thestatedtruth.com | September 20, 2013
Here’s a full history of the Census Bureau’s figures for median household income. Notice that median household income in 2012 is below the 1989 figure. That’s 23 years. Not so good. Now let’s look at things from 1975, which is the begining of these records…..Median household income has increased by a cumulative, grand total of 11% […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 18, 2013
Question…..Did anybody think that our privacy was being compromised back in 1978? Answer….Probably not. But sure enough and to our surprise it’s the wrong answer. Back on February 24, 1978 The Rockford Files Season 4 Episode 12 was viewed on NBC and the following caption was shown at the end of ‘ The House On Willis Street’ part 2. This episode was about new […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 16, 2013
Wise Dog Sources believe that Kohn is NOT a deregulator as Summers was perceived to be, and his comments that we review below essentially take him out of the Federal Reserve Chairman job opening! Wikepedia: Donald Lewis Kohn (born November 7, 1942) is an American economist who served as the former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 15, 2013
It’s concerning how so many people now think that “things are different this time”! But since complacency has hit an all time record, it’s unlikely to end well. The Swiss-based BIS `bank of central banks’ said a hunt for yield was luring investors en masse into high-risk instruments, “a phenomenon reminiscent of exuberance prior to the global financial crisis”. The former chief economist […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 12, 2013
Silver appears to be the metal of the future….especially when one considers that 2/3 of all silver produced worldwide is a by product of lead, copper and zinc mining. Major silver users include the electronic and circut board industry, water purification and growing industrial uses in China, including production of energy saving solar panels. Silver Atomic Number: 47 Symbol: Ag Atomic Weight: 107.8682 Discovery: Known […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 12, 2013
“Wise Dog” sources say the new normal in money has started a change from paper to plastic! The reason being that after initial increased costs, the extra durability of the notes would mean they would last longer. Canada has already adopted the polymer banknote because it’s cheaper to issue then paper notes. Other countries paying with plastic include: Australia was […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 11, 2013
As remembering one of the toughest days in our history passes, let’s not forget those innocent kind souls who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. God Bless America, Land Of The Free and Home Of The Brave.
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thestatedtruth.com | September 11, 2013
Hmm…..This has to be a first, a Russian president does an editorial in a major U.S. newspaper! Unbelievable! Truely, it really is. Inquiring minds want to know if Russia’s leading newspaper Pravda would allow President Obama to pen his own Op-Ed in Moscow. Just curious! Here is a major exert on a Russian point of disagreement: “I carefully studied his (President Obama) address […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 11, 2013
Pay attention everybody, there will be a quiz on this….Stanley Druckenmiller (one of the most successful money managers of all time) addresses key issues for the U.S. economy going forward. Here are a few snip-its. On what he is most uncomfortable about: “Let’s first set the table and looking at what is going on in the last […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 8, 2013
This won’t go away…..it’s the new normal in communications. Germany’s Spiegel, broke a story saying that the NSA can spy not only on Android smartphones but tap user data on all iPhone and BlackBerry devices “including contact lists, SMS traffic, notes and location information about where a user has been”. Spiegel reports, citing”internal NSA documents that the […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 4, 2013
The U.S. isn’t “oil independent” just yet, but we’re working on it! As you can see from the charts below, most of the OPEC oil imported by the US comes from places other then the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and Libya are the exceptions. 2013 July vs June Chart Below……. 2013 Year To Date Chart below….. Source: Census Bureau
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thestatedtruth.com | September 2, 2013
Here is a spaghetti chart created by the WSJ of the US telecom space. It lays out roughly how many current subscribers (many from other carriers) pass through US telecom giant, AT&T. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/02/2013 16:02 -0400 www.zerohedge.com The reason for this is that according to the latest revelations from the NYT, which […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 2, 2013
There are now 130 Million citizens that are not currently employed… off we go with another letter to OUR (We The People) self serving Congress and Senate. Even they can understand the picture below (we thinx). (h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer) www.zerohedge.com
