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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 05, 2013
"Some debts are fun when you're acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them." ~ Frederic Ogden Nash We may be coming to the end of a phase that was widely perceived as "a return to normalcy." Recovery hopes have been held high, sponsored m ...
June 05, 2013
In modern times humanism has been associated with Karl Marx and one of his teachers, Ludwig Feuerbach. The latter was an atheist who believed that it wasn't God who created man but the other way around. Since, however, this left no one to command us to do the r ...
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 04, 2013
When Gerald Celente branded the American media "presstitutes," he got it right. The US print and TV media (and NPR) whore for Washington and the corporations. Reporting the real news is their last concern. The presstitutes are a Ministry of Propaganda and Cover ...
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 ...
June 03, 2013
May was Iraq's deadliest month in nearly five years, with more than 1,000 dead – both civilians and security personnel – in a rash of bombings, shootings and other violence. As we read each day of new horrors in Iraq, it becomes more obvious that the US inv ...
June 02, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas DiLorenzo. Here's a snippet. Daily Bell: Put Lincoln in context. Why is continued mythology so important to the current power structure of the Anglosphere? Thomas DiLorenzo: The state can ...
June 01, 2013
AlterNet has posted an article reporting on Census Bureau numbers showing that one out of six Americans lives in poverty. This once again confirms our message here at The Daily Bell since inception, and even before in other forums, that the current central bank ...
June 01, 2013
This week economists, investors and politicians were treated to some of the "best" home price data since the frothy days of 2006 when home loans were given out like cotton candy and condo flipping was a national pastime. The Case-Shiller 20 City Composite Home ...
June 01, 2013
"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 morning." ~ Henry Ford Ben Bernanke, Mario Draghi and Shinzo Abe are the modern-day heroes. They ...
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 31, 2013
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 prices accelerated by the most in nearly seven years in March as the spring buying seas ...
May 31, 2013
Have you ever wondered how the government's misinformation gains traction? What I have noticed is that whenever a stunning episode occurs, such as 9/11 or the Boston Marathon bombing, most everyone whether on the right or left goes along with the government's e ...
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 30, 2013
To an extent that reveals a thorough misunderstanding of the market forces, the financial media has failed to consider the different motivations and beliefs that drive the different types of investors who are active in the gold market. By treating the gold mark ...
May 30, 2013
This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "The Red Button." Here's a bit of the transcript: "The moral of the story is: Never have an epiphany in the middle of a speech. "I had been asked by a friend to speak to a group called Spiritual Fro ...
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 29, 2013
Three names are widely associated with the cause of human freedom and economic liberty in the 20th century: Friedrich A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand. Indeed, it can be argued that Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944) and The Constitution of Liberty (1960 ...
May 29, 2013
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 serve - is a menace, no better than a gang of embezzlers and extortionists, can shout out "I tol ...
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 27, 2013
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" Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over education via the "No C ...
May 26, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Andy Hoffman. Here's a snippet. Daily Bell: Is gold finished as a wise investment? Andy Hoffman: I have never considered my PHYSICAL gold and silver (all I own) to be "investments." They are MON ...
May 25, 2013
Principia-Scientific.org is a site aimed at restoring legitimate scientific principles to the world. On its front page you'll find exposes of the "fossil fuel" fraud (we've written a lot about that) and, of course, global warming, among other rebuttals of "domi ...
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 24, 2013
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 weak currency opens the door to trade dominance, by allowing manufacturers to undercut ...
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 ...
