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To: ForYourEyesOnly who wrote (4280)3/14/1999 9:13:00 PM
From: long-gone  Respond to of 80950
 
I keep reading the treasury owns the gold of the USA, not the Fed.



To: ForYourEyesOnly who wrote (4280)3/15/1999 4:38:00 AM
From: Bobby Yellin  Respond to of 80950
 
I think you are looking in all the wrong places..A friend used to go on and on about a small consortium headed by the rockefellers who
controlled most of the money and set policies throughout the world..
I don't believe that either..(he said look how Rockefeller was one of first to put bank in China for instance..)
I do believe that government intervention in financial markets always
leads to disasters..
Why is Bush supposedly still ticked at Greenspan? If the fed didn't have control over monetary policy short term..Bush probably felt that Greenspan by
not lowering rates increased the duration of the recession..
What would have happened if Japan had not offered cheap money to the world for so long so they could do their borrowing and use incredible
leverage to move and demolish markets..
What would have happened if Germany way back had lowered rates instead of keeping them high to not lower east German currency..?
Why do a lot of brilliant people think that Greenspan and the fed are
going to be forced soon to lower interest rates again for liquidity
for world markets as more peril grows..
Why does Marty always say don't fight the FED..
I also find it fascinating that some people credit Greenspan with this
recovery..while the administration doesn't
I blame this recovery on Rubin..he knows how the markets work..he seems to have used his genius to give the market what he thought it needed to have trickle down economics or whatever..messing around with
long bond offerings etc,blah blah blah..(I use the word blame since
I think although more people have jobs..many of the jobs are not as
good...frenzy in cost saving getting rid of needed benefits..the stock market creating the wealth..not the hard work of workers.. creating a bubble that could prove disastrous if popped..and if people panic..
the market should be a lot higher in 10 years..)



To: ForYourEyesOnly who wrote (4280)3/15/1999 4:49:00 AM
From: Bobby Yellin  Respond to of 80950
 
just for personal read..I think this analysis of job market is incredibly important..also if wages have 2/3 weight in production costs..inflation picture according to the implications of this article aren't there.. lp-llc.com
By Anthony Chan, Ph. D.,
Managing Director and Chief Economist,
Banc One Investment Advisors

It is no secret that most of the jobs that have been gained in the current expansion have
been largely concentrated in the service sector. Specifically, the service sector added over
10 million jobs during this expansion while the manufacturing sector has gained only 71
thousand jobs! During the latest month the average hourly earnings data revealed that
workers in the service sector earned only $13.18 per hour while workers in the
manufacturing sector earned $11.68 per hour. A much more detailed analysis also
demonstrated that the business services component added 3.755 million jobs while Health
and Eating and Drinking Establishments and Special Trade Contractors added 1.889,
1.383 and 1.03 million, new jobs (during the current expansion), respectively. Another
category that gained a large number of jobs included State and Local governments which
gained 1.953 million jobs. In contrast, when we sorted the categories by relative percentage
gains (during the current expansion), we found the following rankings in descending order of
importance: Business Services (+74.4%), Amusement Park Recreations (+56.7%),
Agricultural Services ( +53.2%), Social Services (48.6%) and Engineering and
Management (+38.2%).

In contrast, we also found that the five lowest wage earning groups include: Eating and
Drinking establishments, Apparel and Accessories, General Merchandise Stores, Food
Stores and Hotels. In other words, we find that many of the categories that experienced the
greatest gains in net job creations have also been listed in many of the lowest paid
categories. As an example, we note that the Eating and Drinking establishment group was
the fourth highest gainer of new jobs during the expansion while also generating the largest
decline in average hourly earnings of any other major group. Moreover, the categories of
Special Trade Contractors and Amusement Park Recreations were also among the list of
large job gainers while simultaneously coming in the top five list of weakest wage gains.
Given these results, it is no wonder that average hourly earnings haven't risen to menacing
levels during the current expansion.

