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	06/19/13 - Trying to Silence the Rebels Within Many years back I was a candidate for a Congressional Fellowship that was administered by a group of prominent academic philosophers. I had made it into the final list of three ...

	06/18/13 - Central Planning Is Responsible for Germany's Green Catastrophe Tilting at windmills in Germany ... The wheels are falling off of Germany's green energy revolution ... The quiet backwater in the Ruhr, close to Düsseldorf, is the ...

	06/13/13 - What the Papers Aren't Reporting About the NSA Scandal Behind every great fortune is a great crime, said French novelist Honoré de Balzac. What crime lies behind Booz Allen Hamilton? Fraud, mostly. More on that in a ...

	06/11/13 - Crushing the Middle Class Like a carefully memorized religious incantation, politicians and central bankers continually stress how their stimulus policies are designed to promote the interests and ...

	06/10/13 - Austerity Has Failed ... So Guardian Suggests 20th Century Regulatory Leviathan Neoliberalism has spawned a financial elite who hold governments to ransom ... The International Monetary Fund has admitted that some of the decisions it made in the wake of ...

	06/07/13 - Do Generations Need to Compete Over Healthcare? Aging Nations Like Low Prices Over High Income: Cutting Research ... An elderly woman walks through a shopping street in Okayama, Japan. Wealth effects differ the world over as ...

	06/06/13 - Solari Story: Federal Financial Ignorance This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "Federal Financial Ignorance." Here's a bit of the transcript: " It was 1989 when I became Assistant Secretary of ...

	06/01/13 - Can Central Banks Really Keep Interest Rates Down? "It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow ...

	05/31/13 - The Smoke of ZIRP and the Mirrors of QE... The front pages of yesterday's newspapers were full of good news. A strong rebound in real estate prices, they said, meant a full recovery was in the bag. From Reuters: Home ...

	05/29/13 - US Recovery Bets Big on Technocratic Efficiency Confidence at Five-Year High as U.S. Housing Climbs: Economy Consumer confidence climbed to the highest level in more than five years and home prices advanced by the most in ...

	05/29/13 - My 'I Told You So' World All of us who have long concluded that big government − which is to say, government with wide, nearly unlimited scope of power over the population it is supposed to ...

	05/27/13 - Let the Market Build Bridges Why are our Bridges Falling? The Economics of the Infrastructure Deficit ...Tonight I turned on the news to learn that a major bridge over the Skagit River on Washingon State's ...

	05/27/13 - 'Common Core' Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called "conservative" ...

	05/25/13 - Luxury Living: Morgan Motor Company The Daily Bell's weekly Luxury Living segment... because Memento Mori is a way of life. This week ... Morgan Motor Company ... The success of the Morgan Motor ...

	05/24/13 - Long-Term Doom, Short-Term Profits The Bank of Japan must crush all resistance, and will do so ... Kudos to Kyle Bass at Hayman Advisers for warning that the Bank of Japan would lose control of its ¥70 ...

	05/24/13 - The Biggest Loser Wins While the world's economies jockey one another for the lead in the currency devaluation derby, it's worth considering the value of the prize they are seeking. They believe a ...

	05/23/13 - Solari Stories: Losers Make the Pie Bigger This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled " Losers Make the Pie Bigger ." Here's a bit of the transcript: "I was at a Christian revival in Atlanta for ...

	05/20/13 - Washington's Scandals: The Internet Works Both Ways Reuters: 'An Increasingly Polarized Washington Is Devouring Its Own' ... Unprecedented Justice Department searches of journalists' phone records. IRS targeting of conservative ...

	05/17/13 - Immigration: Apparent Effort to Fashion North American Union Continues House lawmakers reach tentative deal to revamp immigration ... Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in ...

	05/16/13 - Sure We'll Unwind, Don't Worry ... 'Dreaded' Unwinding Easier Said Than Done ... It ought to be the clearest sign yet that the crisis is over. The Wall Street Journal's Fed-Watcher-In-Chief Jon Hilsenrath has ...

