By Motoko Rich

Despite a competitive economy in which success increasingly depends on obtaining a college degree, one in four students in this country does not even finish high school in the usual …

By Tyler Durden

Boiling Frog Alert: Congress Wants Automatic Wage Deductions To Pay Down The Debt

Folks… you just can’t make this stuff up.

On July 6th, just two days ago, at least a dozen busy…

By Paul Delean

Faced with tax claims of more than $300 million from Revenu Quebec, embattled Montreal-based gold trader Kitco Metals Inc. now is officially in creditor protection, until July 27.

S…

By Matt Nesto

It’s official. Through the persistence of Bloomberg’s lawyers and the teeth of the Freedom Of Information Act we can now all add “Saint Omo” to our list of cool crisis acronyms that c…

By Lori Montgomery

President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicar…

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Mexican President, Felipe Calderón and President Obama

By Binyamin Appelbaum

Mexican truckers will be able to carry goods deep into the United States, and vice versa, under a deal signed Wednesday…

By Stacey Herbert

The fact is that Russia now joins Iceland and Afghanistan as the ONLY nations to have international arrest warrants out for banking thieves. This is our single most urgent concern…

Southern Essex Registry of Deeds Audit Reveals That 75% of Assignments of Mortgage Are Invalid; O’Brien Says Banks Responsible for an Epidemic of Fraud.  Once again urges Attorney’s General to st…

By Sam Smith

I was driving along when one of those smugly assured network financial advisors began talking about how to prepare for one’s retirement. I reached my destination before I got her nam…

[CAF Note: The day that Strauss-Kahn was arrested, I predicted that he would be released as soon as his candidacy in France was dead and the US had their pick in as the new head of the IMF. As things…

[CAF Note: Great for front running or what?]

By Zack Whittaker

At the Office 365 launch, Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK, gave the first admission that cloud data — regardless o…

In Finance, the simple ideas are often the best. Exchange-traded funds, first launched 21 years ago, were a great idea. They were in effect tradable mutual funds. An investor got exposure to a dive…

Most call it one of the biggest financial crises in living memory. Others call it one great big Ponzi scheme. Whatever you want to call it, a bunch of people lost a bunch of money and the world of h…

By Joe Weisenthal

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Time Monk Radio Network Interviews Presents:

Your Source for blueberries and fresh local produce

Highland Berries and Produce, 4411 Hampshire Pike, announces the opening of their produce stand at The Barn. The Barn is located one mile west o…

By Joe Weisenthal

The chaos in Greece continues.

Particularly disturbing is that PASOK PM Alexandros Athanasiadis got attacked on the street.

Athanasiadis voted FOR the controversial austerity bil…

By Jennifer Liberto

The Senate will officially take up three trade deals and a scaled-back version of a jobs retraining program for laid-off workers on Thursday.

Senate negotiators will have to st…

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011

Hi Catherine . . .

Wanted to share with you an issue that is unfolding in Burlington, Vermont. Our mayor Bob Kiss has sort of side-stepped the electorate in securing a partn…

By Franklin Sanders

Remember General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Battle of Brice’s Crossroads, 147 years ago, 10 June 1864, between here & Tupelo, Mississippi. Forrest was the greatest militar…

For Immediate Release June 09, 2011

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America and in order to enhance Federal engagement with rural …

By Joe Weisenthal

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Posted By Ann Barnhardt – June 24, 2011

Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I’ve had for years, that are actually somewhat connected concepts.

1. File this …

Catherine will be on Coast-to-Coast tonight, 30 June 2011 talking about the  “Ten Economic Trends You Want to Know About”:

Trend # 1 – The Slow Burn Burns On
Outsiders: increasing expenses and d…

Listen, let the experts all cry & whine & puke in their wastebaskets all they want, y’all just keep your head on your shoulders.  Should we not take the correction with the rally?  And all…

Madam Secretary:

You have asked Congress “Whose side are you on?” when they questioned US efforts in Libya.

See: Clinton Asks Congress, Whose Side Are You On?

Perhaps Congress should ask the same q…

By Free Press Staff

Oakland County is hoping to recover more than $1.5 million in real estate transfer taxes that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac haven’t paid over the years.

In a lawsu…

On 6/20/11:

Hi Solari folks:

My mom and I were traveling in the White Mountains this weekend and saw lots of signs in people’s yards: No to the Pass. They were talking about this: Live Free or Fry
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By End of the American Dream from LewRockwell.com

As the mainstream media continues to be obsessed with Anthony Weiner and his bizarre adventures on Twitter, much more serious events are happening …

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Do you need to refer to a list of gold and silver coins?

Take a look at our equivalents page at the Silver & Gold Payment Calculator. It lists the common bullion gold and silver coins and shows…

By Rainey Reitman

A few weeks ago, we mentioned a rather unusual technological endeavor to create an online currency. We received a few queries about this subject, so decided to provide a more thor…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Devin Banerjee

David Lender has wanted to be a writer since college. Now after a 25-year career in finance, he’s become a top-selling author of novels going for 99 cents each on Amazon Inc.’s …

By Frank James

U.S. mayors voted Monday in favor of a resolution calling on Congress to wind down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so the money can be rerouted to domestic priorities. It’s the firs…

By Washington Blog

I’ve repeatedly demonstrated that fraud caused the Great Depression and the current economic crisis, and that the economy cannot stabilize until the rule of law is restored, and …

From Tom Ball’s Suicide Letter:

Betty Friedan wrote that the feminist revolution, like any revolution, would have its excesses. Losing the rule of law is too great to call it a mere excess. It is a…

By Yves Smith

One of the interesting features of the seemingly unending Eurozone crisis is that the half life of rescue measures is decreasing.

The elephant in the room, which we will put aside to…

Who has conquered the Middle East over the course of world events?

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Tor was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation onion routing project of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. It was originally developed with the U.S. Navy in mind, for …

By Masaki Kondo, Yoshiaki Nohara and Saburo Funabiki

Japan’s biggest bond investors see increasing parallels between the nation’s government debt market and Treasuries, indicating that historic…

By James G. Neuger and Stephanie Bodoni

Europe faltered in its race to save Greece from default as finance chiefs said further aid hinged on embattled Prime Minister George Papandreou delivering bu…

By Joe Weisenthal

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Lockheed Martin Corporation Com (NYQ)

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Obama Launching World War III (Video)
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By Jesse Eisinger

Goldman Sachs appears to be trying to clear its name.
The compelling Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report on the financial crisis is wrong, the bank says. Goldman Sach…

By Amanda Gardner,

No one ever claimed that watching TV was healthy, but doctors are only now discovering just how bad it can be.

Evidence from a spate of recent studies suggests that the more TV …

A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to “transmit or display an image” online that is likely to “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” to someone who sees it. Violations can get …