[Video] Max Keiser on France24 – Talking US unemployment

August 7th, 2009 by stacyherbert

Stacy Summary: Max on France24 discussing the financial news. US unemployment numbers ‘look’ rosy, do you think Max agrees?

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  • aNewEraBegins
    Aug 7, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    “It’s pure money laundering!” – Max Keiser

    She looked a bit nervous sometimes. Like “wow…. I can’t believe he just said the dollar is going to collapse!”

  • Danny
    Aug 7, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    Busy busy busy this week max- good on ya. This interview was definately a shining moment.

    My one of a kind Max Keiser t-shirt arrived today. I’ll send you a pic tomorrow Stacy. Enjoy the holidays

  • Phil
    Aug 7, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    @M&S … Nice Finale for the weekend .. well done .

    Happy Holidays … if you finally get away !
    ;-)

  • smallz
    Aug 7, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    I’m usually all ears on max, but I couldn’t hear a word he was saying over the immutable beauty of that African Goddess.

    Damn she fine!!!

    Since they can’t beat max in a debate, they can just blind him with pussy power.

  • Matt Smyth
    Aug 7, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    This is an article off of 24 h gold, It might have been around already but is one hell of a read.

    http://www.leap2020.eu/When-China-prepares-its-Great-Escape-from-the-dollar-trap-for-the-end-of-summer-2009_a3582.html

  • frances snoot
    Aug 7, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    Krugman rant #3094893.35
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/opinion/07krugman.html?em

    “That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the same; we don’t know how many of the protesters are birthers, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s a substantial fraction.”

    Another words: you have to be a crazy racist to be in opposition to the health care bill. This is journalism?

  • Adam
    Aug 7, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    This chick is gorgeous. Please pass my email along to her! I didnt hear one word max said.

  • Phil
    Aug 7, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    @Matt Smyth .. 24 hr Gold article

    Thx .. excellent articel IMO !

    The last part in the Notes .. #13 , sums it up quite well IMO !

    … “(13) For instance, the AAA rating of the United States is a complete farce, as this article published in SeekingAlpha on 30/03/2009 explains. The whole country, companies, households, public services, are acquiring junk-bond status… but the federal government is still rated AAA! Rating agencies (all of whom are American) have well deserved the USD 400 billion they were paid by the federal government to help them in assessing the value of USD 1,000 billion worth of toxic assets that it is about to purchase from the banks. Assets which, of course, were rated AAA two years ago by the same agencies. But Beijing, as well as the rest of the world, has now fully understood the fraud. Source: BusinessInsider, 04/07/2009 “….

  • Free Drive Ro
    Aug 7, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    Can’t be that bad if Max and Stacy are going on vacation. Crisis? What crisis?

  • Youri Carma
    Aug 7, 2009 at 3:23 pm

    Beijing orders state banks to slow loans http://bit.ly/bI6Rj

  • Richard@lattitude30N
    Aug 7, 2009 at 3:23 pm

    @Matt Smythe: Great link…..right on the money…the LEAP folks really prepare great analyses…So while all the global economic backroom shinanigans are taking place we are lulled to sleep or made to pay attention to the flu pandemic and more war in Africa, Pakistan and South America….Max is right as always: the Military Complex promoting “genocide” ( and domestically the DHS promoting surveillance ) are the only uptick companies supporting the market rally….A return to a 70% USA consumer society is long gone; everyone with any sense of RE awaits the second wave; this time the Alt-A option mortgage defaults( 2009-2011) and the imminent collapse of the USA Commercial RE market…… How can the USA government bond rating be anywhere close to AAA….What has Geithner promised the Chinese to keep them in the Treasury auctions????????( already last week the FED has entered the auctions through it’s primary dealers to consume 47% of all sales)!!!!!!!!!!! Clearly $1.8 trillion in bonds will be auctioned this fiscal year just to cover Obama’s/Congress’ past expenditures—OR WILL THEY??????….The “smoke and mirrors” economic picture will continue throughout the summer….even here in Florida Sen. Martinez has resigned earlier than previously announced…to return to his family…I don’t recall being a US Senator prevented that in the past!!!!!!!!!!
    With GS becoming the Forth Pillar of the US government what else can be in store but more tax structures to keep the sheeple from realizing they are working for free….Even today I ran into a fellow who purchased the new 6 month treasury bills @ 0.25% interest…I let him off the hook…didn’t suggest that even if he accepted Bernanke’s 3% core inflation numbers he was losing funds by parking his money in bills!!!!!!!!!! BUY GOLS/Silver and Commodiities….and if you remember Y2K; purchase a fully stocked off-the-grid cabin too>>……………….Thanks Max….you always spice up the airwaves

  • Mother Earth
    Aug 7, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Say waaaah?? Breaking news! Max’s mind retains its serverity while giving a smiling tongue lashing to a deliciously smooth and at times seductivly enthralled (Ghanese?) cream dream ..

