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The ECONO-MATRIX -By Alex Wallenwein
EURO vs DOLLAR MONITOR
Apr 25, 2005

In the financial world we live in, nothing is as it seems anymore - except for one thing:

We are all operating under the same illusion.

Well, most of us, anyway. Let me explain what I mean.

One of the cornerstones of what we call "reality" is that it is, by and large, the same for everyone. While we all have different mental perceptions and interpretations of the things we see, hear, feel, taste, and touch around us, on a strictly sensory level the vast majority of us agree on what kind of world we live in.

The same thing should be true of what we will call "economic reality." In a sane world, we all should be operating on the same economic and financial signals as everyone else.

The trouble is that we don't.

The ultimate kind of signal in any economy, whether it's local regional, national, or global, is price. The price of whatever it is we want to either buy, rent, or sell.

I am not arguing that all prices should be the same. That would be idiotic, of course. What I am saying is that the way in which we as humans determine the price of anything should be reliable. It should be determined based on a rock-solid, commonly shared, universally acceptable, and unalterable unit of account.

And that unit of account should be physically and conceptually inseparable from the very thing we use as payment for whatever it is we buy or sell.

Without that absolute unity, even identity, between the three aspects of money (medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value) in every respect in the very thing we use as money there can be no reliable price-discovery mechanism.

"The market" is absolutely helpless when it comes to discovering the price of anything if there is no mechanism that makes the hidden costs of manipulation immediately (or at least mediately) noticeable.

When you give the power of determining the value of what we regard as money to mortal humans, mere individuals whose judgment will invariably be clouded by their own agenda, their own desires, their own ideas of what is right and wrong, correct and incorrect, then you create a financial world that resembles far more one of those computerized "programs" humans were fed in the movie called "The Matrix" than actual market reality.

When mere humans have the power to:

- determine the amount of currency-creation and of the cost of borrowing that currency at will;

- decree that certain institutions (banks) are allowed to literally loan currency into existence while being able to demand actual, tangible collateral from their borrowers as security;

- when the right to operate the "ultimate lender" - the "creator" of currency is farmed out to a private corporation with private shareholders;

- when these private shareholders of such corporation(s) are then recruited to perform the jobs of the elected officials who are supposed to oversee the actions of their own kind,

the you have created a financial "matrix" of such epic, such diabolical proportions that no normal human being - or even group, organization, or nation of human beings, can be expected to figure out what the real price of anything actually is.

It's like living in another movie called "Dark City" where a group of "administrators" nightly changes every individual's and family's apartment, address, furnishings, associations, etc. while people sleep. When they wake up, they live in new surroundings, with new people, having new jobs working for mew businesses, which keeps them so on edge and so confused and disoriented that they can never quite figure out what's wrong with their world.

That is what is happening to us, to real human beings, when we participate in what we are taught to regard as the "free market."

As long as central planners determine the nature, the amount, the value, and the design of the currency we all are required to earn, spend, and save, we do not live in economic reality. We are like little kids living in "Neverland" - and you know what happens to little kids over there.

They quite literally get shafted.

There is an easy, very visual way to get an idea how out of whack the world is that these central planners have created for us (or the world that we have allowed them to create for us), and that is to look at a chart of just about any economic parameter showing how it behaved before and after the world's reserve currency was decoupled from real money - gold.

Look at the difference in the several charts between the periods before 1971 and after 1971:

To create this chart I simply picked randomly from about twenty different time series stored in my "workspace" on "Economagic.com". I'll bet you get a very similar result if you pick other series.

If the various lines are seen as symbolizing the heartbeat of the US (and therefore the world) economy, you can see that this "patient" is suffering a heart attack. (Better get out of that hospital, quick!)

What you are looking at is a picture-book example of unmanageable, formerly un-imaginable imbalances being created - imbalances which will soon kill this patient dead.

What our leaders did to the world economy by taking all currencies off gold is akin to taking a passenger jetliner off the "autopilot" (i.e., a gold-referenced currency system) and letting a twelve-year old, adrenaline-crazed video game junkie take control of the cockpit!

How anyone with half a brain wave, looking at this chart, can still believe that our money-masters have "everything under control" and will surely prevent a "hard landing" if only we let them do their jobs in peace, is utterly beyond me.

But yet, such people exist. Not only that, they are in the majority.

