• Canadians risking homes with risky lines of credit as economy tumbles

    Canadians risking homes with risky lines of credit as economy tumbles

    More than one third of Canadians (36 per cent) have a home equity line of credit as a flexible way to borrow money, but results of a new poll suggest they may be borrowing without knowing what they're committing to — and too few are seeking expert legal advice. According to ...

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  • US economy on life support, money printing is wrong: Author

    US economy on life support, money printing is wrong: Author

    “The Monetary Theory of the Great Depression is incorrect, however. Consequently, the Fed’s Quantitative Easing policy is more likely to exacerbate than resolve the global crisis,” Duncan argued in an article. "The Great Depression was caused by the inability of the private sector to repay the debt it incurred ...

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  • Canadian real estate bubble longest in Western World

    Canadian real estate bubble longest in Western World

    Canada has enjoyed one of the longest real estate booms in the western world, but the future’s not looking as rosy, according to a report released today by Scotia Economics. The report says house prices have been steadily rising for the past 13 years in Canada. In that time, the average ...

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  • Geithner admits USA bankrupt to US Senate

    Geithner admits USA bankrupt to US Senate

    "Never in our history has Congress failed to increase the debt limit when necessary. Failure to raise the limit would precipitate a default by the United States. Default would effectively impose a significant and long-lasting tax on all Americans and all American businesses and could lead ...

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  • Real list of countries on verge of bankruptcy

    Real list of countries on verge of bankruptcy

    Let's talk a bit about these supposedly broke governments that have been reaching insolvency, and in cases like Iceland in 2006 and Argentina in 2001, have declared bankruptcy. It seems to most, as it would to anyone not ideologically retarded, that for all the public "brokeness" going on, there is ...

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  • Real reason for electricity blackouts hitting southern US

    Real reason for electricity blackouts hitting southern US

    “Large oil companies have for a decade artificially shorted the gasoline market to drive up prices,” said FTCR president Jamie Court. “Oil companies know they can make more money by making less gasoline.” The following article was written by Paul Joseph Watson. He is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. ...

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  • Why savers are getting screwed

    Why savers are getting screwed

    "Without the intervention of economic policymakers, interest rates would be naturally higher. That would increase the cost of borrowing for businesses and consumers, but there would be some offsetting economic benefits. Savers are getting screwed by the current monetary policy, and screwing savers is seldom a wise economic move." ...

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  • Will we see double digit interest rates from the 1980s?

    Will we see double digit interest rates from the 1980s?

    "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." -- Thomas Jefferson Spending is bad when it's on credit ...

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  • Canadian real estate taking drastic downturn: Baker, Turner

    Canadian real estate taking drastic downturn: Baker, Turner

    "The economist who received an award for being the first to sound the alarm on the U.S. housing bubble, is warning the same could happen in Canada if we aren't careful. Dean Baker with the Centre for Economic Policy and Research says housing prices here might collapse if interest ...

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  • Multiculturalism attempt to destroy national identity: UK speechwriter

    Multiculturalism attempt to destroy national identity: UK speechwriter

    Andrew Neather, who worked for Mr Straw when he was Home Secretary, and as a speech writer for Mr Blair, claimed a secret Government report in 2000 called for mass immigration to change Britain's cultural make-up forever. The damage is done. There is no return to the "old days." Just like ...

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  • Manufacturing base intentionally destroyed: analysts

    Manufacturing base intentionally destroyed: analysts

    “Washington is doing everything in their manpower, capability, to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” Farr said today in Chicago. How long will it take for Americans to realize they've been had by their own corporations? US jobs are not coming back because the factories will not re-open, because those factories are now in ...

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  • Canadian government admits recovery never happened

    Canadian government admits recovery never happened

    “Not only did their stimulus fail to create the jobs of tomorrow, it also failed to protect the jobs of today,” Scott Brison, the opposition Liberal Party’s spokesman for finance issues, said by telephone. "Most of us were shaking our heads in disbelief early last year with the size ...

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  • Brazil, China, World leaders call new US round of quantitative easing ‘clueless’

    Brazil, China, World leaders call new US round of quantitative easing 'clueless'

    "Brazil’s central bank president, Henrique Meirelles, said “excess liquidity” in the U.S. economy is creating “risks for everyone.” In China, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said “many countries are worried about the impact of the policy on their economies.” He also said the U.S. “owes us some explanation on their ...

