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    Here we are a little more than a year into the Trump presidency and his administration’s body count is already, as The Donald might put it, “unbelievable, perhaps record-setting.” Among the casualties are Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; my former boss at Goldman Sachs, economic policy chief Gary Cohn; National Security Advisor Michael Flynn; FBI...
  • like father, like son. The only difference between between Kushner Sr. and Kushner Jr.

    is that one is in jail and the other isn’t. Yet.

    in related news, McMaster is out as NSA and Bolton in.

    pretty sure sign that war with Iran, on behalf of the Israel mob, is on the proximate menu.

    only question is what kind of bloody false flag the (((regime))) will run up to begin the war.

    ts’all right though: lost wars are how (((empires))) collapse.

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  • The only thing I agree with you on is this ——- Kushner and his wife must begone out of the administration and Trump sucks at personnel selection. Now expend some time and energy writing about and comparing what Trump has accomplished so far in his presidency compared to that oh, oh, so rock solid and stable Obama and his administration at the same point in his presidency. You see when the rubber meets the road what you deliver for the people is all that matters everything else is just so much hoopla and typical swamp BS which you magnify with you’re hyperbolic nonsense. And one other thing Trump is a thousand times better than the alternative we were given in 2016. The alternative being a experience inside the beltway crook, grifter, and serial liar that while she certainly knew the ropes of the corrupt swamp culture was unacceptable in every other way.

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  • Hmmm

    “to avoid running afoul of an anti-nepotism law passed in 1967 ”

    Know I realize your piece was written with tongue firmly in cheek, but let the record show that the 1967 anti-nepotism Statue referred to in the quote specifically prohibits a “Son in law” to hold any position in the White whether he receives a pay check or not……..That often referenced “loop hole” simply does not exist. Though like Clinton, who was the first President to break the antisemitism law, Trump simply got the Attorney General to say is so; over and over again until people started to repeat it among themselves and then everyone started to believe it. The problem arises whenever someone stops and takes the time to read the actual letter of the law……..I suggest you try it.

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  • It is pure unadulterated delusion to suggest, or even imagine, that Prince Jared would ever depart the White House barring his indictment and arrest for sundry criminal acts. For to do otherwise would likewise entail the departure of Princess Ivanka, the Commander In Chief’s number one progeny!

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  • There’s been lots of fire and fury around Washington lately, including a brief government shutdown. In Donald Trump’s White House, you can hardly keep up with the ongoing brouhahas from North Korea to Robert Mueller’s Russian investigation, while it already feels like ages since the celebratory mood over the vast corporate tax cuts Congress passed...
  • Crucially, that law didn’t force banks to separate the deposits of everyday Americans from Wall Street’s complex derivatives transactions. In other words, it didn’t resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (axed in the Clinton era).

    That looks like an important point. Wall St profits from creating the leverage and risk while the public are the dummies that provide the guarantee.

    The US would probably have been better off if banking and credit creation (not to say taxation and spending) had never left the local (state and county) level = no FED, no national debt, no government deficits. At the local level, lenders and borrowers know each other with more trust and less anonymity, and they’re not going to fund an Iraq war. Also if they have to, States and counties can no doubt arrange their own education, healthcare, policing etc. without Washington’s help.

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  • Not till they get your guns!
    I’m pretty sure thats why all the false flag shootings are happening.
    They want to disarm America before the next big robbery.
    Wall St is crashing, we’re looking at another major collapse probably bigger than ever before, the whole world is sick of America, the dollar is worthless….
    Anyway, they want to disarm us before they do this last big heist, they know that most people are aware of who is responsible now, even dumb rednecks and 90 year olds that don’t know how to use the internet know now, so they know when they crash it this time folks are gonna be out for scalps.
    I don’t blame em, if I were about to rob someone blind, again, take everything that they own, worked so hard for, I would want them to be armed only with sticks and stones too.
    Makes sense when you look at it from the psychopaths point of view.

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  • The Euro zone is a net creditor with no trade deficit. Even the periphery is running trade surpluses. What is wrong with the Euro is what is right with it.

    The US has way bigger problems than Europe.

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  • @Achmed E. Newman
    I'm just getting started, in the words of some guy in some movie I mostly forgot about. Mr. Priss thinks that Democrat party policy is the answer to our fiancial worries. Freakin' ludicrous, dude! I didn't know the stupidity level was that high yet. Time flies, I suppose ...

    The debt of the US Feral Gov't went up by 150% (or was it only 100%?) during the Obama administration. Nice job D's. Nope, I'm not GOP fan either; that's not the point. This debt has risen to inescapable levels from the 1980's on, when the D's broke the promise to keep domestic spending under control during the time of the military spending build-up. No administration of either wing of THE PARTY is willing to do anything about it, since the big money men are more powerful than the executive branch and have a stranglehold of the legislative branch that does the spending. This spending is enable by the fact that the FED can create money at will and manipulate interest rates below their natural level, with no FED necessary.

    Even my man Ron Paul, if he had any chance of having his way, would not be able to get us out of this $20,000,000,000,000 debt hole. It is about a couple of hundred grand for every (actual) tax-paying family in the country. How are you going to pay that back, unless you (oh, wait a minute ...) inflate the hell out of the money supply, ruining anyone's meager savings? Do you wonder why there are housing bubbles, when there is no safe place to park one's money. Once interest rates rise to a natural rate (the price of money), the interest on this debt will become 30% or more of the damn budget! Even worse, about 10 X that amount in obligations exist, in SS, Medicare, etc. pension promises to people in all sorts of governments and private businesses.

    So, yes, Mr. Priss, we are in for a big crash. We've got something we agree on. The cause, however, is something that your constrained mind, has no way to get to the bottom of. Just clamp down more, run the bureaucracies better (hahahaaa!), that'll do the trick, right?

    This is the big Commie/cntrl-left trick anyway, isn't it? You hope things get completely fucked in a country due to your own people's doings, then, when the people lose most everything including hope, you come in with "We've got the answer. We're gonna regulate the ever-loving shit of you, for your own good! Power to some of us the people, brother!"

    Yeah, maybe you believe all the statist crap, Mr. Priss, but "when you point your finger cause your plans fell through, you've got three more fingers pointing back at you, yeah."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RKimf6zYKQ

    Good Dire straits song but nothing Knopfler did subsequently compares to the first 2 albums. A precipitous fall from great heights.

    Whining about the “debt” shows a naive lack of understanding, you only need consider one basic fact, the scum from Jekyll Island print that green garbage from thin air. Illusory money can not create real debt.

    Sure if they ever wanted another depression, they’d start screaming that sh*t is real.

    Full Bluntal Nugity – power over your life. Speaking of underrated guitarists – the nuge killed it during that period.

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  • Russo Oligarch? Fancy meeting you here. Read the Protocols? Just business as usual. Sad. An admission if not a confession. Donnie isn’t doing a good job. People are not falling for this low rent conman. He looks good on TV for entertainment, but he lacks the sincerity or the vision to make it on such a high perch. You all keep getting such bad actors. This isn’t going well.
    The World is about to change. Your time is coming to an end. About time. You suck. I’ve seen better lying on the street than the Lugenpresse. Its that bad.
    There is going to be change sooner than later. Total change takes time, but this story has to go a certain way. The writer is finicky about major plot changes. Its time for the Hand to come out from Behind the Curtain and make this right. Not sure how yet. You have screwed this pooch bad. I’m thinking.

    STAY OUT OF THE WAY.

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  • @NoseytheDuke
    Regulations is just another way of describing laws. America is supposed to be a nation where laws matter. Are you suggested that the people should be governed by laws but banks should not? That's just silly. You question another commenters deficiencies in the knowledge of economics so allow me to question yours regarding history. Banks have caused inflation and deflation to serve their greed at the expense of the people ever since moneylending began. WJ Clinton abolished Glass-Steagal regulations which gave the world the last financial crisis and the next. Back to school for you, you self-confessed butt-fucker that you claimed to be in your last comment. Ugh!

    The next financial crisis is not gonna be due to the lack of Glass-Steagal. The FED has made money cheap to borrow for a decade now, causing a big bubble in stocks and just causing people, pension funds, anyone trying to get a return, to put it into risky investments.

    The US debt is only twice as large as it was in 2008, and consumers are borrowing via the student loan racket*, auto loans, and credit cards to try to live the lifestyle of yesteryear while the American economy does not create enough real wealth to back it up. What happens next is not gonna be pretty.

    .
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    * Speaking of Big-Gov induced problems, the backing of all of these loans by the US Feral Gov is allowing students to borrow mortgage-sized amounts of money for 4 years of fun studying in ANY field. The banks have nothing to lose, only the taxpayers do. See here, here, here, here, and here for details on the university bubble.)

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  • @NoseytheDuke
    Regulations is just another way of describing laws. America is supposed to be a nation where laws matter. Are you suggested that the people should be governed by laws but banks should not? That's just silly. You question another commenters deficiencies in the knowledge of economics so allow me to question yours regarding history. Banks have caused inflation and deflation to serve their greed at the expense of the people ever since moneylending began. WJ Clinton abolished Glass-Steagal regulations which gave the world the last financial crisis and the next. Back to school for you, you self-confessed butt-fucker that you claimed to be in your last comment. Ugh!

    Right, so going back to school is supposed to set me straight. Sure, sure. They are the most statist institutions we have in our country. I don’t see how you have come to understand that banks cause inflation and deflation, unless you meant central banks. You have to be able to make money, the easy way, by printing or adding “1″s and “0″s in a computer file, like central banks do, as inflation of prices is caused by an increase in the money supply.

    Banks were originally made to store money, real money that is, meaning silver and gold. Then, they issued paper certificates to represent the gold stored, but those pieces of paper could be redeemed back for the gold. Could they rip people off? Sure, but theft has been against the law, like, forever. The 1st bank of Greentown cannot create money, though.

    I’ll have to repeat myself since it doesn’t seem like you understood: Big Gov and Big banking go hand in hand, but the bankers only have lots to gain when they can get governments to do their bidding – that only works when government has lots of power (for example when a country founded by the wisest people to have ever founded a nation is full of people who don’t defend their legacy, the Constitution). Big government has lots of power via regulation, to make sure any small honest businesses don’t stand a chance.

    How far do you think you’d get opening your own bank, before you got regulated right out the back door? I mentioned schools – do you think if you and some neighbors (maybe ex-engineers to teach math, out-of-work writers to teach English) tried to form a low-cost high-learning school for the neighborhood you’d last more than a day before 10 alphabet agencies shut the whole show down?

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  • @Achmed E. Newman
    You just can't even imagine anything resembling freedom and how that works, can you Renfo? Banks have been regulated for a long, long time. Money has been regulated for a long long time. People wouldn't have had to leave their money in banks that were supposedly "safe" due to the FDIC if it wasn't for government regulation of all things financial. People make very damn sound decisions when their money isn't "backed up" by the taxpayers, like, pretty much, themselves.

    The early '80's depression was a hold-over from the Jimmy Carter malaise years due to heavy inflation - interest rates were raised sharply by FED chairman Volcker which took care of inflation. It's not that we needed the FED, as if the US dollar hadn't been made free to float from all monetary reality in. 1971 (Nixon) the inflation wouldn't have happened in the 1st place, and interest rates would have been set by the market at the "time value of money".)

    Talk about your financial knowledge deficiencies .... where you from, boy? Squeal like a pig for me, will ya?

    Regulations is just another way of describing laws. America is supposed to be a nation where laws matter. Are you suggested that the people should be governed by laws but banks should not? That’s just silly. You question another commenters deficiencies in the knowledge of economics so allow me to question yours regarding history. Banks have caused inflation and deflation to serve their greed at the expense of the people ever since moneylending began. WJ Clinton abolished Glass-Steagal regulations which gave the world the last financial crisis and the next. Back to school for you, you self-confessed butt-fucker that you claimed to be in your last comment. Ugh!

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    Right, so going back to school is supposed to set me straight. Sure, sure. They are the most statist institutions we have in our country. I don't see how you have come to understand that banks cause inflation and deflation, unless you meant central banks. You have to be able to make money, the easy way, by printing or adding "1"s and "0"s in a computer file, like central banks do, as inflation of prices is caused by an increase in the money supply.

    Banks were originally made to store money, real money that is, meaning silver and gold. Then, they issued paper certificates to represent the gold stored, but those pieces of paper could be redeemed back for the gold. Could they rip people off? Sure, but theft has been against the law, like, forever. The 1st bank of Greentown cannot create money, though.

    I'll have to repeat myself since it doesn't seem like you understood: Big Gov and Big banking go hand in hand, but the bankers only have lots to gain when they can get governments to do their bidding - that only works when government has lots of power (for example when a country founded by the wisest people to have ever founded a nation is full of people who don't defend their legacy, the Constitution). Big government has lots of power via regulation, to make sure any small honest businesses don't stand a chance.

    How far do you think you'd get opening your own bank, before you got regulated right out the back door? I mentioned schools - do you think if you and some neighbors (maybe ex-engineers to teach math, out-of-work writers to teach English) tried to form a low-cost high-learning school for the neighborhood you'd last more than a day before 10 alphabet agencies shut the whole show down?
    , @Achmed E. Newman
    The next financial crisis is not gonna be due to the lack of Glass-Steagal. The FED has made money cheap to borrow for a decade now, causing a big bubble in stocks and just causing people, pension funds, anyone trying to get a return, to put it into risky investments.

    The US debt is only twice as large as it was in 2008, and consumers are borrowing via the student loan racket*, auto loans, and credit cards to try to live the lifestyle of yesteryear while the American economy does not create enough real wealth to back it up. What happens next is not gonna be pretty.

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    * Speaking of Big-Gov induced problems, the backing of all of these loans by the US Feral Gov is allowing students to borrow mortgage-sized amounts of money for 4 years of fun studying in ANY field. The banks have nothing to lose, only the taxpayers do. See here, here, here, here, and here for details on the university bubble.)

