Russia Dumps Treasurys For 14 Consecutive Months; China Slashes Holdings To Lowest In Over A Year

Today's disappointing TIC report confirmed what Zero Hedge reported back in January, namely the record dumping of Treasurys by foreign entities as tracked by the Fed's custodial account. And while we will spare you the details of the report (found here), two things bear pointing out: the very demonstrative selling of US paper by Russia continues, and is now in its 14th consecutive month (as has been reported here consistently), as total USTs in Putin's possession declined to a fresh multi-year low of $88.4 billion, half of the $176 billion in October 2010. Also confirming that the Asian anti-USD axis is now one which consists of at least Russia and China (and certainly Iran), was the stepwise dump of US paper by Beijing which sold $32 billion in US bonds in December, bringing its total to a new post 2010 low of $1100.7 billion. And lastly, this was not isolated to just these two: in December the grand total of US Treasury holding by foreigners declined from $4.75 trillion to $4.732 trillion. The question then is: just what are China and Russia buying (ahem stockpiling) with all the dollars that are not recycled back into Treasurys?em>

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/russia-dumps-treasurys-14-consecutive-months-china-slashes-holdings-lowest-over-year

Federal Reserve and Big Banks Are Going to Crush the Dollar … and American Savers

The Fed has announced a course of action that will steal — there is no better word for it — nearly 10 percent of the value of American’s hard earned savings over the next 4 years.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/federal-reserve-and-big-banks-are-going-to-crush-the-dollar-and-american-savers.html

10 Things That Every American Should Know About The Federal Reserve
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/10-things-that-every-american-should-know-about-the-federal-reserve

World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzR3UAyXao&feature=g-vrec&context=G2a7ee03RVAAAAAAAAAg

Gerald Celente - Talk Radio Europe - 24 January 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0tMzHixucw&feature=channel_video_title

Obama to Use Pension Funds of Ordinary Americans

Obama to Use Pension Funds of Ordinary Americans to Pay for Bank Mortgage “Settlement”

Obama’s latest housing market chicanery should come as no surprise. As we discuss below, he will use the State of the Union address to announce a mortgage “settlement” by Federal regulators, and at least some state attorneys general. It’s yet another gambit designed to generate a campaign talking point while making the underlying problem worse.The president seems to labor under the misapprehension that crimes by members of the elite must be swept under the rug because prosecuting them would destabilize the system.

What he misses is that we are well past the point where coverups will work, and they may even blow up before the November elections. If nothing else, his settlement pact has a non-trivial Constitutional problem which the Republicans, if they are smart, will use to undermine the deal and discredit the Administration.

As I urged last week, please call your state attorney general and tell them you think taking from your pension to enrich banks for abusing homeowners is a lousy idea and they should therefore refuse to sign on to the settlement. You can find their phone numbers here. Please call today if you haven’t already. Thanks!
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/23-8


It's easy to be "speedy" and "flexible" when you effectively own your "employees" as slaves!
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour
shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/karl-denninger/2012/01/23/apple-and-america-chinese-slave-labor-problem

George Carlin - The Owners of America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0OJEFlq7A

Banking system crisis-On the Edge with Max Keiser-01-06-2012

In this edition of the show Max interviews Paul Craig Roberts, Economist &Author.

He talks about the rampant and increasingly blatant banking frauds in the US and around the world. Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUiLTdjWlI0&feature=player_embedded

Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics.[1] He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. Roberts has been a critic of both Democratic and Republican administrations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts

Have you ever wondered why the CPI, GDP and employment numbers run counter to your personal and business experiences? The problem lies in biased and often-manipulated government reporting.
http://www.shadowstats.com/

MF Global: 'Stealth Finance'

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted unanimously to adopt what's now called, the MF Global Rule. And the timing and naming couldn't be more fitting now with the recent bankruptcy of the brokerage firm, MF Global, which is now missing about $1.2 billion in customer money. William Black, former Federal banking regulator and Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City joins the show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veYv2aDwitQ&feature=related

William Black tells the real truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as5Xq4_TDos&feature=related

Preserving the EU from the Destruction of the Euro

“Only fear of the consequences of a break-up is now keeping it together”.

The greatest policy mistake now building in the system is this: policymakers will confuse the temporary fall in commodity prices with a permanent reduction of inflation pressures: China, India, Australia come to mind. I think the opposite will turn out to be true. The recent crisis caused commodity prices to fall somewhat but the production constraints are now worse than ever due to lack of bank lending and working capital. So, commodity prices jump back up again very fast. This means central banks especially in emerging markets may start easing way too soon. I bet inflation pressures worldwide are barely beginning.
http://pippamalmgren.com/81.html

High-class terrorists running US, UK and France

Dear Friends,

Here is an interview I made today on RT – Russia Today – on the capture and murder of Libyan leader Cnl Muamar Ghaddafi by rebel terrorist groups with the full support of NATO, notably France, the UK and the US. Clearly a blatant example of top level terrorism in London, Paris and Washington.

