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11.20.09- Human Population Bubble and Regression to the Mean
Bill Bonner
Oh, where to begin, dear reader? We have something important on our mind...
Where is the real bubble? Is it a bubble in commodities? Or a bubble in the people who buy them?
By the charts ye shall know them - bubbles, that is. The lines roll along nicely, calmly, along the bottom of the page, then all of a sudden, the line shoots up. When you see a chart like that, whether it is the price of tulip bulbs or shares in the South Sea Company, you know what will happen next. The line will go down! Read More
11.19.09- The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society
David DeGraw
You may have missed it in the mainstream news media, but statistical societal indicators are reading red across the board. Before exposing the root causes of this breakdown, let’s look at some vital statistics and facts:
The inequality of wealth in the United States is soaring to an unprecedented level. The US already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis. Since the crisis, which has hit the middle class and poor much harder than the top one percent, the gap between the top one percent and the remaining 99% of the US population has grown to a record high. Read More
11.18.09- China quietly introduces new financial system
Benjamin Fulford
(Editor's Note: The following missive, from Mr. Fulford, portends some radical changes ahead, Not only are they radical, he also suggests that they are imminent. Do your own "due diligence" but stay open to the possibilities. - JSB)
China has stealthily introduced a new financial system based on the renminbi which is well on its way to becoming fully convertible, according to a high-level Chinese source. In addition, China is purchasing 10,000 tons of gold to back up a new fund designed to develop and market heretofore forbidden and suppressed technologies. The fund will be based outside of China and will be controlled by prominent members of the Chinese overseas community. The gold purchase will take some time because of the logistics of transporting it and the Chinese wish to test it thoroughly. Both the Chinese government and MI6 now confirm reports that much of the gold sold by the Federal Reserve Board over the past decade is in fact gold plated tungsten. Read More
11.17.09- One Nation, Under Surveillance
By Michael Hampton
What have you got to hide? The answer may shock you: If you’re like most Americans, you have far more than you realize that you need to be hiding, and not doing so may be putting you and your family in grave danger.
In his new book, Three Felonies a Day, attorney Harvey Silverglate holds that the typical American professional commits an average of three federal crimes a day, just going about their daily business, without even realizing it. And the only thing keeping them out of prison - make that keeping you out of prison - is the fact that federal prosecutors haven’t looked at you yet. "No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch," reads a statement on the book’s Web site, "and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance." Read More
11.16.09- Instant Gratification
Ilargi
The desire for instant gratification has apparently pervaded all aspects of the times we live in, including the collapse of our economies. Once you tell people that such an event is inevitable, they want it to happen as soon as possible, or they lose both their focus and their interest. Warhol's 15 minutes of fame is a thing of the distant past, simply because it's so boringly long.
In the past two years, nothing fundamental about our economies has changed in any structural way, and certainly nothing has improved.
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11.14.09- Narco-Dollars
for Dummies
"How the Money Works" in the Illicit Drug Trade
Catherine Austin Fitts
Catherine
Austin Fitts is a former managing director and member
of the board of directors of Dillon Read & Co, Inc, a former
Assistant Secretary of Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner
in the first
Bush Administration, and the former President of The
Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. She is the President of Solari,
Inc, an investment advisory firm. Solari provides risk
management
services to investors through Sanders Research Associates
in
London.
"The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper
into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the
shots at all levels of government." - William Colby, former CIA Director, 1995 Read More
11.13.09- Will Lady Justice Weigh In on The Greatest Heist in History?
Damien Hoffman
(Editor's Note: To regular readers of "the Bear" I am sure that this post comes across like "telling Noah about the flood" or "singing to the choir". However, I don't believe it can be overstated. Until the perps that were complicit in the wholesale theft of the United States Treasury are arrested and prosecuted, the economy will not recover and the standard of life for all middle class Americans will continue to decline. Consequently, we are talking about the arrest and prosecution of several thousand perps, including 97% of the House and Senate (for failure to uphold their oaths of office), most everyone in the Justice Department (for dereliction of duty in failing to regulate or prosecute), the Treasury Department (pretty much every one of them), all members of both the past and present Administrations still living (except for Paul Craig Roberts, Catherine Austine Fitts, Collin Powell and Monica Lewinsky), the entire workforce of J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, AIG, Moodys, Standard & Poors and Fitch, everyone who has ever had anything to do with the Federal Reserve and, just for good measure, Alan Greenspan and Bill Oreilly (O'Reilly just because he make me want to throw up). I'm sure I must have left somebody out (actually, probably several thousand). We might have to let out anyone in prison who is a political prisoner (i.e. all those convicted of "victimless crimes") just to make room for the real bad guys. - JSB) Read More
11.12.09- Realizing the Fraud of Economic Recovery
Bill Bonner
The Dow rose 200 points yesterday, bringing it only about 75 points below the 10,300 level. Why is the 10,300 mark important?
It's not really...it's just the point where this bounce will equal the bounce following the crash of '29. No reason in particular that this bounce should be the same as the one 80 years ago. But no reason it shouldn't either.
Gold rises with the stock market. The yellow metal hit a new record over $1,100 yesterday. Why is that that important? Well, it's not important either. But gold still has another $1,000 or so to go before it equals the last bubble peak in gold, set in 1980 - on an inflation-adjusted basis. Read More
11.11.09- From the Wilderness to the End of Civilization
Carolyn Baker Reviews "Collapse"
Why would someone go to a movie that is essentially an interview of someone else? Don't we go to movies to be entertained or watch documentaries in order to be inundated with voluminous information and breath-taking cinematography? What would compel anyone to sit for 82 minutes watching some guy chain smoking while he's being interviewed about the collapse of industrial civilization in a room that looks like a bunker?
If incessant adrenalin rushes enhanced by stupefying special effects are what you desire, seeing "Collapse" should be postponed until you are ready to hear, see, and feel how Director Chris Smith's uncanny discernment is brilliantly conveyed in one of the most poignant, but inspiring movies of this decade. Read More
11.10.09- Berlin Wall Street
Bill Bonner
In 1949, the Soviets and the Allies divided Germany into two parts. One part followed a traditional capitalistic path to reconstruction. The other part took the socialist road. Remarkably, they kept this test going for 40 years.
Of course it was misery for many of the test subjects. People were so eager to get out of the East German control group, they risked their lives jumping over the barbed wire. Then, when the wall was down, the population of East Germany collapsed...more than one out of every ten people moved to the West! Read More
11.09.09- Don't Do It! (Cashing Out 401ks)
Karl Denninger
Grrrrr....
As the last of his severance pay dwindled away in March, Brad Cleghorn of northwest suburban Marengo cashed out his 401(k) plan in order to pay his mortgage and feed his family.
Cleghorn is not alone. A Hewitt Associates study shows that 46 percent of workers with 401(k) plans who lost or switched jobs cashed the plans in, a trend that could lead to serious problems when younger generations of people working today reach retirement.
That's not the real problem folks. Read More
11.07.09- A New Third Party Coming, Before 2010 - It will be progressive-libertarian
Gerald Celente
"Listen
to the highly respected Gerald Celente, who pulls no punches, announce
that the political system is failing the America people and that
the Banks (Oligarchy) are robbing us blind. If you're not outraged,
you're on life support. As Celente predicts watch for the
formation of an angry Progressive / Libertarian third party before
the mid-term elections in 2010 and I'll be an active participant." Listen
11.06.09- 'Sometimes tea parties have unintended consequences.'
Juan Enriquez

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