debt to the penny from the treasury

D.C. awash in contracts, lobbying wealth

D.C. awash in contracts, lobbying wealth

Bakken, Crude Oil, PeakOilBarrel.com, EIA report, SAGD

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-17/guest-post-coming-bust-great-bakken-oil-field

http://peakoilbarrel.com/

http://www.eia.gov/

More EIA info

http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam-assisted_gravity_drainage

Documentary site link

Documentary Site

World Energy Outlook 2013 - IEA - PDF file

World Energy Outlook 2013

Chris Martenson & Mike Maloney on the Secrets of Money

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-09/chris-martenson-warns-there-nothing-more-important-understanding

EUR/DOL after ECB rate cut

H.R. 992 - sold out by the House - banks win again

H.R. 992 - sold out by the House - banks win again

The Wall Street Code (Marije Meerman, VPRO) - Video

The Known Universe in HD

corporate welfare

US oil field production - from the EIA

US oil field production - from the EIA

Wall Street Code Released - Video

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-11-04/wall-street-code-released

HFT video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEAGdwHXfLQ

Price of Silver

Check Silver prices; https://comparesilverprices.com/

Link - Why Poverty - Cartoon on political parties - SSA - wage stats for 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6niWzomA_So&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLWB0UfoChWY2gN1daubiv6A5HNQqicAxM http://www.socialsecurity.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2012

NY Magazine - Peterson

http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/57763/#ixzz0c44gQfcK

GM Bailout money, SIGTARP Report (518 pages)

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/29/us-treasury-reports-9-7b-loss-gm-shares/

http://www.sigtarp.gov/Quarterly%20Reports/October_29_2013_Report_to_Congress.pdf

Bruce Schneier - cyber security

https://www.schneier.com/

Mike Rogers, bathroom cam

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131030/11223225071/rep-mike-rogers-angrily-defends-bathroom-spycam.shtml

Consulting

Senator Rand Paul Is Right To Hold Up Janet Yellen's Federal Reserve Nomination, And Democrats Should Support Him

Senator Rand Paul Is Right To Hold Up Janet Yellen's Federal Reserve Nomination, And Democrats Should Support Him

Us. vs. Them - Naked Capitalism

Us vs. Them - Naked Capitalism

Global Wealth Report 2013 - Credit Suisse

Global Wealth Report 2013 - Credit Suisse

The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind - Hidden Secrets of Money Episode 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0

The rule - from a guy at NC

I liked this post, so I copied the "rule"

Here’s the rule: If there is a pot of money that can be raided, it will be raided. No matter what the “rules” are. No matter what rational people expect. No matter who gets hurt.
Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/a-debt-deal-is-nigh-a-debt-deal-is-nigh-or-is-it.html#ER5QSdslCUcjEA3D.99

Here’s the rule: If there is a pot of money that can be raided, it will be raided. No matter what the “rules” are. No matter what rational people expect. No matter who gets hurt

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/a-debt-deal-is-nigh-a-debt-deal-is-nigh-or-is-it.html#comment-1501314 

Here’s the rule: If there is a pot of money that can be raided, it will be raided. No matter what the “rules” are. No matter what rational people expect. No matter who gets hurt.
Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/a-debt-deal-is-nigh-a-debt-deal-is-nigh-or-is-it.html#ER5QSdslCUcjEA3D.99

Here’s the rule: If there is a pot of money that can be raided, it will be raided. No matter what the “rules” are. No matter what rational people expect. No matter who gets hurt.
Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/a-debt-deal-is-nigh-a-debt-deal-is-nigh-or-is-it.html#ER5QSdslCUcjEA3D.99

Here’s the rule: If there is a pot of money that can be raided, it will be raided. No matter what the “rules” are. No matter what rational people expect. No matter who gets hurt.
Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/a-debt-deal-is-nigh-a-debt-deal-is-nigh-or-is-it.html#OUrJiYpv4LpKIM11.99

Here’s the rule: If there is a pot of money that can be raided, it will be raided. No matter what the “rules” are. No matter what rational people expect. No matter who gets hurt.
Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/a-debt-deal-is-nigh-a-debt-deal-is-nigh-or-is-it.html#OUrJiYpv4LpKIM11.99

The Global Wealth Distribution, China - dollar reserve currency, David Stockman

http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-global-wealth-distribution.html

Global Wealth 2013 - Credit Suisse

Commentary: U.S. fiscal failure warrants a de-Americanized world - China paper on replacing the US dollar as reserve currency.

A piece about the piece above and reserve currency.

