Why is the Fed tapering?

Why is the Fed tapering? Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler On January 17, 2014, we explained “The Hows and Whys of Gold Price Manipulation.” http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/01/17/hows-whys-gold-price-manipulation/ In former times, the rise in the gold price was held down by central banks selling gold or leasing gold to bullion dealers who sold the gold. The supply added in this way to…

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How Junk Economists Help The Rich Impoverish The Working Class — Paul Craig Roberts

How Junk Economists Help The Rich Impoverish The Working Class Paul Craig Roberts Last week, I explained how economists and policymakers destroyed our economy for the sake of short-term corporate profits from jobs offshoring and financial deregulation. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/01/25/economists-policymakers-murdered-economy-paul-craig-roberts/ That same week Business Week published an article, “Factory Jobs Are Gone. Get Over It,” by Charles Kenny. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-23/manufacturing-jobs-may-not-be-cure-for-unemployment-inequality Kenny expresses the…

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How Economists and Policymakers Murdered Our Economy — Paul Craig Roberts

How Economists and Policymakers Murdered Our Economy Paul Craig Roberts The economy has been debilitated by the offshoring of middle class jobs for the benefit of corporate profits and by the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing in order to support a few oversized banks that the government protects from market discipline. Not only does QE distort bond and stock…

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Is the Fed’s ability to manipulate the price of gold running out?

Is the Fed’s ability to manipulate the price of gold running out? Paul Craig Roberts interviewed on USAWatchdog by Greg Hunter http://usawatchdog.com/fed-they-do-not-have-any-more-gold-paul-craig-roberts/

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The Hows and Whys of Gold Price Manipulation

Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler. The deregulation of the financial system during the Clinton and George W. Bush regimes had the predictable result: financial concentration and reckless behavior. A handful of banks grew so large that financial authorities declared them “too big to fail.” Removed from market discipline, the banks became wards of the government requiring massive creation of…

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No Jobs For Americans — Paul Craig Roberts

No Jobs For Americans Paul Craig Roberts The alleged recovery took a direct hit from Friday’s payroll jobs report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy created 74,000 net new jobs in December. Wholesale and retail trade accounted for 70,700 of these jobs or 95.5%. It is likely that the December wholesale and retail hires were temporary for…

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PCR interviewed by WatchDog USA on a variety of subjects

PCR interviewed by WatchDog USA on a variety of subjects Dr. Paul Craig Roberts-U.S. Markets Rigged by its Own Authorities By Greg Hunter On January 8, 2014 http://usawatchdog.com/dr-paul-craig-roberts-u-s-markets-rigged-by-its-own-authorities-it-blows-the-mind/

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The Case of the Missing Recovery — Paul Craig Roberts

The Case of the Missing Recovery Paul Craig Roberts Have you seen the economic recovery? I haven’t either. But it is bound to be around here somewhere, because the National Bureau of Economic Research spotted it in June 2009, four and one-half years ago. It is a shy and reclusive recovery, like the “New Economy” and all those promised new…

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