    Note: Must fix false http://www.karmbank.com attributions by FR24…

  • Tofu Charlie
    Aug 7, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    Hi guys.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0htQQoSjbI

    Webster Tarpley’s talk in Amsterdam,”After the Neocons”… six parts, a lot of good history.

    This guy is great. He’s often on Alex Jones’ show, and many other shows, Russian TV, etc.

    @Max, Stacy — has he been on any of your shows yet?

  • Tofu Charlie
    Aug 7, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    Sorry, I should add.. perhaps there would be some tension because Tarpley is slightly anti-market, speaks somewhat vaguely against Austrian-school etc?

    Anyone read his books?

  • Neo Feudal Casino Gulag Plantation Economy minion
    Aug 7, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    You absolutely have to starve the populace of liquidity in order to force the sale of the plum assets for next to nothing. As I’ve said before, the real bargains don’t happen until the populace has been literally starving for a decade. We aren’t even close. Of course, we saw some early fire sales in the banking sector, when the largest retail bank presence in the country was bought for a giveaway in a “crisis”. Expect far more of these sorts of, “huh?” moments over the next few years, as the rhetoric is all about stimulus, but the reality is tightening.

    The way it was done in the depression was higher taxes, protectionist tariffs, and devaluation of the dollar, coupled with increasing margin requirements at banks (thereby draining circulation of yet more dollars) and the government hoarding tax revenues as opposed to redeploying them into circulation.

    Today, we have the Fed secretly, and for the first time in history, paying interest on deposits, thereby eliminating any real reason for banks to deploy capital, except maybe by investing in T-bills for a sweet risk-free arbitrage. The system is now set up to keep money out of circulation. It’s working, far as I can tell. Next come higher taxes, and then protectionist/nationalistic trade wars designed to strengthen domestic monopolies at the expense of free trade and general prosperity.

    Wouldn’t entirely surprise me if they made physical gold illegal again, although there isn’t much basis for doing so, and they can accomplish the destruction of commodities values much more effectively via derivatives, which is how it’s all done these days.

    So look for continued and rising unemployment, deflation in assets even as the Fed prints more money but the banks hoard it, tightening credit for the same reason, and the entire media/government apparatus to pretend to not understand what is happening, even though the government and its banking masters engineered it.

  • white hunter
    Aug 7, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    @Tofu Charlie
    I read “Obama – The Postmodern Coup.” It’s impressive how much he predicted the character of the Obama administration. He is very much anti-free market and claims there has never been a free market. He speaks of the Austrian School in very negative terms. In spite of this, his book predicted the ownership of Obama by the banking cartel and it’s ramifications early on.

  • Danny
    Aug 7, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    @Tofu Charlie

    I listen to Tarpleys podcast every saturday- I got side tracked from reading Obama the post modern coup but I should get back to it. His analysis of geo-politics/colour revolutions is by far IMO the best out there. He is critical of Austrian economics and he does have a point as far as I can see after I looked in Russia under Yelsin – but it remains to be seen. Ron Paul and the Von Mises do make alot of valid points too however.

  • Youri Carma
    Aug 7, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    California to see record unemployment rise further http://link.reuters.com/fec99c

  • white hunter
    Aug 7, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    @smallz

    Ditto on the goddess. My goodness…

  • Tofu Charlie
    Aug 7, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    @ white hunter …. yeah, there’s an even earlier book, 1999, where he’s talking about an emerging financial crisis, derivatives etc… “Surviving the Cataclysm”… (there’s an active torrent)

    He seems to be a “New Deal” democrat (Puma08). But as an historian and analyst I think he’s top-notch.

  • Tofu Charlie
    Aug 7, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    (cont’d)… Tarpley is also at least in favor of gold-backed currency but doesn’t really speak this side of things as much.

  • Youri Carma
    Aug 7, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    July sales drop shows retail pressure continues http://tinyurl.com/m7w4sx

  • Dan II
    Aug 7, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    Well done Max. As you often exclaim to Stacy: “Tell the people!”

    On a side note, I’ll have to concur with previous posts – that girl was enchantingly mesmerizing.

