The European Central Bank is determined to prevent higher energy and food prices from driving up inflation more broadly. ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet has appealed to bosses, workers and companies not to raise wages and prices in response to higher inflation, as he explained in an interview with EuroNews.

Ron Paul from the committee floor. House Financial Services Committee. Bernanke present, but not in this video. Dated 2/17/2007 C-SPAN Google Video version: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2493019993443374205 Here is the FULL committee meeting with Bernanke: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5215334406027305569 and here is a mirror for the FULL version: http://www.guba.com/watch/2000965422 And here is a supplemental World Bank meeting: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-669127673

Somebody at CNBC, billed as "America's business channel," made a mistake. They allowed Jim Rogers, investor and buddy to George Soros, to get on and slam the Federal Reserve. Not only slam the Fed, but call for it to be abolished. Somebody at CNBC was asleep at the switch, or the kill button anyway. Because you never hear such talk over the corporate media, an entity owned by the same banking and financial interests that prop op the Fed and the funny money system. "How much money does the Federal Reserve ha