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Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  ‘DRAGHI DROPS THE BATON  8-2-12 European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi could not back up his bold statements from last week with specific action. He could only say the ECB “may” through its mandate buy eurozone bonds. Basically this means he backed the Germans into a corner and they didn’t blink. His credibility has taken a major hit and Spanish bond yields once again headed for 7%. For markets it’s been two days and back to back central bank disappointments with the ECB taking a large toll on bulls. And to top things off, Friday is the Employment Report which is sure to cause volatility in either direction.In more pedestrian news, Jobless Claims rose (365K vs 370K expected & prior revised higher to 357K); Factory Orders fell (-.5% vs .7% expected & prior .7%); and, Bloomberg’s Consumer Comfort Index fell again (-39.7 vs prior -38.5).Last night China signaled it would elevate to stabilize (weird choice of words) economic growth which is noted in this press release from Xinhua News Agency. Stocks there fell.Stock markets took the news from the ECB hard. A late day rally (see SPY 2:15 PM Buy Program Express) lifted stocks off their lows led mostly by technology (XLK) and more Apple (AAPL) split chatter. Do you really think equity markets overall can be durably supported by one stock and infinite central bank QE?Bonds (IEF) were somewhat stronger in price; the dollar (UUP) was higher; gold (GLD) lower; and, commodities (DBC) weaker.Volume was the highest of the week thus far and breadth per the WSJ was negative…’  ,  Spain And Italy Are Toast …Euros  http://albertpeia.com/spainitalytoastnomatterwhat.htm   ,  The Fed's Gold Is Being Audited... By The US Treasury  ZeroHedge.com  Tyler Durden  When we started reading the LA Times article reporting that "the federal government has quietly been completing an audit of U.S. gold stored at the New York Fed" we couldn't help but wonder when the gotcha moment would appear. It was about 15 paragraphs in that we stumbled upon what we were waiting for: "The process involved about half a dozen employees of the Mint, the Treasury inspector general's office and the New York Fed. It was monitored by employees of the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm." In other words the Fed's gold is being audited... by the Treasury. Now our history may be a little rusty, but as far as we can remember, the last time the Fed was actually independent of the Treasury then-president Harry Truman fired not one but two Fed Chairmen including both Thomas McCabe as well as the man after whom the Fed's current residence is named: Marriner Eccles, culminating with the Fed-Treasury "Accord" of March 3, 1951 which effectively fused the two entities into one - a quasi independent branch of the US government, which would do the bidding of its "political", who in turn has always been merely a proxy for wherever the money came from (historically, and primarily, from Wall Street), which can pretend it is a "private bank" yet which is entirely subjugated to the crony interests funding US politicians (more on that below). But in a nutshell, the irony of the Treasury auditing the fed is like asking Libor Trade A to confirm that Libor Trader B was not only "fixing" the Libor rate correctly and accurately, but that there is no champagne involved for anyone who could misrepresent it the best within the cabal of manipulation in which the Nash Equilibrium was for everyone to commit fraud.  ,  Of Beggars, Choosers, Unemployment, And Bailouts In Europe   The problems of a group of 17 different economies that are growing further apart - all functioning under the same currency - will not be solved by any actions taken by the ECB" is how Stratfor's Adriano Bosoni describes the can-kicking that has once again become the euro-zone this summer. From the systemically rising and drastically desperate unemployment rates around the Southern nations…  ,  Why Mega Banks Are The Modern Cocaine Cowboys  In today's episode of blast from the past, Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil takes us on a time journey, which presents the Too Big To Fail bank problem from a different perspective: that of the Cocaine Cowboy roaming the streets of Miami in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Just like today's big banks they were untouchable; just like today's banks they were collaborating and existing in perfect symbiosis with the Federal Reserve; just like today the Cocaine Cowboys existed in an untouchable vacuum courtesy of endless bribes to the local law enforcement and judicial officials, and just like today, the TBTF institution du jour isn't "merely an economic problem. It is a great moral failing of our society that poisons our democracy." Back then, Ronald Reagan stepped in just when Miami (whose real estate market had soared in 1979-1981 courtesy of rampant crime and money laundering: hint hint NAR anti money-laundering exemptions) was about to be overrun, forming a task force that in the nick of time restored law and order. Today we are not that lucky, as there is not a single politican willing to risk it all just to eradicate the modern version of a classic scourge: only this time they don't hand out 8 balls; they give away 0% introductory APR cards and 3 Year NINJA Adjustable Rate Mortgages. Both however get you hooked for life: either on drugs or on debt. Will someone step up this time and form a task force to eliminate the second coming of the Cocaine Cowboy? Sadly, we don't think so. At least not until the next great crash happens.  ,  Knight Considering Bankruptcy, Looking At 363 Asset Sale   ,  US Export Orders Are Collapsing  ,  Will Penson Cash Vaporize Gentle Into That Good Knight?  ,  The Thin Blue Line Between Hopium And Reality  If there was one unique datapoint that confirms beyond a reasonable doubt the perpetual upside bias of "analysts" and other snake oil salesmen (after all, one is far more likely to buy the stuff another is selling if one has a smile on his face, a wink in the eye, and is optimistically inclined, even if that optimism is completely unfounded), it is the following chart from UBS which shows the progression of consensus bottom-up EPS growth estimates for Europe: "consensus estimates for 2012 EPS growth have fallen from double digits at the end of last year to 0.7% currently." Observe the straight thin blue line below: it begins in the land of Hopium, and ends in Reality.   ,  Only 24.6 Percent Of All Jobs In The United States Are Good Jobs  http://albertpeia.com/only24percentusjobsgood.htm  

