Month: May 2012

U.S. Treasury Slams China: Wants the Dollar To Fall Against the Yuan.

By Mike Larsen – Weiss Research In a just- released U.S. Treasury report, our leaders have slammed China claiming that “The available evidence suggests the [yuan] remains significantly undervalued and we believe further appreciation of [it] against the dollar and other major currencies is warranted.” Translation: The U.S. wants to the dollar to FALL in value against the yuan. Naturally, Washington can’t come out and publicly say that. So they do the next best thing, in their eyes — they make it political and blame China for all our problems. Racking up mountains of debt, trying to inflate itself...

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Book Review: Essential Implant Therapy

Authors: Dr. Nkem Obiechina and Dr. Dalvir Pannu Publisher: AuthorHouse – 77 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani This book was written by two specialists in dental implant surgery to fill the gap of information on this subject available to the public, particularly for those considering such  procedures. Drs. Obiechina and Pannu write that there are many books available on dental implants for professionals involved in this segment of dentistry. They point out however, that the information available to the public and potential dental implant patients is mostly in the form of brochures that are very general in nature...

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Book Review: The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself

Author: John Jantsch Publisher: Penguin Books – Portfolio – 243   pages Book Review by:  Sonu Chandiram In The Referral Engine, author John Jantsch lays out a systematic method of gaining referrals for your small business. It is a fairly well-selling book with 64 reviews and a ranking of about 38,000 on www.Amazon.com. Among business and investing books however, it ranks a high No. 34. He is described in the outer cover flap as a marketing and digital technology coach and an award-winning social media publisher. He is the author of the ‘small-business marketing bible’ Duct Tape Marketing, which is...

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Book Review: Family Politics

Author: Scott Yenor Publisher: Baylor University Press – 362 pages Book Review by:  Paiso Jamakar This is a book on the evolving nature of marriage and family in the Western world. It is a survey of thoughts by many political writers over the decades on the relationship between marriage and family on the one hand as social institutions, and religious and political entities, such as the church and the state, on the other. Among the writers whose views author Scott Yenor examines and discusses are: Simone Beauvoir, Friedrich Engels, Sigmund Freud, Georg W.F. Hegel, John Locke, Karl Marx, John...

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Bank Runs Spreading Across Europe. The United States is Next

By Martin Weiss – Weiss Research  Monday, May 28, 2012 This is not the first time we’ve warned you about an imminent financial megashock. In our Money and Markets of December 3, 2007, we specifically named Lehman Brothers as the next major firm to collapse on Wall Street. (See “Dangerously Close to a Money Panic.”) In our Money and Markets of March 17, 2008, precisely 182 days before its failure, we again named Lehman, making it abundantly clear that it could be the trigger of a financial meltdown. (See “Closer to a Financial Meltdown.”) And now, starting with last...

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