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05/21/13 - Make Way for the Killers & the Great Tax Haven Roundup
There are no scandals in Washington. There is simply a turnover. We are preparing for an escalation of the global financial war. The old team is simply being told to step ... |
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05/14/13 - G7 Sets Policy for Global Tax Regime
Osborne: G7 agree to target tax evasion and avoidance ... George Osborne co-chaired the two-day meeting in ... The G7 group of industrialised nations have agreed that there ... |
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05/07/13 - Misleading Headline of Predictable Stock Market Meme
Global shares near 5-year high as central bank rally rolls ... World shares hit their strongest in almost five years and Germany's Dax reached an all-time high on Tuesday ... |
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05/02/13 - Times Bemoans Poverty, Neglects Solution
Wealth Gap Among Races Has Widened Since Recession ...Given the dynamics of the housing recovery and the rebound in the stock market, the wealth gap might still be growing, ... |
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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 ... |
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04/30/13 - 300 Million Young People Out of Work? Economist Mag Suggests 'Solution'
Generation jobless ... "YOUNG people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them," said Margaret Thatcher in 1984. She was right: there are few worse things that society can ... |
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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 ... |
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04/23/13 - Germany Out of the Euro or the Great Synthesis Has Begun?
German 'Alternative': Parallel Currency Idea Carries Great Risks ... A new German protest party is proposing the gradual re-introduction of the national currencies of highly ... |
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04/22/13 - Time Proclaims the Death of Carbon Marts: Enter Coercion
The green jewel was the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)—the European-wide carbon market, by far the largest such system in the world. The ETS, launched in 2005, allowed ... |
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04/17/13 - As Gold Declines Will Stocks Fly?
India and Vietnam: Taking the Glitter out of Gold ... When uncertainty reigns, investors all over the world turn to gold as a safe haven. But some countries are starting to ... |
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04/16/13 - Does Summers Suffer From 'A Lack of Vision' – or the US?
Is America's democracy broken? Europe's hair-trigger economy The U.S. must embrace a growth agenda America has multiple deficits How to target untaxed wealth ... With the ... |
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04/12/13 - Was Cyprus Attack Also an Attack on Gold?
Are We About to See a Global Gold Selling Spree? ... Heavily indebted euro zone nations such as Italy and Portugal could come under pressure to put their bullion reserves to ... |
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04/11/13 - New Book on EU Corruption Gets Author Investigated
Publish Book – Get Turned Over by Police ... No, I am not making this up. My memoirs A Mote in Brussels' Eye describing my five years in the Brussels lunatic asylum came ... |
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04/10/13 - Is Japan's Devaluation an Attack on China?
Japan stimulus will start currency war, say Chinese economists ... Plan to buy bonds will open liquidity floodgates and spells doom for other nations, observers say ... The ... |
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04/09/13 - Margaret Thatcher, Enlarger of WHAT Freedom ... Have You Looked at England Lately?
The Great Debate ... Margaret Thatcher, an enlarger of British freedom ... Maggie could be seductive in private conversation one on one, more so as she matured, the strident ... |
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04/09/13 - Building a Pre-Ordained Monetary Success in Japan?
A new government took office the day after Christmas, led by prime minister Shinzo Abe, pledging to, in effect, go whole-hog on the Keynesian remedies for Japan's long ... |
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04/08/13 - The Destruction of Offshore Banking Tolls for Thee
Piercing the secrecy of offshore tax havens ... A New York hedge fund manager allegedly swindles $12 million from a prominent Baltimore family. An Indiana couple is accused of ... |
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04/02/13 - Weird: BOE Supports Chinese Financial Domination ...
News Release – People's Bank of China swap line ... Governor Zhou Xiaochuan met Governor Mervyn King today during Governor King's visit to Beijing. They ... |
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03/26/13 - Blame Germany for the European Mess?
