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How the devaluing Chinese Yuan Will Spark a U.S. Economic Collapse

TheWake UpCall 0 China, Economic Collapse, Economy, Money, USA 11:04 PM

How the devaluing Chinese Yuan Will Spark a U.S. Economic Collapse

The Chinese government made the surprise decision today (Tuesday) to devalue the Chinese yuan. It's an action that could have dire cons...

Who Controls The Money? An Unelected, Unaccountable Central Bank Of The World Secretly Does

TheWake UpCall 0 Banks, Economy, Money 8:04 PM

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe.  It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central banks.  It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also has branches in Hong Kong and Mexico City.  It is essentially an unelected, unaccountable central bank of the world that has complete immunity from taxation and from national laws.  Even Wikipedia admits that ” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlements">it is not accountable to any single national government.</a>”  The Bank for International Settlements was used to launder money for the Nazis during World War II, but these days the main purpose of the BIS is to guide and direct the centrally-planned global financial system.  Today, 58 global central banks belong to the BIS, and it has far more power over how the U.S. economy (or any other economy for that matter) will perform over the course of the next year than any politician does.  Every two months, the central bankers of the world gather in Basel for another “Global Economy Meeting”.  During those meetings, decisions are made which affect every man, woman and child on the planet, and yet none of us have any say in what goes on.  The Bank for International Settlements is an organization that was founded by the global elite and it operates for the benefit of the global elite, and it is intended to be one of the key cornerstones of the emerging one world economic system.  It is imperative that we get people educated about what this organization is and where it plans to take the global economy. </span><br>
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Who Controls The Money? An Unelected, Unaccountable Central Bank Of The World Secretly Does

An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire...

World’s biggest economies in 2030

TheWake UpCall 0 Economy 1:23 PM

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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><br>Let's see who are the world's biggest economies. <br><br>In 15 years time, the US won’t be the world’s largest economy, China’s economy will have doubled, EU countries like France and Italy will be stagnant, and emerging markets will explode, according to new projections from the US Department of Agriculture.</span><div>
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World’s biggest economies in 2030

Let's see who are the world's biggest economies. In 15 years time, the US won’t be the world’s largest economy, China’s economy wil...

Oil Collapse: “This Could Cause The Most Destructive Economic Situation Since the Great Depression”

TheWake UpCall 0 Collapse, Economy, oil 4:50 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With <a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/01/06/oil-drops-50-world-financial-markets-begin-unravel/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Oil Drops Below $50 As World Financial Markets Begin To Unravel">the price of oil</a> hovering around $44 and U.S. oil inventories at record highs the general consensus is that the economy will soon see a boost in consumer spending as Americans will take their gas savings and spend it at <a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/01/14/us-retail-industry-collapsing-heres-youre-trouble/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The US Retail Industry is Collapsing: Here’s Why You’re in Trouble">retail stores</a>.<span id="more-43857" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there’s a lot more going on with oil on a geo-political scale than can be pumped into a 30-second propaganda soundbite from financial pundits and talking heads. While <a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/12/09/anyone-believes-collapsing-oil-prices-good-economy-crazy/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Anyone That Believes That Collapsing Oil Prices Are Good For The Economy Is Crazy">lower prices may seem like a boon</a> for the American economy, what’s been missing from mainstream assessments are the fundamental data points that show just how serious a problem we may be facing.</span></div>
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Oil Collapse: “This Could Cause The Most Destructive Economic Situation Since the Great Depression”

With the price of oil hovering around $44 and U.S. oil inventories at record highs the general consensus is that the economy will soon s...

Gerald Celente Declares That A Worldwide Panic Is Beginning And “There Is No Recovery”

TheWake UpCall 0 Economic Collapse, Economy 4:41 PM

Gerald Celente Declares That A Worldwide Panic Is Beginning And “There Is No Recovery”

Precursors To A Global Financial Collapse – Gerald Celente Declares That A Worldwide Panic Is Beginning And “There Is No Recovery”; Centra...