They are mainstream investors clutching their ... FULL STORY

Rare Coins Offer Keys to Kingdom -James Altucher
RealMoney.com Contributor
4/28/2005

Living "the good life" doesn't necessarily mean wining and dining, lying on the beach and blowing all your money on roulette wheels in exotic casinos. Indeed, you can make more money (which is the ultimate joy for many anyway) by buying money.

Rare coins are often the currency of the rich and famous -- whether it's historical biblical coins found at archaeological digs or the original silver dollars that launched our nation's currency.

Indeed, there are collectors who, starting from humble beginnings, have amassed fortunes by buying and selling rare coins. John Jay Pittman, for instance, was an engineer at Kodak from 1947 to 1970, making between $10,000 and $15,000 per year. Each year he invested up to half his salary in rare gold and silver coins. Over the course of 20 years, he probably made a total investment of about $100,000, and his collection ultimately sold for over $30 million.

There are two ways one can get involved in coin collecting:

* Collect your own coins, and master the subtleties of the different coins and grading mechanisms that are used to establish value for each coin.
* Invest alongside the masters.

Assessing the value of a rare coin does have similar characteristics to valuing a business. You use comparables and you make sure there is a significant margin of safety. The value of a coin depends in large part on its rarity, which is a function of both the particular time and place it was minted, as well as its current condition. Depending on these two factors, there are various scales that will assign a grade based on the perceived rarity of the coin. Grades are between 1 and 70, with anything in the 60 to 70 range considered "rare." A coin that is graded a 69 might be significantly more expensive than a coin graded at 68.

The key to "value investing" in the coin space is to acquire coins that might have been graded too low or coins that are more rare than other similarly priced coins. For instance, a 1905 Liberty nickel with a 65 grade might cost $500 right now, even though there might be only 157 other 1905 Liberty nickels with a 65 grade. This offers a better margin of safety than a Morgan Silver Dollar that might have a similar price but comes from a population of 3,000 to 7,000. In the long run, rarity of population is the best predictor of future price, much in the same way that cash flows are the best predictor of a company's stock price.

Coins are here to stay, and like any product of inflation combined with artistry and precious metals, will rise in value forever. Make money off of money: the good life indeed.

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The Worrisome Dollar -Aden Sisters
Mary Anne & Pamela Aden
April 25, 2005
www.adenforecast.com

The situation with the U.S. dollar is getting downright spooky. Even though the dollar moved higher this month, it remains bearish, the major trend is down and worldwide sentiment continues to worsen.

To illustrate what we mean, here’s a key question… What does the Prime Minister of Japan have in common with central banks in countries like China, India, Russia as well as billionaires like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, former Fed chairman Paul Volker, several Fed presidents and the former assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration?... Answer: This growing list of countries and individuals are all seriously concerned about the U.S. dollar’s future, in some cases extremely so.

CENTRAL BANKS: Lowering dollar reserves

A recent BIS study, for example, concluded that Asian central and commercial banks have reduced their dollar holdings over the past three years from 81% to 67%. More worrisome, our biggest lender, Japan, has been a net dollar seller in four out of the past six months.

These and other countries simply do not want to keep funding U.S. spending. The U.S. is heavily in debt and living beyond its means. Growing numbers believe the dollar will be unable to maintain its world reserve currency status, and they want out.

The fact is, no country has ever been able to keep its world reserve status while building up the biggest debts in history. Plus, we’ve transferred our wealth to foreigners, who’ve accumulated $3.6 trillion in U.S. assets over the past 15 years, thanks to the growing U.S. trade deficits (see Chart 1). Some Fed officials feel this is nothing to worry about, but history tells us otherwise.

DEFICITS AND THE DOLLAR

Reserve status is a privilege belonging to the most economically stable country and the currency reflects that country’s health and safety. The latest full year U.S. trade deficit soared to a new high of $665.9 billion, or 6.3% of GDP. Anything over 5% is considered extremely dangerous and it puts downward pressure on the currency.

As you can see, the U.S. dollar index has been in a steep decline for over three years but it’s recently been holding at its 1995 low (see Chart 2). As long as the dollar index stays below 86.50, the major trend will remain down, meaning the dollar’s headed even lower.

Remember, the dollar has already dropped 70% against other currencies since the early 1970s when it stopped having a link to gold, becoming instead a floating paper currency. The current dollar decline is actually a continuation of this long-term downtrend.

