ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

News and commentaries that reveal historical facts and trends that place current events into perspective and make it possible to anticipate future events.

Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen says that the Fed is considering investing in the stock market if Congress will authorize it. [This is almost humorous. For many years, the Fed has operated a so-called Plunge-Protection Team, comprised of the nation’s largest investment firms, that has invested covertly in the stock market through secret deals in which investment losses, if any, are passed on to the taxpayers. Now the Fed is thinking that it might be better to bring the operation into the open by holding the stock directly and making it legal. If the Fed were to ‘invest’ in the market, it would create money out of nothing to acquire stock shares at prices higher than real investors are willing to pay. The political advantage is that it would conceal the reality of falling stock prices and makes the public think the economy is booming when it really is flat on its face. The losses will be passed on to the public through inflation. What could possibly be wrong with such a wonderful plan?] ETF Daily News 2016 Sep 29 (Story) (Cached)

Tech billionaire, Peter Thiel,and other life-extension enthusiasts are hoping to stave off death and tap into the fountain of youth through transfusions of blood from young people, a procedure called parabiosis. Young blood is rich in proteins that improve cell function and can spur similar actions in the recipient’s body. The effect is said to be “almost permanent.” DailyMail posted 2016 Sep 28 (Story) (Cached)

Los Angeles: A self-employed couple practice self reliance by farming their small plot of land in the middle of Los Angeles. They say being frugal is fun because it means you can be free. They provide tips ranging from crop selection, building an adobe oven, water collection, and human sanitation, which can be critical in an emergency. Kirsten Dirksen posted 2016 Sep 26 (Story)

Arcan Cetin, who killed four women and a man at a Macy’s store inside a mall in Burlington, Washington, was arrested after the shooting and confessed to the murders. He is a 20-year old who was born in Turkey but moved with his family to Washington as a child. He has a criminal record that includes domestic violence, and his childhood classmates characterized him as sexually abusive and violent. Stefan Molyneux lays the blame for the attacks on multiculturalism. He says that US immigration policies changed in 1965 from accepting people of European descent to people from third-world countries so the Democrats could expand their voter base. Stefan Molyneux 2016 Sep 26 (Story)