by Aaron Krowne Implode-O-Meter Blog I’m surprised how persistently I see the dubious assertion that the Chinese “can’t move away from the dollar because they own so many of them”. A related argument is that they are “stuck in dollars because of the trade deficit”. They certainly can move away from the dollar, though,... »
Archive for January 27th, 2011
CHINA PLAYS EUROPE CARD
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
by Jim Willie FinancialSense.com Whether Americans and Westerners in general like it or not, the Chinese have become and will remain the key drivers to many economic and financial market developments, progress, and averted wreckage. The intrepid lapdog US press, loyal to the syndicate, is a critical element to maintain distractions. Of course, China... »
Financial crisis was caused by corporate mismanagement, says US government
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
2008 crash was avoidable and largely caused by unnecessary risk-taking, says financial crisis inquiry commission report By Dominic Rushe GuardianUK Wednesday 26 January 2011 The 2008 financial meltdown was avoidable and largely caused by unnecessary risk-taking, corporate mismanagement and inept regulation, according to the US government’s official report. The financial crisis inquiry commission’s official... »
A Government Agent on Every Corner, a Wiretap on Every Phone
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
by Simon Black Sovereignman.com January 25, 2011 Santiago, Chile US General George S. Patton is often credited with saying “No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.” Perhaps Patton was correct. But a lot of poor bastards had a significant impact on security policies by blowing themselves up for their... »
When It’s Time To Get Out of Dodge
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Moving How Far Out? by Gary North LewRockwell.com A growing minority of the American public is beginning to catch on to the meaning of the Federal government’s deficits and the Federal Reserve’s QE2. The voters did not understand QE1 in October 2008. We are beginning to see videos lampooning tax rates. This humor is... »
Freedom Means Anarchism
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Freedom Is Not Compatible with Government’s Initiation of Force Against Innocent People by Robert Higgs LewRockwell.com In yesterday’s New York Times appears an op-ed article by Edward L. Glaeser, a professor of economics at Harvard. Glaeser’s article is remarkable because arguments in favor of freedom, insisting that economic analysis implicitly rests on a moral... »
IDENTIFYING OUR FRIENDS
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
By Chuck Baldwin January 20, 2011 NewsWithViews.com To a packed out crowd of over 500 Montanans who had assembled in minus zero weather to hear me speak, I made the statement, “Not all Christians are our friends, and not all non-Christians are our enemies.” Indeed, being able to identify our friends is more than... »
HOW DO YOU SPELL RELIEF?
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
By Coach Dave Daubenmire January 27, 2011 NewsWithViews.com R-o-l-a-i-d-s spells relief. Remember that commercial advertising the anti-stomach acid medication? Whoever wrote that line should be resting quietly in the tropics, enjoy the fruits of having embedded that line in the minds of millions of Americans. Is it possible to hear the phrase “How do... »
U.S. CONGRESS, OBAMA/SOETORO ARE ANTI-AMERICAN JOBS
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
By: Devvy January 27, 2011 NewsWithViews.com “What Congress will have before it is not a conventional trade agreement but the architecture of a new international system… a first step toward a new world order.” Traitor Henry Kissinger, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Trilaterialist, July 18, 1993, LA Times The pathological... »