U.S. Adds 252,000 Jobs In December, Unemployment Declines To 5%

TheWake UpCall 0 Economy, EU, Russia, unemployment, US 1:19 PM

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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great news for US economy. <br><br>The U.S. economy added 252,000 jobs in December, as the unemployment rate fell to 5.6 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics <a href="https://twitter.com/BLS_gov/status/553544240215900161">reported</a> Friday.</span><div>
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U.S. Adds 252,000 Jobs In December, Unemployment Declines To 5%

Great news for US economy. The U.S. economy added 252,000 jobs in December, as the unemployment rate fell to 5.6 percent, the Bureau of Lab...

3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession

TheWake UpCall 0 Economy, Recession 10:13 AM

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3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession

Are you waiting for the next major wave of the global economic collapse to strike? Well, you might want to start paying attention again. ...

WILL YOU SURVIVE THE COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND MARTIAL LAW?

TheWake UpCall 0 Economic Collapse, Economy, Martial Law 12:38 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your bank account is gone along with your 401k, pension and job. All hell has broken loose. THERE WILL BE ROUNDUPS. PEOPLE WILL STARVE AND BECOME VICTIMS OF THE ENSUING VIOLENCE.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The country will be under martial law. Nobody is safe including law enforcement. What will you do? Have you prepared? Do you have the mental toughness to survive?  Here is a list of items that you will strongly want to consider implementing in order to increase your suggestions with regard to what is coming.</span></div>
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WILL YOU SURVIVE THE COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND MARTIAL LAW?

Your bank account is gone along with your 401k, pension and job. All hell has broken loose. THERE WILL BE ROUNDUPS. PEOPLE WILL STARVE AND...

The Illuminati Families That Rule The World

TheWake UpCall 0 Economy, Illuminati 7:36 PM

The Illuminati Families That Rule The World

Some people have started realizing that there are large financial groups that dominate the world. Forget the political intrigues, conflict...

China becomes world's largest economy

TheWake UpCall 0 China, Economy 5:31 PM

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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">China has toppled America to become the biggest economy in the world, according to figures from the International Monetary Fund.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">The White House seemed caught flat-footed by the news, crowing on Wednesday about America's relative economic strength in comparison with the rest of the world. </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">The US has been the global leader since it overtook Britain in 1872, but has now lost its status as top dog.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">The latest IMF figures show the Chinese economy is worth $17.61 trillion compared with $17.4 trillion for the U.S. </span><br><br><br><span style="background-color: white;"><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/09/1412815432769_wps_3_A_boy_who_is_waiting_to_g.jpg"></span></span></div>

China becomes world's largest economy

China has toppled America to become the biggest economy in the world, according to figures from the International Monetary Fund. The White ...

The U.S. Economy Has Collapsed: “This Is A Monstrous Negative Revision”

TheWake UpCall 0 Economy 12:57 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For months the administration, financial pundits and Wall Street analysts made it a point to inform Americans about the healthy state of our economy. One of the key metrics they’ve used as proof of recovery was the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which measures the productive output of the U.S. economy as a whole.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier this year the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis noted that this measure was showing positive growth. But now, after a <a href="http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm" target="_blank">second official revision</a>, all of that purported growth used to goad consumers into spending more money on homes, cars and other goods has been revealed to be nothing but conjecture. According to the BEA, not only did economic growth stall during the first quarter of 2014, it completely collapsed, signalling a significant shift in consumption habits amid increasing food and energy prices:</span><br>
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The U.S. Economy Has Collapsed: “This Is A Monstrous Negative Revision”

For months the administration, financial pundits and Wall Street analysts made it a point to inform Americans about the healthy state of ou...

