver. The piece will be rebutted here… it The article wasn’t just bad, it actually boggles the mind how disingenuous a story at such a high-profile publishing outlet could be — and have the “journalists” involved generally get away with it.

24Feb2011 | | 5 comments | Continued
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

The purpose of this article is to draw particular attention to the recent disparity in crude oil prices – namely the difference between two benchmarks – West Texas Intermediate [WTI] and Brent [North Sea] Crude. Historically the price of WTI trades at a premium to lesser quality Brent North Sea Crude. This paper lays out […]

8Feb2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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“Deflationists” Ignore Quality, Quantity Reduction

I wouldn’t be surprised if 5-10% a year inflation is being “hidden” in reduced quality and quantity of retail goods. I would be interested to hear what others are seeing in their daily budgeting.

12Jan2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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