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| 05/22/13 - More Monetary Stimulation on the Way
Too soon to dial back Fed stimulus ... It is too soon to determine whether to dial down the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program, and the economic picture may not be ... |
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| 05/21/13 - Stranger and Stranger: The Chinese-Argentine Swap Gambit
China to the rescue of Argentina with a 10 billion dollars equivalent swap ... Argentina is negotiating with China a new 10 billon dollars equivalent swap of international ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 05/10/13 - The Problem of Gold
Gold: 3 Essential Facts For Your Future ...When any market crashes, it's a shock. For a real nose dive it normally takes something unexpected and dramatic to kick it off. If ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 04/28/13 - Larry Parks: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Money Metals
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Dr. Lawrence Parks. Introduction: Lawrence Parks holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Polytechnic ... |
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| 04/25/13 - Did Krugman Win the Austerity Argument?
The Economic Argument Is Over — Paul Krugman Has Won ... For the past five years, a fierce war of words and policies has been fought in America and other economically ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 04/15/13 - Stock Markets Up, Gold Down – Is Something Wrong With This Picture?
Big money flowing into stock, bond funds ... Go with the flow: Investors added a record amount of cash to mutual funds in the first quarter. Stock and bond funds attracted a ... |
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| 04/15/13 - Will EU Wipe Out the Value of Big Euro Notes? A Case Is Being Built ...
Bin €500 notes to spread debt burden ... The €500 note is one of the many mysteries surrounding the birth of the euro. For whom, exactly, was the equivalent of $600 ... |
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| 04/02/13 - Slate Wants to Drop Money From Helicopters. Not so Fast ...
Print Money. Mail Everybody a Check. Fight unemployment by giving money directly to American families ... America has grown desperate for smart ideas to revive a flagging ... |
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| 04/01/13 - The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery
The dramatic recent events in Cyprus have highlighted the fundamental weakness in the European banking system and the extreme fragility of fractional reserve banking. Cypriot ... |
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| 03/28/13 - What Central Banks Need More Of ...
Russell Lynch: Central banks are now too powerful to have free rein ... Who guards the guards? It's a question worth asking as the Bank of England takes on a vast new remit to ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 03/15/13 - Bombshell Confirmation the Paper Money Hoax Is Real
QE for the People: Grillo's Populist Plan for Italy ... Comedian Beppe Grillo was surprised himself when his Five Star Movement got 8.7 million votes in the Italian general ... |
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| 03/12/13 - Staring Armageddon In The Face But Hiding It With Official Lies
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy created 236,000 new jobs in February. If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I'll let you have at a ... |
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| 03/07/13 - Is Hyperinflation a Myth?
Hyperinflation! The Libertarian Fantasy That Never Occurs ... While it is probably true that no one has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the public, it is ... |
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| 03/02/13 - Austerity's End Could Bring Additional German Turmoil
The age of austerity is ending ... Whisper it softly, but the age of government austerity is ending. It may seem an odd week to say this, what with the U.S. government ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 02/21/13 - Don't Just Free Rating Agencies From the State – Free Fiat Money Itself
Stop Mandating Reliance on Ratings ... The Justice Department's suit against Standard & Poor's is a fresh reminder of the large mistakes by the three major rating agencies ... |
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| 02/19/13 - The Pound Gets Pounded
As the global currency war intensifies, the majority of attention has been paid to the 17% fall of the Japanese yen against the US dollar over the past few months. The ... |
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| 02/18/13 - Pay Attention to the Upcoming Bond Bust, Not the So-Called Junk Boom
How a junk bond bubble is driving a buyout and merger boom ... The merger and buyout boom of 2013 is upon us! Some of America's biggest companies are coupling up faster than ... |
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| 02/13/13 - Shock: Powerful British Money Man Calls for Central Bank Currency to Be Handed Out to 'the People'
A breakthrough speech on monetary policy ... Wednesday night may have marked the "emperor's new clothes" moment of the Great Recession, in which the world suddenly realizes its ... |
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| 02/02/13 - The Biggest Loser
In Switzerland, it's not just the clocks that are cuckoo. Over the past four years Swiss politicians and central bankers have gone on an unprecedented buying spree of foreign ... |
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| 01/16/13 - Bernanke: The Power of State-Run Capitalism Has Lifted the BRICs Out of Poverty
Remarkable economic transformation in India, China: Federal Reserve chairman ... Emerging markets like India and China are witnessing a remarkable transformation, despite a ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 12/03/12 - Forbidden to Mention Foreign Currency in Ukraine Now
Use of foreign currency in the advertising is forbidden in Ukraine ... Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to Article 8 of the Law "On Advertising". According to new Law it is ... |
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| 11/26/12 - Kaletsky: The Resiliance of Pure Fiat