Goldman Sachs conquers Europe

TheWake UpCall 0 Economy, EU, Goldman Sachs 10:23 AM

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While ordinary people fret about austerity and jobs, the eurozone’s corridors of power have been undergoing a remarkable transformation.<br>The ascension of Mario Monti to the Italian prime ministership is remarkable for more reasons than it is possible to count. By replacing the scandal-surfing Silvio Berlusconi, Italy has dislodged the undislodgeable. By imposing rule by unelected technocrats, it has suspended the normal rules of democracy, and maybe democracy itself. And by putting a senior adviser at Goldman Sachs in charge of a Western nation, it has taken to new heights the political power of an investment bank that you might have thought was prohibitively politically toxic.<br>This is the most remarkable thing of all: a giant leap forward for, or perhaps even the successful culmination of, the Goldman Sachs Project.<br><br><img src="http://i1.wp.com/osnetdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Pg-12-eurozone-graphic.jpg?resize=620%2C350"></span><br>

Goldman Sachs conquers Europe

While ordinary people fret about austerity and jobs, the eurozone’s corridors of power have been undergoing a remarkable transformation. The...

The Collapsing US Economy and the end of the world

TheWake UpCall 0 Economy 6:06 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a recent column, “Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris,” I promised to examine whether the US economy will collapse before Washington in its pursuit of world hegemony brings us into military confrontation with Russia and China. This is likely to be an ongoing subject on this site, so this column will not be the final word.<br><br><br>Washington has been at war since October, 2001, when President George W. Bush concocted an excuse to order the US invasion of Afghanistan. This war took a back seat when Bush concocted another excuse to order the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a war that went on without significant success for 8 years and has left Iraq in chaos with dozens more killed and wounded every day, a new strong man in place of the illegally executed former strongman, and the likelihood of the ongoing violence becoming civil war.<br></span><br>

The Collapsing US Economy and the end of the world

In a recent column, “Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris,” I promised to examine whether the US economy will collapse before Washing...

Welcome to Low-Wage America

TheWake UpCall 0 Economic Collapse, Economy 9:31 AM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">America was once upon a time land of </span>opportunity, freedom and good life.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now it is lend of debt slaves, homeless people and low wage.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome to low-wage America. Lousy jobs, rotten pay, eroding benefits, and poor working conditions reflect things for growing millions. Most workers live from paycheck to paycheck. They have few or no savings, they’re trapped in financial insecurity and they struggle to survive out of sight and mind.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They do so to cover bare essentials. They’re hard-pressed to do it. They’re more than ever debt entrapped. They’re increasingly on their own. They’re one missed payday from possible destitution, homelessness, hunger and despair.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Raising the minimum wage obscures things. Debating it crowds out reality. Where have all the good jobs gone? They’ve been offshored to low-wage countries. Monthly employment reports show mostly low-pay/poor-or-no-benefit/part-time or temp jobs created.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most pay poverty or sub-poverty wages. Households need two or more to survive. High unemployment makes finding one hard. Previous articles explained. Reported 6.6% unemployment is fake. Real unemployment is 23.2%. Over 100 million working age Americans can’t find jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s 10 million more than when Obama took office. His job creation boasting is phony. He’s a jobs destroyer, not creator. His job creation scheme is cutting corporate taxes. Doing so doesn’t create jobs. It improves bottom line performance. It benefits shareholders. It does nothing to help workers or job seekers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Real unemployment persists at Depression era levels. No federal policy was instituted to change things. Minimum wage debates divert attention from what’s needed. Americans deserve living wage protection. They deserve good benefits. They need Washington guaranteeing both.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They need policies instituted to do so. They need progressive governance. They need what bipartisan complicity denies. Fairness isn’t America’s long suit. Class warfare defines official policy. Since the mid-1970s, inflation-adjusted wages declined. Workers earn less real money today than then.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Benefits steadily eroded, good jobs disappeared and class struggle between haves and have-nots persists. Never have so few benefitted at the expense of so many. Privileged Americans never had things so good.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wealth disparity extremes are unprecedented. Inequality defines America. Social justice is disappearing in plain sight. Business as usual is policy. Ordinary people are exploited. Growing millions face poverty, unemployment, underemployment, homelessness, hunger and overall deprivation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Government of, by and for everyone equitably doesn’t exist. Monied interests alone thrive. Neoliberal harshness harms most others. Bipartisan complicity force-feeds it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s institutionalized when vital aid is needed. Doing so wages financial war on millions. It’s official policy. Most people struggle to get by.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome to today’s America. It’s no fit place to live in. Progressive governance demands waging war on concentrated wealth and power. Doing so would institute social justice. It would be official policy. Peace would be prioritized. Imperial wars would be end. So would foreign occupations.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Defense spending would be hugely slashed. Minimally to half its current size. Ideally much more. America’s empire of bases would close. Force levels would be cut to a small fraction of current size.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Progressive taxation would replace today’s policy. No more free lunches. Corporate America would be forced to pay its fair share. So would rich elites. Washington would support organized labor’s right to bargain with management on equal terms.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Living wage protection would be instituted. It would take urban, rural, state and local conditions into consideration. Legislation would penalize companies offshoring jobs for profit. Corporations moving abroad to escape penalties wouldn’t work.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doing business in America would require obeying fair practice policies. Exploitive companies would be shut out. Anti-trust laws with teeth would be instituted. Monopoly and oligopoly power would be abolished.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Public education would be supported. It would be reinvigorated. It would be federally funded. States would have to conform to federal standards. It would be the law of the land.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Universal/single-payer healthcare would be instituted. Everyone covered. No one left out. Predatory insurers would be excluded. Except as a voluntary option. Money power would return to public hands where it belongs. Wall Street crooks would be prosecuted. So would other lawless corporate predators.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tobin taxation would be instituted. Large investors would be targeted. Speculation would be discouraged.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At one-half of one percent, hundreds of billions annually would be raised. A one-tenth of one percent tax on daily derivatives trading would raise over half a trillion dollars annually. Imagine the benefits this kind of revenue could produce. Imagine social justice like no country ever before experienced. Imagine ending a broken system.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagine unprecedented fairness. Imagine making America fit to live in. Imagine making it a model to emulate. Minimum wage debates obscure these issues. They’re smoke and mirrors deception. They divert attention from what really matters.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not according to New York Times editors. On February 8, they <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/the-case-for-a-higher-minimum-wage.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=2" style="position: relative; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">headlined</a> “The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage,” saying:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“(E)vidence show(s) that increasing the minimum wage is vital to the economic security of tens of millions of Americans, and would be good for the weak economy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“An hourly minimum of $10.10, for example…would reduce the number of people living in poverty by 4.6 million...”</span></blockquote>

