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Botched Panama Papers Leak Has Unintended Consequences for the Elite
April 14, 2016
Panama Papers reveal London as center of ‘spider’s web’ … As-well as shining a spotlight on the secret financial arrangements of the rich and powerful, the so-called Panama Papers have laid bare London’s role as a vital organ of the world’s tax-have ...
Euro Bailout: Will Americans be on the Hook to Cover Trillions in European Bank Debt?
April 13, 2016
President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen discussed risks to the economy and progress from Wall Street reform during a rare meeting in the Oval Office on Monday, the White House said. -Reuters ...
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US Elections Giving Rise to Broad, Socialist Coalition
April 12, 2016
Several hundred activists were arrested Monday afternoon during a sit-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to call for action on voting rights and campaign finance reform. The mass civil disobedience, part of a week-long Washington protest known as Democracy Spr ...
Iceland Reformers’ New Bank Plan Just as Problematic as the Last
April 11, 2016
Revenge of the Vikings — Iceland Will Create Its Own Money … Iceland is taking the money back from the clutches of the private fractional reserve lending cartel.  It’s happened before in history, and with great success, but it has also prompted a violent ...
Transparency International Plots to Strip Global Privacy With Public Registry of Ownership
April 08, 2016
The world is dotted with states and territories that make a specialty of providing services whose purpose is to facilitate ways to hide assets … Not all of what they do is illegal but so much of it is that the whole system needs changing.  – Transparen ...
Stock Market Last Gasp: Could Equities Jump Up Hard?
April 07, 2016
The $1 Trillion Short Underlying Stocks’ Spring … Short interest reaches highest level since 2008 despite gains … Level is contrarian bullish, sets up powerful rally, says BofA … A funny thing has happened in the U.S. stock market, where rather ...
Protect Yourself Against Those Running the World’s Economy for Your ‘Benefit’
April 06, 2016
IMF warns of emerging market risk to U.S. stock markets  … Major emerging markets, led by China, are increasingly likely to spread fear to financial markets, leading to poor stock performance in the U.S. and other developed countries, the International Monet ...
As Central Bankers Confront Stagflation, Gold Shines More Brightly
April 05, 2016
A Warning for Gold Bugs: This Rally Won’t Last … Gold prices surged 16.5% in the first quarter … Gold investors should enjoy the party while they can. –Wall Street Journal This small article is incorrect in some big ways. It’s negative about gold desp ...
The triumph of the invisible hand
April 04, 2016
“By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.” – Frédéric Bastiat. It remains one of the most powerful metaphors in economics. In 1850 Frédéric Bastiat gave the world the story of the broken window. The son of a s ...
NASA Mars Mission Fakery Gives False Impression of Competence
April 04, 2016
NASA’s Bolden: Mars mission is ‘closer than ever’ … In the movie, “The Martian,” Matt Damon was a fictional astronaut stranded on Mars. In reality, the head of NASA says astronauts could set foot on the Red Planet within the next ...
Anthony Wile: From Personal, Market Preferences to Promising Opportunities
April 03, 2016
Introduction: Anthony Wile is an active investor, business strategist and consultant, financial markets commentator, publisher and author. Having lived and worked in several leading financial centers around the world, he has established an international networ ...
Anthony Wile Reflects on the Gifts of Tibor Machan
April 01, 2016
Once in a while in our lives we come across a book or an article, perhaps an interview, that causes us to pause and really consider our positions on a particular topic, to question our conclusions and perhaps even adjust our way of looking at and thinking about ...
Exposure of Major Corruption Scandal Spurs Call For More Global Government
April 01, 2016
There’s A Huge New Corporate Corruption Scandal. Here’s Why Everyone Should Care. Bribery fuels political instability — and it’s a propaganda tool for terrorists. – Huffington Post ...
Authorities Plan Strategic Attack of Anti-Vaccine “Myths”
March 31, 2016
One promising new approach is to keep track of the vaccine myths circulating in cyberspace and rebut each one as it appears. This requires tracking information from search engines and following anti-vaccination websites and parents’ forums. – Economist ...
Secret Fed deal abroad spurs stagflation at home
March 30, 2016
Yellen Says Caution in Raising Rates Is ‘Especially Warranted’ …  Fed Chair makes case for go-slow changes with rate near zero … Janet Yellen said it is appropriate for U.S. central bankers to “proceed cautiously” in raising interest rates because ...
The Internet Reformation that’s sweeping the world
March 29, 2016
… Along with the crackdown on dissent and freedom of speech, as well as an increasingly ideological tone, some observers worry that Chinese politics is now taking a more authoritarian direction of the kind not seen since the days of Chairman Mao. And wi ...