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  • Preparing Your Finances for 2012 Looking ahead to a new year and planning for the future

    Preparing Your Finances for 2012 Looking ahead to a new year and planning for the future

    "Did your choices this year put you in better or worse circumstances? Do you have the information needed to make wise decisions in the next year? Are you prepared to protect your financial future?" It's hard to believe that 2011 has passed so quickly and that 2012 will soon be here. ...

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  • Comparing today’s recession/depression to the 1980 recession

    Comparing today's recession/depression to the 1980 recession

    "Much like today, Americans were concerned not only with high unemployment but increasing budget deficits in the early 1980s. A September 1983 Gallup poll found that three-fourths of the public agreed that the federal government's budget deficit was a great threat (42%) or somewhat of a threat (34%) to the ...

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  • Seven potential effects of war with Iran

    Seven potential effects of war with Iran

    According to this article, Shaul Mofaz, an Israeli cabinet minister and former military chief and defence minister has said in a published interview that "Israel would have no choice but to attack Iran if it doesn't halt its nuclear program." The article then goes on to say that "Mofaz has ...

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  • Greenspan: credit crunch “by far the greatest financial crisis”

    Greenspan: credit crunch by far the greatest financial crisis

    Greenspan said that while the economy was in worse shape in the Great Depression, the recent financial crisis was potentially more harmful than that in the 1930s because “never had short-term credit literally withdrawn.” Greenspan just said that the current credit crunch is "by far the greatest financial crisis, globally, ...

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  • Shocker: Paul Volcker admits he attended Bilderberg meetings

    Shocker: Paul Volcker admits he attended Bilderberg meetings

    "I've only attended the bilderberg once, but didn't attend this year" In the following video clip, ex Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker of the 1970s and 1980s admits that he attended these secretive group meetings. Up until the last few years this "bilderberg group" was considered only a "conspiracy theory," ...

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  • Spain’s unemployment rises to 22.8 pc

    Spain's unemployment rises to 22.8 pc

    "José Manuel González-Páramo, Spain’s representative on the executive committee of the European Central Bank, described as “catastrophic” the fact that Spain’s jobless rate was more than double the European average." He urged the government to move fast on changes in labor policy, particularly to make it easier to hire and fire. ...

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  • European governments steal private pensions; Is the US, Canada, Brazil next?

    European governments steal private pensions; Is the US, Canada, Brazil next?

    "Hungary, Poland, and three other nations take over citizens' pension money to make up government budget shortfalls. The article goes on to detail other pension grabs in Bulgaria, Poland, France and Ireland. Obviously, this is a cautionary tale for America. If fiscal austerity becomes a real issue in the ...

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  • The next financial crisis will be dark, and it’s on its way

    The next financial crisis will be dark, and it’s on its way

    "There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner," says hedge fund legend Mark Mobius, "because we haven't solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis." We're raising our alert status for the next financial crisis. We already raised it last week after spreads on U.S. ...

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  • US raiding foreign countries with dollars, not soldiers

    US raiding foreign countries with dollars, not soldiers

    ""The United States is going to China and saying: we want you to commit economic suicide, just like Japan did. We want you to follow the same thing: we want you to revalue your currency, we want you to squeeze your companies, we want you to go bankrupt,” says Michael ...

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  • The problem with economists and their predictions

    The problem with economists and their predictions

    Looking at economics as a discipline, it would be fair to point out some of the issues with what mainstream, government economists are saying. To begin with, no economic model can predict the future. Economists who do try to predict the future are as likely to be right as Helicopter ...

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  • How Western society is brainwashed and crumbling

    How Western society is brainwashed and crumbling

    "The cultural embrace of illusion, and the celebrity culture that has risen up around it, have accompanied a growing system of casino capitalism, with its complicated and unregulated deals of turning debt into magical assets, to create fictional wealth for us, and vast wealth for our elite. Corporations, behind the ...

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  • 10 reasons freedom won’t return

    10 reasons freedom won't return

    You don't actually want the Fed to do anything, because when they do it costs money, i.e., usually more debt for the taxpayer or the creation of credit that benefits the rich more than anyone else. The Fed doesn't work for nothing and it works for its member banks, not ...

