Nico Simons is a Dutch investigative journalist on financial issues, especially monetary issues. His articles are regularly published on MoneyInsights.org. March 21, 2016Is the dollar Source: Is the dollar gold price controlled by JPM in cooperation with the BIS? – Nico Simons | Sprott Money

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A bankrupt Venezuela is selling the family silver (gold) to stay afloat. It’s State Oil company PDVSA is virtually insolvent and citizens scramble to buy essential food items. Perhaps they should try austerity like Greece? Oh, and the same fete awaits soon to Brazil Venezuela exported about 443 million Swiss francs ($456 million) worth of…

The reason I like David Stockman is that he is intelligent and calls it like it is. No bull….. Simple Janet should have the decency to resign. The Fed’s craven decision last week to punt on interest rate normalization is not merely a reminder that she is clueless and gutless; we alread… Source: Janet Yellen: Monetary Arsonist——–Armed, Dangerous And Lost…

If you are still unsure of how corrupt the financial world is then have a little fun with this spinning wheel to total up just how much JPMorgan Chase has paid in fines for crimes. No one in jail yet! The system is complicit and don’t care about you! JPMorgan Chase Victims, By the Numbers….

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: March 21, 2016 Kotlikoff Tweets His Forbes’ Headline Americans have painful recollections of how allowing ratings agencies Source: Forbes Yanks a Negative Article on JPMorgan While the Bank Pays for Content

From his recent email March 15, 2016 Monetary Madness: The Upside-Down World of Hallucinating Central Bankers How does this sound? Give me your money. I’ll hold on to it for a few years and skim a little off the top. Then I’ll give you back less than you originally gave me. No thanks… right? Well,…

Jim Rickards writes: “Saudi Arabia may take in massive revenues from oil sales, but it has massive expenses to match. Over 50% of the native Arabs in the kingdom have low-productivity government jobs. Saudi Arabia provides massive subsidies for water, gasoline, food and other staples. Defense spending has been ramping up due to threats from…

There is no surprise in this article that is stating the obvious. When economic growth is at best slow or in many parts of the globe in recession there is no logic behind markets advancing to higher and higher levels. The US, Japanese and European markets as we should know by now are rigged and…