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June 10, 2013
This article advances the notion that government corruption has kept business small in Portugal and resulted in a lack of manufacturing progress. The article asks us to believe that small is inefficient, large is efficient and that sheer size can force economie ...
June 10, 2013
There are many theories about why Richard Nixon was impeached and removed from office but the most sensible one we've heard is that his topmost backers grew angry with his tariffs and generally protectionist attitude regarding US business. Soon, Nixon was depos ...
June 08, 2013
Here's an interesting twist. The mainstream media is filled with reports of vast surveillance mechanisms that have now been emplaced thanks to the evolving structure of the Internet. Now, any time the mainstream media gets involved in broadcasting a particular ...
June 08, 2013
Please excuse our cynicism. When it comes to major Western media, nothing is what it seems. Bottom line: Major media in the West is without doubt controlled by major corporate entities, often globalist in terms of their sympathies. The Guardian, a leftist newsp ...
June 07, 2013
This is a statistic that just doesn't budge. Much of the happy talk about high stock markets and rising real estate prices doesn't affect the basic reality of the US economy: It has nowhere else to go but up, but it is not getting there. This lends itself to cl ...
June 07, 2013
What is a nation anyway and why should different age groups be pitted against each other? That seems to be the fashion, however, when it comes to analyzing retirements and how they operate. We've commented on this before because the Baby Boomer generation has b ...
June 07, 2013
Let us try to put this as plainly as possible. What is being labeled here is the ability of individuals to link together using electronic devices to do things that the state is not in favor of. Whether it is Bitcoin or various kinds of information sharing that ...
June 06, 2013
Who believes this stuff anymore? The point of the IMF's attack on Greece, so far as we can tell, was to show the rest of Europe that the arm of Brussels was long and strong. The unbreakable will of the Eurocrats was to be on full display and those who were to c ...
June 06, 2013
The whole issue of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is questionable but that doesn't stop the Obama administration from enshrining carbon costs in the larger regulatory structure, as we can see from this insightful article. The moves of the administration in th ...
June 05, 2013
We've warned about a deleveraging bond market. When Western economies are seen as weak and their currencies weaker, then investors around the world don't want to buy bonds and rates rise. This makes the bonds that people and institutions already hold worth less ...
June 05, 2013
What are we to make of all this? Britain is headed into a dreaded triple-dip recession and unemployment is not as high as in the Southern PIGS but it is quite high nonetheless, especially for the young. A debt crash threatens and regulations and taxes continue ...
June 05, 2013
This is a surprising development and one we believe has been caused by UKIP, the quasi-libertarian British party that has been growing quickly. Now it looks as if long-suffering Brits will finally have a say as to whether or not they wish to be ruled via Brusse ...
June 05, 2013
There are factions of Western media, as we have long pointed out, that want to portray the BRICs and even South America itself as similar to the West. That is, possessed of a homogeneity that is similar to European countries, or even the United States, which h ...
June 04, 2013
This seems typical of the world we live in. The US government – leviathan – seems irretrievably broken, yet the mainstream media continues to treat the empire as if it were a republic. Almost every industry now is regulated, controlled and coerced and yet t ...
June 04, 2013
Actually, the BIS is doing what central bank executives do all the time, which is meet to create the problem its representatives then publicly identify from the podium. In other words, say you are a central banking boss. You meet and decide how much money to pr ...
June 04, 2013
We are not so impressed as the Economist with these poverty numbers. Have the wise editors at the Economist looked around at the West recently? How about the US where 40-plus million are on food stamps? Or Greece or Spain where half the youth population is unem ...
June 03, 2013
Is it an idle question to ask for whom the system is working? Perhaps so, but perhaps not ... not if the West's central-bank oriented system ceases to work for a large number of citizens. This, in fact, is not an idle observation. In Europe, youth unemployment ...
June 03, 2013
For some, congressional action regarding the current scandals besetting the Obama administration are proof-positive that the system works. But for others, the plethora of troubles under scrutiny in Washington, DC is proof of a larger problem, which is that the ...
June 03, 2013
Free-Market Analysis: First the US; now Britain. We've run a number of articles now on the shale oil and gas technology, which has apparently changed the calculations around oil and gas availability. For over a decade in various configurations we've pointed out ...
June 03, 2013
We've made a commitment to cover the Africa meme regularly because no one else in the alternative media is focusing on it clearly and because it illustrates how dominant social themes work in the modern era. In both Japan and China, the West obviously made deal ...
May 31, 2013
Again we note a shifting of the EU conversation. The implacable authoritarian rigor of the Eurocrats is moderating, and we believe it is because the EU economy is in such wretched shape that its leaders fear outright rebellion. This was mentioned by German offi ...
May 31, 2013
In today's lead article we commented that top Eurocrats were backing away from the harshest measures of "austerity" – higher taxes and regulations, lower benefits and services – for fear of stoking a revolutionary trend among Europe's Southern PIGS. This is ...
May 31, 2013
Just like the top Eurocrats at the EU, Federal Reserve bankers are compulsively taking the pulse of the US economy and its people. There is a worry here, just as there is across the pond, that people have been pushed too far, that confidence in regulatory democ ...
May 31, 2013
We recently wrote an article on the emergent freedom gambit of the ChiComs and how it was really a gamble of some desperation. You can read our article here: Elite Retreat: Now Chinese Leaders Plot a Freedom Reformation! It is a gamble because the Chinese econo ...
May 30, 2013
Read this article, (which was published several months ago but allows us to make a timely point), and you are perhaps reminded of Bill Murray's "Groundhog Day," where everything is always new again even though a single day repeats itself in a closed loop.In thi ...
