Germany's hyperinflation is your future yet to come America

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/ess_germanhyperinflation.html

America this is where the Federal Reserve is leading you, and like the Germans, most will be completely unaware until the moment it hits.
Starvation will be the common denominator of the day.
If you continue to stay silent about what the FED is now doing, you will have the unique pleasure of walking back into time and experiencing the daily trials that the Germans were forced to suffer through.
The Great Depression was a Sunday stroll compared to this event and trust me when I say it's not something you want to experience.

Before World War I Germany was a prosperous country, with a gold-backed currency, expanding industry, and world leadership in optics, chemicals, and machinery. The German Mark, the British shilling, the French franc, and the Italian lira all had about equal value, and all were exchanged four or five to the dollar. That was in 1914. In 1923, at the most fevered moment of the German hyperinflation, the exchange rate between the dollar and the Mark was one trillion Marks to one dollar, and a wheelbarrow full of money would not even buy a newspaper. Most Germans were taken by surprise by the financial tornado.

"My father was a lawyer," says Walter Levy, an internationally known German-born oil consultant in New York, "and he had taken out an insurance policy in 1903, and every month he had made the payments faithfully. It was a 20-year policy, and when it came due, he cashed it in and bought a single loaf of bread." The Berlin publisher Leopold Ullstein wrote that an American visitor tipped their cook one dollar. The family convened, and it was decided that a trust fund should be set up in a Berlin bank with the cook as beneficiary, the bank to administer and invest the dollar.

In retrospect, you can trace the steps to hyperinflation, but some of the reasons remain cloudy. Germany abandoned the gold backing of its currency in 1914. The war was expected to be short, so it was financed by government borrowing, not by savings and taxation. In Germany prices doubled between 1914 and 1919.

After four disastrous years Germany had lost the war. Under the Treaty of Versailles it was forced to make a reparations payment in gold-backed Marks, and it was due to lose part of the production of t

Depression diagnoses fell after FDA antidepressant warning

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-06-01-depression-fda_N.htm?obref=obinsite

Interesting to say the least, perhaps some of the DR's found they had a conscience after all.


A persistent decline in the rate of Americans, especially children, newly diagnosed with depression followed the first federal warning on risks connected with antidepressant drugs, a study suggests.
In 2003, the Food and Drug Administration first warned about the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in young people taking the drugs. That action may have helped reverse a five-year trend of rising rates of diagnosis for depression, the researchers found.

The findings, published Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry, are based on an analysis of eight years of data from nearly 100 managed care plans and more than 55 million patients.

It was already known that antidepressant use among young people had fallen since the drugs began carrying a so-called "black box" warning about risks. But the data showing an extended decline in the level of depression diagnoses are new.

In some cases, untreated depression can be more dangerous than suicidal feelings when starting antidepressants and a spike in teenage suicides in 2004 worried some experts that could be another unintended result of the FDA warnings. Then, teen suicides fell slightly the following year, offering hope that the suicide increase was just a blip

Beer Sales Fall Off A Cliff

http://www.businessinsider.com/beer-sales-fall-off-a-cliff-2009-2


The great thing about this recession is that it's busting all the old cliches, like the idea that vice is somehow recession proof. Porn is hurt. Gambling is getting killed. And even alcohol sales have fallen off a cliff. Nate Silver plucked this chart from the BEA, which says it all.

And it's beer, the cheapest sorrow-drowner, that's really gotten killed, with demand falling a whopping 14%.