Tag: Federal Reserve

America’s Economy at the 11th Hour


Republicans tend to report to constituents on the economy as look at we are doing now and Dems report on the economy in terms imagine how your life will be when we manage the economy. Neither the GOP nor the Dems look at current economic warning signs with the lens of history and potential disastrous future economic outcomes. Conservatives looking past the “now” view current tendencies coupled with past mistakes potentially leading to future economic disaster.

 

I don’t see policy changes from either Republicans or Dems, but I do see political exploitation from both sides to extract political votes to control government. So I wonder … What is your best Liberty position under whoever succeeds in a government-tyranny of the majority election?

 

I certainly don’t want to live under a government that tells me how to live, think and believe (ahem Dems). I will not be pleased living free but wondering about my well-being in nourishment and quality of economic life (ahem Republicans). Is there a third path of Liberty and well-being for an American to vote? Unfortunately not in today’s viable political choices. In my opinion that MUST CHANGE. Until then, I’m voting President Trump for the best possible Liberty in November 2020.

 

JRH 11/19/19

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America’s Economy at the 11th Hour

America’s Economic House of Cards – America’s Economy Pushed Beyond Reality 

 

By Justin O. Smith

Sent 11/17/2019 10:43 PM

 

“We are living in a system of the banks, by the banks and for the banks, and that is the reality …..” ~ G. Edward Griffin, author of ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’

 

“The Best Economy Evah” is the constant mantra we hear from the Trump economic experts and Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s Director of the National Economic Council, and yet, it is hard to ignore the warning signs that something isn’t quite right with this economy. Despite unemployment purportedly at an all-time low and the stock market riding high, the Federal Reserve Bank is still printing between $80 to $100 billion a day, after stating two months ago that this action was only going to be necessary for a few weeks, as they increase their own balance sheets by $200 billion since September, through Quantitative Easing on steroids, and more rapidly than they did at the height of the 2008 economic crisis when the amount of dollars in circulation doubled from $880 billion to $1.76 trillion.

 

The mainstream media and investors tend to focus on these statistics, despite the manner that allows them to be most usually and easily manipulated. If one points to the recent collapses in some sectors of manufacturing or the explosion in consumer and corporate debt, the ready retort is always “But the stock market is at an all-time high”. The average person ignores the fact that stock markets are meaningless trailing indicators, and they also ignore the fallacies surrounding the GDP numbers and the tens of millions of jobless people not included in the unemployment numbers, for any number of reasons.

 

The Federal Reserve repossession market purchases continue to run in high demand, and this in turn has tightened corporate cash flows to a near standstill. We saw something quite similar just before the credit crisis hit in 2008.

 

The recent increase in consumer spending is also deceptive, since it doesn’t necessarily indicate people are buying more goods or have more disposable income. If one views the steep declines in traffic and goods shipped via the trucking and railroad freight systems, it becomes more readily apparent that we are in the throes of inflation, as the cost of living increases and the people spend more on the same amount of goods, being bled dry along the way.

 

The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates three times this year, including the 0.25 percent cut at the end of October. Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, noted this move was made to “provide some insurance against ongoing risks”.

 

These are actions taken by a central bank when an economy is weak.

 

The Federal Reserve’s decisions directly affect the prices of everything on the planet, because the U.S. dollar is the world’s dominant reserve currency, dictating one’s salary, interest rates on loans, home values and all other assets, goods and services. They recently acknowledged they were in uncharted waters.

 

On November 13th 2019, Jerome Powell told Congress that economic conditions are totally unprecedented, and he added that his committee has “significant humility” because so many of their basic assumptions have been wrong. He also stated that the Fed was attempting measures that have never been previously attempted, in order to correct and balance the economy.

 

America’s most vulnerable people today are the fifty-three million workers, forty-four percent of the workforce between the ages of 18 and 64, considered low-wage and low-skilled workers. And according to a Brookings Institution report, most of these people make considerably less than $11.00 an hour, and they are stuck in an economy where short term contracts and freelance work are prevalent and permanent jobs are not as plentiful as advertised by political rhetoric, with median annual earnings of only $17,950.

 

An overwhelming number of these people currently find themselves unable to pay their loans, whether those are for cars, college tuition or credit card debt. They will be hit hardest during the next recession.

 

Looking at the “Big Picture”, the federal government’s October budget deficit has the U.S. on track to a one trillion dollar deficit, possibly larger, in fiscal 2020, largely due to the penchant Democrats and Republicans alike have for out-of-control spending. Our budget deficits began rising again in 2016 and have risen for four straight years, and a combination of tax cuts and spending is pushing the deficit to take five percent of our Gross Domestic Product, by next September, topping $1 trillion for the first time since 2012. For the first time in history, deficits topped $1 trillion each year from 2008 to 2012, in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

 

And this also ignores the manipulation of the GDP numbers. Fancy accounting omits taxpayer dollar expenditures on inflated programs and Obamacare, and according to many experts, the U.S. GDP is actually in the negative. However, even government figures show official GDP growth in decline at 1.9 percent and below the projected three percent growth for this year.

 

Massive U.S. consumer debt, both government and private, now totals over $14 trillion, with our national debt at $22 trillion, and this places tremendous pressure on the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low and even experiment with negative rates; however, the Federal Reserve can only keep the price of money artificially low for so long without serious consequences. And in the meantime, it is in a panic to prevent an economic crisis more severe and catastrophic than seen in 2008.

 

Very similar to the insider buying schemes that centered on the 1929 stock market crash, in recent history, the money elites are still prone to engineer economic disasters while deliberately hiding the real statistics from the public, in order to benefit from their insider knowledge and pick stocks up for pennies on the dollar, a federal crime by the way that they seem willing to commit with abandon. They also use economic crises, such as the one impending, to change the power structure in the nation, or the world, just as FDR did through the New Deal, something that may not have been created otherwise.

 

It’s either this, or some of them truly believe the answer lies in doing more of the same, by once again pumping trillions into the banking sector as was done in 2008 to 2012, freeing even more lines of credit. Essentially, it seems as though some may really believe in Keynesian economics and the notion that an economy can be grown and expanded through more debt, thus saving the system and America from suffering.

 

More often now, in an attempt to stave off the approaching catastrophe, America hears bankers advocating for universal incomes and making way for “green deal” investments and many different short and long term economic stimulus packages, while the global and U.S. economy are slowing and grinding to a halt. The Federal Reserve sees the only solution as doing more of the same by way of various forms of Quantitative Easing, in order to avoid riots in the street.

 

I’m no prophet of doom, but I do believe in taking a realistic look at all matters, including our economy. If our economy is not on the verge of collapse, why has the Federal Reserve, the central bank, been buttressing it for the past decade? How much longer can the Federal Reserve continue this practice and how much longer do they actually want to do so? What if allowing the entire house of cards to fall benefits them, just as it has in past similar situations?

 

Currently the top ten percent of Americans are living large, prospering greatly from the Federal Reserve’s government bubble scheme and President Trump’s stock market pumping on Twitter, and they have amassed hard assets in gold, silver, real estate, factories, tools and food supplies, with the certain knowledge that everything based on paper and debt will collapse soon. They will pick everything up for pennies on the dollar, just like 1929 all over again.

 

They know it’s on the way, the collapse. So, what is the Big Plan of the Bankers?

 

Our central bank and its owners see the U.S. financial system once again on the verge of collapse and a system of inflation that cannot be sustained forever, since all systems of exponential growth are always doomed to collapse. Our system entered the surreal whenever it started working with numbers in the trillions, just as Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Presidential candidate, easily and nonchalantly as though it were nothing, bandied about a $52 trillion number to front her agenda if elected, and America is at the breaking point as She is being purposefully pushed beyond reality.

 

The Federal Reserve Bank and its private concerns and board members understand the dynamics better than anybody, so they must believe the end to be near, along with those of us paying attention, who can very nearly see and touch the coming end. And on the last day, the Big Banker Bandits will grab all they can in their desire to safeguard their own financial situation and be secure, as hell unfolds for everyone else; so in the meantime, they are going for broke, because they know the system is broken and little remains to fix it.

 

The only real fix will come whenever America returns to a truly free capitalist economic system, unseen in America since 1913 and even less so after FDR’s New Deal hit the government. And, as our artificial economy continues to fail and the wealth inequality gap swells, America finds Herself at the 11th hour and an awakening that will ignite the auto-correction of our system and the wealth inequality imbalance, along with major protests in the streets of our largest cities, much like we now see in Chile and elsewhere, and a revolution focused on eradicating the Federal Reserve Bank and arresting and prosecuting those un-elected officials who have raped, pillaged and ruined the U.S. economy, enriching themselves at the expense of most of America.

 

By Justin O. Smith

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Dreams of Prosperity and an Inflated Currency


I actually comprehend little when it comes to economics and numbers. But history is easier to grasp. History informs us a Capitalist based Market System has enabled a Liberty-minded America to prosper more than the fail. While oppositely a Socialist based Government Managed System robs Liberty from citizens stifling individual prosperity and increasing government despotism and oppression.

 

Though I have difficulty grasping the actual effects of a repo (buyback) stocks market on the economy I grasp well that an unrestrained Federal Reserve with near zero checks and balances adds to government despotism and decreases Liberty and Freedom of America’s individual citizens. And so … here are Justin Smith’s thoughts on American Markets and the actions of the Federal Reserve.

 

JRH 10/10/19

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Dreams of Prosperity and an Inflated Currency

Congressional Warning Bells Are Silent

 

By Justin O. Smith

Sent  10/8/2019 10:42 PM

 

“Long before we wake up from our dream of prosperity through an inflated currency, our gold, which alone could have kept us from catastrophe, will have vanished and no rate of interest will tempt it to return.” U.S. Senator Elihu Root (R-NY) 1913

 

The Federal Reserve Bank has been a bone of contention, since our nation’s founding. This rogue agency has proven itself to be the evil entity that many early American leaders believed it to be, but not one word on the Fed was forthcoming, when Congresswoman Maxine Waters announced the schedule of the House Financial Services Committee on October 3rd, after the Federal Reserve Bank started transferring billions of dollars into the Repurchasing Market on September 17th. This activated its proposal to hand seventy-five billion dollars a day to unnamed banks on Wall Street, until November 4th, the first such intervention since the 2008 economic collapse and the bailout of financial organizations deemed “too big to fail”; and, it is just one more criminal act in a long line of abuses committed against all America.

