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The Fed’s Fisher provides an intimate insight into the thinking of a Fed President. In well crafted Fed speak, he warns of a potential market decline because it will be impossible for the Fed to continue with the QE indefinitely. But there are larger economic impacts much more significant than the stock market, such as […]
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A combination of factors in the US are putting the American economy at a huge disadvantage. The following report looks at how freedom affects the economy. As the US is becoming a police state, with highly regulated financial markets, it can only create additional costs and discourage new investment. With the possibility of the internet, […]
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While many watch the stock market, we should take note of the bond markets, specifically the US Treasury market, as a means of more ‘real money’ sentiment. From Zero Hedge: As stocks have vacillated in a worryingly not-straight-up manner for the last few days with today’s weakness taking the Dow and S&P 500 pre-holiday lows […]
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a 2013 American independent documentary film about the organization started by Julian Assange, and people involved in the collection and distribution of secret information and media by whistleblowers. It covers a period of several decades, and includes considerable background material. Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Steal_Secrets:_The_Story_of_WikiLeaks
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Advances in technology have led to more sophisticated crimes by exploiting security vulnerabilities of new technologies. This is exacerbated by the fact that understanding of these technologies and their use is only by a few, while the majority of end-users are unaware. Generally speaking, following standard security practices will thwart 95% of electronic crimes such […]
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Google’s connection to the US Military and specifically, the intelligence community, should be alarming both for political and technical reasons. We can assume that Google has been compromised and any data exchange over Google networks including search, apps, web services such as Gmail, Google+, and others, are being recorded and analyzed. Also disturbingly, Google is […]
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The new generation is being hit hardest by the crisis. Many of them took student loans only to find no jobs. Due to the economic boom, and proliferation of online schools like Phoenix, college attendance is at an all time high. But much of this is financed by banks. Millennnials are coming into a different […]
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The Baltic Dry Index is one of the only significant indexes of the ‘real’ economy, as it measures the transport of physical goods. While the US stock markets are near their all time highs, the shipment of real physical goods is down 35%, the worst start to the year in 30 years. From Zero Hedge: […]
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With all due respect to Lizzie Velasquez, the vast majority of TED and TEDx talks are complete bullshit, and it’s high time someone called them out on it. Benjamin Bratton, Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, has a huge problem with TED, and he isn’t afraid to tell them so […]
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The below recently declassified transcript of an internal meeting between Kissinger and his advisers shows an alarming degree of incompetence from all sides. Remember, this was during a period of great economic turmoil, after the Nixon Shock, and the infancy of the modern Forex market as we know it. There are those who believe in […]
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