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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Iran's View of President Obama / Politics / GeoPolitics

By: STRATFOR

U.S. President Barack Obama released a video offering Iran congratulations on the occasion of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on Friday. Israeli President Shimon Peres also offered his best wishes, referring to “the noble Iranian people.” The joint initiative was received coldly in Tehran, however. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the video did not show that the United States had shifted its hostile attitude toward Iran.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Bank Bailouts Judgment Day for Geithner / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts

By: Mike_Whitney

Whether he deserves it or not, Timothy Geithner has become the poster boy for everything that's wrong with the government's scatterbrain financial rescue plan. Geithner was in the wheelhouse at the New York Fed when Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros defaulted, and he played a central role in the $165 million AIG bonus scandal which ignited a populist firestorm across the country. Now everything even remotely connected to the bank bailout has become a source of fist-clinching rage. The mood of the country has darkened from the steady downpour of bad economic news, the sharp decline in housing prices and the steep rise in unemployment. People are angry at the government, the banks and Wall Street. Their nerves are frayed and their patience is stretched to the limit.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Economic Stimulus is Bankruptcy of the Economy / Politics / Economic Stimulus

By: Dr_Ron_Paul

The distraction on Capitol Hill this week has to do with the jackpot bonuses that executives at AIG recently received. The argument is over a relative drop in the bucket. The total amount of bonuses given out was $165 million. The government has put $170 billion into AIG so far. Many now are demanding we get this money back. We ought to be spending our time and effort doing something more worthwhile, like figuring out how the Federal Reserve is handling the trillions of dollars they are creating and pumping into the economy, and how that is affecting the purchasing power of dollars in your pocket.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Geithner's Galling and Dangerous Plan For Bad Bank Toxic Assets / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts

By: Mike_Shedlock

The long awaited details of Geithner's "plan" for dealing with bad bank assets is finally out. Githener's plan is disingenuous at best. If people want to be outraged at something, it should be over Geithner's plan.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Bailout's Dangerous and Unintended Consequences Will Prolong America's Second Great Depression / Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010

By: Money_and_Markets

Martin Weiss writes: I've just returned from Washington, DC, where I held a press conference at the National Press Club and a round-robin series of meetings with members of Congress … with more to come this week.

Let me first tell you what I told them. Then, I'll explain what I think you should do about it …

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Ben Bernanke Money Printing U.S. Banana Republic Policies / Politics / Quantitative Easing

By: Michael_Pento

Helicopter Ben Bernanke has earned the new moniker of Banana Ben. He has earned the new name because of his desire to make the United States resemble a banana republic instead of embracing the policies that made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth. It is now abundantly clear to all that not only the Fed Chairman but also this administration will do everything in their power to create inflation. Their efforts are derived from the mistaken belief that inflation can solve everything.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Obama Economic Program Increases America's Bondage to Wall Street Billionaires: / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts

By: Richard_C_Cook

It’s Time for a New Monetary System - This article previews the author’s new six-part video series scheduled for release April 2: “Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis.”

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Monday, March 23, 2009

China Afraid of Loss of Value of $2 Trillion of Reserves / Politics / US Bonds

By: Pravda

Dominick L. Auci writes: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is worried. His country keeps over $2 trillion of its foreign reserves in U.S. Treasuries. He's afraid that Obama's big spending plans will weaken the dollar and erode the value of those enormous assets. Given the dismal financial state of the rest of the world, that's a pretty high-class problem, especially for a devout communist. Jiaboa called on the United States to “honor its word, stay a credible nation and ensure the safety of Chinese assets”.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Diverse Economy Comes After Communism and Capitalism / Politics / Global Economy

By: Pravda

In 1991 communism failed. In 2008 capitalism failed us. In the space of 17 years, two great economic systems based upon very elaborate and self-convinced ideologies collapsed. Two great peoples, American and Russian, are stunned and wandering in a vacuous period of human history, in a great pause between ages.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Geithner's Financial System Plan, a Gigantic Confidence Game / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts

By: Mike_Shedlock

In case you missed this weekend's top story about Geithner's much anticipated plan to save the financial world via smoke and mirrors, please consider Toxic Asset Plan Foresees Big Subsidies for Investors

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

How Citigroup Incompetence Squanders U.S. Taxpayers Money / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts

By: Mike_Shedlock

Inquiring minds are reading Banks Selling Properties in Bulk for Cheap .
Mar. 19--Lenders have become so overwhelmed by the foreclosure crisis that they are starting to unload properties in bulk to investor groups at steep discounts. Investors then flip the properties for a profit without necessarily improving the home.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

An American Outrage: Bernie, AIG, and Us / Politics / US Politics

By: Walter_Brasch

There have now been more than 4,000 deaths and 30,000 casualties of American military in the war in Iraq. More than 100,000 Iraqis and others, most of them civilian, have also been killed in what is now known to be an unnecessary war. But, we as a nation are not outraged.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

U.S. Dollar as the World’s Only Reserve Currency is illegal / Politics / US Dollar

By: Pravda

A new world currency must be created under the aegis of the United Nations Organization, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev stated during his speech at the 21 st Congress of the Eurasian Association of Universities in Astana.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Global Warming, CO2 and Carbon Communism / Politics / Climate Change

By: Pravda

Gregory Fegel writes: I think that the CO2-caused Global Warming theory is false and unproven junk science.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Fraudulent Ponzi Scheme Bailed Out Bank Executives Should All be Fired! / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts

By: Submissions

Keith Olbermann in his strong "Special Comment" calls on tighter regulation of the banks that have been fraudulently bailed out to the tune of trillions of tax payer dollars in the biggest ponzi scam in history. He also states that the crooked, lying thieving bank executives should ALL be fired, the conmen pretend to atone for their atrocities against America but instead the damn liars continue to defraud the tax payer.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Why We Should Own the Bailed out Banks / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts

By: Submissions

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” -- Thomas Jefferson, 1802

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Failure of Capitalism, Didn't We All See This Coming? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009

By: Submissions

Timothy V. Gatto writes: The country is coming to conclusions that a year ago would be unthinkable. The current turmoil on Wall Street has convinced many Americans of something that has been said for years, but nobody really believed…entirely. That something was that lawyers and bankers cannot be trusted. The American people know by now that the advice is largely true, they can't be trusted. Neither can politicians, stockbrokers and financial advisors. In fact, people are starting to realize the entire concept of capitalism can't be trusted, not just for the average Joe, but for the entire country.

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Ridiculous Whining at Citigroup, Bank of America Over Bonuses / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts

By: Mike_Shedlock

It's going to be interesting to see how quickly Congress and the administration caves in to banks and Wall Street after expressing so much indignation about bonuses over the last week.

Here is the backdrop.

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Barack Obama and the Altar of Greed / Politics / US Politics

By: Submissions

David Michael Green writes: Barack Obama is dumber than a bag of hammers. I never thought I'd say that about the guy. I thought he would probably disappoint me with many of his policies. I thought he would probably fail to be bold enough for his times. I thought he might miss opportunities to do great things because of his seeming desire to be Mr. Rogers, complete with cardigan. But I never expected him to be really dumb.

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Ron Paul: United States on the Verge of a Major Crisis / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts

By: Submissions

Ron Paul discusses the Stimulus bill and the AIG bonus controversy and how congress passes bills without reading them as congress as a tendency to react to events emotionally rather than look at the root of the problems.

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