 

In 2011, James Felkerson wrote in an academic piece, that from 2007 to 2010, the Fed had funneled an unbelievable $29 trillion in revolving loans to Wall Street and global banks. It did this without any apparent realization and authority from Congress, even though by law both the House Financial Services and the Senate Banking Committees are to be briefed on any such emergency loans, including the names of those banks taking the loans.

 

[Blog Editor: I am not an economist. In trying to make sense of the repo market and reverse-repo market the information muddied rather than bring clarity to my understanding. Since it is my mantra that Dems lie and deceive I become skeptical when the likes of Dem candidates for President (e.g. Elizabeth Warren & Bernie Sanders among others) begin to rail against the buyback repo markets. I’ll start with an explanation of repo markets then add some criticism titles for you to look noting who the critics are:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like I said, I am no economist. BUT the tax issue seems less about taxpayers funds and more about banks and corporations taking advantage of tax breaks to expand money returns which may or may not blow up DEPENDING on the security controls of the money-printing Federal Reserve. Not being an economist means my take could be entirely off basis.]

 

These Big Banks and corporations are taking this “free” taxpayer dollars and buying back stocks in their own companies, rather than risk investment in productive investments, which creates an illusion of economic growth. The purchases give companies the appearance of being more profitable than they actually are, even though their earnings have remained stagnant. And it is the Fed’s perverse incentives that have given rise to this debt-dependent speculative system that allows companies to pocket their profits, while at the same time, they socialize their losses and pass them along to the taxpayer, ‘We the People’.

 

In 1832, President Andrew Jackson, extremely antagonistic towards the Bank of the United States, stated: “Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching You for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin [a] thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, I will rout you out.” [Bold-Italics Blog Editor’s]

 

We are currently witnessing a continuation of the malinvestments that led to the 2008 economic collapse and massive loans combined with another huge expansion of credit. When banking institutes issue huge credit lines, any future economic collapse is proportional to that amount of outstanding credit.

 

This isn’t a true “boom economy” and the current boom is the culmination of monetary inflation and an expanded credit cycle, in the wake of the residential property and stock market booms, between 2005 and 2007, and malinvestments that have not yet been fully corrected. To date, this is by far a larger credit elevation than that of 1922-1929, and the Great Depression on the 20th century.

 

It seems as though everyone in America has bought into the promise of applied macroeconomics, refusing to acknowledge the contrary signals through the prism of classic economics, while they accept macroeconomist premises that economic truths on a micro-level are not applicable to the whole at the macro-level. This level of ignorance will soon prove to be a huge mistake, since nobody can live forever beyond their means and ability to repay amounts owed.

 

One should note that the JP Morgan Bank, one of the largest in the United States, was hit with three felony counts under the RICO Act last month, concerning the precious metals market. This is particularly alarming in light of JP Morgan’s $158 billion cash reduction in the Federal Reserve, between January and June of 2019, a fifty-seven percent decline this year.

 

Why hasn’t the need of the United States’ largest bank to acquire such a large loan over a six month period raised any warning bells in Congress? Why does JP Morgan need such a large loan if it has $1.6 trillion in deposits and a “fortress balance sheet”, as asserted by JP’s CEO, Jamie Dimon?

 

By the end of June 2019, America’s four largest banks had a combined $5.45 trillion in deposits: JP Morgan claimed $1.6 trillion; Bank of America claims $1.44 trillion; Wells Fargo posts $1.35 trillion, and Citibank holds a bit over $1 trillion.

 

So why the current panic at the Fed? If the liquidity doesn’t exist to allow these banks to issue billions in loans, when they supposedly hold $5.45 trillion, something very serious has occurred in the financial industry and another economic crisis looms on the horizon.

 

Recently, CNBC reported that U.S. manufacturing purchasing managers’ index was the lowest it’s been since June 2009, at 47.8 percent, and in recent days, many hundreds of Americans have been laid off from companies, such as Kroger and many others. Bayou Steel just laid off 376 workers, according to Market Realist; Daimler Trucks North America is laying off 450 people; WeWork is set to end five thousand jobs, one-third of its workforce; Hewlett Packard Inc is cutting approximately 8,000 positions, and lets not forget that Walmart was forced to close 63 locations last year.

 

This isn’t a “boom economy” anyway one looks at it, especially when we see Democrats and Republicans alike engaging in out-of-control deficit spending, as if the U.S. Treasury is their own personal piggy bank and there is no tomorrow. If this were truly such a golden period of economic recovery, our financiers wouldn’t be clamoring for interest rate cuts, when they are already at historically low levels.

 

America has seen this greed motivated reach for more and more before, as the borrowers seem not to have one care on how their loans will be repaid, and most of America cares not so long as they get their cut. It is this extreme callous character flaw and apathy and a complacency and the turning of a blind eye by corrupt Congressmen, a national immorality, that is allowing the Fed to once more bail out the worse white collar criminals on Wall Street, as they continue to take huge portions of bail out funds to reward themselves with tens of millions of dollars in bonuses and billions of dollars to lawyers to prevent them from being prosecuted for fraud.

 

It is an indication of America’s collective genius or its collective madness that permits Her people to hold so many contradictory assumptions, combined under the same economic system, and blindly and blithely proceed as if they were all joined by perfect cogent thought, logic and reason. And yet, many Americans cannot escape the nagging feeling that something is going extraordinarily wrong, as our best and brightest economic experts call madness “common sense”, denying that their deal with the devil doesn’t come at some terrible price eventually.

 

The impeccable and brilliant Senator Elihu Root strongly opposed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, noting in a blistering and prescient manner that “the Federal Reserve … provides an expansive currency, not an elastic one”. He noted that the temptation to expand the currency would cause the Fed to create the very cycles it was supposed to prevent.

 

It is far past time to eradicate the Federal Reserve Bank and the economic sickness that accompanies centralized banking, wherever one finds it.

 

Whatever a man sows, so shall he reap. Need little, want less and love more.

 

By Justin O. Smith

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Blog Editor: Rather than capitulate to Facebook censorship by abandoning the platform, I choose to post and share until the Leftist censors ban me. Recently, the Facebook censorship tactic I’ve experienced is a couple of Group shares then jailed under the false accusation of posting too fast. So I ask those that read this, to combat censorship by sharing blog and Facebook posts with your friends or Groups you belong to.

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Edited by John R. Houk

 

Source links and text embraced by brackets are by the Editor.

 

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Tony Newbill Emails from 11/13 to 12/7/13


China vs USA Currency War

Newbill takes a look at how currency is a part of a Leftist agenda to wrangle the USA away from being the international currency of trade. The emails suggest that China is the primary culprit behind this global Leftist agenda. There is a story about “ghost cities” possibly causing a financial crisis due real estate speculating; however it is my opinion you should read between the lines on that story. China is a controlled economy and they are not going to literally allow the construction of empty metropolitan areas without a specific purpose in mind. As you read behind the lines on the ghost city you really need to contemplate why China would allow such an expansion of real estate to occur.

 

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Story about Wall Street Living off Fake Money

Sent: 11/13/2013 8:05 AM

 

They are doing this because of Peak Earth Ideology [Editor: Here is a gist of Peak Earth Ideology] and this gives them Control over consumption rates of the Consumer. Squeezing resources will be the future and bending the cost curve will mean lowing the life expectancy rate.

 

Dividing the society is key to accomplishing this goal.

 

The story about Wall Street living off Fake Money from the Federal Reserve Proves the International market Scheme is Over and the USA is only running higher and higher debts to try and keep it going!!!!

 

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303763804579183680751473884

 

I can only say: I’m sorry, America. As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for executing the centerpiece program of the Fed’s first plunge into the bond-buying experiment known as quantitative easing. The central bank continues to spin QE as a tool for helping Main Street. But I’ve come to recognize the program for what it really is: the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time.

 

Five years ago this month, on Black Friday, the Fed launched an unprecedented shopping spree. By that point in the… (To read the rest you have to be a subscriber or subscribe to the WSJ – Andrew Huszar: Confessions of a Quantitative Easer; 11/11/13)

 

This is why I think the best hope for the USA is to isolate and get back to being a Self-Supplying Nation. We have plenty of resources for our sustainable Population, it’s when we try and supply the rest of the world that we are running into and running out of what we need to survive let along innovating any new expansion in or renewable resource supply.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/08/opinion/gilding-earth-limits/index.html

 

(CNN) Editor’s note: Paul Gilding, author of “The Great Disruption,” is an advocate and adviser to nongovernmental organizations and businesses and the former chief executive of Greenpeace. He spoke at the TED2012 conference in February. TED is a nonprofit dedicated to “Ideas worth spreading” which it makes available through talks posted on its website.

 

(CNN) — For 50 years the environmental movement has unsuccessfully argued that we should save the planet for moral reasons, that there were more important things than money. Ironically, it now seems it will be money — through the economic impact of climate change and resource constraint — that will motivate the sweeping changes necessary to avert catastrophe.

 

The reason is we have now reached a moment where four words — the earth is full — will define our times. This is not a philosophical statement; this is just science based in physics, chemistry and biology. There are many science-based analyses of this, but they all draw the same conclusion — that we’re living beyond our means.

 

The eminent scientists of the Global Footprint Network, for example, calculate that we need about 1.5 Earths to sustain this economy. In other words, to keep operating at our current level, we need 50% more Earth than we’ve got.