The birth of the 'de-Americanized' world

CPI from 1913 to Today from the BLS - reference
CPI - 1913 to now - from the BLS

David Stockman: Soak the Rich

Home cookin with Yellen

11-Oct-2013 - futures 8:30

Interest on our debt

YUM brands earnings

NSA

Kelly Services

13 Bankers, Simon Johnson, The Baseline Scenario Blog

http://baselinescenario.com/2013/09/26/the-wall-street-takeover-part-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BaselineScenario+%28The+Baseline+Scenario%29

United States Government Required Supplementary Information (Unaudited) For the Years Ended September 30, 2012, and 2011

http://www.fms.treas.gov/fr/12frusg/12rsi.pdf

US Budget info

US Budget suppliment

SPDR Select Sector Fund - Healthcare

NSA

New NSA Revelations Are Breaking Every Day

ebook - Fiat Money Inflation in France - VMI

ebook - Fiat Money Inflation in France

Misc links, Mortensen, Takavoli, Yahoo poll

http://www.tavakolistructuredfinance.com/2013/09/potus-bailouts-without-indictments/

http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/82975/fed-shocker-no-taper

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/poll-end-feds-qe-sight-083330651.html

Movie, Money for Nothing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/filmmaker-bet-on-financial-crisis-used-profit-to-make-documentary-about-federal-reserve/2013/09/13/6499e55e-14b0-11e3-880b-7503237cc69d_allComments.html?ctab=all_&

http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2013/09/13/review-money-for-nothing-sets-crisis-film-high/

NSA

By “Secret Law” Did They Mean “Not Written Down”? Marcy Wheeler
New browser extensions let you hit the NSA where it hurts: in the data Quartz
The Many Flaws of Dual_EC_DRBG A Few Thoughts on Cry

NSA, Bank spying

SWIFT Suspension? EU Parliament Furious about NSA Bank Spying

NSA

Fisa court ‘not challenged’ on records Guardian
Also, the Nail Polish Remover Lobby Didn’t Challenge Section 215 Orders Marcy Wheeler
Dying for Control (I): Neurosis and Terror as National “Policy” Arthur Silber

Paul Krugman’s Economic Blinders, What the Media Didn't Tell You About the Fall of Lehman Bros. Financial Terrorism

http://michael-hudson.com/2012/05/paul-krugmans-economic-blinders/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/17/financial-terrorism/

NSA

Cryptographers Attack NSA’s Secret Effort to Subvert Internet Security Slate
UK CRYPTOGRAPHERS CALL FOR OUTING OF DELIBERATELY WEAKENED PROTOCOLS, PRODUCTS ThreatPost

NSA

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-15/swift-takeover-follow-money-nsa-knows-all-about-your-spending-habits

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-15/nsas-transparency-thwarted-fax-machine

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-15/man-charge-nsa-modeled-his-office-bridge-starship-enterprise

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/15/nsa-mind-keith-alexander-star-trek

The Summers bounce

Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 16 firms recieved early data.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/16-major-firms-may-have-received-early-data-from-thomson-reuters-20130905

Learning from Lehman, Panel discussion, Borofsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-U9A7f-7o

NSA, Rogers

NSA panel ‘did not discuss changes’ Guardian
NSA’s Corruption of Cryptography and Its Methods of Coercion Marcy Wheeler

Ruppersberger, Rogers blast media on NSA

AAPL

NSA

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans’ data with Israel Guardian
Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Why I said ‘no’ to the Midway deal Chicago Tribune.
Yahoo CEO Mayer: we faced jail if we revealed NSA surveillance secrets Guardian.

Albert Bartlett

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2004-08-29/dr-albert-bartlett-arithmetic-population-and-energy

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2013/09/09/cu-boulder-campus-mourns-death-longtime-celebrated-physics-professor-al

Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world After the Meltdown: Part one in our series looking at the impact of the financial crisis of 2008

Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world After the Meltdown: Part one in our series looking at the impact of the financial crisis of 2008

NSA

Gems Mined from the NSA Documents and FISA Court Opinions Released Today EFF
Court Upbraided N.S.A. on Its Use of Call-Log Data New York Times
NSA Spying Seen Risking Billions in U.S. Technology Sales Bloomberg.
Riseup and the recent email provider closures Riseup.

Frank-Dodd, Polk, Infographic

Crisis cost up to $14 trillion, Dallas Fed says

Crisis cost up to $14 trillion, Dallas Fed says

The financial crisis cost the U.S. economy $6 trillion to $14 trillion—and possibly twice that—along with untold costs from "special treatment" that too-big-to-fail banks received, according to an explosive new analysis from the Dallas Federal Reserve.

