Putin Kills “South Stream” Pipeline, Will Build New Massive Pipeline To Turkey Instead


Nothing in this post is good for either the EU or America.

The Retail Apocalypse Accelerates: Collapsing Holiday Sales Are A Signal That A Recession Is Coming


This is not a good start to the biggest selling season of the year, but also not expected as incomes have not kept up with inflation which is both higher prices and smaller packages..

COLLAPSING HOLIDAY SALES ARE A SIGNAL THAT A RECESSION IS COMING


Maybe Obama’s economic “chickens” have come home to roost !

Capitalism Explained…..


We need some hummer in our lives and this post does that and shows us whats wrong in the world!

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Saudi Arabia: On The Verge Of Tough Decisions


Supply and demand rules not individual countries nor companies!

Complexity: The Hidden Cost Of Central Bank Actions – Jim Grant


The proposed system isn’t perfect but it is probably better that the mess the FED has made of the current system.

Triple Lutz Report–Martin Armstrong’s Mad Max Prediction–Episode 367/2303


This is not as far fetched as you would think! At some point in the near future no one will lend the Federal government any more money. In 8 full years Bush added 4.9 Trillion to the debt. In 5 years and 8 months Obama added 7.2 Trillion to the national debt. On January 2001 the national debt was only 54.3% of the GDP today it is over 100% and climbing — we have been living on borrowed money since 9/11 and at some point those that have lent the money will want to be paid back!

Obama’s Unemployment Rate Is 5.9% ~ But 5.9% Of What?: 29% Of U.S. Labor Population Out Of Work And Out Of Labor Force!


The following re-post shows the facts and figures of what is happening in our counter as Obama and his appointed minions “Fundamentally Transform” the country into their vision of what it should be. The next result of 6 years of this has been to shift large percentages of the middle class out of the work force and its worse than what is presented here as the BLS reports do not count self employed or military jobs both of which tend to the higher side in the middle class.

The bottom line is that there are fewer and fewer jobs in the middle class which as this post suggests those people have either gone on welfare or taken early retirement. That means that few and fewer “workers” that pay taxes are going to be forced to take care of more and more people that are not working.Using BLS figures, as of last month, only 46.0% of the population of the united states was holding a job. 6 years ago that was 48.5% of the population which means that we are short at least 8.0 million jobs right now.

Obama’s Unemployment Rate Is 5.9% ~ But 5.9% Of What?: 29% Of U.S. Labor Population Out Of Work And Out Of Labor Force!.

Fast food protesters to be hit with massive job losses when Obama grants amnesty in November


As most any competent economist will tell you minimum wages do nothing for the beginning or low end workers. If yo raise the $8 worker to $15 then all those between $8 and $15 will demand increases and those from $15 to where every (especially with union contracts) will also what a raise. The bottom line is within a few years the purchasing power of $15 will be the same as it was before at $8 so there is no gain. Also with cheaper and cheaper tech the cost benefit from automation gets better and better The current order takers only push buttons and make change. Flip the terminals around and let the customers enter there own orders. How many stores today have self checkout lanes so the concept is not new and at some pay level that is what will happen.

De-Dollarization Continues: China-Argentina Agree Currency Swap, Will Trade In Yuan


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It appears there is another nation on planet Earth that is becoming isolated. One by one, Russia and China appear to be finding allies willing to ‘de-dollarize’; and the latest to join this trend is serial-defaulter Argentina. As Reuters reports, China and Argentina’s central banks have agreed a multi-billion dollar currency swap operation “to bolster Argentina’s foreign reserves” or “pay for Chinese imports with Yuan,” as Argentina’s USD reserves dwindle. In addition, Argentina claims China supports the nation’s plans in the defaulted bondholder dispute.

Having met ‘on the sidelines’ in Basel, Switzerland in July, Argentine and Chinese central banks agreed to a currency swap equivalent to $11b that Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said could be used to stabilize reserves.. (as Reuters reports)

Argentina, which defaulted on its debt in July, will receive the first tranche of a multi-billion dollar currency swap operation with China’s central bank before the end of this year, the South American country’s La Nacion newspaper reported on Sunday.

The swap will allow Argentina to bolster its foreign reserves or pay for Chinese imports with the yuan currency at a time weak export revenues and an ailing currency have put the Latin American nation’s foreign reserves under intense pressure.

La Nacion said Argentina would receive yuan worth $1 billion by the end of 2014, the first payment of a loan worth a total $11 billion signed by Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez and her Chinese counterpart in July.

In addition, Bloomberg reports

People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan expressed his support for Argentina in its legal fight against holdout bondholders