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Reviving the Local Economy With Publicly-Owned Banks

Ellen Brown | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Florida, Deflation, Wall Street, Inflation, Derivatives, Banks, Federal Reserve, Credit Crunch, Bank Bailout, Business News
Ellen Brown

Despite trillions of dollars in bailout money, bank loans fell to their lowest rate since the onset of the Great Depression. Now that the Fed has done all they can, is it time for the states to step in?

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Next Stop: Inflation

James Berman | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Gdx, Depression, Gdp, Deflation, Federal Reserve, Fed, Cpi, Bernanke, Tips, Gold, Monetary Policy, Rising Inflation, Recession, Inlfation, Business News
James Berman

The market has had the biggest six month rally since the 1930s and stocks cannot go up forever. We can't time the sell-off, but we can prepare for one of its likely causes: inflation.

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Obama Must Tame Finance at G-20 Summit: Here's How

Ann Pettifor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, G20 Summit, Bank Lending, Deflation, Bailout, Financial Sector, Lending, Financiers, President Obama, Green New Deal, Aig, Monopolisation, Economic Recovery, Pittsburgh, g20, Business News
Ann Pettifor

We are in the middle of a monumental political conflict with very high stakes. On one side: politicians and regulators battling for the interests of middle-class Americans. On the other: the banks.

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The Economy: Cycling Along With the Training Wheels On

Michael de Portu | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Ppip, Paulson, Deflation, Inflation, Bernanke, Toxic Assets, American Manufacturing, Recession, Tarp, Economy, Greenspan, Greenlaw, Hatzius, Business News
Michael de Portu

Some observers ask whether we are in 1929 or 1932. The good news is that the world is so different today, we are probably in neither. The globe has 6 billion inhabitants with that much more potential for instability.

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The New Fall Fashion is Inflation

Michael Pento | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Deflation Data, Wall Street, Deflation, Inflation, Economy, Consumer Price Inflation, Ben Bernanke, Consumer Price Index, Inflation Data, Business News
Michael Pento

The data soon to be released by the government will put a dagger through the hearts of those who are predicting a protracted period of deflation.

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The Case For Wiping Out American Debt

Joe Costello | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Bernanke, Economic Bubble, 80% Issues, Deflation, Democrats, Bailout, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Joe Costello

Democrats have to begin asking themselves, "What if next fall, unemployment is in the double digits and the economy as a whole is at best stagnant?"

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The Retreat of the Shadow Lenders: Why Deflation, not Inflation, Is the Order of the Day

Ellen Brown | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Depression, Deflation, Inflation, Collaterized Debt Obligations, Shadow Lenders, Money Supply, Federal Reserve, Banking Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Credit Crisis, Business News
Ellen Brown

The true path to economic recovery is to reclaim money and credit as public resources. Money needs to be transformed from private master to public servant.

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Who Said A Good Newspaper Has to Be Affordable?

Jim Jaffe | Posted 06.25.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Social Security, Deflation, Inflation, Cost of Living, Media News
Jim Jaffe

At the rate we're going, the Times subscription rates will cross into the magic four-digit range before Obama exits the White House.

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U.S. Economy Risks Dire Prospect of Hyperinflation

Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Hyperinfaltion, Larry Summers, Deflation, Economic Crisis, Inflation, Federal Reserve, Treasury, Financial Crisis, Pimco, Bill Gross, U.S. Economy, Ben Bernanke, Economy, Business News
Sheldon Filger

Quantitative easing and multi-trillion dollar deficits are the two core ingredients of an explosive fiscal cocktail that will ultimately lead to hyperinflation.

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Dispatches from the G-20 Summit

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: G-20 Summit, Deflation, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Stimulus, Inflation, President Obama, Financial Crisis, Business News
Ann Pettifor

The consequences of Governor Mervyn King's intervention will be played out for years to come -- in the destruction of banks, businesses, jobs and human lives.

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Bernanke Goes Nuclear

John Standerfer | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Deflation, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Federal Reserve, Aig, Ben Bernanke, Chris Dodd, Nagasaki, Great Depression, Business News
John Standerfer

While Congress spent another day playing political "Clue" -- Senator Dodd -- with the red pen -- in the backroom, Ben Bernanke reminded us once again ...

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Reports of the Death of Equities: Greatly Exaggerated

James Berman | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Depression, Nouriel Roubini, Deflation, Inflation, Stock Market, Bear Market, Warren Buffett, Paul Krugman, Black Swan, Real Estate, Dow, Recession, Great Depression, Business News
James Berman

The successful investors will be the ones who wait out this period and reap the rewards once the tide turns, which it will. Soon we hope.

