And Danny Schecter warns not to take the lower unemployment figures too seriously.

"At the same time, better paid government jobs are being chopped, leaving workers in low wage private sector employment paying less money for more work. Foreclosures are up even as bank profits (and CEO salaries) soar.

We are just learning the full extent of the Federal Reserve Banks loans to banks the world over, while a promised crackdown on fraud has yet to come. A bailout costing trillions was kept secret until a reporter's lawsuit just forced a disclosure.

Still hidden is the role government plays in manipulating markets or pumping them up through the Plunge Protection Team, a shadowy agency I discuss in more detail in my book, The Crime of Our Time.

Wall Street's "swinging dicks", as they are called are back in the saddle. They have neutered financial reform and have silenced the president, who seems to want to cheer up the people rather than inform them about what is really going on, as food and gas prices rise while inflation begins to rear its ugly head.

Veteran investor Jim Rogers told the Daily Bell:

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