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Max Keiser for Aljazeera English on the Paris Summit

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Max today appeared on Aljazeera English to discuss the Paris Summit.

I don’t have any video of this as AJE’s online stream was not working, so if anyone else got it . . . please send!

Max Keiser, a financial expert, told Al Jazeera: “This is a global war between savers and speculators.

“Henry Paulson, the US treasury secretary, who is a chief speculator, now wants to peddle hundreds of billions of dollars worth of US treasury bonds to Europe.

“I think the German leaders and the German people don’t want them stinking up their banking system because they’ve already caused massive global banking failures.”

Keiser also said: “Hopefully German mentality will prevail and we won’t see the EU going down the path of hyper-inflation.

“You can’t fight debt by issuing more debt. There needs to be a recognition of the basic underlying business model of speculation, over production, over workers is false. It didn’t work. It’s a 20-year neo-liberal model that has failed.

“They have to allow some of these banks to go bankrupt. The solution they are proposing is making the situation much worse.”

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  • Max and Stacy: Did the $700 billion bailout in the United States merely prevent a sudden crash and draw out the downturn over several months, years?
    Perhaps, American manufacturing can make a comeback when new regulations close down our banksters’ casinos and the financial sector shrinks to a lower percentage of GDP.

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