thestatedtruth.com | May 31, 2010
The great American debt purge – Americans more stressed out about debt. Mortgage, credit card, student loan, and auto loan debt up to $13.5 trillion. Average debt per household at over $120,000. Sun, 30 May 2010 Every man, woman, and child would owe an average of $43,000 if we divided up mortgage, credit card, student, [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 31, 2010
Are we coming closer to WW III……it would appear so! By Tyler Durden on 05/30/2010 Even as futures are feeling buoyant as a result of the JPY drop following the collapse of the Japanese ruling coalition (which in itself will likely spell serious JGB troubles in the days ahead), Middle-east geopolitical issues have once resurfaced… [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 31, 2010
By Tyler Durden on 05/31/2010 Someone sure isn’t drinking the 63 out of 63 trading days Crissy in East Hampton on this sunny morning. Spiegel reports that German president, and former IMF head, Horst Kohler has resigned effective immediately, “a shock announcement that comes as the latest in a series of blows to [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 31, 2010
Memorial Day Weekend, May 31, 2010 “The fact that neither the government nor the public sector was prepared for the blowout of the British Petroleum rig indicates a profound failure of planning, execution and regulation. While Congress and others look for individual causes and scapegoats, the truth is that this was a systemic failure [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 30, 2010
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thestatedtruth.com | May 30, 2010
May 30 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc said it will seek to contain a majority of oil gushing from its Gulf of Mexico well with a new tactic to plug the leak as a White House adviser said the U.S. is now telling the company “what to do.” The company encountered “too much flow” and the [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 30, 2010
Hundreds Die In Indian Heatwave Sunday 30 May 2010 Death toll expected to rise as India faces record temperatures of up to 122F in hottest summer on record. Record temperatures in northern India have claimed hundreds of lives in what is believed to be the hottest summer in the country since records began in the [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 30, 2010
Americas most famous Las Vegas club owner and desisgner speaks out about the direction of the United States and the wild uncontrolled spending and massive debt we are taking on. “We’re on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government,” Wynn says. Steve Wynn says Americans are afraid. He’s just angry. “Washington is [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 29, 2010
BP said its latest effort to plug a mile-deep oil and gas gusher in the Gulf of Mexico with drilling fluids has failed in stemming the flow of hydrocarbons. We now have another outlier event unfolding. By Tyler Durden on 05/29/2010 In his May 28th interview with Bloomberg’s Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman, Matt [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 28, 2010
WASHINGTON – BP’s chief executive cautioned Friday that it will be two more days before anyone knows if the latest fix attempt will stop the oil spewing into the sea, and President Barack Obama arrived on the Gulf Coast to tell residents they are not alone in dealing with it. The New York Times reported [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 28, 2010
Rick’s Picks Friday, May 28, 2010 “Phenomenally accurate forecasts” We may all be breathing a sigh of relief by the time you read this, but it remained uncertain at press time whether British Petroleum’s efforts to plug a massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico would succeed. Earlier in the day, the company [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 28, 2010
The personal consumption to income ratio remains above 85%. A society based on excessive consumption with little investment is not sustainable. When wealth created from previous productive endeavors is consumed or transferred, society is left with obligations that it cannot pay. Personal consumption to income ratio: Consumer spending was stagnant in April while incomes posted [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 28, 2010
Guatemala ’Pacaya’ volcano blows……this one wasn’t even on our list……..does anyone get the feeling that Mother Earth is pissed off? GUATEMALA CITY Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a state of emergency after a powerful eruption at the southern Pacaya volcano killed one person and forced the international airport to close. Ash blanketed the region as [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 27, 2010
This is not good any way you cook it……..The pundits are buzzing about the rapid decline in the money supply of late. The latest catalyst for the chatter is a story yesterday in the Telegraph, which ran this provocative headline: U.S. money supply plunges at 1930s pace as Obama eyes fresh stimulus.The story goes on [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 27, 2010