Stubborn and Egotistical: Europe Is Right to Doubt German Euro Leadership ... The drama over Cyprus has made clear that the euro-zone crisis is developing into a struggle over ... |
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03/25/13 - And It's Not Over Yet
Traders cheer Cyprus deal ... The euro, stocks and crude oil are firmer after Cyprus reached a deal on a €10bn bailout. Money is moving out of supposed havens, pushing the ... |
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03/22/13 - Is Qatar Going to Bail Out Britain?
The West is in decline, but its values still prevail ...The first ever non-European pope takes over at the Vatican, while Italy's economic ills and ungovernability foretell, ... |
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03/21/13 - Was the Cyprus Crisis a Mistake?
Daylight robbery in Cyprus will come to haunt EMU ... One's first reflex is to gasp at the stupidity of the EU policy elites, but truth is that most EU officials handling the ... |
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03/20/13 - Next Weeks May Confirm Our Suspicions About Grillo and Italy's Manipulation
Italian president seeks way out of political stalemate ... Italy's political stalemate and the prospect of months of uncertainty has created alarm across Europe just as the ... |
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03/19/13 - Now New Zealand Plans Cyprus-Style Bank Confiscations
National planning Cyprus-style solution for New Zealand ...The National Government are pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand which will see small ... |
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03/18/13 - Shock: Globalist Plan for IMF Failing in US Congress?
Is the US holding back IMF reform? ... The legislation would implement reforms agreed by the G20 in 2010, which were described by then IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss ... |
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03/15/13 - Libor Scandal to Reveal Metals Manipulation?
'A cesspit': Libor scandal may be going on elsewhere ...The market for determining one of the world's key interest rates was a "cesspit" and banks cannot be trusted ... The ... |
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03/14/13 - The Two Faces of Eve ... er, Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse urges investors to jump into stocks ... One month after turning cautious on global stock investing, the investment committee of Credit Suisse Group's U.S. private ... |
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03/13/13 - Europe Needs Rigor?
Without coordinated leadership, Europe will falter ... There is an increasing probability that financial markets will respond negatively to the unfolding economic and political ... |
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03/11/13 - The African Investment Meme Continues
Ghana ... Golden Opportunities Africa: Investing in the Cradle of Civilization ... This year could prove an interesting one for Africa's west coastal country, Ghana. ... |
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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 ... |
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03/06/13 - Africa ... Next China?
Celebrations are in order on the poorest continent. Never in the half-century since it won independence from the colonial powers has Africa been in such good shape. Its economy ... |
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03/05/13 - The New Era in Gold Repatriation Will Affect Everything
Mexico to audit its gold holdings at the Bank of England ... The Mexican Government Audit Office has issued an official statement, criticizing the Bank of Mexico for not ... |
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03/02/13 - Bloomberg's Bet
Politicker.com recently posted a report on a radio interview by New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg entitled, "Keep Calm and Carry On: Don't Panic About the Sequester." According to ... |
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02/28/13 - Internal IMF Study: Fund Has Gained World's Trust by Advocating Currency Debasement
IMF is regaining trust ... The International Monetary Fund has improved its image since the global financial crisis and should address member countries' long-standing criticism ... |
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02/27/13 - Shock: Bloomberg Columnist Bashes Keynes ... Dialectic Expands, but Not Far Enough
Deathbed of Keynesian Economics Will Be in U.K ... The U.K. has produced notable economists over the years, but John Maynard Keynes, the guru of government intervention, was ... |
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02/26/13 - Suddenly, There Is Energy Everywhere, Even in Africa
Energy revolution promises to transform East Africa ... An energy revolution is taking place in East Africa as the price of solar technology tumbles and huge resources of ... |
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02/22/13 - EU Sees More Shrinkage as Dialectic Expands
Euro zone economy to shrink again ... "The improved financial market situation contrasts with the absence of credit growth and the weakness of the near-term outlook for ... |
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02/22/13 - The Demise of Swiss Private Banking is Premature
Future of private bankers under the microscope ... With the demise of Wegelin and planned ownership changes at Pictet and Lombard Odier, the number of traditional, family-run ... |
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02/20/13 - China's Dollar Optimism Signifies Larger Economic Shift?
