Meanwhile, In "Success Story" Portugal Somehow, with over 33% of young people unemployed, Portugal is held up to be a ‘success story’ for Merkel’s Europe’s grand plan. With their stock market tumbling and bond yields (and spreads) soaring…     Perhaps it’s time to realize nothing is fixed at all… as this image exposes all …

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THERE’S Your Hyperinflation! by Keith Weiner   Hyperinflation is commonly defined as rapidly rising prices which get out of control. For example, the Wikipedia entry begins, “In economics, hyperinflation occurs when a country experiences very high and usually accelerating rates of inflation, rapidly eroding the real value of the local currency…” Let’s restate this in …

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Silver Market Change Report 5 July, 2015 The prices of the metals drooped further this shortened week (Friday was a holiday in the US, as the Fourth of July, Independence Day, occurred on Saturday). The S&P 500 index also fell this week, as did crude oil. Markets all over the world are beginning to feel …

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MaRaTHoN MeNSCH-auBLe They Want To Use "Hate Speech Laws" To Destroy Freedom Of Speech In America Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, Hate speech laws are going in all around the world, and progressive activists in the United States want to use these kinds of laws to destroy free …

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The Superpower Conundrum – The Rise and Fall of Just About Everything Submitted by Tom Engelhardt via TomDispatch.com, The rise and fall of great powers and their imperial domains has been a central fact of history for centuries.  It’s been a sensible, repeatedly validated framework for thinking about the fate of the planet.  So it’s …

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The German Press Does It Again: "Give Me The Money Or I Shoot" When a message needs to be sent by the powers that be, the German press can always be relied upon to send it, no matter how divisive (as they did here, here, and here). So it is no surprise that with the …

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US Police More Concerned About "Anti-Government" Domestic Extremists Than Al-Qaeda, Study Finds Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, U.S. law enforcement agencies rank the threat of violence from anti-government  extremists higher than the threat from radicalized Muslims, according to a report released Thursday by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS).   The …

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Early China Strength Fades Fast As Margin Debt Plunges Most In 3 Years Following the much-celebrated (and massive 13% swing low-to-high) bounce yesterday at the hands of a desperate PBOC, the morning session ended with an early boost fading. Shanghai margin debt has now suffered the longest streak of declines in 3 years and as …

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The Emergence Of Orwellian Newspeak And The Death Of Free Speech Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as …

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Carnage Continues: European Equity Futures Crash 7% At Open, Bund Yields Plunge 20bps It appears Greece matters after all – US futures are tumbling, Japanese stocks are tanking (as JPY is bid on mass carry unwinds), Chinese stocks are limit down and collapsing.. and now European equity futures are open and in free-fall. Bunds are …

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