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	05/17/13 - Gangster State America There are many signs of gangster state America. One is the collusion between federal authorities and banksters in a criminal conspiracy to rig the markets for gold and silver. ...

	05/16/13 - Don't Dial Back; Print Harder If The Economy Will Collapse When The Fed Stops Printing Money Then Lets Keep Printing ... Gawker's Hamilton Nolan concludes a discussion of the European Depression with his ...

	05/14/13 - The Federal Reserve's 'Exit Strategy' is Just More Monetary Manipulation The recent media reports that the Federal Reserve has devised an "exit strategy" to reverse their nearly $3 trillion increase of the money supply over the last several years ...

	05/10/13 - US Warns Japan About Currency Debasement The United States warned Japan on Friday to stick to the rules when it came to the value 6:07am EDT of its currency, setting the stage for a potentially uncomfortable meeting ...

	05/07/13 - The Greatest Lie the Fed Ever Told Public life bumbles along under a combination of false pretenses and self-imposed delusions. At the start of last week, it was widely reported that US central bankers had gone ...

	05/06/13 - Federal Reserve Blows More Bubbles Last week at its regular policy-setting meeting, the Federal Reserve announced it would double down on the policies that have failed to produce anything but a stagnant economy. ...

	05/03/13 - Fed Is Tightening. No, It's Loosening. No, It's ... Fed Open to Expanding QE as It Counters Talk of Tapering ... Facing the risk of a fourth straight summertime slowdown, Federal Reserve officials raised the prospect of ...

	05/03/13 - Shock: Federal Reserve Official Calls for End of Fed, Competing Currencies John Stossel: Speaks to Ex-Federal Reserve Employee – Fox Dominant Social Theme: The Fed knows best. Free-Market Analysis: This is a fairly shocking video in the sense ...

	05/01/13 - Here Comes the New Fed Boss Possible Fed Successor Has Admirers and Foe ... Ms. Yellen is now widely viewed as a logical candidate to succeed the current Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, when his term ends ...

	04/29/13 - Gun-slinging Woman Takes on Effete Fed – and Makes It Better! Fed's Esther George: speaking up for middle America ... Federal Reserve officials, as a rule, can expect a tough crowd when they visit places like Oklahoma where suspicion of ...

	04/29/13 - Advocates for Monetary Central Planning Grow More Confused by the Day The great economic experiment of 2013: Ben Bernanke vs. austerity ... We rarely get to see a major, nationwide economic experiment at work, but so far 2013 has been one of ...

	04/29/13 - Recovery for the 7 Percent "From the end of the recession in 2009 through 2011 (the last year for which Census Bureau wealth data are available), the 8 million households in the U.S. with a net worth ...

	04/19/13 - Who Said the Hydra Would Take It Lying Down ... while its several heads were being chopped off one-by-one? I have never appealed to the so-called conspiracy theories in trying to explain the strange world of fluctuations ...

	04/18/13 - 4-12 PSYOPS On the website wikipedia.org, under PSYOPS, the abbreviation used for "Psychological Operations" in government circles, we find: " PSYOPS "[....] Various techniques are used, ...

	04/10/13 - Stuck in the 20th Century The low-rate world was not meant to last. The Federal Reserve is making a better job of it than the European Central Bank ... In 2008-09, when central banks slashed short-term ...

	04/05/13 - Fed Targeted for Centennial Commission: Another 'Nail in the Coffin'? This December will mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Federal Reserve. As we have seen in recent years, there is no institution of economic policy with more power ...

	04/05/13 - The Assault On Gold For Americans, financial and economic Armageddon might be close at hand. The evidence for this conclusion is the concerted effort by the Federal Reserve and its dependent ...

	04/04/13 - Obama Pumps a New Housing Bubble Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit ... The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to ...

	04/03/13 - Flying High on Borrowed Wings After selling off an astounding 56% between October of 2007 and March 2009, the S&P 500 has staged a rally for the ages, surging 120% and recovering all of its lost ground, ...

	04/02/13 - Government Subsidies Are Not the Money Problem Stop Subsidizing Wall Street ... Imagine if the United States had an airline industry in which the biggest carriers that fly both domestically and internationally received a ...

	03/30/13 - Central Banking Is Central Planning A book review in the Wall Street Journal by associate professor of economics at San Jose State University Jeffrey Hummel entitled "The New Central Planning" tends to confirm ...

