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| 59. The counterfeit culture - why collapse is inevitable By Mike Adams Editor of NaturalNews.com |
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http://www.naturalnews.com/033491_counterfeit_culture.h... Through a devolving web of greed, self-serving power and a departure from fundamental ethics, Western culture has, over the last hundred years, become the counterfeit culture. Nothing is real anymore -- not the food, not the money, and certainly not the evening news. And because it's not real, it's not sustainable. That's why it's headed for collapse, which is all too real, as many people are about to find out. In the mean time, here are some observations about the counterfeit culture in which we all frustratingly find ourselves. It's all about corporations, governments and institutions being "in the business of" counterfeiting something -- faking something or pretending to create something of value when they really aren't. Ring a bell?
- The Federal Reserve is in the business of counterfeiting money.
The mainstream media is in the business of counterfeiting news.
- The pharmaceutical industry is in the business of counterfeiting medicine (Biopracy! They are stealing molecules from nature then counterfeiting their own patented variations.)
- The medical schools are in the business of counterfeiting medical degrees. (When a doctor graduates from medical school, he still knows virtually nothing about nutrition.)
- Doctors are in the business of counterfeiting false medical authority.
- The mega-sized food corporations are in the business of counterfeiting food. (Processed cheese food product, anyone?)
- The global consumer product companies are in the business of manufacturing counterfeit consumer products such a "baby oil" (which is really a petroleum product). AT LEAST IT ISN'T MADE OUT OF BABIES!--DEMETER
- Social networks like Facebook are in the business of counterfeiting friends. (Please LIKE this article, okay?)
- Cookie-cutter home builders are in the business of constructing counterfeit homes out of plywood, styrofoam and sheetrock... many these homes will not be standing in just 20 years.
- Local city councils are in the business of counterfeiting power. (Obey or be punished!)
- Public schools are in the business of counterfeiting school diplomas. (Huh? What? Who needs to learn how to write, anyway?)
- The Pentagon is in the business of counterfeiting war. (Don't have a war to fight? Bomb the World Trade Center and blame it on someone!)
- Mainstream historians are in the business of counterfeiting history. (Everything you were taught about history in public school is a lie...)
- The globalist banksters are in the business of counterfeiting debt. (You thought it was money, didn't ya? But it's really just debt.)
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| -Weekend Economists Play End Games Labor Day Weekend 2011 (9/2-5) |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 07:21 PM |
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While it is likely that no banks will fail tonight |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 07:27 PM |
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FHFA Sues 17 Banks Over Massive Mortgage Losses At Fannie and Freddie |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 07:30 PM |
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I'm curious as to why Wells Fargo is not on this list... |
midnight |
Sep-03-11 08:01 AM |
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You aren't the only one...see just a few posts down |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:17 AM |
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Thanks... |
midnight |
Sep-05-11 12:52 AM |
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Looks like a good start. |
plumbob |
Sep-03-11 03:48 PM |
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Clusterstock adds |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 07:32 PM |
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VIDEO from CNBC |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 07:34 PM |
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Barclays, BofA, JPMorgan Sued by FHFA |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 07:40 PM |
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KABOOM! |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 07:42 PM |
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Will Buffett take a bath? |
Po_d Mainiac |
Sep-02-11 09:06 PM |
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We'll just have to wait and see |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 09:11 PM |
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... |
Po_d Mainiac |
Sep-02-11 09:28 PM |
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One of these days, some crook is gonna make him an offer he should refuse |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 09:30 PM |
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my computer has been cranky ever since the last update, sorry |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 09:30 PM |
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Notice the abscence of Wells Fargo |
Hawkowl |
Sep-02-11 11:18 PM |
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That IS Odd |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 06:15 AM |
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How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 07:38 AM |
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Look at it this way |
Po_d Mainiac |
Sep-03-11 10:24 AM |
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Banks to avoid big shake-up until 2015 (THAT'S IN BRITAIN, FOLKS) |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:05 PM |
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CORRECTION: 2 BANKS IN GEORGIA DOWN |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:13 PM |
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BNY Mellon ousts chief executive Kelly |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:25 PM |
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Regulators Ask Bank of America About Contingency Plans |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 07:48 AM |
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Ha! To the contrary |
Ruby the Liberal |
Sep-03-11 06:41 PM |
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The More You Look, The More Bank Criminality You Find in Mortgage Land |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 07:54 AM |
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Iowa Says State AG Accord Won’t Release Banks From Liability |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:20 AM |
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IA AG’s Office Whining That They’re Not Getting Credit for Settlement Bank of America Violated |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:51 AM |
