Federal Reserve Owns 31.89% Of The U.S. Treasury Market: Up 0.3% In One Week!

Tick Tock… Tick Tock… Tick Tock… Chart: Stone McCarthy - The Fed Owns 31.89% Of The Bond Market: Up 0.3% In One Week (ZeroHedge, Aug 30, 2013): We have beaten this topic to death so we won’t say much more, suffice to say the chart below shows what is the key issue: too much monetization [...] continue reading world news

Young Teachers Are Now So Broke They Are Taking 2nd Jobs … As Prostitutes

- Across America, Young Teachers are So Broke They are Taking 2nd Jobs…As Prostitutes (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 28, 2013): I suppose they should’ve just bought stocks. Welcome to the recovery. From CBS in Detroit: So, what are some Detroit women doing to offset their struggles in the classroom? Well, they’re becoming “sugar babies” of course [...] continue reading world news

“Hello Scotia Mocatta, It’s JPMorgan … Yes, Again … We Need More Gold”

- “Hello Scotia Mocatta, It’s JPMorgan… Yes, Again… We Need More Gold” (ZeroHedge, Aug 23, 2013) continue reading world news

They Actually Expect Us To Have Faith In These Financial Markets After This Week?

- They Actually Expect Us To Have Faith In These Financial Markets After This Week? (Economic Collapse, Aug 22, 2013) continue reading world news

With Fed Holding 31.6% Of All Treasurys, The ‘Short Gamma’ Pain Trade Is The One To Watch

- With Fed Holding 31.6% Of All Treasurys, The “Short Gamma” Pain Trade Is The One To Watch (ZeroHedge, Aug 24, 2013) continue reading world news

Your Bank Savings Will Be Raided – U.S. Government Prepares For Civil War – Fascism Has Come To America – Bee Collapse = Food Collapse (Video)

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Hedge funds, insider traders begin dumping Monsanto stock as reality of GMOs sinks in across Wall Street

- Hedge funds, insider traders begin dumping Monsanto stock as reality of GMOs sinks in across Wall Street (Natural News, Aug 23, 2013)   continue reading world news

Nasdaq Market Paralyzed By Shutdown

- Nasdaq market paralyzed by three-hour shutdown (Reuters, Aug 22, 2013): Trading in thousands of U.S. stocks ground to a halt for much of Thursday after an unexplained technological problem shut down trading in Nasdaq securities, the latest prominent disruption in U.S. markets. Nasdaq resumed trading at around 3:25 p.m. EDT (1925 GMT), after a [...] continue reading world news

The Minimum Wage Scam

- How low can you get: The minimum wage scam (PressTV, Aug 22, 2013): You’d think the exceptionally low minimum-wage – $7.25 an hour – would be the shame of a country like the United States that prides itself on its economic leadership. Half of minimum-wage jobs are held by adults over 25 years old, [...] continue reading world news

Dramatic Growth Of Extreme Poverty: Number Of Americans Living On Less Than $2 A Day Increased From 636,000 In 1996 To 1.65 MILLION In 2011

The number of people living on less than $2 a day per person increased from 636,000 in 1996 to about 1.65 million in 2011. - Drastic growth in extreme poverty in US (PressTV, Aug 20, 2013): The number of Americans living on less than $2 a day per person, soared by 160 percent from 1996 [...] continue reading world news

Bitcoin Is Recognized As ‘Legal Tender’ In Germany

- Bitcoin is Recognized as “Legal Tender” in Germany (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 19, 2013): “We should have competition in the production of money. I have long been a proponent of Friedrich August von Hayek scheme to denationalize money. Bitcoins are a first step in this direction.” - Frank Schaeffler, member of German parliament’s Finance Committee The story [...] continue reading world news

Obamacare Strikes At Forever 21 Which Forcibly Demotes Some Workers To 29.5 Hours Per Week