Politicians push for war as the way out of economic troubles
March 28, 2016
Tony Blair [in the Sunday Times]: Britain and its western allies must be prepared to send ground troops to “crush” Islamic State forces or risk a terror attack in Europe of “such size and horror” that draconian security measures would have to be introdu ...
Eric Peters: How Government Ruined Cars
March 27, 2016
Eric Peters started out writing about cars for mainstream media outlets such as The Washington Times, Detroit News and Free Press, Investors Business Daily, The American Spectator, National Review, The Chicago Tribune and Wall Street Journal.  At some point, i ...
Covert US Operations Undermine Brazil Olympics
March 25, 2016
The Rio Olympics Could Be the Next Victim of Brazil’s Corruption Scandal … A massive corruption investigation is reaching into construction deals done for the already troubled Rio 2016 … Two multibillion dollar projects linked to the troubled Rio 2016 Oly ...
Blair to Eradicate European Culture to Create a United States of Europe
March 24, 2016
Tony Blair has warned against “flabby liberalism” and says there needs to be a tougher centre ground approach to issues such as tackling extremism and responding to the refugee crisis …  He argues that education against extremism and intolerance ...
Can the market handle legal marijuana?
March 23, 2016
Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People … pulls back the curtain on the true motivation of the United States’ war on drugs.  –Huffington Post ...
Forget QE Through Banks, The ECB Now Wants To Directly Hand Out Cash
March 22, 2016
The lords of finance are losing their touch.  Institutions which dragged the world from its worst depression since the early 20th century are finally seeing their magic desert them, if conventional wisdom is to be believed.  –UK Telegraph ...
Two of the Worst Investments You Can Make Right Now: Facebook and China
March 21, 2016
New York Times … With ‘Smog Jog’ Through Beijing, Zuckerberg Stirs Debate on Air Pollution … Some noted he should have worn a face mask … Others simply took umbrage with where the photo was staged, at the heart of Tiananmen Square.“The floor you ste ...
Fed Positions Itself to Unleash Three Tools of Power Expansion
March 18, 2016
“Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability … Against this backdrop, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 1/4 to 1/2 percent. The stance of mone ...
Bank of England Intentionally Strangles UK Economy to Discourage Brexit
March 17, 2016
The longer-term effects of Brexit are … likely to be adverse. Most studies suggest that economic growth would suffer. A detailed analysis from the Bank of England in October found that EU membership had benefited the British economy. Attempts to model th ...
US recession data shows it’s a very short road to capital controls
March 16, 2016
“Prosperity is like a Jenga tower. Take one piece out and the whole thing can fall.” That’s a direct quote from John Williams, the President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank in a speech he gave a few weeks ago. ...
Broadening the Race War? Soros Creates Anti-Trump Pro-‘Illegals’ Super Pac
March 16, 2016
George Soros Forms Pro “Illegals” Super PAC To Shift Election … Soros Dumping Millions Into Questionable Voter Influence Campaign – Illegals? … Their tools in the onslaught are what the New York Times describes as “Latinos and other immigrants.” - ...
Council on Foreign Relations calls for more military spending to boost US dominance
March 15, 2016
CFR Elites Seek Renewed Military Spending Around the World New World Order is New World Disorder … Richard Haass, president at Council on Foreign Relations, discusses this weekend’s attacks in Turkey and the Ivory Coast and the importance of internation ...
Trump and ’60s Propaganda: Strategy to Launch North American Union?
March 14, 2016
Moveon.Org raising funds from Trump protests, warns more disruptions to come … “We refuse to be intimidated by Donald Trump, Fox News, or anyone else … We’ve been ramping up our efforts for months … We need to double-down in the face of direct attack ...
James Jaeger: How DC Destroyed Hollywood and What Must Be Done
March 13, 2016
James Jaeger is an award-winning filmmaker who co-founded Matrix Entertainment which has partnered with Bill Van Alen, of Cornerstone Entertainment, Constitutional attorney, Edwin Vieira, Jr., and independent producer, Richard B. Iott, to  produce a series of ...
Elites Link Anti-Government Thought to Mental Illness, Lay Groundwork for Incarceration
March 11, 2016
Believe in conspiracy theories? You’re probably a narcissist: People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking … Psychologists from the University of Kent carried out three online studies … -UK Daily Mail ...
North Korea Nuclear Hoax Heightens Alternative Media Skepticism
March 10, 2016
Kim Jong-un orders North Korea’s nuclear arsenal on standby Kim Jong-un’s bombastic statement came after the UN security council’s adoption of tough new sanctions on Pyongyang. –UK Telegraph ...
This bizarre rule in the US is a huge risk to your investments
March 10, 2016
Human beings have come up with some crazy ideas for money and finance over the years. Conch shells. Beads. Animal skins. Salt. Rice. All of these were used as a form of money at one time or another. But the strangest by far has got to be the Rai Stones of Yap I ...
