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The world's seven most industrialised nations have pledged to write off their countries' debts with Haiti, following a devastating earthquake last month. (Note: Speaking personally, I think this is a good thing that can be done; hopefully we can extend the same policy of debt forgiveness to other developing countries.)

The 11 most evil things the banking industry did in 2011. List includes illegal debt collection methods.

You committed no crime, but an officer is knocking on your door. More Minnesotans are surprised to find themselves being locked up over debts. "The law enforcement system has unwittingly become a tool of the debt collectors," said Michael Kinkley, an attorney in Spokane, Wash., who has represented arrested debtors. "The debt collectors are abusing the system and intimidating people, and law enforcement is going along with it."

A brilliant market solution to the "student debt crisis." People volunteer time and others donate money to pay down their debts. A solution that doesn't involve the government just giving people money after they were fiscally irresponsible.

Slavery still exists, unseen, in modern day America. Thanks to student loans and mortgages, many people are hounded by creditors, losing their livelihood and finding it impossible to save for the future. Forced to work within the system, trading labor for bank notes, sending those bank notes back into the pockets of our lifelong lenders, Americans are slaves to their debt.

Good discussion of the difference between inflation, deflation and stagflation, often confused. July 07 2011 Press TV -- In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Steve Keen, economist and author of the book Debunking Economics.

He says that debts have spiraled out of control and the reason is shadow banking system. The program touches on the correlation between the US-EU debt crisis and the worsening Greek economy.

A free society is impossible under empire. Even the most just war you can imagine is a disaster for liberty and prosperity. And a perpetual state of war guarantees that liberty will never be achieved. James Madison said it well:

Daily News & Video @ http://RevolutionNews.US - 10. Because Obama and Congress are just like Wisconsin Governor Walker. They cut taxes and are pretending the budget crisis must be solved by cutting Social Security and Medicare.

9. Because the banking industry just manufactured a 'foreclosure crisis' based on fraud and illegal activities, stealing millions of people's homes, throwing them out on the streets and robbing pension funds in their scheme to bundle bad debts.

50 Random Facts That Make You Wonder What In The World Has Happened To America