Nearing the five-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy that shocked the global economy, the central bank analysis takes a stark look at the costs left behind by the crisis and the ensuing bailout.
Among the lasting damages, the paper cites continuing and pervasive unemployment as well as the opportunity costs that came from $12.6 trillion in direct aid given to the financial sector.

"The 2007–09 meltdown produced a huge downshift in the path of economic output, consumption and financial wealth," the paper said. "The nation has borne additional costs arising from psychological consequences, skill atrophy from extended unemployment, a reduced set of economic opportunities and increased government intervention in the economy."

Lessons from the financial crisis of 2008

 

Jessica Bibliowicz, former Chairman & CEO of National Financial Partners, shares her reflections on the huge blow to the U.S. banking system five years ago and how she led her business back from the brink.

(Special Report: Bank from the brink: 5 years later)

All totaled, the damage comes to $6 trillion to $14 trillion, a staggering number that nearly equates to an entire year of gross domestic product.

Broken down, that translates to $50,000 to $120,000 for every U.S. household "or the equivalent of 40 to 90 percent of one year's economic output," the paper said.

And it could be worse—a lot worse—depending on how long it takes for a full recovery to set in.
"If the effects of the crisis are permanent, the path of consumption observed since 2007 suggests that the cost of the crisis may be more than double the $6 trillion to $14 trillion estimate," the paper said.


(Read more: A financial crisis timeline)

The Dallas Fed used output-per-person totals as of mid-2013 to calculate the costs. It figured that number stood at 12 percent lower than typical recoveries over the past 50 years.
Some of the numbers the central bank branch cites are startling: a loss of 8.7 million nonfarm payroll jobs; a peak of 14.7 million unemployed, labor underutilization that remains "intractably high" and 10.6 million underemployed.

(Read more: Jobs growth misses high hopes; rate drops to 7.3%)
"A stark legacy of the recession and the lackluster labor market is reduced opportunity and deterioration captured in subjective measures of well-being," the paper said. "Since the recession's onset in December 2007, more citizens believed their income would be lower in the future than thought it would be higher. This is the first time in any recession since the 1960s that income expectations turned negative."

The U.S. fell from second to 18th on the Frasier Institute's Index of Economic Freedom ranking in 2012, a remnant, the Fed said, of the bailouts used to prop up Wall Street institutions at the center of the financial crisis.

The paper said:

Deemed "too big to fail," these financial intermediaries lacked discipline and accountability leading up to the crisis and proved largely immune to the downside of their excessive risk taking. This special treatment violated a basic tenet of American capitalism: All people and institutions have the freedom to succeed and also to fail based on the merits of their actions. In a way, the 2008–09 bailouts exacted an unfair and nontransparent tax upon the American people.

The Fed added:

Although unprecedented fiscal and monetary action in the throes of panic during 2008–09 may have prevented a full-blown depression, such intervention did not come without significant costs. Society must deal with the consequences of a swollen federal debt, an expanded Federal Reserve balance sheet and increased regulations and government intervention for years to come.

The damage from the crisis remains hard to calculate, the paper said, given the possibility that the U.S. economy may never reach its old productivity level.
The paper concluded:

Given this range of estimates, the tepid economic recovery and the collateral damage sustained, it is crucial to implement effective policies that avoid future episodes whose magnitude could exceed even the staggering costs and consequences of the most recent financial crisis.

(Read the full Dallas Fed report here.)

NSA

The Cowboy of the NSA Foreign Policy
James Clapper’s Financial War on the World Marcy Wheeler.
NSA Has Apparently Targeted SWIFT Network, Petrobras, and the French Diplomatic Network Kevin Drum
Helicopter circles US consulate in spy probe The Local
Johns Hopkins and the Case of the Missing NSA Blog Post ProPublica

NSA, Google, Petrobras, financial

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/09/us-usa-security-snowden-petrobras-idUSBRE9870AD20130909

futures September 6

NSA

US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet The Guardian.
How to remain secure against NSA surveillance Bruce Schneier
Garrett Brown Faces 105 Years in Jail Rolling Stone

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-05/bullrun-nsas-infatuation-back-door-penetration

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=224132

NSA

NRA joins spy lawsuit, says NSA creating gun registry USA Today
UN: Press should not be ‘intimidated into silence’ over state secrets The Guardian
How Advanced Is the NSA’s Cryptanalysis — And Can We Resist It? Wired

