Reprinted from Soverign Man The sniper took a breath in as he put the fleeing form of Peter Fechter into the crosshairs of his rifle. As he exhaled, he squeezed the trigger, landing his bullet squarely in the young boy’s back. Watching Peter’s body fall, he mentally congratulated himself on what he’d just done […]
Archive | August, 2014
Government Sniper Shoots 18 Year Old Boy
Posted on 18 August 2014.
Posted in Economic Crisis532 Comments
Bankers: Fixing the System Part 1 Documentary
Posted on 16 August 2014.
BBC Knowledge Network presents part 1 of 3 of the short documentary series Bankers. In 2008 the financial crisis swept across the modern world. Today, banks are still at the eye of the storm. This three-part BBC documentary series examines recent scandals that have shaken the financial sector, and the revelations of complacency, greed and […]
Posted in Economic Crisis1,369 Comments
Jim Rickards & Peter Schiff on Gold & Currency Wars (Video)
Posted on 13 August 2014.
Peter Schiff meets with Jim Rickards, author of The Death of Money, for an exclusive interview about gold’s role in the international currency wars. Jim Rickards is Chief Global Strategist at the West Shore Funds, and Director of The James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics + global capital. In The Death […]
Posted in Gold and Silver, US Dollar Collapse1,034 Comments
World Reserve Currencies: What Happened During Previous Periods of Transition?
Posted on 11 August 2014.
The decline of the US dollar hegemony is ever so clear today and this article aims to provide the reader with what exactly happened during past periods of reserve currency transitions. Historically, when a reserve currency transitioned over to a new one, it marked a pivotal change for the world. The economic paradigm shifted […]
Posted in Economic Crisis, Featured, US Dollar Collapse3,012 Comments
The Great Challenge: China and Russia
Posted on 10 August 2014.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990, the US became the world’s superpower. The US, then tried to contain its future rivals, that is Russia and China. With this aim, the US proposed the project of “the greater middle-east”. The US occupation of Afghanistan, Iraq and its presence in the middle-east was not […]
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Is Canada Next?
Posted on 09 August 2014.
Reprinted from Wolfstreet While the US has been struggling for five years with a recovery that has been so crummy that “recovery” often shows up in quotation marks, Canada has been rolling in good times. Its economy has been powered by a housing bubble beyond even US imagination. I wrote about that phenomenon in April: […]
Posted in Housing Bubble1,428 Comments
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