Archive for November 17th, 2011

Doug Short SilverBearCafe.com The Fed justified the previous round of quantitative easing “to promote a stronger pace of economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with its mandate” (full text). In effect, the Fed has been trying to increase inflation, operating at the macro level. But what... »

‘We Have Allowed Our Elected Officials To Cede Our National Sovereignty To Bankers’ By Andy Sutton SilverBearCafe.com Early last December, I wrote a piece entitled ‘Crisis or Coup?’ in which the anatomy of the 2008 financial crisis was analyzed in further detail and some conclusions drawn. These conclusions were drawn based on facts and... »

The world economy is on the brink of recession because those countries which have a natural tendency to spend don’t have the money, while those who do have the money don’t want to spend it. By Roger Bootle Telegraph.co.uk Because the congenital spenders are also the countries which have built up the most debt,... »

By Dakin Campbell Bloomberg.com Nov 17, 2011 U.S. banks face a “serious risk” that their creditworthiness will deteriorate if Europe’s debt crisis deepens and spreads beyond the five most-troubled nations, Fitch Ratings said. “Unless the euro zone debt crisis is resolved in a timely and orderly manner, the broad credit outlook for the U.S.... »

EndOfTheAmericanDream.com In recent weeks, the poll numbers for Newt Gingrich have absolutely skyrocketed. Many now believe that he has a legitimate shot at winning the Republican nomination. But the truth is that he would be a really, really bad president. Gingrich is a big time Washington insider who believes in individual health care mandates,... »

EconomicCollapseBlog.com Right now, we are watching the early rounds of a heavyweight fight between two extremely determined opponents. Occupy Wall Street has no plans of losing this fight and neither do law enforcement authorities. Perhaps those running the show actually believed that raiding Zuccotti Park and more than a dozen other “Occupy camps” around... »

by Fred Reed LewRockwell.com All indicators point downward, I tell you. On the lobotomy box the other night I stumbled on what seemed to be sock puppets standing behind rostrums and hypnotically intoning “The American People, the American People, the American People.” Puzzled, I speculated that it might be a convention of performing autistics,... »

by Laurence M. Vance LewRockwell.com Review of Wayne Grudem, Politics – According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture (Zondervan, 2010), 619 pgs., hardcover, $39.99. I remember back in the mid 1990s when I was teaching theology and Zondervan published Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology: An Introduction... »

by Simon Black LewRockwell.com Longtime readers know that I don’t spend much time in the United States; I usually swing by for a month or so each year to visit friends and family, and the period in-between visits can often stretch 6 months or more. This is sufficiently long enough that I notice a... »

By Paul McGuire November 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com “A revolution is not a dinner party… A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.” -Chairman Mao In my first article, I shared with you that at fifteen years old, I was personally involved in the counter culture in Manhattan.... »