The EU continues its chainsaw juggling act. The austerity pledge from France is holding about as well as its Maginot Line, while Greece has sworn to meet its fiscal targets in 2014 2015 2016 soon, and the Italians promise they're going to kick some serious fiscal butt as soon as the country returns from holiday. Spain reassures that it will squarely confront its need to raise worker productivity whenever th ...

China has just made several moves against the U.S. dollar, and currency wars with the U.S. have a way of turning into real wars. US and South Korea wrap up "Foal Eagle" military drills http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-... China and Australia dump the dollar: https://www.thetrumpet.com/article/10... China and Iran bypass the dollar: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iran-... BRICS nations organize a new ba ...

“When it comes to hubris, nobody beats the Federal Reserve.” – Rick Santelli  Steady as the QE goes, but the Fed is fully prepared to ramp up printing if it thinks it has to.   READ MORE ...

According to a new survey of British citizens, public trust in the establishment has declined as politicians, banks and the media all receive less than 10% of the vote. The poll conducted by OMD UK asked 2,000 adults their opinion on various aspects of British society as part of a year-long research project. OMD UK discovered that only 3% of people trust politicians, while 6% trust the media and 7% trust th ...

The Arizona state senate concurred with the house on Senate Bill by a vote of 18-0, sending the legislation to Governor Jan Brewer’s desk for a signature. SB1439, the Constitutional Tender Act, allows businesses and the state government to accept payments in gold or silver. It specifies that legal tender in Arizona consists of all of the following: Legal Tender authorized by Congress. Specie (containing gol ...

The Federal Reserve held fast to its ultra-accommodative monetary policy Wednesday, solidified by what board members described as an economy weakened by fiscal policy. Interest rates will remain at historically low levels while the U.S. central bank will not alter its $85 billion a month asset purchasing program, the Fed's Open Markets Committee decided at this week's meeting. While recent meetings have bee ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has done it.  He has succeeded in creating a new housing bubble.  By driving mortgage rates down to the lowest level in 100 years and recklessly printing money with wild abandon, Bernanke has been able to get housing prices to rebound a bit.  In fact, in some of the more prosperous areas of the country you would be tempted to think that it is 2005 all over again. If you ...

How about this! From Occupy Frankfurt. May 19, 2012. The German police took off their helmets and marched with the protesters- clearing the way for them. The police coming over to serve and protect the people... Blockupy Frankfurt. Police areescorting. Reports of an estimated 20,000+ protesters. Nice to see their faces.... and their humanity coming through... WATCH THIS VIDEO: #blockupy. Frankfurt German po ...

Still think it’s a ‘conspiracy theory’ that the largest mega banks are profiting off of the drug trade, or even the activity of terror groups? A little-known NBC report from 2012 actually confirms it. In fact, one 2012 NBC report details how HSBC bank helped to finance everything from Mexican drug cartels to Syrian terror cells. Thanks to a United States Senate report, which centers around the role of Mexic ...

Dr. Long Xinming (4M),- The German government has been storing about half of its gold supply with the US FED, apparently in the NYC FED vaults. Germany decided to bring home all its gold, but the FED has said that isn’t possible to do, and it would need until 2020 to be able to accomplish the transfer. The German government then asked to visit the FED vaults to inventory the gold and determine its actual ex ...