  • Youri Carma
    Aug 7, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    Fannie Mae draws on U.S. support after $14.8 billion loss http://link.reuters.com/wyd99c

  • Dan II
    Aug 7, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    @frances snoot

    “Another words: you have to be a crazy racist to be in opposition to the health care bill.”

    I was listening to an NPR broadcast where this idea was reinforced. I asked myself, how many of us wish we were there to join in to express our discontent. Personally, I believe it is discontent at government as a whole and the health care bill was but a convenient venue to express outrage at congress for no longer representing their constituents.

    Yes, this is corporate journalism. A certain façade must be maintained.

  • Youri Carma
    Aug 7, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Zbigniew Brzezinski Chatham House Speech November 2008 Part 5 Final http://tinyurl.com/poxbjp

    Quote:

    And last by not least we have to deal with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
    And here to some extend based on my own experience of dealing with that problem in relationship to an other power.
    I think it is important that we do not over militarize our effort and we do not make the mistake that the other power did in Afghanistan.
    Yes, some deployment of troops maybe necessary and both Presidential candidates in the United States have said so.
    But that can not be the central focus of our efforts.
    Yes, some troops maybe necessary and that means also European troops participating on the bases of equality.
    And not of preferential choice of sites, with some for example not even patrolling at night because it is dangerous.
    It means facing the risks together and paying the price together.
    But above all else it means in my judgment demilitarizing the effort and politicizing it.
    And particularly seeking to the possibility exploring the possibility on negotiating arrangements with The Talibanss.
    Not Taliban but Talibans in different parts of Afghanistan.
    In exchange for an arrangement in which their elimination or termination of Al Qaida presence in their particular area would be reciprocated by military disengagement from that area.
    I think if we move in that direction we will avoid the mistakes that the Soviets made and kept them very busy in a self destructive fashion for some, ten years.

    Well it seems that he changed his mind about this: Obama Urged to More Than Double Afghan Security Force http://tinyurl.com/mj2z88

  • Youri Carma
    Aug 7, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    It would get realy “funny” if the Russians gonna deliver an equivalent of the Stinger to the Talibanz and Russianwood made Rambo IIIB movie now on the side of the Talibanz :-\

  • Youri Carma
    Aug 7, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    Or Hell Dyncorp & Halliburton gonna deliver the stingers personally to the Talibanz so they can put in more orders for choppers and birds.

  • Dedo
    Aug 7, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    Speculators (Entrepreneur) V’s Savers (Conservatives)
    Here is a good piece to analogise:

    “Among the innumerable mortifications
    which waylay human arrogance
    on every side may well be
    reckoned our ignorance
    of the most common objects
    and effects, a defect of which we
    become more sensible by every
    attempt to supply it.
    Vulgar and inactive minds
    confound familiarity with knowledge
    and conceive themselves informed
    of the whole nature of things
    when they are shown their form
    or told their use; but the speculatist,
    who is not content with superficial views,
    harasses himself with fruitless curiosity,
    and still, as he inquires more,
    perceives only that he knows less.”
    - Samuel Johnson

  • Youri Carma
    Aug 7, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    Once you think things couldn’t get any crazier: New York Times: Children Bad for Environment http://tinyurl.com/lt9ay7

  • Mr Supergeek
    Aug 7, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    @gonzomarx
    looks like the results are in for the most likely way you think the world will end poll……….interactive doomsayer thingy.

    http://www.slate.com/id/2224425

  • Youri Carma
    Aug 7, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    UK General: Afghanistan will take 40 years http://tinyurl.com/n9skqj

  • Mini US
    Aug 7, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    Ha!
    I am really interested in the TV presentation aspect of this show.
    Sometimes a pretty face can distract viewers from the content (ie Goddess) hence so many pretty newsreaders on TV around the world.
    We need more ordinary looking presenters on TV so people start to listen ;)
    Look at Dennis ‘Butt Face’ Kneale form CNBC. You can’t help listening to him. He’s hideous and he shouts!!!
    Hahahhahaha. I love to hate the guy too.
    Thats the difference between US TV and European TV.
    In Europe people don’t need to be shouted at by hideous presenters. People prefer to look at a nice chic who just prompts the guest to do their thing.
    This ‘goddess’ smoothed out Max’s rants into insightful, informative style. A sort of “I don’t get it, please explain” style which is very refreshing rather that the interrupting Mr. ED.

