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The droids at the Internal Revenue Service got hacked the other day. The bad guys grabbed 100,000 tax returns right out of the agency’s computers. These guys don’t waste time stealing Dollars, Euros or Pounds. No. They go for the…

When Alexander the Great ruled Cyprus, the Mediterranean island tucked into the underbelly of Turkey like a fetus in the geo-political womb, he took control of the island’s currency by removing the images of the local kings on the coins…

Twenty thousand battle-hardened troops and cavalry stormed off 600 Persian war ships onto the Plains of Marathon 26 miles north of Athens. These were the shock troops of the Persian army, warriors that had built the Persian Empire into the…

Here by popular demand, the Goldman Sachs graphic. Click the image to open a full-width view.

Three months ago, I wrote an article covering the financial crisis in Europe. The article, which is now the final chapter in the updated version of Crisis by Design (http://johntrumanwolfe.com/products-page/), exposes the fact the current crisis is caused. It is…

There are news reports that now suggest that JP Morgan’s derivatives losses are not $2 billion, they are likely to be $8 billion or perhaps as high as $9 billion http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/jpmorgan-trading-loss-may-reach-9-billion/. The JP Morgan losses resulted from derivatives called Credit…

The international bankers and the media are starting to push the global "CRASH" button. Zoellich, head of the World Bank (and former Goldman Sachs exec) has raised the spector of a global Lehman Bros - An International crash. Maybe this…