Global Capitalism and the Queen of Babylon: The Seduction of the World at the End of the Age

"For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies... for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."
(Revelation 18:3,23-24)
http://www.redmoonrising.com/globalcapitalism.htm

The history of the Self

http://intheendwerealldebt.blogspot.se/2010/08/history-of-self.html

Where Keynes Went Wrong: And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts

Namnet på denna blogg är som bekant ett citat från den Brittiske ekonomen John Maynard Keynes. Det är ett i många avseenden rätt avslöjande citat för som bekant den som står i skuld är aldrig fri. Ändå är en av Keynes huvud ideer just att ju mer som ett samhälle spenderar och ju mindre som sparas ju bättre.

Lyssna på denna intressanta intervju av författaren Hunter Lewis som nyligen skrivit en bok om spararen och spekuleraren Keynes.

Att som ekonom idag oavsett var man är i världen ifrågasätta Keynes ekonomiska ideer är värre än att svära i kyrkan. Det gör det extra intressant att fördjupa sig i detta ämne som i realiteten är själva grundbulten flr hur vårt samhälle ser ut idag och varthän vi är på väg.

http://www.financialsense.com/Experts/2009/Lewis.html

och här ett alternativt förhållningssätt till vad som eg skapar vällstånd i ett samhälle:

Liberty and Economics
http://intheendwerealldebt.blogspot.com/2009/10/liberty-and-economics.html

Liberty and Economics

What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises? As this unique film shows, Mises (1881-1973) was a man who never stopped fighting for freedom: not when the Nazis burned his books, not when the Left blackballed him at universities, not when it seemed as if statism had won. With courage and genius, he fought big government until the day he died ... in 25 books, hundreds of articles, and more than 60 years of teaching.

Mises's battles against Communists, Nazis, and other socialists, are featured in this film, as are his ideas of Liberty. There is also the old Vienna he loved, the Bolshevik prime minister he dissuaded from Communism, and a cast of villains from Lenin to Hitler, as well as such supporters and students as Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, Bettina Greaves, M. Stanton Evans, Mary Peterson, Joseph Sobran, and Yuri Maltsev.

Among his many accomplishments, Mises showed that socialism had to fail, that central banking causes recessions and depressions, that the gold standard is honest money, and that only laissez-faire capitalism is fully compatible with Western civilization.

Mises was the twentieth century's foremost economist, and one of its most important champions of Liberty. Here is a film that does justice to this extraordinary man, and to his equally extraordinary ideas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpATNp5DjYI

Ludwig von Mises
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises

The Hunt brothers och kopplingen till oljan

Denna artikel daterad 30 Maj detta år är onekligen och givet nu hur oljan utvecklat sig synnerligen intressant. Kanske i synnerhet parallellen med The Hunt brothers.

Konkutionen är: Hela vårt valuta system baseras på att guld och Silver inte anses att föredra. Om man anser att det sk fiat baserade valutorna inte har ngt eg bakomliggande värde (detta är ju ett sk confidence trick) kommer detta system med FED att krascha. Myndigeterna visade i Hunt caset att man är beredd att försvar sitt fiat system intill döden och det gör man genom att döda höga guldpriser även om man då måste gå in och skriva om reglerna.

For now, traders are keeping a careful eye on politicians in Europe and the US as they call for curbs on the derivatives market for oil futures.

The Hunt brothers in Texas were ruined attempting to corner the silver market in 1980 when the COMEX exchange suddenly changed margin requirements, and then suspended trading altogether. The pair failed to heed the warning signs.

It is unclear whether the US Commodity Futures and Trading Commission would resort to such methods if oil keeps rising.

The key players these days are pension funds and investors building up positions in long-term futures contracts through commodity index funds, now worth some $250bn. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/05/29/ccoil229.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox