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		<title>Why No Hyperinflation&#8230;.Yet? &#8211; Banks are holding onto the excess Dollars &#8211; Glenn Beck explains</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hyperinflation, the dollars demise and collapse? Will this lead to a tyrannical government takeover of our country? Or worse yet, will it result in a one-world-government arising from the ashes of America? Why are our politicians destroying America? And better yet, why are the people allowing them to destroy America? I would say that it [...]]]></description>
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Hyperinflation, the dollars demise and collapse? Will this lead to a tyrannical government takeover of our country? Or worse yet, will it result in a one-world-government arising from the ashes of America? Why are our politicians destroying America? And better yet, why are the people allowing them to destroy America? I would say that it is because of apathy. The people are content with their shopping, talking on cell phones, watching sports, and having orgasms (some of us are that is). I&#8217;ve been asking my congressman what his game plan is to get us back on track, but I get no response, unless you call a response, a standard form letter that explains how he is for a balanced budget. Of course that is not what I asked him. I asked him his solution, but he has no clue. How can we expect them to pay down our debt when they have not been able to balance the US budget in over 50 years? Because of these facts I have come to the same conclusion as Beck, that there is no way out of this mess except to devalue our money. Whether or not this is a conscious decision on their part matters not, because it is the road that we are on. We are in a catch 22 as they say. As Beck explained, we need consumer spending to spur our economy, and yet the only way to expedite that spending is to keep interest rates low, but in doing that, eventually we will experience hyperinflation. So to me the future looks pretty bleak. I do not see any way out of this unless beginning right now they stop the <b>&#8230;</b></p>
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		<title>The Last days of the Banks P3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the month that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the world stared into the abyss of total financial collapse. The story of how politicians reacted, and asks what has been learnt from the entire calamity. Could it happen again? With unrivalled contributions from the key decision makers including US Treasury Secretary [...]]]></description>
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In the month that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the world stared into the abyss of total financial collapse. The story of how politicians reacted, and asks what has been learnt from the entire calamity. Could it happen again? With unrivalled contributions from the key decision makers including US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Gordon Brown and five other finance ministers, the programme pieces together the details of an extraordinary moment in history, when the world faced its greatest financial crisis.</p>
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		<title>Pt. 6 America&#8217;s Bankrupt Banks (Inside the Meltdown)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the US Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. &#8220;There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left,&#8221; says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). As the housing bubble burst and trillions of dollars&#8217; worth of toxic mortgages began to go bad in 2007, fear spread through the massive firms that form the heart of Wall Street. By the spring of 2008, burdened by billions of dollars of bad mortgages, the investment bank Bear Stearns was the subject of rumors that it would soon fail. &#8220;Rumors are such that they can just plain put you out of business,&#8221; Bear Stearns&#8217; former CEO Alan &#8220;Ace&#8221; Greenberg tells FRONTLINE. The company&#8217;s stock had dropped from $171 to $57 a share, and it was hours from declaring bankruptcy. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acted. &#8220;It was clear that this had to be contained. There was no doubt in his mind,&#8221; says Bernanke&#8217;s colleague, economist Mark Gertler. Bernanke, a former economics professor from Princeton, specialized in studying the Great Depression. &#8220;He more than anybody else appreciated what would happen if it got out of control,&#8221; Gertler explains. To stabilize the markets, Bernanke engineered a shotgun marriage between Bear Sterns and the commercial bank JPMorgan, with a promise that the federal government would use $30 billion to cover Bear Stearns <b>&#8230;</b></p>
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		<title>The Last days of the Banks P2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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In the month that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the world stared into the abyss of total financial collapse. The third part of the BBC&#8217;s definitive series on the crash tells the extraordinary story of how politicians reacted, and asks what has been learnt from the entire calamity. Could it happen again? With unrivalled contributions from the key decision makers including US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Gordon Brown and five other finance ministers, the programme pieces together the details of an extraordinary moment in history, when the world faced its greatest financial crisis.</p>
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		<title>Keiser Report-Bail Out Buffett(&#8220;The Too Big to Fail Banks&#8221;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of bailout buffets for Too Big to Fail banks; selling complexity to very profitable unsophisticated investors; how the IMF is there to help Greece albeit in a Dr. Kevorkian [...]]]></description>
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Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of bailout buffets for Too Big to Fail banks; selling complexity to very profitable unsophisticated investors; how the IMF is there to help Greece albeit in a Dr. Kevorkian kind of way. In the second half of the show, Max interviews economist Max Fraad Wolff about US government debt.</p>
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		<title>US Banks post profit and Foreclosure JUMP 14%. VisionVictoryManifesto.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Get cutting edge information at www.FutureMoneyTrends.com Foreclosures JUMP! http Retail Sales for 2009 finance.yahoo.com finance.yahoo.com 2009 Breaks records for foreclosures apnews.myway.com fed profit 247wallst.com option arms www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com</p>