- Obamacare Strikes At Forever 21 Which Forcibly Demotes Some Workers To 29.5 Hours Per Week (ZeroHedge, Aug 19, 2013): A firestorm broke out during the weekend over the latest part-timing impact from Obamacare (covered here extensively previously), this time in the form of a leaked memo by retailer Forever 21, which announced that some [...] continue reading world news

The Total Destruction Of America’s Middle Class … In Under Seven Minutes (Video)

FYI. - The Destruction Of America’s Middle Class (In Under Seven Minutes) (ZeroHedge, Aug 18, 2013): While hardly news to frequent visitors, especially those who recall the following list, anyone who needs a 7 minute refresher into why the US middle class is on collision course with extinction is urged to watch the following brief [...] continue reading world news

Gold Or Tungsten? Here’s How To Know

- Gold Or Tungsten? Here’s How To Know (ZeroHedge, Aug 16, 2013): We hope the Bundesbank, and certainly the German people, will be using one of these in the near-term (up to and including 2020 ) future. … continue reading world news

If This Guy Is What The Future Of America Looks Like, We Are In BIG Trouble

FYI. - If This Guy Is What The Future Of America Looks Like, We Are In BIG Trouble (Economic Collapse, Aug 14, 2013): Should taxpayer dollars be used to buy sushi and lobster for a young man whose future plans consist entirely of surfing and partying as much as he possibly can?  When I first [...] continue reading world news

Where The Fed’s Excess Reserves Are Going: 51% Foreign Banks; 49% Domestic

- Where The Fed’s Excess Reserves Are Going: 51% Foreign Banks; 49% Domestic (ZeroHedge, Aug 11, 2013) continue reading world news

Forget Student Loans … Introducing Day Care Loans

- Forget Student Loans…Introducing Day Care Loans (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 12, 2013): Now that enough college age Americans have been stuffed with over a trillion dollars in student debt only to get a job a McDonalds and live with their parents, folks in New York City have come up with a brilliant new concept to [...] continue reading world news

Eurozone Funding Shortfall Rises To Over $4 Trillion, Increases By More Than $500 Billion In A Year

- Eurozone Funding Shortfall Rises To Over $4 Trillion, Increases By More Than $500 Billion In A Year (ZeroHedge, Aug 11, 2013): Back in April 2012, Zero Hedge pointed out something rather disturbing for the European banking sector and defenders of the European monetary myth: the “aggregate shortfall of required stable funding Is €2.78 trillion” [...] continue reading world news

New Company Allows Organizations To Hire Fake Protesters

When a reporter asked a paid protester in the above image what this protest was for- he told the reporter, “It’s a day to ban guns, I think.” -The Event was actually for a new movement called “Purge Day” dealing with mental illness. - New Company Allows Organizations To Hire Fake Protesters (Benn Swan Full [...] continue reading world news

Is China Doomed?

- Is China Doomed? (The National Interest, Aug 9, 2013): Between 1978, the year Deng Xiaoping’s sweeping economic reforms were launched, and 2011, China’s GDP increased by an average of 10 percent annually, three times that of the global economy. Now the boom times may be over. By mid-2013, economic growth had slowed to 7.7 [...] continue reading world news

A Quadrillion Yen And Counting – The Japanese Debt Bomb Could Set Off Global Panic At Any Moment

- A Quadrillion Yen And Counting – The Japanese Debt Bomb Could Set Off Global Panic At Any Moment (Economic Collapse, Aug 9, 2013): How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000 yen worth?  Well, a quadrillion yen is worth approximately 10.5 trillion dollars.  It is an amount of money that is larger than the “the economies of Germany, [...] continue reading world news

DOOMED: Japan Enters The Keynesian Twilight Zone As Total Debt Crosses ¥1,000,000,000,000,000.00.

