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Breaking the Chains
James Corbett, January 18 2014
The following is a transcript of the final section of “Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve,” the forthcoming documentary from corbettreport.com.
Feds Are Still In Control
James Corbett, January 15 2014
... if the Fed is so firmly in control of the economy, the real question is “Who's in control of the Fed?” The nominal answer is the Fed chair, of course.
The Short Term
Bob Rinear, January 11 2014
It is a sad day when you know a market should be lower, but they 'rig' it to go where they want it. But it does not in any way affect the long term. Every dollar that the Fed digitizes into existence lowers the value of the ones in circulation.
The NSA Has Its Cake And Eats It Too
James Corbett, January 8 2014
The even bigger lie that is being propounded now is that the national conversation and the court cases are still revolving around the false notion that NSA phone spying is somehow limited to metadata, as if all the NSA is collecting are lists of phone numbers and call durations
Where To Our Future Predictions
Bob Rinear, January 4 2014
...we have entered a time where predicting the future with any certainty about what 'should' happen is clouded over by the most blatant of lies, manipulations, frauds, fake data, and misdirections ever seen.
End of Year In Review 2013
Hannah Bernard, December 28 2013
Viral News Network has published an End of Year report for 2013 for the markets, currency, the fed, jobs, and the economy.
83 Numbers From 2013 Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Michael Snyder, December 25 2013
... the consequences of decades of incredibly foolish decisions are going to absolutely blindside us and we will be absolutely devastated by the great crisis that is rapidly approaching. The United States is in a massive amount of trouble, and it is time that we all started facing the truth.
A look back at My Predictions for 2013 And A Look Forward
James Corbett, December 21 2013
My Eurozone prediction was off, however. Not only did the EUpocalypse not reach a crescendo this year, but things went unusually quiet in the summer months as the Euro crisis was put on hold for the German election cycle. Things do seem to be taking off again now.
Maybe Qualitative Easing Will Never End
Bob Rinear, December 18 2013
Some feel that QE can end and the economy can do okay without it. Some think that ending QE means the economy will almost instantly enter recession. Some feel the entire world depends on the US...
The Taper Round 3
Bob Rinear, December 14 2013
Is that the sort of things cutting QE is made of? Probably not. They have to know that yanking QE a week ahead of Christmas is going to cut out “X” amount of economic activity that folks would have spent on, as they fear the end of the free money wagon. Do they want that? No.
NSA Watching Phone Calls Worldwide
Stephen Lendman, December 11 2013
Audio, video, photos, emails, text messages, and other personal information is collected. Doing so lets NSA track individual movements and contacts over time. NSA wants global privacy eliminated. It wants total electronic information access. It wants it in America and abroad. It wants it everywhere. It wants it no matter who or where you are. It's well on the way to getting it.
Basic Income A Bailout for the People
James Corbett, December 7 2013
>If this is your first exposure to this idea it might sound like total insanity, but the idea of a government-provided guaranteed income is in fact not particularly new. In the first World War a British engineer named C.H. Douglas noticed a discrepancy between the total value of goods being produced for the British war effort and the salaries, wages and dividends being paid out by the producers.
Sideways Gold as Markets Await Data
James Corbett, December 4 2013
This month is front-loaded with market data in expectation of the Christmas / New Year lull. Data out this week include the Federal Reserve's "beige book" out later today along with Chinese non-manufacturing PMI numbers, the ECB's monetary policy meeting for December on Thursday, and a key U.S. jobs report on Friday.
Bob Chapman saw it in 2008
Bob Chapman, November 30 2013
Bob was known for his caustic wit, contrarian viewpoints, and clarivoyant foresight of things to come. In 2008, he saw the corruption of what was to come in the markets.
10 More Years in Afghanistan
James Corbett, November 27 2013
This relationship virtually assures that the US will be staying in the country past its 2014 “pullout” one way or another, no matter what rhetoric is deployed or smokescreens used to obscure the ongoing NATO presence in the country.