Economic optimism is now official. The year ahead could be "a very good one for the American economy," Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, declared on Tuesday. ... |
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| 10/26/12 - Fed and ECB Smokescreens to Print Money
Fresh on the heels of ECB president Mario Draghi's Lies In Defense Bond Purchases, Including a Warning of Deflation [below] comes news of an unexpected rise in Eurozone price ... |
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| 10/24/12 - Elite View: The Yo-Yo Economy
Euro zone rot spreads to Germany, China mending ... The euro zone's biggest member Germany is being sucked into the bloc's worsening economic quagmire, business surveys ... |
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| 10/17/12 - Housing Demand Is Built on Monetary Policy
Housing Starts in U.S. Surged in September to Four-Year High ... Housing starts in the U.S. surged 15 percent in September to the highest level in four years, adding to signs ... |
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| 10/02/12 - Gold is Good Money
Last year the Chairman of the Federal Reserve told me that gold is not money , a position which central banks, governments and mainstream economists have claimed is the ... |
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| 09/27/12 - US Judiciary Leans Towards Disclosure Laws That Could Confiscate Electronic Assets
Jail time for refusing to comply with mandatory key disclosure hasn't occurred in the United States yet. But, it's already happening in jurisdictions such as the UK, where a ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 09/20/12 - QE3 – Pay Attention If You Are in the Real Estate Market
I used to have a deputy who said that the FHA mortgage insurance funds were where mortgages went to die. That was, however, before the creation of MERS, derivatives and the ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 09/14/12 - Elites Promote Pure Fiat Currencies – Mutual and Social Credit – for Traceability?
Analysts should also have financial investigatory/forensic accounting experience in non-traditional arenas including drug money laundering, Sharia-compliant banking, terrorist ... |
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| 09/13/12 - James Grant Calls for a Gold Standard
Must Read: Jim Grant Crucifies The Fed; Explains Why A Gold Standard Is The Best Option ... The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has invited some of its public critics to visit ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 08/28/12 - Why Is the UN Installing Mutual Credit/Pure Fiat Systems Around the World?
To make serious commitments to restructure the global financial architecture based on principles of equity, transparency, accountability and democracy, and to balance, with the ... |
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| 08/15/12 - Competing Currencies and Ron Paul – Mismatch or Monetary Heaven?
Legalize Competing Currencies ... I recently held a hearing in my congressional subcommittee on the subject of competing currencies. This is an issue of enormous importance but ... |
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| 08/14/12 - Legalize Competing Currencies
I recently held a hearing in my congressional subcommittee on the subject of competing currencies. This is an issue of enormous importance but unfortunately few Americans ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 07/25/12 - Keynesian Dialogue Symptom of Larger Monetary Upeaval
Weimar solution beckons as manufacturing crashes in US Fifth District? ... Worker at General Motors. The collapse in US manufacturing is worrying ... If so, we can all have a ... |
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| 07/24/12 - Austrian Economics, Its Detractors and the Reality of Freedom
If we're going to associate the Money Power to other groups than the group they are, the Money Power, we should be more accurate in our associations, unscientific correlations ... |
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| 07/18/12 - UK Telegraph Struck With Internal Feuding Between Top Columnists Over Money Printing
Red Pill, Blue Pill ... The other day m'learned colleague Ambrose Evans Pritchard wrote a piece in praise of money-printing. What the world needs is more Quantitative Easing, ... |
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| 07/16/12 - Iceland – Mighty Mite or Green Lapdog?
Iceland Has Hired An Ex-Cop To Hunt Down The Bankers That Wrecked Its Economy ... the government has appointed a white collar crime bounty hunter who wants to haul your behind ... |
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| 07/14/12 - Economist Mag Scribes Happy That America is 'Coming Back' – But I Am Not So Sure
Comeback kid ... America's economy is once again reinventing itself ... Almost the only thing on which Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, his Republican challenger, agree is that ... |
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| 07/11/12 - Lies That Iceland Tells Us?
Iceland heals amid Europe's malaise Inflation, which reached nearly 20 per cent during the crisis, is still running at 5.4 per cent, and even with the government's relief ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 07/04/12 - Poison of Neo-National Socialist Public Banking
WestLB is almost gone. The bank that embodied many of the problems of Germany's Landesbanken sector – combining excessive international ambition with repeated crises ... |
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| 06/28/12 - Barclays LIBOR Corruption a Phony Ploy to Strengthen the Bloomberg/Qatar QIBOR?
Barclays Libor fix trail leads to senior managers ... Senior Barclays managers were worried over negative headlines during the financial crisis and contributed to a culture ... |
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| 06/15/12 - Bank of England Proposes More Counterfeiting
Osborne unveils £140bn scheme to kick-start stagnant economy ... George Osborne unveiled a £140 billion emergency scheme to try to avoid a second credit crunch ... |
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| 06/12/12 - Thanks, Mavrodi ... Monetary Psyop Now in Full Bloom?