	03/29/13 - Two Reasons to End US QE? We Can Think of One More ... Why Fed hawks and doves are both starting to talk about ending QE ... Inside the Federal Reserve, consensus is growing over the need to dial back the central bank's ...

	03/27/13 - What Happens After the Housing Bubble Reflates? The Housing Bubble Is Back ... Cullen Roche is worried that the trajectory of housing prices might deviate from what practical assumptions would predict " Real estate returns ...

	03/25/13 - New Commission or Dead Fed? Getting Beyond the Fed ... Let us be the first to endorse the Centennial Monetary Commission Act, which has just been introduced in the Congress. It is being advanced not by ...

	03/22/13 - Ben Bernanke Has Had Enough Bernanke Saying He's Dispensable Suggests Tenure Ending ... Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said he's "spoken to the president a bit" about his future and that he ...

	03/20/13 - Spending Patterns Paint Half Truth On March 13th, the Commerce Department announced a 1.1 percent increase in food and services retail sales, doubling a prior Dow Jones survey of economists that forecast an ...

	03/18/13 - The Congressional Budget Debate Is Just A Sideshow Federal spending once again dominated the debate in Washington last week, as House Republicans and Senate Democrats began work on their ten-year budget plans. Contrary to ...

	03/16/13 - Greenspan Discusses the End of the Fed ... What Comes Next? An interesting article in Forbes entitled "If Alan Greenspan Wants To 'End The Fed', Times Must Be Changing," informs us that the predictions we made long ago about the Federal ...

	03/16/13 - Not Your Father's Stock Market Anymore ... Over at the Los Angeles Times , Tom Petruno has written an article entitled, "Fed Powers the Stock Market Up." In it, he explains why the Federal Reserve is worried about US ...

	03/13/13 - Is Dallas Fed Bank President Dick Fisher ... Ironic? Dallas Fed's Fisher: Three Ways to Curb Too-Big-to-Fail Banks ... Despite honest efforts by the government since the financial crisis, too-big-to-fail banks haven't been reined ...

	03/12/13 - Klarman Yelp: The Fed Has No Clothes Seth Klarman Goes Nuts On The Fed In His Latest Investor Letter ... Seth Klarman, the legendary head of Boston based hedge fund Baupost Group, sent out his letter to investors ...

	03/11/13 - Ben Bernanke's Hollow Victory Most of the unorthodox steps Mr Bernanke has taken since 2008, such as the galaxy of lending windows he set up after the Lehman bankruptcy, or the various quantitative easings, ...

	03/11/13 - Why Central Planning Fails The Dow is still rising. It rose another 125 points yesterday [Marh 5] ... hitting a new record high. Gold is dawdling. We're still thinking about how so many smart people came ...

	03/06/13 - Gentlemen, Start Your Presses In his Congressional testimony last week in Washington, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke took time to downplay the significance of the few dissenting voices on the Fed's Open Market ...

	03/05/13 - The Missing Recovery Officially, since June 2009 the US economy has been undergoing an economic recovery from the December 2007 recession. But where is this recovery? I cannot find it, and neither ...

	02/28/13 - Singapore A Wise Owl Among Currency Snakes As China enters the "Year of the Snake," Singapore stands as a beacon of sound currency in a world gone mad. China's renminbi remains pegged to the US dollar, while even ...

	02/27/13 - Disastrous Financial Transaction Tax Gains Traction 5 Reasons the World Is Catching on to the Financial Transaction Tax ... It has been more than 70 years since John Maynard Keynes wrote about the value of a financial ...

	02/26/13 - Morning in America or Darkness at Noon? Morning in America? U.S. economy poised to accelerate substantially by the end of the year, even if Washington goes forward with $85 billion in budget cuts scheduled to begin ...

	02/15/13 - Fed Official Claims Simple, Powerful Regulation Is Needed – Is it Too Late for That? The Fed discovers chicanery: James Saft ... Acknowledging that sometimes banks chisel clients and bank employees chisel banks may sound obvious to you, but for the Federal ...

	02/09/13 - Senator Bernie Sanders: 'The Fed Is a Fine Institution but Wall Street Is Not' So my own view is, among other things, we've got to start breaking up these huge financial institutions, top six of which have assets equivalent to two-thirds of the GDP of the ...

