…. The Australian Dollar has had the greatest appreciation against the USD of all (major) currencies…

This is as of last Friday AEST, when he said it.

@Mep:
Supposed liberal bias?

Don’t you think the article is a tad high in hyperbole? Both the liberals and the conservative forces enjoy ‘distorting history’. Any retelling of an event is a subjective distortion sure to forward the interests of the tale-teller irregardless of ‘messianic visions’.

not only that but we are moving to a post-institutional society, the power is made in the realm of communication now, mainstream media atm, and when that loses all credibility, new media and mass self-communication through web -based techs. true hyperrealism. jon stewart is the most trust newsperson in america. but its fake news, its news satire, its a critique of the news. but this is where power is made, and so it is the real news now. baudrillard always said that hyper-reality was imperceptible but its reaches in these end stages make it too visible to contemplate. without hyper-reality we are all dead. this is the nature of man, and progress, and so all we can do is hedge zero in preparation.

transformative times indeed

Hey, some Fed guy says not to peek too closely or it will cause inflation…

The bucket used to derive it is rather dated, and lacks the AUD / SGD — two important FOREX currencies.

IT is a better basket than nothing, but the basket should have at least 10 currencies it in.

This 1998 solution has not taken full hold yet :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Weighted_US_dollar_Index

Except for the massive distortion caused by the somewhat fixed Yuan of China, the Trade index is otherwise less misleading.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/

Anyone who lives in the US should take the time to learn about The Family/The Fellowship. It is a 70-old-fundamentalist-religious group that likes to call itself “The Christian Mafia.”

Rachel Maddow is one of few journalists who has reported on C-Street and The Family, but all prior reporting of hers centered on the group being a right-wing fundamentalist group. This seems to be mostly because up until this point, all Family members involved in sex scandals (Mark Foley [gay sex w/ congressional pages], Mark Sanford [hiking the Appalachian-trail adulterer], John Ensign [had an affair with a staffer and had his parents pay off her husband & children while also getting her husband a job as a corporate lobbyist & allowing him to lobby Ensign's office], and David Vitter [prostitution/D.C. Madam scandal]) have been Republicans; the reason that the Family really became visible is because of these scandals.

Doug Coe, the group’s preacher, has openly lauded the likes of Hitler, Stalin, and even Osama bin Laden. These people are all about power and control, and believe very deeply in biblical capitalism. (Which helps explain why all members are against health care reform.) The group was founded on the belief that Christianity went all wrong because of the strong focus on the poor and the downtrodden. They’re Calvinistic in the sense that they believe that the wealthy and the powerful are chosen by God. But they’re scary in the sense that they are well-funded; part of an international ring; they spread their dogma across the globe; they have a track-record of supporting dictators; they operate in complete secrecy; they are misogynists; and they believe in Christian world control.

The C-Street home that “The Family” lives in is on the books as being a church, and it is owned by the group Youth With A Mission . . . the group behind the propaganda film “The Path to 9/11″:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html

More on the Family/The Fellowship/C-Street here, here, here, here, and here.

IT LOST A WORLD CUP!

http://www.chrismartenson.com/page/crash-course-one-year-anniversary

Friday, October 9, 2009, 6:19 am, by cmartenson

http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/sound-one-hand-clapping-what-deflationists-may-be-missing/29151