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		<title>Pt. 4 America&#8217;s Bankrupt Banks (Inside the Meltdown)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 04:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the US Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. &#8220;There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left,&#8221; says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). As the housing bubble burst and trillions of dollars&#8217; worth of toxic mortgages began to go bad in 2007, fear spread through the massive firms that form the heart of Wall Street. By the spring of 2008, burdened by billions of dollars of bad mortgages, the investment bank Bear Stearns was the subject of rumors that it would soon fail. &#8220;Rumors are such that they can just plain put you out of business,&#8221; Bear Stearns&#8217; former CEO Alan &#8220;Ace&#8221; Greenberg tells FRONTLINE. The company&#8217;s stock had dropped from $171 to $57 a share, and it was hours from declaring bankruptcy. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acted. &#8220;It was clear that this had to be contained. There was no doubt in his mind,&#8221; says Bernanke&#8217;s colleague, economist Mark Gertler. Bernanke, a former economics professor from Princeton, specialized in studying the Great Depression. &#8220;He more than anybody else appreciated what would happen if it got out of control,&#8221; Gertler explains. To stabilize the markets, Bernanke engineered a shotgun marriage between Bear Sterns and the commercial bank JPMorgan, with a promise that the federal government would use $30 billion to cover Bear Stearns <b>&#8230;</b></p>
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		<title>Pt. 3 America&#8217;s Bankrupt Banks (Inside the Meltdown)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the US Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. &#8220;There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left,&#8221; says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). As the housing bubble burst and trillions of dollars&#8217; worth of toxic mortgages began to go bad in 2007, fear spread through the massive firms that form the heart of Wall Street. By the spring of 2008, burdened by billions of dollars of bad mortgages, the investment bank Bear Stearns was the subject of rumors that it would soon fail. &#8220;Rumors are such that they can just plain put you out of business,&#8221; Bear Stearns&#8217; former CEO Alan &#8220;Ace&#8221; Greenberg tells FRONTLINE. The company&#8217;s stock had dropped from $171 to $57 a share, and it was hours from declaring bankruptcy. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acted. &#8220;It was clear that this had to be contained. There was no doubt in his mind,&#8221; says Bernanke&#8217;s colleague, economist Mark Gertler. Bernanke, a former economics professor from Princeton, specialized in studying the Great Depression. &#8220;He more than anybody else appreciated what would happen if it got out of control,&#8221; Gertler explains. To stabilize the markets, Bernanke engineered a shotgun marriage between Bear Sterns and the commercial bank JPMorgan, with a promise that the federal government would use $30 billion to cover Bear Stearns <b>&#8230;</b></p>
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		<title>Pt. 1 America&#8217;s Bankrupt Banks (Inside the Meltdown)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the US Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. &#8220;There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left,&#8221; says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). As the housing bubble burst and trillions of dollars&#8217; worth of toxic mortgages began to go bad in 2007, fear spread through the massive firms that form the heart of Wall Street. By the spring of 2008, burdened by billions of dollars of bad mortgages, the investment bank Bear Stearns was the subject of rumors that it would soon fail. &#8220;Rumors are such that they can just plain put you out of business,&#8221; Bear Stearns&#8217; former CEO Alan &#8220;Ace&#8221; Greenberg tells FRONTLINE. The company&#8217;s stock had dropped from $171 to $57 a share, and it was hours from declaring bankruptcy. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acted. &#8220;It was clear that this had to be contained. There was no doubt in his mind,&#8221; says Bernanke&#8217;s colleague, economist Mark Gertler. Bernanke, a former economics professor from Princeton, specialized in studying the Great Depression. &#8220;He more than anybody else appreciated what would happen if it got out of control,&#8221; Gertler explains. To stabilize the markets, Bernanke engineered a shotgun marriage between Bear Sterns and the commercial bank JPMorgan, with a promise that the federal government would use $30 billion to cover Bear Stearns <b>&#8230;</b></p>
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		<title>Pt. 5 America&#8217;s Bankrupt Banks (Inside the Meltdown)</title>
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On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the US Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. &#8220;There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left,&#8221; says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). As the housing bubble burst and trillions of dollars&#8217; worth of toxic mortgages began to go bad in 2007, fear spread through the massive firms that form the heart of Wall Street. By the spring of 2008, burdened by billions of dollars of bad mortgages, the investment bank Bear Stearns was the subject of rumors that it would soon fail. &#8220;Rumors are such that they can just plain put you out of business,&#8221; Bear Stearns&#8217; former CEO Alan &#8220;Ace&#8221; Greenberg tells FRONTLINE. The company&#8217;s stock had dropped from $171 to $57 a share, and it was hours from declaring bankruptcy. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acted. &#8220;It was clear that this had to be contained. There was no doubt in his mind,&#8221; says Bernanke&#8217;s colleague, economist Mark Gertler. Bernanke, a former economics professor from Princeton, specialized in studying the Great Depression. &#8220;He more than anybody else appreciated what would happen if it got out of control,&#8221; Gertler explains. To stabilize the markets, Bernanke engineered a shotgun marriage between Bear Sterns and the commercial bank JPMorgan, with a promise that the federal government would use $30 billion to cover Bear Stearns <b>&#8230;</b></p>
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