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Fox News - Gold is Hot Play Today!
The talkingheads are making me literally sick. It is all a game for these folks because they make their wage no matter what happens. Just turn on your tv and listen to these financial talkingheads. It is sickening. It now looks like the SEC will step in when the crash comes as one of the players will reneg to help prop up the market and it is massage show so that will justification in their minds.
Does anyone realize there is no agreement yet in Europe?
Just one example of massage:
read more »It's Official.Gold is the New Safe Asset.
From http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/09/markets/markets_newyork/
As investors searched for safety, they fled risky investments like stocks and oil and rushed into U.S. Treasuries and gold. The 10-year yield fell to a record low of 1.89% from 1.99% late Thursday, and gold prices added $2, or 0.1% to $1,859.50.
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Hyperlocal Journalism -- An Alternative Media Phenomenon
Is anything like this appearing in the mainstream U.S. Media?
This appeared today on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) news website...
GREEN SHOOTS WITHER IN JOB DROUGHT
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Quick Poll: Are you getting burned out on bad news?
It seems to me that we're starting to get burned out on the constant stream of bad or depressing news. I've noticed a change on the thread topics in the last few days (Things I'll cherish after TSHTF, Humor Thread, In need of comport and inspiration, etc.). It does mess with my mind knowing the economy is crumbling around me and others are going on blissfully unaware. At times I find myself needing to take a break from all the news so I can sleep at night. I'm guessing than all this bad news is getting to more people than just me, right?
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Pessimism Porn
Well it sure beats the majority of folks who want to bury there heads in the sand and pretend everything is fine. You don't know how many people I know who just say I don't want to hear about it or talk about it?
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Chris Martenson on "Financial sense newshour" on April 25th
Chris will be a guest on with Jim Papluva. should be very interesting as both of these guys are well read in whats going on in the world of finance.
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"What People Know" the American Public's News Habits
Since the late 1980s, the emergence of 24-hour cable news as a dominant news source and the explosive growth of the internet have led to major changes in the American public's news habits. But a new nationwide survey finds that the coaxial and digital revolutions and attendant changes in news audience behaviors have had little impact on how much Americans know about national and international affairs.
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