Category Archives: Asset Bubble
Socialism scare more accurately aimed at capitalism
It’s hilarious when the capitalists try to fearmonger over trying something that might actually help people. Socialism leads to “complete economic calamity?” Isn’t that what capitalism did in 2008? And 1987? And 1971? And 1929? And is about to do … Continue reading
Posted in Asset Bubble, class war, Crap-italism, fiat currency, Financial Terrorism, Financialization, Liberty Road, Master Narrative, Nixon Shock, Rent-seeking, Rentier, Securities, socialism, Uncategorized, Wealth transfer
Tagged capitalism, Donald Trump, economics, fearmongering, late capitalism, Marc Faber, Michael Hudson, recession, Reverse socialism, socialism, Zero Hedge
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17 YEAR OLD HEDGE FUND CEO? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
Calling his operation “a hedge fund for the rest of us,” 17 year-old Jacob Wohl of Corona, CA (about 30 minutes north of where I write this) has gotten sub-million dollar investments from regular working stiffs like his high school … Continue reading
SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH WORKING LIKE A CHARM…
…and the capitalism for the rest of us is going just as you’d expect, and just as planned, i.e., horribly. From a Zero Hedge story masterfully headlined “Mission Accomplished: Stocks & Homeless Kids Hit All-Time Highs”: “Something is dreadfully wrong … Continue reading
Posted in Asset Bubble, Crap-italism, Debt Slavery, Everything Is Rigged, Federal Reserve, Feudalism, Financial Terrorism, homeless, Redistribution, Reverse socialism, self-issued currency, stock market
Tagged all-time highs, bond market, fiat currency, homeless, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Paul Simon, self-issued currency, stock market
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43 YEARS OF FAKE MONEY: MUST-WATCH VIDEO
Finally broke down and watched one of the videos I had been hearing about on the Peak Prosperity website. This video was the 9th in a series of 27 and was appropriately posted last Friday, August 15, the 43rd anniversary of … Continue reading
Posted in Asset Bubble, Crap-italism, Debt, Debt Slavery, Everything Is Rigged, Federal Reserve, Feudalism, fiat currency, Financial Terrorism, Financialization, Foreclosure fraud, Keiser Report, Nixon Shock, Redistribution, Rent-seeking, Reverse socialism, Wage slavery, Wealth transfer
Tagged Bretton Woods, FDR, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, GIABO, gold confiscation, hyperinflation, Nixon Shock, Peak Prosperity
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MERS: THE INVISIBILITY CLOAK OF THE BANKSTERS
Yes, the banks don’t want you to see what they’re doing–or not doing, as the case may be. Specifically, they don’t want you to see that they have separated your note from your deed of trust/mortgage. In my opinion (and … Continue reading
Posted in Asset Bubble, class war, Conspiracy, Debt Slavery, Everything Is Rigged, Federal Reserve, Feudalism, fiat currency, Financialization, Foreclosure fraud, Living Lies, MERS, QE unlimited, Redistribution, Reverse socialism, Securities, Securitization Fail, Wealth transfer
Tagged assignment, bailout, Bastille Day, feudalism, French Revolution, invisibility cloak, Living Lies, MERS, opaque, QE, quantitative easing, rehypothecation, Rush, transparency, Wisconsin
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WHAT “RECOVERY?” WHO CAN AFFORD ANYTHING?
Scene: a typical American coffee shop. We see two casually-dressed friends sitting at a table, talking quietly and drinking a cup of joe. We notice one has a “grande” while the other has a “tall.” Suddenly we hear loud guffawing … Continue reading
Posted in Asset Bubble, Bank of America, Crap-italism, Debt Slavery, Everything Is Rigged, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, Financial Terrorism, Financialization, Price, Price-fixing, Rent-seeking, Rentier, Wage slavery, Wages
Tagged can't afford house, coffee, grande, HELOC, Justice League Task Force, landlord, money is fictional, money out of thin air, prices, rent, Rentier, salary, second job, tall, third job, venti, wages
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INSTEAD OF BANNING CASH, GO TO SELF-ISSUED CURRENCY
Apparently Kenneth Rogoff doesn’t think the banks and their kept governments have enough ways to screw us all over, so he is proposing a ban on cash: “Has the time come to consider phasing out anonymous paper currency, starting with … Continue reading
Posted in Asset Bubble, Conspiracy, Crap-italism, Debt, Debt Slavery, Everything Is Rigged, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, Financial Terrorism, Financialization, Nixon Shock, QE unlimited, self-issued currency, Wages, Wealth transfer
Tagged Bank of England, cash, cashless society, debt, debt slavery, endogenous money, Federal Reserve, Financial Times, Harvard, inflation, Kenneth Rogoff, money is fictional, pre-existing money, promissory note, reserves, self-issued currency
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UNICORNS ARE REAL–IF YOU’RE A BANK
And if you’re not a bank, then…no unicorns, only trolls. But really, it’s amazing the extent to which human society continues to run on myth, as one can see during the extended interview of Timothy Geithner by Jon Stewart, and … Continue reading
Posted in Asset Bubble, Crap-italism, Everything Is Rigged, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, Financial Terrorism, Foreclosure fraud, QE unlimited, Redistribution, Too big to fail
Tagged Alan Greenspan, artificial scarcity, Jon Stewart, money out of nothing, Neel Kashkari, The Daily Show, Timothy Geithner, unicorns
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NOT NEGATIVE, JUST TRUE: “EXPENSES SOAR, WAGES STALL”
A few days ago, the website of The Washington Post ran a story with this headline–“Happy Days No More: Middle-class families squeezed as expenses soar, wages stall.” No shit, Sherlock. The article tells us the following: “Wages for millions of … Continue reading
Posted in Asset Bubble, class war, Debt, Debt Slavery, Everything Is Rigged, Federal Reserve, Feudalism, fiat currency, Financialization, Nixon Shock, self-issued currency, stock market, Wage slavery, Wages, Wealth transfer
Tagged 000 Years, 1971, 1987, Bank of England, Black Monday, Charles Hugh Smith, David Graeber, debt, Debt: The First 5, financialization, Happy Days, inflation, median household income, middle class, Nixon Shock, Of Two Minds, Ronald Reagan, S&L Crisis, self-issued currency, The Air Standard, Washington Post
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MERS: DYING A SLOW, PAINFUL DEATH?
In a bombshell story about Ginnie Mae and Bank of America–which is a big deal unto itself–Yves Smith brings in the following about MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems), which is the cornerstone of the securitization fail (Smith quotes Bloomberg): “As … Continue reading
Posted in Asset Bubble, Bank of America, Debt, Debt Slavery, Everything Is Rigged, Fannie Mae, Foreclosure fraud, Securitization Fail
Tagged Abigail Field, Bank of America, Bloomberg, Fannie Mae, Kemp v. Countrywide, Linda DeMartini, MERS, Naked Capitalism, securitization fail, William Hultman
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LIBERTY ROAD MEDIA 