 

Watch Paul Gilding’s TED Talk

 

In financial terms, this would be like always spending 50% more than you earn, going further into debt every year. But of course, you can’t borrow natural resources, so we’re … READ THE REST – be warned its pro-Climate Change propaganda (The Earth is full; By Paul Gilding; CNN; 4/8/12)

 

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/7-billion

 

Population is a complicated topic. With the worldwide population slated to top 7 billion in 2011, we decided it was one we needed to tackle. But we wanted to do it in a way that gives readers room to think. We spread out our coverage over a year, with articles that take deep dives into specific issues—demographics, food security, climate change, fertility trends, managing biodiversity—that relate to global population. Our reporting is collected here. Feel free to explore and share your thoughts on twitter at #7billion. (7 Billion; National Geographic)

 

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

 

World Population: Past, Present, and Future … READ THE REST – A lot of Charts (WorldOMeters)

 

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China’s ability to be a trusted Alternative Trade Currency

Sent: 11/17/2013 7:55 AM

 

More Reason to question China’s ability to be a trusted Alternative Trade Currency????  And see how they are using finance and trade to divide Alliances.

 

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/16/21498942-israel-muzzles-witness-in-us-anti-terrorism-lawsuit?lite

 

JERUSALEM — The Israeli government has decided to prevent a key witness from testifying in an anti-terrorism case in the United States, drawing accusations that it is caving in to pressure from China.

 

The lawsuit revolves around allegations that Bank of China knowingly allowed Palestinian militants to use its accounts to finance their operations, including a suicide attack in the city of Tel Aviv in 2006 that killed 11 people.

 

Families of the dead, among them 16-year-old American holidaymaker Daniel Wultz, have launched at least two cases in the United States against China’s fourth largest lender.

 

The bank denies any wrongdoing.

 

Plaintiffs hoped that evidence from a former Israeli intelligence officer, who allegedly told Chinese counterparts in 2005 about suspicious transactions, would prove decisive.

 

A Washington district court issued the official, Uzi Shaya, with a subpoena to testify on Nov. 25.

 

However, on Nov. 15, the Israeli government filed a petition, which was seen by Reuters on Saturday, seeking to block his appearance and to stop him revealing what it said were state secrets.

 

“The disclosure of such information would harm Israel’s national security, compromise Israel’s ability to protect those within its borders, and … READ THE REST (Israel muzzles witness in US anti-terrorism lawsuit; By Crispian Ballmer; NBC News Investigations via Reuters; 11/16/13 11:33 PM EST)

 

Why China wants to replace dollar as Worlds Trade Currency

http://www.businessinsider.com/60-minutes-chinas-ghost-cities-2013-3

 

We have written about China’s ghost towns — neighborhoods with massive new buildings not inhabited by any people.  Many see this as the clear evidence of overbuilding and a housing bubble.

 

Yale’s Stephen Roach has said, however, that China’s modernization is “the greatest urbanization story the world has ever seen,” and that these ghost cities will soon become “thriving metropolitan areas.”

 

But analysts say most Chinese people can’t afford the types of homes being built in the ghost cities.

 

China has been trying to get a grip on its property market for some time now and some say officials are in control and have been deflating the housing bubble.

 

 

However, the risks of the housing bubble evolving into a financial crisis appear to be high.

 

There is a new report from “60 Minutes” titled “China’s real estate bubble.” We’ve seen photos of China’s ghost towns, but they are … READ THE REST – Most of the rest of the article are screen shots of empty Chinese cities ending with the 60 Minutes feature entitled “China’s real estate bubble”. I will post the Youtube version of the 60 Minutes episode. (This ’60 Minutes’ Video Of China’s Ghost Cities Is More Surreal Than Anything We’ve Ever Seen; By MAMTA BADKAR; Business Insider; 3/3/13 8:26 PM)

Editor: This is a thought that I am not going to take the time to substantiate. I remember reading a Conspiracy Theory that these Chinese ghost cities were actually built in China’s anticipation of a destructive war.

 

VIDEO: China’s real estate bubble

 

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Blame another for Spying on U.S. Citizens

Sent: 11/17/2013 8:11 AM

 

So if the Agency Spying going through this Avenue is allowed secretly and it not be able to have regulation by our Congress Oversight, won’t this be the END of U.S.A. Liberty????

 

Won’t this be a Great way to blame another for Spying on U.S. Citizens?????

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/world/europe/a-russian-gps-using-us-soil-stirs-spy-fears.html?ref=centralintelligenceagency&_r=0

 

WASHINGTON — In the view of America’s spy services, the next potential threat from Russia may not come from a nefarious cyberweapon or secrets gleaned from the files of Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor now in Moscow.

 

Instead, this menace may come in the form of a seemingly innocuous dome-topped antenna perched atop an electronics-packed building surrounded by a security fence somewhere in the United States.

 

In recent months, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon have been quietly waging a campaign to stop the State Department from allowing Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, to build about half a dozen of these structures, known as monitor stations, on United States soil, several American officials said.

 

They fear that these structures could help Russia spy on the United States and improve the precision of Russian weaponry, the officials said. These monitor stations, the Russians contend, would significantly improve the accuracy and reliability of Moscow’s version of the Global Positioning System, the American satellite network that steers guided missiles to their targets and thirsty smartphone users to the nearest Starbucks.

 

“They don’t want to be reliant on the American system and believe that their systems, like GPS, will spawn other industries and applications,” said a former senior official in the State Department’s Office of Space and Advanced Technology. “They feel as though they are losing a technological edge to us in an important market. Look at everything GPS has done on … READ THE REST (A Russian GPS Using U.S. Soil Stirs Spy Fears; By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ERIC SCHMITT; NYT; 11/16/13)

 

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Morning Joe: Who will pay more under Obamacare?

Sent: 11/20/2013 7:42 AM

 

http://on.msnbc.com/1fV1t1s

 

Who will pay more under Obamacare?

 

Top Talkers: President Obama is set to meet with health insurance CEOs to discuss Obamacare, and Steve Rattner brings his infamous charts to show Obamacare’s impact on the country, including who will pay more under the law. (Click MSNBC link to watch the episode Newbill is referring to.)

 

On Morning Joe today they are trying to sugar coat the Percentage of people who are losing their Healthcare insurance by saying it’s a small Percentage, but they are not taking into consideration what’s going to happen once we get to 2015 when that exemption is OVER that the President gave all who get their Insurance through their Employer!!!!!

 

Wait till 2015 YOUR CORPORATE Cover will go away and then we will REALLY see the collapse that was delayed with the Unconstitutional exemption for a year by Obama.

 

How can you not be a dictator when you pass a Law with Bribes then turn around and Single handedly Delay it???

 

These Liberals all know this is just a Path towards Single payer and they don’t care what kind of LIE it takes to keep everyone chilling while the current system collapses along with the current Obamacare law, and Nothing is Left but a Government Option.

 

VIDEO: Shocking Obama Videos Reveal Real Goal!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eweqdZcbX_8

 

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Dodd Frank plans to regulate the Fund managers and personal IRAs

Sent: 12/7/2013 10:59 AM

 

Dodd Frank plans to regulate the Fund managers and personal IRAs in case of a market shock.

 

http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/ofr/research/Documents/OFR_AMFS_FINAL.pdf

 

Introduction

 

This report provides a brief overview of the asset management industry and an analysis of how asset management firms and the activities in which they engage can introduce vulnerabilities that could pose, amplify, or transmit threats to financial stability.

 

The Financial Stability Oversight Council (the Council) decided to study the activities of asset management firms to better inform its analysis of whether—and how—to consider such firms for enhanced pruden­tial standards and supervision under Section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Act.1 The Council asked the Office of Financial Research (OFR), in collaboration with Council members, to provide data and analysis to inform this consideration. This study responds to that request by analyzing industry activities, describing the factors that make the industry and individual firms vulnerable to financial shocks, and considering the channels through which the industry could transmit risks across financial markets.

 

… READ THE REST – 34 page PDF document (Asset Management and Financial Stability; By Office of Financial Research; September 2013)

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12/obamas_plan_to_snatch_your_savings.html

 

In his first term, Obama managed to get his paws on health care, banking, energy, student loans, the auto business, and more.  Now he has his sights set on your 401(k).

 

The left has had its eye on retirement savings for years, but so far takeover attempts have been rebuffed.  One egregious attempt was the proposal, following the 2010 financial crisis, to “safeguard” retirement savings by requiring that they be rolled over into Treasury bonds.  Had this legislation succeeded, it would have appropriated all or part of the retirement savings of millions of Americans.  The funds would have been used to finance further expansion of government.  In return, savers would have received a promissory note from the federal government similar that issued by the Social Security Trust Fund.

 

Needless to say, most investors were not keen to convert their savings into Treasury obligations — or, to be more precise, into an unsecured note promising a return approximating that of Treasury bonds.  That is because, as with every other endeavor, government’s management of retirement savings (aka Social Security) has been a disaster.

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Despite its 2010 failure to take over retirement savings, the left has not given up.  As reported in WND, officials at the U.S. Treasury and Labor Departments continue discussions aimed at channeling private savings into Treasury obligations via a so-called “Automatic IRA.”  Once it has forced workers and employers to contribute to Automatic IRAs, and eventually forced existing savings into government obligations as well, government would control much of the investment capital in America.  The free market will cease to exist.

Perhaps in support of that goal, Dodd-Frank legislation of 2010 established the Office of Financial Research (OFR) [Blog Editor: This should sound familiar to the PDF report linked above!], which recently issued a report suggesting that mutual funds may pose a risk to financial stability. At several points in the report, the authors suggest that many aspects of the financial system are not at present highly regulated and that the risks of these unregulated private transactions are unknown.  The implication seems to be that greater government scrutiny is called for.

 

OFR is a bureaucracy charged with the task of sniffing out systemic risk and passing along its findings to the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC).  The chairman of that august body is none other than Jacob Lew, Obama’s secretary of the treasury.  This is the same Jacob Lew who was employed as chief operating officer at Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI) during the financial crisis.  CAI reportedly incurred significant losses during the financial crisis.  As COO of that division of Citigroup, Lew would not seem to be an ideal candidate to chair a committee on Financial Stability — much less the person to be put in charge of America’s retirement savings [Blog Editor: Oh-Oh, Do you see the Leftist agenda at work in your personal life yet?].