	05/13/13 - Gold US$1,100? Gold Gets Gutted: Here's Why ... Gold's been stuck in a pretty tight range, and it's losing ground ... Gold dropped three percent Friday, suffering the worst decline of any ...

	05/11/13 - Symptoms Don't Lie A good doctor will not simply make a diagnosis based on measurements. The symptoms and complaints expressed by the patient are at least as important in making a determination ...

	05/09/13 - Solari Story: The Blue Light This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "The Blue Light." Here's a bit of the transcript: " As you know, I was in litigation for approximately 11 years ...

	05/06/13 - The Financial Press: A Disinformation Machine Dave Kranzler of Golden Returns Capital declares the April payroll jobs report that was released on May 3 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be "fictitious." ...

	05/03/13 - The New Meme of Open Borders If People Could Immigrate Anywhere, Would Poverty Be Eliminated? ... What if there was a program that would cost nothing, improve the lives of millions of people from poorer ...

	05/02/13 - Solari Story: The Power of Local This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "The Power of Local." Here's a bit of the transcript: "I always say that my neighborhood or my county is the ...

	05/01/13 - Government Regulations Revisited You might not think it considering my relentless concerns about the growing power of government, but I am not a pessimist. There are many areas of life where liberty is making ...

	04/30/13 - Who Are the Monarchs of Money? Neil Macdonald: The 'monarchs of money' and the war on savers ... Power Shift: First in a series on the rise of the central bankers and the global imposition of cheap credit ...

	04/27/13 - Changing the Conversation Don Draper, Mad Men's master advertiser likes to say "when you don't like what they are saying, change the conversation." When it comes to the current economic weakness, which ...

	04/26/13 - $2 Trillion US Underground Economy Is the Free Market Striking Back? $2 Trillion Underground Economy May Be Recovery's Savior ... Estimates are that underground activity last year totaled as much as $2 trillion. The growing underground economy ...

	04/26/13 - How to Get the US Economy Going Again I am reading a great deal of alarming information regarding impending economic collapse in the US. I feel sure that most of the predictions I read are based on facts, and ought ...

	04/23/13 - The Recovery That Never Happened Gold seemed to be stabilizing at the end of last week. Commodities remained weak. Steel has fallen 31% this year. Brent crude is off 17% since early February. And copper is ...

	04/20/13 - US 'Decline' Ending or Just Beginning? Global analyst Ian Bremmer has written a provocative new editorial posted at Reuters.com on "the end of the American Decline." We've commented on some of Bremmer's ideas before ...

	04/18/13 - More Hints That Bernanke Is Leaving Bernanke Is One of the Most Consequential Central Bankers of All Time ... The Federal Reserve has emerged as one of the most important government entities when it comes to the ...

	04/17/13 - Is Gold's Fair Value Really US$800 an Ounce? Gold's fair value is $800 an ounce ... Gold's bear market is just beginning. That's the depressing assessment from Claude Erb, a former commodities portfolio manager for Trust ...

	04/17/13 - The Corruption of Individual Rights Whenever a good idea surfaces, there will surely be many who will try to hitch their wagon to it filled with corrupt versions that aim to serve numerous purposes having little ...

	04/16/13 - Is China Turning Into a Service Economy? Industrial eclipse ... Earlier this year, we noted that China's output of services was poised to overtake its industrial production, probably as soon as this year. That would ...

	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 ...

	04/13/13 - Introducing the Updated 4th Edition of the Book That Helped to Change the Internet The latest edition of High Alert is available and you ought to read it. Over six years ago now, we introduced the book that has helped change the Internet. Ron Paul has said ...

	04/10/13 - Public Museums and Censorship Is there a difference between censorship and selectivity? In a private gallery or museum the owners or curators must always be selective. There isn't infinite, unlimited room ...

	04/06/13 - Offshore Banking and the Shadow of the Gallows ... Is it over? This is an issue I want to address today because it has not been adequately reported by the mainstream media. Listen closely and you will hear shrieks of silent, ...

	04/05/13 - So Long, University Days of Wine and Roses Why a BA is Now a Ticket to A Job in a Coffee Shop ...There's a growing perception out there that a college degree no longer delivers the value that it used to. Too many ...

