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Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com   8-15-12  ‘It’s hard to imagine markets being this quietly determined to move higher without any dissent. Bears are in hibernation consistently put-off by fear of QE3 and HAL 9000s. (Rosengrens & Fisher duel over QE.) Economic data remains mixed with some better housing data but much worse manufacturing data given today’s poor Empire State Mfg Survey (-5.85 vs 7 expected & prior 7). Within that data was very poor employment trends and much higher prices paid data.The CPI came in flat which was strange given the 20% rise in most energy prices. The Homebuilders Sentiment rose to 37 from 35 which is the highest since February 2007 but we know what happened after that. Industrial Production was slightly higher (.6%) and energy inventories dropped substantially allowing for more price gains.A chart from the Fed shows “completed” new homes and presents a rather different picture. http://albertpeia.com/newhousingunitscompleted.jpg   Meanwhile eurozone bulls remain enthusiastic there will be a “fix” even as Germans continue to shout “nein, nein, nein.” I guess bulls just don’t believe German rhetoric.Little noticed in headlines are higher energy costs stimulated by more war talk with Iran and much lower inventory data. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE just ordered all their citizens to leave Lebanon immediately as the Syrian conflict escalates and headlines shout Israel is preparing an attack on Iran. Given such a publicized headline might mean it’s not going to happen, at least not right away. If Obama is successful in securing a second term I doubt he’ll be attacking anyone other than RNC headquarters.Beneath the surface are some disturbing preparations the government is engaging in. The Fed and Treasury have asked the TBTF banks to prepare an emergency plan should there be an economic collapse. Homeland Security has been practicing for civil disorder on a massive scale. Over the past two days several articles have appeared suggesting various government agencies are ordering massive amounts of deadly hollow point bullets as noted. This is all quite disturbing and not denied by the government. I sound paranoid.As noted stocks continued their stealth rally led mostly by tech (XLK), bonds continued to sell-off during current auction, commodity prices (DBC) were higher, and the dollar (UUP) was slightly stronger putting gold (GLD) back on the defensive.Trading volume is the lowest since 2007 as the summer wears on and most investors must be awaiting Jackson Hole results. Breadth per the WSJ was positive overall…  ,  EUROPE HAS TWO POTENTIAL “HAIL MARY” PASSES … WOULD EITHER OF THEM WORK { Short Answer: NO! } ?  http://albertpeia.com/europesbailmario.htm  ,  THE CODY WORD Prepare for the crash now.   ,  The Hoarding Continues: China Has Imported More Gold In Six Months Than Portugal's Entire Gold Reserve  ZeroHedge.com  ,  Guest Post: The Biggest Conflict Of Interest In Finance?  Maybe this is a naive question, but as Goldman clients get skinned again and again and again and again and again by Goldman’s failed calls — while Goldman itself continues to rack up prop trading profits — I keep wondering just why anyone would take investment advice from a trading firm? And beyond that, why is it even legal for trading firms to advise clients? Isn’t this the biggest conflict of interest possible? We know firms including Goldman have advised clients to buy junk that the trading arm wants to get off its books.  ,  Spot The Looming Crisis  Yes, we all know that Europe is in deep, deep, trouble, and we all know that Europe has a major fiscal deficit issue which is why well over half of the Eurozone is effectively locked out of the capital markets, and only has funding courtesy of various back door Ponzi schemes funded by the ECB, and we also all know that on a consolidated basis Europe's debt/GDP is very high. But the truth is that at least Europe is taking small steps to rectify its historic profligacy and is at least pretending to be implementing austerity (in some cases actually truly doing so). How about the US. Well, the chart below should answer that particular question. Because while the consolidated GDP of the US and Europe are nearly identical, they differ very materially in terms of both fiscal deficit, and total Debt/GDP. The chart below shows precisely where the differences lie between the United States of Europe and the United States of America.  ,  Guest Post: Former Central Bankers Step Up Against The Central Banks  ,  Fed's Fisher Reluctant To 'Bail Out White House' With More QE  It was not enough that the Fed's Richard Fisher was 'allowed' on CNBC this afternoon to expropriate himself and his merry-Fed-men from his 'fanatical' colleague nemesis Rosengren; but Maria B., for one glorious moment, asked a question so sensible it was stunning: "Is The Fed Bailing Out The White House?" The notably business-man-background Fisher was wonderfully heretical in explaining that additional stimulus would have little impact, that the Fed's action would indeed 'look political', and that "US lawmakers need to get their fiscal act together." While he doesn't see a high likelihood of a recession in 2013, he comprehends clearly the wait-and-see 'defensive crouch' that businesses are in given the huge uncertainty. On a slow day, with so much print-and-it's-all-fixed hope, the clarifying vision of at least one man on the FOMC is perhaps worth holding onto.  ,  Global Car-Maker Channel Stuffing Conspiracy 'Theory' Now Conspiracy 'Fact'  ,  Guest Post: The Sentinel Case - Another Nail In The Coffin Of 'Market Confidence'  ,  Crushed Consumption: The Unintended Consequence Of Bernanke's Arrogance  With the Fed lowering interest rates and flattening the curve in an effort to squeeze any- and every-one into risk-assets and mal-investment; the sad truth of this action is that it forces a drastic unintended consequence on the growing population of people that actually care about the future. Critically, as Citi points out, lower yields require much higher rates of saving (both corporates and households) and while 10% of salary allocated to 'retirement savings' will meet its goals with a 4% return hurdle, at current low yields, the average-joe in the street will need to 'save' 25% of his income - cutting heavily into his current consumptive and discretionary iPad needs.  ,  Summarizing America's Record Drought In One Picture  ,  Crude Spikes On Renewed Mid-East War Fears As Saudi Arabia Recalls Lebanon Citizens  ,  Guest Post: We Are All Muppets Now  Muppets only complain when the prop jobs and skimming fail to deliver fat gains to their accounts. But being a muppet is being a mark: it's the muppets who are being milked and skimmed. Being a participant in a hopelessly compromised, rigged market makes us marks because we're ultimately providing liquidity and capital for the players to skim. When the officially sanctioned intervention finally fails and the market leaks 40% of its current value, the muppets will finally understand the "outsized returns" were just a con used to entice them into playing digital 3-card monte. The game is rigged, but the greed of the player overrides his skepticism and caution. The same can be said for pension funds and all the other institutional players. Desperate for yield, they've foolishly ponied up hundreds of billions of dollars to play 3-card monte with crooked dealers and a crooked house.  ,  On GDP vs Equity Returns, Bill Gross Is In Fact Right... With A Twist  … Hence, equities for the short- and long-term, are essentially a Ponzi scheme   ,  Killing The 'Stocks Are Cheap' Myth Once And For All