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China just sold almost $50 billion in US Treasurys

TheWake UpCall 0 China, Economy 4:05 AM

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<span class="anno-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China’s holdings of US Treasurys dropped to the lowest levels in two years after China dumped <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/snetus.txt" style="text-decoration: none;">$47.8 billion in paper</a>—equal to about 3.6% of its Treasury holdings as of November—bringing its total holdings to $1.27 trillion. Not that this should come as a shock. Yi Gang, a deputy governor of China’s central bank, hinted at the move when he announced in late November that the country <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-20/pboc-says-no-longer-in-china-s-favor-to-boost-record-reserves.html" style="text-decoration: none;">no longer benefits</a> from increasing its foreign reserves.</span></span></div>
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China just sold almost $50 billion in US Treasurys

China’s holdings of US Treasurys dropped to the lowest levels in two years after China dumped $47.8 billion in paper —equal to about 3.6% ...

Eurozone crisis is just getting started

TheWake UpCall 0 Economic Collapse, Economy, EU 1:38 PM

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6th. Banker Dead: JPMorgan’s Executive Director Of Global Equities Ryan Crane.

TheWake UpCall 0 Bankers, Banks, Dollar, Economic Collapse, Economy, JP Morgan, Money 1:23 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another JP Morgan banker has been found dead, as Ryan Henry Crane, the Executive Director in JPMorgan’s Global Equities Group was found dead in his Stamford Ct home Monday at the age of 37.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While there is no official word yet as to the cause of death, Crane’s death follows last week’s “suicide” of another JPMorgan banker in London (which is now under investigation by London police), and follows <a href="http://www.silverdoctors.com/5th-financial-executive-in-past-week-found-dead-as-ceo-found-with-self-inflicted-nail-gun-wounds/" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">5 other suspicious banker “suicides” in the past week</a>.</span></div>
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6th. Banker Dead: JPMorgan’s Executive Director Of Global Equities Ryan Crane.