Here’s the link: http://rt.com/news/europe-usa-libya-gaddafi-425/

Here’s an excerpt from RT’s website:

‘High-class terrorists running US, UK and France’ - published: 21 October, 2011, 18:16
As some European leaders demonstrate a celebratory mood over the violent death of Colonel Gaddafi, they are no less terrorists themselves, claims international consultant and author Adrian Salbuchi.

Salbuchi said Gaddafi’s death was undoubtedly a message for the whole world, as it is not just about Libya.

“We are seeing how Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State expressed it very clearly: ‘We came, we saw, he died,’ and then started laughing. This is a message to the world of how this new world order model actually works,” he stated.“When they decide to change the regime, they do so with the utmost violence, and it is a whole model. First they target a country by calling it a rogue state; then they support local terrorists and call them freedom fighters; then they bring death and destruction upon civilians and they call it UN sanctions. Then they spread lies and call it the International Community’s opinion expressed by the Western media. Then they invade and control the country and call it liberation and finally they steal appetizing oil and call it foreign investment and reconstruction,” Salbuchi explained.

At the moment Western powers are hailing a democratic future for Libya. When Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003 the US also thought it was all over – but it had only just begun. And according to Salbuchi, it is going to be the same, or even worse, for Libya.

“I think one of the reasons why Gaddafi’s country has been invaded and he has been killed is because he had plans to introduce the gold dinar as a golden currency that could very easily have become a major currency at least in North Africa and in the oil market,” he said. “Don’t forget Libya has the ninth-largest oil reserve in the world and the main oil reserve in all of Africa, so I think this definitely smells of oil and greed on the part of Western companies. They are just using this to justify they have supported the worst terrorists probably because in the White House and Palais de l'Élysée in France, and at 10 Downing Street, we also have very high-class terrorists and mafias running those countries and the better part of the world,” he pointed out.

He added the US, France, Britain and NATO should be held accountable for the sectarian violence, should it take place in Libya.

“In any country, Libya included, there is always about a half of the population that is against the ongoing government. Should we also be invading Greece because of the way they are handling their own internal divisions?” he posited.

A rebel-assisted victory in Libya will not mark the end of NATO's interest in the country, Salbuchi emphasized.

“This is just the beginning and part of global regime change. This means orange alert for Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador and definitely red alert for Syria and Iran. This is the kind of democracy US, France and Britain want for the whole world,” he concluded.

NATO and the US in particular are interested in a long-term intervention in the North African country.

Keiser Report: Debts & Slavery

This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about 'capitalist gangbangs,' JP Morgan's 'way forward,' and why 14 trillion no longer scares us. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser interviews Satyajit Das about the conservation of debt and slavery, extreme money and #occupywallstreet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0wDv1LJ4k&feature=player_embedded#!

Keiser Report: Deutschmark & Drachma Revival?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtcX7EWNKIE&feature=player_embedded#!

Germany may in fact be preparing to abandon the Euro
http://www.pippamalmgren.com/79.html

Ron Paul: Prepare for Runaway Inflation, $100 Loaf of Bread, National Debt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jwVJ7chI3w&feature=related

SDRs Here we come

Jim Rickards from a recent Eric King Interview:

"With the G20 coming up, Eric, I think they are going to dust off the SDR solution. The next time there is a major global financial crisis the Fed is not going to be able to bail out the world because they are out of bullets, but the IMF and the G20 will be able to print these SDR’s.

At that point the game really is over. It will be very transparent that we’re just replacing one kind of paper money with another kind of paper money and that is going to accelerate the rush to gold.

As soon as people do the math, this is where you start to see these $5,000, $6,000, $7,000 an ounce price targets for gold. That’s coming sooner than people expect. Some time in the next couple of years we will see that radical transformation of the international monetary system into gold."

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2011/9/14_Jim_Rickards_-_Monetary_System_Will_Go_Gold_Soon.html

And as evident for all to see the preciouse markets are beeing maipulated as we speak, or how about the ever increasing new margins requirements escalating now in an almost hysterical fashion..?

That then as close you get to a real confiscation as its all about demonetising presious metals for the ordenary people. I mean if you can't trade it what's then the value..?

$7,000 an ounce of gold of course means inflation nothing else. Oil in the ground is where it's at as all economic activity 100% as well as our monetary system itself depends on oil.