	02/02/13 - Stocks Over 14,000 – Too Good to Be True? The Dow Jones industrial average has crossed 14,000 and the US mainstream media is celebrating. Presumably the powers-that-be expect that short memories shall convince US ...

	01/23/13 - Bloomberg Discovers Federal Reserve Inflation ... Sort of In today's "Single Best Chart," Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu displays how inflation has increased in the 100 years since the creation of the Federal Reserve. She speaks on Bloomberg ...

	01/22/13 - The Coming Debt Limit Drama: Government Wins, We Lose Last week President Obama bluntly warned Congress that he will not negotiate when it comes to raising the statutory debt limit. If Republicans attempt to use a debt ceiling ...

	01/16/13 - The Trillion Dollar Trick The birth, and the apparent death, of the trillion dollar platinum coin idea may one day be recalled as a mere footnote in the current debt crisis drama. The ultimate rejection ...

	12/26/12 - Republican Sellout Invites Stagflation While it may not be a surprise that the Republicans are preparing to yield on their vow to oppose tax hikes, it should raise investor concerns the world over that an upcoming ...

	12/20/12 - Outlook for 2013: More 'Easy Money' "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." ~ Alexis de Tocqueville We are quickly ...

	11/23/12 - Doorsteps of a Currency Crisis Economic Illiterates Debate Monetary Policy; Monetarist Mush Japan's grand experiment of decades-long QE coupled with Keynesian foolishness is about to take one last gigantic ...

	11/18/12 - Confronting the Fed, Alan Grayson Returns Alan Grayson Returns To Congress ... Alan Grayson, Jewish Democrat, Rides Hispanic Support Back to Congress ... Thanks to overwhelming support from a growing Puerto Rican ...

	10/23/12 - Central Banking Premises Are Lacking? How Would Mitt Romney Influence the Fed? ... Binyamin Applebaum discusses who Mitt Romney would likely tap to replace Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve and says we'd likely ...

	10/17/12 - Inflation: Washington is Blind to Main Street's Biggest Concern Journalists, politicians and economists all seem to agree that the biggest economic issue currently worrying voters is unemployment. It follows then that most believe that the ...

	10/10/12 - Easings Aren't Easy Paul Volcker: QE3 "Will Fail" ... Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman credited with taming the inflationary threat of the 1970s, has warned that further ...

	10/09/12 - Riding Into the Sunset or a Brick Wall? A month ago, I presented the case for why Fed Chairman Bernanke would have strong motivation to launch another round of quantitative easing (QE) before the election. In short, ...

	10/03/12 - The Fed Plays All Its Cards There never really could be much doubt that the current experiment in competitive global currency debasement would end in anything less than a total war. There was always a ...

	10/01/12 - QE3 Destined to Run Until Implosion? The Federal Reserve's third round of bond purchases will likely have to last through 2013 until it can achieve improvement in the labor market, said Charles Evans, the ...

	09/26/12 - Operation Screw With yesterday's Fed decision and press conference [Sept. 13], Chairman Ben Bernanke finally and decisively laid his cards on the table. And confirming what I have been ...

	09/25/12 - Interest Rates Are Prices One of the most enduring myths in the United States is that this country has a free market, when in reality, the market is merely the structural shell of formerly free ...

	09/24/12 - Ben Bernanke's Fed Transparency ... Transparent Ploy? Under Ben Bernanke, a more open and forceful Federal Reserve ... In what might be his final years as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke is transforming the U.S. ...

	09/17/12 - Faber's 'Fed Counterfeiting' Remark is Unusual but Not Extreme These Days Marc Faber: If I Were Bernanke, I Would Resign ... Central bankers are "counterfeit money printers" and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should resign for messing up the ...

	09/14/12 - Desperation Bazooka Tactics; Gold Soars Following Huge Headfake The Fed came out blazing today with desperation bazooka tactics, not that it will matter one iota to jobs or housing (because it won't). Specifically, the Fed announced it ...

	09/05/12 - The Ron Paul Hoax? The Incontrovertible Conundrum Of Dr. Ron Paul ... Without apologies, this research and writing should in no way be misinterpreted as any form of support for the Federal ...

