    LifeStraw Personal Water Filter - $19.95 Retail Price: $29.95 You Save: $10.00 from: Eartheasy.com   | truthingold.com / By truthing / May 9, 2013, 08:31 Just as there are many variations on democracy, there are also various–and legitimate–types of gold standards. The U.S. political system is absolutely unique. Canada’s system is a hybrid of ours and Britain’s. Britain’s is very different from that of France, which, in turn, is very different [...] thedailybell.com / By Staff Report / WEDNESDAY, MAY 08, 2013 Buffett says economy on mend, bonds ‘terrible’ investment … Warren Buffett said the U.S. economy is gradually improving, but low interest rates have made bonds “terrible investments” while stocks remain “reasonably priced.” Speaking on CNBC television on Monday, the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire [...] marketwatch.com / By Andy Xie / May 6, 2013, 11:54 p.m. EDT BEIJING (Caixin Online) — The global economy has already entered into stagflation with a growth rate of 2% and inflation at 3%. The inflation rate is likely to rise above 4% in 18 months while the growth rate will remain stuck [...] yanisvaroufakis.eu / By Yanis Varoufakis / May 3, 2013 The ABC’s (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) online periodical, THE DRUM, commissioned me to write an article comparing and contrasting the policy responses to the Crisis of Japan and of the Eurozone. Click here for the ABC’s website. Or read on below… The Japanese and [...] investmentcontrarians.com / By George Leong / May 1, 2013 George Soros knows a thing or two about making money from big bets. In 1992, Soros made a $10.00 short wager on the British pound and walked away with a billion dollars in profits. Soros is now convinced Germany needs to rethink its strategy toward [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 1, 2013, 10:16 -0400 Those expecting a complete collapse in the Manufacturing ISM, on par with yesterday’s slide in the Chicago PMI, will have to wait some more before the complete devastation in the US manufacturing sector sends stocks into the stratosphere. Moments ago the ISM Manufacturing report [...] investmentwatchblog.com / April 30th, 2013 *The Euro is slowly collapsing. *Sovereign European Debt Issues of some European countries are turning turtle and there is a MOUNTAIN of derivities written utilizing those debt issues. *Deutsche Bank has now “beat out” JP Morgan Chase’s derivities exposure book (who thought that was even possible?!!) … with a [...] mybudget360.com / By mybudget360 / April 27, 2013 I was working through a few pages of Excel data regarding food stamp usage and a troubling milestone has now been breached. Since 2000, we have now added over 30,000,000 Americans to the food stamp program now labeled SNAP. What is even more difficult to understand is [...] maxkeiser.com / By Rowan BosworthDavies / April 23, 2013 All sort of explanations have been put forward to try and explain the 2008 financial crisis. Some of them have been almost unbelievably simplistic (most bankers are crooks – closer to the truth than most people care to imagine), while some of them have been [...] europac.net / By Peter Schiff / Friday, April 19, 2013 In the years following the global financial crisis, economists and investors have gotten very comfortable with very high, and seemingly persistent, government debt. The nonchalance may be underpinned by the assumption that globally significant countries that can print their own currencies can’t get trapped [...] azizonomics.com / By John Aziz / April 18, 2013 One frustrating fact regarding Reinhart & Rogoff’s controversial paper Growth in a Time of Debt — which incidentally was never peer reviewed, even in spite of its publication in the American Economic Review — is that the arbitrary threshold for diminished growth of “above 90%” seems [...] jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com / By Jesse / April 18, 2013 Thanks to Bill Still for making this available on the web, and thanks to several people who sent it to me. It is remarkably similar to something I wrote earlier today, but I am certainly not the only one. Reform and the lack thereof is the 800 [...] US: total credit market debt owed. What deleveraging? acting-man.com / By Pater Tenebrarum / April 17, 2013 Here We Go Again Yesterday Fed vice chair Janet Yellen delivered a ‘see no evil’ speech, perfectly aligned with the Greenspan-Bernanke theory of central bank interventionism, which holds that central banks are not [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 04/17/2013 20:42 “This could be even bigger than the US housing crisis,” warns senior Chinese auditor Chang