Archive for October 15th, 2010

More than 6 in 10 small-business owners changed retirement plans due to economic downturn by Dennis Jacobe, Chief Economist Gallup.com PRINCETON, NJ — Nearly half, 47%, of small-business owners now plan to never retire until forced to do so for health reasons — up from about 4 in 10 in 2005 and 2007 —... »

What is the Fed doing with paper, Fed liquidity in question, the dollar will fall, no exit strategy for the crisis to come, worst areas still unregulated, forecasting strong gold and silver for the next four months, real inflation already a threat, IMF fails to deal with currency frictions. By Bob Chapman theInternationalForecaster.com The... »

Szandor Blestman SilverBearCafe.com recently engaged in an email exchange with a reader. He was interested in finding out more information about the subjects broached in my article about the financial mess in Iceland released earlier this year. I assumed he was looking for information about central banking and told him about a book I... »

By Bill Bonner The DailyReckoning.com 10/14/10 Meanwhile, stocks, commodities, practically everything is slobbering…breathing hard…hot and bothered. Probably capers too. Why? Because everything points to more easy money from the Fed. And everyone knows what easy money does. It causes prices to bubble up. Asset prices, that is. It doesn’t do much for the economy... »

Hints of mutiny within Fed as attempt to crash dollar becomes clear Steve Watson Infowars.net Thursday, Oct 14th, 2010 The US dollar plunged once again today as the currency continues to be battered by increasingly substantial rumours that the Federal Reserve will announce, within the next three weeks, plans to buy $1 trillion of... »

This has the makings of a real donnybrook. by Mike Whitney SilverBearCafe.com The Fed has has hinted that it will launch a second round of quantitative easing (QE) sometime after its November 2 meeting. The anticipated intervention has been widely criticized, but for all the wrong reasons. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke knows that adding... »

Independents largely side with Republicans in denouncing big government by Lydia Saad Gallup.com PRINCETON, NJ — Record- or near-record-high percentages of Americans are critical of the size and scope of government, as measured by four Gallup trend questions updated in September. This sentiment stretches to 59% of Americans now believing the federal government has... »

Gerald Celente’s New Food Supply Warnings on Off the Grid News The top 35 financial institutions will get $144 billion in compensation and benefits this year. Trends expert Gerald Celente joins RT to give his reaction. Celente argues that the bailouts made the biggest banks bigger and the rich richer. The gap between the... »

Royal Society: Doh! by James Delingpole TelegraphUK October 14th, 2010 Of the many pseudoscientific institutions responsible for pushing the pseudoscientific fraud of Man Made Global Warming in recent years, few have been quite so assiduous in promulgating the great lie as our own Royal Society. (H/T John O’Sullivan at Suite 101) “Pseudoscientific” may seem... »

‘Nobody Gets Their Kids Back’ by William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com The “Petition for Abuse/Neglect” filed on behalf of Cheyenne Irish by New Hampshire’s Division of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) alleges that the baby, who was born on October 6, was “neglected” by her mother on that very day in the hospital where the... »