Hot links on money

A stunning digital animation of what a billion, trillion etc. look like (remember the pennies on the table representing the fedgov's phony spending-reduction stuff?):

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=159340
US Debt - Visualized in physical $100 bills

This is pretty major if you happen to have done any investing in hard, shiny assets:

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=159337
Gold Underperforms Due to India Tax Policy (moneynews.com)

One would like to believe the Indian government is doing it for the benefit of its citizens.... but why does it feel like just another scheme to keep the common man from growing too prosperous and therefore independent of Big Mother socialism?

The people really running things worldwide hate gold, silver and other real means of exchange. But would our global overlords actually lean on India to take a measure to keep keep American gold bugs from finally cashing in?

Dig this broadly satiric treatment of the silver issue, but don't let the writer's style obscure his trenchant points on important subjects:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/richard-daughty/is-the-silver-market-rigged/
A Shining Gift From The ESF

If his style confuses you, I think that's a mock of how government rhetoric and smoke-blowing obscure its evil deeds.

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