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Mike Hudson- interview in New York

Posted by smeddum on August 5, 2009

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Radio: Max Keiser on Accounting Fraud

Posted by smeddum on August 4, 2009

http://www.garynull.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/GaryNullShow080309.mp3

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Skip the Happy Talk- This Depression is just beginning

Posted by smeddum on August 3, 2009

Skip the Happy Talk
This Depression is just beginning

By Mike Whitney

August 03, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — Too bad Pulitzers aren’t handed out for blog-entries. This year’s award would go to Zero Hedge for its “The ‘Money on the Sidelines’ Fallacy” post. This short entry shows why the economy will continue its downward slide and why the US consumer will not get off the mat and resume spending as he has in the past. The fact is the Net Wealth of US Households has “declined from a peak of $22 trillion to just under $12 trillion in early March.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Senate Subpoenas Goldman, Deutsche & WaMu – Bloomberg

Posted by smeddum on August 1, 2009

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Radio: Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert on debt slavery and the world economy

Posted by smeddum on August 1, 2009

http://ia360936.us.archive.org/2/items/MaxKeiserRadio-TheTruthAboutMarkets-01August2009/tam010809.mp3

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Ron Paul What Are They So Afraid Of? House Floor 07-30-09

Posted by smeddum on July 31, 2009

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Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire And Ten Steps to Take to Do So

Posted by smeddum on July 30, 2009

Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire

And Ten Steps to Take to Do SoBy Chalmers Johnson

July 30, 2009 “TomDispatch” — However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and the vast, potentially ruinous global empire of bases that goes with it. The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment and the profligate use of it in missions for which it is hopelessly inappropriate will, sooner rather than later, condemn the United States to a devastating trio of consequences: imperial overstretch, perpetual war, and insolvency, leading to a likely collapse similar to that of the former Soviet Union. Read the rest of this entry »

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Statistical Deceptions How Fake is the “Recovery”?

Posted by seumasach on July 30, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts

Counterpunch

30th July, 2009

Last week on NPR a professor in the Sloan School of Management at MIT explained that what is really at stake in the health care bill is the US government’s ability to borrow. In other words, the bill is about cutting health care costs, not about providing hard-pressed Americans with health care.

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USGovt Yuan Bond Threat

Posted by smeddum on July 30, 2009

USGovt Yuan Bond Threat

by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter |

July 29, 2009

Financial Sense

The tables are fast turning against the deeply indebted USGovt officials. USA Inc is in deep trouble. Its productive engines in both finance and industry are either wrecked or sputtering, even as its debt burden grows exponentially. Debt default litters the landscape. Next its sovereign bonds will be have to be sold to some extent outside the US$ Sphere, which will put at great risk its stock, namely the USDollar itself. Let’s call them USGovt Dragon Bonds. The custodians desperately seek creditors to supply much needed capital in order to fund the gigantic and growing USGovt debts, which by the way are grossly understated. The last resort is to monetize the USTreasury Bond issuance, a process well along. With the aid of the USDollar Swap Facility, the USFed has been able to secretly bid on USTBonds from foreign soil, have it appear like foreign bids, and conceal the continued and broadening monetization initiative. The United States is boldly defying the creditor nations, printing money, and buying its own debt. When more fully revealed, the USDollar will suffer the consequences. A sense of betrayal will surely come, much like discovery that the CIA has been flooding the globe with counterfeit $100 bills, or Wall Street has been flooding the globe with counterfeit Fannie Mae Bonds. Closer to home, it is akin to selling lemonade has been secretly watered down, or putting lawn mower clippings into the reefer batch before sale. Read the rest of this entry »

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Kucinich: the Federal Reserve is paying banks NOT to make loans to struggling Americans!

Posted by smeddum on July 29, 2009

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Second wave of foreclosures possible

Posted by smeddum on July 28, 2009

Second wave of foreclosures possible
Sun, Jul. 26, 2009
philly.com
By Alan J. Heavens
Inquirer Real Estate Writer

As unemployment skyrockets, a second wave of foreclosures is building, economic observers say, fed by people with good credit who could lose their houses because they have lost their jobs and can’t find work. Read the rest of this entry »

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