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The Bernanke Agenda – It Isn’t What You Think It Is

Chairman Bernanke, the engineer of the most manipulated and contrived market rally in history has informed us he won’t be making an appearance at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium this year. The reason – a scheduling conflict. Could there be … Continue reading

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What Happens to A Stock Exchange Without Federal Reserve POMO Manipulation?

The Federal Reserve’s POMO policy has been artificially driving up the US stock exchanges for years. The NYSE is reaching new highs daily (not adjusted for inflation) without any supporting financial data. The volume of stocks sold (normally known as … Continue reading

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Bernanke Accommodation: We Are in Trouble

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Lost in translation: Ben Bernanke-speak

by Simon Black: I really hate to beat a dead horse, but I wouldn’t be doing my job for you if I didn’t point out some of the most intellectually dishonest, self-aggrandizing Bernanke-speak to come out of the Fed Chairman’s … Continue reading

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What’s Another Half Trillion Dollars

The information below is a best case scenario. As we are seeing today in Italy, a rise in interest rates can happen overnight. I doubt Americans have a true understanding what even a modest rise in interest rates will mean … Continue reading

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JIM SINCLAIR: THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS NO PRACTICAL OPTION TO END QE WITHOUT COLLAPSING FINANCIAL SYSTEM

The legendary Jim Sinclair has sent another email alert to subscribers regarding the take-down in the gold and silver markets Thursday on the release of the December Fed minutes. Sinclair states that contrary to the Fed’s MOPE attempting to convince … Continue reading

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US To Officially Go Over The Fiscal Cliff

As we forecast back in November, it is now official that the House will not vote on any deal out of the Senate, assuming there is one which there won’t be of course, later today, which means America will officially slide off the Fiscal Cliff. And … Continue reading

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The Chart That Keeps Ben Bernanke Up At Night

What changed in the last 30 days? Did the world just wake up to the idea that the only way out of this quagmire is a twisted currency war that appears to have re-ignited thanks to Abe’s efforts? Something appears to … Continue reading

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JIM SINCLAIR: IF BERNANKE LEAVES, THE JIG IS UP & A MONETARY MUSHROOM CLOUD IS ON THE HORIZON!

From Jim Sinclair: Believing what you read in the pre-election weeks, especially what is attributed to friends, is risky business. However, let us assume that there is some truth to this. What would it mean? When Greenspan’s term was up … Continue reading

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Santelli And Shiller On Housing, Animal-less Spirits, And Bernanke’s Impotence

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Will Ben initiate quantitative easing III? Ask yourself how many votes this will buy in the election and you have your answer.

See additional comments on Tea Party Nation. Ben Bernanke stated last week that the lack of jobs is a “grave concern”:  The stagnation of the labor market in particular is a grave concern not only because of the enormous suffering and … Continue reading

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Santelli Slams “It’s Not My Job” Bernanke And Screams “Enough Is Enough”

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The Bernanke Bust

by Michael Pollaro To Austrians, all economic “booms” founded on monetary largesse always end in economic busts, roughly equal in size and intensity to the preceding booms. By distorting interest-rate and price signals and, as a consequence, creating malinvestments that must eventually be liquidated, … Continue reading

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Money and Manipulation: What was the Real Goal?

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There has been so much conversation over the past few years about the economy, and what is wrong with it, but the questions under public consideration have been all wrong, in my opinion.To ask the right questions is to open … Continue reading

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Declaration of Secession

Before we’re done we will, by necessity, have to secede from the present abusive union known as “The United States of America”.  It is the only way we can release ourselves from the bonds of economic and political slavery presently imposed … Continue reading

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Are We Now Pavlov’s Dogs?

The Fed’s Con Appears To Be Working But The Curtain Is Rising On The Third Act In today’s conomic news, the mainstream media focused on the disappointment surrounding the FOMC Minutes, the massaged and sanitized fairy tale about what the … Continue reading

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It’s Official – The Fed Is Now Buying European Government Bonds

As if the ‘risk-less’ dollar-swaps the Fed has extended to any and every major central bank were not enough, William Dudley just unashamedly admitted that the Fed now holds ‘a very small amount of European Sovereign Debt’. Explaining this position, as … Continue reading

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We Are About to Reach the Tipping Point Where the Whole World Stops

Rep. Kelly’s statement concerning risk and contagion in Europe was the focus of this House Committee hearing. The status of the automotive industry from a car dealer’s perspective is enlightening: People are not buying cars because of the level of uncertainty … Continue reading

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Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke on Solutions: Who Should Pay

The title of the hearing is the “US Response to the European Debt Crisis”. Rep. Peter Welch (D) asks whether cutting taxes on the rich and cutting federal subsidies on medical research/education will lead to growth and lower debt. 1. Why … Continue reading

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Sen. Ron Johnson Questions Bernanke

Highlights: We are not too far behind Greece. Our spending is out of control. It is up to Congress to figure out the right role of government in regards to the economy. The cost of government is leading us to … Continue reading

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John Cornyn Questions Ben Bernanke

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) questions Ben Bernanke concerning the unemployment rate, the European recession and household income. Mr. Bernanke states that the United States exports to Europe accounts for 2% of our GDP. The export rate to Europe is almost … Continue reading

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The Impotent GOP Response to the IMF Redistribution of America’s Wealth – Updated 12/4/11

Update 12/4/11 The Latest Rumor: Fed To Fund IMF, Bypassing Congressional Refusal Of European Bailout The following article from the Hill outlines an attempt by “conservatives” to prevent a bailout of the European Union by the IMF. The United States … Continue reading

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Fear Is In The Air

The CBOE MKT VOLATILITY IDX (VIX) measures volatility in the stock market but it is generally called the fear index. If you had invested in fear on Monday morning, you would have realized a 34.21% profit in four days. Playing  Monday morning … Continue reading

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Bernanke’s Hail Mary?

The Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting results will be announced today. Ben Bernanke’s arsenal is running low to revive the world’s economy. The rumors before the announcement are that he will institute “Operation Twist” which was last used in the 1960s. As … Continue reading

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European TARP Financed by the Federal Reserve

Peter Orszag, a vice chairman at Citigroup made the following statement today: It is very strongly in our interests, and by that I mean U.S. interests, to avoid having Europe, in particular its banking system, collapse, especially when the U.S. … Continue reading

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Time to Print More Money

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Alan Greenspan made the statement today on Meet the Press: “The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default”  Although he is correct, there … Continue reading

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Ben Bernanke Is Paid to Deceive the Marketplace and the People

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Congressman Ron Paul discusses the hearings this week with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in the following video. The title of this post and the following quote are both taken from the video: “Bernanke is incapable of telling the truth … Continue reading

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Housing Recovery Is Put On Hold

Ben Bernanke stated on June 7th, 2010 that the United States would not experience a double dip recession. The country was out of recession and consumer spending/business investment was up. Mr. Bernanke would have been correct if the statistics were not … Continue reading

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