 

02-Aug-12 09:26PM  Coordinated Central Bank Inaction ETFguide 09:10PM  Don't be Fooled, Here's What You Need to Know about QE3, Gold, and Inflation ETFguide 07:17PM  P&G Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 07:16PM  CVS Caremark Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 07:15PM  Walt Disney Third Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 07:05PM  CBS Earnings: Stock SPIKES on Third Straight Quarter of Rising Profit at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 07:02PM  Kraft Foods Earnings: Investors CHEER as Margins Expand and Net Income Rises at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 06:10PM   Spain And Italy ETFs Regain Downward Momentum at Investor's Business Daily 05:37PM  Public Storage Earnings: Not Exactly a Win at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 05:34PM  Sunoco Earnings: These Numbers Beat Wall Street Expectations at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 05:32PM  Spain And Italy ETFs Regain Downward Momentum at Investor's Business Daily 05:29PM  Pitney Bowes Inc. Earnings: Revenues Fall, Bringing Down Profit at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 05:24PM  Fannie And Freddie's Other Problem: Bank Of America at Forbes 05:19PM  Spain And Italy ETFs Regain Downward Momentum at Investor's Business Daily 05:15PM  Southwestern Energy Earnings: Profit Streak Snapped by a Loss at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 05:05PM  Microchip Technology Earnings: Fifth Straight Quarter of Shrinking Margins as Net Income Falls at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:58PM  Equities Top July ETF Fund Flows at TheStreet 04:54PM  Kraft Foods Earnings: Investors CHEER as Margins Expand and Net Income Rises at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:48PM  PerkinElmer Earnings: Revenues and Profits Climb Higher at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:42PM  AIG Earnings: Beats the Street on Profit Rise at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:38PM  CBS Corp Earnings: Stock SPIKES on Third Straight Quarter of Rising Profit at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:24PM  Are Corporate Profits A Bubble Waiting To Go Bust? at Seeking Alpha 04:22PM  Fluor Corp Earnings: Margins Shrink as Costs Rise, Profit Falls at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:15PM  Can Knight Capital Be Saved? at Forbes 04:00PM  STOCKS TANK AFTER ECB FLOP: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider 03:53PM  Can Knight Capital Be Saved? at Forbes 03:52PM  Investors Moved Back to Stock ETFs in July ETF Trends 03:27PM  XL Group Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 03:24PM  The Death Of Equities? Hardly, Mr. Gross at Seeking Alpha 03:15PM  Tenet Healthcare Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:57PM  Pepco Holdings Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:54PM  Priceline.com Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:45PM  Marsh & McLennan Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:31PM  Knight Shows How to Lose $440 Million in 30 Minutes at BusinessWeek 02:27PM  Fossil Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:24PM  FirstEnergy Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:21PM  Express Scripts Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:18PM  Emerson Electric Third Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:12PM  Walt Disney Third Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:10PM  InPlay: Energy Services- XLE, Materials- XLB, Financials & Banks- XLF, & Telcos.- IYZ are the weakest large-cap sectors in the S&P 500 moving into afternoon trading: SPX is currently @ 1357.21 -18.11 (-1.32%) Briefing.com 02:09PM  CVS Caremark Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:06PM  Cablevision Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:56PM  Secular Bull And Bear Markets at Seeking Alpha 01:50PM  Kicked While Down, Alliance Bernstein Fired By Vanguard As Peter Kraus Tries To Revive AUM at Forbes 01:42PM  Xcel Energy Inc Earnings: Yet Another Quarter of Profitability at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:36PM  Time Warner Cable Earnings: Strong Margins Continue as Net Income Rises