The NSA has been able to break encryption even to internal VPN networks. There is nothing safe any more. The irony is that “terrorism” is the excuse to break-in to anything, but real terrorists use pigeon-post. They do not use Facebook and they stay as far away from Google and Microsoft as possible. The NSA’s […]

The numbers are in and the most expensive city to live in these days is Hamilton, Bermuda. After that, the second is Geneva. But Switzerland by and large is the country where you have the highest cost of living in the world. In fact, 5 Swiss cities are in the top ten most expensive in […]

To clarify the questions coming in about the movie the FORECASTER, I turned down American producers because I understand the way the system works. The government could easily pick up the phone and threaten them to do as it demands or else. This is why Snowden had to go to London to get the story […]

The Trading Money Center New York bankers did a brilliant sales job on policymakers, central bankers, and economists that the way to stabilize the world economy was to securitize everything. This combined with what they called the “Originate and Distribute Model” would lead to the promised-land in finance.  Indeed, financial intermediation has changed dramatically over […]

About 82 percent of the derivatives market in the United States relates to the interest rate derivatives. This reflect the real Debt Bubble that is brewing. Why did the banks need to repeal Dodd-Frank and the Volcker Rule to get taxpayer backing for their losses again? One need not look beyond the oil derivatives. The bank […]

QUESTION: Hello Martin, Been a long time follower, met you finally  in Phlly(I was the big white haired guy in the hallway at he end of the conference), which was wonderful by the way. As we approach the Big Bang, I am tryig to be as liguiid as possible to follow the Capital Flows, so […]

  The single worst law ever passed was FATCA. The damage this single act has already had is startling. Americans are being denied business accounts everywhere outside the USA. This is contributing to the demise of the USA as the Financial Capital of the World setting the stage for the passing of that title to […]

Microsoft has been joined by various Tech companies such as Apple, Amazon, Cisco, eBay and Verizon along with media companies such as ABC, CNN, Fox News and the Guardian, the largest business organizations, such as the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, as well as privacy groups and leading computer scientists who have all filed […]

A New Yorker satire put it that Citigroup announced on Friday that it would move its headquarters from New York to the actual U.S. Capitol Building, in Washington, D.C., in early 2015. Yes! They might as well had since they got everything they wanted.. Could you imagine Citi outbid JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs to lease […]

  I just did an interview about the movie with Aljazeera for Europe and the Middle East. One question was am I not scared about the “government” after what I went through. There is no single “minded” government. There are individuals among the unelected under-belly of government that abuse their power all the time. One […]