	09/03/12 - Let Central Banking Lose Its Franchise, Not Its Independence At Jackson Hole, a growing fear for Fed independence ... Increasing political encroachment on the Federal Reserve, particularly from the Republican Party, could threaten the ...

	09/01/12 - Ben Bernanke Plots More Mayhem? Hasn't he done enough? Apparently not. Meeting at an annual Jackson Hole central banking get-together, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke apparently announced his ...

	08/31/12 - ECB Becoming Twin of Fed THE ECB SLOWLY BUT SURELY BECOMING A TWIN BROTHER OF THE FED: POSITIVE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SHORT-TERM? "We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere ...

	08/29/12 - Federal Reserve Emphasizes Transparency, as If It Matters ... The Federal Reserve began releasing quarterly financial results on Monday, in an effort to increase transparency at a time many Republicans are demanding more accountability ...

	08/26/12 - Doug Casey on the 'Worsening Storm,' QE3 and the Hard Assets Alliance The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Doug Casey. Introduction: Doug Casey has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows and has been the subject ...

	08/24/12 - Fed to Deliver More Stimulus "Fairly Soon" How Much Stimulus Does It Take? 'Sell the News' Event Coming Up Soon? Analysts poring over the July 31 - August 1, 2012 Fed Minutes quickly honed in on the following paragraph. ...

	08/01/12 - Paul Subcommittee to Examine Sound Money and Parallel Currencies WASHINGTON, July 31 – Congressman Ron Paul, Chairman of the Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee, announced today that the subcommittee will hold a ...

	07/31/12 - Audit the Fed Moves Forward! Last week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed my legislation calling for a full and effective audit of the Federal Reserve. Well over 300 of my Congressional ...

	07/28/12 - Auditing the Fed Is a Sideshow: Who Audits the Auditors? On Wednesday, Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve was overwhelmingly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The vote was 327 to 98. You would think that a bill ...

	07/26/12 - Press Release: House Votes Overwhelmingly to Audit the Fed! WASHINGTON, July 24 – Congressman Ron Paul today applauded the passage by the House of Representatives of H.R. 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. The bill, which ...

	07/20/12 - The Libor Scandal In Full Perspective The [previous] article about the Libor scandal, coauthored with Nomi Prins, received much attention, with Internet repostings, foreign translation, and video interviews. To ...

	07/17/12 - Inflation is a Monetary Phenomenon Later this month Congress will have an unprecedented opportunity to force the Federal Reserve to provide meaningful transparency to lawmakers and taxpayers. HR 459, my bill ...

	07/13/12 - Can Bernanke Force Banks to Lend by Halting Interest on Excess Reserves? Several readers have asked me to comment on a King World interview of Michael Pento . Before I offer my comments on Pento's thoughts, let me say upfront that Eric King is ...

	07/10/12 - Fractional Reserve Banking, Government and Moral Hazard Last week my subcommittee held a hearing on fractional reserve banking and the moral hazard created by government (taxpayer) insured deposits. Fractional reserve banking is the ...

	07/05/12 - Eliot Spitzer Is Indignant Over the LIBOR Scandal It's over for the banking cabal ... Watch this video to understand the largest banking corruption scandal in history. These large banks have stolen money from every single ...

	07/03/12 - Audit the Fed Headed for the House Floor! Last week supporters of Federal Reserve transparency had a major victory when the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform passed my Audit the Fed bill, HR 459 ...

	06/19/12 - Fed Lies Unravel ... Bank Board Gave US$ 4 Trillion in Loans to Its Own Institutions A report just released by the US Government Accountability Office explains how the Federal Reserve divvied up more than $4 trillion in low-interest loans after the fiscal ...

	05/16/12 - Time Magazine: Fed is Responsible for the JPMorgan Blow Up ... Is the Fed to Blame for JPMorgan's $2 Billion Blowup? ... The JPMorgan $2 billion-trading-loss story is nearly a week old, and the news has predictably gone through the various ...

	05/15/12 - The Fed: Mend It or End It? Last week I held a hearing to examine the various proposals that have been put forth both to mend and to end the Fed. The purpose was to spur a vigorous and long-lasting ...

	05/08/12 - Ron Paul: Energizer Bunny of US Politics for Good Reason Ron Paul's Hearing to Ask: Mend or End the Fed?... Defenders of Ben Bernanke may be hard to come by in at least one gathering Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Ron Paul, the Republican ...

