Just came across this site and its really solid flow chart on the roots of the financial and economic crisis. This is pretty spot-on.

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Be sure to check out the website.

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Coming out of the Tech/Internet/Telecom/Dotcom Mini-Bust of 2000-2002, Alan Greenspan engineered significantly below-market interest rates and George W. Bush and the DC lapdogs engineered two pseudo-wars and unprecedented federal government deficit spending. These lunatics essentially said “To hell with the future” as they mortgaged everything to try to save their tenures from including economic [...]

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This is an impeccably produced video:

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By this, I mean, philosophically and fundamentally, what sort of societal message do you send when you take by force from some to give to others? What sort of message is this to be sending out? Is this the root of American strength, or the seeds being sown for her demise? Can [...]

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Mike Shedlock, or “Mish”, as his friends and fans like to call him, is one of my favorite analysts in regards to the economic goings-on of the country and world. He has an excellent blog, Global Economic Trend Analysis, that definitely is on the ball relating to the economy, markets and various political issues. [...]

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The November drop in employment figures in the U.S. is the biggest drop in 34 years and provides further extreme vindication of the perspective held at this website and by other prescient observers outside of the “mainstream” over the past 5 years-plus.
The extreme decline in employment, representing the 11th straight month of job [...]

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New York Football Giants’ pro bowl wide receiver Plaxico Burress was arrested this weekend after he shot himself in the leg in a New York night club with an unregistered pistol.
New York City, apparently, has some very stringent gun laws, and CFR-member Mayor Michael Bloomberg came out with force stating that Plax should have the [...]

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