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For over half a century, American men have been dropping out of the job market. As a percentage of the population, men have fallen. This is a long-term trend. This change in men’s work patterns is partially caused by retirement. Retired people are out of the labor force. This is normal. So, the long decline [...]
Continue reading →An audio report on the Trunews site says that the Department of Homeland Security is preparing for a civil war in the United States. The reason: hyperinflation. The source was one man, unnamed, inside the DHS. The scenario is conceivable: hyperinflation. But it assumes that the Federal Reserve will be willing to destroy the dollar. [...]
Continue reading →There are activists in the Tea Party movement who are unaware of when the movement began, and why. This video explains both. The issue is about more than taxes — just as the original tea party was. It’s about cutting spending. Because it is about cutting spending, there are fissures within the movement. As with [...]
Continue reading →It is not easy for the average person to make much sense out of the current international monetary system. It works something like a poker game. Everyone at the table has some chips. The green ones are supposed to be exchangeable at a ratio of 35 to one with the yellow chips. About half way [...]
Continue reading →President Obama likes the environmental movement. He thinks green. He also likes Keynesianism: government deficits to overcome unemployment. He combined them in this boondoggle. The federal government paid the state of Nevada to plant trees. Nevada needs trees, of course. It needs rainfall even more. It’s a desert. Although the green stimulus was advertised as [...]
Continue reading →Ben Bernanke sees that the present deficit is not sustainable. He has repeatedly warning Congress that a crisis is brewing if Congress will not call a halt to the deficit. Congress of course kicks the can. It is interesting that CNN, an Establishment media outlet, has called attention to Bernanke’s warning. Consider this. Official Congressional [...]
Continue reading →Sheila Bair was the head of the FDIC, which insures our bank accounts. She understands what interest rates at zero mean. In this essay, she pokes fun at Bernanke and the FED. Are you concerned about growing income inequality in America? Are you resentful of all that wealth concentrated in the 1 percent? I’ve got [...]
Continue reading →Respectable people do not talk about the New World Order any more. George W. Bush did, over and over, but after Clinton defeated him, the phrase was relegated to the fringe. I’m on the fringe. In this video, Ed Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, a detailed criticism of the Federal Reserve System, [...]
Continue reading →National politics is a loser’s game today, unless he is building a mailing list for post-election uses. Ron Paul is building such a list. Third party politics in a non-parliamentary system is the leprechaun’s lure of gold at the end of the rainbow. Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 was the last serious candidate to run on [...]
Continue reading →The man in charge of the Federal Reserve’s infamous “operation Twist” has just announced that he is quitting. At age 41, hardly anyone quits the FED. He is at the New York FED, the privately owned branch that is in charge of executing Federal Reserve policy, His name is Brian Sack. He is the head [...]
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