China loves the US dollar again as America roars back ... China's central bank has radically revised its view of US economic and strategic power, predicting that the dollar ... |
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02/19/13 - The Voice of Public Choice Is Dead, Economist Lives On
Free exchange ... The voice of public choice ... James Buchanan, who died on January 9th, illuminated political decision-making ... A list of things that Americans judge more ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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02/06/13 - Let the Elites Have Their Silly Gold and Silver ... Use Local Money to Create Sustainable Economies!
Can local currencies help advance global sustainability? Local financial systems that put people and the environment at their heart are welcome, but can these new models be ... |
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02/05/13 - Oxfam Hops Aboard One Percenter Meme
Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over ... Leaders must aim to bring down global inequality at least to 1990 levels ... An explosion ... |
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01/31/13 - Are Wall Streeters War Criminals?
Billions In Blood Money Enjoyed by War Criminals' Families ... While you might not see them on Forbes' list of wealthy people, criminals and their beneficiaries are some of the ... |
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01/29/13 - Axiom 3: Back to the Articles of Confederation as America's Central Government
Americans demanding a return to limited government, a balanced budget and an end to spiraling sovereign debt have been voting for the GOP for decades and the result has been ... |
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01/28/13 - Nationalize Banking? Or Apologize for the Suggestion ...
Breaking Up the Big Banks is Not a Solution: Make Them Public Utilities ... Leo Panitch: Global capitalism needs massive banks, but big private banks have the power to prevent ... |
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12/29/12 - The Invisible Hand Strikes Back
Bloomberg has posted an article entitled "Americans Miss $200 Billion [by] Abandoning Stocks" that is presumably supposed to illustrate the folly of avoiding equities but in my ... |
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12/20/12 - When Money Power Rules Business
Starting a business: young entrepreneurs are vital to Britain's economy ... There's never been a better time to start a business, says Richard Reed, co-founder of Innocent ... |
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12/01/12 - Fiscal Cliff Austerity: Just Another Meme Designed to Steal What is Yours
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." – Charles De Gaulle In my home country, the United States, we are ... |
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11/28/12 - All the Fear-Based Memes in One Place
The G20 Fiddles While the Planet Burns ... What would you do if someone knocked on your door and said, "Your house is on fire!" Would you say, "Not to worry, if it gets too bad ... |
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11/09/12 - EU's Plight: Sadism or a Cold-Blooded Takedown?
Who will stop the Sado-Monetarists as jobless youth hits 58pc in Greece? Greek unemployment rose to 25.4pc in August. Youth unemployment rose to 58pc. Under the official ... |
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10/22/12 - Rediscovering IMF Working Papers
IMF's epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers ... So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could ... |
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10/19/12 - Down With the West, Long Live the BRICs ...
Britain must abandon its "obsession" with the eurozone crisis to look to the true deciders of its future, said Jim O'Neill, the economist who defined the "BRIC" economies, as ... |
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10/19/12 - BBC Will Find the Sharpest Brits ... or Will They?
Clare Balding is to be the host of a new Saturday night TV show BBC1 entertainment show to find the country's sharpest mind. The presenter, one of the stars of the BBC's ... |
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10/18/12 - BBC Deserves What It Gets
'It's not a crisis at the BBC. Not yet, anyway' ... Staff at the corporation are frustrated at the way the management has handled the Jimmy Savile allegations and the ... |
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10/10/12 - Madness of Markets
Romney Is Unwise to Believe in Wisdom of Markets ... Judging from the preponderance of his utterances, presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a classic Republican approach to ... |
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10/09/12 - IMF Solutions Reinforce Problems
IMF: Global economic slowdown is getting worse, US must avoid 'fiscal cliff' ... Updated at 8:30 a.m. ET The International Monetary Fund said the global economic slowdown is ... |
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10/03/12 - Subprime Prosecutions Miss the Point
Sub-prime feeding frenzy haunts Wall Street five years on ... A fresh lawsuit filed by New York's top government prosecutor is a reminder that the financial crisis is still ... |
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09/28/12 - Dotcom May Reap Bitter Fruits From Being a Pioneer
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has apologized to Kim Dotcom after a report from the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security found that the government illegally ... |
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09/19/12 - The Revolution From Above
Today the Western peoples are experiencing the destruction of their well being that is comparable to what the one percent in Rome imposed on Roman citizens and conquered ... |
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09/18/12 - The Pure Fiat Con: Every Transaction Available for Official Scrutiny – and That's Just the Point?
