by Bob Chapman Publisher of The International Forecaster. WHEN YOU STOP and think about it, the Fed’s main instrument of monetary policy, the manipulation of interest rates, has been lost to it. That is two years with the same rate. What has become very obvious is that an official rise in rates would create all kinds of havoc. The same Continue Reading →
by Jack Minor WHILE THERE have been Government assaults on the First Amendment throughout the history of America, 2010 featured bipartisan attacks on all major forms of media. Congress proposed legislation giving the President what many have said is a “kill switch” on the Internet enabling him to shut it down in the event of a “national cyber emergency.” A Continue Reading →
by Bob Chapman (pictured) Publisher of The International Forecaster. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE, Ben Bernanke, would have us believe that if it were not for QE1, unemployment would have been considerably higher. Since QE2 began in June, U6 has only improved by ¼%. Perhaps better numbers are on the way, but that has not been an auspicious start. Continue Reading →
“GOD-TV” evangelical Christian channel funds Israeli ethnic cleansing by Neve Gordon Neve Gordon looks at how an evangelical Christian TV channel with a viewership of nearly half a billion people, including 20 million in the USA and 14 million in Britain, is funding a project to ethnically cleanse Israel’s Bedouin citizens from their ancestral land. DESPITE THE FACT that it Continue Reading →
by John W.B. Huie NOW I’VE SEEN it all. The Stupid Party — er, I mean the Republican party — is threatening to sue one of its own candidates. According to the Associated Press today, Republican officialdom in New York’s Westchester County, a suburb of New York City, is trying to remove Jim Russell from the ballot. They’re threatening to Continue Reading →