Is Global Finance a Ponzi Scheme? Ask a Russian Expert ... What's the difference between today's global finance system and a Ponzi scheme? This is the question that a ... |
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| 06/06/12 - The False Boom of the Olympics
Third of London hotel rooms empty for Olympics as 'normal' tourists stay away ... London's hotels are facing a dramatic loss in profits with a third of rooms unsold over the ... |
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| 05/31/12 - 12-Year Old 'Viral Video' Money-Reformer Supports Hyperinflation?
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Twelve-Year-Old Money Reformer Tops a Million Views ... The youtube video of 12 year old Victoria Grant at the Public Banking in America conference ... |
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| 05/14/12 - Drop the Cash From Helicopters!
Narrow M1 data for April is the weakest since modern records began. Real M1 deposits – a leading indicator of economic growth six months or so ahead – have ... |
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| 05/04/12 - Bank of England Draws "Lessons" From the Idiocy of the 2000s
Sir Mervyn is the king of a broken Bank of England ... Sir Mervyn King chose to evoke Depression era Britain on Wednesday night in his 9pm radio broadcast to the nation. Sir ... |
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| 04/30/12 - Canada Introduces Plastic Cash – Say, How About Trying a Little Gold and Silver?
Canada Introduces New Plastic Currency ... Canada may be permanently swapping paper for plastic, providing its recently-released polymer $100 note is well-received. The brand ... |
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| 04/23/12 - Germany Stands Athwart the European Crackup Shouting 'Stop'
Bundesbank's Weidmann Says What No EU Politician Wants to Hear ... Jens Weidmann is no longer his master's voice. Almost a year into his new job as the head of Germany's ... |
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| 04/05/12 - Gold Collapse ... the Bubble Is Pricked?
Gold prices plunge overnight – is the rush over? ... Has the gold boom come to an end? The price of gold, which has climbed for years like a blood pressure reading for ... |
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| 04/03/12 - Western Elites Encourage Dollar Death With Uruguayan/Iran Deal?
Uruguay mulls offering Iran rice for oil ... Uruguay is considering to offer Iran rice shipments in return for oil in apparent disregard of U.S.-led sanctions in response to ... |
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| 02/08/12 - VIDEO: CNBC's Smead Predicts 'Necessary' Chinese Hard Landing and Gold Plunge
Hard Landing Necessary for China ... Bill Smead, CEO & CIO, Smead Capital Management, explains why a hard landing needs to take place in China in order for country's ... |
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| 01/30/12 - A Gold Standard Is Good?
Return of the Gold Standard Imminent ... The gold standard will precipitate a massive deflation. The ensuing chaos will help usher in their coveted New World Order and World ... |
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| 01/24/12 - Stocks Are Poisonously Cheap?
Stocks Are Cheaper Than They've Been in Two Decades ... U.S. stocks are trading at their cheapest levels since at least 1990, according to such commonly used valuations as ... |
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| 01/18/12 - Premature Obituaries
It is open season for wild monetary prognostications. More premature obituaries on the dollar have been posted on the Internet. For example, see Jim Willie's "The US Dollar ... |
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| 12/26/11 - Gold: How High Is Up? US$5,000? Confiscation?
Will gold deliver another glittering year in 2012? ... This year saw dizzying gains and two big crashes. So does gold still deserve its 'safe haven' image, or is it just ... |
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| 12/08/11 - Just Another Day in the USA
Today was like every other day in the United States during the last few decades. Washington taxed more private wealth to generate government revenue. Congress added more ... |
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| 11/29/11 - Rand Paul Confronts Geithner Over Fed Monetary Price Fixing
Senator Rand Paul, son of famous libertarian father Congressman Ron Paul, recently had a very interesting discussion with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner over Federal ... |
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| 11/25/11 - Should the Government Step In?
We're done folks. CNBC is reporting that there are now clients running out of the markets entirely because they do not believe their customer funds are safe. That's the end of ... |
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| 11/16/11 - Money Manager Arnie Waters Sees Gold at US$2000 Within 6-8 Weeks
Many people post to YouTube without building much of a viewership and Arnie Waters is apparently one of them. His "Morning Call" video postings are not universally ... |
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| 11/15/11 - Hedger Kyle Bass Basically Tells the BBC That European Banks Are Insolvent
Kyle Bass is appearing today on the BBC to explain why it is impossible for the EU to create a "closer union" out of the current crisis. The BBC has promoted his appearance ... |
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| 11/15/11 - European Debt Crisis Threatens the Dollar
The global economic situation is becoming more dire every day. Approximately half of all US banks have significant exposure to the debt crisis in Europe. Much more dangerous ... |
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| 11/02/11 - Gold Is Nothing But a Metaphor for Fear
Gold Is a "Fear Index" That Must Come Down ... That's sort of how Don Hays views gold, as an indicator that's in the way of the next great bull market. It's also why the ... |
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| 10/29/11 - Could the Euro and Dollar Go One-to-One?