On the job loss front, our results find that the list was led by: Nondurable Goods (-281
million), Federal Government (-243 million), Oil and Gas (-107), Coal Mining (-52 million)
and Apparel (-51 million). Sorting out this same category by percentage decliners we find
that the list remained quite similar. The largest percentage decliner was coal mining
(-37.1%), followed by the following: Oil and Gas Extraction (-26.4%), Metal Mining
(-12.3%), Federal Government (-8.2%) and Apparel and Accessories (-4.4%). Once
again, our results revealed that the loss of jobs helped moderate the tone of the average
hourly earnings data because Coal Mining ($19.40) was the category with the highest
average hourly earnings while Metal Mining ($18.22) generated the fourth highest average
hourly earnings on the list of group categories. <p>

These results clearly reveal demonstrate that economy-wide wage pressures remain
quiescent partly as a result of an economy that has generated a large number of jobs in
categories that earn lower wages while eliminating a large number of jobs that have
traditionally earned relatively higher wages. Specifically, it is no secret that much of the
manufacturing sector (with average hourly earnings of $13.68) has still managed to increase
production despite very weak job gains which has translated into large gains in productivity
which have more than offset the wage increases that have recorded in this sector.

ANTHONY CHAN CHIEF ECONOMIST

(614-213-1832) BANC ONE INVESTMENT ADVISORS

The information herein is based on sources which Banc One believes to be reliable
but we cannot warrant its accuracy or completeness. Such information is subject to
change and is not intended to influence your investment decisions.



To: ForYourEyesOnly who wrote (4280)3/15/1999 12:30:00 PM
From: long-gone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 80950
 
Thought your'd like to see this:
A New World Order?

(1) The Round Table and Council on Foreign Relations

"The Round Table organization in England grew out of the life-long dream of gold
and diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes for a 'new world order'."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy

"The seven wills which Cecil Rhodes made between the ages of 24 and 46 [Rhodes
died at age forty-eight] constitute a kind of spiritual autobiography...Best know are
the first (the Secret Society Will...), and the last, which established the Rhodes
Scholarships...
"In his first will Rhodes states his aim still more specifically: 'The extension of
British rule throughout the world....the foundation of so great a power as to hereafter
render wars impossible and promote the interests of humanity'.
"The 'Confession of Faith' enlarges upon these ideas. The model for this proposed
secret society was the Society of Jesus, though he mentions also the Masons."
- Frank Aydelotte, American Rhodes Scholarships

"The 'secret society' was organized on the conspiratorial pattern of circles within
circles...The central part of the 'secret society' was established by March, 1891,
using Rhodes' money. the organization was run for Rothschild [Rhodes' financier in
mining enterprises] by Lord Alfred Milner...a key financier of the Bolshevik
revolution. The Round Table worked behind the scenes at the highest levels of
British government, influencing foreign policy and England's involvement and
conduct of WWI."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy

"At the end of the war of 1914, it became clear that the organization of this system
[the Round Table Group] had to be extended. Once again the task was entrusted to
Lionel Curtis who established, in England and each dominion, a front organization
to the existing Round Table Group. This front organization, called the Royal
Institute of International Affairs, had as it nucleus in each area the existing
submerged Round Table Group. In New York it was known as the Council on
Foreign Relations, and was a front for J. P. Morgan and Company in association
with the very small American Round Table Group. The American organizers were
dominated by the large number of Morgan 'experts'...who had gone to the Paris
Peace Conference and there became close friends with the similar group of English
'experts' which had been recruited by the Milner group. In fact, the original plans for
the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations
[C.F.R.] were drawn up in Paris..."
- Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope

"Colonel' Edward Mandel House was 'the British-educated son of a representative of
England's financial interests in the American South. The title was honorary; House
never served in the military. He was strictly a behind-the-scenes wire-puller and is
regarded by many historians as the real President of the United States during the
Wilson years."
"House had set down his political ideas in his book called Philip Dru: Administrator
in 1912. In this book House laid out a thinly fictionalized plan for conquest of
America by establishing 'Socialism as dreamed by Karl Marx'. He described a
'conspiracy' - the word is his - which succeeds in electing a U.S. President by
means of 'deception regarding his real opinions and intentions'. Among other
things, House wrote that the conspiracy was to insinuate 'itself into the primaries,
in order that no candidate might be nominated whose views were not in accord with
theirs'. Elections were to become mere charades conducted for the bedazzlement
of the booboisie. The idea was to use both the Democrat and Republican parties as
instruments to promote World government."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy

"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and
manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere
so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive,
that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation
of it."
- Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

"In 1919 House met in Paris with members of...The Round Table in order to form an
organization whose job it would be to propagandize the citizens of America,
England and western Europe on the glories of World Government. The big selling
point, of course, was 'peace'."
"...The most important financial dynasties in America following WWI were (in
addition to Morgan) the Rockefeller family; Kuhn, Loeb & Company; Dillon Read
and Company and Brown Bros Harriman. All were represented in the C.F.R. and Paul Warburg [who was the key figure in implementing the Federal Reserve System] was one of the incorporators."
"The C.F.R. has come to be know as 'The Establishment', 'the invisible government' and 'the Rockefeller foreign office'. This semi-secret organization unquestionably has become the most influential group in America."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy

C.F.R. openly advocates 'building a new international order [which] must be
responsive to world aspirations for peace, [and] for social and economic change...an international order [code word for world government]...including states
labeling themselves as 'Socialist' [Communist]."
- Study No. 7, published by the C.F.R. on November 25, 1959

As of 1971 "the formal membership in the C.F.R. is composes of close to 1500 of the most elite names in the worlds of government, labor, business, finance,
communications, the foundations, and the academy - and...it has staffed almost every key position of every administration since those of FDR..."

"At least forty-seven C.F.R. members were among the American delegates to the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. Members of the C.F.R. group included Harold Stassen, John J. McCloy, Owen Lattimore (called by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee a 'conscious articulate instrument of the
Soviet conspiracy'), Alger Hiss (Communist spy), Nelson Rockefeller, John Foster
Dulles, John Carter Vincent (security risk), and Dean Acheson." "So completely has the C.F.R. dominated the State Department over the past thirty-eight years that every Secretary of State except Cordell Hull, James Byrnes, and William Rogers has been a member of the C.F.R."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy

"Almost half of the Council members have been invited to assume official government positions or to act as consultants at one time or another."
- The Christian Science Monitor

"International banking organizations that currently [1971] have men in the C.F.R. include Kuhn, Loeb & Company; Lazard Freres (directly affiliated with Rothschild);Dillon Read; Lehman Bros.; Goldman, Sachs; Chase Manhattan Bank; Morgan Guaranty Bank; Brown Bros. Harriman; First National City Bank; Chemical Bank &
Trust, and Manufactures Hanover Trust Bank."
"Among the major corporations that have men in the C.F.R. are Standard Oil, IBM,
Xerox, Eastman Kodak, Pan American, Firestone, U.S. Steel, General Electric and
American Telephone and Telegraph company."
"Among the communications corporations represented in the C.F.R. are National Broadcasting Corporation, Columbia Broadcasting System, Time, Life, Fortune, Look, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Denver Post, Louisville Courier Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, the Knight
papers, McGraw-Hill, Simon & Schuster, Harper Bros., Random House, Little Brown & Co., Macmillan Co., Viking Press, Saturday Review, Business Week and Book of the Month Club."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy

During World War II "most of the concentration camp factories were operated by
the giant German chemical combine, I. G. Farben. In fact, one of Farben's subsidiaries manufactured the poison gas used in concentration camp gas chambers. A remarkable book, The Crime and Punishment of I. G. Farben , by Joseph Borkin, documents how the Farben companies, in cooperation with the Nazi SS, ran the concentration camps and adjacent factories as a business enterprise." "Prince Bernhard of the House of Orange in the Netherlands had been a member of the SS before the war, followed by a stint as an employee of I. G. Farben. He then married into the House of Orange and assumed his position as chairman of Shell
Oil."
- William Bramley, The Gods of Eden

