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/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 [...] http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/the-financial-crisis-a-look-behind-the-wizards-curtain/ http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/the-financial-crisis-a-look-behind-the-wizards-curtain/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:47:15 +0000 Bruce http://crisisbydesign.com/blog/?p=3 http://www.crisisbydesign.com/blog/the-financial-crisis/the-financial-crisis-a-look-behind-the-wizards-curtain/feed/ 7 March, 2009 I’m tired of hearing about subprime mortgages. It’s as if these things were living entities that had spawned an epidemic of economic pornography. Subprime mortgages are as much a cause of the current financial chaos as bullets were for the death of JFK. Someone planned the assassination and someone pulled the trigger. The [...]