Send your Santa Letters to the Bankers. They can make Miracles happen, says Robin Hood…

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Sabine Kurjo McNeill

Here’s my Santa Letter that I put here. Will you add yours? Dear Bank of England, For Christmas, it would REALLY be nice if ALL of your employees were invited to remember how you were created in 1694: the Bank of England Act foresaw a punishment for TRADING, to avoid the SUPPRESSION of Their Majesties’ [...]

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Money from Thin Air – Explained a in 3 Minute Video

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Sabine Kurjo McNeill

This video is a good summary of the essence of money created from thin air – as national debts the impossibility of paying back national debts the farcical games that governments and central banks make us want to believe. One of the problems seems to be that people don’t think “currency”, but “money”. Another problem [...]

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Video: economic collapse explained in 3 minutes

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Sabine Kurjo McNeill

This video is a great way of illustrating the absurdity of debt-based economies in general and national debts in particular.

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6 reasons ‘Goldman Conspiracy’ must kill reforms

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Sabine Kurjo McNeill

This excellent article gives a good overview of what’s happening in American power games between Wall Street and Washington, just as between the City of London and Westminster. Written for MarketWatch, the author Paul B. Farrell is the author of nine books on personal finance, economics and psychology. He was an investment banker with Morgan [...]

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The Purpose of the Credit Crisis

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Sabine Kurjo McNeill

It’s always been unpleasant to imagine the kind of scenarios that Michel Chossudovsky, Canadian professor of economics, describes in his excellent video The Global Financial Crisis. But the statistics of the UK Budget figures over the last 10 years paint exactly that picture, if only one has eyes to see it, it seems: bankruptcy of [...]

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Is there a difference between money and currency?

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Sabine Kurjo McNeill

I always refer to money as the stuff in my pocket or on my bank account. Having lived in Geneva for many years, I was, of course, used to a lot of different currencies. But I learned about the real difference between currencies when I discovered LETS and professional barter companies with as  “private” currencies [...]

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Smoke, mirrors, SDRs and Gold – why central banks can’t tell the truth

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Sabine Kurjo McNeill

This full article is only accessible to subscribers. But the beginning gives enough away to understand how the Federal Reserve and other Western central banks create smoke and mirrors with their reporting than any truth. Anybody still believing in the ‘goodness’ of any central bank for its country or currencyzone will hopefully begin to question [...]

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Sovereign Debt – The Implications for Currencies and Gold

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Sabine Kurjo McNeill

Sovereign debt hangs like an albatross around the necks of too many countries. This is the first sentence of an insightful article by The International Forecaster. The perspective is not only the one of an investor, but also mainly American. But investors “see more” than academics!

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The Greek Tragedy

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Sabine Kurjo McNeill

This blog post puts the EU and Greece excellently into the general debt perspective of our system, with central banks and governments as its key players, in a mortal embrace. Remember: the money supply of a nation consists of Cash issued by government as notes and coins – interest-free – raising seigniorage as income Credit [...]

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What are Banks doing with their Depositors’ Money?

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Sabine Kurjo McNeill

Banks are buying US government debt paper. This is the answer provided by James Turk, editor of the Free Gold Money Report, in this article. James Turk is a key contributor to GATA, the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee that watches the Fed and the manipulation of gold markets closely.

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