 

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That is the reality, I believe, behind the innocuous-sounding Office of Financial Research and its report on the supposed risk to the financial system underlying mutual funds.  It is an important cog in this administration’s insidious scheme to destroy capitalism and convert America into a socialist state. READ ENTIRETY (Obama’s Plan to Snatch Your Savings; By Jeffrey Folks; American Thinker; 12/5/13)

Here’s a Possible Shock …..

 

Is a threat to the dollar as world’s trade currency a China and Germany alliance?????

 

http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/gold-leasing-is-a-tool-for-the-global-credit-game

 

Below a translation of an article on gold price suppression by global finance expert from the China Gold Association Zhang Jie, published on April 15, 2013. We have posted a Google Translate version of this article on August 13, but because of the significance of the insights of the writer we searched for real translators to make it into a more clear and understandable read. The result is a very interesting analysis of a monetary game played by the US and other countries through gold leasing and derivatives.

We will be publishing translations from Chinese economists on a more frequently basis as these gives us important information on China’s present and future gold policy.

Translated by Maarten van Mourik and J. Chin. [Italicized by Blog Editor]

Gold Leasing Is A Tool For The Global Credit Game

 

– By Zhang Jie, Deputy editor of “Global Finance”, expert specially engaged by China Gold Association.

 

The world’s financial and real estate crisis will eventually produce a credit crisis.

 

The price of gold is closely related with credit, the implication from suppression the gold price lies not only on gold, but more so in currencies and the trust behind currencies.

 

Gold leasing is an important innovation in the gold settlement system. Through continuous gold leasing the gold in the market can be circulated and produce derivatives, creating more and more paper gold. This is very significant for the United States. Gold leasing is a major tool for the Federal Reserve and other central banks in the West to secretly control and regulate the gold market, creating gold credit derivatives and global credit conflict.

 

China suffered from gold lease in the past

 

World gold leasing started in the 1980s, when the gold price rose to over 800 US$ per ounce. Gold leasing at that time effectively combated the price of gold. More strategically, the gold price affected national creditworthiness. A lower gold price suppressed the Soviet Union and China after 1989 when they were sanctioned by the West, in addition to the sanctions imposed on South Africa for apartheid. As all three were heavily dependent on gold to import necessities, the gold price had become a protection for foreign credit in these countries.

 

In the 1990s, the introduction of gold leasing effectively lowered the price of gold. Low gold and oil prices have caused great difficulties for China, the former Soviet Union and South Africa who were in dire need of foreign currencies. As a result, these countries had to sell resources or core assets very cheaply, which now have to be bought back more expensively. The West thus gained extensively by suppressing gold prices.

 

Gold credit is even more critical in today’s world where risk of global crises, war and conflicts increases. If a global full-scale conflict were to develop, the globalised financial system would collapse and trust in national currencies would vanish completely. Only liquid assets, of which the best liquid asset is gold, can establish trust between nations. Consequently, the trust in gold will become critical; gold can become a powerful weapon in the world credit game. Crude oil and other commodities that are difficult to store can’t be used as trust equivalents. Gold being the leading candidate is inevitable, thus led to gold leasing becoming the tool and mean of the world credit game.

 

Gold leasing to control credit

 

If the Fed were to engage in gold leasing, the lessee is the key in this process. In the bull market during the past several years, gold leasing agencies which shorted gold may incurred huge losses. Although these losses exist, we don’t see them because it’s possible for entities such as Lehman Brothers to manipulate their accounts. However, it is unlikely for the Fed to be involved directly in the shorting of gold reserves and manipulation of accounts, but it is entirely possible for the Fed to engage in gold leasing on a huge scale, and the related lessee could thus bear a huge loss. If the loss is exposed, even a large institution could collapse. This could create a crisis as bad as the one caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Germany and the IMF should see the signs of such a crisis that would have a serious impact on the creditworthiness of countries and agencies.

 

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Germany staged a coup on the US Fed

 

If the Fed’s large gold reserves are used in gold leasing, there will be a serious problem. Germany therefore will threaten the Fed’s dominant position by demanding their gold back; the Fed subsequently needs to withdraw the leased gold and thus could destabilize the market. This is a new credit game of international capital.

 

If the Fed is engaged in gold leasing it’s impossible that the Fed is able to show Germany and France their stored gold because the gold has been used in gold leasing. The Fed should be able to combine the remaining gold deposits from all remaining countries to allow for Germany’s inspection – Germany has no right to audit gold reserves of other countries. The Fed probably has agendas aimed at preventing Germany to inspect its gold or to ship it back to Germany. These agendas are likely to be related to the game of international finance and the credit game between countries. Gold is a financial and monetary product; it represents the authority of …

 

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For the Fed, it is crucial that the dollar dominates the world and so the Fed will store gold reserves from countries all over the world to control the gold settlement system. If there were another gold settlement system, it would compete with the dollar’s trust. Natural gold credit would be a nightmare for the continuous printed dollar. The dollar can only be the world currency as a result of the United States controlling global gold settlement. However, if other countries want their gold back from the Fed, the Fed will lose its gold settlement position. Underneath the global gold reserves at the Fed, there is the promise of the United States to continue with the dollar-gold price under the Bretton Woods system. Since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system 30 years ago, it is suspected that the United States violated the original agreement; therefore other countries have the right to demand their gold reserves back from the Fed. 

 

…  If Germany holds its own gold reserves, this will restrict other countries to lease gold. Such action could create a panic over gold, subsequently support gold prices and blow the confidence of gold short sellers. This will have significantly more impact on the market’s confidence than actual market transactions. At a time when the market is concerned about the US Fed having a huge gold deficit, who dares to short gold on a massive scale? Here we should see the divergence between United States and Europe as well as with Germany.

 

This translation is a combination of two translations, by Maarten van Mourik and J. Chin, which were merged by Koos Jansen. This link (choose file, than download) gives access to a document that contains the Chinese text as well as the two original translations by Mourik and Chin. READ ENTIRETY (Gold Leasing Is A Tool For The Global Credit Game; By Koos Jansen; In God We Trust; 8/31/13 6:56 pm)

 

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Edited by John R. Houk

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Mao Yuan Beats Up G. Washington Dollar

Most of these Newbill email relate to economic collapse and the Dollar collapse which will lead to some form of global and American chaos. One email pertains to a repugnant issue occurring in Syria still in a civil war. The issue is the occurrence of a disease that results by cannibalism.

 

JRH 12/14/13

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A Corporate Trojan Horse

Sent: 11/3/2013 8:23 AM

 

You won’t believe this, it will further the call for a new trade currency as this TPP trade Policy will further collapse nations sovereignty valued in dollars internationally.

 

“A Corporate Trojan Horse”: Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/4/a_corporate_trojan_horse_obama_pushes

 

As the federal government shutdown continues, Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Asia for secret talks on a sweeping new trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP is often referred to by critics as “NAFTA on steroids,” and would establish a free trade zone that would stretch from Vietnam to Chile, encompassing 800 million people — about a third of world trade and nearly 40 percent of the global economy. While the text of the treaty has been largely negotiated behind closed doors and, until June, kept secret from Congress, more than 600 corporate advisers reportedly have access to the measure, including employees of Halliburton and Monsanto. “This is not mainly about trade,” says Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. “It is a corporate Trojan horse. The agreement has 29 chapters, and only five of them have to do with trade. The other 24 chapters either handcuff our domestic governments, limiting food safety, environmental standards, financial regulation, energy and climate policy, or establishing new powers for corporations.”

 

… READ ENTIRETY

Or they are creating the Plutocracy crisis to piss off the sheeple so they will demand more Bigger Government Intervention……

Obama-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Expands Corporate Lawsuits Against Nations for Lost Profits.

 
The first part of this video talks about how the Surveillance Cabal by the NSA Spying is directly connected to the TPP International Trade Policy trying to rise up.

 

Start this video at 29:00 to hear what the Trade Policy that will create the International Legal Cabal on U.S Constitutional rights. And this Cabal allows the Multinational Corps to act as Sovereign citizens and sue Nations for Financial Losses.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/6/obama_backed_trans_pacific_partnership_expands

 

The Obama administration is facing increasing scrutiny for the extreme secrecy surrounding negotiations around a sweeping new trade deal that could rewrite the nation’s laws on everything from healthcare and Internet freedom to food safety and the financial markets. The latest negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were recently held behind closed doors in Lima, Peru, but the Obama administration has rejected calls to release the current text. Even members of Congress have complained about being shut out of the negotiation process. Last year, a leaked chapter from the draft agreement outlined how the TPP would allow foreign corporations operating in the United States to appeal key regulations to an international tribunal. The body would have the power to override U.S. law and issue penalties for failure to comply with its rulings.

 

We discuss the TPP with two guests: Celeste Drake, a trade policy specialist with the AFL-CIO, and Jim Shultz, executive director of the Democracy Center, which has just released a new report on how corporations use trade rules to seize resources and undermine democracy. “What is the biggest threat to the ability of corporations to go into a country and suck out the natural resources without any regard for the environment or labor standards? The threat is democracy,” Shultz says. “The threat is that citizens will be annoying and get in the way and demand that their governments take action. So what corporations need is to become more powerful than sovereign states. And the way they become more powerful is by tangling sovereign states in a web of these trade agreements.”

 

TRANSCRIPT

 

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its … READ THE REST (Obama-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Expands Corporate Lawsuits Against Nations for Lost Profits; Democracy Now – A Daily Independent Global News Hour; 6/6/13)

 

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The 21 century Government and Corporate fascism 2.0

Sent: 11/4/2013 12:30 PM

 

Why the general public cannot compete in the phony free market while these 2 big 2 fail entities work off Government assistance indirectly through public entitlements and Federal Reserve Stimulus Policy

  

10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy — This Chart Shows How

10 Corp. Control Everything Chart

http://www.policymic.com/articles/71255/10-corporations-control-almost-everything-you-buy-this-chart-shows-how

 

Ten mega corporations control the output of almost everything you buy; from household products to pet food to jeans.

 

According to this chart via Reddit, called “The Illusion of Choice,” these corporations create a chain that begins at one of 10 super companies. You’ve heard of the biggest names, but it’s amazing to see what these giants own or influence.

