By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Julie Haviv

State-owned Bank of China Ltd has opened trading in the yuan currency to U.S. customers, according to a posting on the bank’s website dated December 2010…

By Paul Menchaca

After suffering often staggering losses since the financial crisis shook global markets in 2008, US endowments have been forced to reassess their approach to investing Many endowme…

By Brad DeLong

My suspicion is that this is simply coincidence and proves once again the dangers of drawing conclusions in the field of human action from historical data.

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For many people, smart phones are almost as indispensable as wallets. And soon, your smart phone could replace your wallet. A collection of the biggest wireless carriers, handset makers and software…

(24 September 2010) After six years of intense negotiations, parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety finally agreed on a new international treaty in Nagoya, Japan. According to the treaty, co…

Car was in a Capitol Hill garage. DC, Capitol police on the scene.

Deceased identified as Ashley Turton, wife of White House liaison to the House of Representatives Dan Turton.

Turton worked as a …

By Thom Weidlich

US Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co. lost a foreclosure case in Massachusetts’s highest court that will guide lower courts in that state and may influence others in the clash bet…

By Project Avalon

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Welcome to Facebook Members Want Stock In Facebook

This Group is dedicated to having Facebook members receive a share of the revenue that the site is generating. The site is currently valued at $500 …

By Paul Levy

Note: I consider this series of articles one of the most important things I’ve ever written. If after reading it you feel so inspired, please forward this to all of your friends and li…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The US is drifting from a financial crisis to a deeper and more insidious social crisis. Self-congratulation by the US authorities that they have this time avoided a repe…

Voter Concern About Economy Hits Highest Level In Over Two Years

With a new Congress scheduled to swing into action this week, the number of voters who rate the economy as a Very Important issue ha…

There will soon be seven billion people on the planet.

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By Joseph A. Giannone

The efforts by Facebook to raise as much as $1.5 billion outside of regulated markets is the latest test of the walls between private and public markets.

Goldman Sachs this w…

By Alex MacDonald and Liam Pleven

A prominent indicator of international food prices hit a record high in December, sounding a warning about looming threats to the world’s poor and to global growth…

Welcome back to the Worldwide Fiat Currency Race to Debase!

In US dollar terms gold was up 29.6% on the year.  Beginning the year at $1097, gold showed a steady pace reaching $1421 to close out th…

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By Richard A. Lovett

Earth’s north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the …

By Ronnie Cummins

If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.” – Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, q…

By Molly Peterson

President Barack Obama will sign a $1.4 billion food-safety bill today that marks the biggest change to oversight of the food industry since 1938 and sets up a funding fight with …

By Graham Bowley

A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.

Few humans are present in …

By Sam Smith

The day after Julian Assange of WikiLeaks threatened to “take down” a major American bank, the shares of Bank of America fell 3 percent. . . Since then, a team of 15 to 20 top Bank…

By Paul Ferguson

I noticed something last week.  But before I get into it a little background is required.  Most of the junior mining stocks trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) or the Venture…

By Jonathan Benson

In response to the recent passage of “food safety” bills S. 510 and corresponding H.R. 2751, the Vermont Coalition for Food Sovereignty has drafted its own resolution called “The…

By Oliver Sacks

New Year’s resolutions often have to do with eating more healthfully, going to the gym more, giving up sweets, losing weight — all admirable goals aimed at improving one’s phy…

By Gregory White and Kamelia Angelova

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By John Hussman

Why are Treasury yields rising despite hundreds of billions of Treasury purchases by the Federal Reserve? There are two possibilities in the current debate. One is that the Fed’s po…

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By Gregory White

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced changes to rules on how it calculates long-term unemployment Tuesday, according to The Hill.

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Our indexes are designed to provide real-time information on major inflation trends, not to forecast official inflation announcements. The official CPI series are shown for reference purposes only. Yo…

By Hibah Yousuf

U.S. stocks ended Monday mixed as investors digested a surprise interest rate hike by the Bank of China and a blizzard put a damper on post-holiday retail sales.

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By Bill Carter and Brian Stelter

Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up a…

Georgie Anna Branham LaRue passed from this world on December 26, 2010 at 2:22am at the Falls Center Hospice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Services will take place on Thursday, December 30th at …

By Jesse

Most people confuse freedom with power.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever we wish when we wish however we wish, to serve our passions as ends unto themselves, to be rude and demea…

By Michael Hudson

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By Jesse

I hope everyone has the opportunity to see “Inside Job” in the months ahead.

The issue is not settled. As someone who watches the markets closely every day, often tick by tick, and speaks…

By Jeannette Neumann

Cities Tap Homeowners for Revenue as Workers’ Retirement, Health Costs Rise.

Cities across the nation are raising property taxes, largely citing rising pension and health-care c…

By Louis Lanzano

Star banking analyst Meredith Whitney has been saying for months that the next phase of the housing meltdown would be a local-government financial crisis. Last weekend she put a n…

By Mike Ludwig

The former United States ambassador to France suggested “moving to retaliation” against France and the European Union (EU) in late 2007 to fight a French ban on Monsanto’s gene…

By Mike Ludwig

The former United States ambassador to France suggested “moving to retaliation” against France and the European Union (EU) in late 2007 to fight a French ban on Monsanto’s gene…

By Sean Gardiner

Each morning for 5,546 days, Jabbar Collins knew exactly what he’d wear when he awoke: a dark-green shirt with matching dark-green pants.

The prison greenies of a convicted murder…

By Paul Levy

Note: I consider this one of the most important articles I’ve ever written. If after reading it you feel so inspired, please forward this to all of your friends and lists. The next par…

By Jon Rappoport

The 10th Amendment Center is a group that is campaigning to nullify illegal federal laws. It’s also resuscitating the right of states to exercise their basic power in this regard.
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By Joe Weisenthal

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By Johann Hari

The year 2010 began with David Cameron looking into a TV camera and pledging to the British people: “If any cabinet minister comes to me and says ‘Here are my plans’ and they involve…

By Sandy Hingston

They don’t read. They can’t spell. They spend all their time playing computer games and texting and hanging out with one another on Facebook. But the problem is much worse tha…

The Solari Report’s very own Michael Linton, who when he is not lining up our favorite people for interviews on the Solari Report, is a distinguished Professor of Music, teaching and composing the m…

By Paul Ferguson

Gold bounced off of trendline support this morning.  Trading in the gold shares looked particularly encouraging, with stocks opening at their lows and working their way higher.  …

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By Amy Schatz and Shayndi Raice

Consumers for the first time got federally approved rules guaranteeing their right to view what they want on the Internet. The new framework could also result in tie…

By Yves Smith

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By Paul Ferguson

Going with the sailing analogy here. Silver has set a course to the northeast.  When we look at it on a monthly chart—a timeframe that filters out short-term noise—we can see …

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Behold, Silver Bugs, the Promised Land!

Investors are piling into silver, at last having discovered silver’s astounding bull market future, and silver soars daily. Adding f…

By Heather Box

Kyle Thiermann, a 20-year-old professional surfer from Santa Cruz California, stood in a clothing factory in Sri Lanka amongst the commotion of the sewing machines, fabric cutters an…

The luster will be a bit “off” on Dec. 21st, the first day of northern winter, when the full Moon passes almost dead-center through Earth’s shadow. For 72 minutes of eerie totality, an amber light w…