The usual Keynesian suspects have come out from under the rocks of economic illiteracy which they inhabit, to claim that the Japanese earthquake of 2011 will actually help the economy of that country. See here and here
Gold or Uniformed Goons With Badges and Guns - Our Enemy, the Fed, Ron Paul on Bernanke's latest crime spree - Robert Reich as Lap Dancer, Bob Wenzel on the Keynesian's plan to co-opt the Tea Party - Nuclear and Economic Meltdown in Progress
• Charles Mead and Catarina Saraiva via PrisonPlanet
The yen reached its strongest level since 1995 versus the dollar as risk of radiation leaks from crippled nuclear plants in Japan added to speculation insurers and investors will redeem overseas assets to pay for damages.
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Is Libertarianism Compatible With Religion? - The Cold Turkey Bust, David Calderwood on bad times ahead – then a better America - Can Japan Rise Again?, Pat Buchanan on the worries - Debt Makes a Comeback, Bill Bonner
Back in February of this year, Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital Management predicted that a default by Japan on its sovereign debt was inevitable!
In the face of a national catastrophe, what might happen now?
While the crisis in Japan is still unfol
All hell is currently breaking loose following an explosion at reactor #2 and a another hydrogen explosion at reactor #4 per Kyodo, leading to a 16% drop in Nikkei futures as blind panic grips Japan. Kyodo essentially confirms there was a reactor...
The President’s idea of corporate tax reform is to get out a shotgun and hunt down corporate loopholes that he and other Democrats claim are draining U.S. government coffers and undermining growth.
Urban Earthquake Preparedness and Survival - Waiting for WWIII, A classic from Doug Casey - Copy Switzerland, Not the US, Ron Holland's advice to the Middle East - What Made America Great, And why it no longer is. Article by Gary North
The Billion Prices Project is an academic initiative that collects prices from hundreds of online retailers around the world on a daily basis to conduct economic research. We currently monitor daily price fluctuations of ~5 million items sold by ~300
Gross in his February commentary urged investors to reduce holdings of Treasuries and U.K. gilts and buy higher-returning securities such as debt from emerging-market nations. “Old- fashioned gilts and Treasury bonds may need to be ‘exorcised’ from m
(Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged lawmakers on Wednesday to approve capital increases for global lending institutions and warned that failure to do so could harm U.S. influence abroad.
We read often about the plight of Iraqis who had electric power for only a few hours a day, and had to plan their activities around that. This, it seems, is the future envisioned for the U.K. In a recent interview, the CEO of their National power Gri
As Chief Economist at a major international consulting firm, John Perkins advised the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He worked di
Greece launched a tirade against credit ratings agencies Monday after Moody's downgraded its debt grade further below junk status, warning the bailed-out euro country might have to default on its massive borrowings.
It is not just the United States that is headed for an economic collapse. The truth is that the entire world is heading for a massive economic meltdown and the people of earth need to be warned about the coming economic disaster that is going to...
By 2015, we will not only have halved the global poverty rate, but will have halved it again to under 10 percent, or less than 600 million people, with India and China responsible for three-quarters of the reduction in the world’s poor expected betwe
It's obvious, as Sprott notes, silver data has been "very, very misstated." Sprott ends his speech saying, "There's $22 billion of silver available in the world, of which the ETFs already own half... and between you guys and us, we probably own