Tag Archives: Nixon Shock
Chomsky on Financialization vs. Capitalism: “That doesn’t make me fall in love with the feudal system.”
Great article about real-world economics on the occasion of Noam Chomsky’s comments in a documentary called “The Divide.” Noam is particularly on point in this one. Example: “INTERVIEWER: Does it give you any hope that some of the super-rich, such … Continue reading
Slavery and Secession: Old vs. New—TPP Edition
I was chastised last night on Facebook for constantly posting about the reasons why I believe that the rebel flag should be removed from Mississippi’s flag and from South Carolina’s capitol. And of course, trying in vain to promote my … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War, Confederacy, Conspiracy, Crap-italism, Debt Slavery, Everything Is Rigged, Federal Reserve, Feudalism, fiat currency, Gold, Redistribution, Rent-seeking, Reverse socialism, Tyranny, Wage slavery, Wealth transfer
Tagged 13th amendment, Bank of England, Bretton Woods, Cartier, Confederacy, fiat money, fractional reserve, middle class, Mississippi, money out of thin air, Nixon Shock, secession, slavery, South Carolina, Take Down The Rebel Flag, the new slavery, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership
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FAKE MONEY THEN AND NOW: IRELAND EDITION
Two pieces of information have struck me recently, both concerning Ireland at first glance, but really concerning all of humankind when you really think about it. Let me discuss the second piece of info first, which is summed up quite … Continue reading
Posted in Crap-italism, Debt Slavery, Everything Is Rigged, fiat currency, Financialization, Nixon Shock, self-issued currency
Tagged 1970, Antoin Murphy, austerity, basic guaranteed income, basic income, cashless society, Felix Martin, foreclosure, Harvard Business Review, Ireland, Irish Banking Crisis, Irish Central Bank, Irish Independent, Money: The Unauthorized Biography, Nixon Shock, Patrick Honohan, repossession, self-issued currency
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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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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
Posted in Bank of America, California, civil rights, class war, Conspiracy, Crap-italism, Debt Slavery, Everything Is Rigged, Federal Reserve, Feudalism, fiat currency, Financialization, Kangaroo court, Nixon Shock, Redistribution, Rent-seeking, Reverse socialism, Wage slavery, Washington, Wealth transfer
Tagged Bank of America, Bretton Woods, Brown v. Board of Education, fake money, Federal Reserve, H.L. Perry, Larry Becraft, Mae Brussell, Milam v. U.S., Ninth Circuit, Nixon Shock, Plessy v. Ferguson, Richard Nixon, The Realist
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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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DEBT BY DESIGN: “IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO WORK YOUR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE NOW…”
And that’s the point of all these bubbles, and QE, and ZIRP, and inflation– it forces you to finance what you could once buy outright through working. This is the true end game of the “Nixon Shock,” petrodollar, credit bubbles, etc. … Continue reading
Posted in "supply and demand", Debt, Debt Slavery, fiat currency, Financial Terrorism, petrodollar, Redistribution, Rent-seeking, Rentier, Wages, Wealth transfer
Tagged 1971, bubble, college, financialization, Michigan State, minimum wage, Nixon Shock, rent-seeking, student loans, work
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BLACK FRIDAY: IS NOTHING SACRED?
What? Prices at retail are rigged, too? Even on Black Friday, that most holy of all shopping days? Heaven forfend! Yes, turns out it’s not just the price of oil, financial products, gold, etc. that are outright rigged or at … Continue reading
Posted in "supply and demand", Debt, fiat currency, Price, Price-fixing
Tagged Bretton Woods, Everything Is Rigged, fiat currency, ISDAfix, JC Penney, LIBOR, LIBOR rigging, Minutemen, Nixon Shock, price-fixing, prices, Shit From An Old Notebook, Strawberry Fields, supply and demand, Wall Street Journal
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