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 Andrew Jackson: "I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of 83

Hey big spender! A look at the world's public debt

America's public debt accounts for 1/3 of the world's public debt. Do you wonder why?

21 comments    debt gdp federal reserve bank
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Worlds Tallest Buildings

The Taipei Towers with 101 floors is 508 metres (1,667 feet) high. It cost a whopping $1.8 billion to build the tower. Officially it is still the highest tower in the world. Built in 2004, the building was...

9 comments    sears tower taipei 101
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Things we need to do in this life

  Things we need to do in this life I have listed some of the things we need to do in our lives: Love passionately. It has always been said that it is better to have love and lost than to never to have...

9 comments    travel sports dreams
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Federal Reserve Act: the most Influential Act in US/World History since the Constitution

"In his final Senate years, Aldrich chaired the National Monetary Commission. His Aldrich Plan, providing for flexible cash reserves, was the forerunner of the Federal Reserve System." -- Senate.gov "This...

6 comments    finance education politics
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How Lehman Brothers became Bankrupt?

lehman brother share stock prices before they crashed to bankruptcy The Lehman Brothers , one of the most reputed and fortune 500 ranked 17th best company crashed into bankruptacy at the Wall Street...

11 comments    finance money investment
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The Chase Manhattan Bank: Rockefeller's Bank

After an epidemic of yellow fever in 1798, in which coffins had been sold by itinerant vendors on street corners, Aaron Burr established the Manhattan Company, with the ostensible aim of bringing clean...

6 comments    finance money world bank
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Mayer Amschel Bauer changed his name from Bauer to Rothschild and became the founding father of International Finance

Nathan Rotschild and the Battle Of Waterloo How to do like the Rothschild's and become extremely wealthly In 1743 a goldsmith named Amschel Moses Bauer opened a coin shop in Frankfurt, Germany. He hung above...

2 comments    education history globalization
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The World Bank, GATT and Free Trade by Noam Chomsky

in "Keeping the Rabble in Line" by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian The World Bank, GATT and Free Trade April 20, 1992 DB: In 1944 at the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire the World Bank and the...

4 comments    business finance politics
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Harry Dexter White: the man behind Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF was a Soviet Spy

Harry Dexter White (1892 – 1948) was an American economist and senior U.S. Treasury department official. He was a primary mover behind the Bretton Woods Conference, the formations of the World Bank and...

0 comments    business politics history
An Investors' Perception on Investments or a Traders' view for Speculation. What is the proper approach to view the Foreign Exchange Market?64

An FX Investor & Traders' Mindset

While Trading the Foreign Exchange Market can be both challenging and exciting to most investor who happens to turn into FX Traders themselves; the risk /rewards potentials that the market gives makes it more...

0 comments    education seo investment
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