Commentary

By John Rubino This morning’s housing report was huge. As one representative headline put it: “Housing starts up sharply; permits highest since 2008″. Dig just a little deeper and it’s still huge, though in a […]

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  In his latest article, former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says, “The Fed is the great deceiver.”   Why is he making this shocking accusation?   The reason is tiny Belgium’s […]

By The Automatic Earth Arthur Siegel Farmhands drinking beer, Jackson, Michigan Fall 1941 It’s a fun day in finance so far today. Eurozone growth is not going anywhere, but there’s no lack of positive anticipations […]

By John Pilger Why do we ­tolerate the threat of ­another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our ­indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even […]

By The Burning Platform “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair – I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got […]

by Jeff Thomas About a year ago, we began to advise those internationalising themselves that the time had arrived at which they might consider divesting themselves of currencies—that holding bank notes may soon become a […]

by rcwhalen Latest comments on Tim Geithner from Bill Black and his blog “New Economic Perspectives” — Chris http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/05/geithners-single-revealing-se… http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/05/geithners-ad-hominem-attacks-… Geithner’s Single Most Revealing Sentence William K. Black Timothy Geithner has a great deal of […]

By Anthony B. Sanders – George Mason University We know the labor market is weak even though it is now almost 5 years since the end of the recession (June 2009). The labor force participation […]

By Zine Larbaoui “History is a teacher nobody listens to.” — Otto von Habsburg         Pictured above is a lead-filled Roman coin, the symbol of the Roman breakdown to which the United […]

By Washington’s blog David Galland notes: Monetary scholar Edwin Vieira … pointed out that every 30 to 40 years the reigning monetary system fails and has to be retooled. The last time around for the […]