A Free Market in Interest Rates by Keith Weiner   Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that we have an administered interest rate. This means that the bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve decide what’s good for the little people. Then they impose it on us. In trying to return to freedom, many people …

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GOP Debate Post-Mortem: "Chaos" Trump, "Full Vagina" Fiorina, & "Thug-Life" Cruz Vs "Carpet-Bomb-'em" Rubio Despite the best efforts to "Le Pen" Trump out of the debate, he still managed to garner the highest votes among poll audiences with regard who 'won' the debate, focusing on killing ISIS family members, border walls, shutting down the internet, …

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Will The Fed Hike Rates This Week? The Only 'Data' That Matters This is the real "data" that The Fed is "dependent" on…     As Deutsche Bank notes, The Fed is “right” to be raising rates. If they had done it earlier all the problems they now have to face, they wouldn’t have had …

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The Neocon's Hegemonic Goal Is Driving The World To Extinction Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, My warning that the neoconservatives have resurrected the threat of nuclear Armageddon, which was removed by Reagan and Gorbachev, is also being given by Noam Chomsky, former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, and other sentient observers of the neoconservatives’ …

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Is ISIS Simply A "Saudi Army In Disguise"? Authored by F. William Engdahl via New Eastern Outlook, In recent weeks one nation after another is falling over themselves, literally, to join the turkey shoot known, erroneously, as the war in Syria, ostensibly against the Islamic State or Daesh. The most wanted but most feared question …

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Trump's Cunning Plan Revealed Donald Trump – Bigot, zealot, xenophobe, racist, hitler-ite? Or Donald Trump – cunning strategist who knows Americans better than the "leave us alone up here on our Hill" career politicians and their lackey liberal media partners? You decide… As YouGov reports, a majority of Americans say that they view Islam unfavorably, …

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Jeremy Grantham Urges "Easily Manipulated" Americans To "Become More Realistic" About World's Demise Authored by Jeremy Grantham via GMO, Give Me Only Good News! “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.    It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” (Attributed to Mark Twain) It takes little experience in the …

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Onshore Yuan Has Been In Freefall Since The IMF Added China To The SDR Basket For the 5th day in a row, Onshore Yuan has tumbled against the USDollar. Absent the violent devaluation in August, this is the largest drop since March 2014, leaving the Chinese currency at its weakest level against the USD since …

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Putin Hopes "There Will Be No Need To Nuke" The Islamic State Earlier today, in a clear advance notice to the French and US navies which are both set to arrive just off the coast of Syria in the coming weeks, Russia for the first time targeted Islamic State targets in Syria with Kalibr land-attack …

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George Orwell, Edward Bernays & Perpetual War Submitted by Zero Hedge reader "Ferrari", Another horrific act of terror, another shrill chorus calls the faithful to war. It’s a recurring phenomenon in this early Twenty-first Century. The horrible news crashes from the heavens like a meteor, violently jolting us from the Saint Vitus Dance of our …

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