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  • @Achmed E. Newman
    I've never hollered for more regulations, and I never will. The people that make the regulations are the same big money men, or their paid lackies that you rightfully have a problem with, Renfro. It's people like you that have never even seen a free day in your lives, because maybe you're too young, and your parents never related enough stories to you, that want BIG GOV to come save them. All the problems that you say you need more regulation to solve are problems created by regulations to begin with.

    Cause cowboy….there aint no going back to the gold standard Paul days when folks paid their doctor bill with a dozen eggs and a chicken and your pal the Sherriff was the only law.
     
    Who knows, once the SHTF, you may be better off with some chickens, and Dr. Paul may not see you even then (firstly, because you can't have babies, and maybe he's sick and tired of people who've supported the decades-long socialist slide in this county.)

    I may see your advertised documentary, nonetheless, as I'd probably be in agreement with the guy on a lot, but it sounds like he never gets to the really basic causes. As far "might as well leave my money in a mattress", well, to buck the system he should have just done that, rather than bitching about it - and he'd have been definitely better off not run his mouth if he had.

    It’s people like you that have never even seen a free day in your lives, because maybe you’re too young, and your parents never related enough stories to you, that want BIG GOV to come save them

    That’s funny. I am probably older than you or as old. I owned 2 companies before I retired, a highway construction firm and a beer distributorship… I know all about regulations, believe me.
    My father and his 5 brothers all owned their own businesses, my three brothers all own their own businesses, 13 of my 17 cousins all own their on businesses. Big government has never given us anything.

    But it has cost us by not enforcing some regulations and not regulating the financial markets that effect consumers.

    I don’t know what you do but if you don’t get the big picture about how lack of financial regulations contribute to market crashes that effect the economy and therefore everyone’s business …well then you just don’t get it.

    I’m not going to argue with you about it though….so good luck.

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  • Anon • Disclaimer says:

    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is some sort of protective agency for CONSUMERS???

    On what planet was the author born? CFPB was a leftist protection racket designed to punish non-conforming banks and funnel millions of dollars in penalties to leftist causes:

    “Hey! Nice-looking bank ya got dere! Be a shame if anything was to happen to it!”

    CFPB is to “consumers”, as KKK is to “crosses”!

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  • @renfro
    Oh for gawds sake shut up with the whacko libertarian crap .
    Like a wind up dollies all you de regulators can say is.....end the Fed! end the government!, end this! end that!

    You clearly don't understand what financial markets and banking is all about today or you'd be hollering...gimme some more regulation!"...if you had any money at stake.
    Cause cowboy....there aint no going back to the gold standard Paul days when folks paid their doctor bill with a dozen eggs and a chicken and your pal the Sherriff was the only law.
    Maybe since this is on film you will watch it and learn something.... average Americans with savings or investments and retirement account of any kind lost a third of their wealth in the 2008 crash thanks to de regulation ...all told it added up to 12.8 trillion dollars Americans lost.


    INSIDE JOB ---DOCUMENTARY

    I think you can find it for free on youtube.
    Here's a review for those not familiar. I urge everyone to watch it.

    Movie review: 'Inside Job'
    Charles Ferguson presents a clear-eyed, sobering, commendable account of how the global economic crisis developed.

    ''How did things go so horribly wrong?

    You have questions, "Inside Job" has answers. This documentary, narrated by Matt Damon, does a good job of explaining a complex story of credit and discredit. After watching Charles Ferguson's powerhouse documentary about the global economic crisis, you will more than understand what went down — you will be thunderstruck and boiling with rage.

    For this smart and confident film, thick with useful information conveyed with cinematic verve, lays out in comprehensive but always understandable detail the argument that the meltdown of 2008 was no unfortunate accident. Rather, the film posits, it was the result of an out-of-control finance industry that took unethical advantage of decades of deregulation. It's enough to make you want to keep your money in a mattress.
    Ferguson, who wrote and directed the excellent Oscar-nominated "No End in Sight," about the U.S. occupation of Iraq, is ideally positioned to deliver the kind of thorough-going, persuasive analysis that "Inside Job" provides.
    Neither a film school graduate nor an ideologue, Ferguson is rather a well-connected academic who has a doctorate in political science from MIT, was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has been a consultant for high-tech firms such as Apple, Intel and Xerox.
    Those connections and that background give the film assets many documentaries lack. For one thing, it has given Ferguson access to the kind of authoritative insiders who usually don't appear on camera, including International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French Minister of Finance Christine Lagarde and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
    Ferguson's credentials, and his sense of outrage, give him the intelligence to ask the tough questions and the willingness to do so. More than one of "Inside Job's" talking heads look seriously disconcerted when the filmmaker says things like "You can't be serious" and "Forgive me, that's clearly not true." Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia University business school, is so flustered he snaps, "You have three more minutes. Give it your best shot.".....continued

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9NQ7GjwS3mkJ:articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/15/entertainment/la-et-inside-job-20101015+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

    I’ve never hollered for more regulations, and I never will. The people that make the regulations are the same big money men, or their paid lackies that you rightfully have a problem with, Renfro. It’s people like you that have never even seen a free day in your lives, because maybe you’re too young, and your parents never related enough stories to you, that want BIG GOV to come save them. All the problems that you say you need more regulation to solve are problems created by regulations to begin with.

    Cause cowboy….there aint no going back to the gold standard Paul days when folks paid their doctor bill with a dozen eggs and a chicken and your pal the Sherriff was the only law.

    Who knows, once the SHTF, you may be better off with some chickens, and Dr. Paul may not see you even then (firstly, because you can’t have babies, and maybe he’s sick and tired of people who’ve supported the decades-long socialist slide in this county.)

    I may see your advertised documentary, nonetheless, as I’d probably be in agreement with the guy on a lot, but it sounds like he never gets to the really basic causes. As far “might as well leave my money in a mattress”, well, to buck the system he should have just done that, rather than bitching about it – and he’d have been definitely better off not run his mouth if he had.

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    It’s people like you that have never even seen a free day in your lives, because maybe you’re too young, and your parents never related enough stories to you, that want BIG GOV to come save them
     
    That's funny. I am probably older than you or as old. I owned 2 companies before I retired, a highway construction firm and a beer distributorship... I know all about regulations, believe me.
    My father and his 5 brothers all owned their own businesses, my three brothers all own their own businesses, 13 of my 17 cousins all own their on businesses. Big government has never given us anything.

    But it has cost us by not enforcing some regulations and not regulating the financial markets that effect consumers.

    I don't know what you do but if you don't get the big picture about how lack of financial regulations contribute to market crashes that effect the economy and therefore everyone's business ...well then you just don't get it.

    I'm not going to argue with you about it though....so good luck.

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  • @renfro

    . The thing is, the American economy was so fundamentally strong all the way through even the 1980′s as it created wealth for America and 1/2 the rest of the world, that even with
     
    BTW..do you live on planet earth?

    We had a depression in the early eighties ---some effects of which persisted into the early 90's.
    Interest rates ran 16%, unemployment 10%, the Saving and Loan deregulation sent S&L execs crazy with visions of riches and bad loans and caused 1000's of failures which the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), which insured the deposits in failed S&Ls, had to bail out at a cost of $160 billion.
    The average cost to every taxpayer of that deregulation of S&L's was around $16,000 each.

    You just can’t even imagine anything resembling freedom and how that works, can you Renfo? Banks have been regulated for a long, long time. Money has been regulated for a long long time. People wouldn’t have had to leave their money in banks that were supposedly “safe” due to the FDIC if it wasn’t for government regulation of all things financial. People make very damn sound decisions when their money isn’t “backed up” by the taxpayers, like, pretty much, themselves.

    The early ’80′s depression was a hold-over from the Jimmy Carter malaise years due to heavy inflation – interest rates were raised sharply by FED chairman Volcker which took care of inflation. It’s not that we needed the FED, as if the US dollar hadn’t been made free to float from all monetary reality in. 1971 (Nixon) the inflation wouldn’t have happened in the 1st place, and interest rates would have been set by the market at the “time value of money”.)

    Talk about your financial knowledge deficiencies …. where you from, boy? Squeal like a pig for me, will ya?

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    Regulations is just another way of describing laws. America is supposed to be a nation where laws matter. Are you suggested that the people should be governed by laws but banks should not? That's just silly. You question another commenters deficiencies in the knowledge of economics so allow me to question yours regarding history. Banks have caused inflation and deflation to serve their greed at the expense of the people ever since moneylending began. WJ Clinton abolished Glass-Steagal regulations which gave the world the last financial crisis and the next. Back to school for you, you self-confessed butt-fucker that you claimed to be in your last comment. Ugh!
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  • @Anonymous
    Trump appointed all of Clinton's first choices. Nomi was working at Chase Manhattan, Bear Stearns and then Goldman Sachs with some of the same people during the original Clinton administration. It's hard to tell exaclty when folks like Nomi retire to go work for the CIA to write propaganda. They are probably hired long before anyone knows who they are like Ralph Nader, Amy Goodman or Chris Hedges.

    The best slave countries have most of the population living in chains. Caring, parental personalities write stories and give interviews to remind the sheep how their merciful Government has some personel problems at the moment but all is not lost - wait until the next fake election.

    Wall Street's media arm reminds patriotic slaves to pay a huge portion of their income to their masters, to commit themselves to death worship and obliteration of the self.

    Goethe said that “no man is more enslaved that he who falsely believes himself to be free” and no people believe themselves to be more free than the American people themselves.

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  • @Achmed E. Newman
    Another statist heard from. Mr. Priss is right in the one point, that the finances of government and private finances in America are in deep trouble. This is not something recent however. One could go back to the founding of the "Federal" "Reserve" bank back in 1913, or just 1971 or so from the abandonment of sound-money policy. The thing is, the American economy was so fundamentally strong all the way through even the 1980's as it created wealth for America and 1/2 the rest of the world, that even with un-sound, government-created amounts of it, the US dollar could remain strong.

    Mr. Priss's whole article is filled with his cntrl-left support of "more regulations", "better regulations", "yeah, run the FED better", "go SEC, go Dodd-Frank". It's some idiotic thinking to believe you can make the economy better by clamping down on it with more regulation. Do you understand, Mr. Priss, that BIG FINANCE and BIG FERAL GOV go hand in hand? Are the Jamie Dimons, and all the big-money guys you rightfully deplore, gonna do worse under new regulations that they help write up? More regulation has the effect of screwing the small guy, in any business, with paperwork and threats of guys with guns shutting the place down due to any effort to "get things done without the bullshit.'

    You extoll taxpayer-supported worthless agencies like the CFPB, and next it'll be OSHA, the CARB (just CA law, but screws over businesses across the nation). I've got a feeling you've never worked in any real job in your life, Mr. Priss, especially in a small business. Everything you and you cntrl-left buddies support is anti-small business!

    OK, that sounds contradictory, but that's because you people don't get one very basic point: The big money men will always do well when there's something BIG GOV can help them with. Were the US Feral Gov not in the money business, the free market would allow any type of money that worked to be used. Our founders were pretty sure gold and silver would do the trick. Your screed here is anathema to people such as our founders and the great Andy Jackson who defeated the Central bank.

    END! THE! FED! .... by any means necessary.

    . The thing is, the American economy was so fundamentally strong all the way through even the 1980′s as it created wealth for America and 1/2 the rest of the world, that even with

    BTW..do you live on planet earth?

    We had a depression in the early eighties —some effects of which persisted into the early 90′s.
    Interest rates ran 16%, unemployment 10%, the Saving and Loan deregulation sent S&L execs crazy with visions of riches and bad loans and caused 1000′s of failures which the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), which insured the deposits in failed S&Ls, had to bail out at a cost of $160 billion.
    The average cost to every taxpayer of that deregulation of S&L’s was around $16,000 each.

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    You just can't even imagine anything resembling freedom and how that works, can you Renfo? Banks have been regulated for a long, long time. Money has been regulated for a long long time. People wouldn't have had to leave their money in banks that were supposedly "safe" due to the FDIC if it wasn't for government regulation of all things financial. People make very damn sound decisions when their money isn't "backed up" by the taxpayers, like, pretty much, themselves.

    The early '80's depression was a hold-over from the Jimmy Carter malaise years due to heavy inflation - interest rates were raised sharply by FED chairman Volcker which took care of inflation. It's not that we needed the FED, as if the US dollar hadn't been made free to float from all monetary reality in. 1971 (Nixon) the inflation wouldn't have happened in the 1st place, and interest rates would have been set by the market at the "time value of money".)

    Talk about your financial knowledge deficiencies .... where you from, boy? Squeal like a pig for me, will ya?
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  • @Achmed E. Newman
    Another statist heard from. Mr. Priss is right in the one point, that the finances of government and private finances in America are in deep trouble. This is not something recent however. One could go back to the founding of the "Federal" "Reserve" bank back in 1913, or just 1971 or so from the abandonment of sound-money policy. The thing is, the American economy was so fundamentally strong all the way through even the 1980's as it created wealth for America and 1/2 the rest of the world, that even with un-sound, government-created amounts of it, the US dollar could remain strong.

    Mr. Priss's whole article is filled with his cntrl-left support of "more regulations", "better regulations", "yeah, run the FED better", "go SEC, go Dodd-Frank". It's some idiotic thinking to believe you can make the economy better by clamping down on it with more regulation. Do you understand, Mr. Priss, that BIG FINANCE and BIG FERAL GOV go hand in hand? Are the Jamie Dimons, and all the big-money guys you rightfully deplore, gonna do worse under new regulations that they help write up? More regulation has the effect of screwing the small guy, in any business, with paperwork and threats of guys with guns shutting the place down due to any effort to "get things done without the bullshit.'

    You extoll taxpayer-supported worthless agencies like the CFPB, and next it'll be OSHA, the CARB (just CA law, but screws over businesses across the nation). I've got a feeling you've never worked in any real job in your life, Mr. Priss, especially in a small business. Everything you and you cntrl-left buddies support is anti-small business!

