Archive for October 5th, 2010

Joe Weisenthal BusinessInsider.com Oct. 5, 2010 The Bank of Japan just put Bernanke to shame with its latest announcement regarding quantitative easing. The effect on the yen was muted, but check this out, via the bank’s statement (via FT Alphaville) As assets to be purchased, the Bank will examine long-term government bonds, treasury discount... »

By Gene Arensberg CommodityOnline.com So we have got gold at $1300, silver at $22, big mining stocks within inches of breaking out, the buck gets gutted (and skinned), oil pops above $80, copper trades above $3.65…and the Fed is worried about deflation? Really? Look, wait a minute, Isn’t this the scenario we thought would... »

There are some big macroeconomic signs that a U.S. stock market crash could be coming, but it’s important to keep an eye on how October surprises play out around the globe. By Keith R. McCullough Fortune CNNMoney.com Lately there seems to have been an almost perfect storm of economic and political warning signs —... »

by Dave Forest OilPrice.com Tuesday, 05 October 2010 I wrote last week about big changes coming to financial regulation in Europe. Look for the sequel soon in the U.S. America is buckling down for a new era of financial rulemaking. Case in point: on Friday, the newly-created Financial Stability Oversight Council met for the... »

DNI.Gov Global governance—the collective management of common problems at the international level—is at a critical juncture, according to a new report released today, issued jointly by the ODNI’s National Intelligence Council (NIC) and the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). The report, Global Governance 2025—a follow-on to the NIC’s 2008 report, Global Trends... »

by Mark R. Crovelli LewRockwell.com If you ever fell victim to the prejudice that people today are smarter and more intellectually sophisticated than the people of the 1st or 13th centuries, you need only ask your friends and neighbors about the terrifying word “anarchy” to prove to yourself that our generations are just as... »

What Kind of Person Runs for Public Office? by Doug French LewRockwell.com H.L. Mencken described politicians as “men who, at some time or other, have compromised with their honour, either by swallowing their convictions or by whooping for what they believe to be untrue.” “Vanity remains to him,” Mencken wrote, “but not pride.” The... »

by Ron Holland LewRockwell.com I believe America today is trapped inside a nightmare dystopian novel combining the worst of Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984 where we are forced to endure perpetual war, pervasive surveillance and constant attempts at public mind control. The term “Pavlov’s dog” usually describes the conditioning of individuals or... »

By Selwyn Duke October 5, 2010 NewsWithViews.com While there was a time when I might have described myself as a libertarian, those days are long gone. In fact, I don’t even call myself a conservative anymore. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I agree with libertarians on many issues, and their governmental model is vastly... »

By Cliff Kincaid October 5, 2010 NewsWithViews.com A Report from the Progressive Rally Various communist and socialist groups were photographed and filmed during the October 2 “One Nation Working Together” rally in Washington, D.C. But groups can show up at any event they want to and there is not much that organizers can do... »