Mac Slavo February 22nd, 2015 SHTFplan.com With the Federal Reserve printing trillions upon trillions of dollars to keep the economic system afloat, many investors and financial pundits have surmised that the fundamental economic problems facing the United States during the crash of 2008 have been resolved. Stocks are, after all, at historic highs. But the insiders know different. And if[...]
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The Latest Country to Defy the Banksters – Will a Stampede Eventually Follow?
Resistance to Banker Rule Spreads As we’ve discussed before, the bankers have need of keeping the dream of Eurasia from becoming a reality. It is the thing which they pull out all the stops to prevent. Many countries in the recent past, especially those in the Middle East, or in Europe’e periphery, who’ve dared to assert their own interests, have been put down in the most gruesome ways.[...]
Derivatives: The $563-Trillion Reason to Look at Gold
By Moe Zulfiqar BAS • Thursday, February 19, 2015 Interest rates in the U.S. economy have been remarkably low since 2007. We’re now hearing many analysts and pundits suggesting they will rise sometime this year. Unfortunately, there isn’t an exact time given, but when we look to the Federal Reserve, it seems very adamant about it, too. Officials at the Federal Reserve are continuously[...]
Hyperinflation To Start in 2015: Economist Says Get Supplies : “Gold, Silver, Canned Goods, Toilet Paper, Bottled Water…”
Mac Slavo February 19th, 2015 It’s impossible to predict when and how our economy will finally reach a breaking point, but according to contrarian Shadow Stats economist John Williams it’s coming one way or the other. The only thing we can do now is to prepare for it and that means stockpiling critical supplies, just like you might for an earthquake or snowstorm, but in larger[...]
How Germany Is Blowing Up The European Union
As Germany is set to reject a Greek loan extension request (and no, international press, that is not the same as an extension of the bailout program), Steve Keen uses proprietary numbers issued by the OECD – which is supposed to be on Germany’s side?! – to show how dramatically austerity has failed in Europe- that is, if the recovery of the Greek and Spanish economies was ever the real[...]
Why Gold is a Better Bet than Oil – Especially for the Next 5 Years – MarketWatch
By Cody Willard I've been saying for a while now that I don't see any reason to try to game a bottom, or any type of trade for that matter, in oil/energy. We've made a lot of money and avoided a lot of heartache over the years sticking with our strategies. Unless oil drops to like, say, $20 a barrel and there's a wave of bankruptcies in the sector where we could go in and buy the survivors, I'm [...]
De-Dollarization Accelerates: Russia Launches SWIFT-Alternative Linking 91 Entities
Back in 2013, The NSA was first exposed for secretly 'monitoring' the SWIFT payments flows. This appears to have been among the last straws for Russia (and others) as far as both NSA spying and dollar domination. Last year, following threats to remove Russia from SWIFT by the UK, (which SWIFT rapidly distanced its 'independent-self' from), Russia (and China) announced plans to create its own[...]
If Everything Is So ‘Awesome’, Why The Alarms Over A Rate Hike Of 25 bps?
by Wall Street Journal • February 18, 2015 By OMID MALEKAN at The Wall Street Journal Imagine you have a serious illness and have been taking medication that was supposed to cure you long ago. After being on the maximum dosage for years you start to feel better, so you ask your doctor if you could roll back the dosage, ever so slightly, to alleviate some of the side effects. He says that[...]
ECB Risks Crippling Political Damage if Greece Forced to Default
If Greece defaulted, the German people would discover instantly that a large sum of money committed without their knowledge and without a vote in the Bundestag had vanished By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The political detonating pin for Greek contagion in Europe is an obscure mechanism used by the eurozone's nexus of central banks to settle accounts. If Greece is forced out of the euro in[...]
Interconnected Banks Pose Greatest Threat to U.S. Financial System
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 17, 2015 Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the[...]