China Cyber Thievery is Just Another Expression of Economic Warfare

February 7, 2012

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditWe have shared multiple times that the Chinese PLA outlined Cyber Attacks as just one more Secret Weapon to be deployed in an economic war. They concluded long ago that a direct military confrontation with the United States would be undesirable, at least at first. Instead, they adopted an “Unrestricted Warfare” strategy that would […]

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Rogue Employees Are Another Secret Weapon

February 5, 2012

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditIn the book, Secret Weapon, we identified Rogue Employees (pages 96-97) as another “Secret Weapon” that is being used to attack the Western financial system. This can include attempts such as the Russian trying to walk out the door with Goldman Sachs’ algorithmic trading codes on a flash drive. Experts say that had he succeeded in stealing or altering […]

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Secret Weapon Book Review + The Real Solution

February 3, 2012

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditThe research behind this Blog was recently published in a book titled “Secret Weapon; How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again.” You can learn more and even order the book from www.secretweapon.org. In its first week it was ranked as a New York Times best seller and was […]

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We Are Losing Allies in this Economic War

February 3, 2012

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditFirst came the shocking news from South Korea. They are planning to reduce their holdings of U.S. dollars as reserve currency in favor of the Yuan and Chinese equities. From an investment relationship, this sounds prudent but runs very contrary to the once unique relationship we held with South Korea. The fact that the […]

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Yes, Naked Short Selling IS a Real Problem

February 2, 2012

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditOne of the prime arguments against the evidence we compiled in the DoD report and produced in our new book, Secret Weapon (www.secretweapon.org) is that if naked short selling were such a problem, surely the SEC would stop it. As a refresher, naked short selling is selling shares of a stock and then failing […]

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A Pearl Harbor Moment

January 24, 2012

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditThe news went past most people today. Yet, it is further evidence that a Phase Three economic attack is underway, designed to destroy the American economy by making the dollar irrelevant to global trade. This week, it was announced that Iran and India (and soon China) will settle oil trades in gold, not dollars […]

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Which Chinese? (Part 2)

January 18, 2012

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditWhen considering the possibility of economic warfare, the most frequently asked question is: “Why would the Chinese hurt our economy when they are so dependent upon it and have trillions of dollars in U.S. debt?” Our standard answer is a return question: “Which Chinese?” It is clearly naive to believe that China is monolithic. […]

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Warfare’s new, financial face

January 6, 2012

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleReddit Frank Gaffney was among the first in the National Security Community to grasp the seriousness of economic warfare and financial terrorism. He not only listened but also was proactive in arranging meetings with key leadership starting nearly three years ago. He continues to promote awareness and recently asked me to become a Senior […]

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Policymakers worry about attacks on America’s financial system

December 30, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditThe Economist has an interesting story in their December 31, 2011 issue titled Financial Terrorism; The War on Terabytes. The article does a good job of summarizing key points. For starters, this article references the report we prepared for the Pentagon: Officials’ anxiety has grown amid circumstantial evidence that malefactors helped to exacerbate the […]

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Connecting the Dots: Food Inflation Causes Riots

December 22, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditWhen we first reported on the Arab Spring, we noted the role that food price inflation played in various uprisings (Lessons From Egypt):   For students of financial terrorism and economic warfare, there are two primary takeaways: 1) The trigger to the unrest was food prices. It has been widely reported that food inflation […]

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