Former under secretary of the Treasury says Fed drives down gold, silver prices to salvage dollar By Paul Craig Roberts For Americans, financial and economic Armageddon might be close at hand. The evidence for this conclusion is the concertedeffort by the Federal Reserve and its dependent financial institutions to scare people away from gold and silver by driving down [...]

by Bob Livingston If you own gold and silver as I do and as I’ve long advised, don’t panic over the recent price pullback. It is an opportunity. Despite what the mainstream media propagandists are saying, the pullback is not due to a massive dump of actual gold and silver and the end of the bull [...]

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By David Dayen, a lapsed blogger, now a freelance writer based in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on Twitter @ddayen There’s been an unlikely yet welcome resurgence of chatter about breaking up the nation’s largest and most powerful banks. Bloomberg’s story quantifying the too big to fail subsidy grabbed some eyeballs (and there’s an upcoming GAO report [...]

by Bob Livingston The Dow Jones industrial average topped its all-time high yesterday, zipping past the previous high of 14,198.10 it hit on Oct. 9, 2007. On the backs of money debasement, $7 trillion in additional debt and mainstream media propaganda, helicopter Ben Bernanke has created the illusion of a prosperous economy. It’s a bubble that [...]

By Jonathan Weil Jack Lew is the nominee for Treasury secretary whose own bonus as an investment banker was bailed out by the Treasury Department when it rescued Citigroup Inc. (C) in 2008. He owes much to America’s taxpayers. He should also be grateful to Citigroup for agreeing to let him rejoin the government without suffering much for [...]

by Bob Livingston The U.S. Consumer Protection Bureau says it is worried that Americans, particularly those from the retiring baby boom generation, are too stupid and gullible to manage their own retirement savings and is exploring whether it has the “authority” to “manage” people’s retirement funds. There is $19.4 trillion in the pension funds, 401(k)s and [...]

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Matthew Alexander   “They lied, and lied, and lied!” Journalist Matt Taibbi reveals secrets of the bailouts.[Government officials lied at every turn to protect their banking friends. No, they did not pay back the bailouts. That, too, is a lie. Here is a summary of [...]

Well I just got my first 2013 paycheck. It’s smaller. Just what we need. Tax those of us that work, more. Makes about as much sense as having a private banking cartel (The Federal Reserve) control our money supply. According to the Constitution, Congress has the power to coin and regulate money. Interest free. Instead [...]

by Chip Wood Happy New Year, everyone! Weren’t you inspired to see how our elected representatives worked late into the night, even on New Year’s Eve, to keep this country from plunging over the fiscal cliff? And what a great deal they got for us! Taxes are guaranteed to go up for the vast majority of [...]