1. China: Don’t Buy Government Bonds!
(Newsletter)

Dear [NAME] China: Don’t Buy Government Bonds! Op_ed By Sheldon Richman    Monday, 23 March 2009 An urgent message to the people of China: Don’t lend the U.S. government another dime. I

2. Reviewing Ellen Brown's 'Web of Debt': Part 4
(Opinions/Review)

...ebt, debasing the currency, and risking a future hyperinflation even though none is around today. When the Fed buys government bonds with newly issued money, they stay in circulation, "become the...

3. Reviewing Ellen Brown's 'Web of Debt': Part 2
(Opinions/Review)

...the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving to print them."Although the Fed now returns most interest on its government bonds to the Treasury, of far greater importance is the windfall its memb...

4. China: Don’t Buy Government Bonds!
(Opinions/op-ed)

...n real productive ventures here or elsewhere. But — please — don’t buy any more government debt. China: Don’t Buy Government Bonds! An urgent message to the people of China: Don’t lend the U.S. gov...

5. The Real Value of the Standing Army
(Opinions/Politic)

...m of economic chaos were to strike our nation — with an industry-wide banking collapse, a worldwide dumping of U.S. government bonds, a massive run on the dollar, and the financial inability of the fe...

6. Cristina’s Plunder
(Opinions/Society)

...money belonging to the private pension funds by virtue of the fact that 60 percent of their capital was invested in government bonds—something that was required by law. Given the magnitude of the gove...

7. After Greenspan
(Opinions/Politic)

...Currently the Federal Reserve finances whatever it pleases with public funds derived from the buying and selling of government bonds in the market as part of its control of the money supply. Surplus f...

8. UK injects $85bn into economy
(Archived/News/Economy)

The Bank of England has taken a far bigger step than expected to boost Britain's recession-hit economy by expanding its quantitative easing (QE) programme to $295bn from $210bn.

9. Japan shares rally on stimulus plan
(Archived/News/Economy)

Share prices in Japan have jumped a day after the government unveiled a $154bn stimulus package to lift the economy out of its worst recession in decades.

10. US economy gets $1.2 trillion boost
(Archived/News/Economy)

The US Federal Reserve has moved to pump $1.2 trillion into the country's financial system, hoping to spur lending to beat the recession.