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Credit-Based Money System and the Plight of Un-rich Peons

Mar 31, 2009 at 00:00

You can probably tell by the way my face is contorted in fear and how I keep nervously glancing out of the window at the Fabulous Mogambo Bunker (FMB) in…

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What's the Difference between Maddoff and U.S. Social Security?

Mar 31, 2009 at 00:00

Coercion. Both depend, or in the case of Maddoff, depended, on being able to get new contributors into the scheme in order to pay off the previous contributors.

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China and the SDRs--III

Mar 31, 2009 at 00:00

But how long this acceleration will last for gold is a question mark. If the plutocrats bring on their one world state and one world money system, it could offer…

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Gold Thoughts

Mar 31, 2009 at 00:00

Gold and Silver investors have clearly benefitted from the new U.S. governing regime. Those markets recognize that "printing" money can only lead to the dollar losing value.

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Does Kramer Finally Get to Be a Banker and Does There Have to Be Skin in the Game for CDS?

Mar 31, 2009 at 00:00

As the narrator on the Monty Python show would say, and now for something completely different. Some are arguing that participants' in the market for credit default swaps (CDS) should…

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Daily Futures Commentary: 31 March 2009

Mar 31, 2009 at 00:00

Most futures markets are being driven higher by the weaker Dollar this morning. The first break in the Dollar overnight was triggered by traders who just felt that yesterday's rally…

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Bailout Economics: Politics of Self Destruction

Mar 31, 2009 at 00:00

The patchwork of attempts to prop up the financial system has taken on a life of its own - we call it bailout economics. At every step, Adam Smith's "invisible…

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Rally Built On Sand? FASB Can Help!

Mar 31, 2009 at 00:00

Government intervention was another spark for the rally off the March lows (wow! - that's a new concept!). The state of the world must be less than stellar if the…

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Precious Metals - General Discussion

Mar 31, 2009 at 00:00

Is it the end of the world? I doubt it. But the new system will be born of monetary education and fiscal sanity. Given the level of monetary and fiscal…

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Obama, Lithium, Uranium and Rodinia

Mar 30, 2009 at 00:00

President Obama has made global warming one of the key issues of his administration and it's an extremely ambitious agenda he's bringing to the table. Included in his agenda is…