Michael Krieger

My name is Michael Krieger, and I am the creator and editor of Liberty Blitzkrieg. I'm originally from New York City.

As far as my academic and professional background, I attended college at Duke University where I earned a double major in Economics and Spanish. After completing my studies in 2000, I took a job at Lehman Brothers where I worked with the Oil analyst in the Equity Research Department.  In 2005, I joined Sanford C. Bernstein where I served as the Commodities Analyst on the trading floor. About halfway through my time there, I started to branch out and write opinions on bigger picture "macro" topics that no one else at the firm was covering. These opinion pieces were extremely popular throughout the global investment community, and I traveled around providing advice to some of the largest mutual funds, pension funds and hedge funds in the world.

I loved my job, but as time passed I started to educate myself about how the monetary and financial system functions and what I discovered disgusted me. I no longer felt satisfied working within the industry, and I resigned in January 2010.  At that point, I started a family investment office and continued to write macro pieces on economic, social and geopolitical topics. That summer, I drove cross country for six weeks and ultimately decided to leave the crowded streets of Manhattan for the open spaces of Boulder, Colorado, where I currently reside.

In the years that followed, I gradually recognized that my true passion centers upon writing on issues of significant societal importance given the extremely challenging times we live in. This realization culminated with me losing interest in financial markets and eventually launching this website in early 2012.

If you are interested in a more detailed description, replete with colorful anecdotes, of how I ended up making this bizarre professional transition, take the time to watch the video below.

https//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DcqMN-FXCIE?rel=0

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

Bank Gives Man Counterfeit Money, Refuses To Refund It!

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This story from the Huffington Post is unbelievable.  The bank itself, whose sole business is to deal with “money,” is not responsible for the fact that they provided their own customer with a counterfeit bill.  No, in the United States of Banana Republic the banks are never wrong!  It is your fault for somehow not … Read more

Fukushima Radiation Hitting the Streets of LA

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Like pretty much everything else from the mainstream media presstitutes, we are being gravely misled on the extent of the dangers from Fukushima.  It’s for your own good though sheeple.  Baaaaaah Key Quotes: No one wants to imagine the future and what will happen even if the situation does not get worse. Radiation is pouring … Read more

Jamie Dimon And The Fall Of Nations

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Excellent article here by Simon Johnson, the former chief economist for the IMF and a professor at MIT’s Sloan business school.  I think the following paragraph pretty much summarizes the root cause of America’s decline into Banana Republic status… The historical evidence is overwhelming. Many societies have done well for a while – until powerful … Read more

The Most Important Article of the Day – Is the UK About to Engage in a Stealth Default?

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If there was ever an article that should spark every British citizen to immediately shift their savings into physical gold this is it.  Basically, proposals are on the table to change the way inflation is calculated for bonds that payout based on the rate of change in prices.  Unsurprisingly, they are purposely attempting to use … Read more

Ron Paul Republicans take over Nevada GOP

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Although it is now clear to everyone that the Republican establishment was never going to allow Ron Paul anywhere near the nomination, the more important thing is that the Liberty movement that he helped spark all across this land continues to take off.  The ideas that define this movement; such as an end to crony … Read more

Saudis Pump All Out as the Global Economy Crumbles

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It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one’s private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are  immoral in private with the power to determine the nation’s moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? …. The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation … Read more

The United States of Drones

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The following article from the UK’s Telegraph is a perfect follow up to the fantastic piece by Glenn Greenwald about how much pleasure Obama gets from murdering people with a joystick from halfway across the world using drones that I posted on Tuesday.  This expansion of drone usage is extraordinarily disturbing, not only from a … Read more

Volcker Urges Global Financial System Overhaul with More Power to the IMF!

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My Take:  This is a very important article from Bloomberg.  Paul Volcker, who is known for crushing inflation in the early 1980’s by spiking interest rates into the double digits, is seen in many circles as perhaps the best U.S. Central Banker of the modern era.  As a guy who was willing to take the … Read more

Bilderberg 2012: Exposing the 0.0001%

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While the 1% slogan of OWS was catchy, the real power players and enemies of humanity reside in a much, much smaller 0.0001% or so.  This group includes dynastic banking families as well as a lot of European royals who supposedly have “no power.”  If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.  … Read more

Barack O’Romney

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Great article here from Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com, one of the guys that has been leading the charge on the “left” to call out Obama and the two party system for the sham it is.  Please pass this along to any brain dead Obama sheep that you may know… Key quotes: Miller devotes himself to … Read more