20 JUL 2011, Wednesday (AM)

• This punk economy will last for another 5 years or so because we are being forced into an endless bailout of the banks that should have failed due to their activities.
• And the entire nation, all of us, we are now their debt slaves because the oligarchy in power is more interested in preserving their campaign contribution money stream then protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States and serving We, the People.
• This is a good read explaining it, a little lengthy, but it provides some solid reasoning from Washingtonsblog.com.
• Good video from Dr. Steven Keen discussing banking and shadow banking system.