By Alan Bjerga

A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government …

Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite ‘the best practices [to stop contamination]'(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials o…

By Rajeev Syal

Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.

Antonio Ma…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

While premier George Papandreou offered pro forma assurances at Friday’s EU summit that Greece would not default on its €298bn (£268bn) debt, his words to reporters afte…

By Evelyn Pringle

Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue o…

Sorting through the wreckage of those related failures has generated more questions than answers so far. Taylor Bean was shut down by the Federal Housing Administration, citing possible mortgage fra…

By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova

Continue reading Small Business Cash Crunch Fears Getting Worse And Worse. . .

By Jim Ostroff

No personal jet packs at the big-box store just yet, but we foresee technological breakthroughs that will make a real difference.

Kiplinger clients have long come to rely on Kipling…

By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova

Continue reading The Average Investor Remains Terrified Of The Stock Market. . .

Joel Salatin

Pathways to Relocalization, Carbon Economy Educational Series, December 9th
Santa Barbara Central Library

The Flyer:

Joel Salatin, fulltime family farmer of the highly successful Pol…

By Kim Zetter

Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?

That’s the ques…

By Stephen Bernard

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s top executives will not receive cash bonuses this year, as the Wall Street giant bows to sharp criticism over its pay practices.
The 30 high-ranking ex…

If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday.

Continue reading Anyone For Some Arctic Roll? Myst…

By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova

The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is an economic indicator for the U.S. manufacturing sector, in blue below. It tends to be a leading indicator for future r…

By Jackie Calmes

President Obama and Congress are ending the year as they began it, at work on an economic stimulus package of tax cuts and spending, with the latest effort likely to raise the tota…

By Chris Serres

Local foundations are fighting Wells Fargo in court, saying it lied about safety of investments made before market plunge.

For years, some large charitable foundations in the Twin Ci…

By Alison Fitzgerald

Wall Street firms are recovering. Their standing with the American public isn’t.

“The fact that they’re even in existence should be bonus enough,” says Cassie Swihart, a…

Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Ben Bernanke
Chairman
Federal Reserve System
20th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20551

Dear Chairman Bernanke,

I write with concern about two announced…

By Charlie Savage

The federal government announced on Tuesday that it intends to pay $3.4 billion to settle claims that it has mismanaged the revenue in American Indian trust funds, potentially end…

By F. William Engdahl

The man with the nickname “Dr Flu”, Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by Dutch media researchers as the person at t…

Continue reading Ron Paul with Judge Napolitano on Glenn Beck- Bernanke To Be Renominated

By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova|

Continue reading The Amazing Spiraling Mortgage Delinquencies

With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today — …

Pope Benedict XVI and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Thursday to upgrade Vatican-Kremlin relations to full diplomatic ties, the Vatican said.

The step forward on the diplomatic f…

By Anne Tergesen

Starting Jan. 1, Uncle Sam will permanently eliminate both the income and filing-status restrictions on transferring money from a traditional IRA to a Roth — a procedure known as …

Continue reading Geithner, Bernanke “Complicit” in Financial Crisis and Should Go

By Danny Westneat

Rachel Porcaro knows she’s hardly rich. When you’re a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don’t need government experts to tell you how broke you are.

But that’s what happene…

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GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk was interviewed for 27 minutes this week by Eric King of King World News. They discussed the second phase of the bull market in gold, Barrick Gold’s st…

By Joe Weisenthal

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Continue reading Morgan Stanley: Here Comes A Brutal 2010

DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives and policies that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Established in 1995 and funded by t…

By Scott Lanman and Craig Torres

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke left a Senate confirmation hearing with support for a second term heading a central bank that may be shorn of its powers to…

Claims for Emergency Unemployment Compensation increased by 265,300 in one week to an all time record of 3,859,553 for the week ending November 14.

If you can give money or volunteer time, I encour…

By Sam Smith

The pending health care legislation is as corrupt, cynical and contemptuous of simple decency as any bill I’ve seen in over a half century of covering national politics. Which still le…

By Michael Pettis

Vietnam’s decision to devalue its currency by 5 per cent last week to protect itself from undervaluation of the Chinese renminbi, and the worried response from Thailand and othe…

Derivatives have many purposes. One is to quietly launder the profits out of one place into another without the niceties of legal authorizations and documents. Everything is hidden behind the pricing …

by Greg Palast

On 10th Anniversary of the Battle in Seattle Bankers’ scheme to re-open finance casino worldwide. Apparently, one meltdown isn’t enough for the World Trade Organization. They meet to…

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The levels of government debt have reached the point where even mainstream banks are encouraging investors to consider the “collapse scenario” in their strategies.

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By Suzanne McGee

With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers.

The name of the game in philanthropy this year is to make your dollars g…

By Bob Ivry

Mark Pittman, the award-winning reporter whose fight to make the Federal Reserve more accountable to taxpayers led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died Nov. 25 in Yonker…

Commentary by Alice Schroeder

I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to t…

Max Keiser has me using a new word—duopoly. It is a word worth learning and a phenomenon worth considering as we look around the landscape.

Duopoly at Wikipedia

By: Wanda Lau

Cities take on different faces during the holiday season–some are the spitting image of Scrooge, others look like Santa. Which one your town resembles has nothing to do with Styrofoa…

“The Triumph of Death”

by Murray N. Rothbard

Most people — historians not excepted — are tempted to think of economic and cultural progress as being continuous: in every century people are bett…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Stephen Jen from the hedge fund Blue Gold Capital has a warning for those who think that gold has risen far too high, is necessarily in a speculative bubble, and must soo…

By Caroline Salas and Matthew Leising

Connecticut plans to join Ohio in suing credit-rating companies for “negligent, reckless and incompetent work” in grading debt purchased by state pension f…

Author: Dorothy Kosich

Unprecedented demand, a shortage of blanks, and restrictive policies and regulations continue to exacerbate what is almost becoming a chronic shortage of gold and silver coins…

By Sophia Tareen

Prentice Jones worked construction jobs around Chicago for most of his 60 years and is quick to boast of a foreman job he once held at a revamped city college and 23 years at a ste…

By Joe Weisenthal and Vincent Fernando Continue reading Chart of The Day: Americans Are More Broke, And More Desperate For Deals

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By Anne Seith

Two Deutsche Bank funds were designed to profit from premature deaths in the US by buying up life insurance policies. But investors have seen precious little return on their investmen…

By Yasha levine

Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.

What are we getting in return for the bailout? So far, p…

By Kieran Crowley, Rich Wilner and Dan Mangan

A Long Island couple is home free after an outraged judge gave them an amazing Thanksgiving present — canceling their debt to ruthless bankers trying …

By Joshua M Brown

Continue reading John Paulson Likes Gold…More Than a Friend

WikiLeaks releases 573.000 pager intercepts from 9/11 2001.

From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks will release over half a million US …