By George Washington Images by William Banzai … OBVIOUSLY! The looting in Ferguson, Missouri is bad. The looters are giving the peaceful protesters against the shooting of Michael Brown a bad name, and provoking an armed (and over-militarized) response by […]
CHRISTOPH GISIGER, NEW YORK «An orgy of money printing»: Since the financial crisis the Federal Reserve has ballooned its balance sheet from 900 to nearly 4500 billion Dollars. (Photographer: Andrew Harrer) The editor of the […]
By Mac Slavo We often hear government officials and mainstream financial pundits throwing around numbers like a billion or trillion. To most Americans these numbers are indiscernible. They are so incredibly enormous that we can’t even imagine what […]
Authored by Jim Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, Central banks are printing rules almost as fast as they’re printing money. The consequences of these fast-multiplying directives — complicated, long-winded, and sometimes self-contradictory — is one […]
by Dave Gonigam. Posted Oct 13, 2014. Somewhere in Washington today, Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew are holed up in a conference room — conducting a drill in the event a major bank […]
by Phoenix Capital Research We are getting clear signals from the “smart money” that something bad is looming on the horizon. The most obvious signal comes from the ultra-wealthy (those worth $20 million or […]
By Paul Craig Roberts The aggressive and mindless stance that Washington’s warmongers have taken toward Russia and China have shattered the accomplishment of Reagan and Gorbachev. Reagan and Gorbachev ended the cold war and removed the […]
A confidential report and a fired examiner’s hidden recorder penetrate the cloistered world of Wall Street’s top regulator — and its history of deference to banks. by Jake Bernstein ProPublica, Sep. 26, 2014, 5 a.m. […]
By Michael Snyder I know that headline sounds completely outrageous. But it is actually true. The U.S. government is borrowing about 8 trillion dollars a year, and you are about to see the hard numbers […]
By Michael Snyder For years, many people have suspected that the New York Fed is more or less controlled by the “too big to fail” banks. Well, now we have smoking gun evidence that this is […]
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