	04/05/13 - The Stockman Backlash This week, while economists should have been closely considering the implications of the actual bankruptcy of Stockton, California, they instead heaped scorn on the perceived ...

	04/04/13 - Solari Stories: The Mom and Pop Predicament This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "The Mom and Pop Predicament." Here's a bit of the transcript: I find there's a real effort now to blame Mom and ...

	04/03/13 - A Real Market-Money Standard ... David Stockman's Delusions: The Gold Standard Is Still a Really, Really Terrible Idea ... Barbarous relics are relics for a reason ... Have we been living in some kind of ...

	03/31/13 - Doug Bell: Why a Former Supercuts Entrepreneur Offers a Uruguayan Farmland Investment Pool The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Douglas Bell. Introduction: Doug Bell grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Wesleyan University. ...

	03/28/13 - What Is the REAL Euro End Game? Instead Of Doing His Job, Jeroen Dijsselbloem Has Given Us A Glimpse Of The Euro 'End Game' ... If you've been following the Cyprus bailout story at all, you're probably ...

	03/28/13 - Fashion of Public Solutions Is Doomed The federal government's collection of unused and vacant properties is killing taxpayers. Watchdog groups say maintenance and bureaucratic red tape related to the U.S. ...

	03/27/13 - Rise of the Job Scarcity Meme The Rise of Robots – and Decline of Jobs – Is Here ... Last night, 60 Minutes aired an interesting report on the rise of robots in the workforce – a subject ...

	03/25/13 - Gold: The Worst Investment of 2013? Will gold be the "worst investment of 2013"? Has been so far... View Larger Chart Gold held above $1,600/oz yesterday. You'd think it would do better. Ben Bernanke just pledged ...

	03/22/13 - US Infrastructure's Disastrous Solution Infrastructure, a time for renewal ... Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, lifts up a decayed wooden tube and waves it for emphasis. Many of the city's water pipes are ...

	03/21/13 - Free Robert Murphy Robert Murphy urges his supporters to pledge to the Krugman Debate challenge, as the total is now more than $100,000. − YouTube Dominant Social Theme: Keynesianism is far ...

	03/21/13 - Solari Story: What is Transparency? This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "What is Transparency?" Here's a bit of the transcript: "To me, transparent is when I can understand it so to me, ...

	03/19/13 - The Complexity of Billionaires This weekend I read Forbes ' new special edition on billionaires. In his introduction, "They succeed by meeting your needs," Steve Forbes writes: "The overwhelming majority of ...

	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 ...

	03/14/13 - Congressman Jeb Hensarling Vs Rand Paul – Which One Has the Better Idea? Top House lawmaker questions validity of consumer bureau funding ... Obama has renominated Cordray, who will have his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday, and nearly all Senate ...

	03/13/13 - Dr. Friedman Explains Why Scarcity Is Real – or Make Believe Thirty-five years ago, Milton Friedman identified our problems with the rising cost of energy -- government policy. – LibertyPen at YouTube Dominant Social Theme: ...

	03/09/13 - Does Surprising Guardian Article Provide More Clues About Pan-African Investing? An article in the UK Guardian , "Why Bob Geldof is wrong about Africa," caught my attention because – unusually – it argued that the private sector was a good deal ...

	03/07/13 - I've Fired The New York Times For years I subscribed to The New York Times online. Then I took the Sunday Times only for a couple of years but they managed to annoy me nearly as much as the daily edition. ...

	03/06/13 - Is Monetary Stimulation a Sensible Economic Policy? What Saved the Dow? Sensible Economic Policies ... As of the closing bell on Tuesday, the Dow was trading at 14,254—well above the previous all-time peak of 14,198, which ...

	03/06/13 - Egyptian Austerity Seen as Inflation Goes Up Hard Surging Egyptian inflation shows the bind that the country's central bank is in. The annual consumer price index rate climbed to 6.27% in January, from 4.66% in December, ...

	03/04/13 - China's Property Bubble – Why Is '60 Minutes' Telling the Tale? This '60 Minutes' Video Of China's Ghost Cities Is More Surreal Than Anything We've Ever Seen We have written about China's ghost towns — neighborhoods with massive new ...

	03/04/13 - US Corporate State It didn't take long for opponents of the market to pounce after the events of 2008. The crash was said to prove how destructive "unregulated capitalism" could be and how ...

	03/01/13 - A Close Encounter with Zombiedom Ben Bernanke spoke out on Tuesday, leaving no doubt where he stands on the QE issue. To print or not to print? He hardly seemed to think about it. Instead, he announced himself ...

	03/01/13 - Solari Stories: The Fiscal Cliff and Gun Control "Solari Stories" is a new, brief weekly video feature from Catherine Austin Fitts. The Daily Bell is pleased to be able to make these available to our readers. Here are ...

	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 ...

	02/26/13 - The Libertarian Public Interest A particularly irksome rhetorical ploy against the free society's champions is that they refuse to acknowledge that there is such a thing as the public interest (or public good ...

	02/23/13 - And the Antidote to the Great Fiscal and Monetary Crisis Is ... "Fiscal trouble ahead for most future retirees." Or so the Washington Post tells us in a recent column explaining why future retirees (Baby Boomers) are headed for considerable ...

	02/19/13 - The Paradigm Shift Dilemma Paradigms are mega-systems of thought that explain certain realms of reality so as to shift mankind toward new visions. For example, mercantilism, Lockean limited government, ...

	02/18/13 - The Republicans' Achilles Heel In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, "Generational Theft Needs to be Arrested," three men advanced some suggestions to Republicans. Their main focus was the need for ...

	02/14/13 - My List Once I learned to read there was no end to it. I used my flashlight to make it possible after I was sent to sleep and my first books were quite a disorderly collection. I read ...

	02/13/13 - Scientific American: Banks Are Too Complex to Succeed, Except for Central Banks Too Big to Succeed ...On December 20, 1994 Mexico's newly installed president Ernesto Zedillo devalued the currency, the peso, by 15%. As a candidate he had said he would ...

	02/12/13 - Google Hoax? ... and a Rhetorical Question Gadgets Report: Google Pays $700M to Apple for Prominent Mobile Search Placement ... Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe also gets grilled about high prices by Australian regulators ...

	02/11/13 - Why We Are Not 21st Century Libertarians The Luddites Among Us ... Certain economic ideas that are both logically wrong and unsupported by historical facts, and which have been known to be wrong for 250 years, are ...

	02/11/13 - Arrogance of Power! Just how utterly reliant on sheer power is President Obama can be appreciated from the fact that no one in his administration bothers to defend his policy of confiscating ...

	02/07/13 - My Vigilant Ethical Egoism When I was in my late teens I discovered Ayn Rand, in particular her novel The Fountainhead . Actually I ran across her when I appeared in a theater group's rendition of her ...

	02/05/13 - Immigration 'Reform' Will Turn the US into a Police State Whenever the federal government decides to reform something we can be fairly sure that the problem is about to get worse, especially if they call the plan bi-partisan. The ...

	02/05/13 - Revolving Zombies The defining characteristic of a zombified system is the way it hands out its rewards. In an honest economy, people do their best. They work hard. They take their chances. Some ...

	02/04/13 - The Democratic Ideal In this essay I wish to revisit democracy since all the power that our current administration is claiming for itself is supposedly justified by way of the democratic method. ...

	01/19/13 - FAFMT Adds Terry Coxon to Speaker Lineup for Liberty Summit 2013 Vaduz, Liechtenstein – The Foundation for the Advancement of Free-Market Thinking (FAFMT) announces that Terry Coxon will be a guest speaker and solutions provider at the ...

	01/18/13 - Become Part of an Exclusive Circle: A Unique Free-Market Club Really Worth Joining! In another Daily Bell Special Report, I recommended the award-winning "Uncle Eric" series of books written by Richard Maybury, published by Bluestocking Press . The series is ...

	01/17/13 - The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Sipping sake in a noisy Japanese restaurant this noon, I incidentally cast a glimpse at the lunchtime news on the TV wall in the restaurant. The moderator was talking about ...