 

(Note: The chart shows a mix of networks. Parent companies may own, own shares of, or may simply partner with their branch networks. For example, Coca-Cola does not own Monster, but distributes the energy drink. Another note: We are not sure how up-to-date the chart is. For example, it has not been updated to reflect P&G’s sale of Pringles to Kellogg’s in February.)

 

Here are just a few examples: Yum Brands owns KFC and Taco Bell. The company was a spin-off of Pepsi. All Yum Brands restaurants sell only Pepsi products because of a special partnership with the soda-maker.

 

$84 billion-company Proctor & Gamble — the largest advertiser in the U.S. — is paired with a number of diverse brands that produce everything from medicine to … READ THE REST (10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy — This Chart Shows How; By Chris Miles; PolicyMic; 10/31/13)

 

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This is a very bad disease

Sent: 11/5/2013 9:36 AM

 

This is a very bad disease …..Due to limited treatment will Obamacare lead to this disease spreading???

 

http://shoebat.com/2013/11/04/new-cases-cannibalism-muslim-syria/

 

[Editor Note: the above Shoebat.com link is very disturbing and yet informative. It is worth posting in entirety]

 

Cannibalism In Syria Causes An Extremely Rare Disease

 

By Theodore Shoebat

November 4, 2013

 

Its (sic) called Kuru, an extremely rare disease which virtually became extinct after extinguishing cannibalism in Papua New Guinea. Amazingly Kuru has now been found in 8 to 20 people, out of all places, in war-torn Syria, and the only way it could have come about, doctors confirmed, is through cannibalism and the consumption of human brain, as first reported by Arabian news source Zaman al-Wasal and substantiated by Orient News Television.

 

Here is a documentary showing the connection between native sorcery, ritualized cannibalism, and its end result, Kuru:

 

VIDEO: Kuru: The Science and The Sorcery (52 Minute Documentary)

 

Two of the infected were sent from Syria to a hospital (sic) in Ghazi Antab in Turkey for further examination to only be transferred to another hospital in Germany. One of the two already died, since Kuru is 100% fatal. Kuru is contagious and has symptoms of skin ulcers and worms, and according to a piece on the New York Times,

 

Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue.

 

Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual.

 

One of the infected men in the German hospital was confirmed to have eaten human flesh, and he eventually died. When the Turkish hospital was asked on the details of the cannibalism case, they refrained from saying anything.

 

Moreover, the Free Syrian Army said they will be doing an investigation on the cannibalism case, and this sparks a hunch as to what their intentions are behind this.

 

Overall, there are 8 to 20 cases of Kuru in Syria; Kuru strictly is caused by cannibalism, and cannibalism was involved from the report on what took place in the German hospital.

 

In past studies, it was established that in the area of Fore in Paupa (sic) New Guinea, Kuru was transmitted due to “ritualistic mortuary cannibalism.”

It is quite possible that this is what commenced the infection, in that the jihadists began to eat the flesh of their enemies.

 

Cannibalism is not beyond the nature of the Muslim rebels, here is a video of a Syrian jihadist eating a lung:

 

VIDEO: FSA Cannibalism: terrorists eat heart of a dead Syrian soldier in the …

 

We have written extensively on Islamic cannibalism, which can be found here, here, here, and here.

 

Please donate to Rescue Christians and and save Christian lives.

 

Get my latest book, For God or For Tyranny

 

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The Case that a Fed Bailout is Coming

Sent: 11/5/2013 10:27 AM

 

These links make the case that a Fed Bailout is coming and it will come through stock sales and the collapse of the Dow Jones.

 

They are creating the crisis with Debt accumulation instead of supply expansion and accumulation!!!!!!

 

The Fed has no endgame

http://money.msn.com/investing/the-fed-has-no-endgame

 

The financial markets are focused on guessing when the Federal Reserve will begin to reduce its $85 billion a month in asset purchases.

 

A move to buy fewer Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities — say, $70 billion to $75 billion a month as a first stage, instead of the current $85 billion a month — would lead, the market fears, to a rise in U.S. interest rates and a stronger dollar that would provoke a selloff in global markets.

 

The consensus now says this tapering won’t begin until March 2014 at the soonest, although the Fed’s press release after the October meeting of its Open Market Committee led to a pickup among traders and investors in votes for January 2014.

 

The Federal Reserve itself, however, has moved on in its worries and plans. While the timing of any taper remains an unsettled issue, planning at the Fed is now concentrating on the endgame.

 

After building up its balance sheet to a record $3.84 trillion — including $2 trillion in Treasurys and $1.4 trillion in mortgage-backed securities — the big question, and the one with much more impact in the long-term on the U.S. and global economies and financial markets, is how does the Fed sell these assets so it can cut its balance sheet back to normal levels?

 

The startling answer that’s starting to emerge from studies by the Fed’s own economists is … READ THE REST (The Fed has no endgame; By Jim Jubak; MSN Money; 11/4/2013 7:45 PM ET)

 

MSN Money’s Mirhaydari: Fed Must Act Fast to Prevent Deflation Disaster

http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/inflation-deflation-disaster-Fed/2013/10/31/id/534150#ixzz2jmtliTOX

 

The Federal Reserve must do more and do it fast before we fall into a 1990s-style Japanese deflation disaster, argues MSN Money columnist Anthony Mirhaydari in an article for MarketWatch.

The Fed is continuing to purchase $85 billion of bonds a month in an effort to bolster the economy by keeping rates low.

It’s not enough, warns Mirhaydari, a former research analyst.

 

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Mirhaydari recommends that the Fed inject funds directly into the economy by funding public-private infrastructure investment trusts or converting its Treasury holdings into equity-like assets, which would essentially erase some of the national debt. It could convert long-term bonds into zero-coupon perpetuity bonds.

“In other words, the Fed needs to do … READ ENTIRETY (MSN Money’s Mirhaydari: Fed Must Act Fast to Prevent Deflation Disaster; By Michael Kling; Money News; 10/31/13 01:42 PM)

As stimulus tab rises for Fed, worries grow it may require a bailout

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fed-assets-20131029,0,5018539.story#axzz2jmubdJ65

 

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve has taken unprecedented steps to stimulate the economic recovery from the Great Recession, but the tab has risen to such tremendous proportions — fast approaching $4 trillion — that some worry the central bank ultimately could require its own taxpayer rescue.

 

The Fed’s total assets on its balance sheet have more than quadrupled to $3.8 trillion since 2008 amid a massive bond-buying effort. And there are few signs that the growth will stop any time soon.

 

That could put the finances of the world’s most powerful central bank at risk if historically low interest rates were to rise sharply — something top Fed officials said they do not expect but that critics warn is very possible.

 

It also could inhibit the ability of central bank officials to respond to future economic and financial crises.

 

“It’s really pretty cut-and-dried as far as the arithmetic goes: If you buy bonds and interest rates go up, you’re going to take a capital loss on those bonds,” said James D. Hamilton, an economics professor at UC San Diego. “The more they buy, the bigger their balance sheet, the bigger the loss they’re going to face.”

 

Federal Reserve policymakers meet Tuesday and Wednesday and are expected to continue purchasing $85 billion a month in low-interest-rate Treasury bonds and … READ THE REST (As stimulus tab rises for Fed, worries grow it may require a bailout; By Jim Puzzanghera; LA Times; 10/29/13 5:00 a.m.)

FHA to get $1.7 billion in its first taxpayer-funded bailout

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/28/business/la-fi-0928-fha-bailout-20130928

 

WASHINGTON — The Federal Housing Administration dramatically expanded its role after the subprime market collapsed, but at the expense of its own finances. Now, the government agency will get a first-ever bailout of $1.7 billion.

 

In a letter Friday to Congress, the agency’s head said it needed money to stabilize its long-term finances and cover potential losses on the huge volume of low-down-payment mortgages it insured from 2007 to 2009.

 

It’s the first time the 79-year-old FHA — created during the Great Depression to keep home lending flowing — will require taxpayer funding.

 

And it will get the money automatically. The FHA is financed by mortgage insurance premiums charged to homeowners and has been self-sustaining through its history. But it has the authority to draw funds from the Treasury without asking Congress.

 

FHA Commissioner Carol Galante informed lawmakers the agency would need the money Monday, the last day of the fiscal year, to ensure it has sufficient reserves to cover anticipated losses on the loans it backs. A bailout has been expected since April, when the Obama administration’s proposed 2014 budget projected the FHA would need $943 million by Sept. 30.

 

But the agency asked for nearly twice that much because of a recent decline in business, caused by rising mortgage interest rates, Galante said.

 

Others believe the FHA will ultimately need far more. Government accounting rules mask even greater financial problems at the FHA, which … READ THE REST (FHA to get $1.7 billion in its first taxpayer-funded bailout; By Jim Puzzanghera; LA Times; 9/28/13)

 

Guest Post: Will The Fed Bailout China’s Financial System?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-25/guest-post-will-fed-bailout-chinas-financial-system

 

The twenty-first-century economy has thus far been shaped by capital flows from China to the United States – a pattern that has suppressed global interest rates, helped to reflate the developed world’s leverage bubble, and, through its impact on the currency market, fueled China’s meteoric rise. But these were no ordinary capital flows. Rather than being driven by direct or portfolio investment, they came primarily from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), as it amassed $3.5 trillion in foreign reserves – largely US Treasury securities.

 

The fact that a single institution wields so much influence over global macroeconomic trends has caused considerable anxiety, with doomsayers predicting that doubts about US debt sustainability will force China to sell off its holdings of US debt. This would drive up interest rates in the US and, ultimately, could trigger the dollar’s collapse.

 

But selling off US Treasury securities, it was argued, was not in China’s interest, given that it would drive up the renminbi’s exchange rate against the dollar, diminishing the domestic value of China’s reserves and undermining the export sector’s competitiveness. Indeed, a US defense department report last year on the national-security implications of China’s holdings of US debt concluded that “attempting to use US Treasury securities as a coercive tool would have limited effect and likely would do more harm to China than to the [US].”

