Free Republic

The entire system has been revealed for the sham it really is since the start of the New Year. Stock markets are crashing, the global economy has stalled, and the powers that be appear to have lost control. As Andy Hoffman of Miles Franklin notes in his most recent interview with Future Money Trends, the only thing they are able to manipulate now are a few markets that include the Dow Jones and the gold and silver trade. 2011 is when the, let's call them, The Powers That Be realized they were losing... they were three years into their post-2008...

Can there be a more fruitful source of dispute, or a kind of dispute more difficult to be settled? — James Madison speaking at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 on the spending bill battles between the House and Senate that would occur. As the “Government Shutdown” puppet show continues its run in Washington, D.C., there is power in the Constitution to close down the entire production. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution requires that “all bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other bills.”...