    Compare and decide……Ha!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJvO9Y_4QbY

  • Mini US
    Aug 7, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    Oh yeah,
    Max you were great.
    Again, a lot of information in a short period of time.
    Keep getting the message out there, soon the folks at home will start to get it.
    Please have a holiday soon.
    We don’t want you and Stacy to get ‘burn out’.

  • Mini US
    Aug 7, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    New commercial for Prisons.
    Buy up the stocks as Max suggests.

    Nah, just put it on here cause its cool…IMHO.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Ts4M3irWM

  • Mini US
    Aug 7, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    @Frances Snoot
    Great Link! Thanks.

    This just shows how this guy can explain why there will be a crash in October and the presenters just keep asking what he said? Can you repeat yourself? Did you say Crash? Can you repeat that again? Are you sure you said crash? Do you mean Correction? Was that Crash you said?

    They don’t want to hear that stuff.
    Will Obama hurry up, cut to Obama. For Gods sake cut to Obama presentation will you!!!

    Hahahahahha

    As the Boomtown Rats once sang…

    “What reasons do you need to be sure……

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0qNGYxUwmU

  • geopol
    Aug 7, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    Remember this post of Nov 2008?

    BARKY’S FIRST CHOICES: NO SEAT AT THE TABLE
    FOR LABOR AND THE THIRD WORLD
    By Webster G. Tarpley
    Washington DC, Nov. 8 – Obama’s first appointments have confirmed the grimmest
    suspicions about the new regime. The naming of the vicious thug Rahm Emanuel as the
    new Martin Bormann of the regime has caused much consternation, even among the
    netroots or nutroots crowd over at the Daily Kos. Rahm is a former member of the Israeli
    Defense Force whose ruling passion is that he is a warmonger. In 2006, when Rahm ran
    the Democratic congressional money machine, he made sure that only warmongers
    committed to the open-ended prosecution of the Afghan and Iraq wars could get any
    Democratic Party financing for their races. Many contests were lost as a result. A tragic
    case was that of grass-roots antiwar activist Christine Cegelis of Ohio, who was defeated
    in the Democratic primary by Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran who advocated
    endless hostilities there. Duckworth lost to the Republican by several points. If the
    $300,000 Rahm gave Duckworth had been shared with anti-war candidate Bob Bowen in
    Florida, a Democratic seat could easily have been added. Rahm is also a product of the
    filthy and corrupt Illinois bipartisan Combine, which I have described in my books.
    A co-chair of the transition team is Valerie Jarrett, who served as Barky’s travelling
    schoolmarm during the campaign. Jarrett also comes from the Daley wing of the Illinois
    combine. She has provided graft and related support for Michelle Obama’s foundationfunded
    operations. Jarrett is also an integral part of the Chicago housing graft
    community, a region also inhabited by Barky’s original godfather, the convicted felon
    and thief Tony Rezko. Jarrett is discussed in detail in my Obama biography. She is joined
    on the transition team by John Podesta, a Clinton-era retread who worked for Sen. Tom
    Daschle, the senator from Citibank, the biggest employer in South Dakota. Podesta also
    worked for Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a close personal friend of Weatherman
    terrorist bombers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
    Another Daschle-Citibank retread is transition co-chair Tom Rouse, who was the chief of
    staff for Daschle when he was the weakest Democratic majority leader in recent memory,
    surrendering to Bush on point after point. Chief strategist remains David Axelrod of the
    corrupt Illinois Combine, who was taught his mindbending skills in the infamous “1313”
    Rockefeller-funded think tank at the University of Chicago.
    BANKERS ONLY: NO VOICE FOR LABOR, RETIREES, SMALL BUSINESS,
    WOMEN
    Obama’s transitional council of economic advisers is also notable. The dominant figures
    here are all Wall Street derivatives merchants and their quackademic apologists and
    politician clients. The key people here are plutocrat Warren Buffet, Obama moneybags
    and Hyatt heiress Penny Pritzker, Goldman Sachs-Citibank alum Robert Rubin, womanhating
    thug and failed Harvard president Larry Summers, Google spook Eric Schmidt,
    and Roger Ferguson, the former vice president of the Federal Reserve board. The most
    obscene is Trilateral Commission bigwig Paul Adolf Volcker, the bringer of the 22%
    prime rate of 1981 and the destroyer of the US industrial base. What is truly notable
    about this list is that there is not one single labor leader. No Sweeney of the AFL-CIO, no
    Hoffa of the Teamsters, no UAW, not even the unsavory Andy Stern of the SIEU. Note
    the difference to the New Deal, when labor reps were indispensable. With Barky, only
    derivatives monsters need apply. Also notable by their absence are leaders of women’s
    groups, small business associations, the congressional black caucus, retirees groups like
    the AARP – there is not even a token face representing any of these groups, all of which
    have a vital interest in economic policy. Read the ill omens if you have eyes to see. The
    Obama regime is shaping up as of the bankers, by the bankers, for the bankers. This is not
    the FDR New Deal – this is the Mussolini fascist corporate state.
    WASHINGTON ECONOMIC CONFERENCE: THE DERIVATIVES BLOC VS. THE
    ANTI-DERIVATIVES BLOC
    We are also told that Barky has been on the phone to foreign leaders about matters of
    economic. Let us read the tea leaves: whom did Barky call? Here is the list: Australia, the
    British, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, and South Korea.
    Notice now who is NOT on the list. Start with the great world powers who have been
    snubbed: Russia and China, both of whom are bigger holders of US Treasury bonds than
    most of those who are on the list. Saudi Arabia, who might have needed reassurance that
    Barky is not a commie, are also snubbed. Forget ideology, and behold the ineptitude.
    Most glaring of all is the lack of any phone call to a leading third world or developing
    sector country, other than Mexico, which is a branch of NAFTA. No calls were made to
    Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, India or a long list of other leading
    states. Nobody in Africa, nobody in south Asia, and nobody in South America got a call.
    Not even those who will be coming to the pseudo-Bretton Woods conference set for
    Washington later this month. The best we can hope for regarding that conference is that it
    end in a stalemate, dividing the world between a US-UK dominated derivatives bloc and
    a Brazil-India-Russia-China-South Africa anti-derivatives bloc interested in real physical
    commodity production, not fictitious capital.
    Obama, in summation, is acting just like the abject puppet of the Wall Street derivatives
    merchants and warmongers which we have argued him to be.
    ###
    Webster G. Tarpley is the author of Obama – The Postmodern Coup: The Making of a
    Manchurian Candidate, and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography, both available
    from amazon.com.

