07.03.09- China's All-Seeing Eye
Thirty years ago, the city of Shenzhen didn't exist. Back in those days, it was a string of small fishing villages and collectively run rice paddies, a place of rutted dirt roads and traditional temples. That was before the Communist Party chose it - thanks to its location close to Hong Kong's port - to be China's first "special economic zone," one of only four areas where capitalism would be permitted on a trial basis. The theory behind the experiment was that the "real" China would keep its socialist soul intact while profiting from the private-sector jobs and industrial development created in Shenzhen. The result was a city of pure commerce, undiluted by history or rooted culture - the crack cocaine of capitalism. It was a force so addictive to investors that the Shenzhen experiment quickly expanded, swallowing not just the surrounding Pearl River Delta, which now houses roughly 100,000 factories, but much of the rest of the country as well. Read More
07.02.09- Conspiracy To Hide Bubble-Formation
Go read the entire Zerohedge article; what this means, in short, is that the ability of people (like you and I) to see the fact that a handful of banks, most specifically Goldman Sachs, constitute the majority of NYSE trading volume - and they're trading for their own book, not for customers, will no longer be disclosed. Read More
07.01.09- The Extraordinary Evil of Bernie Madoff
Poor Bernie. The man has been ordered to spend 150 years in the hoosegow. What for? Who did he kill? A century and a half seems a little excessive for a financial crime. You could hold up three liquor stores and rape a whole convent and still not get 150 years. With a little bit of good lawyer-ing, a history of child abuse in the family, and good behavior in the big house, you'd be back on the street in 18 months. But all the papers seem delighted. "Locked up for Life!" says one of today's headlines. The judge "threw the book at him," says another. His victims wanted him to get no mercy. The judge gave him none, imposing the maximum sentence. He is "extraordinarily evil," said the man on the bench. Read More
06.30.09- The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free
06.29.09- U.S. "mass layoffs" at RECORD high
Up to this point, the U.S. government has been very successful in duping market sheep (i.e. the "experts") through publishing totally fraudulent monthly jobs reports. With the U.S. economy losing roughly 2 million jobs each month (see "U.S. economy to lose 20 MILLION jobs this year"), the government claimed that less than 400,000 jobs were lost in May. Read More
06.27.09- Gold: Are You Shooting Your Own Soldiers?
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