Category Archives: Financialization
WHY WE ARE WAGE SLAVES: THE CIRCULAR LOGIC EXPLAINED
Extremely eye-opening discussion with economist L. Randall Wray about, among other things, how money is ultimately valuable only as payment for taxes, which is how labor is compelled and the government controls the populace. If you want to check it … Continue reading
THE “MERS-LPS RACKETEERING ENTERPRISE”: HARKEY V. US BANK ET AL.
A complaint filed on January 20, 2015 in U.S. District Court for Nevada—Michael Harkey v. U.S. Bank et al. (Case No. 2:14-cv-00177-RFB-GWF)–really breaks down exactly what the scam of MERS is, and it does so with a level of clarity … Continue reading
STRIKE! WALMART OVERDUE FOR A COMEUPPANCE
I posted the above meme on Facebook, which elicited the following response from a dear and longtime friend (in the physical world) of mine: Dumb bullshit. Walmart workers are responsible for themselves. It is their own decisions that put them … Continue reading
THAT AIN’T RAIN, IT’S PISS: THE SHIBBOLETH OF CAPITALISM
An old saw about deceit and chicanery: “Don’t piss on my boots and tell me it’s raining.” The phrase has even made it into at least one song (with the great John Prine singing a verse)… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z07gCnMJBZg In other words, … Continue reading
THE END OF CHEAP LABOR AND CHEAP CREDIT—WHAT NEXT?
So I agree with the overall premise of this David Stockman article: cheap labor in the East allowed cheap credit to proliferate in the West: “It was the two-decades-long flow of quasi-slave labor into the export factories of east China … Continue reading
BANKS PUT ALL RISK ON US, THEN TAKE ALL THE REWARD AND PRETEND THAT IS CAPITALISM
We all know that all fiat money, such as the U.S. dollar, is created out of thin air not by banks but by the people and only has value because said people ultimately have “faith” in it. This is uncontroversial … Continue reading
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
HOW FAKE MONEY BECAME LEGAL MONEY: THE AFFIRMATION OF THE NIXON SHOCK
Forty-three years ago today in what is now not-so-commonly known as the “Nixon Shock”, Richard Nixon ended the Bretton Woods system by ending the convertibility of Federal Reserve Notes to gold, thereby putting the United States—and the world—on the road … Continue reading
TAKING DOWN THE BANKS, $10 AT A TIME
If ten bucks could help take down the bank you despise the most, would you pay it? In order to do just that, a family in Washington state has started a crowdfunding campaign over at Kickstarter called “Beating Bank of … Continue reading