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Yearly Archives: 2008

Now Tell Me Again . . . What Are Banks For? PART 2

04-Dec-08

Capital Partnerships:
A Debt Free Solution to the Property Crash
Now there are times, this most definitely being one of them, when one can get a little down in the mouth as it were about banks and money and credit and whatnot. What to do, what to do.
That the banking system has been designed by [...]

Now Tell Me Again . . . What Are Banks For?

02-Dec-08

First published in the British humour magazine “Punch” on April 3, 1957, the following neatly encapsulates the tone of the cheeky madness that is our monetary and banking system. Of course, customers do in essence lend money to banks by depositing it there, but it is not true that banks do likewise. The money that [...]

Bellocs To The Lot Of ‘Em

13-Nov-08

Now here is a man who knew what’s what. “The Free Press” may have been written some ninety odd years ago, but the observations and comments made by its visionary English author Hilaire Belloc provide a thorough guide as to the nature of so-called free speech within a so-called free nation. In fact, Belloc would [...]

You Usurer You

16-Oct-08

I‘ve been wittering on about INTEREST for what now seems like several months. After discussing this issue with Scott and some other luminaries (see podcast in previous post), I had cause to write a comment or two which I now place below. May you find it … interesting.
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None of the solutions put out by any [...]

Talking A Lot With Scott

09-Oct-08

Scott Meredith is one half of the excellent Conscious Media Network team and someone I have known since the 1980’s. Because he now lives in another part of the world and sometimes gets sad and lonely there living in his beautiful house, with his beautiful wife and his beautiful car, and asking himself tiresome questions [...]

 
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$700 Billion and The Lost Science of Money

02-Oct-08

Apparently there’s a bit of a stink on Wall Street these days. Someone’s misplaced $700 billion (and the rest) and is in need of borrowing a bit to tide them over ’til next week. Any takers?
The Senate is pretty keen. So too, according to the paid for puppet advocates in the media, will be the [...]

Sobering Thoughts In The Wake Of Lehman Bros . . .

26-Sep-08

If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95.
With HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50
£1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5.
But if you bought £1000 worth of Stella Artois Lager one year ago, drank it all, [...]

Bloggers Unite

23-Jul-08

As Homer Simpson once remarked “The internet? Is that still around?”
Is the death of the free internet imminent? Kevin Parkinson suggests so in his article (following). As he makes clear, Canada is a good start point for this sort of nonsense as it has been a major testing lab for our would-be masters as they [...]

Televiewers Anonymous

11-Jul-08

Hello. Do you watch television? Every day? And by so doing, have you become a thick, desensitised and easily fooled ga ga brain?
Maybe you are ashamed of your stupidity. Worse, maybe you have watched so much television you are no longer capable of feeling shame, your emotional circuits degraded to the point where spontaneous feeling [...]

Russian Jews and Gentiles

09-Apr-08

One of the classic sketches from Monty Python was the sweetly sick parody of “Blue Peter”, a much beloved childrens television programme, institution even, in the late 1960’s and 70’s. Eric Idle played a bewigged version of Valerie Singleton. Ahh the memories.
At close we are asked to tune in for next weeks programme where, amongst [...]