Due to the current environment, we feel strongly the dollar is headed even lower and since gold and the dollar move in opposite directions, this is going to keep upward pressure on gold.

http://www.adenforecast.com

GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS -Bill Bonner
Daily Reckoning
Apr 22, 2005

Globalization is nothing more than the extension of the division of labor across international boundaries. Our little village in France has the vestiges of a self-contained community. As recently as the end of WWII, almost everything people needed was produced right there. The farms grew wheat. Farmers raised vegetables... and cows... pigs... chickens. There was a machine shop... a forge... a woodworking atelier. There still remain the 'Versailles' boxes, in which lemon trees were planted. The boxes allowed the trees to be moved into heated space in the winter. Otherwise, they would freeze and die.

But as distance was annihilated, commerce in lemons was born. There was no longer any need to plant lemon trees in transportable wooden boxes when the lemons themselves could be shipped, quickly and cheaply, by the millions. One country can produce lemons. Another can produce machine gun cartridges.

Individuals... towns... enterprises... regions... can divide up the labor, work more efficiently, and produce more things at lower cost. Everyone involved gets a little richer.

There are really only two ways to get what you want in life, dear reader. You can do so honestly... or dishonestly. You can get it by working for it... or by stealing it. You can get it by trade and commerce... or by force and fraud. You can get it by civilized methods... or by barbaric ones. You can get rich by "economic means" or by "political means," as the great German sociologist, Franz Oppenheimer put it. Globalization is merely an elaboration of the economic means of getting things. It requires civilized relationships to make it work; people have to get along with each other in order to trade. They must rely on others - even other people in strange, faraway places - for their daily bread. They must also be able to count on the medium of exchange that they trade goods and services in. If they can't trust the money, they are not likely to want to do business.

The end of history has been announced several times. But it never seems to arrive. People always tend to think that what is will remain... that trends in place right now will continue at least indefinitely, and perhaps forever. The odds of anything going wrong, they tell themselves when the going is good, are like the extreme edges of a bell curve - vanishingly small. But people badly "underestimate the persistence of history's traditional side, the rise and fall of empires, the rivalry of regimes, and the disastrous exploits of great men," wrote French historian Raymond Aron. That is to say, they tend to ignore the political means that tend to mess things up... and the rare, fat tail events that make history interesting.

There are times when civilization goes forward. And there are times when it goes in the other direction. Woodrow Wilson slammed the United States into reverse in 1917. It has been backing up ever since, in the sense that Americans rely more on force and fraud to get what they want. Gun-toting soldiers now defend America's many supposed interests all over the world - even in places where America seems to have no interests. The U.S. government takes far more of its citizens' money than it did in 1917... and provides detailed instructions to Americans on such a wide variety of matters that one can scarcely toss a chicken out the window or blow up an outhouse without asking permission of the authorities.

But we're not complaining. For while the U.S. Empire was growing, so was world trade. In the free world until 1989... and now almost everywhere... a "pax dollarum" greatly aided the cause of globalization throughout the second half of the 20th century. But this new globalized commerce has a fraudulent side to it. The hegemonic power is using political means, even while it shops. During the last big boost in the division of labor, in the 19th century up until 1914, the money in which transactions were calibrated was backed by gold. No country - not even an imperial one - could cheat.

If a country consumed more than it produced, other countries found themselves with surpluses of the laggard nation's currency. They then could ask for gold in settlement. Gold was real, the ultimate money. When a nation's gold horde was in danger, it quickly adjusted its policies to correct the imbalance. The dollar, on the other hand, is merely a piece of paper, backed by nothing more than the full faith and credit of the United States treasury. How good a promise is that? No one knows for sure. Niall Ferguson explains why it may be worth less than many think:

"A rising proportion of Americans may consider themselves to have been 'saved' in the Evangelical sense, but they are less good at saving in the economic sense. The personal savings rate among Americans stood at jut 0.2 percent of disposable personal income in September 2004, compared with 7.7 percent less than 15 years ago. Whether to finance domestic investment (in the late 1990s) or government borrowing (after 2000), the United States has come to rely increasingly on foreign lending. As the current account deficit has widened (it is not approaching 6% of GDP), U.S. net overseas liabilities have risen steeply to around 25% of GDP. Half of the publicly held federal debt is now in foreign hands; at the end of August 2004, the combined U.S. Treasury holdings of China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan were $1.1 trillion, up by 22% from the end of 2003."