Another JP Morgan banker has been found dead, as Ryan Henry Crane, the Executive Director in JPMorgan’s Global Equities Group was found dea...

Bankers Arrested, Civil War Averted, Economy On the Rebound

TheWake UpCall 1 Economy 2:11 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who says there isn’t justice in the world for the globalists who continue to plunder the assets of average people? Four prominent bankers have been sentenced to prison and assessed hefty financial penalties.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The First District Court of Appeals sentenced four former Goldman Sachs Executives to prison terms ranging from three to five years in prison for financial crimes dating back to 2008. The Supreme Court, fearing civilian reprisals, has refused to hear the bankers’ appeals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mainstream media is reporting that Hank Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs and Secretary of the Treasury as well as being known for being the architect of the bailouts, received the heaviest sentence of five years in prison. Paulson was ordered to pay $33.4 million dollars in fines. Along these same lines, former Goldman Sachs CEO and World Bank President, Tim Geithner, was sentenced to three years in prison along with being assessed a hefty $23 million dollar fine. The mastermind of the MF Global theft, former Goldman Sachs executive and the former Governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine, was sentenced to four years an $18 million dollar fine. The most recent Goldman Sachs CEO, Lloyd Blankfein was also sentenced to three years and assessed a $13 million dollar penalty.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When hundreds of thousands of citizens showed up at the Capitol building and began throwing rocks at the building, this triggered the biggest civil unrest in the country’s history. The military refused to become involved and government officials cowered in fear as DHS fought off the protestors. Shortly thereafter, the beleaguered Congress rediscovered its backbone and issued arrest warrants for the four criminal banksters. Of course, Goldman Sachs and several other international bank entities warned the citizens that the country would collapse economically and it would become necessary to usher in martial law. This proved to be an empty threat, as the opposite ended up being true. The year following the arrests of these four bankster thugs, the economy grew at a rate of 2.6%. It is safe to say that the government will never tolerate the undue influence of any financial institution again. The country is approaching financial solvency. Goldman Sachs has been turned into a bed and breakfast location. Who would have thought that this would have been possible?</span></span> <span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1491658_10153644665455515_1924328797_n.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a related story, Nancy Pelosi also went to prison for two years after being convicted insider trading on Wall Street. And Diane Feinstein went to prison for five years for repeated violations of conflicts of interest as Feinstein’s husband was the beneficiary of several no-bid federal government contracts. Obama was impeached and convicted for identity theft and most importantly, treason. Happy days are here again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would pray that these events would take place, but unfortunately, our bankster crime rate continues to rise exponentially.<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>However, the equivalent of these events, and more, just took place in Iceland.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In an unprecedented ruling, Reykjavík District Court sentenced four former banking executives of the Kaupthing Bank to between 3 and 5 1/2 years in prison for </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://grapevine.is/News/ReadArticle/Four-Kaupthing-Executives-Sentenced-To-Prison" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">financial</span></a></span><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> crimes dating back to 2008. </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.visir.is/al-thani-malid--thungir-fangelsisdomar-yfir-kaupthingsmonnum/article/2013131219659" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vísir</span></a></span><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is reporting that former Kaupthing director, </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25349240" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson</span></a></span><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> received the heaviest sentence which consisted of five and a half years. He was also ordered to pay $33.4 million and also pay the government’s legal fees. There is a God and there is justice in Iceland as former Kaupthing chairperson, and </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.grapevine.is/News/ReadArticle/Former-Kaupthing-Chairman-I-Wont-Come-Voluntarily" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">former <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Interpol fugitive</span></span></a></span><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span> Sigurður Einarsson, was sentenced to five years, and ordered to pay a total of $14.3 million as well as legal fees.