Meanwhiles

You can listen to CNBC, and the president, drone on about the recovery, about the wealth effect, about trickle-down economics, about why adding $150 billion in debt per month is perfectly acceptable, and about a brighter future for America and the world... or you can take a quick look at these two charts and immediately grasp the sad reality of where we stand, and even sadder, where we are headed. Read More

the majority of people worldwide will miss a massive opportunity in gold and silver mining stocks over the next several years due to their misguided belief that gold and silver mining stocks cannot escape the throes of banker manipulation A similar common refrain, "in the months and years to come", has saved the ass of many a forecast. Read More

...in the US, where we are determined to double-down on the social and economic injustices currently coming to rolling boil in the UK, Paul Krugman reports that the Obama administration has made "a deliberate decision to focus on the wrong issues, knowing that they're the wrong issues, " because they want to "keep the public focused on the deficit drama—to convince them their current economic woes have something to do with it, decry Washington's paralysis over fixing it, and then claim victory over whatever outcome emerges from the process recently negotiated to fix it. They hope all this will distract the public's attention from the President's failure to do anything about continuing high unemployment and economic anemia."Read More

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Insurgents shot down a NATO Chinook helicopter during an overnight operation in eastern Afghanistan, killing 37 people on board, a military official said on Saturday. Read More

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In the worst terrorist attack in Iraq in months, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a gathering of police recruits on Tuesday, killing 60 people and wounding about 150, police officials said. Read More

I value Roy's writing immensely, and you probably do too (and if you don't, chances are it's only because you're not familiar with him yet). Read More

...in the third war we're totally not fighting, three US missile attacks in the Khyber tribal region of Pakistan reportedly killed "killed 54 alleged militants."Read More

"Historically, it's going to rank as one of the most productive Congresses in recent time, comparable to LBJ's first two years, and maybe even Franklin Roosevelt's time."Read More