I take this opportunity to comment on the precious metals markets and in particular the silver markets. More than two years ago, the agency began an investigation into silver markets. I have been urging the agency to say something on the matter for months. The public deserves some answers to their concerns that silver markets are being, and have been, manipulated. [...]

The truth hurts. Initially, truth can be shocking, hurtful, surreal, and utterly amazing - but its longer term nature is always liberating as it provides a solid foundation to make forward progress. With truth comes change, whether desired or not, and eventually a new sense of hope. The Financial Panner sees 2010 being a year where many economic and market truths, a number of which are not mainstream, ascend the dam of deceit and rapidly immerse us all dispassionately. Though many still will not wish to recognize and accept them, these truths will begin to be accepted by a majority as commonplace.

"Forget the official debt," he tells Aaron in this clip. The "real" deficit - including non-budgetary items like unfunded liabilities of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the defense budget - is actually $202 trillion, the professor and author calculates; or 15 times the "official" numbers. "Congress has engaged in Enron accounting," says Kotlikoff, who recently penned an op-ed for Bloomberg entitled: The U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It.

And despite the popular myth, the American colonial revolt against England occurred more over concern for its own currency than a small tax on tea. Benjamin Franklin wrote, "...the inability of the colonists to get the power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War." As previously discussed, wealth equals power. And the American revolutionists knew that to gain true freedom, they had to break the power of the Rothschild-dominated Bank of England, which had outlawed their money-colonial script.