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the Icelandic people could get their hands on Goldman Sachs officials they would. They impeached and convicted corrupt politicians who were in league with Wall Street, many of which are serving prison sentences. Iceland is on its way to a full economic recovery while still saying no to the corrupt Goldman Sachs influences in Europe. Iceland is saying no to the Bank of International Settlements. Iceland is a beacon of hope for the rest of the G20 nations including the United States, or is it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gadaffi showed the same level of defiance to the corrupt banksters as did the people of Iceland, yet he is dead. What is the difference? In Iceland, the people are engaged and are committed. This was not the case in Libya and this is certainly not the case in the United States. BothLibya and the United States have been invaded by massive immigration (i.e. many al-Qaeda took up residency in Libya before the revolution) and America’s immigration issues have been well chronicled. Both countries lacked the solidarity which ultimately served to dilute their national resolve. Further, in America, the mainstream media keeps the masses docile and dumbed down while conducting their version of “Occupy America”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of Congress has been bought off. The so-called representative government is beyond the reach of the people. In Iceland, that is not the case and even if that were the case, it would not matter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The most important fact related to the Icelandic revolution happened after the implementation of a type of self-governing approach which includes some elements of <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>“</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19200-direct-democracy-in-reykjavik-the-wisdom-of-the-icelandic-crowd-sourcers" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Direct Democracy</span></a></span><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“. Icelanders have much more say in their government than we do. This is a huge advantage for the citizens of Iceland, as from this moment on, no external power can conquer their country thru hidden activities and the creation of bribed puppets. Politicians can theoretically be bribed, but it would not matter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">Iceland’s President Olafur Ragnar Grimmson was interviewed earlier this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos on<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">why Iceland has enjoyed such a strong recovery after it’s </span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-has-iceland-experienced-a-strong-economic-recovery-after-complete-financial-collapse-in-2008/5320866" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">complete</span></a></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">financial collapse in 2008, while the rest of the West is still mired in debt, poverty and hopelessness to go with empty promises of an economic recovery.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">“… Why are the banks considered to be the holy churches of the modern economy? Why are private banks not like airlines and telecommunication companies and allowed to go</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-has-iceland-experienced-a-strong-economic-recovery-after-complete-financial-collapse-in-2008/5320866" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bankrupt</span></a><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">if they have been run in an irresponsible way? The theory that you have to bail-out banks is a theory that you allow bankers enjoy for their own profit their success, and then let ordinary people bear their failure through taxes and austerity.</span> </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">People in enlightened democracies are not going to accept that in the long run. …“</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Americans have three choices if our nation is to recover: (1) Civil War; (2) Establish direct democracy and begin the political purge that will rid the government of the banker takeover; or, (3) Passively accept our present circumstance and embrace our ultimate and complete demise.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our best and most effective course of action would be to work towards direct democracy. This would be a slow process because our government has stage four cancer. We would have to continually create one-term politicians until we got a majority of people who would grant the country a say in how they we are governed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some believe that civil war is inevitable as the bankster controlled government tightens its noose around the country. This could be the case when the government and its foreign assets begin to seize guns from American citizens. The implementation of Obamacare could prove to be the trigger event leading to the government’s need to seize the guns due to massive civil unrest.<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you think? Is there a way to galvanize the country and proceed against the existing establishment with a single purpose similar to what happened to Iceland? I would propose that we have an electronic town hall meeting in order to share ideas. Please share your thoughts on the comment board with regard to these questions and issues. <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">    </span></span></span></div>
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Bankers Arrested, Civil War Averted, Economy On the Rebound