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thestatedtruth.com | August 25, 2013
The China plan would look to eventually back the Chinesse Renminbi currency with Gold, creating a direct trading challenge to the U.S. Dollar. Russia’s Putin has in the past hinted at something similar for the Russian Ruble! Chinese Gold Imports – China Imports 104 Tonnes of Gold in June China just imported 104 tonnes of […]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 25, 2013
Unbelievable! Ok, now we understand better why the commodity market is so unusually tame, especially the softs which have been weak all summer…By definition a soft commodity is a commodity such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, corn, wheat, soybean and fruit. This term generally refers to commodities that are grown, rather than mined, drilled for or raised such as animals. So […]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 23, 2013
So, it’s said by a number of Realtors that interest rate spikes don’t matter to home buyers….um, maybe they should rethink that idea? Yep, maybe rethink it twice! Purchases of new U.S. homes plunged in July by the most in more than three years while previous month saless were revised down. Housing in July showed that a […]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 18, 2013
The dreaded Hindenburg Omen continues through August 14….. For the 6th day in the last 8, the market has flashed a string of Hindenburg chart warnings that suggest that all is not well in a stock market considered by some to be “ government driven”. See our review of this several posts below, it will explain the Hindenberg Omen in detail.
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thestatedtruth.com | August 13, 2013
Why, you say…. It’s the dreaded Hindenburg Omen! “The Hindenburg Omen is a technical analysis that attempts to predict a forthcoming stock market crash. It is named after the Hindenburg disaster of May 6th 1937, during which the German zeppelin was destroyed in a sudden conflagration.” The Hindenburg Omen is not a guarantee of a […]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 8, 2013
Did you ever wonder just what LIBOR stands for…….well now you know! Until July 2012, the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) was the biggest little number that nobody outside finance understood, and yet it touched the lives of virtually everybody. LIBOR is an interest rate that gets calculated for ten currencies and fifteen borrowing periods […]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 6, 2013
What this means is that money is not being circulated through the system, instead it is parked in things that don’t ecourage growth in the economy. Velocity of Money is now at all time lows. Here is how to explain it: The velocity of money (also called velocity of circulation and, much earlier, currency) is the average frequency with […]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 6, 2013
Reviewing the overall global trade activity, the Baltic Dry Index shows we remain in record low territory. The global economy is moving at stall speed…. www.kingworldnews.com
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thestatedtruth.com | April 30, 2013
The US Census Bureau reported earlier today that the US homeownership rates in the first quarter of 2013 dropped by 0.4% to a new 18 year low. It now sits at 65% which is it’s lowest rate since 1995! www.zerohedge.com
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thestatedtruth.com | April 23, 2013
It’s now a rich mans world, but it wasn’t always this way! As the Pew Research Center finds, during the first two years of the US economic ‘recovery’, the mean net worth of households in the upper 7% of the wealth distribution rose by an estimated 28%, while the mean net worth of households in the lower 93% […]
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thestatedtruth.com | April 21, 2013
The U.S. GDP Will Be Revised Higher By $500 Billion Following Addition Of “Intangibles” To Economy Those who have been following the US debt to GDP ratio now that the US officially does not have a debt ceiling indefinitely, may have had the occasional panic attack seeing how this country’s leverage ratio is rapidly approaching […]
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thestatedtruth.com | March 12, 2013
Hmm…This from the very successful Kyle Bass We are right back there! The brevity of financial memory is about two years. I don’t get paid to be an optimist, I don’t get paid to be pessimist, I get paid to be a realist – and a prudent fiduciary of the capital, and then if i […]
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thestatedtruth.com | March 10, 2013
Amazing things are happening in technology…… The Samsung S4 launch will be on Wednesday Rumoured features include wireless charging and ‘eye scroll’ screen The iPhone may face its biggest challenge for supremacy in the smartphone market this week with the launch of the new Samsung Galaxy. In what has been described by some as the most eagerly […]