 

To describe the symbiotic relationship between China’s export-led GDP growth and America’s excessive consumption, the economic historians Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick coined the term “Chimerica.” The invocation of the chimera of Greek mythology – a monstrous, fire-breathing amalgam of lion, goat, and dragon – makes the term all the more appropriate, given that Chimerica has generated massive and terrifying distortions in the global economy that cannot be corrected without serious consequences.

 

In 2009, these distortions led Ferguson and Schularick to forecast Chimerica’s collapse – a prediction that seems to … READ THE REST (Guest Post: Will The Fed Bailout China’s Financial System? Submitted by Tyler Durden, Authored by Alexander Friedman; Zero Hedge; 8/25/13 11:19 -0500)

 

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Why the Federal Reserve is Flooding the Market with Dollars

Sent: 11/6/2013 8:28 AM

 

This is why the Federal Reserve is flooding the market with dollars, they are at war………

 

China seeks world role for ‘people’s money’

http://www.france24.com/en/20131106-china-seeks-world-role-peoples-money

 

With deals from London to Singapore, China is seeking a greater role for its yuan currency in global markets to challenge the hegemony of the almighty dollar.

 

The most attention-grabbing reform planned for Shanghai’s new free trade zone is free convertibility of the yuan — also known as the renminbi, or “people’s money” — an unprecedented change which would allow greater use of the currency.

 

But no timetable has been specified, and a true contest between Mao Zedong, Communist China’s founding father whose face is emblazoned on most yuan notes, and Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill will be years in the making.

 

For decades the US has benefited to the tune of trillions of dollars-worth of free credit from the greenback’s role as the default global reserve unit.

 

But as the global economy trembled before the prospect of a US default last month, only averted when Washington reached a deal to raise its debt ceiling, China’s official Xinhua news agency called for a “de-Americanised” world.

 

It also urged the creation of a “new international reserve currency… to replace the dominant US dollar”.

 

For China — which has the world’s biggest foreign exchange reserves — the immediate appeal of a greater role for the yuan is lubricating trade flows and drawing foreign investment.

 

“Policymakers have made new efforts to increase the attraction of the renminbi in global markets,” said Capital Economics analyst Wang Qinwei.

 

He pointed to a deal with Britain in October allowing London-based institutions to invest directly in China — avoiding an expensive detour via Hong Kong — with an initial quota of 80 billion yuan ($12.9 billion).

 

A week later Beijing signed a similar 50 billion yuan agreement with … READ THE REST (China seeks world role for ‘people’s money’; By AFP; France 24; 11/6/2013)

 

China’s Yuan makes waves on international currency markets

http://www.vancouversun.com/Business/asia-pacific/China+yuan+makes+waves+international+currency/9123015/story.html#ixzz2jsLEEybU

 

Evidence the yuan is becoming truly global can be found in Rongrong Huo’s passport, which shows the HSBC banker bouncing from Switzerland to South Africa fielding inquiries from a growing number of clients on how they can trade China’s currency.

 

“The market potential is huge,” Huo, who heads HSBC’s yuan business development for Europe, said in an interview after returning to London from Warsaw. “Companies are asking, how can we make progress on this front? And investors are asking, how can we bring the yuan into our asset allocation? It’s encouraging to see the engagement. It’s about the future.”

 

Three years after China allowed the yuan to start trading in Hong Kong’s offshore market, banks and investors around the world are positioning themselves to get involved in what Nomura Holdings Inc. calls the biggest revolution in the $5.3 trillion currency market since the creation of the euro in 1999.

 

Daily yuan transactions surged to $120 billion in April from $34 billion in 2010, making it the ninth most-traded currency in the world, according to a September report by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.

 

Merk Investments LLC in Palo Alto, Calif. said it’s adding “as much as” it can of offshore yuan to its $450 million of funds. Union Bank NA, a unit of Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., is pushing wealthy clients to diversify their savings into yuan deposits, while CME Group Inc., the largest futures exchange, began offering trading in offshore yuan derivatives in February.

 

International use of the yuan is increasing as the world’s second-largest economy opens up its capital markets. In the first nine months of this year, about 17 per cent of China’s global trade was settled in the currency, compared with less than one per cent in 2009, according to … READ THE REST (China’s yuan makes waves on international currency markets; By Ye Xie, Maria Levitov and Fion Li, Bloomberg; Vancouver Sun; 11/4/13)

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Edited by John R. Houk

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Tony Newbill Conspiracy Theory Emails – 12/22/12 to 1/17/13


Grains of US Economy in Hour Glass

Tony Newbill Conspiracy Theory Emails

From: 12/22/12 to 1/17/13

Posted 3/13/13

 

Tony Newbill sends emails to me relating to what many would call Conspiracy Theory. Too often the thought of ‘Conspiracy Theory’ is thought of in the pejorative sense. Most of the data that Tony Newbill sends me is something I agree with. Ergo, in my book a better description is Conspiracy Fact. Even so predictive conclusions are still theories even if they are credible predictions. So I will stick to ‘Conspiracy Theory’ yet in a positive predictive sense rather than the typical pejorative sense that status quo thinkers grudgingly stick to.

 

With no further adieu here are a series of Tony Newbill emails that should give you pause in future planning. I may include expansive excerpts of some of the links and/or include some of my thoughts along the way.

 

JRH 3/13/13

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Agriculture Publications Now talking about Overpopulation in the World

Sent: 12/22/2012 7:28 AM

 

Now you even have the major Agriculture Publications coming out now talking about Overpopulation in the world. This is leading to a NO Growth Economic Policy in the Private Sector as the Government Prints their own operating Capital and Begin to isolate from the US dollar as world trade currency. This is leading to a dollar collapse!! This makes the risk takers in the free market who buy bonds and hold debt investment in fixed income markets nervous when supply expansion is not being realized for true fundamental growth that can create equitable net value to back the debt being created. This is why the Federal Reserve is buying the U.S. Government Debt.  See here the latest report:

 

http://www.examiner.com/article/fed-to-buy-85-billion-bonds-monthly-until-unemployment-drops-to-6-5

 

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed on Wednesday that the Fed will buy $85 billion in bonds every month beginning in January, and continuing until unemployment falls from its present 7.7 percent to 6.5 percent. The step made it clear that job creation has become the Fed’s primary focus. During his statement Bernanke also announced he planned to keep interest rates near zero as long as unemployment remained over the 6.5 percent target. The announcement was intended to reduce borrowing costs by persuading investors that interest rates would remain low for longer than they might have expected. The goal is to spur more borrowing that would result in more spending that would lead to faster growth.

 

The most optimistic economists say it will take two years for the jobless level to reach the targeted level, while the Fed’s own projection is that it will be the end of 2015 before unemployment drops below 6.5 percent, which means the newest quantitative easing (QE) effort, the fourth since the great recession, will result in a little over two trillion in spending over the next 24 months- and that total is based on best case scenarios concerning the pace of job creation. (READ THE REST)

 

They are saying this is to stimulate employment but the money is going to cover the Over Spending the US Government has on the books. So we have non-convertible debt that’s leading to insolvency and a bankrupted nation that is right now the world’s trade currency.

 

Urban populations will rapidly strain services and resources

 

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/Urban-populations-will-rapidly-strain-services-resources-183058531.html

 

Population experts project that in 30 years 9 billion people will reside on this planet. That’s a staggering total, especially considering the demands such a number will place on our natural resources. World population surpassed 7 billion in 2011.

 

Efficient food production will become critical, but, food may not be the most important issue facing people at mid-century. The World Health Organization says the rapid increase of urban populations, especially slum populations, means health issues will remain a critical threat to humans. The agency cites overcrowding, lack of safe water, and improper sanitation systems as the primary factors contributing to poor health among the urban poor. Slums often become breeding grounds for diseases like tuberculosis, dengue, pneumonia, and cholera.

 

As global population expands, most of the growth will be in urban areas, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute, suggesting additional population growth in slum areas and further health concerns. (READ THE REST)

 

 

And so we have defection in the ranks of the WTO and the Dollar as Trade currency. Listen to this Video and how the foreign investors who used to buy dollar bonds and treasuries to buy on the world oil market is now gone and this will cause hyperinflation in our energy and durable goods soon:

 

http://www.lombardifinancial.com/reports/JudgmentDayProfitLetter/102912/indexb.php?dept=PC&sb=PERLIB&sdate=12212012

 

 

NCCR Editor: Oops, I waited too long. The above link is inoperative. Here is a description of Lombardi Financial Judgment Day Profit Letter: “Judgment Day Profit Letter features stocks that we expect to profit as the American Ponzi scheme collapses. And for a country where the central bank is printing money with no end in sight, we believe a collapse is only a matter of time. In each monthly issue George Leong gives full details of his picks for big gains as this scheme unfolds, complete with stock price charges; buy, sell or hold advice; stop limits; and advice on when to get out for maximum profits.”] 

 

What he says about China and Russia trading Oil for Yuan instead of dollars that will lead to the defection of other nations using dollars which will lead to hyperinflation in the USA in September is reported here: 

 

http://www.examiner.com/article/dollar-no-longer-primary-oil-currency-as-china-begins-to-sell-oil-using-yuan

 

On Sept. 11, Pastor Lindsey Williams, former minister to the global oil companies during the building of the Alaskan pipeline, announced the most significant event to affect the U.S. dollar since its inception as a currency. For the first time since the 1970’s, when Henry Kissenger (sic) forged a trade agreement with the Royal house of Saud to sell oil using only U.S. dollars, China announced its intention to bypass the dollar for global oil customers and began selling the commodity using their own currency.

 

…

 

This announcement by China is one of the most significant sea changes in the global economic and monetary systems, but was barely reported on due to its announcement taking place during the Democratic convention last week. The ramifications of this new action are vast, and could very well be the catalyst that brings down the dollar as the global reserve currency, and change the entire landscape of how the world purchases energy. (READ THE REST)

 

Listen to the video at the 1:45 mark. This is what’s driving the global economic collapse:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tF2yHjfj32I

 

 

[NCCR Editor: Here is the link to begin at the 1:45 mark]

 

I found the video in this stuff; the Baltic dry chart is an ominous sign in this first link:

 

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/standstill-the-charts-that-prove-the-global-economy-is-in-serious-trouble_12122012

 

Amid growing concern that the global economy is teetering on the edge of a total collapse, governments in Europe, China and the United States continue to manipulate statistics in an effort to paint a picture of recovery and a return to normalcy.

