By Theophilos Argitis and Greg Quinn

Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement said he will review London Stock Exchange Group Plc’s C$3.2 billion ($3.2 billion) bid for TMX Group Inc., owner of th…

By Thom Weidlich

(Corrects to show parties would come before the judge to lift the automatic ban in 20th paragraph.)

Merscorp Inc., operator of the electronic-registration system that contains abo…

Capital is slowly withdrawing from the American housing stock.

We are transitioning from a model in which most Americans think of their homes as an investment, to one in which housing is a consumpt…

By Paul Krugman

On Friday, House Republicans unveiled their proposal for immediate cuts in federal spending. Uncharacteristically, they failed to accompany the release with a catchy slogan. So I’…

By Jacob Bunge and Aaron Lucchetti

Votes on Tap; Schumer Speaks Up for Big Board’s ‘Brand’

New York Stock Exchange operator NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse AG are likely to announce a merger as …

By Gretchen Morgenson

KUDOS to Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for some straight talk about the nation’s broken mortgage system.

A report to Congress from those depa…

Bolivian president Evo Morales has abruptly left the southern highlands city of Oruro after protesters angered by rising prices booed him and set off dynamite.

Mr Morales cancelled plans to partici…

NEW YORK and FRANKFURT, 9 February 2011 – In light of recent market rumors, Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext (NYX) today confirmed that they are engaged in advanced discussions regarding a po…

From Wikipedia

The Suez Canal (Arabic: ???? ??????? Qan?t al-S?wais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869, it allo…

By Stacy Herbert

Stacy Summary: Max interviews Catherine Austin Fitts. They talk revolution, Ben Bernanke and the US dollar being a unit of war.

By Jon Rappoport

January 30, 2011. It’s a grim party. People in the streets, riots, police, soldiers, and nobody seems exactly sure what it’s for.

Take your choice: kick out the dictators; new…

By Robert Kuttner

Once again, the job numbers are dismal. In January, the U.S. economy created just 36,000 domestic jobs, far below the roughly 145,000 that economists had forecast. The unemploymen…

Assets are in billions as of Sept. 30.

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By Martha Stewart

As a professional cook, cookbook author and teacher, I have a noticed a shift in the role that food plays in our lives and in our culture. Food has become more than one of life’s…

By Better Health Guy

In a world that is full of harmful electromagnetic fields, how to evaluate these issues and what to do about them is often elusive to most of us.

In this blog post, I’ll provi…

By Darlene Heckman

Virtually all of your electronics are sucking up energy even if they’re turned off or not being used. Some of the biggest culprits include your TV, computer, and printer. Even yo…

By Nick Timiraos

More than two years after the government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Obama administration will recommend phasing out the housing-finance giants and gradually reducing th…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Daniel Tencer

In what will likely be seen as something of a Freudian slip by the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said recently in a Mexican news interview that the United States cannot le…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Ashland Current

U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) today took to the floor of the House to oppose the effort to reauthorize expiring provisions of the PATRIOT Act, which ultimately failed…

By Jeffrey Jones and Farah Master

PetroChina is purchasing half of a prolific shale gas project from Canada’s Encana Corp for C$5.4 billion ($5.4 billion), marking the largest Chinese investment ye…

We Declare:

That the political, legal, and economic systems of the United States allow, in each generation, an elite few to impose policy and governing decisions that threaten the very survival of …

By Mary Bottari, Bankster USA

Earnings and bonus reports are rolling in and the big, bailed-out banks are back in the black. In 2010, total compensation and benefits at publicly traded Wall Street …

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Simple, practical steps tha…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The bee crisis has been treated as a niche concern until now, but as the UN’s index of food prices hits an all time-high, it is becoming urgent to know whether the plight…

The Chrysler 200 has arrived. Imported from Detroit.

By Los Angeles Times

New job figures released Friday might have been more meager than most economists had expected, but at least one set of numbers made some people happy. That’s because the Bureau…

By Robert Gehrke

Rep. Bill Wright, as he puts it, “grew up in the dirt,” raising dairy cattle since he was a boy.
But now he fears farming is in jeopardy, threatened by the heavy hand of federa…

By Court Skinner

I’m just getting started in a new, at least to me, software for keeping track of money. The software is the open source, GnuCash, which is available for download here http://www.gn…

From a Subscriber:

Hi Catherine,

I trust you are well. I’m still enjoying and very much impressed by your weekly Solari Reports, guests, and the Solari blog. Your perception, level head and lack of …

By KT Arasu

U.S. grain prices should stay unrelentingly high this year, according to a Reuters poll, the latest sign that the era of cheap food has come to an end.

U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat pr…

What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of the universe!

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By Joe Weisenthal

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Tuesday, senior S&L regulator William K. Black slammed the FCIC for failing to call out fraud. As told the Real News:

• The Commission was unwilling to use the “F” word (“fraud”)
• “They’ve d…

By Joe Weisenthal

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Genetic Engineering in The Magnetic Field of Money

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By C. Powell

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Federal Reserve can keep secret most of the gold documents at issue in GATA’s freedom-of-information lawsuit against it, a federal judge ruled today….

By Paul Ferguson

A junior mining company I’ve followed for years recently announced that they were raising money.  The initial response from some investors was to cry “Dilution!”.  Virtually all mi…

Straight Talk

By Adam

This week’s Straight Talk contributor is Catherine Austin Fitts: investment advisor and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Solari, where she offers subscribers guidance fo…

There is complexity because the artist, the writer, doesn’t know why he or she is doing the work. That complexity results from a lack of clarity.

There is complexity because the creator of the work…

By Jason Fell

On the heels of President Barack Obama’s big State of the Union address last week, during which he talked up the vital role of entrepreneurs in the recovery of the U.S. economy, the Whi…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Political risk has returned with a vengeance. The first food revolutions of our Malthusian era have exposed the weak grip of authoritarian regimes in poor countries that …

Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under i…

President’s Speech Offers Hope for Some Relief; Exceptions for Rental Income Reporting Remain Vague

For small businesses that were dreading the thought of having to produce a Form 1099 for every pa…

Here’s your list of 60+ of the recent animal die-offs.  I didn’t include the honeybees, earthworms, or most insect life, as they’re a subject all by themselves.  I also skipped most frog die-offs. …

The European Food Safety Authority has launched a public consultation on its draft guidance document for engineered nanomaterial (ENM) applications in food and feed.

The guidance document, prepared…

Let’s spread the word: Wetiko

By Paul Levy

In the first part of this series, we contemplated the idea of a psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that has been wreaking havoc throughout human history …

By Sam Smith

One of the greatest myths draped over this land is that the so-called wing nuts mainly come from the far right and left. And that there is, however, a wise and moderate establishment t…

By Ronnie Cummins

The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” –  Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011

In the wake of a 12-…

By Joe Weisenthal

Today the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission releases its full report on the crisis.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

An authorized someone from Allendale Michigan kept logging in to my Facebook space. Then I started having challenges with unauthorized posts and photo tags. Finally some m…

By Teri Buhl

Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook

Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Gold…

By Casey Chan

The world is ending! Okay, maybe not. But doesn’t it seem like every day animals are dying in masses? So, it must mean something!

I think the West Coast is safe. The South, um, prett…

From Ed Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire”

Benedicto:

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May yo…

By Gretchen Morgenson

Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives…

Genetically-modified crops could help prevent a future global hunger crisis, the Government’s chief scientific adviser said.

By The Telegraph

Professor Sir John Beddington said there was no one ”s…

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By Lyndsey Layton

In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to s…