at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:33PM  TECO Energy Earnings: Profit Southbound for Fourth Straight Quarter at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:30PM  Teradata Corp Earnings: Beats Expectations at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:24PM  Sempra Energy Earnings: Misses Expectations as Profit Falls at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:21PM  Scripps Networks Interactive Earnings: Beats the Street on Profit Rise at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:18PM  Sealed Air Earnings: Misses Profit Estimate, Shares Fall at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:15PM  Spectra Energy Corp Earnings: Snaps Cold Streak with Profit Growth at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:12PM  SCANA Corp Earnings: The Profit Streak Continues at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:06PM  Rowan Companies PLC Earnings: Falls Short of Expectations at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:03PM  Quanta Services Earnings: Beats Forecasts at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:02PM  Pinnacle West Capital Earnings: Revenue Grows After Four Straight Declines, Net Income Rises at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 01:00PM  Small-Cap Performance Could be a Warning Sign at Minyanville 12:57PM  Parker Hannifin Corp Earnings: Falling Costs Drives Margin Growth as Profit Rises at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:51PM  Monster Worldwide Earnings: Net Income Sinks at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:43PM  P&G Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:42PM  Kellogg Company Earnings: Higher Expenses Shrinks Margins, Profit Declines at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:33PM  Denbury Resources Earnings: Profits Beat Street at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:30PM  CenterPoint Energy Earnings: Earnings Higher Than Expected at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:27PM  Clorox Company Earnings: Shrinking Margins for Fifth Consecutive Quarter, but Net Income Rises at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:24PM  CIGNA Corp Earnings: Revenue and Net Income Grow at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:23PM  Leucadia National Earnings: Two Straight Quarters of Profit Broken by a Loss at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:21PM  Cardinal Health Earnings: Cost Decline Helps Margin as Profit Grows at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:20PM  Chesapeake Energy Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:19PM  Becton Dickinson and Co. Earnings: Generates a Turnaround at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:15PM  Apache Earnings: Revenue and Net Income Fall at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 12:13PM  Ameren Corp Earnings: Beats Analysts Estimates at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 11:54AM   Red Flags Warn of Weak Rally at Forbes 11:48AM  [video] Resilient Market Despite Lack of ECB Or Fed Action at TheStreet 11:30AM  Index, ETF option volumes near midday optionMONSTER 11:30AM   Draghi Pledge May Boost Investment in Europe Stocks at Bloomberg 11:14AM  Don't be Fooled, Here's What You Need to Know about QE3, Gold, and Inflation ETFguide 10:59AM  [video] Draghi Fakes Out Market at TheStreet 10:47AM  The Rise of ETFs and Stock Market Correlation at TheStreet 10:45AM  Will The Central Banks Disappoint? at Forbes ECB's Draghi Doesn't Back Up Talk With Action, Markets Slide at The Wall Street Journal 09:34AM  InPlay: Stock indices sharply lower off the open -- Dow -142, S&P -13, Nasdaq Comp -27 Briefing.com 09:30AM  Knight Capital Group and SPDR S&P 500 ETF Among Most Active Stocks in Pre-Market Today on the NYSE at Minyanville 09:05AM  Pre-Market Primer: Draghi May Buy Bonds Directly at Minyanville 08:35AM  Secondary Sources: Is Bill Gross Wrong?, Fiscal Cliff Still Looms, Fed Forecasts at The Wall Street Journal 07:57AM   41AM  [video] Special Addition: Pre ECB Express at TheStreet 07:28AM   10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell Business Insider 06:44AM  Is Europe Looking for Backdoor Seniority on Spain? at The Wall Street Journal

