10 Year Treasury in 2009
Continue reading Government Bonds Were The Dumbest Bet Of The Year
"WHO" Under Investigation
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…
GATA Distributes International Press Release on Lawsuit vs. Fed
GATA Press Release via Business Wire
GATA Sues Federal Reserve to Disclose Gold Market Intervention Records
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. today brought …
Happy New Year 2010!
This year is going to be a goodie. As you make your New Years resolutions, consider some of the steps we’ve outlined in our comprehensive guide to Coming Clean. You’ll find valuable suggestions in t…
GATA Sues The Fed
The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. today brought suit against the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, seeking a court order for disclosure of the central bank’s records of its surreptitious market …
Wishing You A Generous 2010
Continue reading Sting – Soul Cake 06.11.2009
Condi Rice – American Faust
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Catherine Happy Birthday! ( … a little late)
David Liechty took a break from Hickory Valley and work with Solari to travel to Jerusalem and Bethleham. I asked him for a photo from Bethleham on my birthday, the day before Christmas. Here it is …
RUSAL Plans Up To $2.6 Billion IPO
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…
Leveraging Global Warming
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 …
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Continue viewing The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Directed Energy Weapons
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…
Stiglitz Warns Of A Slowdown
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…
Subprime Delinquencies Continue To Soar
By Joe Weisenthal
Continue reading Chart of The Day: Subprime Delinquencies Continue To Soar
Goldman Sachs Faces Probes
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…
Fed Proposal – Soak Up Liquidity
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…
Move Your Money
Continue reading Move Your Money
Military-Industrial-Homeland Security
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…
Federal Contractors
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…
Socialnomics09
Continue reading Social Media ROI: Socialnomics
Conference Address Israel Global Challenges
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 …
Investment Performance of the Decade
(Chart By Tyler Durden)
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…
"Obama's Choice"
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…
Bankruptcy Strands Truckers
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AIG Executives Refuse to Return Bonuses
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…
2010 Little Improvement In Unemployment
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…
World Currency Coin
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…
Happiness Revealed
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Plastic – The Money of 2010
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…
Greediest People of 2009
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…
Gifting to the Children We Love – Part X
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We live in a world of increasing risk. The family is the most successful risk-management organization created by mankind. Yet many of us have experienced families th…
Happy Holidays!
See Catherine’s meditations at Christmas, 2003, “Angels Watching Over Us.”
In Hoc Anno Domini
Vermont Royster’s Christmas message of 1949 has been republished by the Wall Street Journal every Christmas since. As I can not think of a more beautiful way to celebrate the birth and life of Chris…
Gifting to the Children We Love – Part IX
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Nature of Gifts and Applicability of Gift Tax
Unlike income taxes, the federal gift tax applies to donors of gifts, not the recipients. Because of the interrela…
Carnacchi v. Citibank
By Suzanne Daly
On a warm October morning, Michael Carnacchi stands respectfully in the Sonoma County Civil Court as his case, Carnacchi v. Citibank, is called. A boot maker by trade, on this day he…
Gifting to the Children We Love – Part VIII
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Sometimes helping a child we love means supporting the child’s parents. Most parents would love to provide their children with every possible opportunity. However, p…
Manufacturing Capacity – Down In 2009
By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova
Continue reading CHART OF THE DAY: Manufacturing Capacity Was Demolished In 2009
Why No One Invades Switzerland
Continue reading Why No One Invades Switzerland
Gifting to the Children We Love – Part VII
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It is critical to instill a sense of responsibility in children by helping them understand how they can contribute to the betterment of the world around them by bein…
White Deer
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The Story of Cap & Trade
Continue reading The Story of Cap & Trade
Port Data Shows Huge Global Recovery
By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova
Continue reading Chart of The Day: Port Data Shows Huge Global Recovery
Mortgage Meltdown: Wave Two
By Mac Slavo
Continue reading Mortgage Meltdown: Wave Two
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Crosby Mint Farm – Update
Jim and Linette Crosby are fighting to win the Crosby Mint Farm from the bank that has foreclosed. The Farm was auctioned last week, with bids totalling $365,000, which is significantly less than wh…
Gifting to the Children We Love – Part VI
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The opportunities to encourage a child’s artistic and music skills are endless. Given the increased cutbacks in these so-called noncore subjects in school budgets, t…
Gifting to the Children We Love – Part V
The subject of investing encompasses a host of disciplines, skills, and experiences that no one individual can hope to master in a short course. The key to developing future mastery over a period …
Gifting to the Children We Love – Part IV
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The key to business success is in learning how to provide a useful product or service at a competitive price while covering costs. For many children, their first opp…
Roth IRA Rules Changes
By Melanie Pelayo
With the end of the year fast approaching, I want to bring your attention a change taking place next year regarding Roth IRA rules. Surveys have shown that not a lot of people are a…
JAK Bank in Sweden
By David Liechty
JAK Medlemsbank is a member-owned bank in Skovde, Sweden that has operated an interest-free savings and loan system since 1970.
Members accumulate points monthly based on their sa…
Did Rubin Commit Fraudulent Misrepresentation?
By Dakin Campbell and Andrew MacAskill
Citigroup Inc. said the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is seeking to end an agreement to buy the bank’s stock for more than 8 times its current price, or to r…
Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million, USDA Says
By Alan Bjerga
A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government …
GMO Contamination
Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite ‘the best practices [to stop contamination]'(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials o…
Saved By Drug Money
By Rajeev Syal
Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Antonio Ma…
Greece – Crisis Turns Deadly Serious
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
While premier George Papandreou offered pro forma assurances at Friday’s EU summit that Greece would not default on its €298bn (£268bn) debt, his words to reporters afte…
US Kids = Psychiatric Drug Goldmine
By Evelyn Pringle
Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue o…
Gifting to the Children We Love – Part III
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As the cost of formal education grows, many families are limited by economic considerations in what they can provide for their children. This is of concern particularl…
Missing Mortgages
Sorting through the wreckage of those related failures has generated more questions than answers so far. Taylor Bean was shut down by the Federal Housing Administration, citing possible mortgage fra…
Small Business Cash Crunch Fears Getting Worse And Worse
By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova
Continue reading Small Business Cash Crunch Fears Getting Worse And Worse. . .
Eight Innovations that Will Change Your Future
By Jim Ostroff
No personal jet packs at the big-box store just yet, but we foresee technological breakthroughs that will make a real difference.
Kiplinger clients have long come to rely on Kipling…
The Average Investor Remains Terrified of the Stock Market
By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova
Continue reading The Average Investor Remains Terrified Of The Stock Market. . .
Gifting to the Children We Love – Part II
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Good health is the foundation of a successful life. It is challenging to find or pursue your calling if you are struggling with poor health.
Maintaining optimum h…
Joel Salatin in Santa Barbara
Joel Salatin
Pathways to Relocalization, Carbon Economy Educational Series, December 9th
Santa Barbara Central Library
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Gifting to the Children We Love – Part I
There is no better way to build real wealth than to find ways of raising up the children in our lives. Whether it’s the young people in our families—children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, co…
Yahoo & Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers
By Kim Zetter
Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?
That’s the ques…
Goldman Bonuses a Go; Gang of 30 Stock-Only
By Stephen Bernard
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s top executives will not receive cash bonuses this year, as the Wall Street giant bows to sharp criticism over its pay practices.
The 30 high-ranking ex…
Arctic Roll
If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday.
Continue reading Anyone For Some Arctic Roll? Myst…
Warren Buffett's Favorite Chart
By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is an economic indicator for the U.S. manufacturing sector, in blue below. It tends to be a leading indicator for future r…
Administration Proposal re: Small Business
By Jackie Calmes
President Obama and Congress are ending the year as they began it, at work on an economic stimulus package of tax cuts and spending, with the latest effort likely to raise the tota…
Bank Blamed For Big Losses to Charities
By Chris Serres
Local foundations are fighting Wells Fargo in court, saying it lied about safety of investments made before market plunge.
For years, some large charitable foundations in the Twin Ci…
Bankers: "Existence should be bonus enough."
By Alison Fitzgerald
Wall Street firms are recovering. Their standing with the American public isn’t.
“The fact that they’re even in existence should be bonus enough,” says Cassie Swihart, a…
Grayson Questions Retrade of AIG Deal
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Ben Bernanke
Chairman
Federal Reserve System
20th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20551
Dear Chairman Bernanke,
I write with concern about two announced…
U.S. Will Settle Indian Lawsuit for $3.4 Billion
By Charlie Savage
The federal government announced on Tuesday that it intends to pay $3.4 billion to settle claims that it has mismanaged the revenue in American Indian trust funds, potentially end…
‘Swine Flu Pope’ & WHO Corruption
By F. William Engdahl
The man with the nickname “Dr Flu”, Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by Dutch media researchers as the person at t…
Ron Paul on Ben and the Fed
Continue reading Ron Paul with Judge Napolitano on Glenn Beck- Bernanke To Be Renominated
The Amazing Spiraling Mortgage Delinquencies
By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova|
Continue reading The Amazing Spiraling Mortgage Delinquencies
The Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting
With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today — …
Renewing Relations: Russia & Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Thursday to upgrade Vatican-Kremlin relations to full diplomatic ties, the Vatican said.
The step forward on the diplomatic f…
Money Trap Complexity: Traditional IRA vs. Roth
By Anne Tergesen
Starting Jan. 1, Uncle Sam will permanently eliminate both the income and filing-status restrictions on transferring money from a traditional IRA to a Roth — a procedure known as …
Spitzer: Geithner, Bernanke Should Go
Continue reading Geithner, Bernanke “Complicit” in Financial Crisis and Should Go
Seattle Gentrification ala IRS
By Danny Westneat
Rachel Porcaro knows she’s hardly rich. When you’re a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don’t need government experts to tell you how broke you are.
But that’s what happene…
Growing Power
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Acronym du Jour
SCWAG ~ Scientifically Calculated Wild Assed Guess. An estimate calculated using sound mathematics and science which is, never the less, little more than a wild guess. Generally because one or more of…
Owning Physical Precious Metal
GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk was interviewed for 27 minutes this week by Eric King of King World News. They discussed the second phase of the bull market in gold, Barrick Gold’s st…
Managing Inflation: Labor Costs Down or Capital Costs Up?
By Joe Weisenthal
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Energy Tax Incentives
DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives and policies that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Established in 1995 and funded by t…
Will Ben Be In by Xmas?
By Scott Lanman and Craig Torres
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke left a Senate confirmation hearing with support for a second term heading a central bank that may be shorn of its powers to…
Do It Today!
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for t…
Who's Your Foodbank?
Claims for Emergency Unemployment Compensation increased by 265,300 in one week to an all time record of 3,859,553 for the week ending November 14.
If you can give money or volunteer time, I encour…
Health Care: Of Lives And Principle
By Sam Smith
The pending health care legislation is as corrupt, cynical and contemptuous of simple decency as any bill I’ve seen in over a half century of covering national politics. Which still le…
Competitive Devaluations Threaten a Trade War
By Michael Pettis
Vietnam’s decision to devalue its currency by 5 per cent last week to protect itself from undervaluation of the Chinese renminbi, and the worried response from Thailand and othe…
Questions about Larry Summers & Harvard Endowment
Derivatives have many purposes. One is to quietly launder the profits out of one place into another without the niceties of legal authorizations and documents. Everything is hidden behind the pricing …
WTO Demands Emerging Nations Permit Derivatives
by Greg Palast
On 10th Anniversary of the Battle in Seattle Bankers’ scheme to re-open finance casino worldwide. Apparently, one meltdown isn’t enough for the World Trade Organization. They meet to…
Oh, Really?
“It wasn’t scary at all.”
Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn on the plunge in Goldman’s stock price from $207.78 in February to $47.41 in November 2008 as reported in the latest Vanity Fair.
Catherine on "Pieces of the Puzzle" Radio in Memphis
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Preparing for the Worst
The levels of government debt have reached the point where even mainstream banks are encouraging investors to consider the “collapse scenario” in their strategies.
View full document . . .
Barron's 25 Best Givers
By Suzanne McGee
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers.
The name of the game in philanthropy this year is to make your dollars g…
Bloomberg Reporter Who Sued Fed Dies at 52
By Bob Ivry
Mark Pittman, the award-winning reporter whose fight to make the Federal Reserve more accountable to taxpayers led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died Nov. 25 in Yonker…
Goldman Sachs – Going Long Lead?
Commentary by Alice Schroeder
I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to t…
Duopoly
Max Keiser has me using a new word—duopoly. It is a word worth learning and a phenomenon worth considering as we look around the landscape.
Duopoly at Wikipedia