May 30, 2013
This article is a companion piece to our lead story this issue (see above) and provides more evidence that one needs to look at patterns and promotions rather than taking pronouncements at face value when it comes to world affairs. Of course, the article (excer ...
May 30, 2013
Unlike Bob Dole, bless his patriotic heart, we are not upset at the spectacle of a dysfunctional US Congress. In fact, we would humbly suggest that the less Congress does the more functional it becomes. In the meantime, we'll settle for good old gridlock. Dole ...
May 30, 2013
If you read The Daily Bell you know we've written a lot about the coming African Miracle. Just search for Daily Bell and "Africa" or "African Miracle." We were fairly sure of our analysis but articles like this in Bloomberg tend to confirm our suspicious. Afric ...
May 29, 2013
We don't see a recovery is taking place even though house prices are going up in the US and the stock market is scaling the skies. What's happening is that the central bank has printed money and debased the currency. First you get a wealth effect and then come ...
May 29, 2013
There are various ways to interpret this curious article, but probably three are the most significant. First of all, we believe it is an inaccurate assessment of the situation in Germany. We believe more Germans are dissatisfied with the EU and the euro than th ...
May 29, 2013
The obsessive nervousness with which the Eurocratic elites track the mood of the EU's battered middles classes is captured once again by this article. Far from being sanguine and confident, those at the top of this wretched experiment are jittery and fearful of ...
May 29, 2013
Here is an article that lays out fully the dominant social themes of the modern era. The basic globalist vision employs nation-states as a template for manipulating citizens. Citizens, on the other hand, (more and more as the Internet Reformation expands) push ...
May 28, 2013
Japan's market turbulence may only be a glitch in a larger globalist plan to even out countries and currencies preparatory to installing a global currency. We need to look at the very largest picture to understand what may be going on. So let's try. Coincidenta ...
May 28, 2013
We've written a lot of articles on the African meme now. But it is one gift that keeps on giving. So many articles from the usual suspects – especially The Economist and Reuters – provide us with insights about this expanding dominant social theme. We've tr ...
May 28, 2013
We've commented on Abenomics elsewhere in this issue but it is important to note how the mainstream media is conflating Japan's progress with women's rights (see above). The issue of women's rights is a long-term dominant social theme that has been used to divi ...
May 28, 2013
This article argues that the Federal Reserve is right to keep interest rates low because most people, even grandmas, don't draw much interest income. Thus, the effect on lowering mortgage payments far outweighs the lack of hefty interest for most US citizens. B ...
May 27, 2013
So now we come to understand how the ChiCom leaders intend to get out of the trap that they themselves have constructed and set. In a series of articles stretching back close to three years now, we documented the rise and fall of the Chinese economy and predict ...
May 27, 2013
This is a great article because it points out how wretchedly US government at every level has performed when it comes to the infrastructure. Of course, one could say the same thing about Britain and Europe, but that is not the focal point of this story. The US ...
May 27, 2013
As we have pointed out in this issue's lead article, the "implacable rigor" of the world's globalist leaders is beginning to wilt. Those wielding Money Power seem suddenly amenable to compromise. Are they in the midst of the first baby-steps toward a consolidat ...
May 24, 2013
In the short term, it is possible to control markets, even big ones. This is surely an investment lesson we need to internalize. Yesterday we saw the Japanese market crack after a large upward move caused by the application of Abenomics. But we would be surpris ...
May 24, 2013
This Reuters editorial takes the position that bubbles are not destructive because short-term interest rates are the result of people's expectations, not of financial manipulation. This is untrue and ignores neo-classical economics. Interest rates will inevitab ...
May 24, 2013
We have noticed recently that the top Eurocrats seem a bit more frazzled than usual. We wrote about a recent article in Reuters – a pro-EU wire service – and noted that the editorial was fairly negative about EU prospects. In fact, the thrust of the editori ...
May 24, 2013
Turns out that Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Al Franken were among a number of top Dems that sent letters to the IRS demanding investigations of conservative groups. This issue has exploded in the past week as it became clear that the IRS had indeed tar ...
May 23, 2013
This is an editorial and does not speak formally for Reuters. But in studying Reuters editorials we find they hew to Reuters's editorial policy, which is a globalist one. Thus, the editorials to some degree reveal the thinking of the larger globalist brain trus ...
May 23, 2013
Because we cover memes, we long ago figured this one out, though admittedly it took some time. But after a while it came clear to us that the globalists were seemingly set on implementing a neo-National Socialist platform around the world if it meant they would ...
May 23, 2013
Here once more we see the mainstream media taking aim at money metals. The idea is to discredit gold as an investment. We don't understand this antipathy. (All right, perhaps we do; but we certainly don't agree with it.) It seems to us that gold ought to be see ...
May 23, 2013
Goldman Sachs has released a research report with four reasons why stocks are poised to go higher, as related in this short article posted over at The Reformed Broker. The reasons reduce to some simple observations. First, the economy is getting better, meaning ...
May 22, 2013
Derivatives reform? We hardly think so ... First of all, nobody knows how big the derivatives market is and no one knows how many dollars are at risk. Those involved in making the regulations are also the largest players in the market. Whatever "reform" is bein ...
May 22, 2013
Money printing works in ways that central bankers need it to work. More money is inflationary in a mathematical sense. That doesn't mean it can be quantified, but we can watch it at work. The most obvious place we can see it at work is in the stock market. Beca ...
May 22, 2013
According to this editorial at USA Today, good intentions can triumph over power. We are supposed to ignore the insight that "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely," and embrace the idea that even the biggest government can be brought to heel by ...