	05/01/12 - The Velocity of Money Is Coming, Along With Big Price Inflation? Bernanke: Be Humble! ... "Humble" is typically not an attribute associated with the Federal Reserve (Fed), especially in light of the trillions of dollars recently printed. ...

	04/23/12 - Taxes vs. Fed – What's to Blame? Ron Paul's analysis is correct ... There is an ongoing argument about higher income tax rates for the top 1 percent of us but that is just a diversion from the real problem. ...

	03/23/12 - Central Bankers Gather in Fearful DC Huddle Fed Hosts Global Gathering on Easy Money ... The world's leading central bankers have spent much of the past few months putting out financial fires and launching measures aimed ...

	03/21/12 - Bernanke Fights Back Against a Gold Standard Bernanke says gold standard wouldn't solve problems ... Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday took aim at proponents of the gold standard, saying that such a system ...

	03/15/12 - Is Goldman Resignation Part of an Elite Plot? Goldman Roiled by Op-Ed Loses $2.2 Billion ... Smith Resignation Costs Goldman Shareholders $2.2B ... Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) saw $2.15 billion of its market value wiped ...

	03/15/12 - New Wall Street Hearings Redux: Now It's JP Morgan's Turn? Is JPM Metals "Whistleblower" Letter A Complete Fraud Or Just A Total Mockery? ... Today, the metals space is abuzz with a CFTC "comment letter" posted on its website by an ...

	03/06/12 - Fed Up with the Fed While the Fed has recently released an unprecedented amount of information on its activities, there is still much that remains unknown. Predictably, every push towards ...

	02/28/12 - Economy Squeezed As Debt Accelerates Senator Jeff Sessions, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, has pointed out that our per capita government debt is already larger than Greece's. Per person, our ...

	02/22/12 - US Fed as Credit Card and Consumer Watch Dog! ... Credit Card Tips from the Federal Reserve Board: To learn more about factors to consider when applying for or using a credit card, visit the website of the Federal Reserve ...

	02/16/12 - Is All Interest Usury? Xabier Garay is the author of "Debt Freedom Reign" which is an anti-Federal Reserve monetary reform book. His book correctly identifies interest/usury as the true problem with ...

	02/16/12 - Just Exactly How Much? A very serious question troubling Americans is exactly how much money the Federal Reserve System is actually giving away to their "bankster" members. The question is relevant ...

	02/07/12 - Trust Us; We're the Government While much has been made recently of the President's unconstitutional appointment of Richard Cordray to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), lost in ...

	01/31/12 - Failed Fed Policies Prolong the Agony The Federal Reserve's interest rate price-setting board, the FOMC, met last week. They will continue to set the federal funds rate at well below 1%, and plan to keep it low ...

	01/13/12 - Illustrated: The Incompetence of the Fed Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter ... As the housing bubble entered its waning hours in 2006, top Federal Reserve officials marveled at the desperate antics ...

	01/04/12 - Silliness at the Fed: 'Love Us, Love Our Transparency' Fed to Make Benchmark Rate Forecasts ... Federal Reserve officials will for the first time make public their own forecasts for the federal funds rate at their Jan. 24-25 ...

	12/21/11 - It Begins? Anti 'Money Power' Lawsuit Filed in Canada ... A press release announces that Canadian constitutional lawyer, Rocco Galati, "on behalf of Canadians William Krehm, and Ann Emmett, and COMER (Committee for Monetary and ...

	12/20/11 - Nonsensical Insistence on Additional 'Bank Capital' The Federal Reserve is expected to embrace a new global framework that requires giant financial institutions to hold extra capital, said people familiar with the situation. The ...

	12/13/11 - Fearfully, the US Treasury's Secret, 75-Year-Old Fund and Its Dark History Has Been Exposed? ... After months of work, the video series on the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund is finally finished! Why you should watch these five videos: It is impossible to understand ...

	12/06/11 - Euro Crisis Destabilizing the Dollar In response to pressure from Wall Street, the White House and central banks in Europe, the Federal Reserve last week drastically cut interest rates for currency swaps to ...

	12/05/11 - Fed to Investors: Let's Be Fair! NY Fed to Release Its Surveys of Primary Dealers ... The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Friday it will release to the general public surveys of primary dealer banks done ...

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