Bitcoin Exchange Scam – Bitcoins Are Now Worthless ... What do you think? Would you put your life savings into Bitcoin? – NERDr.com Dominant Social Theme: Use pure ... |
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09/03/12 - Can't the Parties Just Get Along?
Feel the Loathing on the Campaign Trail ... Sometime early last May, I began to have this goofy notion, which turned into a daydream and eventually became a recurring fantasy. ... |
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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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08/20/12 - Cult of Putin Is Alternative Media Porn?
As long term readers of this blog will be aware, I have been concerned for some time with the misreporting and interference in the west with Russian cases. The Pussy Riot case ... |
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08/15/12 - London Olympics ... Boon or Boondoggle?
Boris Johnson: We will reap economic rewards for years ... The Olympic Games were "money well spent" as tourists delivered a huge boost to restaurants, nightclubs and theatres ... |
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08/14/12 - What Did Rand Paul Gain?
Mitt Romney has picked the youthful warmonger Paul Ryan to be his running mate. From my point of view, this leaves the junior senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, standing near ... |
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08/04/12 - What Is the Status of the Real Unemployment Debate?
Brad Plumer recently posted an article at the Washington Post 's Wonkblog entitled "July jobs report: Why the unemployment rate just won't budge." Plumer was responding to a ... |
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08/01/12 - Bill Gross Sees Gloom and Doom, But There's Something He's Not Saying
Bond King Bill Gross: We're Witnessing the Death of Equities ... The bond king says stocks are dead. Bill Gross, Pimco's co-founder and co-chief investment officer, says stock ... |
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07/26/12 - Her Majesty's Tax Collector Tells Children to Snitch
HMRC tells school children: Tell your teacher if a neighbour is evading tax School children are being encouraged by HM Revenue and Customs to tell their teachers if they know ... |
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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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07/13/12 - Surprise! Obama Reveals the Promotional Elements of the Modern Presidency
Obama's mistake in 1st term: He wasn't a good storyteller ... US President Barack Obama has acknowledged that the biggest mistake of his first term was not being a good enough ... |
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07/12/12 - Milos Forman Says Oh, Grow Up! ... US Not a Socialist Country
Obama the Socialist? Not Even Close ... When I was asked to direct "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," my friends warned me not to go anywhere near it. The story is so American, ... |
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07/02/12 - Barclays Scandal, Worse and Worse ... Whatever It Is!
Barclays Chairman Marcus Agius resigns over rate rigging ... Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays, has resigned over the interest rate rigging scandal at the bank. He is ... |
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06/20/12 - BRICs to Create Own 'Currency'?
China's Central Bank Willing To Share $3 Trillion ... China's Central Bank has over $3 trillion in reserves. They might be willing to share it ... Brazil, Russia, India and ... |
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06/07/12 - The Madness of Market Euphoria
Best day of 2012 for Dow industrials and S&P 500 ... U.S. stocks surged Wednesday, with the Dow industrials and S&P 500 both tallying their best day this year, on ... |
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06/05/12 - G7 Is Concerned About Euro Collapse ... Sure They Are!
G7 to hold emergency euro zone talks, Spain top concern ... Finance chiefs of the Group of Seven leading industrialised powers will hold emergency talks on the euro zone debt ... |
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05/04/12 - The Volcker Rule Advances
Progress Is Seen in Advancing a Final Volcker Rule ... Daniel Tarullo, a Federal Reserve Board governor, held a meeting on Wednesday with the heads of six major banks. A major ... |
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04/30/12 - India Falters? Global Depression On Tap?