  • geopol
    Aug 7, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Sorry for the long post PDF to text format problem

  • Mini US
    Aug 7, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    A snapshot of the American presence in the world.
    Its for your own good.

    ttp://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/search/foreign correspondent

    If trouble viewing just go to http://www.abc.net.au/iview and search foreign correspondent.

  • frances snoot
    Aug 7, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    Romer asks for hall pass:
    http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/07/romer.second.stimulus/
    “Meanwhile, Romer treaded carefully when asked if there is any wiggle room on the president’s campaign promise that nobody in the middle class will see any tax increases during his time in office.

    “Can I go now?” Romer said to laughter from the crowd.”

  • Joe
    Aug 7, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    Yeah, she’s quite hot. But I like Stacy more. LOL.

    The striped socks rock, my brother! Dang, I need to get me some of those. Babe magnets. LOL.

    Anyway, you tell ‘em, Max. EXPOSE THE LIES. Off with their heads! We’ve all seen this before. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Just take a page from history!

    Have a great weekend, everyone!

  • James Raider
    Aug 8, 2009 at 12:39 am

    LET’S NOT BELIEVE THE DOUBLE-SPEAK FROM THE W.H.

    Ignoring economic reality is more than simply idiotic.

    http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2009/08/obama-middle-class-income-tax-increases.html

    …..Keep saving every dime you can for tomorrow.

  • dan valley
    Aug 8, 2009 at 12:50 am

    Can anyone guess at what George Soros would be doing in Syria,,,aside from the possibiity it maybe one of the few places left he can go without someone trying to assassinate him.

  • Mother Earth
    Aug 8, 2009 at 12:51 am

    @Stacy

    Is info@maxkeiser still the right email adress?

    Small criticism on the special editionof ODE : Perhaps a phone call to the Bundesbank could have filled the gap in the story. You have footage of the building to go with it. It would be interesting to hear their comment on the situation, the recent decision to reduce sales and the fact their gold is not all in Germany..

  • stacyherbert
    Aug 8, 2009 at 1:26 am

    @all – apparently the presenter is a babe! ha ha, you guys

    @Mother Earth – they were on orders NOT to speak about gold; we have an hour and a half of footage from there talking to the pr people, but we weren’t allowed to speak to the head of gold as we were meant to; they are still on orders not to discuss gold with media in relation to the global economic crisis; my feeling is that they are still afraid of tanking the dollar, if you look at dollar chart, it’s looking like it is definitely going to zero soon, maybe not next month or next year, but it will

 
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