Here is the year-to-date price change in commodities and stocks:

Crude oil up 43%
Ethanol up 21%
Heating oil up 44%
Natural gas up 77%
Unleaded gas up 40%
Cattle up 1%
Corn up 59%
Soy beans up; 26%
W…

Money High Street

By Mark Nestmann

For many years, I’ve advocated keeping valuable items in private vaults, rather than safety deposit boxes. A raid June 2 on three private vaults in London has le…

I just love reporters who take the time to dig into financial statements and come up with the truffles to be found there. I posted Jonathan Weil’s gem from Boomberg this week on the Fed’s treatment of…

Most Recent Hillary Clinton Stories:

The Clinton Scandals
What You Won’t Find in The Clinton Museum and Library
The Real Divide on Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama & Vanna White
Th…

Catherine’s post – “What’s Up in Alabama?” has been updated. ~ View it here.

Wind farms that use spinning blades and turbines to generate electricity have the undesirable side effect of disrupting the operation of radar systems. The JASON defense science advisory group was ask…

A new report from the Bank of International Settlements indicates that global outstanding derivatives just keep growing in amount.

Highlights of International Banking and Financial Market Activity – …

I first met Jim Johnson in the early 1990’s. I was a great admirer of his predecessor at Fannie Mae, David Maxwell. David had recruited Jim from Lehman Brothers to serve as Vice-Chairman at Fannie Mae…

Money Supply at 5 Jun 2008
St. Louis Federal Reserve Report

~ Previous blog posts on MZM: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

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Adjusted Monetary Base
St. Louis Federal Reserve Report

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Water Crisis to be Biggest World Risk
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (6 Jun 2008)
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Just 17% Say Federal Government Represents Will of the People
Rasmussen Reports (3 Jun 2008)

Just 17% of voters say that the federal government represents the will of the American people. A Rasmussen…

Neither Honest Nor Trustworthy: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007
By Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman – Multinational Monitor.org (Nov/Dec 2007)

“A November 2007 Harris poll found that less tha…

From Phil Cubeta – At GiftHub.org:

Getting Your Philanthropy Advice from a Loan Shark?
(31 May 2008)

Mr. Repo Man as Philanthropic Advisor
(31 May 2008)

Total Borrowings of Depository Institutions from the Fed – 1910 to present:

Rob Kirby wrote to the Wall Street Journal earlier this week:

Kate Kelly:

Congratulations on your article, “Fear, Rumors Touched Off Fatal Run on Bear Stearns.

Quite a story you’ve written there….

The proprietor of GiftHub.org has his next comment for us:

Read the full article here.

Oh, my.

Terrorizing honest government regulators and their contractors in life threatening ways, seizing and stealing their software tools and databases providing public access to transparency regard…

If you are curious to know more about the headlines regarding losses on auction rate securities, here is a new lawsuit filed against UBS that outlines some of the background and issues.

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Good news! The Bureau of Labor Statistics at the U.S. Department of Labor has announced the April Producer Price Index. You will be delighted to hear their finding that gasoline prices decreased 4.6 p…

Rob Kirby of Financial Sense discusses his conversation with Catherine about the demise of Bear Stearns and related events.

The Next Shoe to Drop
By Rob Kirby – Financial Sense WrapUp (19 May 2008)…

Dmitry Orlov’s book “Reinventing Collapse” is an excellent introduction to the de-industrialization that numerous areas of the world have experienced, written for Americans interested in preparing for…

One of the signs watched to determine risks of inflation or deflation is the relationship of current commodities prices to those expressed in future contracts. Here are two words we are going to be se…

I was speaking with Dennis Bernstein of Flashpoints about our show, Community Business, which we do each Wednesday night. We were talking about Solari Audio seminar, “The REAL Economic Hit Men” I me…