The odd thing about the spurt of globalization in the last five years is that it's so lopsided. The U.S. takes... but it doesn't give. It borrows... but it doesn't pay back. It buys... but it doesn't sell. It imports... but it doesn't export. The only reason foreigners put up with those shenanigans is because they receive paper currency in payment. They assume their dollars will be as valuable in the future as they are now. They assume the trends of the last 50 years will continue unchanged. They assume that no terrorists will knock off an archduke... and no fat tail will plop itself down in the currency markets. They assume that someone, somewhere, had the situation under control. And yet... "If the private market - which knows that with high probability the dollar is going down someday - decides that that someday has come and that the dollar is going down now," writes Brad DeLong, "then all the Asian central banks in the world cannot stop it."

What will happen when the world figures out that the United States is pulling a fast one? We don't know. But like the period following the sinking of the Lusitania, we're sure it will make the history books.

http://www.dailyreckoning.com

One Nation Under Man -JB Williams
American Culture/www.therant.us
April 22, 2005

There is a reason, a very good reason why the founders established America as a free nation guided by basic rights endowed by our Creator rather than man made and issued by our government. But many have either forgotten or never been taught that reason. It’s natural for men to desire dominion over man, but it is also a deadly proposition…These men sooner or later attain the appropriate title of tyrant…

Those who seek to remove God’s dominion over America fail the most basic test of understanding America. Any thinking person with a third grade education could tell you that we only have two choices on earth, either God’s dominion or man’s dominion. Whether or not one believes in any God at all, you don’t have to be a genius to recognize the pitfalls of allowing men dominion over man. Have we learned nothing from history?

The founders had seen the pitfalls first hand and dodged that bullet in their founding of this country. However some 200 years later, man’s desire for an open society where anything goes requires that man make his own rules, set his own moral standards regarding acceptable codes of conduct. God’s law won’t work in an open society because God’s laws place restrictions on human behaviors, responsibilities and consequences for choices made on a personal level. The words sin and accountability are judgmental, narrow minded, discriminatory and offensive.

So a nation that once trusted only in God, casts God and his laws overboard in exchange for man’s laws. How many times have you heard that we are a nation of laws? This is true, but we are fast becoming only a nation of laws… no longer a nation with a strong moral compass and an inherent sense of or respect for basic right and wrong.

We have replaced simple ideas of right and wrong with only that which is legal or illegal. In doing so, we have opted for man’s dominion over men and the writing is on the wall.

There are at least two inescapable consequences inherent with this dramatic change in American philosophy. First, men who make or interpret laws are now given the power to administer the rights once endowed by our Creator, inalienable by man. In the tradition of mankind, they will do so in their own self interests as we have already witnessed on many occasions.

Second, the fact is, no law can be written to effectively govern the behaviors of men who have no internal moral compass. Man made laws are proven daily to be a wholly inadequate means of keeping evil doers at bay. Our courts are filled with people who have no respect for any laws, manmade or otherwise and our prisons are overflowing with evil doers. Our courts are left with no choice but to put rapists, thieves and murders back on the streets again and again.

Yes, we have always been a nation of laws, but now we are fast becoming a nation only of laws.

Add to the equation that we have also accepted the idea that courts are now an integral part of the legislative process and you have one unelected man or court, on the basis of one case, circumventing the legitimate legislative process by creating law from the bench in the form of case law.

Combined these things leave us with one man or one court determining the individual rights of all Americans. In case you have not been paying attention, these men have already reversed our most basic right to life to accommodate their wishes for a new right to die, or more accurately stated, to kill. If we won’t respect and protect the sanctity of life itself, no other rights matter…

The fact is many evil doers both individually and collectively in groups, hide behind man made laws to protect their right to do wrong. Most know what they are doing is wrong, but the fact that it is legal or at least not illegal, makes it alright. Or does it?

For every new law passed there is a well organized and educated lawyer who can and will find a means to twist that law to his clients favor and a judge with his or her own agenda. It is no longer their job to determine guilt or innocence, but only to defend the accused by all means available, including turning the intent of the law inside out if need be.

Judges have come to believe that they are legislators rather than arbiters of real justice. It’s called an oligarchy, the rule of a few over many. The worse part is nobody elected the few and nobody remembers how to fire them either, or that they should… It was Thomas Jefferson’s biggest fear and it has come to pass.