This is bad for Europe especially…….the second half of 2010 may be fraut with global national disasters. Clif High from Web Bot has been warning about such events including huge earthquakes, volcanic erupsions, etc. since earlier this year, with stress to climb from July 8′th, 2010 until at least Nov 14′th, 2010. World changing events may happen [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 27, 2010
Oil Slickonomics – Part 5 – Chutzpah May 27, 2010 “Any and all injury, loss, destruction and damage arising out of or related to the above described casualty event was not caused or contributed to by any fault, negligence or lack of due care on the part of Petitioners…” This was excerpted from the [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 27, 2010
The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history. (This is what John Williams of Shadow Statistics has been warning about over the past number of months). [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 27, 2010
#1) In what universe is an economy with 39.68 million Americans on food stamps considered to be a healthy, recovering economy? In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts that enrollment in the food stamp program will exceed 43 million Americans in 2011. Is a rapidly increasing number of Americans on food stamps a good sign or [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 26, 2010
by Bmoreland 05/26/2010 Every day we hear “housing has bottomed” or “experts predict housing will rebound in late 2010″. A review of the quarterly bank data reveals some somewhat contradictory numbers: The data is 1-4 Family First Liens. Nonperforming loans are defined as loans 90+ Days Past Due and loans on Nonaccrual (no longer recognizing interest income). We [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 26, 2010
Wed May 26, 2010 8:20pm IST * Ahmadinejad calls on Medvedev to change sanctions stance * Iran tells Kremlin chief to “think more” and be “cautious” * Russia raps Iranian president for political demagoguery * Worst row between Russia and Iran since Cold War By Robin Pomeroy and Guy Faulconbridge TEHRAN/MOSCOW, May [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 25, 2010
Why buying a home today makes little financial sense. 3 reasons why taking on a mortgage in today’s market is deep in speculation. Are homes still over valued? Tax benefit not as big as you would expect. Tue, 25 May 2010 It is hard for many to believe that home prices in many [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 25, 2010
May 24th, 2010 SALT LAKE CITY – Many Utahns woke up to a blanket of snow Monday morning. The wet and slushy weather caused a few problems throughout the day, but the late storm was mostly an inconvenience. The storm produced the latest spring snow ever recorded at Salt Lake City International Airport. It arrived [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 24, 2010
Updated May 24, 2010 The Next Bailout: $165B For Unions By Erik Berte - FOXBusiness Taxpayers could be on the hook for another $165 billion if a bill to bail out private union pension funds makes it through Congress. A Democratic senator is introducing legislation for a bailout of troubled union pension funds. If passed, the [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 24, 2010
Health Care Law 63% Favor Repeal of National Health Care Plan May 24, 2010 Support for repeal of the new national health care plan has jumped to its highest level ever. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63% of U.S. voters now favor repeal of the plan passed by congressional [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 24, 2010
Unfortunately, our woeful tale of unfunded liabilities does not end in Washington. Several state governments are also racking up large annual deficits and even larger unfunded pension liabilities. Right here at home, in the Golden State, government finances have rapidly slipped from “okay” to “abysmal.” And once again, the official debt numbers tell only a [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 24, 2010
One False Move In Europe Could Set Off Global Chain Reaction By Howard Schneider and Neil Irwin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 24, 2010 If the trouble starts — and it remains an “if” — the trigger may well be obscure to the concerns of most Americans: a missed budget projection by the Spanish [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 24, 2010
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised fresh concerns about Spain’s economy, saying “far-reaching” reforms are needed to ensure its recovery. It said the country faced “severe” challenges, including the need to urgently reform a “dysfunctional” labour market, and its banking sector. The IMF’s comments came after Spanish authorities had to rescue regional lender Cajasur [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 24, 2010
May 24, 2010 “The most recent satellite imagery indicates that the portion of the oil previously observed moving to the SE towards the Loop Current (LC) has largely been entrained into a counter-clockwise rotating eddy to the north of the LC. Over flight observations report this oil is in the form of very scattered light [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 23, 2010