 

 

 

Congress, with much left to do, takes 5 weeks off AP

 

 

Boehner: President Obama ‘has never had a real job, for God’s sake’

 

 

Markets Guru Arnott: Inflation Will Triple

Investors should prepare for recession followed by a jump in consumer prices, says one money manager.

 

USDA Alert: Half of U.S. Counties Designated Primary Disaster Areas; Financial Fallout “Intensifying”

Mac Slavo | The largest natural disaster in American history just went from bad to worse.

 

Jobless Claims Increase

wsj.com | Number of U.S. workers filing applications for jobless benefits rose last week.

Max Keiser: Banking Dictatorship Like Cancer

Infowars.com | Alex talks with former Wall Street stockbroker and filmmaker Max Keiser about the continuing implosion of the economy.

 

Hyper Mario And Germany On Verge Of All Out Warfare

Zero Hedge | It now appears that the simmering hatred between the two is about to upshift to a whole new level.

Stunning Crimes of the Big Banks: Worse than Your Wildest Imagination

Washington’s Blog | You Won’t Believe What They’ve Done …

 

Chaos Strikes The Market, People Suspect An Algo Gone Wild, Knight Capital Plummets 24%

Business Insider | Very weird activity has happened at the NYSE today.

 

 

 

 

 

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Impeach Obama 2012. Join the National Campaign

Infowars.com | Now is the time to put an end to Obama’s treasonous and tyrannical behavior.

http://albertpeia.com/impeachobama.htm

Nancy Pelosi Wants to Amend the First Amendment Kurt Nimmo | When Pelosi says “special interests,” she means interests opposed to establishment Democrats. [ Here’s a look at the pelosi / wobama styled new california  ( 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm  ) . pelosi’s incompetent / senile in that chronological order. At this point, wobama the b for b***s*** is just incompetent but acts and seems as if he’s senile, particularly with regard to previous things he’s said and prior promises that he’s made. ]

Wobama’s Choom Gang Bangin{ This brief video (11 mb) is well done and worth a watch!  }

http://www.albertpeia.com/wobamaschoomgangbangin.wmv 

 

PAPER: Obama's grandfather tortured by the British? A fantasy (like most of the President's own memoir)... {  http://albertpeia.com/wobamaschoomgangfantasy.htm  }

 

 

 