But the blame can not be laid at the feet of the judiciary or even elected officials. The blame rests squarely on the shoulders of those in America who desire man’s dominion over man, and those who know better but allow it… We the people…

As a result, today we have a right to kill at will, both inside and outside the womb, as a matter of convenience. It isn’t right and most of us know it, but it is legal, kind of... That removes the fundamental right to life once endowed by our Creator, once believed to be inalienable by man.

If one does not have a right to life, then a right to liberty or the pursuit of happiness seems silly. An open society is achieved, almost… anything goes, no limits, no discrimination, no consequences. Just the way we like it… life on our own terms.

The basic sales pitch for an open society is equal rights for all. But are all people, all ideas, all ideologies and all behaviors welcome in our society equal? In a truly open society, they are… anything less is called discrimination today.

Those who believe in the traditional family unit and the sanctity of marriage must accept the notion that marriage is nothing more than a legal contract between two parties and we all know that contracts, like rules are made to be broken. In order to have an open society where anything goes, these contracts must be broken…and they must be meaningless.

Personal liberty has been replaced with a specific list of government issued rights. The right to pursue ones owns happiness now has no limitation of moral or ethical standards governing the means by which one can achieve personal happiness, even at another’s expense.

The right to an equal economic opportunity has been replaced with an equal right to stuff and taking it from one who earns it against their will for purposes of equal distribution to those who don’t earn it is not only acceptable, but desirable, at least to those doing the taking.

Once we were One Nation Under God… Today we are only a nation of laws under man. Men we didn’t elect and men we forgot how to fire. The nation, whose freedom and liberty was endowed by our Creator, has now used those freedoms and liberties to commit social suicide.

Though some 90% of our nation believes in God, we have allowed those who do not to retire God’s dominion over this land. In so doing, we the people have staked our entire future upon men… their laws, their interpretations, their personal agenda’s and their political aspirations.

People who were once to be governed by themselves and their own moral compass are now governed by other men who often have no moral compass, men who are only governed by their own agenda’s.

Organizations like the ACLU operate under a façade of protecting personal civil liberties. But if you research the founder of the ACLU and its history, you will see that it is no accident the ACLU seems only concerned with the civil liberties of otherwise socially and morally bankrupt behaviors and people.

We are nearing the stage of One Nation Under Man. History has taught us better, but the human condition requires that we re-learn old lessons over and over. So here we go again, blindly rushing towards social suicide and although God could help us, he won’t. It’s that little thing called “free will”.

Man will strip us all of it soon enough, but God won’t touch it. In the end, it will make believers out of non-believers, but at great expense. In the end God’s will wins, but at great hardship to those who insist in inflicting harm upon themselves and their neighbors.

Once again, history will repeat itself. We will learn the lessons again, only to forget them again over the passage of time.

Always the optimist, I look for the silver lining in everything. The cycle of life on earth never fails to provide that silver lining. However, always at great expense…

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THE DIFFERENCE A FATHER MAKES -ANS
Former NFL “Grid Iron” star, Ed Tandy McGlasson, challenges fathers to excel in fatherhood and he equips them to do so in his new book
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries

ANAHEIM, CA (ANS) -- Ed Tandy McGlasson, a former lineman in the National Football League, has gone from being a “grid iron” star to becoming the pastor of the Stadium Vineyard in Anaheim, Calif.

Now he has turned his attention to helping fathers excel in fatherhood and equipping them to do so.

In his new book, The Difference a Father Makes (Ampelon Publishing) McGlasson uses the model of Jesus and God the Father, to show how setting up goal lines in the lives of children makes their entrance into adulthood is a must – but he says that a father’s job does not end there. In a powerful way, he answers the “Yeah, but how?” question every man asks after being inspired to be a good father. (Pictured: Book cover).

McGlasson shows how to discover the potential fathers have to make a difference in the lives of their children and explains how they can empower their children to pursue their dreams and help them to soar to unfathomable heights.

McGlasson spoke about what he considered the main problems that father’s face today in raising their own children.

“We have a generation of disconnected Fathers and children,” he said. “Torn by the pressures of life the distance fathers feel with their children is growing. The big questions I hear from Dads, is how do I connect to my teenage son or daughter? I feel like I lost them. Why are they so angry…? The other issue for dads is not knowing how to make a difference. It is no wonder that men are ill equipped to handle this. Most of our fathers didn’t know what to do either.

