The Most Boring Man in the World

Consider what Barack Obama said after he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009. The newly inaugurated President stated:

What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility -- a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept, but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character than giving our all to a difficult task.

Well, as it turns out, President Obama's definition of responsibility is quite different from that of most Americans. Because the only duty he has seized gladly over the past three and a quarter years is holding everyone other than himself responsible for the shortcomings of his policies. President Obama has blamed everyone from former President George W. Bush and House Republicans to the Arab Spring and the Japanese earthquake and tsunami for things not going exactly as planned. At this point, I am surprised he hasn't got around to blaming his dog Bo, but his turn may soon come. The Obama 2012 campaign is underway and it's a dog eat dog world out there. Or should I say a man eat dog world? Either way, Obama always seems to have a bone to pick with someone. Read more.......

DON'T LOOK AT THE SUN! YOU'LL GO (BULL)IND!

Ahh... The Sun. Can't live without it... Hard to debate that, eh? Yeah, yeah, I know, everyone has an opinion... But this is so flippin' awesome!! Can't wait to get outside! Doh!

Depression And Memory Loss Causes

We are all familiar with the effects that depression of consciousness. Practically every area of the brain associated with thought processes are affected. Depression is completely changing the mentality of a person. Even the most vibrant and energetic people who see life from the most optimistic lenses can be confusing and negative if they are hit with a bout of depression. The disorder can also cause a number of secondary symptoms that are otherwise typical of the condition. One indication that has long been debated, it is memory loss. Depression and memory loss is associated in some situations, but the jury is still unclear if there is actually a link between memory loss and depression.

May cause depression, memory loss? As a simple one word answer, yes, the state may in fact lead to memory loss. However, depression, memory loss is different and does not appear as a result of normal memory loss. Well, that may occur this way as well, but there is still evidence to be disclosed, to conclude that this is possible. So, returning to the issue of depression, memory loss cause. To answer this question, it is important to understand some of the other symptoms of the disease. One of the main symptoms associated with depression and memory loss is a loss of concentration.

Loss of attentiveness is typical and very general symptom associated with the disorder. Loss of focus and concentration can result from a major symptom of depression, which is loss of interest or apathy. As apathetic to practically everything, which would mean that a person would not be inclined to pay attention and focus? Lack of focus can be linked to memory loss. For example, a typical memory test should be given a list of random elements to learn and remember.

A person who has very small focus and are without difficulty unfocused may not be able to remember elements and it can be misconstrued as memory loss. The ending result is the same, but it's not that he learned and did not recall them soon man does not learn in the first place due to lack of concentration. This form of memory loss "can occur in day to day life, for everything - from buying goods from a shop or store the way of the place.

This is the major way that is related to depression and memory loss. This can be treated by removing the disorder itself.

Currency Wars: Gambling With Other Peoples’ Money

If running out of your own money wasn’t bad enough, policy makers are increasingly spending other peoples’ money to bail their country out. At the upcoming G-20 meeting, finance ministers from around the world will contemplate an increase to the resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At stake for politicians is whether they can continue to do what they know best – to play politics. In contrast, at stake for investors may be whether currencies will retain their function as a store of value.

Let’s highlight Spain, as the country may be the key to understanding how dynamics may play out. Last November, Spaniards voted for change by electing conservative Prime Minister Rajoy, handing him an absolute majority in parliament, displacing the previous, socialist government. The election may cause former British Prime Minister Thatcher to change her view, that socialism is doomed to fail, as ultimately you run out of other people’s money. It doesn’t take a socialist to run out of money. In the case of Spain, if you run out of your own people’s money, there may always be other peoples’ money.

One of the major concerns is Spain's regional government debt. Spain consists of 17 autonomous regions, whose total debt almost doubled in the past three years, due to economic recession and a housing market collapse. In many ways, Spain reflects a microcosm of how the Eurozone as a whole is structured: Read more.......

Lehman Brothers – A National Shame

We now know that when Wall Street rock n’ rolled and drove this nation to the edge of catastrophic economic disaster no one was looking out for you, for me, for pension funds, for America.

If you want to know the details of this outrage watch the 60 minutes report on Sunday April 22. It will make your skin crawl. it will make you want to vote for new people who are not leashed poodles of the Wall Street establishment. It will raise your blood pressure. It will also make you doubt that we are a democratic nation and that we are actually different from, say Albania or Mafia-run Russia.

Read this:

“It’s hard to overstate the enormity of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. It was the largest bankruptcy in history; 26,000 employees lost their jobs; millions of investors lost all or almost all of their money; and it triggered a chain reaction that produced the worst financial crisis and economic downturn in 70 years. Read more......

Squeezing ordinary people's finances always leads to disaster

Britain's rate of wealth transference from employees and the state to corporations is unmatched in any developed country

The UK economy is flatlining, unemployment is rising and around 13.2 million people live below the poverty line. The prospects of building a sustainable economy remain distant. The common factor behind these grim statistics is that the purchasing power of ordinary people has been severely eroded and without adequate resources people cannot buy goods and services produced by businesses.

The UK gross domestic product (GDP) has increased from the 1976 figure of £621bn to around £1.5tn, but the share going to employees in the form of wages and salaries has declined. In 1976, the amount of wages and salaries paid to UK employees, expressed as a percentage of GDP, stood at 65.1%. By the end of 2011, it was around 54% (see table D of the Quarterly National Accounts). This rate of decline is unmatched in any other developed economy. With many people now facing wage freezes and loss of pension rights, the employees' share of national wealth is set to fall below 50% of GDP. Read more.......

Economy Heading for a Systemic Collapse into Hyperinflationary Great Depression

When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke admits to seeing an "unusually uncertain" economy ahead, it's pretty terrifying to imagine what he's really thinking. What John Williams envisions—and he's by no means looking to the far horizon—is a systemic collapse, a hyperinflationary great depression and the cessation of normal commerce. Despite that bleak outlook, however, when the economist and editor of ShadowStats.com sat down for this exclusive Energy Report interview, he also had some good news.

The Energy Report: A few months back, John, you said, "if you strangle liquidity you always contract an economy and deliberately or not, liquidity is being strangled, resulting in sharp declines in consumer credit, commercial and industrial loans." Does this mean it would spur more economic growth if banks actually started lending?

John Williams: It sure wouldn't hurt. We're still seeing contractions in liquidity, and that's adjusted for inflation. In real terms, M3 money supply is down almost 8% year-over-year. It's the sharpest fall in the post -World War II era. It's not so much the depth of the decline in the liquidity or the duration, but the fact that the liquidity turns negative year-over-year that signals the economy turning down. Read more........