Drudgereport: Obama: 'Sometimes I Forget' Magnitude of Recession…{ Oh! How conveniently forgetful, though the vast majority of americans don’t have wobama’s luxury of feigned amnesia suffering from what wobama did and didn’t do contrary to promises last time around the perpetual campaign trail littered with his typical jive-talking b***s***! The following headline will help him remember some of his sordid, pot-clouded high school past! }...
FLASHBACK: Obama's Sordid High School Past...
By Ben Shapiro ‘While the Washington Post has been diligently digging into relatively innocent high school pranks by Mitt Romney, they’ve spent the last few years diligently ignoring President Obama’s far more controversial high school days.Obama, by all accounts, was a habitual drug user in high school. He tried cocaine, he admits in Dreams From My Father; he “tried drugs enthusiastically.” The Chicago Tribune reported back in 2007 that Obama thanked the “Choom Gang” in his high school yearbook; “chooming” was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot. The Honolulu Advertiser reported that Obama’s senior portrait “prominently displayed … A package of ‘Zig-Zag’ rolling papers and a matchbook.” One of Obama’s close friends was arrested for drug possession during high school.In his memoir, Obama talked about routinely getting high. “Junkie. Pothead,” he wrote. “That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.” But, according to Obama, he only got high because he was contemplating deep matters: drugs could “push questions of who I was out of my mind.” Obama told students in 2007 that this activity constituted “goofing off” and “wasting time”:"I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof off in high school as my mom reminded me," Obama said. "I went to high school in Hawaii, so there's a lot of opportunity to goof off because the weather is really good all the time …"You know, I made some bad decisions …. You know, got into drinking and experimenting with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn't apply myself. It wasn't until I got out of … high school, and went to college that I started realizing, man, I wasted a lot of time.”The New York Times, however, went out of its way to find Obama’s classmates to testify that drugs played only a “bit part” in Obama’s youth. Yet Obama would later brag on the campaign trail that he “inhaled frequently … that was the point.”During his high school years, Obama hung out with communist radical Frank Marshall Davis; in 2007, the Los Angeles Times reported that during his high school days, “he felt the first stirrings of anger toward whites. He says he also delved into black nationalism.” He was “offended or even enraged when white classmates adopted black street slang or revealed their underlying consciousness of his race by going out of their way to tell him how much they admired a black musician or athlete.” This activity is certainly more reflective of Obama’s ideological history than Mitt Romney’s pranks on teachers and fellow students. And as for the drug use – well, that seems just a bit more serious than walking a teacher into a door or cutting a student’s hair. But leave it to the Post to ignore or downplay all of that in favor of continuing stories about Romney’s dog, his high school hijinks, and whatever other nonsense they can use to protect President Obama from his own incompetence.Ben Shapiro is Breitbart News Editor-at-Large.  Follow him on twitter @benshapiro.
Cracks in the Washington Post story on Romney’s ‘pranks’ emerge
Correction Request: Washington Post Uses Falsehood in Romney Hit Piece
Media Downplays Obama's Past, Tries to Define Romney with Teen Prank
If we're going to delve deep into a candidate's past, let's delve deep into a candidate's past. Here's Obama in his own words admitting to physically shoving a little girl named Coretta. Yes, it was at this moment that the first shot in the War on Women was fired.   http://albertpeia.com/obamashovesgirl.png

 No doubt that after expending all that energy bullying an innocent little girl, young Obama readied himself for round two by eating a Golden Retriever. More on this breaking story here.If you're wondering what the rules are regarding a candidate's past; how far back we're allowed to go in an attempt to define them -- the answer is simple: the corrupt media will let us know.
Washington Post Disgraces Itself By Targeting Romney's 'Anti-Gay' High School Pranks
Obama WILL NOT pursue gay marriage as part of party platform...
STONE: 'Playing a cruel and cynical game'...
Unites Republicans?New Black Panther Niggers Plan Newspaper Cover With Zimmerman In Noose { and civilized people everywhere should respond with niggers in nooses and contributions to the Klu Klux Klan! } ...
LOONEY CLOONEYLAND: BIG CAMPAIGN BOXOFFICE FOR NIGGERO – Meanwhile, looney clooneyland ain’t doin’ so well with the niggero model – see next headline! ...
Failed Wobama model illustrated: 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htmPostal Service loses $3.2b in first quarter...78% of California 8th graders fail national science test...

 

 

