Category: Economics & Investing

Pay off our debt? Not likely, say some. – G.G. o o o Ellen Brown: Big Banks Will Take Depositors Money In Next Crash o o o Russia is finally using all that gold they’ve been hoarding. On Thursday, the Central Bank of Russia announced that gold reserves dropped by $4.3 billion in just one week, reports Vesti Finance. – CDV o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: “These Are Astonishing Figures, Evidence Of A 1930s-Style Depression” One-Fifth of Americans Don’t Plan to Pay Off Their Debt Russia Set to Raise Main Lending Rate

The American Dream deferred for young Americans: Living in rentals, inflated college tuition, and low wages await millions of young Americans. o o o Welcome To The Recovery: 40% of Americans Live Paycheck To Paycheck (Up From 30% In 2012) – G.G. o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Why the Greek Stock Market Is Crashing Again Video: Peter Schiff – Fed Can’t Raise Rates Without Pricking Bubble Chris Martenson interviews Mike Maloney – The Coming Wealth Transfer

Another Fabricated Jobs Report. – RBS o o o Greece’s stock market just suffered its worst collapse ever . – CDV o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Gold Bulls Return as Wagers on Stimulus Accumulate: Commodities Video: John Williams from Shadow Stats – America and Dollar in Trouble It’s Time to Start Paying Attention to Greece Again

New Rules: Cyprus-style Bail-ins to Take Deposits and Pensions o o o Average Federal Spending Per Household Nearly $30K. – P.M. o o o Egon von Greyerz: Global Deflationary Implosion Will Start Money Printing o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas New Law Would Make Taxpayers Potentially Liable For TRILLIONS In Derivatives Losses – This essentially already exists as they have an implicit guarantee from the government but suppose this would have it officially explicit. JWR has been warning about the derivatives since 2006 Japan Third-Quarter GDP Revised Down to 1.9% Contraction Rate Rises Spark ‘Massive Volatility’ Warnings

Social Security has become the de facto retirement plan for millions of Americans. o o o New Study Claims US Shale Gas Quantities Grossly Exaggerated o o o Macroeconomics Finally Gets Interesting o o o Are We Reliving The 1930s?

Creator of ‘Liberty Dollar’ Sentenced to Home Detention o o o Thanksgiving weekend sales fall 11%: NRF o o o The New Depression: 5 Decades in the Making and No End in Sight o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: The Incredible Shrinking Incomes of Young Americans – A good article, but the author (like many) clearly misunderstands this to be a real recovery and thus is puzzled by this. They also don’t understand that falling prices, because of increased production, doesn’t cause a loss of jobs if we had a true, free market economy. ‘Near Perfect’ Indicator That Precedes …

JPMorgan Rushed to Hire Trader Who Suggested on His Resume That He Knew How to Game Electric Markets. – P.M. o o o The Morality and Legality of Debt Jubilee o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: David Stockman: How The Federal Debt Went From $1 Trillion To $18 Trillion in 33 Years – Interesting since Stockman was the budget director the day we passed the $1 trillion mark. Plummeting Oil Prices Could Destroy The Banks That Are Holding Trillions In Commodity Derivatives It’s Official: America is Now No. 2

Plummeting Oil Prices Could Destroy The Banks That Are Holding Trillions In Commodity Derivatives o o o Video: Afterburner w/ Bill Whittle — Lights Out! How We Could Lose Everything. – G.G. o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Russia Recession Signs Mount as Central Bank Stems Ruble Losses Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Crashed Like This?… T. Boone Pickens Predicts Return to $100 a Barrel – T. Boon Pickens has an agenda of his own but nonetheless worth reading what he is saying.

Chicago to boost minimum wage to $13 by 2019 . – RBS o o o New Signs Gold and Silver Are Returning As Monetary Assets o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Surprise End to India Gold Controls Boosts Wedding Demand The Retail Apocalypse Accelerates: Collapsing Holiday Sales Are A Signal That A Recession Is Coming PETER SCHIFF: Fed Yearns for Higher Inflation to Disguise Asset Bubbles

India Submits To The Free Market, Fails To Suppress Gold o o o Could Falling Oil Prices Spark A Financial Crisis? o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Ponzi: Treasury Issues $1T in New Debt in 8 Weeks—To Pay Old Debt Moody’s Downgrades Japan as Concerns Grow – This is the kind of thing you might see as a headline in a JWR novel, like Liberators. “The news came just after the country’s main stock market, the Nikkei, closed at a seven-year high.” Total US Debt Rises Over $18 Trillion; Up 70% Under Barack Obama

Gold Is A 6,000 Year Old Bubble o o o The kids aren’t alright: The trend continues to renting. o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Black Friday Fizzles With Consumers as Sales Tumble 11% Ruble Falls to Record Amid Bets Russia Intervened to Stem Slide Oil Shock Streaks Across Globe From Moscow to Tehran to Caracas. Ready for $40?

Welcome to SurvivalBlog’s Precious Metals Month in Review, where we take a look at “the month that was” in precious metals. Each month, we cover the price action of gold and silver and examine the “what” and “why” behind those numbers. Gold hit a 4 1/2 year low of $1,131 an ounce in the first week of November, then posted three straight weeks of gains to the $1,200 level. The rally was snuffed by the November 27th OPEC meeting, where oil production was maintained at its current levels. The resulting crash in crude oil futures pulled the currencies of oil-producing …