Category Archives: Debt

Capitalism–or “Bank-ism?”

The problem with capitalism is the same thing that is touted as its virtue. Namely, one of capitalism’s animating doctrines is that a worker can work hard and make more money as time goes on, and this is how the … Continue reading

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Obedience—not resistance—is futile

  Resistance is not futile—obedience is. Don’t believe me? Think about it. You obey and what happens? More obedience is required. You go to work, you pay your bills, you pay your taxes, you support your candidates, and so on. … Continue reading

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Metallica on the bankster economy?

On their killer new tune “Hardwired,” Metallica probably didn’t intend to comment on the rigged, doomed-to-crash bankster economy, but that’s how I hear these lyrics in the song’s chorus: “We’re so fucked/shit outta luck/hardwired to self-destruct…” It’s the end of … Continue reading

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The great word game of banking explained: reclassifying “loans” as “deposits”

The other day, I ran across another stellar article about money creation at Washington’s Blog. The article, titled “A Loophole Allows Banks – But Not Other Companies – to Create Money Out of Thin Air” contains excerpts from a 2014 … Continue reading

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Quantum Theory of Fake Money and Fraud: “The black hole of debt is starting to warp the financial universe”

Professor Max “Planck” Keiser again breaks down for us what is really going on in Episode 827 of the Keiser Report.  Professor Stacy “Einstein” Herbert tells us that in the past few episodes, she and Max had been talking about … Continue reading

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How the rich got richer and continue to do so: evading risk.

On the most recent episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy open the show with a discussion of the chart below, which shows that the top 1 percent of the world’s population owns half of the world’s wealth, and … Continue reading

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99 Homes Review: Letting the banks off the hook? (SPOILERS)

If you have not yet seen the powerful new film 99 Homes and want to be surprised how it all turns out at the end, you might want to stop reading this now, because I am about to spoil the … Continue reading

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Collapse Is Unnecessary Because All Money Is Fake

So Greece has now “defaulted” on its international “obligations,” thereby becoming the first developed nation to challenge the hegemony of the international system of finance—as opposed to the actual economy—by simply not paying.  Russia Today puts it thusly: The International … Continue reading

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All Debt Is Odious: Greek Report Gets It Mostly Right

Grexit on, Grexit off…Grexit on, Grexit off…that’s been the story for a while now, but could a new report by the Debt Truth Committee of the Hellenic Parliament which declares that Greece’s debt to the Troika is odious flip the … Continue reading

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BANK ADMITS: MONEY IS FAKE, FICTIONAL, NOT REAL

An anniversary repost, originally appearing March 31, 2014 at my other blog, The Air Standard: The very essence of what this blog is all about has been spelled out and confirmed in an article by the Bank of England: “Commercial … Continue reading

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