Geez, No wonder Europe has debt problems, this may well cause rioting across France ….. Expectations are growing that France is set to remove the right to retire at 60, as it embarks on a contentious reform of its debt-laden pension system and brings public finances back into line. By Peggy Hollinger in Paris Published: [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 23, 2010
You have North Korea threatening ‘all-out war’ now; which is precisely a situation they calculate the United States cannot afford nor permit amidst this chaos. I fear there’s a risk of miscalculation on their part, which could actually start a hot war. Then I consider their conspiratorial allies in Iran and the terrorists in Lebanon, [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 23, 2010
The X-37B has a wingspan of just over 14 feet and is 29 feet long. It looks something like a space shuttle, although about a quarter of the length. We discused the X-37B in an April 4, 2010 article here at The Stated Truth….To review that article, go to the categories section to the left and [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 22, 2010
Mr. Klarman is president of the Baupost Group, an investment firm in Boston that manages $22 billion. His three private partnerships have returned an annual average of around 19% since inception in 1983—and nearly 17% annually over the past decade, as stocks went nowhere. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2010 From Zero Hedge…………. A [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 22, 2010
LONDON BP PLC’s chief executive told staff he was frustrated by the company’s failure to stop an oil leak in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and warned an attempt to do so starting next week could fail. In an email to staff late Friday, Tony Hayward said, “Like all of you, and the outside world, [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 22, 2010
Net Worth of the U.S. Presidents By Mark J. Perry May 22, 2010 From The Atlantic: Having examined the finances of all 43 presidents, we calculated the net worth figures for each in 2010 dollars. Because a number of presidents, particularly in the early 19th Century, made and lost huge fortunes in a matter [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 22, 2010
This is interesting and very telling, the 4 largest banks in the U.S. are larger then all of the 8,095 other banks in the FDIC system! Uh…..is that right, Yep, that’s right. FDIC next government trillion dollar bailout? Since January of 2000 to October of 2007 we had 27 bank failures. From January 2008 to May [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 21, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010 EconomicPolicyJournal.com has learned that 32 states have run out funds to make unemployment benefit payments and that the federal governmant has been supplying these states with funds so that they can make their payments to the unemployed. In some cases, states have borrowed billions. As of May 20, the total balance [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 20, 2010
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thestatedtruth.com | May 20, 2010
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/20/2010 As if uncontrollable economic contagion was not enough for the administration, Obama is now willing to add geopolitical risk to the current extremely precarious economic and financial situation. Over at Debkafile we read that the president has decided to “boost US military strength in the Mediterranean and Persian [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 20, 2010
Is British Petroleum lying? 95,000 Barrels Are Leaking Daily, Says Engineer….A professor of engineering told Congress that the reality is 95,000 barrels of oil are gushing out of the oil leak daily.That’s 4 million gallons a day. Not the 5,000 barrels reported. ~~~~~~~~~~ Gregory White | May 20, 2010 While BP may [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 20, 2010
Ten percent of all banks are in trouble according to the FDIC, and I’m sure they aren’t telling us everything…………A total of 775 banks, or one-tenth of all U.S. banks, were on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s list of “problem” institutions in the first quarter, as bad loans in the commercial real-estate market weighed on [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 20, 2010
By Rita Nazareth May 20 (Bloomberg) — The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s 12 percent decline from April’s high may worsen amid concern that Europe’s debt crisis will derail global growth, said Mohamed A. El-Erian, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. “This is not a typical retracement,” El-Erian, 51, whose firm runs the [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 19, 2010
Here is the scoop, or should we say the poop! In case you missed it, Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 100 on Tuesday, which raises the state sales tax by one percentage point for three years. A whopping two-thirds majority voted for the move. Arizona’s budget crisis is one of the worst in the country, [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 19, 2010
New BP Insertion Tube Isn’t Working Submitted by George Washington on 05/19/2010 Tube inside the leaking oil pipe – unfortunately – isn’t doing very much. Specifically, the Miami Herald points out that – according to the Coast Guard – the spill is getting worse in spite of the insertion tube: The massive Gulf [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 19, 2010