    OK, that sounds contradictory, but that's because you people don't get one very basic point: The big money men will always do well when there's something BIG GOV can help them with. Were the US Feral Gov not in the money business, the free market would allow any type of money that worked to be used. Our founders were pretty sure gold and silver would do the trick. Your screed here is anathema to people such as our founders and the great Andy Jackson who defeated the Central bank.

    END! THE! FED! .... by any means necessary.

    Oh for gawds sake shut up with the whacko libertarian crap .
    Like a wind up dollies all you de regulators can say is…..end the Fed! end the government!, end this! end that!

    You clearly don’t understand what financial markets and banking is all about today or you’d be hollering…gimme some more regulation!”…if you had any money at stake.
    Cause cowboy….there aint no going back to the gold standard Paul days when folks paid their doctor bill with a dozen eggs and a chicken and your pal the Sherriff was the only law.
    Maybe since this is on film you will watch it and learn something…. average Americans with savings or investments and retirement account of any kind lost a third of their wealth in the 2008 crash thanks to de regulation …all told it added up to 12.8 trillion dollars Americans lost.

    INSIDE JOB —DOCUMENTARY

    I think you can find it for free on youtube.
    Here’s a review for those not familiar. I urge everyone to watch it.

    Movie review: ‘Inside Job’
    Charles Ferguson presents a clear-eyed, sobering, commendable account of how the global economic crisis developed.

    ”How did things go so horribly wrong?

    You have questions, “Inside Job” has answers. This documentary, narrated by Matt Damon, does a good job of explaining a complex story of credit and discredit. After watching Charles Ferguson’s powerhouse documentary about the global economic crisis, you will more than understand what went down — you will be thunderstruck and boiling with rage.

    For this smart and confident film, thick with useful information conveyed with cinematic verve, lays out in comprehensive but always understandable detail the argument that the meltdown of 2008 was no unfortunate accident. Rather, the film posits, it was the result of an out-of-control finance industry that took unethical advantage of decades of deregulation. It’s enough to make you want to keep your money in a mattress.
    Ferguson, who wrote and directed the excellent Oscar-nominated “No End in Sight,” about the U.S. occupation of Iraq, is ideally positioned to deliver the kind of thorough-going, persuasive analysis that “Inside Job” provides.
    Neither a film school graduate nor an ideologue, Ferguson is rather a well-connected academic who has a doctorate in political science from MIT, was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has been a consultant for high-tech firms such as Apple, Intel and Xerox.
    Those connections and that background give the film assets many documentaries lack. For one thing, it has given Ferguson access to the kind of authoritative insiders who usually don’t appear on camera, including International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French Minister of Finance Christine Lagarde and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
    Ferguson’s credentials, and his sense of outrage, give him the intelligence to ask the tough questions and the willingness to do so. More than one of “Inside Job’s” talking heads look seriously disconcerted when the filmmaker says things like “You can’t be serious” and “Forgive me, that’s clearly not true.” Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia University business school, is so flustered he snaps, “You have three more minutes. Give it your best shot.”…..continued

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    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    I've never hollered for more regulations, and I never will. The people that make the regulations are the same big money men, or their paid lackies that you rightfully have a problem with, Renfro. It's people like you that have never even seen a free day in your lives, because maybe you're too young, and your parents never related enough stories to you, that want BIG GOV to come save them. All the problems that you say you need more regulation to solve are problems created by regulations to begin with.

    Cause cowboy….there aint no going back to the gold standard Paul days when folks paid their doctor bill with a dozen eggs and a chicken and your pal the Sherriff was the only law.
     
    Who knows, once the SHTF, you may be better off with some chickens, and Dr. Paul may not see you even then (firstly, because you can't have babies, and maybe he's sick and tired of people who've supported the decades-long socialist slide in this county.)

    I may see your advertised documentary, nonetheless, as I'd probably be in agreement with the guy on a lot, but it sounds like he never gets to the really basic causes. As far "might as well leave my money in a mattress", well, to buck the system he should have just done that, rather than bitching about it - and he'd have been definitely better off not run his mouth if he had.
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  • @Greg Bacon
    My guess is that with a GOYIM now being in charge of the FED, instead of a Chosen One, the fan is going to be mighty busy in the coming months.

    But have no fear, when the next FED bubble pops, they'll explain to the huddled masses that the FED doens't have enough thin air to reflate the economy and resuscitate the dead dollar, but that the IMF has an unlimited supply of thin air and they will gladly loan that to the FED.
    Since there will be a new fiat currency scheme, us slaves will be forced to trade in our worthless FED notes for the new improved currency, Goldmans Own Denomination, aka GOD. And for every $10 of the funny FED money we turn in, we'll get one GOD!

    Yes, quite a bite, but we must all make sacrifices so that the 1% can continue to live like its 1788 France.

    Greg Bacon said: “Since there will be a new fiat currency scheme, us slaves will be forced to trade in our worthless FED notes for the new improved currency, Goldmans Own Denomination, aka GOD. And for every $10 of the funny FED money we turn in, we’ll get one GOD!”

    Cool, Greg — “one GOD.”

    I predict you have made “Lowerarchy”elites rather envious by inventing a priceless- blasphemous name for the “new improved currency” to come & for the happiness of us “slaves.” *

    Very creative & thanks, Greg!

    Selah, what’s in your Wormwood wallet?

    * C.S. Lewis christened the Lowerachy in his satiric book, “The Screwtape Letters.” He died on the same day JFK was murdered.

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  • My guess is that with a GOYIM now being in charge of the FED, instead of a Chosen One, the fan is going to be mighty busy in the coming months.

    But have no fear, when the next FED bubble pops, they’ll explain to the huddled masses that the FED doens’t have enough thin air to reflate the economy and resuscitate the dead dollar, but that the IMF has an unlimited supply of thin air and they will gladly loan that to the FED.
    Since there will be a new fiat currency scheme, us slaves will be forced to trade in our worthless FED notes for the new improved currency, Goldmans Own Denomination, aka GOD. And for every $10 of the funny FED money we turn in, we’ll get one GOD!

    Yes, quite a bite, but we must all make sacrifices so that the 1% can continue to live like its 1788 France.

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    Greg Bacon said: "Since there will be a new fiat currency scheme, us slaves will be forced to trade in our worthless FED notes for the new improved currency, Goldmans Own Denomination, aka GOD. And for every $10 of the funny FED money we turn in, we’ll get one GOD!"

    Cool, Greg -- "one GOD."

    I predict you have made "Lowerarchy"elites rather envious by inventing a priceless- blasphemous name for the "new improved currency" to come & for the happiness of us "slaves." *

    Very creative & thanks, Greg!

    Selah, what's in your Wormwood wallet?

    * C.S. Lewis christened the Lowerachy in his satiric book, "The Screwtape Letters." He died on the same day JFK was murdered.
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  • The D.C. and N.Y.C. elite have long been absorbed by financial capital. Trump is one of the many; his administration is nothing new. There is always room in any Democratic or Republican administration for a “crew of ex-bankers and Goldman Sachs alumni.”

    Financial capital is dangerous. It controls just about everything.

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  • @DESERT FOX
    The Zionist bankers privately owned FED is the most dangerous diabolical tool that the Zionists have that is going to destroy America and this is a planned debt destruction with the laying on of unpayable debt on the backs of the American middle class, and make no mistake it is part of the plan for a Zionist NWO.

    This planned destruction began in 1913 with the Zionist central bank creation and the Zionist IRS also in 1913, with the creation of creating money out of thin air and loaning it to the government and the people at interest, when this money could be issued debt free by the government itself , but of course this would mean that the Zionist bankers would not have control over the U.S. without their FED monopoly.

    The time is coming and soon when the interest on the debt will be unpayable and the whole Ponzi scheme collapse and we will be thrust into the Zionist NWO which will maker Orwells 1984 seem like a walk in the park.

    Read THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION and the 10 planks of the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO to see what is happening to America.

    And watch this video, Silent Weapons For Quite Wars Document.
    Man this document is scary. A must read (hear) how the globalists think about economics and how they study and manipulate populations and economies.

    Must Watch Must Watch Must Watch, the Protocols of Zion of our times.
    So you see economists convert economic systems into mechanical or electronic systems, use the science of electronics to find solutions and then reconvert them back into economic systems. All you have to know is the ‘codebook’ of conversion. Pretty smart.
    People who do not understand Operation Amplifiers (Electronics) can read about them here. You just need to know the basics.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_amplifier

    https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/opamp/opamp_1.html

    Op Amps are used basically to amplify the input signal but can be used via various configurations and feedbacks loops to perform operations such as addition of input signals being one example. You get Op Amps in the market as chips.

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  • Anonymous • Disclaimer says:

    Trump appointed all of Clinton’s first choices. Nomi was working at Chase Manhattan, Bear Stearns and then Goldman Sachs with some of the same people during the original Clinton administration. It’s hard to tell exaclty when folks like Nomi retire to go work for the CIA to write propaganda. They are probably hired long before anyone knows who they are like Ralph Nader, Amy Goodman or Chris Hedges.

    The best slave countries have most of the population living in chains. Caring, parental personalities write stories and give interviews to remind the sheep how their merciful Government has some personel problems at the moment but all is not lost – wait until the next fake election.

    Wall Street’s media arm reminds patriotic slaves to pay a huge portion of their income to their masters, to commit themselves to death worship and obliteration of the self.

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    Goethe said that "no man is more enslaved that he who falsely believes himself to be free" and no people believe themselves to be more free than the American people themselves.
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  • @NoseytheDuke
    I'd say it's about bringing Joe-Six Pack to his knees and while he's there they'll have the US military running rampant around the globe serving the nation that they really serve.

    NoseytheDuke wisely & plain spokenly said: “I’d say it’s about bringing Joe-Six Pack to his knees and while he’s there they’ll have the US military running rampant around the globe serving the nation that they really serve.”

    Hi Nosey,

    Article author Nomi Prins did an outstanding job in naming the names & corresponding shady curriculum vitaes of the ZUS President Trump team, consisting of “financial arsonists.”

    However, by discussing the deliberate assault upon “Joe Six-Pack” fortunes, for me, your comment brought forth the administration’s unaccountsble license-to-steal into a level where US citizens (consumers!) have become a helplessly occupied nation & one divided into what a gospel presented as, “The Rich Man and Lazarus.”

    In ZUS government & banking systems sum, it really is “Too Big to Fail” and Too Big to Prosecute.

    I like how you think, NoseytheDuke.

    What’s more, it’s nauseating how deceptive are the ZUS government & Corporate Media’s presentation of rigged FACTS & STATISTICS as to how the ZUS robber (astronomic debt-fueled) economy is faring.

    FYI, Nosey, I like reading Conan Doyle’s “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” where one can gain insight into the minds of sharp criminal thieves. In short story “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” with a chuckle, Holmes addressed Watson and said, “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

    Joe Six-Packs are always the part thrown away. And as Nomi Prins ended this good article, “… then of course, there’s another crash, millions suffer, and remorse returns.” (Zigh)

    Will the circle of deceit be forever unbroken?

    Our Federal Reserve institutionalized government robbery is protected by invincible military neatness including it’s “on call” offensive intervention servive, except of course where needed, i.e., the bandit D.C. regime. W.T.F.? Lies are brighter than truth, and, it’s exactly how you pegged, Nosey, “… they’ll have the US military running rampant around the globe serving the nation that they really serve.”

    Thanks.

    Selah, wise arsonists will heavily insure things prior to incineration.

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  • @DESERT FOX
    The Zionist bankers privately owned FED is the most dangerous diabolical tool that the Zionists have that is going to destroy America and this is a planned debt destruction with the laying on of unpayable debt on the backs of the American middle class, and make no mistake it is part of the plan for a Zionist NWO.

    This planned destruction began in 1913 with the Zionist central bank creation and the Zionist IRS also in 1913, with the creation of creating money out of thin air and loaning it to the government and the people at interest, when this money could be issued debt free by the government itself , but of course this would mean that the Zionist bankers would not have control over the U.S. without their FED monopoly.

    The time is coming and soon when the interest on the debt will be unpayable and the whole Ponzi scheme collapse and we will be thrust into the Zionist NWO which will maker Orwells 1984 seem like a walk in the park.

    Read THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION and the 10 planks of the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO to see what is happening to America.

    You keep continuously upsetting me. There is no such thing as THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION.
    There is such thing as PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION.
    This indicates to me that you actually never read the protocols.
    I Did,
    There is nothing there except instructions what every ruling class is doing and should do.
    There was some peculiar thing there about French Jewish Doctors.
    But I do not know what it was. It was long time ago when I did read the Protocols…..
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    Concerning Banks you are right. All Banks should be nationilized, and so they eventually will be nationalizided.

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  • I appreciate this information —-

    when ensuring fairness is mistaken for interference, someone’s going to pay.

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  • To Nomi Prins,
    Many of us grew up in a world that was not black and white. So when you paint current events in a mostly black brush, we have to sit back and wonder about your motives, and agendas, and the media, educational, and cultural programming you were influenced by.
    The obvious conclusion…
    Trump is the face of a powerful growing unwritten mandate by we non-pyschopath billions of humans for productive and beneficial change.
    Countering us is the deep state which has tentacles developed over decades reaching into and subverting governments, institutions, and knowledge sources.
    So for you to imply sudden and absolute changes are possible by one man, runs against most of our experiences in the real world.
    Do you remember how mathematicians justified Calculus, by assuming that small incremental changes are natural in the real world, and that they eventually lead up to macro-changes?
    We are witnesses a mathematical like new politics and state-craft that has never before been evident in our written history. I am led to believe that advanced software, super and quantum computers, and A.I. are being used by hidden behind the scene benificial forces to predict and alter possible near and far future outcomes for the better…

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  • Indeed. Well said.

    But, while I confess to not being a financial expert, perhaps the system is so rotten that there can’t be a financial meltdown, at least not in the normal sense. The government can always electronically print more money, and loan out infinite amounts at zero percent interest, and bail all the big companies out, and maybe a classic financial crisis is impossible.

