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<title><![CDATA[Keith Timimi]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the last 18 years I have been an entrepreneur, IT professional and internet marketing consultant, across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. I have been based in Singapore for the last 12 of those years, and am happily married with two amazing kids.
Economics has always been a sort of hobby and part-time interest, and now I get to indulge that passion working on the two main Stanley St Labs properties, EconomyWatch.com and Economypedia.com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Boom and Bust Cycle: A Financiers Best Friend]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:39:58 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[23 November 2009. In our last few articles, we have analyzed how the Fed is a private bank, how the Fed and other banks literally create money out of thin air, and how the system is designed to keep the banks intact over and above protecting the...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve is a Private Bank]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:46:31 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[. I have to admit the fact that the Federal Reserve is a private bank is not news in the sense that it is not new. After all, the Fed was set up as a private institution in 1913, and modelled on the Bank of England, set up as a private entity in...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fix the Banks - Before They Fix Us Completely]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:40:58 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[18 November 2009. There is an elephant in the room, and it is hard to write about anything else while that is the case. The financial system in the US and Europe needs to be reformed. Not in the way that the regulation currently going through the House and Senate calls for. That is not real reform - it entrenches Too Big to Fail and still allows hundreds of trillions of dollars - more than the entire GDP of the world - to be traded in secret. Lets just say that with the banks financing politicians campaigns, they are getting their money's worth, and driving the US into ever deeper debt. Real reform is based on transparency, increased capital requirements, transaction taxes and the break up of Too Big to Fail firms. ]]></description>
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