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three thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines as the world welcomes the death of now sama bin ladin the experts question if it's actually a victory they say u.s. foreign policy for the last decade may have angered a whole generation of people with american security forces already anticipating revenge attacks colonel gadhafi forces continue to shell the city of misrata meanwhile more voices expressed outrage over the reported death of his son and three grandchildren in a nato airstrike. that georgia's opposition prepares for mass rallies to force
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president mikheil saakashvili to step down russian citizen claimed she was attacked by the country's police to send a warning to her opposition leader relative. kaiser report coming out next knox and stacey explain how trillions of dollars injected into the world economy and it out mostly into the hands of bankers stay with us. my stature this is the kaiser report talk about your leading economic indicators did you know that according to a recent study the best looking and highest priced hookers are now in washington d.c. and no longer los angeles california that's to give you an idea of how the economy is going and the united states let's take a look at all of the money in washington d.c. stacy everybody got max we have a financial war going on and i have all the evidence you need in my headlines today
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central banks punt three trillion pounds into world economy so the world central banks have pumped three chilling pounds or five trillion dollars into the global financial system since the crisis the equivalent of eight percent of the world economy according to a new analysis by fathom consulting yes and how do they do that pumping they pump it through the banking system they pump it through the primary dealers on wall street and the banks are the primary dealers hold onto it and pay themselves huge bonuses so it's totally ineffective as part of the way the entire system is broken but please continue maxwell the e.c.b. was the biggest contributor to this liquidity injection of five trillion dollars the u.k. was the lowest contributor in terms of these big four central banks but the figures according to the article will intensify fears that the extraordinary injection of liquidity is responsible for rising stock markets rather than any underlying pick
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up in corporate health or investor confidence right now as i as i explained the money that comes from the central banks say they inject credit let's let's be honest money in the sense that it has any value other than an accounting leisure jermain they give it to banks and on behalf of the clients they've been buying stocks assets and. they've been making their clients the top one percent of the global rich they've been making them money but they won't let it trickle through to the other ninety nine percent of the global population and that's why you find so much of a revolt in revolutions around the world is because people are saying wait a minute what are we jumping over well it's a financial war as well and essential banks are harming the banks they basically put in embargo on the bottom ninety nine point nine percent ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent actually so this is the way that central banks are
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operating on this financial battlefield that's correct is that we've we've lost the era of ground wars and tanks and bombers and things like that i mean the u.s. still uses that to terrorize pakistan afghanistan and iraq yes of course but the real global war of any consequence the big war is a financial war using financial weapons of destruction and as you point out they're being used to disenfranchise huge populations just as you would with a with a bomb or a tank you know you use the bomb to blow people up i mean greece is a great example of their using financial weapons to defraud and bankrupt the country and then they're going to scoop up all the assets for pennies on the dollar just as you would hitler tried to do back in world war two america's doing now well back to this article here eric britton a director at this company compared the development of thrown lighter fuel on a barbecue the question he said is whether the coals are lit so that that bottom ninety nine percent whether or not there is any trickling down to them whether or not there's any economy there whether or not there are any jobs there where the
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bottom ninety nine percent are busy fighting with each other they don't organize themselves in any meaningful way except for the silver liberation army which has been effective in taking the price of silver from five nine dollars an ounce to close to fifty dollars an ounce that's an effective silver roots campaign against banking terrorist but other than that very little cooperation on the bottom ninety nine percent well let's look at. there see the prisoners of war of this financial war see how they're responding i have two countries the two most important countries in this financial war we have the u.s. and we have china let's look at the u.s. first the mage alb's era would you like rage with that and this is an article talking about the unemployment situation in america is obviously very dire we all know about that the real unemployment rate is around twenty percent great depression sort of paris so what's happening is a lot of americans are going to college university in order to increase their job prospects so because of that what are they doing they're taking on. that
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right which is exactly what those are the roadside bombs those are the i d's that the bankers want you to step on of course so we're going to look at that what has happened because of this according to the center for american progress u.s. student loan debt is on track to hit a cool one trillion dollars in two thousand and eleven at the moment it's eight hundred twenty nine billion so that's an increase of one hundred seventy billion this year that's more than all the outstanding credit card debt in the u.s. this is where the whole milton friedman asks transformation of the previous welfare states into pure market states has failed the pendulum has swung too far toward securitization financialization milton freidman escalation and the neoliberal model so you've got now millions of college students who graduate burdened with more debt than they could possibly pay off unless they take a job working for