    It may be, perhaps, that what we need to worry about is physical reality. In order to keep wages low, the government is massively growing our population. They are also outsourcing more and more manufacturing. We are self-sufficient in energy – for now – but may start to become dependent on imports of food before too long (our population is slated to pass 500 million by 2004, and still rising rapidly).

    So debt that we owe ourselves in our own currency really doesn’t matter. Debt that we owe foreigners in our own currency also doesn’t matter. However, if we are dependent on these foreigners for manufactured goods and food, that is a problem. And if our real physical investment in our own non-financial economy does not keep up, that is a problem. We could start to see inflation – but this would not be due to printing too much money, it would be due to there just not being enough to go around physically. So maybe we should do like Keynes used to do, and keep track of food production and consumption, and how much of our supply line comes from other nations. Those might be the real variables to keep an eye on.

    Because the zeroth law of economics is: physically impossible things won’t happen, the marginal rate of taxation on capital gains be damned.

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  • I’m just getting started, in the words of some guy in some movie I mostly forgot about. Mr. Priss thinks that Democrat party policy is the answer to our fiancial worries. Freakin’ ludicrous, dude! I didn’t know the stupidity level was that high yet. Time flies, I suppose …

    The debt of the US Feral Gov’t went up by 150% (or was it only 100%?) during the Obama administration. Nice job D’s. Nope, I’m not GOP fan either; that’s not the point. This debt has risen to inescapable levels from the 1980′s on, when the D’s broke the promise to keep domestic spending under control during the time of the military spending build-up. No administration of either wing of THE PARTY is willing to do anything about it, since the big money men are more powerful than the executive branch and have a stranglehold of the legislative branch that does the spending. This spending is enable by the fact that the FED can create money at will and manipulate interest rates below their natural level, with no FED necessary.

    Even my man Ron Paul, if he had any chance of having his way, would not be able to get us out of this $20,000,000,000,000 debt hole. It is about a couple of hundred grand for every (actual) tax-paying family in the country. How are you going to pay that back, unless you (oh, wait a minute …) inflate the hell out of the money supply, ruining anyone’s meager savings? Do you wonder why there are housing bubbles, when there is no safe place to park one’s money. Once interest rates rise to a natural rate (the price of money), the interest on this debt will become 30% or more of the damn budget! Even worse, about 10 X that amount in obligations exist, in SS, Medicare, etc. pension promises to people in all sorts of governments and private businesses.

    So, yes, Mr. Priss, we are in for a big crash. We’ve got something we agree on. The cause, however, is something that your constrained mind, has no way to get to the bottom of. Just clamp down more, run the bureaucracies better (hahahaaa!), that’ll do the trick, right?

    This is the big Commie/cntrl-left trick anyway, isn’t it? You hope things get completely fucked in a country due to your own people’s doings, then, when the people lose most everything including hope, you come in with “We’ve got the answer. We’re gonna regulate the ever-loving shit of you, for your own good! Power to some of us the people, brother!”

    Yeah, maybe you believe all the statist crap, Mr. Priss, but “when you point your finger cause your plans fell through, you’ve got three more fingers pointing back at you, yeah.

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    • Replies: @barndog
    Good Dire straits song but nothing Knopfler did subsequently compares to the first 2 albums. A precipitous fall from great heights.

    Whining about the "debt" shows a naive lack of understanding, you only need consider one basic fact, the scum from Jekyll Island print that green garbage from thin air. Illusory money can not create real debt.

    Sure if they ever wanted another depression, they'd start screaming that sh*t is real.

    Full Bluntal Nugity - power over your life. Speaking of underrated guitarists - the nuge killed it during that period.
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  • Only uneducated children can’t see the revolving door between the mafia and the US Government. Social media tells us these people are so intensely hated the rich have no choice but to create a police state and monitor the children as they post on the internet.

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  • @jilles dykstra
    Glancing through the article I read nothing about the euro financial crisis, also not if, but when.
    Italian banks are collapsing, a real catastrophy, compared to Greece.
    Few in Europe know that an EU law exists that makes it possible to seize all bank accounts of anyone.
    Integration in EU banking now makes it possible to do this in a matter of seconds.
    Of course this integration has been sold to us as a great benefit for us.

    Because of the dollar’s role as world reserve currency, the financial crisis Ms Prins is referring to will affect the whole world, not only the US but the EU, Russia, China, Japan etc. There is thus no specific “euro crisis”. The reason why Italian banks are now supposedly collapsing is that there is an election in Italy on 4 March and the usual US anti-EU groups are hoping (yet again!) to use the result to destroy the euro. I don’t see that umpteenth attempt being any more successful than the previous ones, particularly with Schӓuble gone and Merkel discredited. I am unaware of any “EU law” making it possible to “seize all bank accounts of anyone” and can find no trace of it in any legal database. I would assume therefore that this comment is intended as anti-EU propaganda in view of the Italian election.

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  • Another statist heard from. Mr. Priss is right in the one point, that the finances of government and private finances in America are in deep trouble. This is not something recent however. One could go back to the founding of the “Federal” “Reserve” bank back in 1913, or just 1971 or so from the abandonment of sound-money policy. The thing is, the American economy was so fundamentally strong all the way through even the 1980′s as it created wealth for America and 1/2 the rest of the world, that even with un-sound, government-created amounts of it, the US dollar could remain strong.

    Mr. Priss’s whole article is filled with his cntrl-left support of “more regulations”, “better regulations”, “yeah, run the FED better”, “go SEC, go Dodd-Frank”. It’s some idiotic thinking to believe you can make the economy better by clamping down on it with more regulation. Do you understand, Mr. Priss, that BIG FINANCE and BIG FERAL GOV go hand in hand? Are the Jamie Dimons, and all the big-money guys you rightfully deplore, gonna do worse under new regulations that they help write up? More regulation has the effect of screwing the small guy, in any business, with paperwork and threats of guys with guns shutting the place down due to any effort to “get things done without the bullshit.’

    You extoll taxpayer-supported worthless agencies like the CFPB, and next it’ll be OSHA, the CARB (just CA law, but screws over businesses across the nation). I’ve got a feeling you’ve never worked in any real job in your life, Mr. Priss, especially in a small business. Everything you and you cntrl-left buddies support is anti-small business!

    OK, that sounds contradictory, but that’s because you people don’t get one very basic point: The big money men will always do well when there’s something BIG GOV can help them with. Were the US Feral Gov not in the money business, the free market would allow any type of money that worked to be used. Our founders were pretty sure gold and silver would do the trick. Your screed here is anathema to people such as our founders and the great Andy Jackson who defeated the Central bank.

    END! THE! FED! …. by any means necessary.

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    • Replies: @renfro
    Oh for gawds sake shut up with the whacko libertarian crap .
    Like a wind up dollies all you de regulators can say is.....end the Fed! end the government!, end this! end that!

    You clearly don't understand what financial markets and banking is all about today or you'd be hollering...gimme some more regulation!"...if you had any money at stake.
    Cause cowboy....there aint no going back to the gold standard Paul days when folks paid their doctor bill with a dozen eggs and a chicken and your pal the Sherriff was the only law.
    Maybe since this is on film you will watch it and learn something.... average Americans with savings or investments and retirement account of any kind lost a third of their wealth in the 2008 crash thanks to de regulation ...all told it added up to 12.8 trillion dollars Americans lost.


    INSIDE JOB ---DOCUMENTARY

    I think you can find it for free on youtube.
    Here's a review for those not familiar. I urge everyone to watch it.

    Movie review: 'Inside Job'
    Charles Ferguson presents a clear-eyed, sobering, commendable account of how the global economic crisis developed.

    ''How did things go so horribly wrong?

    You have questions, "Inside Job" has answers. This documentary, narrated by Matt Damon, does a good job of explaining a complex story of credit and discredit. After watching Charles Ferguson's powerhouse documentary about the global economic crisis, you will more than understand what went down — you will be thunderstruck and boiling with rage.

    For this smart and confident film, thick with useful information conveyed with cinematic verve, lays out in comprehensive but always understandable detail the argument that the meltdown of 2008 was no unfortunate accident. Rather, the film posits, it was the result of an out-of-control finance industry that took unethical advantage of decades of deregulation. It's enough to make you want to keep your money in a mattress.
    Ferguson, who wrote and directed the excellent Oscar-nominated "No End in Sight," about the U.S. occupation of Iraq, is ideally positioned to deliver the kind of thorough-going, persuasive analysis that "Inside Job" provides.
    Neither a film school graduate nor an ideologue, Ferguson is rather a well-connected academic who has a doctorate in political science from MIT, was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has been a consultant for high-tech firms such as Apple, Intel and Xerox.
    Those connections and that background give the film assets many documentaries lack. For one thing, it has given Ferguson access to the kind of authoritative insiders who usually don't appear on camera, including International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French Minister of Finance Christine Lagarde and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
    Ferguson's credentials, and his sense of outrage, give him the intelligence to ask the tough questions and the willingness to do so. More than one of "Inside Job's" talking heads look seriously disconcerted when the filmmaker says things like "You can't be serious" and "Forgive me, that's clearly not true." Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia University business school, is so flustered he snaps, "You have three more minutes. Give it your best shot.".....continued

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    , @renfro

    . The thing is, the American economy was so fundamentally strong all the way through even the 1980′s as it created wealth for America and 1/2 the rest of the world, that even with
     
    BTW..do you live on planet earth?

    We had a depression in the early eighties ---some effects of which persisted into the early 90's.
    Interest rates ran 16%, unemployment 10%, the Saving and Loan deregulation sent S&L execs crazy with visions of riches and bad loans and caused 1000's of failures which the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), which insured the deposits in failed S&Ls, had to bail out at a cost of $160 billion.
    The average cost to every taxpayer of that deregulation of S&L's was around $16,000 each.
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  • The Zionist bankers privately owned FED is the most dangerous diabolical tool that the Zionists have that is going to destroy America and this is a planned debt destruction with the laying on of unpayable debt on the backs of the American middle class, and make no mistake it is part of the plan for a Zionist NWO.

    This planned destruction began in 1913 with the Zionist central bank creation and the Zionist IRS also in 1913, with the creation of creating money out of thin air and loaning it to the government and the people at interest, when this money could be issued debt free by the government itself , but of course this would mean that the Zionist bankers would not have control over the U.S. without their FED monopoly.

    The time is coming and soon when the interest on the debt will be unpayable and the whole Ponzi scheme collapse and we will be thrust into the Zionist NWO which will maker Orwells 1984 seem like a walk in the park.

    Read THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION and the 10 planks of the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO to see what is happening to America.

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    You keep continuously upsetting me. There is no such thing as THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION.
    There is such thing as PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION.
    This indicates to me that you actually never read the protocols.
    I Did,
    There is nothing there except instructions what every ruling class is doing and should do.
    There was some peculiar thing there about French Jewish Doctors.
    But I do not know what it was. It was long time ago when I did read the Protocols.....
    .................................................................................................................................

    Concerning Banks you are right. All Banks should be nationilized, and so they eventually will be nationalizided.
    , @Malla
    And watch this video, Silent Weapons For Quite Wars Document.
    Man this document is scary. A must read (hear) how the globalists think about economics and how they study and manipulate populations and economies.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_38tsQ4p0I

    Must Watch Must Watch Must Watch, the Protocols of Zion of our times.
    So you see economists convert economic systems into mechanical or electronic systems, use the science of electronics to find solutions and then reconvert them back into economic systems. All you have to know is the 'codebook' of conversion. Pretty smart.
    People who do not understand Operation Amplifiers (Electronics) can read about them here. You just need to know the basics.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_amplifier
    https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/opamp/opamp_1.html
    Op Amps are used basically to amplify the input signal but can be used via various configurations and feedbacks loops to perform operations such as addition of input signals being one example. You get Op Amps in the market as chips.
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  • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA its all nothing. There is such a thing as printing of money.
    Only hyperinflation would bring down the system. So everybody can relax.

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  • Me. My dear fellow, you need not be so surprised…But how are things going up here? what is Athens about?

    Phi. Oh, nothing new; extortion, perjury, forty per cent, face-grinding.

    -Lucian of Samosata, MENIPPUS, A NECROMANTIC EXPERIMENT, ~150 AD

    http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/wl1/wl176.htm

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  • Presidents have been putting fox’s in charge of the financial hen house for centuries – I see nothing new with Trump (That is how they are selected for the voters anyway).

    What maybe changing in the years to come is the idea of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency. Once that paper ‘man behind the curtain’ is thought to be no longer useful, it’s a house of cards for the fiat dollar.

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  • This is not going to end well. Luv ur critical and analytical style Nomi Prins. It was pretty obvious from the start back in 2007 and then 2008 . QE only added fuel too the fire and we are all heading towards a financial inferno. 600 percent over leveraged Stockmarket in 2018 as opposed to 120 percent over leveraged Stockmarket of 2007. That is one hell of a fall. It is strange that in western countries we have the largest amount of post secondary educated populace in history but not one critical ,rational or objective thinker amongst us . The largest economic gap since the Gilded age and still our fellow western humans can’t see the grass from the trees or tell the difference.
    Post Criptum : It is so true the phrase IGNORANCE IS BLISS and as we Live Mussolini’s dream of Lo Stato Corporato The Corporate State all of us in the west would not know fascism even if it they r living in it as I write.

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  • Glancing through the article I read nothing about the euro financial crisis, also not if, but when.
    Italian banks are collapsing, a real catastrophy, compared to Greece.
    Few in Europe know that an EU law exists that makes it possible to seize all bank accounts of anyone.
    Integration in EU banking now makes it possible to do this in a matter of seconds.
    Of course this integration has been sold to us as a great benefit for us.

