thestatedtruth.com | September 27, 2013
Below are the top 10 corporations by market cap listed in 5 year increments spanning the last 21 years, actually the last increment was 6 years. While the names have changed at the very top, the premise has not. And…the winner for 2013 is (drum roll) Apple. But pay attention to this, nobody has stayed number one for very long! In fact, most […]
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Tags: Apple, Big Names, Changed, Largest, Own The World, Powerfull, Top Ten
thestatedtruth.com | September 26, 2013
Based on the graph below, a new car is the deal of the decade, in fact it’s the best deal going back multiple decades! Wise Dog
Category: Charts and Graphs, Commentary, Economy, Education and Schooling, Finance, National News, Research, Tid Bits, Uncategorized, Wall Street |
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Tags: Comparisons, Costs, Deals, Decades, Educational, healthcare, Inflation Measurements, School Costs, The System, Wise Dog
thestatedtruth.com | September 26, 2013
“Soaring higher education costs are further widening the achievement gap as non-wealthy students are forced to become debt-serfs to pay for college”. This is a system that forces poor and middle income households to shoulder student loans for decades in return for marginal-return degrees. It is wrong and recklessly predatory. Yet this is the system that […]
Category: Charts and Graphs, Commentary, Education and Schooling, National News |
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Tags: Education Loans, Loans, Parabolic, Student Loans, Titlewave, Wipeout
thestatedtruth.com | September 25, 2013
Education flails….then fails for many!
Category: Charts and Graphs, Commentary, Economy, Education and Schooling, National News, World News |
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Tags: Education SAT, Reading/Verbal Scores, SAT Scores, school, Score
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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Tags: congress, Data, Median Household Income, Members, Pay Increase, Wisedog
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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Tags: 1978, 1978 NBC Prime Time, Citizens, Compomised, Computers, Episode, Privacy, Rockfor Files, Secret Computer Centers, The Rockford Files
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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Tags: Authorities, Autonomous Voice, Bail-In Needed, banks, Dangerous Risks, Direction, Experimental, Extreme Cirumstances, Fiancial Sytem, Headlines, Imbalances, Indicators, Instabilities, Monetary Policy, Objectives, Oversight, Policy, Protect, Regulating Financial Risks, Regulation, Regulations, Resilience, Risks, System, Transparency
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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Tags: 2007 Economic Crisis, Abenomics, Bank of International Settlements, BIS, Borrowing Costs, Challenge, Covenant Free Loans, Different, Economists, Euphoria, Exuberance, Financial Risks, Imbalances, Interest rates, Leveraged Loans, New Issuance Loans, Riskier lending, Swiss Banks, Syndicated Loans, Tempatation, Worse, Wrong
thestatedtruth.com | September 15, 2013
Wise Dog Sources: For the third time in the past few weeks Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge has scooped a block buster story on the tracking and recording habits of the NSA (National Security Agency). You can review the previous two stories right here at The Stated Truth by scrolling down to September 2nd (Say It Ain’t […]
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Tags: Back Door, banks, Card Processors, Communication, Credit Card Records, Credit Filter, Data, Documents, Financial Surveillance, Follow The Money, FTM, GCHQ, Habits, Intelligence, Monetary Survellance, Money Laundering, Monitors, Recorded, Records Of Data, Spending Habits, SWIFT, Swiped, Tracfin, Tracking Spending habits, Uber Spies
thestatedtruth.com | September 14, 2013
So….what was that shuffle back in 2007 by Al Gore about the ice melting by 2013? Hmm…According to Climate Depot “Arctic ice area is increasing, as new ice is forming rapidly north of 80N. Ice area is the highest since 2006. The year over year change in Arctic sea ice area has blown away the record for ice growth, by […]
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Tags: 80N, Al Gore Climate Prediction, Arctic, Climate, Ice, North Pole, South Pole, weather
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 […]
Category: Commentary, Commodities, Economy, Gold and Silver, National News, Wall Street, World News |
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Tags: Metals, silver, Solar, tid bits
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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Tags: Money, Notes, Paying With Plastic, Plastic Bank Notes, Polymer money, Wise Dog Sources
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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Tags: 9-11-2001, History, Life, Lost, Love, Remembered, Remembering, Souls
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 […]
Category: Commentary, Economy, Finance, Interest Rates, Bonds, National News, Outliers, Personal Net Worth, Uncategorized, Wall Street |
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Tags: Catastrophe, Crisis, Demographics, entitlements, federal reserve, Financial Panic, Money Manager, national debt, No, Opinions, Problems, Stanley Druckenmiller, Wow
thestatedtruth.com | September 10, 2013
They got to be kidding…..Nope! President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and its companion Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA) back in March of 2010. It has been learned from reliable sources that the Federal Register now has a total of (at least) 109 final regulations governing how Obamacare will be […]
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Tags: HCERA, Health Care, Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA), Massive Reading, Obama Care, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), PPACA, Red Tape, The Bible
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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Tags: Back Door Access, Communications, Location, new normal, Notes, Smartphones, SMS Traffic, Spy
thestatedtruth.com | September 8, 2013
And this is during an economic recovery! In June, the number of households receiving foodstamps rose to 23.117 million, an increase of 45.9k in one month, and also a new record high. The average monthly benefit per household was: $274.55, just off the record. In June an additional 125,059 individual Americans started using Foodstamps. The increase to 47.8 […]
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Tags: Assistance, Economic Recovery, food stamps, Help, Lost, Poor, Unfortunate
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
Burrrr…… An August 31st cold airmass and clear skies allowed for temperatures to plunge to record low levels in the Alaskan northern Interior. Most notably, Bettles recorded a low of 15ºF Saturday morning. This is by far the lowest temperature of record at Bettles in August. The previous record at the Bettles in August was […]
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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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Tags: All Calls, Cell Phone Calls, Phone Calls, Spagghetti Chart, Telecom Giants, The Hemisphere Project, You've Just Been Recorded
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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Tags: 130 million, Bad Seats Hey Buddy, charts, congress, Labor Day, No, not, pictures, umemployed