Sunday, October 6, 2013

Truth About Markets

In this weeks show Max and Stacy discuss profits and how only the little people report them.

Emperors with No Clothes

Chart from a presentation by Andy Smith at the LBMA conference in Rome.

Looking at the dips in the chart of the Roman Emperors it is interesting to note the two worst Emperors prior to the final collapse of Rome were Vespasian and his son Titus. They launched the most significant war in the Middle East of all time, in which Titus captured Jerusalem, sacked and destroyed the Second Temple and stole the Menorah. It was reported at the time that 1.1 million people died in the war and the Romans took 100,000 people as slaves. The Romans really did shock and awe better than anyone.

Research links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_%2870%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_%28Temple%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock

Quotes of the Week

"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war" ~ Howard Zinn (US historian)
 "Only the Paranoid Survive" ~ Andrew Grove (former Intel CEO)
A little background on these quotes. I found the first one written on the bitcoin block chain of the wallet containing the bitcoins of The Silk Road website, currently in the hands of the FBI. The second as a chapter heading in the brilliant Robert Harris novel The Fear Index

Book launch video of The Fear Index:

 

Peter Schiff and Alex Jones warn of Economic Collapse and Martial law

From TheAlexJonesChannel

Published on Oct 4, 2013

Investment broker and financial commentator Peter Schiff joins the show to reveal that the Federal Reserve's monetary expansion program, called Quantitative Easing, is destroying the middle class and pushing the American economy towards a cliff under the illusion of an economic recovery.
http://www.schiffradio.com/


BBC Newsnight with Glenn Greenwald on NSA and GCHQ Spying

From BBC Newsnight

Published on Oct 5, 2013

Newsnight examines the fall out from the leak of thousands of top secret documents by whistleblower Edward Snowden and Kirsty Wark interviews Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald and Baroness Neville-Jones, former chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee.


GoldSeek Radio with David Morgan

From GoldSeek.com Radio

Published on Oct 5, 2013

Chris Waltzek talks to Charles Goyette author of "The Dollar Meltdown" and "Red Blue and Broke All Over" http://www.redblueandbroke.com/ and David Morgan publisher of The Morgan Report http://www.silver-investor.com/ http://www.goldseek.com/ http://radio.goldseek.com/


Keiser Report: Working Class Debt Slaves

From RT

Published on Oct 5, 2013

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, discuss David Cameron as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) which causes the wealth of the nation to drop. They also discuss Continuous Payment Authorities as a metaphor for our financial systems continuously taking toll payments, whether via interest fees or inflation. Max also notes that David Cameron claims 'profits' is not a dirty word; and yet, to every major, successful corporation on Earth "profits' is, indeed, a word to be avoided at all costs. In the second half, Max interviews Dr Michael Hudson of michael-hudson.com about the global economic policies turning the UK into Greece and the U.S. into Latvia and a world in which only the little companies make profits.