Posted on 13 March 2009. Tags: agricultural commodities, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Andorra, Assemblyman, Austria, bank privacy, banking, barack obama, billionaire list, billions will die, British Petroleum, california, cell phone company, climate change, Commerce Department, Copenhagen, Corridor H, democrat, director, division of labor, drug cartel, drug prohibition, earth's population, Economics, El Chapo, exports, fair trade, federal taxpayers, Forbes, foreign trade, free trade, Germany, global warming, globalization, Hans Schellnhuber, imports, income tax, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, Joaquin Guzman Loera, keynesian policy, legalizing marijuana, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, milk and cream, nationalization, Norway, Norwegian, offshore banking, oligarchs, omnibus spenidng bill, porkulus, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, President Obama, road to nowhere, Rob Viglione, Robert Byrd, Russia, russian court, russian markets crash, seize foreign assets, Senator, socialism, stimulus bill, swiss banking, Switzerland, tax collectors, tax evasion, tax revenues, Telenor, theft, Tom Ammiano, trade balance, trade deficit, U.S. Census Bureau, Virginia, War on Drugs, West Virginia
The age of banking secrecy coming to an end, climate scientist warns that billions will die, U.S. trade deficit contracts along with trade, Russians steal yet another foreign company’s assets, Mexican drug lord makes Forbes’ billionaires list, road to nowhere to take 26 years and $1.5 billion, California considers legalizing marijuana…just the latest in your Freedom Under Fire report! Continue Reading
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Posted on 08 March 2009. Tags: 1913, aggregate output, arrogance, cash, collectivism, commodities, congress, currency, deflationary, dollar, Economics, federal reserve, fiscal policy, fiscal prudence, general price level, gold, gold standard, guns & butter, historical inflation, inflation, inflationary policies, Keynes, keynesian policy, M3, macro-economics, monetary policy, money identity, money supply, perpetual inflation, perpetual prosperity, Politics, quantity theory of money, real value of final expenditures, Rob Viglione, Savings, shadow statistics, silver, socialism, socially engineer society, standard of living, U.S. dollar, USD, value of the dollar, velocity of money, Vietnam War
Inflation has long been a contentious topic in the U.S., not really abating at any point since the 1960′s. President Johnson’s “Guns & Butter” policies of the Vietnam war era sparked a good deal of money printing, inflation, and debate. Since then the Federal Reserve, Congress, and every President have gone on spending binges, rampant borrowing, and always increasing money supply. These are the tools of macro-economics, in which central decision authorities nationalize resources to socially engineer what they think will be perpetual prosperity. The results are debatable, but the consequences clear: Continue Reading
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Posted on 08 January 2009. Tags: bonds, congress, Economics, federal reserve, fiscal policy, GLD, gold, inflation, interest rates, keynesian policy, monetary policy, obama, Rob Viglione, short dollar, short treasuries, the fed, TLT, UDN, USD, ZB

Through a combination of incompetence and greed, the federal government has placed itself in a position of checkmate. There is no way to finance its budget deficits without devaluing the dollar or causing interest rates to rise. With $10.6 trillion in debt, $8.5 trillion in new money created or given away in 2008, and multiple years of trillion dollar deficits planned by Obama, government has no way to fund its extravagances without either printing a lot more money or borrowing unprecedented sums.
This means that either Treasury bonds will crash, or the dollar will suffer significant devaluation relative to foreign exchange or precious metals, especially gold. Continue Reading
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