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In 50-state foreclosure negotiations, dispute underlines basic questions |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:56 AM |
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Matt Stoller: Sell America to China Faster, Says NY Fed Official, Schneiderman Foe Kathryn Wylde |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 09:26 AM |
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Nevada Lawsuit Shows Bank of America’s Criminal Incompetence |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:46 AM |
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VoxEU: If banks should act as utilities, why not treat them as such? |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:48 AM |
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And then, there was the Jobs Picture |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 07:54 PM |
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Interactive Map: What States, Counties, Industries Have Job Growth? |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 07:55 PM |
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Poverty crisis in US gambling paradise |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:24 PM |
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US employment market stalls |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:29 PM |
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CHART SHOCK: The REAL Unemployment Rate Is 22% |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:40 PM |
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US job growth grinds to zero |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:47 PM |
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Fatal Distraction by PAUL KRUGMAN |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 06:37 AM |
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North Dakota’s Economic “Miracle”—It’s Not Oil |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 07:09 AM |
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Forced Part-Time Workers Increased 5.12% in August 2011 |
Pale Blue Dot |
Sep-04-11 08:10 AM |
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Great stuff! |
hamerfan |
Sep-05-11 07:27 AM |
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If Ever There Was a Need for Humor... |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 07:59 PM |
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Neal Boortz -- (1945- ) Radio talk show host, columnist |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:32 PM |
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Labor Day Officially Moved to China: First U.S. Holiday to be Outsourced |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:38 PM |
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Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't Out to Get You |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 06:53 AM |
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Morgan Stanley’s Doomed Baldwin CDOs Thwarted ‘Natural Process’ |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:01 PM |
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RECOVERY? WHAT RECOVERY? |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:08 PM |
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We Are in 'Worse Situation' Than in 2008: Roubini |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:52 PM |
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Sharp slowdown in world manufacturing |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:54 PM |
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There's No Housing Bottom In Sight |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 07:11 AM |
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Canadian Economy Shrinks For First Time Since 2009; Recession Next? |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 07:14 AM |
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Bloody September Courtesy of Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 07:18 AM |
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The Imminent Failure Of The Eurozone |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 07:31 AM |
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U.S. newborn death rate tied with Qatar |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:03 AM |
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Hoover’s Great Depression |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:25 AM |
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IMF Estimates Show Damage To European Banks |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:58 AM |
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Musical interlude |
hamerfan |
Sep-02-11 08:13 PM |
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Wonderful! And so apropos! |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:20 PM |
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US deficit forecast falls below estimates |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:14 PM |
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US and Bahrain secretly extended defence deal |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:15 PM |
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Italy cobbles together austerity compromise |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:15 PM |
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ECB's Trichet says Italy must meet budget targets |
xchrom |
Sep-03-11 05:04 AM |
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Or What? |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 06:17 AM |
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Restaurants in Greece refuse to pay VAT rise |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:16 PM |
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Brazil makes unexpected interest rate cut |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:17 PM |
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China manufacturing gets domestic boost |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:18 PM |
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US defence contractors ‘waste’ $12m a day |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:19 PM |
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The All-Time 10 Worst Military Contracting Boondoggles |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 09:09 PM |
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IMF and eurozone clash over estimates |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:21 PM |
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Syrian businessmen fear slow economic death |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:22 PM |
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Portugal promises biggest cuts in decades |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:23 PM |
