Tag Archives: Banking

Hidden Truths – Vanishing Freedoms

Having written and spoken on economic and various policy issue for nearly twenty-five years it wasn’t long into the process that I discovered, more frequently than I’d previously thought possible, that government policy was increasingly becoming a direct extension of private economic interests each masquerading under some form of social justice or progressive mantra.

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Banking: The Pirate Subsidy

As the President and Congress express interest in avoiding the Fiscal Cliff I am struck by the narrow field of options being considered; the predictable barrier between what would otherwise be thought of inspired or ingenious and the irreconcilable desire to preserve the structured chaos of a political and economic policy spectrum that is as stale as it is seriously and supremely biased toward imbalance.  

There are many areas of our political and economic system that require restructuring but none more important than the national financial system; more specifically the Banking System. To understand the role of Banking in its present form is to position oneself within the very mechanism(s) which make the Central Banking System mathematically unsustainable and a theoretical dead-end and.  

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De-Generative vs. Pro-Generative: Why Economies Fail

The current state of the U.S. Economy has a great many folks looking for some form of government action; some form of strategic plan for arresting the seemingly unstoppable trend toward certain collapse. The subject of Economics is puzzling for many particularly on the macro or national level and there is an expectation that lingers in the public sentiment that the President and Congress should be doing something about it however it is doubtful that either possess the political will to do what must be done to correct decades of flawed economic and monetary policy. 

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“Circum-Sal-Ation” – A Pandemic Art

Last week I was afforded a wonderful opportunity to share the airwaves with Denny Schaffer, a wonderful host of a vibrant talk show broadcasting on 920 WGKA in Atlanta, Ga.  We were talking about the dismal failure of the Stimulus Bill and the vacuity of the Wall Street Financial Reform Bill which had passed earlier in the day.

Denny’s show became the first public appearance of a new term which I had coined to express what no single word seems capable of doing.  My regular readership will not be particularly surprised by this as I do my own fair share of “wordsmithing.”

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China and the Economy of Derivative

The simplicity of finance and economics is masked by illusion of complexity.  Creating a language and device all its own is the methodology applied by the architects of advantage who have learned, by generational adventurism, that the further away from substantive practices you go the easier it becomes to conceal the truth.  Or, paraphrasing Joseph Goebbels own words, “…the lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.”

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