As Barack Obama’s favorability ratings continue to slip in poll after poll, we continue to see more of the same, or, as we often unfortunately see both in business in politics, an acceleration of what’s not working. The bailouts aren’t creating jobs, so by all means increase them. Debate on Health Care “reform” is bringing [...]

American bailoutpayers (formerly known as taxpayers) will want to know that the latest result of the multitrillion-dollar bank bailouts they’re paying for, is a much-anticipated “Toxic Rally Set To Boost the Banks.” In what alternate universe does a toxic (asset) rally boost anything but the 1.4 quadrillion dollar derivative Ponzi scheme whose collapse predicated the financial [...]

It is worth taking note when Tyler Durden steps a bit out of “financial technicals” character and waxes political, so I will quote his closing statement to the linked article above here: So to all conspiracy theorists claiming that gold is being manipulated on a daily basis by the Federal Reserve: when it occurs over [...]

“–signaling an end to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. “ If I read this just one more time, I cannot be expected to control my gag reflex. According to Bloomberg, negative bond returns are the latest signal. Forget that bond yields are inverse to stock performance (which performance is currently the most ludicrous fools [...]

We’ve all had time to digest the graphs from Sprott, Denninger and others which lay out the path of exponential U.S. debt growth at it’s present rate. “Unsustainable” is the most widely used term, a word which has become the opposing mantra to such spin-phrases as “green shoots”. But if US debt was denominated in trillions of yen [...]

When the hole in IMF Royalist Olivier Blanchard’s face opens up, something repulsively fascist inevitably falls out of it, every time. As we reported before, the IMF thinks of itself as an omniscient Overlord of the “financial markets” a faceless entity which now controls the entire world, or so it would seem, as Blanchard dictates policy to sovereign nation [...]

The first is that you are being LIED TO when it comes to our “improving” economy. While often true, it should come as no surprise to any functioning adult that politicians will, and do, lie. That’s neither newsworthy nor remarkable. What is misunderstood is that Politicians see themselves not as lying, but as “nudging” you, and in their [...]