By the beginning of 2010, Schwarzenegger and the lawmakers had closed a 60 billion deficit partly by slashing spending on schools, temporarily raising taxes and borrowing from local governments.
The …
A Gecko appeared today traveling about the fireplace mantel in my office.
I have decided it is a sign of great good fortune.
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Please do not wait for BP and the federal government to protect your coast waters and …
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The Senate adopted an amendment Tuesday to the financial-overhaul bill that would boost transparency of the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending actions …
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Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. disclosed Monday that it has received notices of investigations from FINRA and from the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority regarding its subprime mortgage dealin…
Swine flu kept the world in suspense for almost a year. A massive vaccination campaign was mounted to put a stop to the anticipated pandemic. But, as it turned out, it was a relatively harmless strain…
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And now for today’s bombshell – literally at the very end of Moody’s 10-Q filed last night, we find this stunner:
On March 18, 2010, MIS received a “Wells Notice” from the Staff …
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And now for today’s bombshell – literally at the very end of Moody’s 10-Q filed last night, we find this stunner:
On March 18, 2010, MIS received a “Wells Notice” from the Staff …
Did you know that Greece alone has 14 times as much gold per capita as China? Do you realize that your “PIGS” actually have the same amount of gold per capita as the US claims to still have? (PIGS=25 …
The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every na…
“We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”
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Federal agents have launched parallel criminal and civil probes of JPMorgan Chase and its trading activity in the precious metals market, The Post has learned.
The probes are cente…
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Last weekend at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Goldman Sachs preferred stock investor Warren Buffet made a big deal about supporting Goldman Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein under fire (…
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A.I.G., the insurance giant that planned to retain Gold…
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Today’s chart presents the median single-family home price divided by the price of one ounce of gold. This results in the home / gold ratio or the cost of the median single-family home in ounces of go…
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View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, May 6, 2010.
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The American public is becoming fed up with “sneak” provisions tacked onto largely unrelated bills that are likely to pass. A glaring recent example was tacking onto the Healthcare bill a comple…
Switzerland will host a forum of bankers and policymakers next month to discuss strengthening the global monetary system after the financial crisis, the Swiss central bank said on Tuesday.
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The Wall Street Journal speculated today on the possibility that Blankfein will not make it as Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. See “What-Ifs for Goldman Sachs: Behind Stiff Upper Lip, Some Execut…
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Performance at school was worse, while consumption of ju…
The study of 1,300 children by Michigan and Montreal universities found negative effects on older children rose with every hour of toddler TV.
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Some wonderful friends of mine are selling their estate in New Zealand, north of Auckland. If you are looking to get away from it all, this one may be for you!
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I voted today in the Democratic Primary for local offices in Hardeman County, Tennessee. (No, I am not a registered Democrat. Don’t need to be to vote in the primary here.)
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One of my favorite money laundering stories is told by Christopher Simpson, in his marvelous book Blowback, regarding one of the first Exchange Stabilization Fund slush fund operations after WWII. The…
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After seeing its demands for secrecy rejected soundly twice, once in district court and once in appellate, the Fed is now appealing the “Pittman” decision yet again. As Bloomberg repo…
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