Frontrunning: August 15

  • Investors Shift Money Out of China (WSJ)
  • Rajoy Risks Riling ECB in Bid to Avoid Union Ire (Bloomberg)
  • Romney-Ryan See Fed QE as Inflation Risk Amid Subdued Prices (Bloomberg)
  • Spanish savers offered haircut then money back (FT)
  • Must wipe all traces of illegality and settle for $25,000: Standard Chartered Faces Fed Probes After N.Y. Deal (BBG)
  • Greece debt report backs cuts plan (FT)
  • Greece seeks two-year austerity extension (FT)
  • Brevan Howard Looks To U.S. To Raise Money For Currency Fund (Bloomberg)
  • Can he please stop buying gold? Paulson, Soros Add Gold as Price Declines Most Since 2008 (Bloomberg)
  • BOE Drops Reference to Rate Cut as It Considers Policy Options (Bloomberg)
  • EU Banking Plans Asks ECB to Share Power, Documents Show (Bloomberg)

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04:59PM  Train Reading: Judges Urges Apple, Samsung CEOs to Talk at The Wall Street Journal 04:44PM  Limited Brands Earnings: Net Income Keeps Falling at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:42PM  NetApp Earnings: Net Income Falls, Stock JUMPS at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:36PM  Applied Materials Earnings: Net Income Dips, Stock Does Too at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:35PM  Cisco Systems Earnings: Profit ROCKETS Higher for Third Straight Quarter at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:32PM  Agilent Technologies Earnings: Investors HATE These Numbers at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:16PM  Foreign Regulators Take Lead On High-Frequency Trading at The Wall Street Journal 04:15PM  Cisco Systems Earnings: Profit ROCKETS Higher for Third Straight Quarter at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 04:11PM  Index ETFs: Is Buy and Hold Dead? ETF Trends 04:00PM  STOCKS GO NOWHERE: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider 03:57PM  Small-Cap Stocks at Key Bullish Juncture at The Wall Street Journal 03:45PM  Is The Euro Dying Already? at The Wall Street Journal 02:50PM  Ben Bernanke's Waiting Game at The Wall Street Journal 02:43PM  What Money Goes Around Comes Around at Motley Fool 02:15PM  InPlay: Stock indices remain range bound but extend slide off midday highs -- Dow -15, S&P +0.06, Nasdaq Comp +6 Briefing.com 12:45PM  Markets Hub: Housing Could Drive Inflation Up at The Wall Street Journal 12:45PM  This Restaurant Stock is Looking Tasty at Motley Fool 12:44PM    Toxic Migration and the Bull Case at Minyanville 12:01PM  This Restaurant Stock is Looking Tasty at Motley Fool 11:52AM  Nike Stealing the Olympic Show at Motley Fool 11:32AM  Index, ETF option volumes near midday optionMONSTER 11:28AM  Index, ETF option volumes near midday optionMONSTER 11:07AM  What Money Goes Around Comes Around at Motley Fool 10:48AM  Low Margin Sales Hurting Boeing at Motley Fool 10:18AM  Nike Stealing the Olympic Show at Motley Fool 10:15AM  Are Analyst Ratings Confirming the Bull Market? at Minyanville 10:14AM  Nike Stealing the Olympic Show at Motley Fool 10:14AM  Low Margin Sales Hurting Boeing at Motley Fool 10:11AM  Wednesday Worries: Goldman Takes Away The Punch Bowl at Seeking Alpha 09:57AM  InPlay: Stock indices hovering near highs after mixed start -- Dow +7.8, S&P +2.2, Nasdaq Comp +9.3 Briefing.com 09:31AM  Lowes Cos Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 09:29AM  Urban Outfitters Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 09:25AM  Nokia and SPDR S&P 500 ETF Among Most Active Stocks in NYSE Pre-Market at Minyanville 09:18AM  Wal-Mart Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 09:09AM    Target Corp Earnings: The Profit Streak Continues at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 09:00AM  Pre-Market Primer: Inflation Flatlines Again at Minyanville 08:59AM  Deere & Co. Earnings: Short of Analyst Estimates, Stock Down 5% at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 08:44AM  Cycles of War and Financial Markets at Minyanville 08:40AM  Staples Earnings: Heres Why Shares are Crashing 16% Now at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 08:37AM  Abercrombie & Fitch Earnings: Investors Ignore These Numbers at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 08:35AM  Target Corp Earnings: The Profit Streak Continues at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 08:30AM  Deere & Co. Earnings: Short of Analyst Estimates at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 08:30AM  ES Support and Resistance for August 15 at Minyanville 07:52AM   [video] The Haves and the Have-Nots at TheStreet 07:41AM  [video] The Paul Ryan Medicare Plan...Dissected at TheStreet

 

Operation Twist: New York Fed sells $7.796 billion in Treasury coupons.

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US industrial production +0.6% in Jul, on expectations of +0.5%, vs negative revised +0.1% in Jun; cap use 79.3%.

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US TIC net long-term security purchases (ex-swaps) +$9.3 bln in Jun, vs $55.9 bln in May; total net flows +$16.7 bln.

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US Empire State Index plunged to -5.9 in Aug, well below expectations of 7.0, vs 7.4 in Jul.

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US CPI unch in Jul, below expectations of +0.2%, vs unch in Jun; core +0.1%, on expectations of +0.2%.

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Gold easier at 1599.11 (-1.19). Silver 27.78 (-0.048). Dollar higher. Euro slips. Stocks called lower. Treasurys mixed.

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Approval of Congress falls to all-time low (10% approval)

 

 

Factory owners: Federal prisoners stealing our business

CNN | Unicor’s prisons pay inmates as little as 23 cents an hour to make goods for the Pentagon and other federal agencies.

 

Crude Spikes On Renewed Mid-East War Fears As Saudi Arabia Recalls Lebanon Citizens

Zero Hedge | Paint is drying, so what is the best way to break the monotony?



Aaaand It’s Gone: This Is Why You Always Demand Physical

Zero Hedge | We have said it over and over, we’ll say it again.



U.S. banks told to prepare for financial collapse

Natural News | Is the nation and the world headed for another financial meltdown? You would think so, judging by what U.S. banks have been told to prepare for by regulators.



‘It’s a free. F***ing. Country’: Jamie Dimon’s foul-mouthed rant as JP Morgan boss attacks ‘banker bashers’

thisismoney.co.uk | Jamie Dimon, the boss of blue blooded US investment bank JP Morgan, has launched a foul mouthed attack on ‘banker bashers’.

 

 

 

 

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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...