“This book not only informs but gives permission to make a difference. It is very practical. I believe fathers spend too much time trying to give their kids things that they don't really want. I have found that what my children want most from me is not riches, but me. When I learned that this a huge weight lifted off their shoulders and I discovered the incredible joy of giving my heart and life away to my children.”

www.thedifferenceafathermakes.com

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"Rick Warren, author of the top-selling book 'The Purpose Driven Life' and founder of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, made a dramatic announcement on Sunday 17th April 2005, the 25th anniversary of the church's founding," reports Dan Wooding, founder of Assist Ministries. In front of 30,000 people in the Angel Stadium in Anaheim, he said that he believes in a revival movement in the 21st Century. He spoke of a new reformation in Christianity and his vision for a global spiritual revival through the so-called PEACE Plan. Warren is convinced that this will lead to one billion Christians being mobilised for global mission by the year 2020. "This new Reformation," he says, "will predominantly happen through average people in small groups."

President Bush excited, says Colson
It was the first time that friends and Christian leaders from the USA and abroad joined members of the Saddleback Church in such numbers. Visitors included Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, who brought greetings from his nation, and Gaddi Vasquez, Director of the Peace Corps, who read a message from President Bush. Chuck Colson, one of the Guests of Honour, commented "I knew President Nixon very well, who would have been excited by the idea of the PEACE Plan. I also know President Bush well enough to know that this is exactly the sort of thing he loves: people who stand up and do what needs to be done without waiting forever for the Government to address it..."

Facing the giant
Warren presented his PEACE Plan in detail. At the heart is a progressive vision for mobilising American Christians to help churches in Third World nations address the enormous problems against which even governments or the United Nations are helpless. Through a reformation of the entire missionary Christianity, the Christian church will be the only force capable of coordinating and driving the effort to meet the five greatest challenges facing the world: spiritual emptiness, selfish leadership, poverty, sickness and ignorance.

The five stones
Based on the story of David and Goliath, Warren explained that in his vision, hundreds of thousands of small groups will "attack these Goliaths with five stones, like David, who gathered five stones as he approached Goliath". These five stones are Planting churches, Equipping leaders, Assisting the poor, Caring for the sick, and Educating the next generation.

Millions of changed lives
Wooding reports that Warren, founder of the Purpose Driven movement, has already changed the lives of millions of people in 150 nations, through tens of thousands of Christian churches. In 1980, seven people met in Rick and Kay Warren's apartment. In the 25 years since then, the church has grown to around 20,000 members. Over 350,000 pastors and leaders from 120 nations have attended Purpose Driven seminars, and over 20,000 churches in 28 nations have held the '40 Days of Purpose' course.

Bestseller results in three missionary Trusts
The book "The Purpose Driven Life", published in 2002, sold 22 million copies - a world record for a non-fiction hardcover book. Warren and his wife have since founded three Trusts which channel 90% of the income from the books to world mission, including AIDS help in developing nations.

4,000 new believers over Easter 2005
A particular highlight of the celebrations on 17th April were the baptisms in a large heated pool in front of the stadium. Warren had preached his basic "Purpose Driven Life" message in 12 Easter services attended by over 30,000 people, 4,000 of whom decided to follow Jesus, according to the report. Source: Dan Wooding, Assist Ministries and www.saddleback.com

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-- from a "stock-driven era" to a new "commodity-driven era."
In "Economic Solutions for the 21st Century" you'll discover ...
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David M. Bradshaw is Editor of REAL MONEY PERSPECTIVES, a new, syndicated daily financial/cultural news digest. In 2001, he published REDISCOVERING GOLD IN THE 21ST CENTURY: The Complete Guide to the Next Gold Rush and has been an economic commentator since 1987, when he produced the World Economic Perspectives radio show. In 2004, he produced "A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO COUNTER-TERRORISM" a free-to-the-public educational resource on DVD and CD. In 2005, he released a new CD, "WHAT'S YOUR WORLDVIEW?" a one-hour CD sample from his 24-hour series, "THE BIG PICTURE: The Shape of Things to Come" discussing geopolitical, economic and spiritual trends in the 21st Century. MORE ... PERSONAL NOTE: Youngest daughter Braida Zoe (age 14 mo.) is now feeding herself, running, says "hi" and "bye-bye," her name, "mama" & "dada." Shown with her mom (and loving wife) Micki among some bright Spring flowers!