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This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals behind: ‘the owner of Great Britain’ bouncing a $54 million check for a pile of dirt in the Persian Gulf; a currency speculator in Monaco moving currency markets with an ‘accidental Jim Rogers press release’ while Colonel Gaddafi calls for jihad against Switzerland and receives zero market impact; and Alan Greenspan wins major award for causing up global financial markets to explode. Keiser also talks to David DeGraw about his new book, “The Economic Elite versus the People of the United States of America.”

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How do I turn many latino markets in violation of the Americans with disables act they offer no handicap parking spaces.All the America stoes have them.

call city hall and report them. they have to have parking for handicap folks.

I live in the UK and am looking to start a UK pension. With the markets so low is it a good time to start a pension right now?

I would reiterate an earlier answer and say that it is ALWAYS the right time to start a pension. Over the full term of the pension, the ups and downs should really iron themselves out.
If you are over twenty, then you should consider a pension, most UK employers are now obliged to offer a pension scheme that can easily be transferred when you change jobs (stakeholder pension). Many employers actually contribute to the scheme too – if this is the case, then YES – it’s a no-brainer, take advantage of any company scheme that offers to contribute to your pension (the company I work for contributes 7% of my income, and I contribute another 7%). Even if they don’t contribute, it should be very easy for your employer to arrange your contributions and take care of the tax issues.
The only circumstances where you don’t need to think about a pension is if you are working on a casual basis or likely to earn vast amounts that will enable you to make your own financial arrangements for your future.
My final bit of advice is this: don’t go half-measures – if you decide to do this, make a real go of it to make sure you end up with a decent income. If you just ‘dabble’ and don’t really put a significant amount in, then you will have wasted all your money. Consider this, if you DON’T put money aside for your pension, what will happen? The state will provide you with income support up to a set level. If you only put a small amount into your pension, you may find that all you have done is to take the onus off the state to look after you, and you may well have only provided enough to just keep you above the level where the state was going to support you anyhow! So…either do it properly or don’t bother – that’s my philospohy!

Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals behind ‘debt attacks’ on Spain and Greece; record short positions on the euro and whether Shanghai will be the next financial crisis. Keiser also talks to Steve Keen for an update on the Australian housing market, the continuing deflationary collapse and the chances of unrest.

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Dear readers I am doing a research on how many people bet on financial markets globaly online.

Since this site is international maybe people from different countrires could help me with this info since you might know more about your specific country. Thank you.

It changes daily, as well as depending on time. All the markets open? just one market?

Millions of people act on the markets around the world on any given day. However Billions of transactions happen daily. The average person makes more than one transaction daily.
This question is a little too broad you need to specify your goal a little better.

I am after small produce that they might buy at the markets if they had a hard year and ran out.
I should clarify that I want edible produce that a medieval farmer might conceivably need to buy at market after running out of it. I thought it unlikely that they would run out of oats or peas and salt would be readily available on the coast so that’s no good either. Thanks for the suggestions thus far.

Salt, and other herbs, seasonings and spices. And, he wouldn’t BUY these things so much as trade for them. The peasant farmers of the time had no money. The economy of the time didn’t work that way. So, it was highly unlikely that, if the farmer had a bad year, that he would have any kind of savings. He’d either have to sell of his livestock, his personal belongings (which couldn’t be much) or sell himself or his family into some kind of bondage or servitude.

Also, remember, in midieval times, most "farmers" didn’t usually own their own land. They worked as tennant farmers on someone else’s propery, usually in exchange for a portion of his crops.

If a person didn’t have these options, he and his family tended to starve to death, or move away, as there was no process in place, like welfare programs, to help them out.

This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert report on the scandals of George Soros and the IMF shaking out the gold market; US bank lending falling at the fastest rate in recorded history; and the trickle up unemployment pyramid. Keiser also speaks to The Market Ticker’s Karl Denninger about CDOs, synthetic CDOs and hiding Greek debt.

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This is from todays WSJ.

>>>Let’s see if we get this straight: The crisis erupted in unregulated markets, the ones with all that innovation. Regulated markets, with more transparency and limits on the leverage market participants can use, have held up while unregulated ones crumbled. Therefore, the solution is to reduce regulation of regulated markets, while doing nothing to restrain the unregulated ones.<<<

"Does the building have to fall on somebody?"
Of course the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is the media of record the Republican Socialist Party now in power.

People don’t understand. We look at this at not being good for the country. Look at it in a different perspective. What if you were running things in America? What if your buddies were CEO’s of multi-national corporations? What we had were four years of an administration completely controlled by republicans. They created these market conditions or helped to create them. Take a look at Halliburton’s stock for example.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=HAL&t=my

Sometime at the end of 97′ it hit thirty briefly, it’s highest ever at that point. Declined again after nine-eleven and has had a steady steep increase ever since. Is it coincidence that VP Cheney is tied to Halliburton and its stock has exploded while he’s been in office? Our president has done a wonderful job to advance the agenda of the GOP and make some of his good friends rich in the process. Now that his term is about to end the markets are collapsing and the dollar ain’t worth a dime. Can you imagine if the democrats said they were going to step in and regulate the markets? The republicans would be going wild with protest. How ironic.

Who agrees or disagrees with the statements below?
Stock market has fallen 15% since the election. Businesses see tax hikes on the horizon. They are completely putting the brakes on spending. Result, markets fall in US, and around the world. The position he weaseled himself into coupled with his careless inexperienced comments and looky what you get. No free ice cream folks. Up next => Tax hikes for the middle class too.

Obama’s rhetoric in the 1990s definitely contributed to the collapsed housing markets.
Which in turn is devastating the stock markets – Worldwide!
Obama gave his time to ‘represent’ Acorn against Banks – forcing them to accept loans to people incapable of paying their mortgages. Helping to Burst the Housing Markets.

Current Financial Crisis – How did we get here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48kIR9q0EE

Acorn Housing Corporation = their Blackmail Against Banks:
http://www.consumersrightsleague.org/UploadedFiles/ACORN_AHC_Report.pdf

is the housing and credit markets crisis just another form of terrorism or is it cannibalism, and why is the government not responding to the needs of the people effected by the crisis meaning the familys that are loosing there homes? Why does the government alow these so called Preditorial mortgage companys to abuse the human race. Is there a cure for the problem and if so WHAT IS IT?

I am making lemonade!

This is a great opportunity to make yourself some serious long term profit. I am buying as much property as I can now, while the getting is good.

My children and my grandchildren should be set up for a pretty cushy life. There really is no excuse for people not to see this as a positive experience.