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japan catastrophe

On top of Japan’s enormous public debt tailed with its “lost decade,” we’re likely to see a lost century especially with their aging population, lack of energy, and their recent nuclear meltdowns. Indeed, “the final thing is that the reactors will have to be closed and the fuel removed, and that is 50 to 100 [...]

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car writeoff crash

We don’t so much think anyone is writing off the US economy; if anything they may be ahead of the personal de-leveraging curve. The problem then becomes how much debt the federal government carried into this economic crisis and how austerity would affect an economy that (with growth adjusted for core inflation) is basically experiencing [...]

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food-prices-rise

“In what is probably no surprise to those who feed the hungry and care for the world’s poor, the news this last week has not been encouraging. A rise in food prices has caused progress on key goals to reduce global poverty and malnutrition to slide. “ According to the National Catholic reporter, while progress [...]

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carney's canadian housing circus

Homes prices edged down 0.2 per cent in February from the month before but were still 6.1 per cent higher than a year ago, according to a well-watched housing index. According to the Financial Post, the month-over-month decline was the third such retreat in the past four months for the Teranet-National Bank National Composite House [...]

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horwath marx mgguinty

“The new tax, which could be in place by July 1, will slap a two-percentage point increase on income over $500,000 and raise $470 million a year. Only 23,000 Ontarians make enough to pay the tax but on average they’ll shell out $19,000 each.” According to John Jenkins, the deal ensures McGuinty’s seven-month-old minority government [...]

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gold pills

Gold is the money of Monarchs…Silver is the money of gentlemen… Barter is the money of peasants…Debt is the money of slaves… Do the math and the IMF is selling 15% of 2800 tons. This is like investing $ 1,000 in a stock when it goes up 15% you take 15% to cut your investment [...]

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Economic Gauge

“When the Great Depression started after it [market crash of 1929], it’s thought that politicians actually started the Great Depression by putting through too many rules and regulations…” — CBC’s Fred Langan How can the economy improve if no goods are being produced? Over the last 8 years the US basically been simple purchasing goods [...]

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New World Order pyramid

A very old New World Order warning.. open your eyes.. now. The CFR is the creator of the United Nations and as such it dictates and influences United Nations policy. The United Nations is destined to be the guard and keeper of the New World Order.. a term used by occultist Adam Weishaupt.. and later [...]

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gold vs silver

Gold: Expensive or Cheap, it’s Rare (World’s Gold fills 2 Pools & the New World Order, Explained) Silver Stock Report by Jason Hommel, November 19th, 2009 The best witty observation this week came from Bill Murphy with www.gata.org.  Bill noted the irony of how media pundits who bash gold will argue that gold is in [...]

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bank run indymac

“The International Forecaster, Bob Chapman, says that A New System For The Privileged Is Not A Remedy For The Economy.” The current financial crisis in the US and around the world was not a failure of capitalism, but an intentional looting of the world financial system by Illuminist crony fascism sheep-dipped in capitalism. The old [...]

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food stamps

In an article written by Damian Paletta, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014. Spending for the program, not including [...]

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chinese slowdown old man

“China’s declining economic growth fell to its lowest level in nearly three years in the first quarter, but analysts said it should rebound in coming months.” The world’s second-biggest economy grew by a still-robust 8.1 per cent in the three months ending in March, down from the previous quarter’s 8.9 per cent, data showed Friday. [...]

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australian pm and hu jintao

New figures show China’s economy is growing at its slowest pace in three years. The annual growth rate now stands at 8.1 per cent. Economists say Australia’s economy will come under significant pressure if Chinese economic growth falls below 7.5 per cent. According to Bloomberg, Australia’s dollar declined from a one-week high after data showed [...]

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irs tax refund

“If people are expecting a big refund, they go as fast as they can to a tax preparer,” says Henry Sommer, a bankruptcy lawyer in Philadelphia. “They need the money so they can afford to file for bankruptcy.” More than 200,000 money-strapped households will use their tax refunds this year to pay for bankruptcy filing [...]

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Lang Xianping

On October 22, Lang Xianping, an economics professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, gave a private talk in Shenyang City in iaoning Province. He cited statistics showing why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is trapped in an economic crisis and is at brink of bankruptcy. Some scholars say that Lang’s conclusion is not [...]

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