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Ascent of Money – A Financial History of The World

Title: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World By: Niall Ferguson Year: 2009 [rate] Based on the book, The Ascent of Money:This documentary provides a financial History of the World by a Harvard professor, Niall Ferguson’s. It examines the long history of money, credit, and banking. From ancient European banking practices to […]

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Canadian Housing Bubble: Is it Time for a CRASH?

While the mainstream media is only now beginning to acknowledge a dip in real-estate price evaluations in Canada. We have been raising the flag about this for over a year. According to The Economist, Canada’s housing market is the most over-valued in the world when analyzing its rents and income to price. “Overvaluation is especially marked […]

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The American Dream – A Cartoon Documentary

Title: The American Dream Director: Tad Lumpkin & Harold Uhl Year: 2010 [rate] The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you’ve been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream […]

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Taxing the Rich Doesn’t Work

Notorious libertarian Peter Schiff rants about the hypocrisy of Warren Buffet’s comments about the reasoning for raising the tax on the rich. Warren Buffet continuously misleads people into believing that he is paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. However, this is true only in terms of his personal income tax, as Warren Buffet […]

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Crude Impact – A Documentary on Peak Oil

Title: Crude Impact Director: James Wood Year: 2006 [rate] The past, present, and future all factor into James Jandek Wood’s informative look at the way oil has allowed mankind to achieve total domination over every species on the planet. An alarming wake-up call and an uplifting message of hope, Crude Impact explores such hotly debated […]

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Chinese Yuan V.S. SDR – Who Will Be the Heavyweight Campion of The WORLD?

A reserve currency has never lasted forever and the US Dollar is no exception, especially considering its seriously grave trade and debt imbalances. A country can only go so far with its imbalances, and today the US is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world. The fate of the US surely lies […]

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Canada’s Housing Bubble Statistics: January 2013

Here are the latest price statistics for Canada’s housing market. Price statistics refer to the updated numbers for the month of December 2012. Declines were again seen in all sectors and regions except for (Montreal townhouses and Regina Condos) The aggregate price for all sectors and major regions in Canada declined again in December 2012, […]

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End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless

Title: End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless Director: Tim Delmastro Year: 2012 [rate] Wall Street is being occupied. Europe is collapsing in on itself. Around the world, people are consumed by fear and anger, and one question is on everyone’s lips: Is the financial crisis over, or are we headed towards economic disaster? […]

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Warren Buffett on Gold

In a 2011 interview, esteemed investor Warren Buffett criticized gold for being a useless metal: “all the above ground gold would make a cube that is 67 ft tall and worth $7 trillion dollars. For $7 trillion dollars…you could have all the farmland in the United States, you could have about seven Exxon-Mobil, and you […]

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Guest Post: If Obama Can Just Create A Trillion Dollar Coin, Then Why Do We Have To Pay Taxes?

Authored by Michael, originally posted at Economic Collapse blog, If Barack Obama can “solve” the debt ceiling crisis by printing up some trillion dollar coins, then why does the federal government need our money?  As another debt ceiling showdown approaches, many in the liberal media are suggesting that if Congress does not raise the debt […]

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