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    Because of the dollar’s role as world reserve currency, the financial crisis Ms Prins is referring to will affect the whole world, not only the US but the EU, Russia, China, Japan etc. There is thus no specific “euro crisis”. The reason why Italian banks are now supposedly collapsing is that there is an election in Italy on 4 March and the usual US anti-EU groups are hoping (yet again!) to use the result to destroy the euro. I don’t see that umpteenth attempt being any more successful than the previous ones, particularly with Schӓuble gone and Merkel discredited. I am unaware of any “EU law” making it possible to “seize all bank accounts of anyone” and can find no trace of it in any legal database. I would assume therefore that this comment is intended as anti-EU propaganda in view of the Italian election.
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  • @Greg Bacon

    They include the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury Department, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (an independent bureau of the Treasury), and most recently, under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (an independent agency funded by the Federal Reserve).
     
    These agencies are nothing more than distractions to keep the rubes occupied with a glitzy show while their Confederates pick the pockets of the marks, Americans.

    Before the 2008 crash, years before, Harry Markopolos was warning the SEC, the FBI and finally the MSM about the coming crash of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme and they ALL blew him off, either too lazy to do their jobs or most likely, too crooked.

    It's interesting that the OCC was established during the Civil War, the war that Lincoln helped to finance by creating Greenbacks, instead of paying larcenous Wall Street bankers 24-36% interest. Abe must of known the banksters would try some shenanigans to force him to borrow from their greedy paws, so he had them watched.

    I'm not sure what all this current Wall Street madness is about, with DJ highs every week, but it's still a bubble and the bigger it grows, the louder and more painful will be the explosion and the SEC and FED, Treasury and OCC will be singing the same sad lie, "We didn't see it coming."

    I’d say it’s about bringing Joe-Six Pack to his knees and while he’s there they’ll have the US military running rampant around the globe serving the nation that they really serve.

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    NoseytheDuke wisely & plain spokenly said: "I’d say it’s about bringing Joe-Six Pack to his knees and while he’s there they’ll have the US military running rampant around the globe serving the nation that they really serve."

    Hi Nosey,

    Article author Nomi Prins did an outstanding job in naming the names & corresponding shady curriculum vitaes of the ZUS President Trump team, consisting of "financial arsonists."

    However, by discussing the deliberate assault upon "Joe Six-Pack" fortunes, for me, your comment brought forth the administration's unaccountsble license-to-steal into a level where US citizens (consumers!) have become a helplessly occupied nation & one divided into what a gospel presented as, "The Rich Man and Lazarus."

    In ZUS government & banking systems sum, it really is "Too Big to Fail" and Too Big to Prosecute.

    I like how you think, NoseytheDuke.

    What's more, it's nauseating how deceptive are the ZUS government & Corporate Media's presentation of rigged FACTS & STATISTICS as to how the ZUS robber (astronomic debt-fueled) economy is faring.

    FYI, Nosey, I like reading Conan Doyle's "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" where one can gain insight into the minds of sharp criminal thieves. In short story "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," with a chuckle, Holmes addressed Watson and said, "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

    Joe Six-Packs are always the part thrown away. And as Nomi Prins ended this good article, "... then of course, there’s another crash, millions suffer, and remorse returns." (Zigh)

    Will the circle of deceit be forever unbroken?

    Our Federal Reserve institutionalized government robbery is protected by invincible military neatness including it's "on call" offensive intervention servive, except of course where needed, i.e., the bandit D.C. regime. W.T.F.? Lies are brighter than truth, and, it's exactly how you pegged, Nosey, "... they’ll have the US military running rampant around the globe serving the nation that they really serve."

    Thanks.

    Selah, wise arsonists will heavily insure things prior to incineration.
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  • The absurdity of the attainment of value to realities that seven dimensions of physics cannot capture.

    Fiction, as in short-story writing, then “the banking system” is the novel, economic theory the Torah and Bible, the Koran as convenient. Banking has it’s own cryptic language, complexity as in chaos, then of course the higher layers of commenting require ex-bankers, ex-employees, to narrate linearly the story of the psychological attraction to alchemistic wealth creating.

    Non-fiction?!, then adding another layer to the real would only point to knowingly being complicit. Adhering to the script would then not break the magic of “the good and the bad”, the believe in the book of Economics. The respect for the priests celebrating mass, the rabbi putting his five cents, whatever the value at the time of declamation seems normative.

    The core of finance, is not even anchored in the energy expenditure of digital currencies, an algorithm that can be broken, a key and random seeds, but in the hands of a few old wary men of minority descend that throw the magical mist of mister sandman. It takes cranks to cater to the preposition.

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  • They include the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury Department, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (an independent bureau of the Treasury), and most recently, under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (an independent agency funded by the Federal Reserve).

    These agencies are nothing more than distractions to keep the rubes occupied with a glitzy show while their Confederates pick the pockets of the marks, Americans.

    Before the 2008 crash, years before, Harry Markopolos was warning the SEC, the FBI and finally the MSM about the coming crash of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and they ALL blew him off, either too lazy to do their jobs or most likely, too crooked.

    It’s interesting that the OCC was established during the Civil War, the war that Lincoln helped to finance by creating Greenbacks, instead of paying larcenous Wall Street bankers 24-36% interest. Abe must of known the banksters would try some shenanigans to force him to borrow from their greedy paws, so he had them watched.

    I’m not sure what all this current Wall Street madness is about, with DJ highs every week, but it’s still a bubble and the bigger it grows, the louder and more painful will be the explosion and the SEC and FED, Treasury and OCC will be singing the same sad lie, “We didn’t see it coming.”

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  • Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin doesn’t exactly come across as the guy you’d want in your corner in a playground tussle. In the Trump administration, he’s been more like the kid trying to cop favor with the school bully. That, at least, is the role he seems to have taken in the Trump White House. When...
  • @jilles dykstra
    One sees the claws of Goldman Sachs anywhere, alas also with the ECB, Draghi.

    Do you see Goldman Sachs as being involved in the alleged embezzling by the Federal Reserve with the FR exclusive control of the funds from Treasury auction funds ?

    Ref. https://ppjg.me/2017/11/09/fiscal-bliss-ignorance-is-bliss/

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  • @niteranger
    Trump's cabinet and administration has more Jews in it than a Bar Mitzvah. Check Obama's appointees. Fifty four percent of Clinton's appointments were Jewish. It never changes and of course if you can do math then your antisemitic.

    Limiting your scope to the US appointments of GS is to short-change the image of a vampire squid on the face of humanity. GS is international. Ref. http://farmwars.info/?p=12078 FACE FOR THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT.

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  • @niteranger
    Trump's cabinet and administration has more Jews in it than a Bar Mitzvah. Check Obama's appointees. Fifty four percent of Clinton's appointments were Jewish. It never changes and of course if you can do math then your antisemitic.

    should that be “you are anti-Semitic.” ?

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  • Anon • Disclaimer says:
    @Issac
    Say what you will of the Goldman cabal, they were the appointment material of either potential administration. You did; however, very much bury the lead. The tax plan, specifically that which denies deductions on state and local taxes, is the very embodiment of Hamiltonian Federalism. The system which Hamilton promoted was highly centralized (he notably preferred that Washington should have stayed on as an executive monarch) and exerted great control over the subordinate states. To have states like California and New York end-running federal taxes as a result of generating their own bloated tax systems would have seemed to Hamilton a Jeffersonian Confederate absurdity.

    Of course, Mnuchin is no true Hamiltonian. Nobody in finance is anymore. But what he represents is nothing more than doing business with those who have institutional power. Any president must grasp the hand of the neoliberals and try to shake out what reforms are possible. There will be resistance, a good deal of it in-fact, but promising tax cuts to politically pragmatic corporate entities in return for punishing wildly out of control progressive bastions is a transparently good deal. One which, predictably, produces tirades such as this article.

    Liberals in New York and California are always voting for higher-tax regimes in their own states and braying about the benefits of higher taxes. So they need to shut up and stop complaining when their mortgage, state, and local tax deduction loopholes are taken away from them. Red States have no reason to give a special Federal tax break only to high-tax Blue States because the voters in those states are trying to tax themselves into oblivion. Red Staters are, in essence, paying more than their fair share of Federal taxes than Blue Staters are.

    Of course, the obvious solution for Blue Staters is to start voting for lower tax politicians. They don’t have to suffer. They can wise up.

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  • @Colleen Pater
    [If you make absolutely no effort at proper capitalization, spelling, or punctuation, your comments may just get trashed.]

    I make an effort go to hell

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  • @map
    Colleen,

    The Fed is primarily involved in targeting interest rates as a way of stabilizing the US dollar. The problem is, the fed has no way of knowing if price increases represent a supply and demand for dollars or if they reflect a weakening currency. So, the Fed assumes that any massive increases in the economy are due to "bubbles" or "irrational exuberance" or some other nonsense.

    They blew apart the Nasdaq in the late 90's. They caused the Asian flu in the late 90's. They busted out the economy in 2004 and they caused the collapse of the housing market in 2007-2008.

    The mortgage rate was not 5%. That is the Federal Funds Rate for overnight money. The prime rate hit 8.25%. That is the rate Apple would get. The average person saw interest rates hit 11% or more.

    What do you think happens to a mortgage payment if your ARM goes from 2-3% to 11%? You go bankrupt.

    The Fed knows it caused the mortgage crisis, with that a**hole Ben Bernanke tanking the economy.

    The original purpose of the fed was to use open market activities to maintain the gold standard. When the gold standard collapsed under Nixon, the Fed actually tried Friedman's monetarism and that caused a massive inflation for about 9 months before Volcker abandoned it.

    The CRA had little to do with it.

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  • that a**hole Ben Bernanke

    Here, let me fix that for you:

    that corrupt, lying, thieving, White-hating racist JEW a**hole Ben Bernanke

    You’re welcome

    And Mnuchin is one of the most dangerous Jews in America, but who cares what I think ?

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  • @Colleen Pater
    wow if you want to blame the fed raising rates is not the way to go. lowering rates and making holding money for less than inflation a losing proposition and forcing everyone into high risk assets, or printing money with no regard to actual productivity and causing said inflation which they then hide. or reinflating the dotcom crash driving the investors into real estate instead. But raising rates to 2% above their fake inflation rate is hardly what caused the MORTGAGE DEFAULT SWAP CRISIS. It wasnt the higher interest rates (how old are you to think 5% is a high mortgage rate?) it was the default rates that were being hidden by the cash out refinance scams and the repackaging and the fake credit ratings - but most of all it just went on too long and they ran out of greater fools.You cant flip out of a mortgage you never could afford when no ones left to buy. After they gave every welfare nigger and spic a free house and five refis to keep the payments ans big screens and SUV s going condo flippers heard about these liar loans and the party continued until no more suckers left. Then crash and I stepped in LOLOLOL and Im now starting to sell LOLOLOL

    Colleen,

    The Fed is primarily involved in targeting interest rates as a way of stabilizing the US dollar. The problem is, the fed has no way of knowing if price increases represent a supply and demand for dollars or if they reflect a weakening currency. So, the Fed assumes that any massive increases in the economy are due to “bubbles” or “irrational exuberance” or some other nonsense.

    They blew apart the Nasdaq in the late 90′s. They caused the Asian flu in the late 90′s. They busted out the economy in 2004 and they caused the collapse of the housing market in 2007-2008.

    The mortgage rate was not 5%. That is the Federal Funds Rate for overnight money. The prime rate hit 8.25%. That is the rate Apple would get. The average person saw interest rates hit 11% or more.

    What do you think happens to a mortgage payment if your ARM goes from 2-3% to 11%? You go bankrupt.

    The Fed knows it caused the mortgage crisis, with that a**hole Ben Bernanke tanking the economy.

    The original purpose of the fed was to use open market activities to maintain the gold standard. When the gold standard collapsed under Nixon, the Fed actually tried Friedman’s monetarism and that caused a massive inflation for about 9 months before Volcker abandoned it.

    The CRA had little to do with it.

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  • zog activities are becoming more overt. the parasitic, conman Jew is being seen thru. Everything he says are lies and deception

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  • Thanks Nomi, you really know your stuff, but along side the technical machinations, there is the obvious psychological aspect that the man is a Jew and is intentionally bleeding, and attempting to destroy the American people for international Jewry.

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  • The thing is probably that somebody figured they could live up their capital borrowing against the appreciated asset known as the family house.

    THat isn’t too uncommon a practice, in fact it is the main reason, that there has been so much spending going on in the past few decades, which has turned the population into debt slaves, even when the housing appreciation continued nonstop, (with one little glitch in the ’80′s).

    But to me, I didn’t bite, I smelled this rat right along and retired my debt and though tempted a few times, didn’t go long and did with out the big cars and all that. But I was bothered by just how many new cars stormed around my puddlejumper commuting down the freeway, seemed like everybody was flush, and I must be in blinders ’cause how the hell can these bean counters afford that, when I was working all the time at a good rate, and couldn’t see fit to pop for that stuff.

    Easy credit! Wether it be from home equity or just consumer loan, but the less frugal or less property oriented types of folks, might be easy prey to loan (sharks) and predatory mortgage co’s when they found theirselfs sitting on a bundle!

    Main point for me is: That it was a monumental epic scam, that unknown easy credit came to be after the myth was carefully lengthily propagated and perpetuated over decades, a generation… that inflation would eat up the capital, you pay back the money in depreciated dollars, Real Estate would always go up, and if you got stuck you could even go bust every 7 years, with limited repercussions.

    Main point again: When things were normal before, folks couldn’t make the loan, usually a second place mortgage, the often private investor could take the house back at auction for the price of the 1st mortgage or at some nice discount from the market value.

    When all this funny loans was happening the ——————– F’n——-wall street——-bast—-mortgage lenders———scam———– and WTF——-!! the Robosigners!!!!—-

    Whatamean…… them SOB’s upended normal title transactions and local county transaction tax recordation, and whoa!! buddy, Unknown Billions a Money and and loss of record… Scam of scams, the Banks now became owners of the property for PEANUTS on the dollar!

    Maybe some of the Bansters have connections to the hedgehogfunds… who owned up the easy pickins of the foreclosed properties,

    Bottom line now is this: the hapless ignorant naive folks that took on, signed for the easy loans, were pawns.

    unknowing pawns who didn’t have any good credit to loose in the first place, and have all disappeared now, but they played a part in the hugest scam,

    The scam that maid overinflated housing go off the market at foreclosure, and be acquired for peanuts by insiders. While there are stupid who believe in… Markets!!!!

