The 'D' word is being uttered in the mainstream now. Despite whatever the media says concerning the 'jobless recovery' we're in (which is a complete oxymoron) or the 'summer recovery' we've begun that Obama touted as truth last month, all indicators are pointing to the fact that the US is ... Read More

It seems this message is becoming more mainstream these days. It's about time. Max Keiser is right to call this financial terrorism, especially in light of the fact that we, the tax payers, have bailed them out while everyone else is suffering from their dealings, and as a result, they ... Read More

"Europe's fiscal Fascism brings British withdrawal ever closer" - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - Telegraph "Just when you thought the EU could not go any further down the road towards authoritarian excess, it gets worse." - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Things are spinning out of control in Europe, economically, fiscally and socially. German Chancellor Angela Merkel ... Read More

And so the contagion spreads ... first, Latvia's economy (and government) collapses not that long ago, then Greece and Portugal's ratings were cut by S&P yesterday, and now today, Spain was cut. And the question is, how much longer before we realize we're a lot closer than ... Read More

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this. A Federal Reserve senior official, Thomas Hoenig, said this today: "I am confident that holding rates down at artificially low levels over extended periods encourages bubbles, because it encourages debt over equity and consumption over savings." Whaa?? Someone in ... Read More

Nobel Prize winner of economics in the 20th century, Milton Friedman, explains in this old video why entitlement policies, while well-intentioned, are fundamentally flawed at their root. Really wish we would pay attention to even recent history, let alone distant. We're a very short-sighted people. ... Read More

Two kinds of economists exist in the world: those who know first-hand the inner-workings of the economy and those who theorize about how they think it should work and implement policies that have the opposite effect intended. That is the story of the difference between the Austrian school of economics ... Read More

Dubai is just a harbinger of things to come for sovereign debt - Jeremy Warner These are the exact things Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente were warning about a while back. The issue with this surprise Dubai news is not that they may default on $80-90 billion in debt (the news ... Read More

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Gerald Celente discusses the current status of our economy with Russia Today. In posting this, it is not an attempt at fear-mongering, but simply to point out what needs to be heard so we elect leaders who know what they're doing to get us out of this. Frankly, even most ... Read More