By Kathryn Hopkins

One of the City’s leading figures has suggested that inequality created by bankers’ huge salaries is a price worth paying for greater prosperity.

In remarks that will fuel the r…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

A European super-regulator will have the final say over London’s vast derivatives market and will acquire powers to limit the positions taken by banks and hedge funds, ac…

By Allan Sloan

This is a quiz. What do the record-high Wall Street bonuses have in common with the record-low yields for savers? Answer: They show yet another way that prudent people, especially tho…

By Sam Smith

Adam Storch, vice president of Goldman Sachs’ Business Intelligence Group has become head of the SEC’s enforcement division. It doesn’t get much more cynical than that.

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The Wall Project, the largest commemoration in the US of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, will be staged in Los Angeles with segments of the real Berlin Wall along Wilshire Boule…

By Noah Shachtman

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA …

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By Emre Peker

CME Group Inc. and the Chicago Board Options Exchange are in informal talks for a takeover, Crain’s said, citing people familiar with the discussions.

An acquisition would value CB…

By Dr. Mercola:

Urgent and vital information you need to know about the massive amount of disinformation that the media has recently escalated as best demonstrated by 60 Minutes segment on Swine Flu …

China’s second-ranking military officer will travel to Washington later this month on a week-long visit designed to promote trust and avoid “misunderstandings,” the Pentagon said Wednesday.

General…

The only EU leader who has not yet signed the Lisbon reform treaty has conceded he will not be able to derail it.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus’s admission has paved the way for the document to become…

By “A Reader”

This morning I received the following link, from a friend, regarding Jon Stewart skewering CNN for fact-checking a SNL skit while not fact-checking their own guests:

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By Andrew Clark

Put the bottles of Krug on ice. Golden days are here again for elite investment banks. Goldman Sachs is gearing up to pay its biggest ever bonuses to its 31,700 employees after raking…

Latin American leaders have agreed on using a new intra- regional trading currency, dubbed as Sucre, instead of the US dollar.

Bolivian President Evo Morales, who hosted leaders of the Bolivarian A…

I am often asked what sources of information that I most trust. Hands down, one of my most valuable sources over the last two decades has been Linda Minor, an attorney in Texas who has produced extr…

The yellow dots are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period. Stay with the picture. You will see the light of the day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on it’s axis. Also you…

By Mansur Mirovalev

Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte said Tuesday his mission was accomplished after a 10-day trip to the International Space Station where he hosted a global Web broadcast th…

By Jerry Kronenberg

A real estate judge is refusing to reverse a landmark ruling that opens the door to voiding tens of thousands of Bay State foreclosures dating as far back as 1989.

“The forecl…

The United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between December 7 and December 18, 2009. The conference includes the 15th Conference of the …

By Robert Pear,

For the first time in more than three decades, Social Security recipients will not get any increase in their benefits next year, federal forecasts show.

The absence of a cost-of-livi…

By: Rob Kirby

Earlier this week, I wrote about possible “incongruities” in the gold bar registry of GLD [SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)]. Specifically, here is what has happened to the GLD bar list whi…

By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer

The term influenza, which dates back to the Middle Ages, is taken from the Italian word for occult or astral influence. Then as now, flu seemed to appear out o…

While watching football over at my daughter’s home, I got a call from Channel 15 asking if I could explain the motivation behind the “Support First Responders” campaign. I am hopeful that the tradit…

By Aaron Klein

President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission.

Cass Sunstein also has strongly …

Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer the hostile takeover in the 1980s and reshaped the mergers and acquisitions business into a high art, died Wednesday.

Mr. Was…

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Russia is hoping to sign deals worth $5.5bn (£3.5bn) with China as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits Beijing.

The deals may lead to Russia selling more oil and gas to China – the world’s second…

A progress report released last week by the Treasury Department showed that only 11 percent (about 95,000) of Bank of America’s delinquent borrowers who were potentially eligible for the program ha…

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By Martin Hutchinson

The problem arises because of the size of the world’s capital pools in relation to its volume of trade. The total assets of U.S. hedge funds in September 2009 were $1.95 trillion…

By Anne Gearan

The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete.

Call it P…

By Liz Pulliam Weston

Right now, your company could have a life insurance policy on you that you know nothing about. When you die—perhaps years after you leave your employer—the tax-free proceeds…

By Webster G. Tarpley

A leading member of the Icelandic parliament called Monday night for the country to declare a debt moratorium and stop attempting to pay the $6 billion which the British and Ne…

By Tyler Durden

With everyone lately focused on China’s foreign reserve position, analysts have forgotten that America also has an International Reserve account consisting of foreign currency posit…

Remarks by Chris Powell
Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
New Orleans Investment Conference
Hilton Riverside Hotel
Thursday, October 8, 2009

On Friday, September 25, Jim Ricka…

On this Columbus Day, when Columbus “discovered” The New World (Really? Native Americans weren’t already here?) one should, I believe, ponder the following.

