ilene's blog

In this respect, the war being waged against Greece by the European Central Bank (ECB) may best be seen as a dress rehearsal not only for the rest of Europe, but for what financial lobbyists would like to bring about globally.

What we have now is an economy that is almost entirely driven by Banking Interests so, if we want our markets to be strong, we need to do what is good for the banks. At the moment, that means keeping the Dollar as weak as possible.

The global economy is so rattled by price inflation, unemployment, natural disasters and global financial and political instability that it doesn’t know if it’s been “shot, f@*#ed, powder-burned or snakebit,”...

Most commodity ETFs are just clever ways to screw retail investors into taking delivery of whatever hedge funds are dumping...

This is not even getting into the depreciation scam, which is another MASSIVE tax break taken by Big Business that is even larger than the tax avoidance scam we are discussing in this study.

29 Statistics About Extreme Income Inequality In America That Will Blow Your Mind

Not only are the PDs treating Treasury paper like last week’s garbage, banks in general are also dumping the stuff.

Greece is not in court. But there is talk of a “higher law,” much as was discussed in the United States before the Civil War regarding slavery. At issue today is the financial analogue, debt peonage.

It's one thing for the EU to vote on a rescue plan for Greece that bounds the population into lives of servitude to pay off Central Bank loans but quite another to get the people to accept it.

We wonder how consumers are expected to contribute to the recovery?

The idea of turning the EU into a Bankster's Paradise (where you lose sovereignty to your creditors) slapped the Dollar down to it's lows of the day and boosted the EU markets and US futures and gave us our re-shorting opportunity on oil.

As the great Yogi says: "It ain't over 'till it's over" but May is now officially over and it was, in fact, a down month, despite the TREMENDOUS effort that was made in the past week to keep it from being a 5% loss.

That's what makes oil trading so much fun - it's all based on factors that are out of our control and half a World away, so the speculators have dozens of tools available to them to manipulate the market.

Financial power is to achieve what military conquest had done in times past.

While Americans are apparently able to pay infinite amounts of money for gas, we still can't find a price they are willing to pay for homes as this morning's Case-Shiller Survey shows home prices in the 20-city index falling ANOTHER 3.6% from March to a brand new 8-year low.