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  • Im well aware of the jewish problem, But one way to attack it is to flank the systems they use to exploit. Democracy is one, without democracy now that they have killed christianity for the most part its very hard for them to control us. Cultural marxist coalition of the degenerates only works if women fags minorities etc are given a vote to begin with. As I pointed out in my comment leftism can not exist 6 months without the fake money jews create and indebt us with while making a commision on the process.Only in a democratic government is media allowed to say whatever it wants in opposition to the nation’s interest.The problem is democracy is a sor of religion to european peoples, and for good reason it served us well for a time. as i said it solved the problem of human capital waste in the transition from agrarian hereditary aristocracy into industrialized urbanity. I dont like some neoreactionaries propose we do away entirely with meritocracy, rather we become homest about who is actually meritable which we lie about in both directions. First we lie that nigger races have value and that women can be trusted to vote, but we also lie about the value to the nation of the average white yeoman. He is not equivalent to a nigger or a woman and while I in no way encourage any form of socialist economics it is a hard fact that without the idaho farm boy manning a nuclear sub in the pacific bezos container ship business model is worthless, without the steamfitters cops and farmers and the nation their forefathers built and defended none of our cognitive elites ideas were worth shit, i hate to say it in a sense Obama the nigger was right they didn’t build that alone try building microsoft in nigeria, see how much money goldman sachs can make without the american legal system backed up by its force potential, what would ford be without the highway system. So sure they deserve their billions but white men deserve their cut a wage that affords the physical and economic security and dignity that whites require for family formation. Not even china would exist if not for white technologies and markets and infrastructure. So whats happened is the elites are cutting the middle out of the hierarchy and substituting a cheaper more controllable less competitive useless class., I propose we reinstitute the natural hierarchy to include the demonstrably productive those who actually pay more in than they take out. At first this will cut a lot of white men out but over a short period of time as this eliminates socialism they will again regain their hegemony, and of course at that point they will reinstitute an ethno state hopefully without rancor but rather merely as a matter of natural order like all the other ethno states no one questions the right of.

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  • @Colleen Pater
    One nice thing about monarchies is when things get bad enough and the cost benefit of the people changing governments weighs in favor the sovereign people know exactly who to kill. One of the really insidious things about democracy is that it insists everyone at least in some measure take responsibility for things they are in no way in favor of, merely assenting to democracy is enough to make one faced with incompetent tyranny feel at least partly responsible and too guilty to object too strenuously.
    But even more insidious is democracies diffusion of real power. This works in several ways, The worst is it, unlike monarchy, or other hierarchical models, spreads responsibility not merely over hundreds or thousands of legislators, but also among the judiciary, the civil service, the academia, NGOs, the media, etc. By the time one is about 30 one realizes there simply are not enough bullets for all the responsible parties, that assigning blame is really impossible and worse useless since even mass killings would simply make room for new incompetent tyrants. A democratic citizen of any intelligence realizes soon that "you cant fight city hall" They're all the same" "what can be done" etc. Of course this is not a bug its a feature as far as the rulers are concerned.

    And make no mistake governments are instituted by and for the natural elites, its just some incentivize those elites more in line with the people's interests. Elites competition is among themselves, but the people are a huge deciding block of power however they rarely exercise that authority unless things get really bad, they are more likely to exercise it when it will cost them little and the possibility of better government is real. Democracy assures them it will cost them dearly and the chance for improvement is nil.

    A wise king aligned himself with the people and his own interest against his fellow elites interest, This kept fellow elites in line and competing to administer the king and peoples business well, democracy is ten thousand barron's carving out fiefdoms making backroom alliances. Its exactly what it purported to have solved the inefficiency of human capital as we segued out of agriculture into industry. What gains we made in meritocracy over aristocracy were immediately lost as the new aristocracy had not the authoritarian hierarchy to contain its ambitions. But rather had the freedom to draft an army of useless mouths to bolster its position among its rivals. What is needed is hierarchy again one way would be to limit democracy participation to the stakeholders the actually productive citizens, at the end of the year the IRS could determine who was a net taxpayer and only those votes would be available to the elites also fake money must go. Those productive voters and their representatives should not be able to vote to spend others money through debt, monetary inflation, and various schemes they have devised, a government that can not spend more than it takes in will have a very quick feedback loop on its choices. Leftism wont survive 6 months without fake money, the farthest leftist will not vote for equalization schemes if they have to pay for it with their child's school money, the police that protect them, the transport hubs they use. Leftism is born of the lie that money unlimited.

    “To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”

    The power nexuses are in money creation and reality creation (media). Nothing else really matters.

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  • @Anonymous
    If people don't get loans they can never pay back, how else are banks going to make money? Quite a few of the folk sign their name to an obligation the Bank knows they'll never be able to meet. Capital One does this with auto loans every day of the week. This is clearly immoral, but in today's America, immorality has become morality.

    A significant number of those on the political right blindly worship crony capitalism no matter how immoral, devious and crooked its practitioners get. I blame cold war paranoia and brainwashing that has been passed down to the offspring from people whose prime years were in that era.

    Or maybe it’s another form of political illiteracy. After all in America millions sincerely believe Obama was a Marxist or Hillary is a communist even though this is objectively untrue and anyone who believes otherwise has no fracking clue what those terms mean.

    Everything is becoming “subjective” in post-truth America and the motto “If I think it, it is true and real to me and that is all that matters” is popular across the spectrum. Meanwhile the vilest most avaricious shitbags fleece, screw and steal every last penny they can and make it so an honest man can no longer earn a living and support a family with his wages. They call this “capitalism” and the brainwashed portion of the population jumps on board even as they themselves are being bent over the barrel.

    These are the kind of terminally paranoid people who give Unz grief for including leftwing commentators on his site and think he must be some sort of closet commie for not posting only stuff he ideologically agrees with. It’s sad is what it is.

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  • (Sung by a chorus of Mnuchins)

    “We represent
    The foreclosure guild
    The foreclosure guild
    The foreclosure guild…etc.”

    Cue the Wicked Witch of the West, somebody!

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  • @map
    The 2007 crash in the economy was caused by the Federal Reserve. It was not caused by bad loans. People had money so they were buying houses. Interest rates were low because the inflation was wrung out of the US dollar between 1997-2003.

    The Fed crashed the economy by raising the Federal Funds rate to 5%. Because the prime rate is stuck at a fixed relationship of 3.25 percentage points, that means the prime rate went up to 8.25%.

    What do you think happens to an ARM when the prime is at 8.25%? Or, what happens to new lending at 8.25%?

    The Fed crashed the economy.

    wow if you want to blame the fed raising rates is not the way to go. lowering rates and making holding money for less than inflation a losing proposition and forcing everyone into high risk assets, or printing money with no regard to actual productivity and causing said inflation which they then hide. or reinflating the dotcom crash driving the investors into real estate instead. But raising rates to 2% above their fake inflation rate is hardly what caused the MORTGAGE DEFAULT SWAP CRISIS. It wasnt the higher interest rates (how old are you to think 5% is a high mortgage rate?) it was the default rates that were being hidden by the cash out refinance scams and the repackaging and the fake credit ratings – but most of all it just went on too long and they ran out of greater fools.You cant flip out of a mortgage you never could afford when no ones left to buy. After they gave every welfare nigger and spic a free house and five refis to keep the payments ans big screens and SUV s going condo flippers heard about these liar loans and the party continued until no more suckers left. Then crash and I stepped in LOLOLOL and Im now starting to sell LOLOLOL

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    Colleen,

    The Fed is primarily involved in targeting interest rates as a way of stabilizing the US dollar. The problem is, the fed has no way of knowing if price increases represent a supply and demand for dollars or if they reflect a weakening currency. So, the Fed assumes that any massive increases in the economy are due to "bubbles" or "irrational exuberance" or some other nonsense.

    They blew apart the Nasdaq in the late 90's. They caused the Asian flu in the late 90's. They busted out the economy in 2004 and they caused the collapse of the housing market in 2007-2008.

    The mortgage rate was not 5%. That is the Federal Funds Rate for overnight money. The prime rate hit 8.25%. That is the rate Apple would get. The average person saw interest rates hit 11% or more.

    What do you think happens to a mortgage payment if your ARM goes from 2-3% to 11%? You go bankrupt.

    The Fed knows it caused the mortgage crisis, with that a**hole Ben Bernanke tanking the economy.

    The original purpose of the fed was to use open market activities to maintain the gold standard. When the gold standard collapsed under Nixon, the Fed actually tried Friedman's monetarism and that caused a massive inflation for about 9 months before Volcker abandoned it.

    The CRA had little to do with it.

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  • The crash was caused by the deliberate attempt to make homeownership look like America (Clinton)
    and for the moral benefit of homeownership (Bush II). Loans secured by over valued property were given to people who did not make a meaningful down payment and could not pay the monthly. Foreclosure was necessary, but I wonder how many soft loan recipients were actually out of pocket.

    Sure cheap money raised asset values, but with proper down payments and under writing standards, there is no mortgage melt down.

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  • George W. Bush and Barack Obama unquestionably made income inequality worse.

    Trump brings in those who know best how to manipulate the system to try to clean up the system they know so well, and propose doing something different not yet tried.

    You all find a whole bunch of straw men to make certain nothing starts that might change the current income-inequality relationship.

    Great logic. Is this what they teach in Ivy League schools?

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  • @TheOldOne
    niteranger:

    I think you mean you're.

    What middle school did you attend?

    Yes, I slipped up. It’s a common type and proofreading error. By the way check the NY Times, Post or any other publication (especially on the internet) for similar errors. You might be surprised at what you find. When it’s late at night perhaps I’m not as sharp. Since you are perfect you may now go to the head of the class.

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  • @Colleen Pater
    Regarding the mortgage crises, leftists are not fooling anyone blaming wall street it was clinton and bush who took up Obama's acorn scheme to redistribute wealth to useless welfare cases with liar loans. yeah wall street jews took a cut monetizing the commie debt while transferring it to the productive whites as usual, but that was always part of the plan. You're not fooling anyone pretending todays "capitalists" and "communists" are not the same globalist jews and their running dog wasp race traitors. Well actually you're fooling conservatives and average SJWs, but thats coming to an end.

    foreclosing on loans that should never have been made was the only good thing that eventually came out of this scam.But even now the commies and capitalists are still giving out liar loans and sub prime loans, with the same redistributionist rhetoric about how niggers and spics have a basic human right to white money

    The 2007 crash in the economy was caused by the Federal Reserve. It was not caused by bad loans. People had money so they were buying houses. Interest rates were low because the inflation was wrung out of the US dollar between 1997-2003.

    The Fed crashed the economy by raising the Federal Funds rate to 5%. Because the prime rate is stuck at a fixed relationship of 3.25 percentage points, that means the prime rate went up to 8.25%.

    What do you think happens to an ARM when the prime is at 8.25%? Or, what happens to new lending at 8.25%?

    The Fed crashed the economy.

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    wow if you want to blame the fed raising rates is not the way to go. lowering rates and making holding money for less than inflation a losing proposition and forcing everyone into high risk assets, or printing money with no regard to actual productivity and causing said inflation which they then hide. or reinflating the dotcom crash driving the investors into real estate instead. But raising rates to 2% above their fake inflation rate is hardly what caused the MORTGAGE DEFAULT SWAP CRISIS. It wasnt the higher interest rates (how old are you to think 5% is a high mortgage rate?) it was the default rates that were being hidden by the cash out refinance scams and the repackaging and the fake credit ratings - but most of all it just went on too long and they ran out of greater fools.You cant flip out of a mortgage you never could afford when no ones left to buy. After they gave every welfare nigger and spic a free house and five refis to keep the payments ans big screens and SUV s going condo flippers heard about these liar loans and the party continued until no more suckers left. Then crash and I stepped in LOLOLOL and Im now starting to sell LOLOLOL
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  • Anonymous • Disclaimer says:
    @europeasant
    "tossing former homeowners (including active duty military servicemen and women) onto the street without hesitation or pity by any means necessary"

    Informative article but the author must surely know that a person does not own the house until every nickel is paid back to the bank. The bank is the owner of the house.
    I know many people who foolishly took out home equity loans on houses with outstanding mortgages.One of my neighbors bought his place twenty years ago for $170,000 and recently got foreclosed for $370,000. WTF. I hope there are not many out there like that or we'll be in trouble again.

    If people don’t get loans they can never pay back, how else are banks going to make money? Quite a few of the folk sign their name to an obligation the Bank knows they’ll never be able to meet. Capital One does this with auto loans every day of the week. This is clearly immoral, but in today’s America, immorality has become morality.

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    • Replies: @Engineer
    A significant number of those on the political right blindly worship crony capitalism no matter how immoral, devious and crooked its practitioners get. I blame cold war paranoia and brainwashing that has been passed down to the offspring from people whose prime years were in that era.

    Or maybe it's another form of political illiteracy. After all in America millions sincerely believe Obama was a Marxist or Hillary is a communist even though this is objectively untrue and anyone who believes otherwise has no fracking clue what those terms mean.

    Everything is becoming "subjective" in post-truth America and the motto "If I think it, it is true and real to me and that is all that matters" is popular across the spectrum. Meanwhile the vilest most avaricious shitbags fleece, screw and steal every last penny they can and make it so an honest man can no longer earn a living and support a family with his wages. They call this "capitalism" and the brainwashed portion of the population jumps on board even as they themselves are being bent over the barrel.

    These are the kind of terminally paranoid people who give Unz grief for including leftwing commentators on his site and think he must be some sort of closet commie for not posting only stuff he ideologically agrees with. It's sad is what it is.
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  • niteranger:

    I think you mean you’re.

    What middle school did you attend?