Struggling coalition leaves Indian economy in the doldrums ... Foreign investors are rejecting India in favour of rivals ... As India's once 'miraculous growth' story took a ... |
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03/30/12 - In Honor of Earth Hour: George Carlin on Human 'Self Importance'
George Carlin, "The Planet Is Fine" ... We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, ... |
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03/15/12 - The Virtue of Independent Thought and Action - In Your Investments, Too!
"For those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal cord would have ... |
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02/17/12 - Central Banks 'Good', Ron Paul 'Bad'?
Money Bawl ... Monetary expansion is also, for Paul, a key enabler of what he takes to be our imperialist foreign policy: The creation of money out of thin air allows the ... |
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02/16/12 - Eisenhower and the Aliens
President Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens, former Pentagon consultant claims. Ex-President met with extra-terrestrials on three separate occasions at New ... |
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02/07/12 - Yes! Robo-Signing Mortgage State Settlement Something to Cheer About
Officials from more than 40 states have signed onto a record $25 billion settlement with the five biggest banks related to foreclosure abuses including "robo-signing" of ... |
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02/04/12 - Elite Campaign to Re-Elect Obama in Full Swing?
From the Washington Post , we learn that "January job gains have economists rethinking outlooks." Oh, really? Last I looked, the bear leg of the larger business cycle was still ... |
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01/18/12 - Another Failure for the Elites as the EU Sinks?
Italy is being pushed into depression by monetary union ... There is no clearer indictment of the dysfunctional nature of monetary union. ... Criminal. Obviously, Italy and ... |
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01/11/12 - Post Admits Austerity 'Killing' Greece
In Greece, fears that austerity is killing the economy ... Deeply indebted and nearly bankrupt, this Mediterranean nation was forced to adopt tough austerity measures to slash ... |
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01/02/12 - Why Duke Should Have Swapped
Typical anti-Semitic cretin. Anyone opposed to Zionism and denies the holocaust is a racist bigot that doesn't deserve the right to free speech, frankly. David Duke and his ... |
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12/26/11 - Global Depression – A Directed Phenomenon ...
Is Latin America's Boom Over? A Pall, Personal and Economic, Falls Over a Regional Summit ... A pall was cast over the summit of Mercosur nations in Uruguay this week when ... |
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12/22/11 - DB Helps Define Zeitgeist of an Age?
This guest editorial has been written to introduce an art show at galerie-zk.de/fontaine in cooperation with Year01 (Toronto). It was originally published at ... |
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12/21/11 - 'Safe' Nuclear Meme Shattered by Fukushima Expose in Leading Journal
14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout ... Impact Seen As Roughly Comparable to Radiation-Related Deaths After Chernobyl; Infants Are Hardest Hit, With ... |
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12/15/11 - China's Meltdown Continues
China's epic hangover begins. China's credit bubble has finally popped. The property market is swinging wildly from boom to bust, the cautionary exhibit of a BRIC's dream that ... |
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12/07/11 - Wall Street Buys Up Guns
Mystery company buying up U.S. gun manufacturers ... Some gun enthusiasts have claimed that the power behind the company is actually George Soros, the hedge-fund billionaire ... |
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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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11/26/11 - Is the Sovereign Debt Crisis a Replay of the Versailles Treaty?
Here at The Daily Bell we track dominant social themes of the Anglosphere power elite (the only elite that matters) and recently we've been pointing out that much of what is ... |
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11/21/11 - The European Union Uber Alles
(Translation: The EU Over All) "Consider that the entire Western world is outraged that the Greek prime minister announced that he is going to permit the Greek people to decide ... |
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11/19/11 - Why Gold Sells Off and What Will Happen Next ...
Reuters just published an interesting article that makes the following point: "As the Dow struggled over the past few weeks, gold has confounded market watchers by tracking ... |
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11/18/11 - And Then There Was 'Thrive' ...
We have written about "Thrive," the movie, which just made its debut. Sure enough, our skepticism seems warranted. In fact, we'll be very blunt. The power elite (that wants to ... |
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11/14/11 - Broker Skips Real Truth of How He Lost His House
How a Financial Pro Lost His House ... My first book comes out in January, "The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things With Money" (Portfolio, a Penguin imprint). ... |
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