The European Banking Crisis is getting much worse and the whole structure is crumbling to dust. The banks cannot save themselves. The entire crisis is all about the structural design of the Euro, which the politicians will not address. They failed to create a single national debt and in so doing, the banks then used […]

Carmen Segarra, a former senior bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the Fed alleging she was fired after refusing to alter a critical examination of Goldman Sachs. She states that during a 7 month examination of Goldman’s legal and compliance divisions, she discovered that the bank […]

    U.S. agents have shut down what became known as the Silk Road Bitcoin Site where hackers and drug dealers sold their illegal wares using Bitcoins, and arrested founder Ross William Ulbricht this week on charges of money laundering, conspiracy to commit drug trafficking and other crimes. The government is after Bitcoin and focus on […]

Finally, the political pressure is building to bring some sort of criminal charge against a New York Bank. The Justice Department has been pursuing criminal charges against J.P. Morgan & Co regarding the sale of mortgage securities that the allegation is based on information from an inside person from the bank. The gist of this will […]

Many of the Goldbugs will be happy to hear that the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) says it might start charging member banks more or even dissolving the Gold Forward Offered Rates (GOFO) – the rate at which dealers will lend gold against US dollars – due to new financial market regulations. The push for regulation stems […]

QUESTION: Martin, The thing that gets me is when so-called precious metal “experts” say such thing as the silver inventory is very depleted at the COMEX or the gold inventory is very depleted and someone can come in and purchase up all the remaining  inventory and then you have a default. come on , really, the seeds they sow. […]

The stories that Putin is the richest man in the world are nonsense emerging from Stanislav Belkovsky who is a former computer programmer turned political consultant. Belkovsky was hired by Boris Berezovsky who once admitted to hiring to him to raise Russian nationalist forces against Putin to further the Safra attempted takeover of Russia. The project […]

QUESTION: You said all along Yellen would be in. Why? ANSWER: The markets have cheered the news that Larry Summers would not replace outgoing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. On the Hill, both the Republicans and Democrats were deeply skeptical of Summers because of his connection with the bankers and many blamed him for the 2007-2009 financial […]

COMMENT:  “You should stop this anti-union propaganda nonsense. Before unions, children used to work in dangerous factories at 12 years old and their fathers died at 30 from cancer if they had the chance not to get crushed by the machines themselves. Before unions, life wasn’t better: if was far worse. You should stop the […]

Of course the American commentators are hurling nothing but insults at Putin for his Op-Ed in the New York Times. They dare to say with chemical weapons being used in Syria, he has no moral standing. Putin rightly points out that there is a serious casualty here and that will be the United Nations. “No […]