Entries Tagged as ‘Banking’

November 8, 2009

Banks Set Price of Gold at $1,275?

For over a decade, people at the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) have claimed that the gold commodity markets were being manipulated.  This manipulation was alleged to at least partially involve the selling of non-existent “paper” gold.

September 27, 2009

Foreclosures Without Mortgages

Proverbs 13:22 warns that “ . . . the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.” I won’t say this verse describes what’s actually happening with regard to modern mortgage law, but there’s enough of a resemblance to make me wonder.

May 5, 2009

Owing It To Ourselves?

An A.D. 2006 article entitled “The Lost Decade—Per Capita Net Worth and Living Standards,” declared in part that “as citizens of the U.S. we own the national debt.”
Technically, that’s correct.  Whee duh pee-pul do “own” the National Debt.  But 40 years ago, when gov-co was first going hugely into debt, it was borrowing from the [...]