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thestatedtruth.com | March 8, 2013
Hmm….the average working age person has only about $79,651 saved up for retirement. That works out to about $416 per mounth of retirement payout if retiring at age 62. ICI recently released their retirement plan data through Q3 of 2012. The chart of the day shows the real (inflation adjusted) total retirement market assets per working age citizen […]
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thestatedtruth.com | March 1, 2013
How do we define austerity? Quit simply we think it means that out into the future… “we’re all going to be poorer”. This sets up a bad game, and looking at the view of the field, it really doesn’t look anything like the ticket they sold us……more specifically, we have “bad seats, hey buddy…front row behind a pole, and we just sat […]
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thestatedtruth.com | February 27, 2013
In some cases, a picture is worth a thousand words….in this case, we’re in the trillions. www.jsmineset.com
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thestatedtruth.com | December 9, 2012
How about that! Just over a mind-boggling 50 million Americans are living in absolute poverty while collecting the $134.29 average monthly benefit per person. Here’s a fictitious account of how food stamp day might go……..No time to work just got hooked up for some free money, gotta go wait in that long food stamp line, it goes down the […]
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thestatedtruth.com | November 25, 2012
According to Business Week: Last year, for the first time ever, sales of adult diapers in Japan exceeded those for babies. Yep, we said you wouldn’t believe it!
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thestatedtruth.com | November 19, 2012
Cumberland Associates has this perspective about the world wide slippery economic situation, and failed post-retirement promises made to a trusting populace. Let us get back to the difference between the US and Europe. European peripheral countries waited too long. Now they cannot fund the promises that they made for retirement and post-retirement benefits, and so they have to […]
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thestatedtruth.com | November 15, 2012
This from Bruce Krasting: The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that President Obama is going to ask for $1.6T in new taxes when he speaks on Friday. The only way that this sized tax increase could be accomplished is if the AMT (Alternative Minimun Tax) is indexed to inflation and hits tens of millions of […]
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thestatedtruth.com | November 13, 2012
This will change everything folks…….Growing supplies of crude oil extracted through new technologies including hydraulic fracturing of underground rock formations will transform the U.S. into the worlds largest producer of oil starting as early as 2017, the Paris-based adviser to 28 nations said in its annual World Energy Outlook. The U.S. met 83 percent of its energy needs […]
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thestatedtruth.com | October 27, 2012
Median U.S. household incomes have been stagnant for most of the last twenty years…and falling hard for the last four years. But…..the top 10% and the top 1% earners have risen dramatically! www.mauldineconomics.com
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thestatedtruth.com | October 25, 2012
Looks like a heavy breeze is blowing accross this windy political road with switch backs at every turn….. The Senate electoral landscape was supposed to favor Republicans, who are defending 10 seats, compared with 23 for Democrats. Democrats now control the Senate 53-47. Republicans must hold all of their seats and pick up four to gain control if President […]
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thestatedtruth.com | October 24, 2012
Here is an interesting new projection of the presidential election. It comes from John Mauldin’s ‘Thoughts From The Front Line’ ….it looks like a toss up to us! According to Bickers and Berry’s analysis, Romney is projected to receive 330 of the total 538 Electoral College votes. President Obama is expected to receive 208 votes – down […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 30, 2012
Wow, this is really unbelievable. Truly, it’s unbelievable! You’ll never guess the name that controls the worlds biggest hedge fund. Chances are good that nobody will get this one right! The world’s largest hedge fund is not located in the top floor of some shiny, floor-to-ceiling glass clad skyscraper in New York, London, Hong Kong or Shanghai. Instead […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 30, 2012
In This Guessing Game……There Are Four Possible Answers. So here we go with inquiring minds! With the World on your shoulders, which one of these four outcomes would you look to hitch your horse to…. 1. One who knows and knows that he knows… His horse of wisdom will reach the skies. 2. One who knows, but doesn’t know that he […]
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