Straight Money Talk with Meria Heller and Joseph Meyer. The only solution out of our economic turmoil. www.Meria.net Related articles Meria Heller Show – Kathryn Tristan – 02/17/13 Meria Heller Show – Richard Grove – 03/10/13 Meria Heller Show – Will Tuttle – 03/17/13 Podcast: Play in new window | …
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-What will happen in Latin Countries that use the US dollar as their sole currency (i.e. Ecuador, Salvador and Panama) when the next inevitable next financial crisis comes along, the dollar crashes, and the rest of the producing world realizes all the US really has left is (1) a massive …
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More on the housing market. Don’t get taken in by the usual hype and Fed manipulation. It’s just a hideous replay and it will have the same consequences. We actually need to go over the fiscal cliff. The goons in government have no idea how to handle this. They are …
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First a bit of history to let you see how we got to where we are: The federal government has been paying ever more interest on its ever growing indebtedness for more than 200 years. James Jackson, Congressman from Georgia, predicted in 1790 that this would happen in a …
For more than a decade, China’s currency, the Renminbi (RMB), had been on a path of appreciation, but some weakness this year generated renewed talk about whether the currency is fairly valued against global currencies. As global equity investors, we are constantly faced with currency changes. This is an important …
A new study by a German think tank warns that a euro exit by Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy would cut global GDP by 17 trillion euros and plunge the world into recession, with France suffering the biggest loss. A Greek exit alone would be manageable, but must be avoided …
The dollar may not be as dead as many people think! The needs of the world’s reserve currency outweigh the demise of the American economy. The dollar, used as a medium of exchange and barter, can easily gain in foreign exchange value if it is the only ‘kid on the …
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QE3 has barely even started and some folks on Wall Street are already clamoring for QE4. In fact, as you will read below, one equity strategist at Morgan Stanley says that he would not be “surprised” if the Federal Reserve announced another new round of money printing by the end …
Did printing vast quantities of money work for the Weimar Republic? Nope. And it won’t work for us either. If printing money was the secret to economic success, we could just print up a trillion dollars for every American and be done with it. The truth is that making everyone …
The long run—was an expression made popular by the Annales School of French historians led by Fernand Braudel, who coined the phrase in 1958. The basic argument of this school is that the proper concern of historians should be the analysis of structures that lie at the base of …
Combining 17 dissimilar countries under one monetary/fiscal system assured disaster waiting to happen. One size fits all rules don’t work. Euro expert Bernard Connolly knew it before the euro’s 1998 introduction. Saying so cost him his job as EU monetary affairs department head. He called the euro system a harebrained …
Many labels characterize him: distinguished author, essayist, playwright, historian, acerbic sociopolitical/cultural critic, freethinker, intellectual, and humanist. In 2009, the American Humanist Association (AHA) named him honorary president. On July 31, Gore Vidal died from complications of pneumonia at his Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles home. He was 86. He’ll be missed. …
The State Department has an office that hunts German war criminals. Bureaucracies being what they are, the office will exist into the next century when any surviving German prison guards will be 200 years old. From time to time the State Department claims to have found a lowly German soldier …
Wall Street banks have hollowed out our communities with fraudulently sold mortgages and illegal foreclosures and settled the crimes for pennies on the dollar. They’ve set back property records to the early 1900s, skipping the recording of deeds in county registry offices and using their own front called MERS. They …
Multiple rounds have been held. Istanbul technical talks just concluded. Breakthroughs haven’t happened. How can they when Washington blocks them. Nuclear talks are a subterfuge. Washington, European nations and Israel know Iran’s program is peaceful and legitimate. Yet the charade continues. Effective July 1, harsh new sanctions were imposed. They …