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    Yes, I slipped up. It's a common type and proofreading error. By the way check the NY Times, Post or any other publication (especially on the internet) for similar errors. You might be surprised at what you find. When it's late at night perhaps I'm not as sharp. Since you are perfect you may now go to the head of the class.
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  • One of my neighbors bought his place twenty years ago for $170,000 and recently got foreclosed for $370,000. WTF.

    WTF, indeed.

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  • “tossing former homeowners (including active duty military servicemen and women) onto the street without hesitation or pity by any means necessary”

    Informative article but the author must surely know that a person does not own the house until every nickel is paid back to the bank. The bank is the owner of the house.
    I know many people who foolishly took out home equity loans on houses with outstanding mortgages.One of my neighbors bought his place twenty years ago for $170,000 and recently got foreclosed for $370,000. WTF. I hope there are not many out there like that or we’ll be in trouble again.

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    If people don't get loans they can never pay back, how else are banks going to make money? Quite a few of the folk sign their name to an obligation the Bank knows they'll never be able to meet. Capital One does this with auto loans every day of the week. This is clearly immoral, but in today's America, immorality has become morality.
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  • Stopped reading as soon as author started bashing Trump. Seek out reality based evidence of the positive changes taking place over the last year instead. While the info about Munchkin might well be correct, the most dangerous weaponization of this dialogue is to link the believable and supportable truths with it’s deceptive disinformation.

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  • Anonymous • Disclaimer says:

    Hamiliton (the show) was funded by the Rockefeller foundation. Kamala Harris (the AG paid off to become a Senator) got her funding from Mnuchin.

    There are lots of lessons here for the kids: Money buys legal indemnification for the mafia, from your local courthouse all the way to the Supreme Court. Money puts the crooks in positions at agencies or in the Justice Department. Money buys elections. Money transforms a history of fraud and violence and war into a schizophrenic tale of social justice. Money wants you to believe there is a left and a right, that there are good guys and bad guys. Finally, money pays former employees to write gentle mocking tales as a threatening reminder that there is nothing you can do about it. Most information is verbotten but finance porn is free. Keep posting because you don’t even own your own thoughts in ‘Murica – that’s something the good guys will never tell you either.

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  • Mightn’t have to deal with him for too much longer if his ties to the Hollywood sex scandals come up. He and Brett Ratner had a lot of dealings and Ratner was apparently involved in things you can’t bring up in polite conversation.

    Turns out the swamp drains itself.

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  • In other words, a real prince of a guy: The archetypical American CEO.

    “Mnuchin thinks the stock market is the ultimate arbiter of economic health ….”

    I seriously doubt that is his true belief, at least where his own fortunes are concerned.

    Maybe we need to find a way to issue stock options on the US to this guy so we can “better align just interests to that of the shareholders.” Sorry, a little C-Suite humour there.

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  • Regarding the mortgage crises, leftists are not fooling anyone blaming wall street it was clinton and bush who took up Obama’s acorn scheme to redistribute wealth to useless welfare cases with liar loans. yeah wall street jews took a cut monetizing the commie debt while transferring it to the productive whites as usual, but that was always part of the plan. You’re not fooling anyone pretending todays “capitalists” and “communists” are not the same globalist jews and their running dog wasp race traitors. Well actually you’re fooling conservatives and average SJWs, but thats coming to an end.

    foreclosing on loans that should never have been made was the only good thing that eventually came out of this scam.But even now the commies and capitalists are still giving out liar loans and sub prime loans, with the same redistributionist rhetoric about how niggers and spics have a basic human right to white money

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    • Replies: @map
    The 2007 crash in the economy was caused by the Federal Reserve. It was not caused by bad loans. People had money so they were buying houses. Interest rates were low because the inflation was wrung out of the US dollar between 1997-2003.

    The Fed crashed the economy by raising the Federal Funds rate to 5%. Because the prime rate is stuck at a fixed relationship of 3.25 percentage points, that means the prime rate went up to 8.25%.

    What do you think happens to an ARM when the prime is at 8.25%? Or, what happens to new lending at 8.25%?

    The Fed crashed the economy.
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  • One nice thing about monarchies is when things get bad enough and the cost benefit of the people changing governments weighs in favor the sovereign people know exactly who to kill. One of the really insidious things about democracy is that it insists everyone at least in some measure take responsibility for things they are in no way in favor of, merely assenting to democracy is enough to make one faced with incompetent tyranny feel at least partly responsible and too guilty to object too strenuously.
    But even more insidious is democracies diffusion of real power. This works in several ways, The worst is it, unlike monarchy, or other hierarchical models, spreads responsibility not merely over hundreds or thousands of legislators, but also among the judiciary, the civil service, the academia, NGOs, the media, etc. By the time one is about 30 one realizes there simply are not enough bullets for all the responsible parties, that assigning blame is really impossible and worse useless since even mass killings would simply make room for new incompetent tyrants. A democratic citizen of any intelligence realizes soon that “you cant fight city hall” They’re all the same” “what can be done” etc. Of course this is not a bug its a feature as far as the rulers are concerned.

    And make no mistake governments are instituted by and for the natural elites, its just some incentivize those elites more in line with the people’s interests. Elites competition is among themselves, but the people are a huge deciding block of power however they rarely exercise that authority unless things get really bad, they are more likely to exercise it when it will cost them little and the possibility of better government is real. Democracy assures them it will cost them dearly and the chance for improvement is nil.

    A wise king aligned himself with the people and his own interest against his fellow elites interest, This kept fellow elites in line and competing to administer the king and peoples business well, democracy is ten thousand barron’s carving out fiefdoms making backroom alliances. Its exactly what it purported to have solved the inefficiency of human capital as we segued out of agriculture into industry. What gains we made in meritocracy over aristocracy were immediately lost as the new aristocracy had not the authoritarian hierarchy to contain its ambitions. But rather had the freedom to draft an army of useless mouths to bolster its position among its rivals. What is needed is hierarchy again one way would be to limit democracy participation to the stakeholders the actually productive citizens, at the end of the year the IRS could determine who was a net taxpayer and only those votes would be available to the elites also fake money must go. Those productive voters and their representatives should not be able to vote to spend others money through debt, monetary inflation, and various schemes they have devised, a government that can not spend more than it takes in will have a very quick feedback loop on its choices. Leftism wont survive 6 months without fake money, the farthest leftist will not vote for equalization schemes if they have to pay for it with their child’s school money, the police that protect them, the transport hubs they use. Leftism is born of the lie that money unlimited.

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    "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"

    The power nexuses are in money creation and reality creation (media). Nothing else really matters.
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  • I’m ‘reviewing my gold’. Clunk, clunk…clunk. Yup, all there.

    More than at Fort Knox.

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  • he’s also the treasury secretary of munchkins.

    i wonder if ms prins is related to klaus nomi?

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  • One sees the claws of Goldman Sachs anywhere, alas also with the ECB, Draghi.

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    Do you see Goldman Sachs as being involved in the alleged embezzling by the Federal Reserve with the FR exclusive control of the funds from Treasury auction funds ?

    Ref. https://ppjg.me/2017/11/09/fiscal-bliss-ignorance-is-bliss/
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  • Trump’s cabinet and administration has more Jews in it than a Bar Mitzvah. Check Obama’s appointees. Fifty four percent of Clinton’s appointments were Jewish. It never changes and of course if you can do math then your antisemitic.

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    should that be "you are anti-Semitic." ?
    , @olde reb
    Limiting your scope to the US appointments of GS is to short-change the image of a vampire squid on the face of humanity. GS is international. Ref. http://farmwars.info/?p=12078 FACE FOR THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT.
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  • Say what you will of the Goldman cabal, they were the appointment material of either potential administration. You did; however, very much bury the lead. The tax plan, specifically that which denies deductions on state and local taxes, is the very embodiment of Hamiltonian Federalism. The system which Hamilton promoted was highly centralized (he notably preferred that Washington should have stayed on as an executive monarch) and exerted great control over the subordinate states. To have states like California and New York end-running federal taxes as a result of generating their own bloated tax systems would have seemed to Hamilton a Jeffersonian Confederate absurdity.

    Of course, Mnuchin is no true Hamiltonian. Nobody in finance is anymore. But what he represents is nothing more than doing business with those who have institutional power. Any president must grasp the hand of the neoliberals and try to shake out what reforms are possible. There will be resistance, a good deal of it in-fact, but promising tax cuts to politically pragmatic corporate entities in return for punishing wildly out of control progressive bastions is a transparently good deal. One which, predictably, produces tirades such as this article.

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    Liberals in New York and California are always voting for higher-tax regimes in their own states and braying about the benefits of higher taxes. So they need to shut up and stop complaining when their mortgage, state, and local tax deduction loopholes are taken away from them. Red States have no reason to give a special Federal tax break only to high-tax Blue States because the voters in those states are trying to tax themselves into oblivion. Red Staters are, in essence, paying more than their fair share of Federal taxes than Blue Staters are.

    Of course, the obvious solution for Blue Staters is to start voting for lower tax politicians. They don't have to suffer. They can wise up.
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  • Now why am I not surprised the Naomi is praising a jewish toadey like Hamilton who was neither born nor educated in the US?

    ALEXANDER HAMILTON’S JEWISH CONNECTION

    http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/189128/alexander-hamiltons-jewish-connection

    Jewish Bankers War on America

    https://centurean2.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/jewish-bankers-war-on-america-2/

    ….. The silent war against America started in 1791 when the Rothschild agent and Jew, Alexander Hamilton in George Washington’s cabinet. Was able to set up the legal base for a central bank in America to be born, the “First Bank Of the United States.” With a 20 year charter 1811, the charter for Rothschild’s “First Bank Of the United States” runs out and Congress votes against it’s renewal. In response to this Nathan Mayer Rothschild threatens the America government with the direct statement ” Either the application for renewal of the charter is granted or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war.”

    The American government refuses to bow to the threat and the vote remained.

    Nathan Rothschild upon hearing the news makes the statement “Teach those impudent American’s a lesson bring them back to colonial status!” So Britain by this time being firmly under the control of Rothschild’s and other Jewish banker families declares war on America. The war of 1812 begins which will last several years and kill thousands and leaves the American capital burned to the ground. The aim of this war for the Jews was to cause the Free Gentile Nation of America to create such a massive war debt in defending themselves they would be forced to cede, and renew the charter.

    The plan succeeds in 1816 the American government forced by terrorist tactics of the Jews creates a new 20 year charter for the Rothschilds “Second Bank of America.”….

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  • Donald, listen, whatever you’ve done so far, whatever you’ve messed up, there’s one thing you could do that would make up for a lot. It would be huge! Terrific! It could change our world for the better in a big-league way! It could save us all from economic disaster! And it isn’t even hard to...
  • Nomi Prins is jewish. She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs for 2 years and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns for 7 years, as well as having worked as a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. You decide how much trust you want to place on this article.

    This is controlled oppostion. She is telling us to reinstate Glass Steagall, when what we really need to do is break up big banks and big media using anti-trust laws. We also need to jail a few bankers (and maybe media owners) for their fraud.

    Ron Unz, the jewish owner of this site repeatedly advises us not to take down Big Media (see the American pravda articles) and now we have this woman telling us not to take down the banks.

    Freedom from elites will never come without breaking up big banks and big media using all legal means available. Which means we need to think beyond Glass Steagall

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  • @Art

    In 1987, still in the age of Reagan, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, a past board member of JPMorgan, said that non-bank subsidiaries of bank holding companies could sell or hold “bank ineligible securities” —
     
    1986 marks the end of traditional American enterprise.

    Greenspan is the father of the Jew takeover of America’s finances. He changed American enterprise from a fiduciary responsible system - to a money hungry cabal of greedy financers.

    In 1986 the US corporation had an obligation to it owners, employees, customers, its locality, our country, and to the future of all of them.

    Post 1986 the corporation became an instrument to be used to make money for its top management and big percentage owners.

    Greenspan financed the junk bond/savings and loan debacle, he financed the internet bubble, and he financed the home bubble. He provided the money that the Jews used to indebt everyone to their detriment.

    Today corporations are bought and sold like toys only in the interest of short term monetary gain – the future of those below the top, be dammed.

    Jews run that system - that is the way they are.

    Actually, it was the stupidity of the morons out of the Chicago School of Economics and their worship of markets and “maximizing shareholder value” that screwed everything up.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-origin-of-the-worlds-dumbest-idea-milton-friedman/#3bcca7ad870e

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  • Since when do the free market as the solution to everything Austrians from Mises.org support Glass-Steagall or any other form of government intervention??? Destroying the Fed and fiat currency, yes. But Glass-Steagall, no way.

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  • @jilles dykstra
    The ideological war in the world right now I see as between on the one hand globalisation and money, on the other hand politics, politics in nation states.

    The weird thing is the muddle headed thinking on this.
    The majority of political parties in the Netherlands is pro EU, yet, when Air France seems to swallow up Dutch KLM, great uproar, the same when a USA hedge fund tries to buy AKZO.
    Our government even considers new legislation to prevent hostile aquisitions.

    So on the one hand they say they're in favor of free capital movement and globalisation, but when these forces threaten Dutch enterprises protection jumps out of the hat.

    In France the same problems, when an enterprise now in France, because of lower wages, wants to go to Poland, uproar, Macron so honest that he says he can do nothing about it, yet his party wins the elections, be it as a result of the French district system, where the winner takes all in each district.

    … but, behind your many reasonable and thought-provoking posts, there is a pile of misdirection and crypto-zionism in most.

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  • @Agent76
    "Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!" Nathan Meyer Rothschild

    June 13, 2016 Which Corporations Control The World?

    A surprisingly small number of corporations control massive global market shares. How many of the brands below do you use?

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44864.htm

    You do your arguments no favour by naively attributing to “Nathan Meyer Rothschild” one of the many versions of a dictum that anti-Semites have attributed to one or more of the Rothschilds since, if one has at least done a quick online check, 1935. Of course one can well imagine a rich banker tossing off “in the end I don’t mind who’s in government as long as I can go on printing money”. But the way you have used a purported quote makes you sound like part of the tinfoil hat brigade.

