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Michael Snyder: How is money created? If you ask average people on the street this question, most of them have absolutely no idea. This is rather odd, because Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In Max Keiser’s Friday edition of On the Edge, veteran mainstream-journalist-gone-straight Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com posited an interesting endgame scenario to a failed globalist agenda of financial consolidation Read more…
Jack Crooks: The Japanese yen continues to defy its own economic fundamentals. It continues to move up and down in value, in correlation with “risk off” (stocks and growth assets moving lower) or “risk on” (stocks and growth assets moving higher). But the latest statistics and dynamics driving the Japanese Read more…
Larry D. Spears: The U.S. dollar is currently on an upswing – but don’t let it fool you. What we’re seeing is only a short-term rally inspired by Europe’s travails. In the long-term, the U.S. Federal Reserve‘s loose monetary policy and the United States’ own debt burden will drive the greenback back down. Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Gold bears are exuberant these days. Their mood is epitomized by a recent Bloomberg headline: “Gold Erases Year’s Gain as Europe Concern Boosts Dollar” – which was then dutifully parroted by thousands of mainstream drones. Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Gold is a barbarous relic. Even most ordinary people who rarely pay any attention to topics in the realm of economics will be familiar with this expression. Like most of the Big Lies from the media propaganda machine, our governments have made sure that most of us have heard this one enough times Read more…
Jack Crooks: Everyone is rightfully excited over the potential for a strong rebound in the U.S. economy. And there is nothing short of the potential of global recession at stake should U.S. growth sputter. What is the key risk to U.S. growth going forward? Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Trends Research Institute Founder Gerald Celente forecasts a pop in the much-heralded U.S. recovery. The U.S. consumer cannot continue to borrow and lead the U.S. out of its economic woes, he added. The consumer bubble, he said, is about to pop, “soon.” Read more…
Michael Snyder: Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad. On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University. But that lecture was not Read more…
Mac Slavo: In a recent micro-documentary Chris Duane of The Greatest Truth Never Told and Don’t Tread On Me discusses the coming collapse of our debt-based monetary system and provides a simple, yet succinct argument for why it cannot be prevented. Read more…
Dian L. Chu: U.S. regular gasoline price has spiked almost 4% in one week to $3.688 a gallon as of Feb. 26, the highest level since last September, with residents in three states–Alaska, Hawaii, California– are already seeing above $4 at the pump, based on AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report. Read more…
Larry D. Spears: The U.S. dollar (NYSEARCA:UUP) will start 2012 on an upswing – but don’t let it fool you. What we’re seeing is only a short-term rally inspired by Europe’s travails. In the long-term, the U.S. Federal Reserve‘s loose monetary policy and the United States’ own debt burden will drive the Read more…
iShares Blog: There’s been talk in the blogosphere lately about whether or not developed economies are deleveraging, i.e. winding down their debt. Read more…
Jeff Nielson: To date, I and every other economic commentator have failed dismally in our efforts to communicate the insane manner in which all Western economies have been mismanaged Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In what appears as swift retaliation by Iran against U.S.-led economic sanctions imposed on the Persian Gulf state, suddenly Iran says it will no longer accept the U.S. dollar as payment for its oil shipments to India, Japan and China. Read more…
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