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Economists Opposing Federal Reserve Audit Have Undisclosed Fed Ties

Editor and Publisher — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:16:56 +0000

Blog Editor’s Note: This piece delivers more exposure than the usual establishment press critique of the current controversy surrounding the Federal Reserve. However, the focus on key economists with Fed connections ignores the fact the identity of the private investors with controlling interests in the Federal Reserve is what they REALLY don’t want you to know. That’s why Fed supporters are open to a little more transparency they can control, but will put their full global financial weight in front of any attempt to conduct a full audit of the organization.

(This Huffington Post) As the debate over an audit of ... Continue Reading

Continuing deflation in real economy

Editor and Publisher — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:01:29 +0000

By Bill Bonner

(The Daily Reckoning)

Financiers have the world’s financial system in a “doom loop,” says the Bank of England. We’ve thought so ourselves. The bankers take money from the government and use it to speculate, not to lend. “Excess” reserves are at a record high as consumer credit continues to decline.

Most people find it both galling and absurd to see the bankers getting $10 million bonuses while there is 10% unemployment. Here at The Daily Reckoning, it’s just a matter of curiosity. You’d think there would be more wage competition ... Continue Reading

US banks prepaying $45 billion in insurance fees

Editor and Publisher — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:32:25 +0000

(The Los Angeles Times) WASHINGTON — U.S. banks will prepay about $45 billion in premiums to replenish a federal deposit insurance fund now in the red, under a plan adopted by federal regulators.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. board voted Thursday to mandate the early payments of premiums for 2010 through 2012. Amid the struggling economy and rising loan defaults, 120 banks have failed so far this year costing the insurance fund more than $28 billion.

To address concerns of small banks in weak financial condition, the FDIC also set up an exemption process for those that prove the prepaid fees would ... Continue Reading

Facing A Total Breakdown Of Financial Markets

Editor and Publisher — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:47:51 +0000

By Bob Chapman

The International Forecaster

Yet another bank bights the dust, stocks have net outflows of capital, big insider sell offs and other bad moves that enable insiders to control the market, biggest S&P rally ever, Plunge protection team working overtime, Gold in a new phase

This is another victim of the FDIC Friday Night Financial Follies.

Early Friday morning, state and federal agents walked into the Bank of Elmwood and closed the failed 49-year-old independent bank after a year of struggling to improve a bleak financial situation, officials announced Friday.

The Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions shut down ... Continue Reading

Bernanke’s trillion-dollar decision

Editor and Publisher — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:51:05 +0000

(Politico) The biggest decision of the economic recovery will be made in the next six months, and Barack Obama will have almost nothing to do with it.

Forget the debate over TARP, and never mind the questions about a second stimulus. This decision is about when to pull out $1 trillion that’s propping up the U.S. banking system. And it will be Federal Reserve Chairman