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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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TOO MANY BROKE PEOPLE

We pulled in to the crowded gas station, and the pumps that weren’t yellow-bagged had people already pumping gas, so we pulled in behind a soccer grandmom in a white Toyota SUV to wait our turn for a pump.  Presently, … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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