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While the Economy Tanks, the President's Team Dawdles

Ann Pettifor | Posted 03.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Debt, Deflation, Deflationary-Spiral, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary, Business News
Ann Pettifor

The stock market knows what Treasury still needs to admit: the banks are bust. Their CEOs lack all credibility. Until they are nationalized the Dow will continue its very rational path downwards.

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Wall Street: Get Their Claws Out of the Real Economy

Ann Pettifor | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Debt, Credit Crisis, Bank Bailout, Deflation, Wall Street, Cost of Credit, Deflationary Spiral, Debtonation, Business News
Ann Pettifor

The Treasury seems in danger of pandering to the Wall Street beast, rather than protecting the vulnerable -- those companies where real wealth is created.

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Beyond the Age of Leverage: Alternative Cures for the Global Financial Crisis

Niall Ferguson | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, Global Economy, Deflation, Davos, Economy, Leverage, Overleveraged, World Economic Forum, Keynesian Economics, Economic Stimulus Package, Inflation, Financial Crisis, Davos 2009, Wall Street, Gobal Financial Crisis, Business News
Niall Ferguson

The harsh reality that is being repressed is this: the Western world is suffering a crisis of excessive indebtedness.

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Interregnum: The Week Before The Year That's Coming

Danny Schechter | Posted 01.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Prices, 1932, Deflation, Madoff, Economy, Costs, Obama, Depression, Fdr, Interregnum, Business News
Danny Schechter

How much things cost in 1932: Average Cost of new house: $6,510.00; Average wages per year: $1,650.00; Cost of a gallon of Gas: 10 cents; A loaf of Bread: 7 cents.

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Fed reduces benchmark rate to as low as zero

AP | Posted 01.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Deflation, Inflation, Finance, Economy, Federal Funds Rate, Fed Funds Rate, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Banks, Ben Bernanke, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve, urgently rewriting its playbook to fight a deepening recession, cut its benchmark interest rate to as low as z...

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Who Could Have Predicted Revolution in Iceland?

Max Keiser | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Kaupthing Bank, Iceland, Revolution, Krona, Deflation, Inflation, Financial Crisis, Hecla, Iceland Financial Crisis, Video, Business News
Max Keiser

All that asset and currency inflation derived not from a miracle, but from the same old historical pyramid scheme of banking fraud.

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Falling Prices Raising The Fear Of Deflation

Washington Post | Steven Mufson and Michael S. Rosenwald | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Deflation Fears, Federal Reserve, Stock Market, US Economy, Deflation, Prices, Business News

With the stock market crumbling and the economy shrinking, a whiff of deflation is in the air. Oil prices yesterday slid below $50 a barrel to the lo...

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Congress extends jobless benefits; stocks fall 400

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Depression, Deflation, Finance, Economy, Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Interest Rates, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON — Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the Decemb...

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Fed Guards Against Deflation

Financial Times | Krishna Guha | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Deflation, Economic Crisis, Federal Reserve, Economy, Ben Bernanke, Business News

The Federal Reserve is already engaged in unorthodox "quantitative easing" and should prepare for the possibility that more extreme measures could be ...

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Inflation Prospects

Alan Schram | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Milton Friedman, Deflation, Commodities, Gold, Credit Crisis, Libor, Paul Volcker, Barack Obama, S&P 500, Fdic, Money Market Funds, Copper, Inflation, Business News, Oil, Stagflation, Money Supply, Keywords: Bank Deposits, Saving Money, Dow, Great Depression, Financial Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

In the last few months, we have seen the prices of commodities dropping precipitously. Oil dropped from $150 to $60, Gold dropped from $1,000 an ounc...

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America's Blown it, Bring in a Global System

Diane Francis | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Politics, Gold Prices, Deflation, Financial Meltdown, Global Crisis, Washington, Financial Crisis, Bank Bailout, Canada, Jim Cramer, T-Bills, Business News
Diane Francis

The world is very nervous because America's political rigamordis means that 25% of the global GDP cannot be repaired or even managed.

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The Fed's Furtive Ease

Michael Pento | Posted 10.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Crisis, Aig, Bailout, Finanicals, Fed, Economy, Wall Street Crisis, Deflation, Inflation, Business News
Michael Pento

The recent moves by the Fed and the Administration will ensure that the most salient problem facing our country's future will be inflation.

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The Black-Scholes Atomic Debt Bomb & 7 Predictions

Max Keiser | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Option Volatility Formula, Federal Reserve Bank, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Deflation, Inflation, Black-Scholes, Business News
Max Keiser

By not deflating the supply of fiat, debt-based exchange units for so many years, the over supply of them, each a claim on America's future, has grown by quantum levels of risk.

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