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By Philip Elliott and Daniel Wagner

Embracing Depression-era policy and populist politics, a combative President Barack Obama chastised big Wall Street banks Thursday and urgently called for limits…

By David G. Savage

In a 5-4 decision that strikes down a 1907 law, the justices say the 1st Amendment gives corporations, just like individuals, a right to spend their own money on political ads fo…

By Michel Chossudovsky

A Haiti disaster relief scenario had been envisaged at the headquarters of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) in Miami one day prior to the earthquake.

The holding of pre-disast…

A Solari Circle is a small (twelve or fewer members is recommended) financial action club formed by people who know and trust each other and who choose to “conspire” to help each other anticipate and…

by Tom Burghardt

In the wake of the Flight 253 provocation, over-hyped terrorism panics, and last year’s Big Pharma and media-engineered hysteria over the H1N1 flu pandemic, President Barack Obama …

By Adrian Douglas

Here are some Trivial Pursuit questions for you:

1) What is the biggest market in the world for a physical commodity?
2) Is the gold market one of the smallest markets in the wor…

For years I have been looking for the story of Jung’s patient who had poisoned her best friend. Thanks to the wonderful Paul Levy at www.awakeninthedream.com and his rich expertise in all things Jung,…

I asked Franklin Sanders recently for his recommendation on a primer on money and banking. He recommended Modern Money Mechanics which was written a while back by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.

He…

From Ron Paul Powerful Speech – A Call for Revolution?

My dear friends Pastor Brent and Debbie Landers lead the General Assembly & Church of the Firstborn 161 Baker Road, Hohenwald, TN 38462. The church has a mission in Haiti.

I am sending them a c…

At last count, 14 Attorneys General, Republican and Democrat are investigating this legislation [federal health care reform] for violating the 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

As you…

William Black, an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about Secretary of Treasury Geithner.

View video:Black Says Ge…

by Jesse

As a rule of thumb, the worst possible time to convert lump sum savings into a fixed income annuity would be when interest rates are historically low.

Although products may vary, this is ro…

By David Glovin

The Federal Reserve will ask a U.S. appeals court to block a ruling that for the first time would force the central bank to reveal secret identities of financial firms that might ha…

Continue reading Second Wave Of Mortgage Defaults – Part 1

By Frederick J. Sheehan

This paper is directed to traditional municipal bondholders, those who hold bonds primarily to receive tax-exempt, steady income. That investor generally holds municipal bo…

By Elena Logutenkova, Joseph Heaven and Klaus Wille

Switzerland’s financial markets regulator broke the law when it ordered UBS AG to give data on 255 of the bank’s clients to the U.S. last yea…

Christopher Paton, who runs JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s public-sector benefit payments business, talks with Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan about trends in food-stamp use in the U.S.

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By Hugh Son

Timothy Geithner was asked to testify before Congress about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s efforts to limit American International Group Inc.’s disclosures of bailout paymen…

Continue reading The Decline: The Geography of a Recession

By John Crudele

The charade continues this Friday.

That’s when the Labor Department will announce how many jobs it claims were lost in the US economy during December.

The number is essentially wo…

By Tyler Durden

When Henry Paulson publishes his long-awaited memoirs, the one section that will be of most interest to readers, will be the former Goldmanite and Secretary of the Treasury’s recoll…

By Larry O’Connor

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued an Executive Order which gave permission to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) to operate within the boundaries of …

What if Jesus where a stock picker?

It’s a question more investors seem to be asking these days. At a time when investors’ confidence in the markets has been shaken—even after the big rally of …

By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley (MS.N) has been sued by a Virgin Islands pension fund that accused the Wall Street bank of defrauding investors by marketing $1.2 billion (753…

As we move into the new year and 2010 forecast after forecast hits the Street, invariably the “mountain of money on the sidelines” argument is being put forth by more than a good number of Street …

By F. William Engdahl

The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especial…

Continue reading American Faust From Condi to Neo-Condi

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By Michael Flaherty

Russia’s UC RUSAL moved closer to its planned $2.6 billion Hong Kong initial public offering by unveiling key details as it aims to raise cash to repay $14.9 billion in debt.

A…

by Jon Rappoport

I’m offering an experimental hypothesis here, based on how markets work. I’m talking about trading markets—stocks, commodities.

As you know, the (false) science of climate …

Continue viewing The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a type of weapon that emits energy in an aimed direction without the means of a projectile. It transfers energy to a target for a desired effect. Some of these weap…

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz warned there’s a “significant” chance the U.S. economy will contract in the second half of next year, and urged the government to prepare a second stimu…

By Joe Weisenthal

Continue reading Chart of The Day: Subprime Delinquencies Continue To Soar

The New York Times reports investigators in the U.S. Congress at the Securities and Exchange Commission and at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority have launched probes into Goldman Sachs and o…

The Federal Reserve proposed offering banks the opportunity to park their money at the central bank in “term deposits,” which would pay interest. The move would help the Fed soak up some of the liqui…

Continue reading Move Your Money

By William Grigg

The RAND Corporation, one of the most fecund research arms of the Military-Industrial-Homeland Security Complex, has released a study entitled A Stability Police Force for the Uni…

By Walter Pincus

The aim was also to save money, but last year Congress reported that contract employees were each costing the government an average of $250,000 annually, an amount far in excess of…

Continue reading Social Media ROI: Socialnomics

Israel’s ambassadors and consuls generals from all over the world have been summoned to attend a conference to be held over global challenges facing Israel.

The meeting to be attended in Jerusalem …

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By John Glover

Investors who bought gold or commodities at the beginning of the decade should have tripled their money by the time the ball drops in New York’s Times Squar…

Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William &am…

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In other business news, the Washington Post reports many top executives at the bailed-out insurance giant AIG have reneged on promises to pay back part of their large bonuses. Earlier this year, out…

Two-thirds of U.S. companies don’t expect their employment to return to pre-recession levels until 2011 or later.

That prediction was one slice of data from a new quarterly survey of 1,431 chief fi…

By Dwight Jones

The announcement by the United Nations this week that it will license the minting of silver and gold bullion coins bearing the UN logo may be the button that launches metal prices i…

By Fionnan Sheahan

Shoppers and businesses will be using more plastic and less paper money quite soon under a new Government plan to reduce the amount of hard cash in circulation.

A task force wil…

By Sam Pizzigati

Has picking a year’s greediest “top ten” ever been easier? We don’t think so. We could, this year, fill an entire top ten just with bankers from Goldman Sachs — or JP Morgan Chase…