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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Fw: THE HIGHER EARNING REPORT ~ Sunday, September 14, 2008
  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:38:06 -0600


I wasn't able to see the whole thing before routinely passing it on. Nothing
to do with living on the land. The guy has his history filtered through his
ideology, which as it happens, is only about making him money. Of course
nobody's wrong all the time; he does refer to Eustace Mullins and similar
writers. Then he blames it all on "the left" (as if radical democrats have
been running Washington for the last eight years) and kisses his credibility
goodbye. Let's don't get too worked up about partisan politics. That's not
what we're here for.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
listowner

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On 9/17/2008 at 2:11 PM Dean wrote:

>Paul, This comes from a fellow I have known and read for 20 some years
>since
>he had the radio show "Inform America", very knowledgeable yet humorous.
>This article in the very least is support for learning to live on the land
>and also worthwhile from the aspect of being able to prosper financially
>as
>well. I hope you read it and feel it is worth posting. Thanks Dean
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "THE INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EARNING"
><marlena@instituteofhigherearning.com>
>To: <andeanfx@midrivers.com>
>Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 10:44 PM
>Subject: THE HIGHER EARNING REPORT ~ Sunday, September 14, 2008
>
>
>>
>> Published occasionally by The Institute Of Higher Earning. Helping you
>> trade and invest successfully so you can retire debt free and fabulously
>> wealthy before you're too old, tired or senile to enjoy it. Besides, why
>> should the kids have all the fun?
>>
>> THE HIGHER EARNING REPORT ~ Sunday, September 14, 2008
>>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> 'Well, we'll all go together when we go. Yes, we'll all go together when
>> we go...'
>>
>> I was just trying to come up with some nice depression marching music,
>but
>> that's all I could think of.
>>
>> Picture millions of 1930's-era Americans marching happily with their
>> shovels over their shoulders, digging irrigation ditches for Franklin
>> Roosevelt's Works Project Administration (WPA). Happy days are here
>again!
>>
>> A few years ago a friend took me for a ride in his $150,000 Robinson
>> helicopter off the shores of northeastern Massachusetts. At about 500
>feet
>> he told me (over the headset; boy was that thing loud) to look down.
>>
>> We were hovering about 100 yards off the beach where the water was about
>> 20 feet deep. Looking straight down, I could clearly see a series of
>> precisely parallel furrows in the sand. These were obviously man made
>and
>> not the effect of rippling sand. There were hundreds of them, row after
>> row, all at right angles to the beach, stretching as far as you could
>see
>> in either direction. You could never have seen these standing on the
>> beach. I'm sure they're still there today, in case you want to go out
>and
>> hover.
>>
>> He explained that thousands of Depression-era WPA workers were paid a
>> penny a foot to dig furrows in the shore (the shoreline was not as high
>in
>> those days) as a 'let's prevent beach erosion' project, knowing full
>well
>> that the tide would just wash them away.
>>
>> Tax dollars hard at work! At least everyone had a job. FDR put them all
>to
>> work. And the people praised him, the savior who got them out of the
>> Depression. Of course, it was his buddies the bankers (who put him in
>> office) who caused the Depression in the first place by calling in loans
>> and otherwise contracting over 1/3 of the American money supply in just
>a
>> few months.
>>
>> But who knew? Once the people had been beaten down sufficiently, FDR
>again
>> rode in on a white horse with the introduction of Social Security in
>1935
>> and the people were thrilled!
>>
>> A dog will not wander far from its food bowl, nor a taxpayer from his
>> mailbox when there's a check in there every month from Uncle Sam. Exit
>the
>> republic, stage left (far left, I might add).
>>
>> I've been writing about the coming Kontratieff Winter for several years
>> now. Is there a chill in the air? If you look at a graph of the 12-month
>> exponential moving average of weekly unemployment figures, the wiggly
>line
>> has dipped below the x axis for only the fourth time over the past
>> century. Each time presaged a recession.
>>
>> Note that I said it has already dipped. Ergo, we are in a recession
>> already. What's next? Here are a couple of the latest blog posts at
>> http://financialrealitynews.blogspot.com
>>
>> << Bailouts Will Push U.S. Into Depression >>
>> http://www.cnbc.com/id/26656750
>> "... Martin Hennecke, senior manager of private clients at Tyche, told
>> CNBC on Thursday. 'We expect a depression in the United States. We
>expect
>> a depression, very possibly, also in Europe'..."
>>
>> << Once in 100 Years Credit Crisis, World Heads for Deflationary
>Collapse
>> >>
>> http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6088
>> "Robert Prechter [says] ... 'the markets are telling us to prepare for
>> hard times, and a global spate of the worst deflation to be seen in
>> generations ...sophisticated money is cashing out, raising cash,
>preparing
>> for world deflation.'
>>
>> << The United States of America is the Next Argentina >>
>> http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5990.html
>> "I have a bad feeling about what's about to happen. The Great Depression
>> is the closest that comes to mind... It's going to be bad. It's going to
>> make high school seem like fun."
>>
>> But, but.... how could this happen? Don't the central bankers love you?
>> Could they all be this stupid, really? No, Virginia, they are all very
>> smart. Very smart, indeed.
>>
>> Back in 1966, Sir Alan Greenspan (since knighted by the Queen of England
>> as the world's foremost counterfeiter) was a devoted protege of
>> libertarian objectivist Ayn Rand. In 1967 he wrote an essay titled 'Gold
>> And Economic Freedom' in which he called paper money the 'shabby secret'