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A Warning Sign For The World  http://albertpeia.com/warningsignfortheworld.htm  , Inventor of World Wide Web Savages Government’s Big Brother Plans  http://albertpeia.com/bernersleeantibigbrotherwebintrusion.htm , 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm  ,  20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker  http://albertpeia.com/20signsoftypicalamericanworker.htm , 10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In Front Of Our Eyes   http://albertpeia.com/10signsamericadecomposing.htm , Soylent Pepsi is People  http://albertpeia.com/soylentpepsi.htm  Infowars.com | Ground up dead baby fetuses… just business as usual. {  Well, let’s not kid ourselves; there’s likely canabalism in wobama’s line! How totally disgusting. I’ll never drink pepsi ever again! } New Obama Executive Order Pushes Us Closer To A North American Union And A One World Economic System http://albertpeia.com/wobamaexecorderforoneworldgovernment.htm { The truly astounding thing here is that without exception, these respective nations, from largest to smallest, can’t even manage themselves, their own nations properly, efficiently; and then there’s the inevitable corruption, ‘bigger and better?’. Come on! More obfuscation! In a world such as this, human nature being what it is, ‘bigger is definitely not better’! They’re pushing on a string! Time for accountability! Time to pay the piper! Additionally, people must come to grips with the reality that wobama hasn’t the slightest idea what he’s doing; hence, the over-vacationed teleprompter reader whose ‘handlers’ have literally taken over policy, with some ‘slick’ maneuvering to try and repackage him; ultimately to no avail inasmuch as his disastrous results at home and abroad speak volumes. If only he had done what he said he was going to do last campaign, this nation and the world would have been in a better position today! } , Military Winning War Over Pensions Bruce Krasting 05/02/2012 Why is the Military Retirement Fund exploding higher? http://albertpeia.com/militarypensiondebacle.htm , This Is the First Time In History that All Central Banks Have Printed Money at the Same Time … And They’re Failing Miserably Washington’s Blog | Simultaneous Global Printing Is Failing Miserably. Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is Partly Right But Mostly Wrong http://albertpeia.com/nyteconomistkrugmanwrong.htm  , NBER's Martin Feldstein Bashes The Deplorable US Economy, Says Bernanke Has Engineered Another Stock Bubble Tyler Durden 5-2-12 , Hugh Hendry On Europe "You Can't Make Up How Bad It Is" ,  Biderman Makes Friends: "Bankers Are As Dumb As Politicians" , Guest Post: 3 Likely Triggers Of The Next Recession {  Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events ..the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession..Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation..is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’ }   ] , Zuckerman To CNBC: "The Recession Never Ended" 8 Reasons Why The Greek Debt Deal May Not Stop A Chaotic Greek Debt Default   http://albertpeia.com/8reasonsgreekdebtdefaultstillcoming.htm , 55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In 2012   http://albertpeia.com/55factsaboutus2012economy.htm  ,  http://albertpeia.com/debtpercapita.jpg  , Double-dip recession setting in across eurozone: EU , America 1950 vs. America 2012    http://albertpeia.com/downhillslideofamerica.htm , Society’s Five Stages of Economic Collapse  http://albertpeia.com/5stagesofcollapse.htm ,  No Housing Recovery - Case Shiller Shows 8th Consecutive Month Of House Price Declines, Goldman: Germany Is Now On The Hook By €1 Trillion (Or 40% Of GDP), 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple Up From Their Entertainment-Induced Comas  http://albertpeia.com/20ecostatstowakesheeple.htm  , Central bank balance sheet expansion since end 2007  Mar 1st, 2012 by News (ZeroHedge) — SNB +230%; Fed +222%, BOJ +125%, BOE +87%, PBOC +93%, ECB +51%. USA Gold / PG View: Pretty strong evidence that the rally in bonds — and by extension the rally in stocks — is nothing but a charade. , 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse Than It Was At The Peak Of The Last Recession  http://albertpeia.com/europeunemploymentworsethanrecession.htm , Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is Taxing The Living Daylights Out Of Us   http://albertpeia.com/inflationisatax.htm  , 15 Potentially Massive Threats To The U.S. Economy Over The Next 12 Months  http://albertpeia.com/15massivethreatstoeconomy.htm , 1 Through 30 – The Coming U.S. Financial Crisis By The Numbers http://albertpeia.com/1-30usfinancialcrisiscoming.htm Greece Has Defaulted - Which Country In Europe Is Next?    http://albertpeia.com/greecehasdefaultedwhonext.htm , Five Charts That Prove We’re in a Depression and That the Federal Reserve and Washington Are Wasting Money gpc1981  http://albertpeia.com/usindepressionfedandgovwastingmoney.htm  , Broken Promises: Pensions All Over America Are Being Savagely Cut Or Are Vanishing Completely .http://albertpeia.com/uspensionscutorvanishing.htm  , America Is Being Transformed From A Wealthy Nation Into A Poor Nation At Breathtaking Speed   http://albertpeia.com/ustransformedfromwealthytopoor.htm , ECRI Stays with Recession Call  New American | The vicious cycle is starting where lower sales, lower production, lower employment and lower income [leads] back to lower sales…BOB ADELMANN New American Tuesday, March 13, 2012 http://albertpeia.com/ecricallsrecession.htm , Consumer prices rise on high gas costs But outside higher pump prices, inflation stayed mild. (Washington Post) [ Wake up! They’d have a hard time denying what’s in plain sight for everyone to see. Yet, apparently they’ve not gone grocery shopping lately; you know, all that catered food for fools in Washington.  , Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events that warns of phase II of the global crisis… My work shows that “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession, often on the exact month, or within one month, of the official start as determined one year later by the official arbiter of recession, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… However, inflation is far understated for political reasons. Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation, according to free market economists who calculate inflation as it was done in 1980 before the politician re-engineered it, is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’ , Conned 2012: Joseph Kony Is A CIA Contractor  [ Yeah, cia, mossad, kony, they look like and are a bunch of spooks. ] Saman Mohammadi | Former European MP, journalist, and author Richard Cottrell says Lord Resistance Army is backed by CIA and Mossad. , 11 Reasons Why America Would Be A Better Place Without Goldman Sachs [ If only it was just 11 and not an endless number of reasons why the aforesaid is true! And, though america particularly, not just america, but the entire world as well! ] http://albertpeia.com/americabetterwithoutgoldmansachs.htm   , The Obama Flag: Who Decided That It Was Okay To Replace The Stars On The American Flag With The Face Of Barack Obama? http://endoftheamericandream.com http://albertpeia.com/monkeyflag.htm   [Aside from the desecration issues, from a purely aesthetic perspective, that picture on the flag of that ugly monkey obama is an absolute disgrace and affront to any rational person’s aesthetic sensibilities!] , Who Decided That It Would Be A Good Idea.... http://albertpeia.com/misplacedfaith.htm , Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing Ways That The Government Is Wasting Your Money  http://albertpeia.com/whydochimpslikeobamasthrowpoop29waysgovernmentwastesmoney.htm  , Failed Wobama model illustrated: 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm  , No Housing Recovery Until 2020 In 5 Simple Charts
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, The Mother Of All Infographics: Visualizing America's Derivatives Universe   Fasten Your Seatbelts: High Frequency Trading Is Coming To The Treasury Market    [ , As US Rakes Largest Monthly Deficit In History, 2012 Tax Revenues Net Of Refunds Trail 2011Guest Post: Money from Nothing - A Primer On Fake Wealth Creation And Its Implications (Part 1)What is fraud except creating “value” from nothing and passing it off as something? Frauds interlink and grow upon each other. Our debt-based money system serves as the fraud foundation. In our debt-based money system, debt must grow in order to create money. Therefore, there is no way to pay off aggregate debt with available money. More money must be lent into the system to make the payments for old debts. This causes overall debt to expand as new money for actual people (vs. banks) always arrives at interest and compounds exponentially. This process is called financialization. Financialization: The process of making money from nothing in which debt (i.e. poverty, lack) is paradoxically considered an asset (i.e. wealth, gain). In current financialized economies “wealth expansion” comes from the parasitic taxation of productivity in the form of interest on fiat lending. This interest over time consumes a greater and greater share of resources, assets, labor, and livelihood until nothing is left., Guest Post: Money from Nothing - A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications (Part 2) Only in a debt-based money system could debt be curiously cast as an asset. We’ve made “extend and pretend” a quaint phrase for a burgeoning market for financial lying and profiteering aimed toward preventing the collapse of a debt- (or lack-) based system that was already doomed by its initial design to collapse. , Guest Post: The Audacity of Bonuses At MF GlobalIn the spirit of George Orwell’s Animal Farm commandment: “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal then others” comes the galling news that bankruptcy trustee, Louis Freeh, could approve the defunct, MF Global to pay bonuses to certain senior executives. This, despite the fact that nearly $1.6 billion of customer funds remains “missing” or otherwise partially accounted for, yet beyond the reach of those customers, perhaps forever, since before the firm declared bankruptcy on October 31, 2011...