 

But despite their best efforts to fabricate positive employment numbers, GDP growth, currency stability and stock market health, the stark reality is that the global economy is at a standstill, and has been since before the crash of 2008.

 

Economic growth is measured by how much we produce and consume, and before the bursting of the bubble there was an unprecedented level of consumption in America and throughout the rest of the world. But when credit markets and lending froze in response to a loss of confidence in the financial system following the collapse of investment giants Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch, the economy as we had come to know it fell apart.

 

Consumption fell off a cliff and left America in its deepest recessionary environment since the 1930′s. (READ THE REST)

 

 

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/watch-the-global-food-crisis-you-need-to-prepare-for-is-now-imminent_12192012

 

Grocery stores may still be stocked with food and most Americans are still able to keep their family’s fed, but with 50 million Americans requiring government assistance to do so and prices on a seemingly never ending rise, how long will it be before the situation becomes unmanageable?

 

…

 

[The video referenced]

 

Any number of disasters, natural or man-made, can cause food prices to skyrocket to such levels that the most basic essentials like corn, rice, wheat, and soy beans become almost impossible to acquire for the majority of the population.

 

Another prolonged drought, a war with Iran that restricts the flow of oil, or a rapid collapse in the US dollar’s purchasing power could all lead to unprecedented worldwide pressure almost immediately.

 

We’ve seen what happens in countries where the populace is forced to spend 50% or more of their earned income on food. Despite how the media portrays it, the riots we’ve seen in the middle east, Greece and Spain have been largely fueled by cost increases in food and the inability of individuals to provide the basic essentials for their families. (READ THE REST)

 

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/let-this-be-a-warning-america-video_10082012

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

July 4, 1776

 

Last week, when hundreds of thousands of people in Madrid, Barcelona and throughout Spain protested, rioted, rebelled and called for the forced resignation of every one of their parliamentary representatives and the formation of a new government, the silence from global mainstream media was deafening.

 

With jobless rates for those between the ages of 20 and 35 exceeding 50%, further social spending measures promised by the government, and tens of billions in handouts being transferred to large financial institutions in the broader Euro Zone, those impoverished by the economic collapse of the last four years would not be silenced.

 

They took the streets in droves. They rushed their parliament building, forcing representatives to barricade themselves inside. They confronted their government head on.

 

And for their transgressions, they were indiscriminately fired upon, beaten, and bloodied by riot police; men, women, young, old, it mattered not to the policing arm of the global elite.

 

Let this be a warning, America, because these riots will soon be making their way across the Atlantic ocean to our shores.

 

Video compliments of Alexander Higgins (with narration by Judge Andrew Napolitano) via Above Top Secret:

 

VIDEO: Spain Police Beating Everyone: A Warning To America

 

…  (READ THE REST)

 

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/food-stamp-nation-what-a-modern-day-bread-line-looks-like-infographic_10252012

 

With digital technology being used for all manner of government distributions, it’s difficult to overtly distinguish between the severity of the Great Depression of the 1930′s and today’s economic crisis.

 

But just because we don’t see thousands of hungry people lined up for hours at a time at their local soup kitchen today doesn’t mean the lines don’t exist.

 

… (READ THE REST)

 

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What Does It Mean to “Prepare for the Economic Collapse”?

Sent: 12/23/2012 8:21 AM

 

The GOP is talked about in this link and the author talks about people not knowing what economic collapse means to them , and I think the GOP and Congress in general don’t realize what a USA economy on the verge of Collapse means either once you read this article and the Links it provides it would appear the USA is on the Verge of economic catastrophe !!! 

 

What Does It Mean to “Prepare for the Economic Collapse”?

 

http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/what-does-it-mean-to-prepare-for-the-economic-collapse-12222012

 

Last week I wrote an article in response to the media’s vilification of preppers in the aftermath of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut.  The article was quoted in an article on Yahoo.com, to my great astonishment, and that is when I saw how little most people understand about prepping.  You can see in most of the 4492 comments the article received that many folks just don’t “get it”.

 

My inbox was filled with a barrage of  hate mail and a number of people felt compelled to leave angry (and rather ignorant) comments on my website. I got messages from people that called me “batsh*t crazy”, messages from gun control advocates, messages from people who directly blamed me and all other preppers for the massacre, and even one particularly hate-filled email from a person who said “I hope that your kids are killed at the next school shooting.”

 

All of this leads me to reconfirm my belief that people sincerely do not understand why we do what we do, and that ignorance leads to fear.

 

If you go back through history, the “visionaries” or “wise ones” were always mocked at best and feared at worst.  They were  cast out of society to live alone at the edge of the village; children would sneak onto their property to show their bravery; they were burned at the stake as witches and heretics.  Anything the larger percentage of people does not understand is treated as something evil and frightening.

 

Am I saying that preppers are all visionaries and sages?  Not in a mystical “Joan of Arc” sense – but I am saying that preppers are willing to see the writing on the wall and search for a deeper understanding.

 

Many preppers are preparing for an economic collapse and the subsequent social collapse that will be close behind.

 

If you don’t think this is realistic, then you aren’t paying attention to the world around you.

 

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Will Immigration reform include Gun Regulation?

Sent: 1/3/2013 10:04 AM

 

Will Immigration reform include Gun regulation? For those who do not conform to Gun Regulation will they be subject to reeducation internment?

 

http://www.infowars.com/leaked-u-s-army-document-outlines-plan-for-re-education-camps-in-america/

 

A leaked U.S. Army document prepared for the Department of Defense contains shocking plans for “political activists” to be pacified by “PSYOP officers” into developing an “appreciation of U.S. policies” while detained in prison camps inside the United States.

 

The document, entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations (PDF) was originally released on a restricted basis to the DoD in February 2010, but has now been leaked online.

 

The manual outlines policies for processing detainees into internment camps both globally and inside the United States. International agencies like the UN and the Red Cross are named as partners in addition to domestic federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA.

 

The document makes it clear that the policies apply “within U.S. territory” and involve, “DOD support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies, and for designated law enforcement and other activities,” including “man-made disasters, accidents, terrorist attacks and incidents in the U.S. and its territories.” (READ THE REST)

 

http://www.infowars.com/yes-the-re-education-camp-manual-does-apply-domestically-to-u-s-citizens/

 

A shocking U.S. Army manual that describes how political activists in prison camps will be indoctrinated by specially assigned psychological operations officers contains numerous clear references to the fact that the policies do apply domestically to U.S. citizens.

 

Despite the fact that the manual is well over 300 pages long and would take hours to read properly, within minutes of posting our story yesterday a minority of commenters were claiming that the policies outlined in the document only pertained to foreign combat operations and did not apply domestically to U.S. citizens.

 

This is similar to the denial witnessed prior to the passage of the NDAA when some argued that the indefinite detention provisions did not apply to American citizens despite numerous legal analysts asserting they did and President Barack Obama himself acknowledging they did when he signed the bill.

 

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When you see these picture it will Floor you!!!!

Sent: 1/16/2013 8:55 PM

 

http://www.infowars.com/other-tyrants-who-have-used-children-as-props/

 

Obama’s shameless exploitation of children as set pieces is hardly new or original. In fact, tyrants and dictators have used kids as props down through the ages.

 

Here are a few more recent examples:

 

… (READ THE REST – the shocking photo is the last one in the context of the previous photos. Description: BHO using children as propaganda props)

 

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See How These 2 Liberal Technocrats are Engaged in Contradicting Each Other

Sent: 1/17/2013 11:20 AM

 

See how these 2 liberal technocrats are engaged in contradicting each other over the issue of supply shortages. This is very dangerous for the faith in free market’s function and keeping risk takers involved at the financial end.

 

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/01/world_population_may_actually_start_declining_not_exploding.html

 

Research suggests we may actually face a declining world population in the coming years

 

The world’s seemingly relentless march toward overpopulation achieved a notable milestone in 2012: Somewhere on the planet, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the 7 billionth living person came into existence.

 

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… And it’s expected to keep slowing. Indeed, according to experts’ best estimates, the total population of Earth will stop growing within the lifespan of people alive today.

 

A somewhat more arcane milestone, meanwhile, generated no media coverage at all: It took humankind 13 years to add its 7 billionth. That’s longer than the 12 years it took to add the 6 billionth—the first time in human history that interval had grown. (The 2 billionth, 3 billionth, 4 billionth, and 5 billionth took 123, 33, 14, and 13 years, respectively.) In other words, the rate of global population growth has slowed. And it’s expected to keep slowing. Indeed, according to experts’ best estimates, the total population of Earth will stop growing within the lifespan of people alive today.

 

And then it will fall.

 

This is a counterintuitive notion in the United States, where we’ve heard often and loudly that world population growth is a perilous and perhaps unavoidable threat to our future as a species. But population decline is a very familiar concept in the rest of the developed world, where fertility has long since fallen far below the 2.1 live births per woman required to maintain population equilibrium. …

 

American media have largely ignored the issue of population decline for the simple reason that it hasn’t happened here yet. Unlike Europe, the United States has long been the beneficiary of robust immigration. This has helped us not only by directly bolstering the number of people calling the United States home but also by propping up the birthrate, since immigrant women tend to produce far more children than the native-born do.

 

But both those advantages look to diminish in years to come. A report issued last month by the Pew Research Center found that immigrant births fell from 102 per 1,000 women in 2007 to 87.8 per 1,000 in 2012. That helped bring the overall U.S. birthrate to a mere 64 per 1,000 women—not enough to sustain our current population.

                              

… (READ THE REST)

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/01/11/why_the_world_population_will_not_decline.html#article_comment_box

 

[NCCR Editor: This link takes you to the first comment posted on the above story. I am uncertain if Newbill wants us to read all the comments or simply the first.]

