Archive - 2014 - Blog entry

Bwa-haha-harakiri...

‘Punishment Interest,’ as Germans call it with Teutonic precision, becomes a pandemic.

In previous commentaries, readers have seen scoffs of derision with respect to (arguably) the two, most-important propaganda myths of the 21st century: the New Normal, and the New World Order. The gist of that criticism is that we rarely see anything truly “new” in our lives, in conceptual terms.

The declaration (through propaganda and/or disinformation) that we have two all-encompassing, new paradigms which supposedly comprise our current reality is patently ludicrous, on its surface. Context changes. Principles are immutable.

The Ebola crisis has faded from headlines but remains a risk after the death of another Ebola patient in Nebraska and the death of a suspected victim in New York yesterday. This brings the number of confirmed deaths to two in the U.S. and possibly three if the New York victim is confirmed as having had Ebola.

"Sovereign is he who decides on the exception."--Carl Schmitt

Russia’s central bank bought about 150 metric tons of the metal this year, announced Governor Elvira Nabiullina yesterday. The pronouncement immediately created buying in the market, prompting gold to rise to a two week high at $1,200 an ounce.

The financial system is lurching towards the next round of the Great Crisis that began in 2007.

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Economists, Military Strategists and Others Warned Us … Long Ago

The global power shift from the West to the East is alive and well

A special Banzai7 Investigative Report...

“If [They're] Right, Everything The Fed Has Been Doing To Try To Stimulate The Economy Isn’t Just Useless — It’s Backward”

And what happens when the gold ETF inflows start picking up again?

Imagine… if you could press a magic button… and your wealth expanded by hundreds of thousands…if not millions of Dollars.

“Unconventional measures might entail the purchase of a variety of assets, one of which is sovereign bonds,” the ECB president said in Brussels yesterday in answer to a question during his quarterly testimony to lawmakers at the European Parliament. Draghi and the uber doves appear determined to ignore the failure of QE in both the U.S. and Japan.