- Japan Enters The Keynesian Twilight Zone As Total Debt Crosses ¥1,000,000,000,000,000.00. (ZeroHedge, Aug 9, 2013): Back in May 2011, together with forecasting Japan’s most epic case of quantitative easing ever unleashed, we presented the absurd, if inevitable, thought experiment of a country that would soon cross into the twilight zone of total sovereign debt [...] continue reading world news

The Rise Of The Bear: 18 Signs That Russia Is Rapidly Catching Up To The United States

- The Rise Of The Bear: 18 Signs That Russia Is Rapidly Catching Up To The United States (Economic Collapse, Aug 7, 2013): The Russian Bear is stronger and more powerful than it has ever been before.  Sadly, most Americans don’t understand this.  They still think of Russia as an “ex-superpower” that was rendered almost [...] continue reading world news

AND NOW: Shinzo Abe Sanctions Government Funding To ‘Freeze’ Fukushima With Giant Ice Wall

You can’t make this stuff up! - Abe Sanctions Government Funding To “Freeze” Fukushima With Giant Ice Wall (ZeroHedge, Aug 7, 2013): Ripped from the pages of Marvel Comics, Japanese Anime, or Game of Thrones; the latest cunning solution to what the Japanese admit is an ongoing emergency in Fukushima is, well, creative… Now that [...] continue reading world news

China’s Slow Economy Forces College Grads To Live In Illegal ‘ANT COLONIES’ (CBS Video)

- China’s slow economy forces college grads to live in “ant colonies” (CBS News, July 11, 2013): (CBS News) BEIJING — Twenty-one-year-old Yang Le thought finding a job would be the toughest part about moving to Beijing. He was wrong. His $600 monthly salary left him $150 for rent, not enough to afford a room [...] continue reading world news

Greece: Uncollected Taxes Rise To Record €60 BILLION, One Third Of Greek GDP

- Uncollected Greek Taxes Rise To Record €60 Billion, One Third Of Greek GDP (ZeroHedge, Aug 5, 2013): While Europe, and especially Germany has been understandably “displeased” with having to provide billions in bailout upon bailout funding to Greece every year starting in 2010, all the more so following recent news that Greece has already [...] continue reading world news

‘Recovery’: Record 21 Million ‘Young Adults’ Now Live With Their Parents

- Record 21 Million ‘Young Adults’ Now Live With Their Parents (ZeroHedge, Aug 2, 2013): Just about a year ago we questioned the “demographic demand” thesis for why the US housing ‘recovery’ would become self-sustaining and lead to yet another fiscal and monetary ‘nirvana’. However, while the ‘household formation’ meme remains front-and-center among bloviating Fed [...] continue reading world news

America: Where Hard Working, Productive Members Of Society Pay For The Health Care Of Everyone Else

- America: Where Hard Working, Productive Members Of Society Pay For The Health Care Of Everyone Else (Economic Collapse, Aug 4, 2013): Everybody in America wants health care – but most Americans seem to want someone else to pay for it.  In the United States today, the way that our system works is that the [...] continue reading world news

U.S. Beef Supply At 21-Year Low: Get Ready To Pay Up

- Beef Supply at 21-Year Low: Get Ready to Pay Up (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 2, 2013): I don’t follow the commodity markets as closely as I used to, but the following article related to beef prices really caught my eye. Last year’s drought and consequent spike in grain prices led to negative margins for cattle [...] continue reading world news

The Most Important Number In The Entire U.S. Economy

- The Most Important Number In The Entire U.S. Economy (Economic Collapse, Aug 1, 2013): There is one vitally important number that everyone needs to be watching right now, and it doesn’t have anything to do with unemployment, inflation or housing.  If this number gets too high, it will collapse the entire U.S. financial system.  [...] continue reading world news

The American Homeownership Dream Is Officially Dead

- US Rents Hit Record Highs As Homeownership Plunges To 18 Year Lows (ZeroHedge, July 30, 2013): The American Homeownership Dream is officially dead. Long live the New Normal American Dream: Renting. … continue reading world news