Doom and Gloom, British-Style…
January 6th, 2010By: Rick Ackerman
GoldSeek.com
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Explaining why the rampaging bear rally of 2009 is likely to fizzle this year, British journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard packs quite an analytical wallop into this sentence: “The surplus regions (China, Japan, Germania, Gulf ) have not increased demand enough to compensate for belt-tightening in the deficit bloc (Anglo-sphere, Club Med, East Europe), and fiscal adrenalin is already fading in Europe.” There are other yellow flags out as well, most significantly a contraction of M3 money in the U.S. and Europe, and a looming bond crisis in Japan.
MarketWatch Calls Out Fed To Disprove It Is Manipulating Index Futures
January 6th, 2010by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
A week ago we presented the observations of TrimTabs’ Charles Biderman, who laid out a logical case for why there is significant circumstantial evidence that the Fed is manipulating markets by purchasing index futures in the aftermarket: “One way to manipulate the stock market would be for the Fed or the Treasury to buy $20 billion, plus or minus, of S&P 500 stock futures each month for a year. Depending on margin levels, $20 billion per month would translate into at least $100 billion in notional buying power…This type of intervention could explain some of the unusual market action in recent months, with stock prices grinding higher on low volume even as companies sold huge amounts of new shares and retail investors stayed on the sidelines. For example, Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge has pointed out that virtually all of the market’s upside since mid-September has come from after-hours S&P 500 futures activity.” Today MarketWatch has an open appeal to the Fed to put Biderman’s allegation to rest by publicly disproving that it is involved in any direct market manipulation. “Biderman’s accusation of PPT market manipulation is another argument in favor of a complete public audit of the Fed’s books…there is a widespread belief that the PPT does manipulate stock prices on a daily basis to enrich its pals and screw individual investors. It would be useful to prove them. ” We couldn’t agree more.
Five reasons why you should own Silver coins
January 6th, 2010By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
CommodityOnline.com
January 06, 2010
There are a multitude of reasons the average investor should have at least some of their assets invested in silver. Consider these five reasons that can help you grow your assets while preserving your wealth.
Stealing Your Firearms
January 6th, 2010Neither Sword Nor Shield: Full-Spectrum Civilian Disarmament
by William Norman Grigg
LewRockwell.com
“We need to make it clear,” fulminated Patrick Lynch of the New York City Policeman’s Benevolent Association, “that if someone lifts even a finger against a police officer, their life could be on the line.”
Stepping into a Financial Hole
January 6th, 2010America’s Unhappy New Year
by Jack D. Douglas
LewRockwell.com
The Baby Boom officially begins crashing this year. Some Baby Boomers began retiring early, but the big retirement Crash begins now and will go on for many years.
CIA Killings Spell Defeat In Afghanistan
January 6th, 2010Doug Valentine
MindBodyPolitic.com
Disrupting the Accommodation:
Why?
“Why?” The grieving family members ask. “Why did the terrorists kill our loved ones?”
The hardnosed colleagues of the four fallen CIA officers comfort the wives and children (and one husband). They shake off their sorrow, huddle together by the graves, and vow vengeance. They bathe themselves in their seething anger like it was the blood of the lamb.
*****2010 Food Crisis for Dummies*****
January 6th, 2010by Eric deCarbonnel
MarketSkeptics.com
If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn’t mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in the trash, as it is worthless. There is overwhelming, undeniable evidence that the world will run out of food next year. When this happens, the resulting triple digit food inflation will lead panicking central banks around the world to dump their foreign reserves to appreciate their currencies and lower the cost of food imports, causing the collapse of the dollar, the treasury market, derivative markets, and the global financial system. The US will experience economic disintegration.
NO…THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT DOES NOT NEED A LEADER
January 6th, 2010By Lloyd Marcus
January 6, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
A recent article predicted the Tea Party Movement will fail and fade away because it does not have an official leader promoting a single agenda. I disagree.
PRAISE FOR LEE AND JACKSON
January 6th, 2010By Chuck Baldwin
January 6, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
January is often referred to as “Generals Month” since no less than four famous Confederate Generals claimed January as their birth month: James Longstreet (Jan. 8, 1821), Robert E. Lee (Jan. 19, 1807), Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson (Jan. 21, 1824), and George Pickett (Jan. 28, 1825). Two of these men, Lee and Jackson, are particularly noteworthy.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH A MORE SOCIAL GOSPEL?
January 6th, 2010By Paul Proctor
January 6, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
In a recent article for Christianity Today titled, A More Social Gospel, C.L. Lopez writes about a new evangelical emphasis emerging on college campuses:
