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... if the Fed is so firmly in control of the economy, the real question is “Who's in control of the Fed?” The nominal answer is the Fed chair, of course.
It is a sad day when you know a market should be lower, but they 'rig' it to go where they want it. But it does not in any way affect the long term. Every dollar that the Fed digitizes into existence lowers the value of the ones in circulation.
The even bigger lie that is being propounded now is that the national conversation and the court cases are still revolving around the false notion that NSA phone spying is somehow limited to metadata, as if all the NSA is collecting are lists of phone numbers and call durations
...we have entered a time where predicting the future with any certainty about what 'should' happen is clouded over by the most blatant of lies, manipulations, frauds, fake data, and misdirections ever seen.
Viral News Network has published an End of Year report for 2013 for the markets, currency, the fed, jobs, and the economy.
... the consequences of decades of incredibly foolish decisions are going to absolutely blindside us and we will be absolutely devastated by the great crisis that is rapidly approaching. The United States is in a massive amount of trouble, and it is time that we all started facing the truth.
My Eurozone prediction was off, however. Not only did the EUpocalypse not reach a crescendo this year, but things went unusually quiet in the summer months as the Euro crisis was put on hold for the German election cycle. Things do seem to be taking off again now.
Some feel that QE can end and the economy can do okay without it. Some think that ending QE means the economy will almost instantly enter recession. Some feel the entire world depends on the US...
Is that the sort of things cutting QE is made of? Probably not. They have to know that yanking QE a week ahead of Christmas is going to cut out “X” amount of economic activity that folks would have spent on, as they fear the end of the free money wagon. Do they want that? No.
Audio, video, photos, emails, text messages, and other personal information is collected. Doing so lets NSA track individual movements and contacts over time. NSA wants global privacy eliminated. It wants total electronic information access. It wants it in America and abroad. It wants it everywhere. It wants it no matter who or where you are. It's well on the way to getting it.
>If this is your first exposure to this idea it might sound like total insanity, but the idea of a government-provided guaranteed income is in fact not particularly new. In the first World War a British engineer named C.H. Douglas noticed a discrepancy between the total value of goods being produced for the British war effort and the salaries, wages and dividends being paid out by the producers.
This month is front-loaded with market data in expectation of the Christmas / New Year lull. Data out this week include the Federal Reserve's "beige book" out later today along with Chinese non-manufacturing PMI numbers, the ECB's monetary policy meeting for December on Thursday, and a key U.S. jobs report on Friday.
Bob was known for his caustic wit, contrarian viewpoints, and clarivoyant foresight of things to come. In 2008, he saw the corruption of what was to come in the markets.
This relationship virtually assures that the US will be staying in the country past its 2014 “pullout” one way or another, no matter what rhetoric is deployed or smokescreens used to obscure the ongoing NATO presence in the country.
Throughout history, man has tried his best to avoid getting ripped off by monetary inflation. The most successful way of doing that has been through holding gold and real estate. Thus, you often hear the cry that the only way we can get back to a more stable world of monetary value, is by going back to some form of a gold standard. But is that really true in the digital age? Frankly, no and for several reasons.