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a weapons manufacturer or go to work as a soldier or murdering people so this is the end of milton friedman period the end of the factual reagan period in the regaining of really a brand new period you know the fact is they're taking on loans and they're basically they've locked into the financial battlefield they become indentured servants because once you have this is debt you cannot escape from it you can't you can never walk away from your student loan debts despite that there's a loan default rate of between twenty five and forty three percent on all these loans just because you default it means you're not paying you're on able to pay but you can't ever escape it so once you ever get a job where you're capable paying it they will garnish your wages you can never escape from that right just like you've got thousands of soldiers returning from iraq who are needing permanent care in a health facility because they got their leg blown off by some improvised road bomb you've got now thousands hundreds of thousands of students graduating with a similar financial blake being blown off in the form of debt and this is all on
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purpose from the same. banks who love crippled indebted slobs as their customers and they hate competition they hate free independent people challenging them with new business models they hate that that's why this is a war there's a war going on as you point out and the bankers are using weapons of mass financial destruction they're they're creating cripples on the battlefield and people in cripple debt coming out of the university system but somebody is making the goods and services for americans and that is of course china shanghai fuel protest unnerved beijing and they are nerve beijing but they should under of americans as well those americans who are graduating with tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt from which they could never escape they now have to pay chinese workers more and more thanks to the five trillion a weapons handed to these bankers chinese authorities were locked in to go she said last week with striking truckers who have besieged the country's largest port in a bid to prevent the unrest and spreading to other cities so there is striking over
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the fact that fuel costs are rising fuel costs are rising of course because well five trillion dollars have been handed just by the central banks to the bankers. so the consumer the citizen the average joe gets slammed two ways they're paying more for stuff like food and energy and they're having to see their net worth crash due to the acid depreciation engineered by these financial terrorists but max speaking of this fuel protest we're seeing commodities across the board rising i want to turn to this headline from jeremy grantham who is a well known analyst financial analyst jeremy grantham goes malthus it's time to wake up or the great paradigm shift from declining prices to rising prices so cary grant them is looking at the fact that all these commodity prices are rising and he he looks at it and you see that compound growth in a world of finite resources is not possible we have to give up on that we have to start learning how to basically make ourselves more efficient use less energy and
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adapt to the. but he shows a chart here if you look at their season it's a chart for the last hundred ten years and from one thousand nine hundred to two thousand you see those declining prices of commodities and this is a commodity index measuring thirty commodities and they were declining at an average of one point two percent annualized over seventy percent in real terms up until about two thousand two thousand and two that he says that if you see that rise all that gain of the past hundred years of commodity price fawley is now wiped out in eight years right so the trend that we've seen over the past hundred years the all in prices due to innovation due to technological innovation due to globalization due to advances in mining techniques oil extraction techniques are all trickling down to the bottom line was cheap oil and cheap food has the nadir in terms of delivering cost efficiencies and if you look at the bigger timeline of
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a few hundred years what you find is that now we're experiencing a reversion to the mean in terms of cost for the raw materials that go into the economy which means that the hundred year period of law is a fair capitalism just as long as we keep paying less and less for stuff that matter how we do it either through exploitation of the ecology or by dropping bombs on people it no longer is economically viable and this is where america finds itself short because they have no plan b. they've built an empire on these twin exploitations of slave labor in china and ecological whole the cost but we only have a few seconds left but i want to make a point about that chart if you look at it there are four points where prices of commodities rally number one world war one number two world war two number three the seventy's right after vietnam this is an inflationary period you know before that is that present day and i say this is the fine of the financial war this is
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the cost of the. wars that we see it's a shadow of the shadow banking system of the find out of the shadow financial war that we see going on right now it's the ultimate on declared war effectively because those on the front line are those who are having their net worths and jobs if this are rated by inflation the paper bombs that are being dropped on them from central banks and wall street and if you think it's going to get any better here's one final quick headline it's a chart it's a picture to look at this is the lobbying battle the washington post will you see that the amount of money spent by lobbyists in washington has doubled as well as more than doubled and the red line there the one that's got the most fire finance insurance and real estate made more than doubled they spent four hundred thirty seven million dollars last year alone to make sure that war to get the leverage they've received from that back the ten trillion or more that they've received back i think that's pretty good work by them to do the students on a lobby you know the workers have a lobby that the consumers have
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a lobby no do the fire insurance a real estate business of a lobby yes closer they spend a few hundred million how much they get a few hundred billion but actually if the students realized if they recognize their award if they recognize that they're in a war ghetto they would perhaps instead of it and current hundred seventy billion more in debt this year alone they would maybe take some of that and go to war on the battlefield of washington d.c. where it's all happening that's where the hookers are all right so server thanks so much ray on the kaiser report thank you max say too much more coming your way so don't go away.
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the good. news is the. news. in the. welcome back of the kaiser report oh boy this is going to be a treat timed out to go to westport connecticut talk with peter schiff see euro pacific capital author of crash proof and how an economy grows and why it crashes peter so if welcome back to the kaiser report professor i mean on the air max right you were extremely accurate in your forecast for housing prices in your book crash growth talked about fannie mae and freddie mac.
