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The US government's debts have ballooned so badly the National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits to record the spiralling figure.
The digital counter marks the national debt level, but when that passed the $10 trillion point last month, the sign could not display the full amount.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7660409.stm

While Joe the Taxpayer is stocking up on canned spam, candles, ammunition, and recipes for dog meat, the war pigs from Raytheon, Northrup-Grumman, and Lockheed-Martin are popping the corks on the bubbly aboard their private yachts.
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE49L4WS20081022

That Israel's economy seems to have emerged relatively unscathed from the crisis has leant much ammunition to enemies of the Jewish state. As does the fact that many of the world's financial leaders are of Jewish descent.
Figures such as US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, his predecessor Alan Greenspan, World Bank President Robert Zoellik, UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson and the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize for economics, Paul Krugman, have all come under attack due to their heritage.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3611260,00.html

If the NZ taxpayer is to guarantee the deposits in NZ banks - could someone please first answer these questions: Who is holding these deposits? Whose deposits are being guaranteed? How many depositors are there with $50,000 or more? How many depositors are there with $100,000 or more? With $1 million or more on deposit?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00279.htm

Despite wall-to-wall media coverage of the financial crisis rocking the U.S. and, increasingly, other financial systems around the world, a crisis with a larger scope is brewing with little attention.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44284

Financial workers at Wall Street's top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn ( £40.4bn), a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid in bonuses, for their work so far this year - despite plunging the global financial system into its worst crisis since the 1929 stock market crash, the Guardian has learned.
(Americans should take to the streets and wreck some shit. As well as pull every penny they have out of the bank and stock markets.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/17/executivesalaries-banking

US banks borrowed a record $367.8 billion (£208 billion) a day from the Federal Reserve in the week ended October 1.
READ MORE: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6053661

(and the debt monster grows bigger)

Iceland is poised to become the first Western nation to go cap-in-hand to the International Monetary Fund since Britain’s humiliating loan in 1976.

(The beginning of the end of a nation is an IMF loan.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businesslatestnews/3185203/Iceland-pr...

Preacher tells the truth about the Rothschild and Warberg international banking families, and the hidden agenda for America's future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxO-z0XWaLc&feature=related

The Fed is privately owned. Its shareholders are private banks.
The Federal Reserve was set up in 1913 as a "lender of last resort" to backstop bank runs, following a particularly bad bank panic in 1907. The Fed’s mandate was then and continues to be to keep the private banking system intact....
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10489