Ke, as his accounting firm has all but stopped signing off on bond sales by local governments (as we warned most recently here). As the FT reports, Zhang’s firm “audited some [...] mises.ca / By Tomas Salamanca / April 15, 2013 For those of us who think that the world’s central banks have been placing too much faith in the money printing press as a means of rousing sluggish economies, last week was bewildering. Gold closed the week below US$1500 per ounce. Not since June 2011 [...] investmentcontrarians.com / By George Leong / Apr 12, 2013 The eurozone and the euro are still around, but the more I see what is happening in that region, the more I think something must be done, given the financial crisis. You have the eurozone in a recession and a financial crisis specifically driven by [...] shtfplan.com / By Mac Slavo / April 11th, 2013 Americans are scared. Their concerns aren’t centered around the possibility of an economic collapse, another down leg in the real estate market, continued deterioration of the labor market, or a US dollar currency meltdown. With markets at all time highs and financial experts [...] investmentcontrarians.com / By George Leong / April 8, 2013 The world is going gangbusters, printing money to drive the economies and growth. Yet despite the bailouts in the eurozone and easy monetary policy in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., there’s a sense a financial crisis could surface down the road. China is facing a [...] The SPX vs. the high yield bond ETF JNK. In the past, divergences between the two have warned of both small and large corrections. Another divergence has been put in recently acting-man.com / By Pater Tenebrarum / April 8, 2013 Nothing Can Go Wrong In an interesting twist, investors have [...] financialsense.com / By John Butler / April 4, 2013 In this Edition The Cyprus banking kerfuffle has ignited a blogosphere storm debating the likelihood that depositors elsewhere, perhaps even ‘guaranteed’ ones, may find themselves on the hook for recapitalising their domestic banks. Largely lost in this discussion however is the unpleasant reality that a [...] jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com / By Jesse / April 4, 2013 This is not so much anything new, but a concrete reminder of the breadth of systemic banking risks inherent in the Anglo-American banking structure in which depositor money is intermingled with the Bank’s speculative interests. The repeal of Glass-Steagall stripped the average person of important and [...] investmentwatchblog.com / March 29th, 2013 Wall-Street Craziness Is Back Concocting “synthetic” securities once again. The craziness on Wall Street, the reckless for-the-moment-only behavior that led to the Financial Crisis, is back. This time it’s Citigroup that is once again concocting “synthetic” securities, like those that had wreaked havoc five years ago. And [...] investmentwatchblog.com / March 29th, 2013 Most, if not all of financial crisis were the result of government mismanagement. No nation in recorded history has abused their currency as we have and not suffered severe consequences. It is human nature to think “it will never happen to you.” 40% of every printed dollar [...] dailyreckoning.com.au / By Nick Hubble / March 28th, 2013 Remember when Italy’s botched election was big news? Or when Greece’s impending default threatened the entire Eurozone? What about Germany’s constitutional court ruling on the bailouts? In fact, there is a long list of crises stretching back years that threatened to trigger financial chaos. But [...] caseyresearch.com / By Jeff Clark / March 28, 2013 9:05pm GMT “All this money printing, massive debt, and reckless deficit spending – and we have 2% inflation? I’m beginning to believe that either the deflationists are right, or the Fed’s interventions are working.” – Anonymous Casey Research reader The CPI, in our view, does not [...] trueeconomics.blogspot.com / By Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev / Thursday, March 28, 2013 This week, euro area leaders have added yet another term to the already rich vocabulary engendered by the financial crisis. If only a few days ago the world was divided into too-big-to-fail (e.g. Irish pillar banks and Spain) and too-big-to-bail (e.g. [...] investmentcontrarians.com / By George Leong / March 26, 2013 There is a potential financial crisis brewing in Cyprus, and no one in the U.S. really seems to be that concerned. Just like our out-of-control national debt, sequestration, and growing number of unemployed and poor. Stocks continue to move higher, and it appears as though [...] |
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