Three centuries ago, "a powerful group of Englishmen and Scots had formed a Protestant political faction in England known as the Whigs. The Whigs were actually headquartered in Holland which...was under the monarchy of the House of
Orange. From their Dutch base, the Whigs launched the Glorious Revolution of
1688 and quickly unseated James II in a bloodless coup. The Whigs then placed James II's son-in-law, William III of Orange, on the British throne. The House of Orange now reigned over both Holland and England, as well as over their original
German homeland."
"William II is reported to have been a Freemason. In fact, in 1688, a militant secret society was formed to support William II. It was called the Order of Orange after William II's family, and it patterned itself after Freemasonry. The Orange Order was anti-Catholic and its purpose was to ensure that Protestantism remained the
dominant Christian religion of England."
"Upon his assumption of the British throne, William III quickly undertook to erect
the same institutions in England as those which had been established by his dynasty in Holland: a strong parliament with a weakened monarchy and a central bank operating on an inflatable paper currency. William and his queen, Mary II, also
promptly launched England into expensive wars against Catholic France."
- William Bramley, The Gods of Eden

(2) The Bilderbergers

"It should not be surprising to learn that there is on the international level an organizational equivalent of the C.F.R. This group calls itself the Bilderbergers....The strange name of this group is taken from the site of the first meeting in May, 1954 - the Hotel de Bilderberg - in Oostebeek, Holland. The man who create the Bilderbergers is His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the
Netherlands. The Prince is an important figure in Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell Oil) and the Societe General de Belgique, a huge conglomerate cartel with worldwide
holdings. The Bilderbergers meet once - or sometimes twice - a year. Those in attendance include leading political and financial figures from the United states and Western Europe. Prince Bernhard makes no effort to hide the fact that the ultimate goal of the Bilderbergers is a world government. In the meantime, while the 'new world order' is being built, the Bilderbergers coordinate the efforts of the European and American power elites.
"Prince Bernard's counterpart among the American Bilderbergers is David Rockefeller, chairman of the board of the C.F.R., whose economic base is the giant Chase Manhattan Bank and Standard Oil. Among the other Bilderbergers from the world of ultra-high finance are Baron Edmund de Rothschild of the House of Rothschild, C. Douglas Dillon (C.F.R.) of Dillon Read & Co., Robert McNamara of the World Bank, Sir Eric Roll of S.G. Warburg and Co., Ltd, Pierce Paul
Schweitzer of the International Monetary Fund, and George Ball (C.F.R.) of Lehman Bothers."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy

"Prince Bernhard personally chaired these meetings until 1976, when a corruption scandal forced him to resign."
- William Bramley, The Gods of Eden

Sovereign Military Order of Malta (abbreviated SMOM) has also been linked to the Bilderbergers as an "800 year old Vatican 'secret police' or 'dirty tricks bureau.
According to Covert Action Information Bulletin #25, Winter 1986, notable recent members of SMOM have included Dr. Otto von Hapsburg (a prime organize of the
infamous 'Bilderbergers'), Franz von Papen (the man who persuaded President von Hindenburg to resign and appoint Hitler chancellor of Germany) William Casey (the CIA chief who died mysteriously during the Iran-Contra hearings), Major General Reinhard Gehlen (vide supra), General Alexander Haig, William F. Buckley jr.,
Clare Boothe Luce, and the three ringleaders o the P2 conspiracy in Italy --Roberto
Calvi, Michele Sindona and Licio Gelli. Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh in The Messianic Legacy (Henry Holt, New York, 1987) have added to the list of SMOM members Alexandre de Marenches, former chief of French Intelligence, and claim mysterious links between SMOM and the Priory of Sion. Gordon Thomas and Max Wittman in The Year of Armaggedon (Corgi, London, 1984) claim that SMOM members act as couriers between the Vatican and the CIA. Most scholars dissent vehemently from von Hanfkopf's ill-documented charge that Professor de Selby, Flahive, La Tournier
and the shadowy La Fournier are all members of SMOM."
- Bram
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