	01/15/13 - On Obama's New National Security Team, Keep Your Eye on the Policy President Obama announced his choices for key national security posts this past week, and there has been both celebration and gnashing of teeth in Washington and around the ...

	01/15/13 - Axiom 2: Promote Human Action and Free-Market Thinking How To Restore the West: Axiom 2 "Human action is purposeful behavior." – Ludwig von Mises Contrary to politically correct elite propaganda and indoctrination, only a ...

	01/13/13 - Terry Coxon on Government, the Reality of Regulation and the Importance of Asset Protection The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Terry Coxon. Introduction: Terry Coxon is the author of Keep What You Earn and was for many years a ...

	01/08/13 - Zombie Nation Creating and sustaining a nation of zombies is expensive. Large sections of the US population have been turned into zombies. Retirees. Medicare dependents. Food stamp ...

	01/05/13 - What You Can Do to Protect Your Children, Grandchildren and Others From Power Elite Mind Manipulation This sanity solution is a special focus on how to help today's youth free themselves from the grasp of mind control implemented within public schools and by Western mainstream ...

	01/03/13 - A Note on Socialism as Elitism Since ancient times some people have considered the market place an unruly forum in which to determine whose work and what commodities are worth how much. With Marxism this ...

	01/02/13 - FAFMT Announces Launch of Newly Redesigned and Enhanced Free-Market Oriented Website, TheDailyBell.com Vaduz, Liechtenstein – The Foundation for the Advancement of Free-Market Thinking (FAFMT) announces the highly anticipated revision and enhancement of The Daily Bell is ...

	12/31/12 - New Year's Resolutions for Congress As I prepare to retire from Congress, I'd like to suggest a few New Year's resolutions for my colleagues to consider. For the sake of liberty, peace and prosperity I certainly ...

	12/26/12 - FAFMT Adds Dr. Mark Skousen to Speaker Lineup for Liberty Summit 2013 Vaduz, Liechtenstein – The Foundation for the Advancement of Free-Market Thinking (FAFMT) announces that Dr. Mark Skousen will be a guest speaker at the Liberty Summit ...

	12/24/12 - Gun Control Obscenities When the massacre occurred in Connecticut, there was no call for commentary, certainly not from me who lives thousands of miles from where it occurred and knew none of the ...

	12/21/12 - FAFMT Announces Ron Holland Chosen as Master of Ceremonies for Liberty Summit 2013 Vaduz, Liechtenstein – The Foundation for the Advancement of Free-Market Thinking (FAFMT) announces that Ron Holland will be the Master of Ceremonies at the FAFMT-hosted ...

	12/19/12 - Promises Will Be Broken When wealth was easy to identify and easy to control − that is, when it was mostly land − a few insiders could do a fairly good job of keeping it for themselves. ...

	12/18/12 - Right to Work is Part of Economic Liberty Many observers were surprised when Michigan, historically a stronghold of union power, became the nation's 24th "Right to Work" state. The backlash from November's unsuccessful ...

	12/16/12 - FAFMT Appoints Holland Media Group to Manage Logistics Coordination of Liberty Summit 2013 Vaduz, Liechtenstein – The Foundation for the Advancement of Free-Market Thinking (FAFMT) is pleased to announce it has appointed Holland Media Group to provide ...

	12/14/12 - FAFMT Receives $20,000 Donation From High Alert Capital Partners Inc. Vaduz, Liechtenstein – The Foundation for the Advancement of Free-Market Thinking (FAFMT) announces that it has received a $20,000 from Toronto-based High Alert ...

	12/13/12 - Ethics and Gouging During most emergencies there are those who could certainly use quite a bit of help and it is on such occasions that complaints about gouging surface most vociferously. The ...

	12/13/12 - Emerging Market Economies - A Structural Reduction of Portfolio Risk Emerging market economies appear increasingly sound. This improvement, in part, can be attributed to commodity exports and wage advantages, which, in combination, have led to ...

	12/12/12 - More Too Much of a Good Thing Parley-vous francais? You can learn that much French in about 5 minutes. If you knew no French before, this represents an infinite increase. In about 5 more minutes you can ...

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