Now note the chart Effective Fed
Funds Rate - how each recession occurs
right around the "two's"
of each decade..... proceeding the start of most of this Nation's wars. . Now isn't that interesting, or to use another phrase - how "fortuitous" is it that these wars always seem to start near the bottom of the recessions . - mpg Effective
Fed
Funds
Rate (updated 01/30/10)
Total
Nonfarm
Payrolls - (added 01/31/08)
 Avarge Mean Duration of Unemployment - Weeks (added 01/30/10)   START OF WARS - APROX. Korea - around 1952 Vietnam - around 1962 1972 - Nixon, Wartergate, Oil crisis - no wars started 1982 - small wars Granada, Panama, Lebanon 1992 - (back on track yipee! Thanks to April Glispie) - Gulf War I 2002 - (thanks to that fortuitous 9/11) - Gulf War II a.k.a. "the long war" the "thirty years war" "the PNAC Plan" etc. "Every ten years or so, the United
States needs to pick up some small crappy little country
and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." - quote attributed to Micheal Ledeen Otherwise known as the US's ten year cycle of "Keynesian military spending" - mpg The Case That Wars Fuel U.S. Economic Booms Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War III: 11 of the Most Important Economic Events of the Last 11 Years See also....The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending - PDF - or in HTML Film: Money as Debt - Alt/1 - Alt/2 - video - (GoogleVideo - 47min:07sec - aprox 03-29-08) War and Inflation Economic Cycles and Political Trends in the United States The Case for War: The Iron Mountain Report - It's BUILT into the "system" folks, it always has been. The "Dollar Glut" is What Finances America's Global Military Build-up Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure Some Tentative Laws - 07-20-08 - mpg The International : Scene with Umberto Calvini - Transcript - 02-20-10 - mpg Market Predictions from the Foundation for the Study of Cycles Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire" Super Imperialism The Great American Bubble Machine The Great Consumer Crash of 2009 Manufacturing a global economic collapse in the buildup to World War III 10+ Abuses for the Past 30+ Years Hard numbers: The economy is worse than you know Sell the rumor, buy the news Money Supply is Soaring ... Right? Nov 2006 Peter Schiff Mortgage Bankers Speech- (YouTube - aprox 10 min each - Added: July 22, 2008) Part - 1 of 8 - 2 of 8 - 3 of 8 - 4 of 8 - 5 of 8 - 6 of 8 - 7 of 8 - 8 of 8 [Nov] 2006 Peter Schiff tells over 1000 mortgage brokers they are about to be out of jobs. Watch how he completely nails the coming real estate/mortgage debacle before anyone else even realized it was coming." Money As Debt - also posted at ICH (Google 47 min 7 sec - Feb 12, 2007) FIAT EMPIRE - Why the Federal Reserve ... (Google - 58 min 53 sec - Dec 5, 2006) |
