Posted on December 8, 2017 by brandon-smith
The best position for a tyrant or tyrants to be in, at least while consolidating power, is tyranny by proxy. That is to say, the most dangerous tyrants are those the people do not recognize: the tyrants who hide behind scarecrows and puppets and faceless organizations. The worst position for the common citizen to be ...
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Posted on November 2, 2017 by daisy-luther
When is the last time you sat down and took a very close look at your budget? And by close, I mean an accounting of every single dime you spend, including that drive-thru coffee and the paperback you bought that you could have borrowed from the library. There’s no reason you shouldn’t run your home ...
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Posted on July 11, 2017 by bbcc
I can tell you from firsthand eyewitness experience, that there has been an ongoing, yet secretive, civil war among the highest departmental levels of American government for a very long time, perhaps since the end of the first American civil war (circa 1865), as the modern political “Red and Blue map” clearly denotes an almost ...
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Posted on October 12, 2016 by guest-post
By: The Voice of Reason | For anyone who regularly follows Dr. Jim Willie, this two part interview with Perpetual Assets certainly will not disappoint. As usual, Dr. Willie delivers quite a few nuggets of information for the listener to chew on, all while we wait and see what happens in the the global banking ...
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Posted on August 28, 2016 by michael-snyder
The critics of Obamacare have been proven right. The Obama administration promised that health insurance premiums would go down. Instead, they have absolutely skyrocketed. The Obama administration promised that Obamacare would not kill jobs. Instead, firms are hiring fewer workers because of suffocating health care costs. As you will see below, even the Federal Reserve ...
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Posted on August 18, 2016 by sartre
The practice of a pure free market is so rare that a plausible argument can be made that a free market economy never existed. However, as the saying goes, Once Upon A Time, economic commerce did reflect a voluntary basis for business transactions. The fortunes of trade rested upon the mutual benefit of all parties, ...
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Posted on May 31, 2016 by luis-miranda
(The Real Agenda News) The countries that are part of the G7 today are the same that have been members for years. The leaders that allegedly represent their countries in meetings such as the G7, have been in power for years, too. Every time these so-called leaders meet, their official goal is to “improve the ...
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Posted on May 13, 2016 by zen-gardner
Amazingly enough, most people don’t know that the Federal Reserve Bank is a private institution. It’s so private that despite its profound influence and power, no one is allowed to know who the board of directors are or any of its inner workings. Yet they control not just the production and flow of money in ...
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Posted on May 11, 2016 by michael-snyder
Should we be alarmed that the number of job cuts announced by large U.S. companies was 35 percent higher in April than it was in March? This is definitely a case where the trend is not our friend. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, U.S. firms announced 65,141 job cuts during April, which represented a ...
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Posted on May 10, 2016 by michael-snyder
We continue to get more evidence that the U.S. economy has entered a major downturn. Just last week, I wrote about how U.S. GDP growth numbers have been declining for three quarters in a row, and previously I wrote about how corporate defaults have surged to their highest level since the last financial crisis. Well, ...
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Posted on May 9, 2016 by guest-post
By: Edge Trader Plus | Gold and silver ARE money. Neither is a “currency,” although money is often cited as interchangeable with currency. Take the Federal Reserve Note, [please!], as an example. A Federal Reserve Note [FRN], is more commonly known as a “dollar.” Even though the word “dollar” appears on every FRN, each and ...
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Posted on May 8, 2016 by stephen-lendman
The New York Times colluded with Obama, presenting the illusion of economic recovery, twisting reality, ignoring cold hard facts. Interviewed by its financial columnist Andrew Sorkin, a false picture of his economic record was presented. America’s 1% never had things better. Protracted Main Street Depression conditions affect most others. One out of four working-age ...
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Posted on May 6, 2016 by rory-hall
Akin to ancient Rome, the United States has over-extended herself. She has created a climate that could easily be transformed into a war on a slight pretext. Wars, as it is well known are also a means a nation can extricate itself from debt and financial responsibility. – The U.S. Endgame, Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume, ...
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Posted on May 6, 2016 by michael-snyder
Even the government is admitting that the U.S. economy is slowing down. On Thursday, we learned that U.S. GDP grew at just a 0.5 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2016. This was lower than analysts were anticipating, and it marks the third time in a row that the GDP number has declined ...
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Posted on May 4, 2016 by sartre
During the 1990’s the conventional economic wisdom supported the repeal of Glass-Steagall. However, “10 years later, the end of Glass-Steagall has been blamed by some for many of the problems that led to last fall’s (2008) financial crisis. While the majority of problems that occurred centered mostly on the pure-play investment banks like Lehman Brothers, the huge ...
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