>> of the central banker.
>>
>> Fast forward 30 years and Easy Al is the world's leading central banker
>> and proponent of paper money. Who got to him?
>>
>> You know all those new reality computer games you can play where you get
>> to start your own civilization, then see if you can conquer the world?
>> What if you were the capo di tutti cappi of the various (mostly foreign)
>> families who own the Class A preferred voting stock of the banks that
>own
>> the Federal Reserve?
>>
>> To take over the world, economically speaking, you'd need to buy it all
>> up. Think Monopoly and Park Place.
>>
>> You might start, as David Rockefeller did in 1976, by forming the
>> Trilateral Commission, the brain behind the Council On Foreign
>Relations.
>> You'd divide the world into three economic zones (get it, three?, as in
>> TRIlateral?), starting with the lowest hanging fruit: Europe.
>>
>> By 1999 you've got the European Union and the euro. Next up is the
>> American Union, now underway through treaties like NAFTA and GATT, not
>to
>> mention various Executive Orders that are melding America economically
>> with our northern and southern neighbors, soon to be assimilated by the
>> Borg.
>>
>> Google 'Amero' for more.
>>
>> Asia will be more difficult, which is why a little detour is currently
>> being taken to assimilate a fourth economic zone: Africa. There's even a
>> brand new ETF for your Africa play: iShares MSCI South Africa Index Fund
>> (EZA). Count on this baby to go *way up* over years to come.
>>
>> Rockefeller's partner in founding the Trilateral Commission was Zbigniew
>> 'Zbig' Kazimierz Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to
>president
>> James Earl 'Peanuts' Carter. Zbig is also currently (and very quietly, I
>> might add) the personal mentor of one of the two Coke and Pepsi
>> presidential candidates: Barrack Mohammed Obama.
>>
>> Of course, as always, this is just a massive coincidence. Nothing to see
>> here, folks. Keep moving along.
>>
>> Personally, if I were trying to buy up and run the planet, I'd be sure
>to
>> start by lowering America's economic standard to that of the global
>> average, since it would be virtually impossible to bring the world's
>> average living standard up to that of post-WWII America.
>>
>> I'd start by pumping (pimping?) up the money supply under Ronald
>'Tefllon'
>> Wilson Reagan and getting a few generations of Americans used to EZ
>> credit.
>>
>> After the housing and credit card booms, I'd pop the bubble, crash the
>> economy, come in with my unlimited supply of cash and buy up every house
>> from Baltic Avenue to Marvin Gardens and then some.
>>
>> God, I love being a central banker! Hey, don't worry, none of this is
>> true.
>>
>> OK, I was only kidding. It really is true.
>>
>> But whatever you do, do NOT read 'Secrets of the Federal Reserve' by
>> Eustace Mullins or 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' by John Perkins.
>>
>> After you haven't read those, be sure not to read Beardsley Ruml's 1942
>> speech titled 'Taxation For Revenue Is Obsolete' or Tupper Saussey's
>> 'Miracle On Main Street,' either.
>>
>> Personally, whenever I feel tempted not to figure out what's going on, I
>> try never to watch any of the many eye-opening videos in the member area
>> at http://www.WealthWeekend.com.
>>
>> It would probably also be a good idea not to try to understand why the
>Tax
>> Act of 1913, the 16th Amendment and the passage of the Federal Reserve
>Act
>> all occurred within nine months of each other.
>>
>> Anyway, back to the present. Where do we go from here? Straight down
>would
>> be my best guess. The velocity of money has dried up like a Martian
>> lagoon, in spite of brobdinagian injections of credit by Benjamin
>> 'Helicopter' Shalom Bernanke that would have embarrassed Easy Al.
>>
>> Like a cold, stalled engine low on oil, all of that credit remains
>sitting
>> congealed, at the bottom of the crankcase. Little of it has made its way
>> out into the general economy, which continues to contract. Ergo,
>> deflation, which leads to depression ('The hip bone's connected to the
>> thigh bone...')
>>
>> When an economy is contracting just about every sector contracts as
>well.
>> Oil, precious metals, commodities and the stock market all head down. Of
>> course, when this happens you must switch gears and start trading and
>> investing in that direction (down, remember?), the precise opposite of
>> what 99% of all investors do.
>>
>> Most of today's investors will copy what their grandparents did; they'll
>> ride Great Depression II all the way to the bottom.
>>
>> This all reminds me of a 'Beanie And Cecil' cartoon I saw as a kid.
>Cecil
>> is sitting directly atop a smoldering volcano and remarks, 'Where can I
>> possibly go from here?' The answer, of course, is to start a hedge fund.
>>
>> YES! What better time? After all, everyone is depressed (which is why
>they
>> call it a depression, right?).
>>
>> Unemployment is ratcheting up.
>> The markets are slip sliding away.
>> Housing has yet to find a bottom.
>> And the consumer credit card bubble is beginning to resemble the
>> Hindenberg.
>>
>> What *better* time to start a hedge fund!?
>>
>> It's true. We've already retained a top securities attorney to guide us
>> through all of the flaming regulatory hoops and the 'Liberty Private
>> Placement Fund, LP' is being formed in Concord, New Hampshire as I write.
>>
>> Those who wish to participate in getting the fund off the ground as
>> private lenders will be rewarded with a return of $10 for every $1
>> infused, with no lower or upper limits.
>>
>> Don't have any money?
>>
>> Can't even think about investing in a hedge fund, let alone paying this
>> month's HBO bill?
>>
>> Then clean out the attic, sell that junk on Ebay, start turning those
>> empty soda cans in for the nickel and get ready for a video I'll be
>making
>> this week explaining how to hedge your way to fun and fortune as all
>> around you crashes and burns.
>>
>> In the meantime, do what people did during Great Depression I...
>>
>> Drink!
>>
>> And May The Pip Be With You,
>>
>> Gordon Philips for
>> THE INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EARNING
>> gordon@higherearning.com
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