Category: Economy

Today’s News May 7, 2015

When The Elites Wage War On America, This Is How They Will Do It Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, The consequences and patterns of war, whether by one nation against another or by a government against the citizenry, rarely change. However, the methods of war have evolved vastly in modern times. Wars by elites …

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Our Financial Future: Infinite Greed Meets a Funny Thing Called Karma

All those angered by the mere question of the viability of this predatory pillaging in the name of capitalism are incapable of even admitting this cultural crisis exists. Somewhere along the line, we lost the ability to distinguish between earning a profit and maximizing private gain by any means, i.e. Infinite Greed. If you insist …

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Today’s News May 6, 2015

Everything That Is Wrong With Banking Today Here is the latest SmartKnowledgeU Podcast #5: “Everything Wrong With Banking Today”.   To listen to this podcast on YouTube, please click the above image and then click the link “Watch this video on YouTube.”   For those of you that would like a downloadable mp3 file of …

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Experts Are Warning That The 76 Trillion Dollar Global Bond Bubble Is About To Explode

Warren Buffett believes “that bonds are very overvalued“, and a recent survey of fund managers found that 80 percent of them are convinced that bonds have become “badly overvalued“.  The most famous bond expert on the planet, Bill Gross, recently confessed that he has a sense that the 35 year bull market in bonds is …

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Today’s News May 5, 2015

How Chinese Oligarchs Used Fake Trade Invoices To Launder Almost $1 Trillion Globally Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Our estimates show that the developing world lost US$991.2 billion in illicit financial flows in 2012, over ten times the amount of official development aid received by these countries in that year, and greater …

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Is The New World Order Dying? 10 Recent Headlines Offer Hope

By Bernie Suarez We know the saying, you either see a glass half empty or half full. Your attitude, mindset and expectations guide your perceptions which in turn will guide your stated views and opinions of the world you live in. That said, depending on how you view the world one might make an argument …

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Today’s News May 4, 2015

Why The Powers That Be Are Pushing A Cashless Society We Can’t Rein In the Banks If We Can’t Pull Our Money Out of Them Martin Armstrong recounts the push to ban cash … and argues that the goal of those pushing a cashless society is to prevent bank runs: The central banks are indeed …

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Major U.S. Retailers Are Closing More Than 6,000 Stores

If the U.S. economy really is improving, then why are big U.S. retailers permanently shutting down thousands of stores?  The “retail apocalypse” that I have written about so frequently appears to be accelerating.  As you will see below, major U.S. retailers have announced that they are closing more than 6,000 locations, but economic conditions in …

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Today’s News May 3, 2015

EURO SPY CaM .     . . .     . . .   THE REGISTER–According to local media reports Thursday, German intelligence agency BND (the Bundesnachrichtendienst) has helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy on the European Commission and French authorities since 2008. “When it comes to our role in the world, …

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Today’s News May 2, 2015

Brutal Honesty: This Is The Video About Racism They Don't Want You To See Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPLan.com, Though Americans were under the impression that race would improve after the election of a half-black man as President of the United States, the last eight years have witnessed a firestorm of assumptions, accusations, lies, …

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