The economic and finance predictions I've made over the past few years featured in the films I made for Al Jazeera caught the attention of BBC World News. Yes, "The Oracle" is coming to TV. Fellow HuffPost blogger Alec Baldwin is partnering with me on this project. If you have...

My latest blog at Intrade.

American voters are angry, according to the latest Gallup poll:

A USA Today/Gallup poll finds 53% of Americans describing themselves as "angry" about the financial crisis that has gripped the nation the past two weeks. Fewer Americans, but still a substantial 41%,...

John McCain's shock suspension of campaigning has drastically altered the fundamentals of the 2008 Presidential Election Winner (Individual) contract at Intrade.

The stunt is being met with wide spread selling of McCain, while traders have simultaneously ploughed into Obama, rocketing his price up to 57. Obama has now opened...

An InTrade.com Market summary:

Osama Capture Dec08 contract has tumbled by 50% in past two weeks and yet the word on the Hill is for an October surprise.

Twice in the past few weeks, US helicopters have crossed the border only to be turned back by gunfire from Pakistani...

An InTrade market summary;

Despite a brief rally for McCain's (47.6) contract post GOP convention, the primary Obama (51.2) bull market trend has apparently resumed on the President 2008 market.

Obama's price has surged in the past week or so as the U.S. financial crisis turns...

How do Blacks in America get paid reparations for slavery?

What's needed is for a Black reparations Mike Milken bond wizard to step up, take charge, and raise a trillion dollars by selling reparation-backed bonds.

On paper, the idea of reimbursing the Black community in America a trillion dollars in...

Immediately following the attacks of 9/11 there was a moment when it appeared as though the US was prepared to engage in some serious self-reflection and look at their part in the events and history that led up to those attacks.

Clearly world trade had been lopsided for decades. The...

I have written about how recent upward consumer price trends for Starbucks and McDonald's are indicative of America's slide into penury as the credit crisis hits and the US dollar sinks, and fast-food chains become increasingly unaffordable for millions of Americans.

Add Coca-Cola to the mix to fully...

The US dollar's continuing crash is forcing commodities like food and energy that are priced in dollars higher and making restaurants like Starbucks and McDonald's unaffordable for many Americans. Starbucks has had to shut down 600 stores and begin a massive retrenchment due to the margin squeeze accompanying higher commodity...

You don't notice inflation or deflation until they have gotten out of control.

Strictly speaking, inflation means that 'money' is being created while deflation means that 'money' is being destroyed; not gold-money mind you but interest bearing units of exchange that have been borrowed from the Federal Reserve and lent...

Citizen groups around the country are mobilizing to save their Starbucks after the company announced it will shut down 600 stores. These people don't realize that Starbucks will have to double or triple their prices as the dollar continues to crash and the reason Starbucks has to close stores...

I was on PressTV last night with Afshin Rattansi talking about the market trends for oil, dollar and the rising fortunes of Obama.

I come in at 0:56 of video.

TRANSCRIPT:

Afshin Rattansi: Well joining...

Since it was discovered that Enron was hiding debt off their balance sheet to make their earnings, stock and stock options go up, Wall Street has decided they can't get enough of this neat trick and every quarter we see more of it.

It's peek-a-boo accounting where debts are removed...

LATE BREAKING:Fannie Mae, Freddie Losses Make Them `Insolvent,' Poole Says

LATE BREAKING: Fannie, Freddie Downgraded by Derivatives Traders Over Capital

In a column I wrote for The Ecologist magazine in London a few years ago I posited that the financial "environment" was as...

I was on Al Jazeera live from Doha, Qatar Sunday talking about the G8 meeting, the U.S. dollar and weapons of mass financial destruction (the U.S. dollar).

Al-jazeera: Max Keiser is a financial analyst and commentator. He says there's one likely subject...

I was on France24 Friday talking about oil, the dollar, and gold.

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Key to the rise in oil and gold prices is what I call 'monetary extremism.' In other words, in...

I thought this was pretty interesting. Friday night in Paris, I was talking live to Tehran's Press TV about the betting-contract trading on InTrade.com; laying odds on if Bush, or someone else (Israel?) will Bomb Iran by December.

UPDATE: This morning. The news is that that oil futures are...

I had a chance to talk about the U.S. economy, the dollar and oil as it relates to Iraq and Iran this week with Afshin Rattansi on Iran's press TV (oh yea, and the possibility of bombings).

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Probably the worst effect Americans can expect from the U.S. government's approval of the pro-spy laws that give telcos immunity from prosecution for breaking the law is more inflation.

Immunity from prosecution in this case means immunity from competition and this means higher prices. As long as the telco's have...

Al Jazeera had hoped to break into the U.S. market by now, but nobody's buying it. And the far-right nuts in the U.S. are lobbying to keep the network out of one of the very few places (other than YouTube) Americans can see it; Burlington Vermont. The multi-trillion dollar weapons...