Some one wants you to focus on the wrong issues:

First two very good quotations from investment guru Jim Rogers:

Europe's got some bad problems but the entity as a whole is not nearly as deep in debt as the U.S. They don't have a huge balance of trade deficit, like we do. - in CNBC europe

Europe has a few bad, bankrupt states, so does America. We've got Illinois which is bigger than Greece, we've got California, we've got New York, you know those are pretty big states that have serious economic problems. We have pension plans in America that are terribly under water. - in CNBC

So why then are all AngloSaxons analysts focusing right now on Europe and how can anybody sane even mention US Treasuries and the dollar as a safe heaven for investors?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC19fEqR5bA&feature=player_embedded

and here a quite amazing "analysis" made by this "journalist". Fact is that US liabilities including also all off balance debt already is OVER 500% of GDP. How can anybody then even argue the US dollar is "safe". Then she also fails to mention margin requirements for precious metals has been hiked now in an ever escalated fashion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWyrjwXoIqA&feature=player_embedded

The CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), the world’s largest future market, announced it will raise the maintenance margins requirements from $7,000 to $8,500 for trading gold contracts – an increase of 21%. For silver, the maintenance margins requirements and the initial-margin requirement inclined from $16,000 to $18,500 – a 15% increase.

Furthermore, the initial-margin requirement, or the minimum amount of cash that speculators must keep on deposit, will also incline from $9,450 per 100-ounce contract to $11,475.

This is the third time in the past couple of months in which CME raised margins: it raised margins twice in August; the last time was back in August 25th by 27%. On August 24th, gold price shed 5.59% of its value, and silver price declined by 7.39%.

This decision is likely to be one of the prime reasons for the ongoing freefall in gold price despite the slight recovery in other financial markets such as US stock markets. Coming Monday, this decision may continue to affect gold and silver traders.
http://www.tradingnrg.com/gold-silver-prices-cme-margin-hike-by-21-september-24-2011/

What this now all boils down to is the evident and up in your face manipulation all asset classes via the fake paper markets. Despite hard assets like e.g. gold and oil is in more demand in the real physical than there is supply world paper prices on these assets have been artificially depressed.

Probability of Large-Scale False Flag Terror Event Increasing As European Banking Panic Looms

The leading factor compelling the Anglo-American power elite into a new false flag terror adventure is the now rapidly worsening breakdown crisis of the European and US banking systems. Almost 2 years of Anglo-American financial warfare against the euro, generally taking the form of credit default swap (CDS) assaults on European government bonds, have now created an extraordinarily serious crisis. There is presently a list of at least one dozen large European banks, each of whom is a candidate to play the role of Lehman Brothers in the blowup which can now be expected for some time over the next two months. This includes the top British banks.

This crisis is almost exclusively the handiwork of the City of London and Wall Street, and they have created it in order to relieve pressure on the dollar, and to neutralize the threat to the future role of the dollar as the world reserve currency. Over the past few days, Anglo-American commentators have been chortling as the dollar has picked up a few pennies of value compared to the euro.

The problem for the Anglo-Americans is that panic runs on European banks will quickly be translated into panic runs on US banks, and on the dollar. Institutions like Bank of America, Citibank, Morgan Stanley, and even the vaunted Goldman Sachs, which have existed as zombie banks thanks to government largess since September 2008, are now exhibiting telltale signs of a Lehman-like death spiral. In short, if the European banks blow, the London and New York banks will not be far behind. Maybe the Wall Street geniuses of international financial warfare should have thought of that before they embarked on their current lunatic beggar-my-neighbor campaign against their confreres in continental Europe.

Experience teaches that if the New York money center banks are faced by imminent bankruptcy, their first instinct would be to demand a second bailout of trillions of dollars at US taxpayer expense. The problem for them is that the first bailout has left such a bitter aftertaste that congressional passage of such a monstrous funding bill would be anybody’s guess. From the Wall Street point of view, this makes martial law a much more attractive alternative than in the recent past.

Under the impact of a huge false flag event, new bailouts could be railroaded through the Congress or even approved by Wall Street puppet Obama as executive orders and validated later. They could even be approved as a measure necessary for national defense in an emergency. The impact in Europe would be similar.

Martial law declared in response to a terror attack would automatically be used to suppress public protests against the bailouts and austerity cuts decreed by the zombie bankers and hedge fund hyenas. No matter what the ins and outs, a new terror crisis would help Wall Street get its money. And there is nothing like an imminent financial panic to make the Anglo-American ruling elite go collectively bonkers.
http://tarpley.net/2011/09/09/probability-of-false-flag-terror-event-increasing/

Nobel-prize winning economist Robert Mundell, whose research contributed to creation of the euro, said a Greek default would trigger a run on banks of “monstrous proportions.”

