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China Holding ‘Record’ US Debt?

Editor’s Note: One Bloomberg euphemism I am really sick of hearing is ‘appetite for US debt’. Why would anyone have an appetite for something that would make them sick? If this data is even accurate,...

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HSBC Preventing UK Customers from Withdrawing Cash

Editor’s Note: What BBC dutifully fails to point out is that the money actually doesn’t belong to the depositors anymore; it is the bank’s money. They even went as far as to print one customer’s...

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The Real State of the Union – Andy Sutton

Before anyone gets all bent out of shape, this is NOT going to be a political essay. To restate my position on the issue of politics, I couldn’t care less what group or party anyone belongs to, but...

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Why the Dow is Really Dropping

Editor’s Note: This is all to do with protecting the all-precious bond market and petrodollar. Keep the 10-year around 3% and the Petrodollar lives a while longer than it would otherwise. Blowing up...

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$3 Trillion Stock Wipeout or Wealth Transfer?

Editors’ Note: I’d encourage everyone who reads this to email the ‘reporters’ involved in the writing of this story and encourage them to be honest for once. $3 Trillion wasn’t wiped out – stocks are a...

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Economic Stink-Tanks – Andy Sutton

There’s an old quote along the lines of if you’re going to lie, make it a big one, repeat it like crazy, and eventually, people will regard it as truth. Truth is awfully cheap these days. For as...

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A New Level of Absurdity

“Green shoots,” remember those? They’re what Fed chairman Ben Bernanke claimed he saw in 2009. “Recovery summer” declared Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in 2010. The reality, we’ve seen, is that in...

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12 Charts That Will Make You Say ‘Hmmmm’– And Unlucky 13..

Editor’s Note: I guess the word of the day is ‘divergence’. Divergence between that which is fake and that which is real. This is why everyone is unsettled – because what they’re experiencing is so...

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A Silver Lining – Exclusive to Silver-Phoenix 500

The latest issue of My Two Cents was done exclusively for Silver Phoenix 500. Please feel free to read the article here. Disclosure: No compensation was provided to the author or the author’s firm for...

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Gold Price Rigging Fears Put Investors on Alert – Financial Times

Since FT pulled this article from their website, we’ll be happy to assist Zerohedge in getting it out there just the same. By Madison Marriage Global gold prices may have been manipulated on 50 per...

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