http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog A LOOK BEHIND THE WIZARD’S CURTAIN Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:26:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/bank-for-international-settlements/ http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/bank-for-international-settlements/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:01:31 +0000 Bruce http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/?p=48 http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/bank-for-international-settlements/feed/ 7 In a story that sends one down the rabbit hole of international finance into the Alice in Wonderland world of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the gnomes of Basel said today that financial products should be treated like medicines and sold to consumers only when they are certified safe to prevent a repeat of last year’s financial meltdown. http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/todays-headlines-paint-a-grim-picture/ http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/todays-headlines-paint-a-grim-picture/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:56:37 +0000 Bruce http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/?p=31 http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/todays-headlines-paint-a-grim-picture/feed/ 5 Today’s headlines paint a grim picture, both domestic and international, of economic meltdown on a planetary scale. Everyone knows that these things just happen, right? And economies go through cycles, right? Not necessarily. What if our current economic crises were not random confluences of unrelated events, but a carefully orchestrated assault designed to gain complete [...] http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/the-hidden-beginning/ http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/the-hidden-beginning/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:59:16 +0000 Bruce http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/?p=20 http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/the-hidden-beginning/feed/ 4 THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: THE HIDDEN BEGINNING June 2009 On April 2, 2009, control of the planet’s banks was turned over to the secret decisions of eleven men—board members of a Swiss organization with a troubling Nazi past. Banking wasn’t always that way. . . . My secretary would come into my office every morning at [...]