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  • @Art

    In 1987, still in the age of Reagan, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, a past board member of JPMorgan, said that non-bank subsidiaries of bank holding companies could sell or hold “bank ineligible securities” —
     
    1986 marks the end of traditional American enterprise.

    Greenspan is the father of the Jew takeover of America’s finances. He changed American enterprise from a fiduciary responsible system - to a money hungry cabal of greedy financers.

    In 1986 the US corporation had an obligation to it owners, employees, customers, its locality, our country, and to the future of all of them.

    Post 1986 the corporation became an instrument to be used to make money for its top management and big percentage owners.

    Greenspan financed the junk bond/savings and loan debacle, he financed the internet bubble, and he financed the home bubble. He provided the money that the Jews used to indebt everyone to their detriment.

    Today corporations are bought and sold like toys only in the interest of short term monetary gain – the future of those below the top, be dammed.

    Jews run that system - that is the way they are.

    Art… you’ve gone off message. You’ve omitted Rothschild direction of the Bank of England 25 years before the Rothschilds set up shop in England, directing and/or owning the several incarnations of a Federal Reserve Bank for America from Alexander Hamilton’s day till 1911-12 and onward. All these plain and indisputable facts can be learned on UR from its modestly contributing sage-commenters. And to put them in context for those who doubt the power of one family you should recall from diligent reading of UR threads that the Rothschilds own 80 per cent of the land in Israel.**

    **To be fair in case you might be influenced by thinking you detect a note of scepticism in what I write I think the relater of that 80 per cent may be like the old monastic scribe with his “mumpsimus”. My understanding is that now, as under the Ottomans, only about 7 per cent of Israel’s land is freehold and it may well be that Rothschild financed settlers 110-140 years ago bought a lot of that. Anyone know?

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  • @Priss Factor
    Sounds like an interesting book

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libidinal_Economy

    But I liked the comment at the end by one Peter Dews that Lyotard’s work “lacked any [?all] moral or political orientation”. Come back and tell us when you have read Lyotard…..

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  • Art says:

    In 1987, still in the age of Reagan, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, a past board member of JPMorgan, said that non-bank subsidiaries of bank holding companies could sell or hold “bank ineligible securities” —

    1986 marks the end of traditional American enterprise.

    Greenspan is the father of the Jew takeover of America’s finances. He changed American enterprise from a fiduciary responsible system – to a money hungry cabal of greedy financers.

    In 1986 the US corporation had an obligation to it owners, employees, customers, its locality, our country, and to the future of all of them.

    Post 1986 the corporation became an instrument to be used to make money for its top management and big percentage owners.

    Greenspan financed the junk bond/savings and loan debacle, he financed the internet bubble, and he financed the home bubble. He provided the money that the Jews used to indebt everyone to their detriment.

    Today corporations are bought and sold like toys only in the interest of short term monetary gain – the future of those below the top, be dammed.

    Jews run that system – that is the way they are.

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    Art... you've gone off message. You've omitted Rothschild direction of the Bank of England 25 years before the Rothschilds set up shop in England, directing and/or owning the several incarnations of a Federal Reserve Bank for America from Alexander Hamilton's day till 1911-12 and onward. All these plain and indisputable facts can be learned on UR from its modestly contributing sage-commenters. And to put them in context for those who doubt the power of one family you should recall from diligent reading of UR threads that the Rothschilds own 80 per cent of the land in Israel.**

    **To be fair in case you might be influenced by thinking you detect a note of scepticism in what I write I think the relater of that 80 per cent may be like the old monastic scribe with his "mumpsimus". My understanding is that now, as under the Ottomans, only about 7 per cent of Israel's land is freehold and it may well be that Rothschild financed settlers 110-140 years ago bought a lot of that. Anyone know?
    , @MarkinLA
    Actually, it was the stupidity of the morons out of the Chicago School of Economics and their worship of markets and "maximizing shareholder value" that screwed everything up.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-origin-of-the-worlds-dumbest-idea-milton-friedman/#3bcca7ad870e

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  • @Joe Franklin
    Trump can't be "breaking up" banks because the federal reserve is a federal government sanctioned monopoly.

    The best that can be done right now is to force banks to separate their investment business from their loan business.

    Bank investment businesses should by law have zero access to government subsidies and guarantees of solvency.

    Also cease the government scheme of performing social engineering by subsidizing or insuring sub prime loans.

    Trump can’t be “breaking up” banks because the federal reserve is a federal government sanctioned monopoly.

    http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/interstate-banking.asp

    Banks could not cross state lines after the Great Depression. They were slowly allowed to consolidate – first into regional banks and then nationwide.

    The reasoning is like all political arguments – you can make a case that up is down if you use the right words.

    The idea behind keeping banks within a state is that they would never get too big to cause a lot of damage should they fail (as in the case of a regional economic crisis) and that they would tend to make more of an effort to serve small customers.

    The idea behind letting them merge was that they would be big enough so that they couldn’t fail if there was a small localized crisis. The profits from the successful sectors would compensate for the depressed area and the FDIC would not have to intervene as it would if the economy of a small area brought down small intrastate banks. The idea that there could be a country-wide financial crisis seemed remote.

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  • May 21, 2013 Why the whole banking system is a scam – Godfrey Bloom MEP

    • European Parliament, Strasbourg, 21 May 2013

    • Speaker: Godfrey Bloom MEP, UKIP (Yorkshire & Lincolnshire)

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  • “Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!” Nathan Meyer Rothschild

    June 13, 2016 Which Corporations Control The World?

    A surprisingly small number of corporations control massive global market shares. How many of the brands below do you use?

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44864.htm

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    • Replies: @Wizard of Oz
    You do your arguments no favour by naively attributing to "Nathan Meyer Rothschild" one of the many versions of a dictum that anti-Semites have attributed to one or more of the Rothschilds since, if one has at least done a quick online check, 1935. Of course one can well imagine a rich banker tossing off "in the end I don't mind who's in government as long as I can go on printing money". But the way you have used a purported quote makes you sound like part of the tinfoil hat brigade.
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  • Sounds like an interesting book

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libidinal_Economy

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    • Replies: @Wizard of Oz
    But I liked the comment at the end by one Peter Dews that Lyotard's work "lacked any [?all] moral or political orientation". Come back and tell us when you have read Lyotard.....
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  • Trump can’t be “breaking up” banks because the federal reserve is a federal government sanctioned monopoly.

    The best that can be done right now is to force banks to separate their investment business from their loan business.

    Bank investment businesses should by law have zero access to government subsidies and guarantees of solvency.

    Also cease the government scheme of performing social engineering by subsidizing or insuring sub prime loans.

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    • Replies: @MarkinLA
    Trump can’t be “breaking up” banks because the federal reserve is a federal government sanctioned monopoly.

    http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/interstate-banking.asp

    Banks could not cross state lines after the Great Depression. They were slowly allowed to consolidate - first into regional banks and then nationwide.

    The reasoning is like all political arguments - you can make a case that up is down if you use the right words.

    The idea behind keeping banks within a state is that they would never get too big to cause a lot of damage should they fail (as in the case of a regional economic crisis) and that they would tend to make more of an effort to serve small customers.

    The idea behind letting them merge was that they would be big enough so that they couldn't fail if there was a small localized crisis. The profits from the successful sectors would compensate for the depressed area and the FDIC would not have to intervene as it would if the economy of a small area brought down small intrastate banks. The idea that there could be a country-wide financial crisis seemed remote.
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  • The ideological war in the world right now I see as between on the one hand globalisation and money, on the other hand politics, politics in nation states.

    The weird thing is the muddle headed thinking on this.
    The majority of political parties in the Netherlands is pro EU, yet, when Air France seems to swallow up Dutch KLM, great uproar, the same when a USA hedge fund tries to buy AKZO.
    Our government even considers new legislation to prevent hostile aquisitions.

    So on the one hand they say they’re in favor of free capital movement and globalisation, but when these forces threaten Dutch enterprises protection jumps out of the hat.

    In France the same problems, when an enterprise now in France, because of lower wages, wants to go to Poland, uproar, Macron so honest that he says he can do nothing about it, yet his party wins the elections, be it as a result of the French district system, where the winner takes all in each district.

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    ... but, behind your many reasonable and thought-provoking posts, there is a pile of misdirection and crypto-zionism in most.
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  • Well another win for Obama: he said and did nothing about either swamp. What a leader!

    I wonder how Ms. Prins forget about his glorious 8 years in her story about Goldman Sachs (still) running the country? Hell, even the Caliph of Crawford actually jailed white-collar miscreants after the NASDAQ/Enron disaster. Barry and Eric didn’t charge a single person, and he had no shortage of Vampire Squid and other Wall Street vultures in his administration.

    Frank-Dodd is a joke, Emperor’s New Clothes Part Two (or Twenty), which like most “laws” intend to fight the “big banks” just penned Main Street even tighter into the TBFB’s slaughtering pens.

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  • President Trump, his children and their spouses, aren’t just using the Oval Office to augment their political legacy or secure future riches. Okay, they certainly are doing that, but that’s not the most useful way to think about what’s happening at the moment. Everything will make more sense if you reimagine the White House as...
  • Isn’t it reassuring to know that any promises rich foreigners think they’ve got from Trump are worth nothing.

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  • I’m not a huge fan of Ivanka “those photos made me cry” Trump being in the Oval Office, nor her husband. But this whole article’s a nothing burger that would fit in quite well at the NY Times or Bezos’s personal blog. There’s simply no evidence of corruption, just innuendo, guesswork (“she’s killing it”) and accusatory fingers being pointed by someone with an obvious grudge. (Oh and thanks for the non-working AP story link too. Helpful!) So what if Ivanka did sell a few more handbags or hotel rooms? The Republic will survive. I’m much more concerned about her presence marginalizing Bannon or convincing Trump to bomb Middle Eastern countries. That bothers me. Of course, given this reporter’s clear biases, that would be the thing that bothers her least.

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  • Sean says:

    First it must never be forgotten that Trump wagered against the odds for an increase in wealth if the long shot of him becoming president came about, yet there was certain financial extinction if if his run at the Presidency had ended as most informed people had expected.

    Trump is no Rockefeller inasmuch his wealth is nebulous; the businesses runs on confidence in his brand, and is consequently very vulnerable to hostile government investigation. He was expected to win by absolutely no one, and could expect the administration of Hilary’s to have come for him, and the judges would not be sympathetic. He along with his family would have ended up on the street with a tin cup if he hadn’t won. As a business decision, it was a crazier bet than any made in his casinos.

    The Code of Federal Regulations is a set of rules published by the executive departments and agencies of the government. Title 18 section 208 of that code deals with “acts affecting a personal financial interest.” This criminal conflict of interest statute states “an officer or employee of the executive branch of the United States Government” can’t have a “financial interest” in the result of their duties. What that should mean, legally speaking, for a family occupying the executive office is: Ivanka could not have dinner with the president of China while her business was applying for and receiving provisional approval of pending trademarks from his country, if one of those acts might impact the other. To an outsider, the connection between those acts seems obvious enough and it’s bound to be typical of what’s to come.

    Secondly, sIn October 2013, the US sent the general in command of nuclear weapons on an official trip to Moscow. He, wit his unrivalled knowledge of the most sensitive secrets in the US was thus exposed to all kinds of possible compromising situation at the hands of a foreign regieme. As it happens he seems to have simply got drunk (he got sacked), but really there are better thing to worry about than Trump’s daughter selling some cosmetics. Non of this stuff is going to make much difference to Trump’s wealth anyway.

    Thirdly, I don’t see any parallel at all with Nelson Rockefeller. In my view, Trump is most similar to Peisistratos tyrant of Athens Like him Trump is a very capable businessman, who relies on the suport of the common people. Like Peisistratos, Trump may be a transition from elite rule to one based on the will of the lower orders.

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  • Alden says:

    Kushner’s new 5th AV building still has vacancies because it is not completely finished. Some of the upper floors are just floors, partial ceilings and exterior walls. They are still putting in the electricity and plumbing.

    Tenants in those kind of buildings are not naive innocents. They are hard core business people who drive hard bargains with the landlords. For the kind of rent the Kushners want, they will get tenants who demand all sorts of concessions and extras.

    Sometimes it’s better for a landlord to keep a unit vacant and wait for a tenant who can and will pay a high rent.

    Sometimes it’s better for a landlord to charge low rents and get the building filled up fast.

    Ms Nomi, like Michael Hudson doesn’t know anything about real estate. But like Michael Hudson, she claims she knows about it. I’ll always remember Hudsons pontificating about NYC residential real estate without a mention of NYC’s rent control laws.

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  • Alden says:

    I note this Nomi person didn’t even google ” federal law violations of by federal employees”. She had to hire “superb researcher Craig Wilson for that.

    Anti White liberals hated Trump from the beginning. Conservatives and White nationalists hoped he was the messiah come to save us.

    Now everybody hates Trump.

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  • @Father O'Hara
    Lock em up! Specially that dumb cunt Ivanka and her Jew fag husband!

    How about shut you up?

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  • anon • Disclaimer says:
    @Joe Hide
    Money enables political survival. Putin amassed great wealth and survived politically to go on and save Russians from the billionaire pyschopaths. War is carried out with wealth as well as information control and weapons. In this reality. if Evil is to win, it must be sure Good runs out of money. Trump and those allied with Him know they need billions for Good to overcome Evil. In delusional minds the politically successful don't need money. In this spiritually imperfect place they must have it.

    this. This is why leftism fails: it operates on the delusion that we can banish real authority from this world. Authority will always find a way to assert itself as long as humans live, and part of what that means (indeed, has always meant until now and probably will mean in the future) is having enough wealth to negotiate large changes to the status quo. I’m happy the US is finally revealing itself for what it always was after 1865: an empire, with vastly wealthy and powerful emperors. Let the people see the truth! You’ll always be owned by oligarchs; better find a benevolent and wise one. Open up the presidency to private bidding; that couldn’t possibly be any WORSE than what we have now.

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