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collapsing all that turned out to be true we're at a point the cycle for housing now people are questioning have we had a bottom in housing i saw something on business insider today alluding to that but there are some dissenting views on housing housing of course is a key part of this crisis today and going forward what are your thoughts on housing peter schiff well i still think the prices are being artificially propped up by government supporters in the form of very low interest rates from the fed and guarantees from the government both fannie and freddie and the f.h.a. are so real say prices are higher than they would be in a free market but ultimately i think subprime demand will bring the prices down despite the government's efforts to prop them up and i think you're going to have to see i continually decline you've got a lot of property that open really is going to come on the market you have a lot of support closures in the pipeline you've got a lot of people kind of living in homes for a year two years. to debate any more issues and they haven't even started the
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foreclosure process all right so you've got housing is still terrible shape as we all know the crisis in two thousand and eight percent tainted by a lot of bad loans that were made faulty securitization faulty marketing securitized portfolios the collateralized debt obligations except for a now the banks today are saying our balance sheets are in pretty good health however if what you're saying about housing is accurate then and we know that a lot of the loans that they're carrying on their books they value at one hundred cents on the dollar they haven't been any serious mark to market of those loans the banks' balance sheets are they as healthy as the banks are alluding to well no they're only healthy as long as interest rates stay at these artificially low levels and that's one of the reason that the federal reserve is keeping them there you know rather than raising rates like you should be doing it is afraid to do that because it will expose the insolvency of the banks so in order to keep rates low
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production has gone in for ten years no inflation because of you knowledge is was obvious then he has to raise rates but he can't do that without hank in the u.s. economy but of course we need to let this poti economy collapse because in coal we do we're never going to be able to build a sustainable economy to replace it and the longer we try to maintain his ball the worse the underlying fundamentals get and the more painful it will be ultimately to correct the question is i guess on everyone's mind relating to the dollar very similar to what we saw in two thousand and eight two thousand and eight had a counter-trend rally in the dollar or a dead cat bounce or what you referred to was a false rally in the dollar as reading into the two thousand and eleven similar crunch an echo of two thousand and eight the dollar can even muster a dead cat bounce is that an indication of how screwed up the dollar is yeah i think that that rally in zero eight was. the massive head fake i described it as
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a head fake back man and a lot of people started writing in the direction of the dollar and i think the people who power the dollar in early two zero zero eight early zero nine i have lost a lot of money and i don't expect that rally to true repeat i think the real move is down the dollar specifically because of what the government did in response to the fanfic price of two thousand and eight one of the reasons the dollar rally was because back then there was still and no don't we didn't know if the fed was going to try to prop everything up there was a chance that they would let always banks fail and the dollar would rally in that environment but that's not what happened and the fed has shown its hand and it's you know it's of all inflation they're going to print they're not going to let the banks fail they're not going to let real state implode i do are going to keep raising money they're not going to force congress to cut spending they're going to
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monetize whatever congress wants to spend and you know the underhook that environment a dollar can only go down and i know that i think it has a big drop comic and alternately i think the dollar will fall so much better fed will be forced to ultimately do the right thing or risk a complete collapse of the dollar hyperinflation where the dollar basically siege ceases to function as a viable medium of exchange and the only way to avoid that is going to be to administer the medicine that we should have been i mr years ago i noticed your brother in there the money manager in space for example you've got bill gross over there pen pal mark famously also joining this chorus of those who are selling u.s. government treasury bonds and even shorting u.s. government treasury bonds you have also pointed to this trade as a something to look at what about that idea because not only is it about let's say positioning a portfolio to avoid the risk. of owning this u.s.