Is it a defined political hierarchy cente…

By Shelly Meron

Seeking to find the safest routes for kids to walk in the neighborhood and to start a community conversation about safety, Beaulieu teamed with Richmond-based nonprofit Center for H…

On April 22, 2007, Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Matthew Tannin sent an e-mail to fellow hedge fund manager Ralph Cioffi. “The entire subprime market is toast,” he said. “There is simply no way fo…

Health care in America remains the best in the world, and we Americans have been blessed by compassionate, dedicated, and highly skilled medical professionals and practitioners. However, in recent d…

By David Cho

The financial crisis has blown a hole in the rosy forecasts of pension funds that cover teachers, police officers and other government employees, casting into doubt as never before whet…

A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America. The White House created an Interagency O…

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By Jesse

Those who have taken a huge share of the last three bubbles would like to stop the bubble now, keep their gains, and return to a system of fiscal restraint with light ta…

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By Andrew Taylor

Dairy farmers suffering from low milk prices would benefit from $350 million in emergency funding approved by the Senate on Thursday as it cleared a $121 billion agriculture spendi…

The most wonderful Nick Laird at www.sharelynx.com has charted the prices of gold and silver using the latest CPI series as adjusted by John Williams at Shadowstats.com. Here is what he found.

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By Leslie Scism

BlackRock Inc., which scored multiple government assignments during the financial crisis, is a contender for another prestigious gig: helping state regulators size up risks in insur…

“People are angry with all the shenanigans on Wall Street,” he said. “They believe their money stays local when they put it in a community bank, rather than sent off to Never-Never land.”

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Eric Toensmeier gave a wonderful workshop at the Financial Permaculture Convergence in Hohenwald. He has a marvelous sense of how to take permaculture to profits. For those in the New England area k…

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By Jesse

Gold has apparently broken out of a big inverse Head and Shoulder formation, possibly an ascending triangle if you prefer that for reliability. In combination, as they often a…

Since the Third Circuit said so, in its September 22, 2009 decision in AT&T v. Federal Communications Commission (No. 084024).

Most privacy practitioners would not consider a legal entity to ha…

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My colleagues at GATA (Chairman Bill Murphy and Treasurer Chris Powell above) have done an extraordinary job of documenting manipulation of the gold market. By so doing, they have helped private inves…

The United Nations called on Tuesday for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy which has allowed the United States the “privilege” of building a huge trade deficit.

“Important progres…

Continue reading Robert Fisk on the Gulf ‘Ditching The Dollar’ in Oil Trade

By Josh Fineman

More than a third of Wall Street finance professionals surveyed expect their bonuses to increase for 2009, a year after the credit-market collapse that some regulators say was fuele…

By Susan Ferrechio

As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative leaders to make the final bill available on…

By Clif [High] ,Cathy and Igor at Half Past Human

In running our MOM (model of modelspace) cleanup of the lexicon prior to tuning, it became apparent that October 25 turn in emotions globally will be…

By Andrew Jack in London

Patients who fail to pop pills on time could soon benefit from having a chip on their shoulder, under a ground-breaking electronic system being developed by Novartis, the S…

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This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report examines the pressures facing the federal budget over the coming decades by presenting the agency’s projections of federal spending…

By George Friedman

Two major leaks occurred this weekend over the Iran matter.

In the first, The New York Times published an article reporting that staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency (I…

By Pam Martens

A federal agency tasked with expanding the American dream of home ownership and affordable housing free from discrimination to people of modest means has been quietly moving a chunk of…

By David G. Savage

By agreeing to hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to Chicago’s handgun ban, the justices may open the door to similar lawsuits in cities and states nationwide.

Reporting from Washin…

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By Martin Crutsinger

Finance ministers from the world’s seven most developed economies may not even issue a joint communique when they meet in Istanbul this weekend, a senior U.S. Treasury official…

By Karen Hube

As firmer CEO of South African Airways and co-founder of Bain Capital, Coleman Andrews has spent his career in some of the world’s biggest financial hubs. So, considering that he isn’…

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Mr Nakagawa, 56, was found dead in a bedroom at his Tokyo home, Japanese news agencies reported.

The long-time LDP lawmaker stepped down as finance minister after appearing groggy at a news confere…

Legend: Blue – Introduced. Yellow – Passed one or more houses. Green – Passed Both Houses. Black – Failed Vote. White – No Resolution Introduced.

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By Xinhua writer Ding Yi

While the whole Europe hailed Irish “yes” to the Lisbon Treaty, the Czech republic remains reluctant to sign the document, putting obstacles on the path of the European Uni…

School children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi take part in a cultural programme on the eve of Gandhi’s 140th birth anniversary, in the central Indian city of Bhopal October 1, 2009.

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