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Apple attacked over pollution in China |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:26 PM |
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Sun sets on solar-power group Solyndra |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:27 PM |
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Volvo and Siemens in electric car tie-up |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:27 PM |
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great theme. 5th Rec here. But I'm reeling just reading the subject lines |
bread_and_roses |
Sep-02-11 08:39 PM |
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It takes a perverse kind of discipline to do this column |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:44 PM |
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It takes REMARKABLE discipline to do this thread - |
bread_and_roses |
Sep-03-11 10:13 AM |
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When debt levels turn cancerous By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 08:50 PM |
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I'm getting hungry, folks |
Demeter |
Sep-02-11 09:16 PM |
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You're either insane or you have money |
notGaryOldman |
Sep-02-11 10:32 PM |
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Personally, Based on Observation |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 06:19 AM |
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it's the weekend -- how lovely. |
xchrom |
Sep-03-11 05:04 AM |
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For some Labor Day just isn't complete without S'mores... |
jtuck004 |
Sep-03-11 05:20 AM |
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Good toon, so true |
DemReadingDU |
Sep-03-11 05:38 AM |
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It always is |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 06:20 AM |
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The counterfeit culture - why collapse is inevitable By Mike Adams Editor of NaturalNews.com |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 06:44 AM |
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That would be funny if it wern't all too close to true... |
bread_and_roses |
Sep-05-11 07:48 AM |
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Say "No" to Euro-TARP By Mike Whitney |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 06:50 AM |
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One in 25 business leaders may be a psychopath, study finds |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:01 AM |
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Ya, everywhere I look, there's another High Functioning Psychopath in a position of power. |
Hugin |
Sep-03-11 10:03 AM |
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Counter point. |
westerebus |
Sep-03-11 11:03 AM |
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The Politics of Debt Repudiation: Pouring the Red Ink Down the Sink by MIKE WHITNEY |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:16 AM |
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I know it's too early to care, but DOW Futures down 257 right now... |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 08:37 AM |
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pssst.... |
Po_d Mainiac |
Sep-03-11 11:27 AM |
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Are You sure about that? |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 03:17 PM |
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Ayuh, I'm more than sure.....the trading world (futures) stops at 4:30pm EDT Friday |
Po_d Mainiac |
Sep-03-11 03:56 PM |
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look now n/t |
Po_d Mainiac |
Sep-04-11 05:38 PM |
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I believe you |
Demeter |
Sep-04-11 06:38 PM |
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look again..-256..u got u'r wish! |
Po_d Mainiac |
Sep-05-11 08:30 PM |
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Next week = Blood bath |
Hawkowl |
Sep-03-11 02:41 PM |
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It's not like we haven't been Anticipating |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 03:19 PM |
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The Dragons Are Getting Restless...I'll be back (odds are) |
Demeter |
Sep-03-11 09:16 AM |
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The Great Bank Robbery |
Pale Blue Dot |
Sep-03-11 10:47 AM |
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Toons tell the tale |
sce56 |
Sep-03-11 11:25 AM |
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China is still waiting for inflation to peak |
xchrom |
Sep-04-11 06:02 AM |
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Services Industry in U.S. Probably Grew at Slowest Pace Since January 2010 |
xchrom |
Sep-04-11 06:54 AM |
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Even Goldman Sachs Now Expects A Tremendous Financial Collapse |
Pale Blue Dot |
Sep-04-11 08:03 AM |
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I overdid it Saturday |
Demeter |
Sep-04-11 01:15 PM |
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We'll be back tomorrow (off and on) |
Demeter |
Sep-04-11 08:31 PM |
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Summer Rerun: Bankruptcy Cramdown Defeated: Banksters Again Prevail Over Real Economy |
Demeter |
Sep-05-11 03:46 AM |
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A Preview of Thursday's Jobs Speech: He's Got Nothin' By Stephanie Kelton |
Demeter |
Sep-05-11 04:10 AM |
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"We need work that makes sense and work that sustains us" |
bread_and_roses |
Sep-05-11 09:11 AM |
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China bought back a lot of BofA assets |
Demeter |
Sep-05-11 04:13 AM |
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QE3 no silver bullet for markets |
Demeter |
Sep-05-11 04:16 AM |
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More data to come on the ‘zero’ jobs market |
Demeter |
Sep-05-11 04:18 AM |
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Avoiding Last Place: Some Things We Don't Outgrow |
Demeter |
Sep-05-11 04:21 AM |
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"Stocks Are Down! Obama’s Unpopular! Wait, Who Gives a F... |
bread_and_roses |
Sep-05-11 07:41 AM |
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"the shock news late last week that no new jobs were created in America last month. " |
bread_and_roses |
Sep-05-11 07:57 AM |
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Maybe they couldn't get away with lying about creating phantom jobs again |
DemReadingDU |
Sep-05-11 04:35 PM |
#118 |