There's A Huge And Bizarre Spike In Futures Happening Right Now: QE3 Anyone

03-24-2011 • BusinessInsider.com/

This is getting a lot of attention, and nobody is really sure what's up.

IMF Prepares For "Threat To International Monetary System"

03-24-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

As if the IMF's trillions in open lending facilities were not enough, we now learn that the world lender of last resort is about to activate a "Special Funding Pool" - Dow Jones explains: "The IMF is expected to soon activate a special funding pool..

The Dollar Will Collapse Within 3-4 Months

03-24-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

At its current rate of collapse, the US Dollar will do this within the next 3-4 months. This means the greenback will break into a new all-time lows by 2H11, which will precipitate the coming inflationary collapse.

Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday March 24th 2011

03-24-2011 • LewRockwell.com

Interest Rates on the Rise - CIA Hitman Escapes Pakistan - The Fed Is Attacking Your Family, What are you going to do about it? by Ron Paul - Libya's Pot of Gold - Man Knowledge, A pirate primer - Tempestuous But So Talented, Elizabeth Taylor

Gold Replacing Dollar as World’s Reserve Currency?

03-24-2011 • CNBC.com

Central banks are shedding dollars [DXC1 75.78 -0.265 (-0.35%) ], reducing their holdings by about $9 billion in previous quarter, according to Nomura Securities’ Jens Nordvig, global head of G10 FX Strategy.

US Finances Rank Near Worst in the World

03-24-2011 • CNBC.com

The US ranks near the bottom of developed global economies in terms of financial stability and will stay there unless it addresses its burgeoning debt problems, a new study has found.

Casey Research: Investment Legends - “Dollar Collapse Inevitable”

03-23-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

Bill Bonner: None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.

Fed Loses Battle To Keep Bailout Data Secret

03-23-2011 • Alex Newman via The New American

After the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of lower-court rulings, the Federal Reserve must release information about its “emergency” bailouts of large banks and financial institutions in 2008 under the guise of saving the financial system.

Chris Martenson and John Rubino: The Damage Is Already Done

03-22-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

We’ll enter the final stage of the process, in which the Fed buys ALL the bonds issued by Treasury directly. Or perhaps we’ll simply print the money the government spends, with no borrowing needed. At that point, no sane person will want...

Bill Bonner on the Failing US Bond Market, Hyperinflation and the End of Dollar Reserve System

03-21-2011 • Anthony Wile, The Daily Bell

Daily Bell: Let's get an update from one of our favorite hard-money mavens. Where is the world today? Recovering?

Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 3/21/11: The Fed and Inflation

03-21-2011 • www.dailypaul.com/

Last week, the subcommittee which I chair held a hearing on monetary policy and rising prices. Whether we consider food, gasoline, or clothing, the cost of living is increasing significantly. True inflation is defined as an increase in the money supp

The Fed Is Wrecking the Dollar

03-21-2011 • Joseph T. Salerno via LewRockwell.com

What used to be roundly condemned as "creeping inflation" in the 1950s by Fed officials and mainstream economists alike is today given the scientific-sounding name "inflation-targeting" and hailed as the proper goal of monetary policy.

Bill Bonner on The Failing US Bond Market, and The Coming Hyperinflation

03-21-2011 • LewRockwell.com

Bill Bonner: Neither. It is in a Great Correction of the credit expansion that began after WWII. This will continue for many years to come and probably lead to enough excess money-printing by the feds to create a hyperinflationary blow-up.

QE Is The End Of America As We Know It

03-21-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

QE is a wholly different method of keeping the tent propped up. It does not repair the hole, but rather attempts to keep the tent inflated by pumping more air in than is escaping through the hole. This is the new money being created and pushed into..

Fed Must Reveal Which Big Banks Took Emergency Loans From Discount Window

03-21-2011 • BusinessInsider.com/

Bloomberg sued the Fed demanding that they reveal the data. The Clearing House (a group of the nation’s largest commercial banks) had invoked a FOIA exemption that covers “trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from...

Using Gold As Money Is Terrorism: U.S. Attorney Tompkins

03-21-2011 • Walt Thiessen

The replacement of gold and silver with debt-based paper money is nothing short of legalized theft by the banking community on behalf and at the behest of the federal government. That's what makes the comments of U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins so appall

A ‘Unique’ Form of ‘Terrorism’

03-21-2011 • www.nysun.com

Here is a thought experiment concerning two men who have issued money. One issued gold and silver coins that will today bring more in dollars than he charged for them. The other issued paper notes that are today worth but a fraction the gold or silve

Liberty Dollar ‘form of domestic terrorism’

03-20-2011 • http://patriotupdate.com/

“Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism,” U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins said. “While these forms of anti-government activities do not involve violence, they are every bit as insidiou

Economic Disinformation: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

03-20-2011 • economicedge.blogspot.com/

It requires income to service debts, not some trumped up measurement of production. Even using our crooked $14 Trillion current debt number, it is 583% of our nation’s $2.4 trillion annual income:

Free Markets No Longer Satisfy: Manipulating The Global Currency Market

03-20-2011 • TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com/

Central banks and large financial institutions are constantly manipulating the Forex, precious metals and stock markets all over the globe. You see, in today's global economy the "stakes are so high" that the free market cannot be trusted.

NY Fed confirms intervention in currency markets

03-18-2011 • AP

The New York Federal Reserve Bank confirmed that it intervened in currency markets on Friday for the first time in more than a decade. The disclosure came a day after the Group of Seven major industrialized nations pledged in a statement to join in a

‘Anonymous’ puts central banks on notice, demands Bernanke resign

03-18-2011 • Rawstory

One "Anonymous" calls for the dawning of "Operation Empire State Rebellion": a "relentless campaign of peaceful resistance" against organizations that participate in the "control" of large populations through pieces of paper and bits of data.

Dollar Takes Out 2010 Lows

03-18-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

The DXY has just breached the support from 2010 lows. Ben Bernanke's stealth plan to inflate the debt is working. In other news, the dollar is now one lap ahead of everyone in the devaluation race.

Ben and Barry's Inflation Problem

03-18-2011 • dailybell.com

The president may be doomed by factors beyond his control. It is a kind of Greek tragedy.

Gold vs. Badges and Guns

03-18-2011 • lewrockwell.com

Do you trust men with guns and badges to provide long-term economic growth? Or do you trust the free market?

Gonzalo Lira: I Think Today Is The Day The Dollar Breaks Down

03-18-2011 • gonzalolira.blogspot.com

I could be wrong—hell, most of the time, I’m way wrong. But I do think that today is the day the dollar breaks down.

Who Is Going To Buy Billions Of Dollars Of Debt The Government Is Pumping Out?

03-18-2011 • BlackListedNews.com

Japan currently holds about $882 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds and they are likely going to have to liquidate much of that in order to fund the rebuilding of their nation. So needless to say they won’t be accumulating any more U.S. government debt.