By Doug Short (Guest Post) The Fed justified the previous round of quantitative easing “to promote a stronger pace of economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with its...
Read MoreBy Masood Ahmed via (via iMFDirect) (Guest Post) Unemployment rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have remained above 10 percent over the past decade, the highest in the world. For the young the rates are even more...
Read MoreBy Russ Winter (Guest Post) Monday marked two weeks since the news broke that MF Global “removed” unencumbered segregated funds from customers’ accounts. Segregation simply means that customer deposits...
Read MoreBy George Friedman of Stratfor Global Intelligence (Guest Post) Everyone is wondering about the next disaster to befall Europe. Italy is one focus; Spain is also a possibility. But these crises are already under way. Instead,...
Read MoreBy Ellen Brown (Guest Post) Henry Ford said, “It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow...
Read MoreBy Bruce Krasting (Guest Post) I’m not surprised that the halo effect of political changes in Italy and Greece had a very short half-life. Why would it Nothing has changed. I’m not surprised that the contagion has...
Read MoreBy Ilene (Guest Post) “The shadow of that hyddeous strength, sax myle and more it is of length…” ~ “Dialog” by David Lyndsay (1490 – 1555), referencing the Tower of Babel.The pattern that has...
Read MoreBy Bruce Krasting Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 was paid for (in part) with an excise tax on implanted medical devices. The 2.3% excise tax goes into effect in 2013. It’s already causing some of those...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder (Guest Post) In order for a society to function, there has to be a certain level of trust. Each day when we leave our homes, we take for granted that most people are not going to attack us for no reason, that...
Read MoreBy Mike “Mish” Shedlock (Guest Post) Inquiring minds are reading the South China Morning Post which says Yuan deposit growth slowing Yuan deposits in Hong Kong may have dropped significantly last month due to falling...
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