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Tag Archives: Depression
LIES ACROSS AMERICA
The increasingly fragile American Empire has been built on a foundation of lies. Lies we tell ourselves and Big lies spread by our government. The shit is so deep you can stir it with a stick. As we enter another holiday season the mainstream corporate mass media will relegate you to the status of consumer. This is a disgusting term that dehumanizes all Americans. Continue reading
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Tagged Austerity, Consumer Spending, Depression, Unemployment
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DEPRESSION WITHIN A DEPRESSION
Today’s Keynesian economists have convinced boobus Americanus that the Great Depression was caused by the Federal Reserve being too tight with monetary policy and the Hoover administration not providing enough fiscal stimulus. Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama used this line of reasoning to ram through an $850 billion pork-laden stimulus package, as well as the purchase of $1.2 trillion of toxic mortgages by the Federal Reserve.
The only trouble is that this storyline is a complete sham. Continue reading
Was it just a fake recovery?
He argues that, effectively, the American middle class is gone. We’ve transitioned from a workforce with a manufacturing middle class to a workforce of Wal-Mart checkers. The bailouts, sold to us as help for the middle class, have only served to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Continue reading
WSJ Interview with David Rosenberg
I prefer to read and listen to the bloggers, economists, and investment strategists who have actually been right about the housing boom and bust. One of them is Gluskin Sheff’s David Rosenberg. He is smart, likable, and been proven right about how this global debt-deleveraging cycle is playing out. In short, when he talks, I recommend listening. Continue reading
Things Will Fall Apart, Just Not Yet
Even as the global financial system becomes ever more fragile and vulnerable to distruption, feedback loops will maintain the Status Quo for awhile longer. Continue reading