Who says there isn’t justice in the world for the globalists who continue to plunder the assets of average people? Four prominent bankers h...

Three U.S. Economic Charts Obama Hopes You’ll Never See

TheWake UpCall 1 Economy, Obama 11:05 AM

<div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I’m going to show you three charts Obama hoped you’d never see.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brace yourself.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’re about to get a very different view of the “recovery” picture that the administration keeps painting for us.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one, for starters, is accurate.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It also explains why incoming Fed Chair Janet Yellen can’t cut stimulus, which is one of the reasons you have an opportunity to make some money here… especially if you follow my “mid-December plan.” More on that in a minute.</span></div><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br />
 
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<div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s start with the charts…</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><img src="http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2009/01/05/a22a2c5a-a642-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/thumbnail/620x350/image4698482x.jpg?hash=c43e1d5e9f09533884800998eaf4b5af" /></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The White House positively hates this first one…</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Charted Truth No. 1</strong><br />
U.S. payrolls are 1.5 million jobs short of where they were in 2008, and the “partimeification” of America continues unabated.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/2013/Dec/MM-12-5-13-full-time-part-time.png" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" height="378" src="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/2013/Dec/MM-12-5-13-full-time-part-time.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(185, 186, 188); box-shadow: rgb(220, 220, 221) 0px 1px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 4px;" width="504" /></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, the White House hates this chart, because it shows – in excruciating detail – that the recovery they keep trying to convince the rest of us is happening is little more than a complete evisceration of our labor base.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At a time when we should be seeing robust growth, what we’re seeing is a huge percentage of productive workers shunted to the sidelines. Actual unemployment is more likely 14% to 17% if you factor in the under-employed and those who have given up looking for work.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yellen’s already tipped her hand in this department, incidentally, noting that “below average” employment is reason enough to prevent her from raising interest rates – and, presumably, from tanking the stock markets.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Given that the Fed’s current two-pronged mandate emphasizes employment over inflation, she’ll hammer on this notion until the numbers either move the way she wants or somebody can manipulate them to match reality.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Charted Truth No. 2</strong><br />
Employee compensation as a percent of GDP is down to the lowest levels ever recorded.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/2013/Dec/MM-12-5-13-employee-compensation.png" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" height="420" src="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/2013/Dec/MM-12-5-13-employee-compensation.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(185, 186, 188); box-shadow: rgb(220, 220, 221) 0px 1px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 4px;" width="560" /></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is another chart that fairy-dusted federal policy makers don’t want made widespread knowledge.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The White House is trying desperately to convince the American public that things are improving, as are politicians from both parties who are anxious not to lose their seats at a time when trust in their abilities has dropped to all-time lows.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite having spent trillions on liquidity injections, average workers are getting squeezed harder than ever before. So while profitability is now at record levels – with the average S&P 500 company generating 9.9 cents per sales dollar, according to Bloomberg – compensation is headed for the basement.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Decades of shoddy economic policy are coming home to roost, and there’s not a damn thing they’ve done about it except serve up their own self-interested legislation while selling mainstream America down the river.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only are huge swaths of workers being “partimeified” in an effort to further boost margins, but wages are falling well behind GDP growth. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, as reported by Bloomberg, the ratio of U.S. wages to earnings is a mere 3.2 as of Q2 2013… and falling. By comparison, that same figure averaged 4.7 from 1947 until the beginning of the financial crisis, so we’re talking about a 31.9% decrease.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Individual company data is even more graphic – pun absolutely intended.</span></div><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br />
 