“This risk means that issues in Greece and the euro area are an international problem,” Mundell told reporters in Budapest today.

Th European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve should introduce a “very large” swap facility, in the range of $1 trillion, to tackle any potential dollar shortage, Mundell said.

Mundell, who is a professor of economics at Columbia University in New York, also said no country should leave the euro area because it “doesn’t solve any of the problems.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-08/greek-default-would-cause-monstrous-run-on-banks-mundell-says.html

War a Waste: $30 billion stolen by US contractors

The US wasted at least one dollar out of six on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which amounts to about US $30 billion, a bipartisan commission found. The sum may double in future, as foreign governments abandon unsustainable projects funded by the US.The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan is to report its sobering findings on Wednesday, but co-chairs Christopher Shays and Michael Thibault made parts of it public on Monday in an op-ed article in the Washington Post."Tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted through poor planning, vague and shifting requirements, inadequate competition, substandard contract management and oversight, lax accountability, weak inter-agency co-ordination, and sub-par performance or outright misconduct by some contractors and federal employees. Both government and contractors need to do better," they say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSLcnIggWcw&feature=grec_index

Riksbanken säljer guld

Augusti 2008 dvs för nu nästan exakt tre år sedan sålde Riksbanken av en hel del guld för att istället köpa pappers dollar. Heja Riksbanken till vad som nu visat sig vare en rejäl förlust affär där man dels förlorat i värdeökning på guldet och samtidigt värde minskningen på dollarn.

Riksbanken stuvar om i guld- och valutareserven.

Upp till 15 ton av guldreserven ska säljas under de närmaste tolv månaderna. Försäljningen sker inom ramen för det guldavtal som tecknats mellan 15 europeiska centralbanker.Riksbanken har möjlighet att sälja upp till 60 ton guld under en femårsperiod. Riksbanken har hittills sålt totalt 45 ton guld, 15 ton under avtalets första år och 10 ton under det andra, tredje och fjärde året. Riksbankens guldreserv uppgår för närvarande till 142 ton guld, enligt ett pressmeddelande.

http://www.realtid.se/ArticlePages/200808/26/20080826163303_Realtid382/20080826163303_Realtid382.dbp.asp

Det är sådana här affärer vår Svenska Riksbank håller på med dvs när man inte skapar fastighetbubblor ..

US economic crisis

In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Michael Hudson from Michael-Hudson.com

He talks about the US economy and debt crisis as we approach the 2012 presidential elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC-EQM7YHz0&feature=player_embedded

Jim Rickards - Economics and National Security

Rethinking the Future International Security Environment The Johns Hopkins University -- Applied Physics Laboratory
Economics and National Security
James G. Rickards Senior Managing Director, Omnis, Inc., McLean, VA Tuesday, December 7, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2IJvqcYL9Y&feature=related

DO GOLD PRICES CORRELATE WITH U.S. INFLATION?

I’ve built all of this into my reasoning for thinking that gold is entering an irrational bubble. And I believe one of the primary drivers of this inevitable bubble is this misconception that the USA and the Federal Reserve are the primary causes of inflation and gold prices. The reason the hyperinflation theory in the USA has been so wrong (aside from misunderstanding how the modern monetary system works) is because the hyperinflationists have misunderstood the actual cause of their inflation worries. They’ve no doubt been right (in terms of gold), but they’ve been right for the wrong reasons. In my opinion, it is not the “central planning” of the USA that is causing this fear trade. Rather, the true fundamental driver is the Central Bank of China.

The key for investors will be understanding the point where the gold market reaches disequilibrium based on these misconceptions (the Euro crisis and the Fed contribute significantly to this misconception) and undergoes the inevitable collapse that always follows a bubble. I personally don’t think we’re there yet. In the meantime, when someone points to the Fed, the US government and their “central planning” or “money printing” as the primary cause of the surge in the price of gold and justification of their USA hyperinflation theory, you might do them a favor and let them know that they’re right about the flaws of “central planning” and excessive “money printing”. You just might want to also let them know that they’re focusing on the wrong central bank.
http://pragcap.com/do-gold-prices-correlate-with-u-s-inflation

Prof. Bill Black - Financial crisis probe, prosecution failure - Fire Summers, Geithner, Holder

Professor Black appeared on The Dylan Ratigan Show with "Inside Job" director Charles Ferguson. They discussed culpability for the broken financial system and the egregious lack of oversight, and subsequent failure to investigate and prosecute.
http://www.naturalnews.com/033319_food_prices_farmland.html#ixzz1VBZRuHcD