by Tyler Durden on 05/19/2010 From Goldman’s Jan Hatzius. Delinquencies and Foreclosures Rise Again Data just released by the Mortgage Bankers’ Assn show that more than one-tenth of all US mortgages are delinquent, a new record high. Homes in foreclosure edge up slightly as well. One caveat: the increases are driven by seasonal [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 19, 2010
05/19/2010 14:01 -0500 ICI has reported the most recent fund flow data, and it’s a doozy. In the week following the flash crash, domestic equity funds saw a whopping $8.6 billion in outflows. As a result, the YTD outflow is over $9 billion, so in essence after almost going back to breakeven before May 6, [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 19, 2010
By Nicole Bullock in New York and Hal Weitzman in Chicago Published: May 19 2010 20:44 | Last updated: May 19,2010 Illinois used to have a plan to pay off the gaping shortfall in the pension funds that pay retired teachers, university employees, state workers, judges and politicians, Dan Long recalls. Mr Long, director of [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 19, 2010
Alan Zibel, AP Real Estate Writer, Wednesday May 19, 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) — The mortgage crisis is dragging on the economic recovery as more homeowners fall behind on their payments. Analysts expect improvement soon, but the number of homeowners in default or at risk of foreclosure will have a lingering effect on the broader economy. [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 19, 2010
We ain’t seen nothing yet. There’s an old story of a guy who, when asked how he went broke during the Great Depression, responded: ‘slowly; then all at once’. We’re in a new era; which while there will be snapbacks and melancholy attempts to restore the past excesses (whether consumerism or governmental spending levels); they [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 18, 2010
By Martin Z. Braun and William Selway May 18, 2010 (Blomberg) – A telephone call between a financial adviser in Beverly Hills and a trader in New York was all it took to fleece taxpayers on a water-and-sewer financing deal in West Virginia. The secret conversation was part of a conspiracy stretching across the U.S. [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 18, 2010
By John Pomfret and Blaine Harden Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, May 18, 2010; 2:47 PM South Korea will formally blame North Korea on Thursday for launching a torpedo at one of its warships in March, causing an explosion that killed 46 sailors and heightened tensions in one of the world’s most perilous regions, U.S. [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 18, 2010
Heads up …………..Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gives President Barack Obama only a 20 percent chance of being reelected and says he might be the one to give Obama the boot. Giving predictions for November’s midterms, Gingrich said House Republicans will pick up somewhere between 40 and 65 or 70 seats enough to gain control [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 17, 2010
Natural Disasters Fill Seers’ Calendar in 2012 By: Rick Ackerman, Rick’s Picks Rick’s Picks Monday, May 17, 2010 “Phenomenally accurate forecasts” [Lately, Mother Earth has been angrier than we can ever recall. A friend of ours with a keen interest in the predictions of seers alerted us a few years ago to the prospect [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 17, 2010
05/17/2010 The latest IRS Statistics Of Income Report is out. In it, the IRS focuses on the wealthy segment of US population, i.e., those falling over the proverbial $200,000/year cutoff. What the IRS finds, is that in 2007, of the 4,576,315 tax returns with expanded income of $200,000 or more, 13,142 (0.287%) had no US [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 17, 2010
Katla Volcano Just Rumbled Permalink Is the sleeping Katla waking up? On May 17, 2010 08:32 UTC, The Iceland Met office indicates that a small earthquake has occurred at the Katla location. In what could be an early indication of the event that is expected to occur (an eruption of Katla), a small earthquake is [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 17, 2010
With only so much oil to go around, every new off-take agreement signed by the Chinese with the Saudis or Venezuelans, for example, is a net loss in supply to other bidders, notably the world’s largest energy consumer, the United States. That the Chinese, and other countries, are aggressively securing long- term energy arrangements, coincidental [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 15, 2010
Jim Wilson/The New York Times By JUSTIN GILLIS Published: May 15, 2010 Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 14, 2010
Fri May 14, 2010 3:01pm EDT * Nevada has most filings per capita, Arizona filings soar By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. bankruptcy filings resumed their upward climb in the first quarter, nearly equaling their highest level since 2005, as high unemployment and a still-strained housing market squeezed consumers. There were [...]
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