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<div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Disney boosted operating margins from 13% in 2005 to 21% while terminating loads of workers and closing offices. Defense contractor Northrop Grumman has bluntly raised expectations by cutting jobs to boost net income. Its profit margin rose 56%, from 5% in 2009 to 7.8% in 2012, as noted by Bloomberg.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t just a U.S. problem.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Japan, for example, Toyota, Mazda, and Panasonic have all cut tens of thousands of jobs and closed once thriving production lines while offshoring remaining production.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even Europe, with its comparatively inflexible labor laws, is feeling the bite despite being the slowest to cut labor and, as a result, boost profits. Italian labor unions, for instance, are trying desperately to hold on to nearly 200,000 jobs split amongst 150 companies looking to cut them. France, Germany, Spain, and England are in the same boat, with companies struggling to make a go of it.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the issue may be moot.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big American companies like Ford, Whirlpool, and GE are simply selling off European operations – or closing them entirely – to save their bottom lines from the hassle, not to mention the earnings impact. Asian firms like Sony and Fujitsu are rumored to be interested in dumping European facilities, too, and for the same reasons.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe incoming Fed Chair Janet Yellen is keenly aware of the international implications of cheap capital and expanding margins. So she’ll do everything she can to boost both, knowing that an estimated 40% to 60% of S&P 500 revenues come from overseas operations.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Charted Truth No. 3</strong><br />
Earnings have doubled since October 2009, while sales growth is slowing.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/2013/Dec/MM-12-5-13-EPS-and-revenue-growth.png" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" height="239" src="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/2013/Dec/MM-12-5-13-EPS-and-revenue-growth.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(185, 186, 188); box-shadow: rgb(220, 220, 221) 0px 1px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 4px;" width="560" /></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: FactSet Earnings Insight, Standard & Poor’s Corporation, via Yardini.com</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under normal market conditions, slowing revenue growth and record-high profit margins are not a recipe for continued growth unless earnings can support the equation.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time around, they are.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s because companies are willing to invest in potential productivity growth as long as the Fed provides the cheap capital needed to fuel it. By the way, this is what people mean when they talk about what was the “Greenspan put,” which became the “Bernanke put,” which is now set to become the “Yellen put.”</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Normally, companies would be bracing for slowing activity. But this time around, they’re looking for additional earnings expansion using a trifecta of exceptionally low wage rate pressure, historically low debt service costs, and share buybacks that could boost year-over-year EPS growth by upwards of 1.5% to as much as 2%.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yellen won’t risk upsetting this delicate balance if for no other reason than to serve Washington’s interests. I can’t imagine the pressure she’s under.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You Can Take Advantage of This Situation</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The $14 trillion we’ve seen created out of thin air via a five-year rally that began 165.35% ago in March 2009 is just getting warmed up.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As long as money remains cheap and companies can cut costs further while also overtly resisting new full-time hiring, profit margins will continue to increase.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bloomberg and S&P data pin bottom-line growth next year at approximately 10%. My own expectations are a little more aggressive.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe 11%-12% bottom line growth is more likely, as long as Yellen keeps her foot on the gas. I say that if for no other reason than the markets have perpetually underestimated how adept corporate America is when it comes to squeezing profits out of thin air. So rising equity prices are a means of catching up.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the key to capturing that?</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With very few exceptions, I think that “glocals” are the place to be for the next 12 months. That’s what I call companies like ABB, Raytheon, and AFLAC – firms with globally recognized brands, internationally diversified sales, strong balance sheets, and disciplined management. I’m game for small caps, too, but more as “spice” than “sauce,” so to speak. (If you follow Sid’s Small Cap Rocket Alert recommendations, you know a dash of the right “spice” can go a long, long way.)</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dividends are exceptionally important right now and should be a source of renewed emphasis for every investor, because they offer cold hard cash as compensation for the ownership risk you take when you buy them.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m also increasingly a fan of bottom fishing into 2014, because I think very aggressive tax harvesting will put the best companies in several key sectors on sale. If you’re not familiar with the term, that’s what people call selling big winners to harvest losses that offset the capital gains normally incurred with big winners.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favorites at the moment include Chinese industrial fabricators, resource plays, and even REITS that have been trashed to the tune of 40%, 50%, or even more.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But act quickly – tax-loss sales have historically peaked in mid-December, which sets up a “recovery rally” of sorts into 2014.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you just know the White House would love to tout that “it” made that happen come mid-term elections.</span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source :<a href="http://moneymorning.com/2013/12/05/three-charts-obama-hopes-youll-never-see/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://moneymorning.com/2013/12/05/three-charts-obama-hopes-youll-never-see/</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://moneymorning.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Money Morning/The Money Map Report</a> </span></div><div style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.thetradingreport.com/2013/12/06/three-u-s-economic-charts-obama-hopes-youll-never-see/"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.thetradingreport.com/2013/12/06/three-u-s-economic-charts-obama-hopes-youll-never-see/</span></a></div><br />
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Today I’m going to show you three charts Obama hoped you’d never see. Brace yourself. You’re about to get a very different view of the “reco...

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