West vs. BRICS: The New Cold War
March 09, 2016
Lula and the BRICS in a fight to the death … “BRICS” is the dirtiest of acronyms in the Beltway/Wall Street axis … So it’s no surprise the three key BRICS powers have been under simultaneous attack, on many fronts, for some time now. -RT ...
Trump: Another Manchurian Candidate?
March 08, 2016
Trump’s rise disturbs world media … As the U.S. woke up Wednesday to the news that Donald Trump had triumphed in a majority of the states up for grabs in the Super Tuesday contests, the wider world also woke up to the prospect of a man whom some consider a ...
Central Banking Conspiracy Now Involves Canadian ‘Basic Income’
March 07, 2016
Canada plans to experiment with giving people unconditional free money … Finland and the Netherlands have already shown their interest in giving people a regular monthly allowance regardless of working status, and now Ontario, Canada is onboard. – Tech Insi ...
John W. Whitehead: Politics Don’t Matter, but Your Actions Do
March 06, 2016
John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. In 1982, he established The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose inter ...
How the media is lying to you about economic recovery
March 04, 2016
The missing piece from the economic recovery has finally materialized. Median household income, adjusted for inflation, is now higher than it was before the recession that began at the end of 2007, according to new data published by Sentier Research. –Yahoo ...
“No signs of recession” says agency that always fails to predict recession
March 03, 2016
In the middle of a heated battle against my jetlag yesterday, I finally decided to exercise the nuclear option and turn on CNBC in order to stay awake. I figured someone would say something completely ridiculous, and it would get my blood boiling enough to powe ...
British Central Bank Head Accuses Brussels of Creating Depression
March 03, 2016
“Europe’s deep economic malaise is the result of “deliberate” policy choices made by EU elites, according to the former governor of the Bank of England.” –UK Telegraph ...
North Korean Sanctions Distract the West From Vanishing Freedom at Home
March 02, 2016
UN Votes Wednesday on Tough New North Korea Sanctions … The U.N. Security Council votes Wednesday on a resolution that would impose the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades. –AP ...
Major threats posed to the elite’s alternative energy agenda
March 01, 2016
Sustainability holds key in green quest for China … With the Chinese economy slowing down, it is possible to predict that the country’s policymakers would still have their eyes trained on economic development for a not-so-bad GDP growth, rather than sus ...
Chinese monetary bubble threatens to burst
February 29, 2016
Global finance officials promise to shore up sagging growth … Finance officials of the world’s biggest economies promised Saturday to use “all tools” to shore up sagging global growth and to avoid devaluing their currencies to boost exports ...
William Anderson: US Politics of Price Fixing in a Crumbling Economy.
February 28, 2016
Bill Anderson is a professor of economics at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland. His Ph.D. in economics is from Auburn University, and he serves as an associate scholar with the Mises Institute. He has published numerous articles and papers on ec ...
BBC scandal reveals mainstream media manipulation
February 26, 2016
‘Serious failings’ at BBC let Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall go unchecked … Dame Janet Smith report finds ‘climate of fear’ at BBC ‘Macho culture’ led employees to keep quiet … She concluded that “an atmosphere of fear still exists today ...
German backlash against “lying press”
February 25, 2016
Lying Press? Germans Lose Faith in the Fourth Estate “Mendacious swine journals” reads this sign held by a German protester at a recent PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden, listing various German media outlets … Germans are losing faith in their media ...
Brexit: Why Britons won’t get what they vote for
February 24, 2016
EU referendum: Leaving EU a ‘leap in the dark’ says Cameron … The prime minister says his only agenda is what is best for the country … David Cameron has warned that leaving the European Union “could hurt working people for years to come&# ...
Vaccine debate heats up over HPV and Gardasil
February 23, 2016
HPV Sharply Reduced in Teenage Girls Following Vaccine, Study Says …The vaccine for human papillomavirus, a cause of cervical cancer, has proved effective, but immunization rates remain low … A vaccine introduced a decade ago to combat the sexually transmit ...
Stagflation Sweeps Canada, Threatens US
February 22, 2016
Retail sales in Canada fell 2.2% in December from November on a seasonally adjusted basis, but not adjusted for inflation, to C$43.2 billion … But just because retail demand is crummy doesn’t mean that retail prices can’t power higher. Stagflation comes t ...
Anthony Wile: Why the World Needs White-Market Cannabis and How to Get There
February 20, 2016
In April, the leadership of all 193 UN member nations will gather in New York City for a UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem, UNGASS 2016. This UN meeting can and probably will set a new policy direction for the global cannabis marketp ...
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