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government bond but these folks and possibly yourself becoming a lot more aggressive because they are shorting those bonds are taking quite an action that as we know with the money flows around the world can actually help percipient say the outcome if you know what i mean what were your thoughts there oh you know the only problem with shorting the bonds is that the government can print money and keep buying them and that will ultimately prevent bond prices from falling but if they do that then the dollar collapses and so you're probably better off if you're bearish on treasuries you know you're probably a safer traders just a short dollar because the fed tries to keep treasuries from falling by buying them it has to do it by printing money and debasing the dollar so probably that dollar short is a safer bet than did a pure treasury short because the fed could intervene for a while and keep treasuries from falling but you know we've begun that you might want to look at other bonds too because if they're just buying treasuries and they
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keep printing money that's going to hurt corporate bonds yes gurd i mean this will bonds all us dog and i get it bonds will start falling in price unless the fed buys those too but then if it tries to buy other bonds to keep it all rates low then it has a pretty even more money which is even more negative for the dollar so you know shorting a dollar or buying silver or buying gold or buying commodities might be a more effective way of shorting bonds ok now let's change gears here for a second and talk about oil and it's a saying barack obama has come out and said recently that he's instructed the justice department to look and soup oil market manipulation in response to the recent price spike and oil now given what we've been talking about massive plenty printing talk a little bit about this please pay shift you know i mean and a whole thing is a farce i to ignore the real cause and that is a federal reserve rock obama should be sending his investigators. relayer and in
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fact rock obama is a haiti you know is a coconspirator. because the reason that the federal reserve is praise so much money is because prague obama and congress are spending so much money they're not collecting enough in taxes and so ben bernanke is printing up the difference and the result is rising prices so you know you can think of higher gas prices as simply a tax because the government didn't raise taxes they didn't raise income taxes or stay or all taxes they decided to run a deficit and have to spend monetize it the way we pay for it is higher prices because of stead of taking our money big government is taking our purchasing power and the result is that gas prices go up food prices go up so all these prices are rising because brock obama is spending so much money and running these huge deficits so rather than i you know commissioning a study he just look in the mirror and find the cause and if you really feels the
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pain of the average american as he pretends he does because of the pump he cut government spending he shut off the spigot right now but this is how we're paying for government we're paying for it i would four dollars gasoline pretty soon it'll be five dollars six dollars ten dollars there is no end in sight as long as the government keeps spending in the fake huge printing i have to finance it prices for everything are going is going to go up all right let's talk about china for a second because they aren't being you predicting that predicted that they would raise the value of the r. and b. the something that the u.s. has been encouraging but actually it's not good because this shift purchasing power to china actually is a negative for the dollar they talk a little bit about that yet you know the chinese have under god their currency for years and we constantly accuse china that somehow doing that benefits china at our expense when it's actually the reverse because what happens is because chinese undermine their own personal. power so their own citizens see the value of their
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savings and evaluate their wages and diminish and so they can afford to buy a lot of things that absent that intervention they would be able to afford and the flipside of that is americans are able to buy things that actually paid intervention we couldn't afford and so our shelves are full of products i made in china yet a chinese shelves don't have those products or if they have them they're too expensive for many chinese to buy but if the chinese government were simply to remove those who penance and allow the r. and b. to rise then everything would go on sale for the chinese everything would get cheaper and everything would get more expensive for americans and not only would prices rise but interest rates would rise because in order to suppress the value of the r. and b. they buy a lot of dollars and they used those dollars to buy us strays reese and that creates more demand for treasuries and that helps keep the rates down and it's not just china it's with china keeping its currency down you have all these other countries in southeast asia that are trying to remain competitive with china and so
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they're buying dollars and that's why you see all these sovereign wealth funds all around the world that are loaded up with dollars because all these countries are trying to keep their currency low but we gain they lose and when they realize that this is not in their interests they will stop doing it because these are political decisions to buy dollars and suppress their currencies and when they start to believe that these decisions are wrong and they start to see the consequences because of what's right now is inflation all these countries that are suppressing their currency have to create a lot of my to do it that that's inflation and prices are rising and people are a lot of these countries are hurt harder by higher food and energy prices because it represents a bigger chunk of their expenditures and so it has countries like china starts were pretty shape how big the cost is of propping up the dollar and you know realize that letting the dollar collapse is a much. better way to go even if it does result in some losses in their own you
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know foreign reserves and it does result in fewer say house to america net net it's a big gain for china and the chinese people and over all the other countries that allow their currencies to rocks right so this is a volatile a symbiotic relationship between us and china is one that china is going to break because they end up well it's not a symbiotic in the sense that slavery was symbiotic if you think that a slave in the master are symbiotic because the slave gets to work and the master gets to enjoy the fruits of his labor you know i got doesn't seem to sue myrick that seems parasitic to me and i think that's what's been going on with china you know they work really hard and they don't have anything to show for it we have to consume what they produce and you know if they're just working to help to prop our economy up to provide us with goods that we can afford i bet is not a good deal for the chinese all right last question. ben
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a big supporter of ron paul of course he ran for senate in connecticut during the last election cycle ron paul is i believe he's announced he's going to run for points wahls he's got a lot of support is growing support if he makes it to the white house would there be a role in his administration for peter seth well i guess it's a bit presumptuous when i say i was i was with ron paul last night we spoke at an event in new york city it was very well attended a lot of young people were there. yeah i mean first let's see a crime to get elected i certainly will do everything i can to help him in that effort and you know if he if he were to get elected if he were to invite me to washington to do it i'd probably i probably call him but you know there's a lot of ifs in there so first let's see if if you can get the republican nomination which is no small task well that's all the time for we have this week but thanks so much again for being on the kaiser report share max all right now going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with a nice kaiser and. stacy arbor hours i guess the president of euro pacific capital
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