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Gold and Oil work for USA rather than Against


Petro_Gold

John R. Houk

© February 14, 2013

 

Not long ago I posted on how OPEC controls the global economy which of course affects the U.S. economy through a monopolizing bloc controlling oil. The theme of the post ran something like if the USA developed alternative fuels for motor vehicles it would eliminate the OPEC stranglehold on our economy. Here is a quote for thought:

 

If you follow our email alerts you know that last year we actively supported a bill called The Open Fuel Standard Act. Simply put, this bill would break up the liquid fuel monopoly that now exists. This monopoly guarantees that the only fuel you can buy for your car or truck is gasoline (or, at most, gasoline containing a small percentage of ethanol).

If we are to ever really break the back of the OPEC price-fixing cartel, we must break the gasoline monopoly. The first step is ensuring that cars can actually run on other fuels such as methanol, which can be made from natural gas, coal, even waste such as grass clippings.

Did you know that, with just a few minor alterations to your car, it’s possible to run it on methanol—at a significant savings over the cost of gas?

 

I was excited about this visionary thinking.

 

NOW I just finished reading an article about Russia and China hoarding gold as a medium of exchange by eliminating U.S. dollars as the global currency thus ending the power of petrodollars. You have to realize that Russia and China are friends with the OPEC giants.

 

The implication of the article is gold-currency will replace petrodollars thus placing a coffin nail in the U.S. economy.

 

I am just thinking out loud here. What if Russia and China succeed in replacing petro-gold for petrodollars? Essentially the fall of the dollar would again bring back a gold standard as the foundation of the global economy. I think that is a good thing.

 

Yes adjustments would have to be made for the U.S. dollar. A forced global gold standard could force America back to a gold standard because of the global oil economy. AND STILL the USA can use innovation to develop alternative fuels to at least end any American dependence of OPEC oil. Russia and China might succeed in supplanting the dollar with gold, but a transformed fuel economy free of fossil fuel from OPEC would also stimulate the U.S. economy. Suddenly America might become the exporter of alternative fuel competing with OPEC fossil fuel.

 

So here’s the thing. Gold replaces debt as the standard for the U.S. economy. A new industry involving alternative fuel for motor vehicles will effectively compete with OPEC but also place a huge crunch in their profits which in turn might actually drive down the price of fossil fuel again.

 

Essentially folks this is a win-win for the U.S. economy in placing the dollar back on a market economy rather than a debt economy while at the same time innovating a globally competitive industry again strengthening America as a financial giant.

 

Like I said I am just thinking out loud because I certainly am no economist. Nonetheless, grass roots Capitalism will benefit all Americans over the Eco-Marxism that fearless leader President Obama supports.

 

JRH 2/14/13

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Perry Talks Tough


Rick Perry 3

 

Critics Come out of Woodwork

John R. Houk

© August 17, 2011

 

I am beginning to inch toward Governor Perry as my favorite for the GOP nomination for President. The even handed thoughts on 17 criticisms of Rick Perry have helped with this inching move. I am still in the Rep. Michele Bachmann camp; however as I have said before it was a ways to go to the 2012 Primaries and Caucuses begin to pare down GOP candidates.

 

The thing I found interesting about Governor Rick Perry was his stuff stand against the Federal Reserve in printing more money to take pressure off America’s debt crisis. Perry is calling for the FED’s books to be transparent to ensure to the public and to Congress that nothing illegal or outside the realm of Congressional rules to make money policy in America. Perry emphasized his point by saying to the affect that the guy running the printing of more money is close to a treasonable act. Of course the guy running the Federal Reserve as its Chairman is Ben Bernanke.

 

Democrats immediately jumped on Perry for insinuating that Bernanke is close to committing treason. Perry also said Texans quite probably would treat Bernanke in an ugly way if he showed up in the Texas neck of the woods. Again the Dems interpreted this as a threat of violence toward Chairman Bernanke.

 

Remarkably establishment Republicans also criticized Governor Perry for his tough talk.

 

For myself I noted Perry’s remarks as tough colloquialism against the status quo that has driven America to the brink of bankruptcy. Does anyone really believe that a Perry as President would prosecute Ben Bernanke for treason? Does anyone believe that Perry would give his nod of approval if a Texas mob spotted Bernanke and treated him ugly by roughing him up a bit?

 

No friends neither consequence would happen to Chairman Bernanke.

 

The reality is that Perry has drawn the line in the sand against Leftist policies and Federal Reserve policies that have not helped America. The method of drawing the line was some good old fashioned Everything is Bigger in Texas vernacular.

 

I say if Perry continues delivering some Texas vernacular to shake up Leftists and Establishment Politicians and henchman, then more power to Governor Rick Perry.

 

Republicans who stand for less government need to be more openly abrasive toward the Federal Reserve. There is nearly zero oversight over the FED which operates outside the bounds of the Constitution.

 

Here is a 53 minute movie entitle, “FIAT EMPIRE: Why The Federal Reserve Violates The U.S. Constitution-Full Length”. It has a bit of an annoying sound track; nonetheless the theme supports Perry’s shoot from the hip remarks.

 

JRH 8/17/11

End the Fed: More than Just a Bumper Sticker Slogan?


 

Tony Newbill writes about ending the Federal Reserve because of the creeping danger of Islam’s Sharia Compliant Finance.

 

JRH 3/25/11

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End the Fed: More than Just a Bumper Sticker Slogan?

 

By Tony Newbill

Sent: Mar 21, 2011 at 12:44 PM

 

We must not sit back and Let the Chains of Shariah Install itself into the Financial Mechanisms of our Monetary Policy which is in direct Conflict of Our US Constitution Sound Money Policy Article 1 Section 10.

 

The Capital Origination process at this level of our USA Financial system being controlled by a Group of Investors that are controlling the Money originating sources of finance through both Fixed Income markets and the Bond markets that are associated with the Fixed asset Income markets is why we are Not able to create Funding for Our own Domestic Oil Resource developments that can make us Independent from the OPEC OIL which is controlled by these same Shariah Investor Groups that NOW control our Financial Sector that the Federal Reserve deposits Capital formation into. This is the Perfect Storm to Bring Down America, because we the people cannot survive unless we have free access to funding that we can use to fund enterprise that can excavate and manufacture Raw materials and food resources into products that we SURVIVE OFF OF. I tell you they are going to RUN US DOWN and OUT of an Abundant Supply of vital resources to the Point of FREE Market collapse again. The Inflation is evidence of this plight and then they can come in and ration our supply in a federalized manner. That’s when we have waited too long to Take Control of the Federal Reserve to alter this [rationing our supply].

 

 

We need to get the people Like Allen West, Lloyd Marcus, John Bolton, Rush, Hannity, BECK, RON Paul or anyone who will have the guts to see this as the solution to the Salvation of Keeping America Independent from this Hostile Financial Takeover that once is complete in eliminating credit for a long enough time that all free enterprise if broke and gone. Thus the merging of these assets that are left is complete then the FREE market is over and the Federalization of what will be dominated by Shariah Law will be dropped upon the citizens of the USA. We need to see this happening and put together the leadership that can Call on Congress to act to abolish the Federal Reserve and break apart this Repressive form of Finance that’s making us dependent on ONLY Shariah Finance (Sharia Compliant Finance detail).
This is KEY to what the Term Independence means, in that to be Independent and to maintain it one needs many sources and many resources to Choose from so that the abundance gives you the ability to not become too dependent on One source or resource that IF Lost can be what wipes you out with a ZERO INTEREST Financial and MONETARY Policy in place at the top of Our Financial system of Money Creation and capital formation. There is not a way for Independent Competitive Financial Enterprise to Compete, because who can Finance a Risk venture POSITION for NOTHING without owning the soul of the Investment venture that NEEDS the LOAN? This is KEY to the Shariah’s taking OVER the asset class of FREE Enterprise and the FOOLS on Wall STREET who are Only seeking Paper Profits will lead themselves as well as all of us right down the road to peril as we run out of substance and are left DEPENDENT on those who hate us all and what we stand for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

I would rather pay Interest for borrowed Money from a Lender who did not want to own my assets as the only way to finance the enterprise. Shariah ZERO Interest Finance Policy operates on ownership investment policy and if the only way to Compete with this is to follow the same path in order to access the Funding sources of the BIG FINANCIAL FIRM that the Federal Reserve deposits the capital for these ventures into, then this is a Consolidation of both resources assets and wealth and is a unsustainable function of the FREE market supply-side fundamental which is designed to grow capital value based on supply expansion and not Inflation due to the Consolidation of resources into too few of players hands who then [use] these assets and resources to become more useful as Weapons to herd Humanity with. If WE the PEOPLE Control the Money Creation we can go right around these Big Wall Street Financial Firms Like Goldman who have become Encapsulated by the Shariah Financial Organizations. We can Deposit directly into state banking Enterprises that can be associated with the Private sector Board members of State private sector enterprises that can make sure Competencies enterprises that create state needs for the Citizens is being freely fairly and competitively met without interruption by the dominating effect we see on the capital creation in Wall Street Today that’s Only so far showing an Inflation effect on our economy that’s due to their lack of RESOURCE expansion investment. THEY are RUNNING HUMANITY OUT OF ADEQUATE SUPPLY!!!!!!!

 

 

INDEPENDENCE MEANS WAY MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE EVER CONSIDER!!!!!!!!!!! AND it’s going to have to be done at the STATE LEVEL if WE the PEOPLE have any hope of surviving this takeover of Our MONETARY and FINANCIAL system of our economy.

 

End the Fed: More than Just a Bumper Sticker Slogan?

 

Newbill: End the Fed Meme 11-8 to 11-17-10


America-HourGlass-Fed

 

Here is another series of Tony Newbill “End the Fed” emails from November 8 to November 17, 2010. These emails are edited for posting by the SlantRight.com editor. If there are any changes to the intended meaning I offer my apologies to Tony Newbill.

 

JRH 11/20/10

End the Fed Meme Continued


ETF

Here is an “End the Fed” meme from Tony Newbill stretching from October 23 through November 5, 2010.

 

You can read the “End the Fed Meme” at SlantRight.com. It is interesting stuff for Conspiracy Theorists who like to connect the dots.

 

JRH 11/10/10

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