This is a funny question to ask given that the dollar is in the dumps and the euro has had a strong rally since the region's top Eurocrats "saved" the euro this week. But in ... |
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| 10/04/11 - The Fed Twists, The Market Shouts
Last week the Federal Reserve began the second incarnation of "Operation Twist," an attempt to drive down interest rates by purchasing long-term Treasury debt and selling ... |
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| 09/20/11 - Advisers Emphasize Calm as Global Depression Gathers
Advisor's Top Job: Helping Clients Stay Cool, Survey Says ... In hot markets, it's crucial for advisors to do plenty of hand-holding and other work, say most financial advisors ... |
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| 09/12/11 - Who Builds Obstacles to Real Stimulus?
Where I work we have a retirement plan. It comes with the job, so once you gain your employment you are also part of the system. Turns out that the accounts set up can contain ... |
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| 08/26/11 - DB Briefs: Buffett's Love Affair with Banks? / Greek Fire Sale / China's Central Planning Miracle?
Warren Buffett Invests $5bn in Bank of America Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has thrown Bank of America a $5bn (£3.07bn) lifeline, capping an extraordinary week for ... |
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| 08/23/11 - Paper Currencies Finally Redeemed for Gold
The basic unwillingness of politicians to face economic and financial realities has caused the United States and European Union to face currency collapse. The politicians are ... |
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| 08/16/11 - S&P States the Obvious
Politicians did not get much time to pat themselves on the back for supposedly rescuing the economy with the debt limit deal last week. The ink was barely dry when Standard ... |
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| 08/15/11 - Fables of the Fourteenth Amendment
The more I peruse the current public discourse about the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to the present quandary of public debt that confronts this country, the more I ... |
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| 07/12/11 - Competing Currencies - a Defense Against Profligate Government Spending
The end of June marked what is hopefully the end of the Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing. For months the Fed has purchased hundreds of billions of dollars of ... |
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| 07/06/11 - Moody's Report Blasts China Solvency
Here comes Moody's with a blockbuster which may put China's "White Knight" status, at least as far as Europe is concerned, in grave danger. In a report just released, the ... |
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| 06/27/11 - WSJ – International Banking Is in Crisis
We are confronting a crisis, all right, but it is not a Greek crisis, unless uncertainty as to the date of that country's de facto default counts as a crisis. If the insolvency ... |
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| 06/15/11 - Sino-Forest Is Leading Indicator of China Disaster?
Sino-Forest review will take months, shares ... Sino-Forest (TRE.TO) said on Tuesday it will take up to three months to debunk fraud allegations leveled by short-seller Muddy ... |
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| 06/03/11 - What Would Samuel Johnson Think of Today's Western Education?
Study Tells Students What Their Major is Worth ... The choice of undergraduate major in college is strongly tied to a student's future earnings, with the highest-paying majors ... |
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| 06/02/11 - After the Dollar: What Comes Next?
The Dollar's Terrible Fate My readers are familiar with my forecast that the US dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without ... |
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| 05/14/11 - Monetary Policy, the Federal Reserve, and the National Debt Problem
The following testimony was delivered before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, chaired by Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), on ... |
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| 02/28/10 - Jim Rogers on China Opportunities, the Gold Standard and the Development of His Free-Market Financial Philosophy
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Jim Rogers. Introduction: Jim Rogers was a co-founder of the Quantum Fund, and is creator of the Rogers ... |
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| 02/14/10 - Terry Coxon on the Trouble With the US Economy and its Two Major Causes
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with economist and financial author Terry Coxon. Introduction: Terry Coxon is the author of Keep What You Earn ... |
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| 10/25/09 - Frank R. Suess on the Polanski Affair, the Resurgence of Free-Market Thinking and the Continual Benefits of Swiss Private Banking
The editors of The Daily Bell are pleased to present an exclusive interview with Frank R. Suess, CEO & Chairman of Swiss-based BFI Consulting Inc., an astute observer of ... |
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| 10/18/09 - Al Korelin on the Global Depression, the Demise of Capitalism and Why He Believes in a Gold-and-Silver Bull Market
The editors of The Daily Bell are pleased to present an exclusive interview with Legendary hard-money expert Alexander (Al) Korelin, the Founder, Chairman and CEO of A.B. ... |
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| 11/03/08 - Putin: We Must End Monopoly in World Finance
The Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, has called for a complete overhaul of the world's financial system in order to guarantee stability and ensure progress. He was ... |
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