I’ll be shocked when somebody accuses Goldman Sachs of being honest, to be honest.

Goldman Sachs, which emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis, was accused of securities fraud in a civil suit filed Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which claims the bank created and sold a mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail.

U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud

Aspartame – Sweet Misery, A Poisoned World. This is the film that Coca Cola and Pepsi would rather you didn’t watch.

I’m off on my hols right now so I’ve scheduled for each day a video I’ve found interesting. Hope you do too.

America, Freedom to Fascism. Aaron Russo’s (February 14, 1943 – August 24, 2007) brilliant documentary tracing the history of the American income tax and questioning its legitimacy. RIP Aaron.

I’m off on my hols right now so I’ve scheduled for each day a video I’ve found interesting. Hope you do too.

US Currency

Have a watch of the video below. Taken from an American perspective but just as applicable to our economies in Europe, it’s lengthy (sorry, but there’s a lot to cover), and stuffed full of historical references that trace the evolution of money through the centuries and up to the present day. But it’ll keep you engaged and, apart from the narrator’s irritating habit of jabbing his pencil or finger at the viewer all the time, it’s an easy watch.

Note the film was made well before the current economic crash yet you’ll hear predictions of financial collapse discussed casually as if the speakers all knew for sure what was coming. In fact they aren’t soothsayers, rather they have uncovered the crooked banking game that made this crash inevitable.

You won’t be buried in economic jargon and by the end of the program you’ll know exactly why the economists and bankers strive to make their trade appear so complicated. They need to generate an awful lot of smoke and erect so many mirrors to prevent you from exposing them as the ultimate practitioners of the (second?) oldest vice of all, avarice. And you are the victim and always have been.

If you imagine money is a measure of your worth then settle back and watch this. I believe you’ll have a very different view of things a couple of hours from now.

Welcome back, now take a dollar or a pound or a euro out of your pocket and look at it. Ron Paul wants to audit the Federal Reserve. I think that’s a fine idea, how about you?