Al Gore’s Incredible Shrinking Climate Change Footprint Buzzfeed

Human resources - documentary

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R85eo2rA70

NSA

Top-secret U.S. intelligence files show new levels of distrust of Pakistan Washington Post. Snowden’s latest.
Brazil and Mexico Probe NSA Claims BBC
Brazil, Mexico ask U.S. to explain if NSA spied on presidents Reuters
How the NSA Misleads the Public Without Technically Lying Gizmodo
The NSA’s Crypto “Breakthrough” The Economist

NSA

CHART: Syria Tensions Have Knocked The NSA Spying Scandal Completely Off The Radar Business Insider
NSA intimidation expanding surveillance state: Column Bruce Schneier, USA Today
Snowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications Der Speigel
Snowden leaks: NSA conducted 231 offensive cyber-ops in 2011, hailed as ‘active defense’ RT
The NSA hacks other countries by buying millions of dollars’ worth of computer vulnerabilities WaPo
Facebook strips away a bit more of your privacy – but won’t say why The Register.

rule of 72

http://www.doughroller.net/investing/nifty-tricks-with-the-rule-of-72-71-70-693-114-144-and-my-favorites-15-and-1080000/

NSA

Kerry cites ‘high confidence’ in intelligence on Syrian weapons The Hill (and Pelosi)
Obama: No Final Decision Made on Syrian Attack military.com.
U.N. investigators to exit Syria, chemical probe may take weeks Reuters
Chemical weapons experts weigh in on Syria intelligence report McClatchy.
EXCLUSIVE: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack Mint
U.S. Intelligence on Syria Stops Short of Assad’s Role Bloomberg
Sources and Methods: A Case for War Emptywheel.
Air Force Developed Bombs Capable of Destroying Syria’s Chemical Weapons DefenseTech
Meet the Military Forces Gathering on Syria’s Doorstep Foreign Policy.
Unlikely Allies in Congress Question Obama Over Syria Online WSJ
The ethics of a Syrian military intervention: The experts respond Religion News
Awaiting Obama’s Climb-down Moon of Alabama

NSA, Tice, Counter intelligence video

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/gaius-publius-deep-state-is-the-upper-echelon-of-the-intelligence-community-running-america.html

http://metanoia-films.org/counter-intelligence/ - video of spookworks

Poll: Americans Cared More About Snowden Than Sports, Celebrity Scandals This Summer US News
U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary WaPo
Edward Snowden leaks again: five takeaways from the ‘black budget’ Christian Science Monitor
New Snowden Leak Reports ‘Groundbreaking’ NSA Crypto-Cracking Wired
Snowden impersonated NSA officials, sources say NBC
Castro denies Cuba caved to U.S. pressure on Snowden Montreal Gazette

Treasury holdings

Crude, August 28, 12:02 pm

Wall Street’s greatest enemy: The man who knows too much - for later reading

Wall Street’s greatest enemy: The man who knows too much

NSA

Exclusive Glenn Greenwald Interview: "I Won't Be Kept Out of My Country for Doing Journalism!"

Chart of the Day: Which Countries Snoop on Facebook Users the Most Mother Jones
From Tom Paine to Glenn Greenwald, we need partisan journalism Jack Shafer
Internal Documents Reveal How the FBI Blew Fort Hood Mother Jones.

August 27, Oil price, WTI

Syria, Russia

NSA

Manning Sentenced to 35 Years After Obama’s Broken Promise to Whistleblowers Bradblog. amende honorable .
NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests Online WSJ.
Part 1: Obama Uses August 9 “Presser” To Put Points on the Board Against Snowden. His Real Purpose Should Be To Protect the Constitution Op-Ed News. Parts 2 and 3.
The Game of Spooks Cannonfire
A pocket guide to NSA sabotage Cryptome.
Next Microsoft CEO faces rocky road in easing NSA-fueled privacy worries Network World

Internet Architects Plan Counter-Attack On NSA Snooping

Julian Assange Reveals "Google's Covert Role In Foaming Uprisings"

NSA

David Miranda wins partial court victory over data seized by police Guardian
Lavabit founder: ‘My own tax dollars are being used to spy on me’ Guardian
Laser listening: Could you eavesdrop on the Guardian? BBC
Obama, Surveillance, and the Legacy of the March on Washington The New Yorker.
FBI suspected William Vollmann was the Unabomber Washington Post
Advocate of Secret Infiltration, Cass Sunstein, on Obama’s “Committee To Make Us Trust the Dragnet” Emptywheel.

Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-22/dangers-nsa-march-27-1983

NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies