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From dog-walking to rubbish clearance, civic-minded Estonians can now draw on a virtual Bank of Happiness which trades in good deeds. Anjana Ahuja reports from Tallinn

On one level, it was just a…

“The lack of sunspots in 2008, made it a century-level year in terms of solar quiet. Remarkably, sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of t…

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Ask ‘But Why?’ (11 April 09)

Morgan Keegan defended itself today against the NY Times report which we commented on yesterday, titled Liquidating Thy Neighbor – Part I.

I do agree with Morgan Keegan’s spokesman that this was …

While the wheels of state bureaucracy grind away on how to use stimulus funds and how much of those funds to accept, some communities are taking matters into their own hands.

According to the “Advers…

LEWISBURG, Tenn. — Five years ago, this small factory town was struggling to pay the interest on a bond for new sewers. Bob Phillips, Lewisburg’s part-time mayor and full-time pharmacist, was ur…

In my segment on Flashpoints Radio with Dennis Bernstein. April 8, 2009, I address real levels of unemployent and describe why the financial fraud is not limited to Washington and Wall Street – fraudu…

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Electromagnetic Pulse from Wikipedia

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The 10×10 website

“Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in th…

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“My construction friend said he talked to two separate people who had been to Chernobyl recently and asked how things were there. They both separately said concrete is constan…

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From Shadow Government Statistics ~ John Williams

“A former quantitative analyst at Harvard Management Company, the university’s once-vaunted endowment manager, tells the Harvard Crimson she was fired for voicing concern to then-university president …

“Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?

Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday th…

Hyperinflation Special Report
Shadow Government Statistics (8 Apr 08)

Excerpt: “Howard J. Ruff, who has been writing about these problems and issues since Nixon closed the Gold window, rightly argu…

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A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order.

“We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject …

The investment community was already suspicious last week when Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled his plan, announcing that Treasury would select four or five companies as “fund managers” to purcha…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (April 1, 2009) — America’s top economics bloggers—a diverse group of writers with wide-ranging intellectual and political vantage points—largely agree on one important issu…

This is the full version of the communique agreed by the G20 group in London today.

1. We, the Leaders of the Group of Twenty, met in London on 2 April 2009.

2. We face the greatest challenge to the…

One of the great mysteries is who controls, uses and really has access to the Department of Justice’s information and data systems. The idea of private corporations building and managing such systems…

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Max Keiser: ….they (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan et al) are systematically undermining the entire system. They are creating a mechanism to carve out equity and capital for themselves at the expense of …

By Carolyn Betts

I am an attorney who was working in Washington with RTC during the S&L crisis, so I know something about “toxic asset” sales. I have been poking around the legal and contractin…

From The U.S. Department of the Treasury Press Room

Treasury Press Release
Fact Sheet (PDF)
White Paper and FAQs

Catherine’s comments on her Community Business segment on Flashpoints on how to …

With special thanks to one of our favorite sources, Jim Willie at Golden Jackass, here is a roundup of some of articles that indicate the growing challenges faced by pension funds.

Ever wonder why yo…

We have received many e-mails about the Food Safety Bills introduced in Congress. We share your concerns. One of our most trusted sources on food issues is the Weston A. Price Foundation. Here is thei…

Wikipedia on the Baltic Dry Index

“Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro warned yesterday that the agency will “make significant cuts in its current operations” this year unless Congress authorizes it to spend more…

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“You knew what the banks were doing and yet were touting it for months and months – the entire network was. And so now to pretend that this was some sort of crazy once in a lifetime tsunami that nobod…

To: The Wall Street Journal

Re: “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble”

By: Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Dated: Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen:

In hi…