Over the past five years the US central bank, the Federal Reserve (Fed), has printed nearly $4 trillion in liquidity (money)…
When mainstream press outlets, like the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, CNN money and others, issue front page articles on a…
On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, the 50th anniversary celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington, commemorative speeches spilled…
For the past several years, the US press, pundits, and apologists for both liberal and conservative politicians in the US have jumped…
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, undertook a major revision of GDP statistics. The result was a major upward revision of…
My recent article, ‘Economic Recovery by Statistical Manipulation’, written July 29, 2013, forewarned that revisions to US GDP data due on July…
Facing the prospect of a 2nd quarter GDP report showing economic growth less than 1% (some professional forecasting services predict as low…
This coming week and next, President Obama is reportedly planning to make a series of speeches on the economy. The deeper purpose…
For the fourth time in as many years, Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, last month attempted to wean bankers and investors off…
Both the U.S. and global economy are at a critical juncture. Six years after the financial crisis that erupted in August 2007…
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