Money & Markets – Week of 11.01.09
World’s Central Banks Signal End to Policy ‘Largesse’
Bloomberg.com (6 Nov 09)
U.S. Stocks Erase Gain as House Votes to Limit Card Rates
Bloomberg.com (4 Nov 09)
Buffett Joins Goldman in Bid for Fan…
Precious Metals – Week of 11.01.09
Chinese Gold Cheaper Than IMF’s – ex-PBOC Adviser
Reuters India (5 Nov 09)
How Can You Tell When Gold is in a Bubble?
Jesse’s Cafe Americain (4 Nov 09)
Barrick Gold Posts US$5.4 Billion Net Loss on …
Geopolitical – Week of 11.01.09
Vets Sue CIA Over Mid Control Tests
Wired (7 Jan 09)
Hillary Clinton Only Winner in Honduran Mess
The Australian (2 Nov 09)
EU Lisbon Treaty Signed by Czech President
Daily Inquirer (6 Nov 09)
Fusi…
Technology – Week of 11.01.09
NSA Supercenters to Store Americans’ Private Data Permanently
New American (28 Oct 09)
Sec and Homeland Security Need Web Backup, GAO Says
The Flu Case (26 Oct 09)
NSA Supercenters to Store American…
Life – Week of 11.01.09
Honey in the Whitehouse
New York Times
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Uprooting A Fall Harvest At The White House Kitchen Garden
Washingt…
Food & Health – Week of 11.01.09
WHO ‘Assumes’ Ukraine Gripped By Swine Flu
Associated Press (3 Nov 09)
What’s So Scary About Michael Pollan? Why Corporate Agriculture Tried to Censor His University Speech
Truthout (28 Oct 09)
Mons…
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The Living Matrix – The Science of Healing uncovers new ideas about the intricate web of factors that determine our health. You will meet a group of dedicated scientists, psychologists, bioenerget…
We're Governed by Callous Children
By Peggy Noonan
The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be dancing in the streets. No one is, because no one has any faith in these numbers. Waves …
Dangerous Side Effects of Ultra-Easy Money
By Gary Dorsch
Operating under the elixir of ultra-low interest rates, and flush with trillions of fiat currency at their disposal, courtesy of the world’s top-20 central banks, hedge funds and ban…
Money & Markets ~ Charts 10.29.09
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, Thursday, November 5, 2009.
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JP Morgan Chase Takes Over the 'Hood
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I listen to you on Coast to Coast AM.
I have noticed the number of Chase Banks that have popped up all over the place.
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Russia Delays Gold Sales
By Polina Devitt
The Russian government said on Tuesday it had postponed its plans to sell up to 50 tonnes of gold this year, after information about the sale was leaked to the market, but the gold…
UK: Is Your Safe Deposit Box Safe?
By Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark
The Finchley Road is one of the busiest thoroughfares heading out of London. It leads traffic north past Lord’s Cricket Ground and the multimillion-pound houses…
Saudis Drops WTI
By Javier Blas
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday decided to drop the widely used West Texas Intermediate oil contract as the benchmark for pricing its oil, dealing a serious blow to the New York Mercantile…
Derivatives Drain Municipal Governments
By Peter Robison, Pat Wechsler and Martin Z. Braun
Salvatore Calvanese, the treasurer of Springfield, Massachusetts, for four years, had a ready defense for why he risked $14 million of taxpayer mo…
Collateral Damage
By Tyler Durden
“Although the main interests of the Federal Reserve are macroeconomic in nature, well-functioning financial markets are ancillary to good economic performance. Conversely, financial i…
Farmer Found Guilty
It appears that local governments are getting serious about enforcing Wisconsin’s livestock premises registration law. Last week, Patrick Monchilovich of Cumberland became the first person in the stat…
Why Boys Are Turning Into Girls
Here’s something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bendin…
California Pensions Lose $ Gentrifying NY Rental Housing
By David B. Caruso
It was the most expensive real estate deal in U.S. history. Now it’s poised to become one of the biggest flops.
At the height of the real estate bubble in 2006, an investment gr…
The Consequence of a Bull Market in Fraud
“By Jesse”
The theory of a short squeeze in Eurodollars which we had first put forward last year “The Dollar Rally and Deflationary Imbalances in the US Dollar Holdings of Overseas Banks” seems to …
Food Will Never Be So Cheap Again
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Biofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May. Almost a third of the US corn harvest will be diverted into ethanol for motors th…
Food Safety Debate Continues . . .
[Information originally from Weston Price.]
The debate on food safety is heating up in Congress. Last Thursday, October 22, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) hel…
Giant Atom-smasher Jinxed
Scientists claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world.
In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr M…
Health Bill May Cut Employer Mandate
By David Espo
Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms would owe significant penalties if any worker needed go…
Mass Media Pimping For The White House
By Sam Smith
If you see and hear a lot in the media about volunteerism and community service in the coming days, it’s no accident. Major media – ranging from Time magazine to a whole string of TV s…
A True Picture of the US Dollar
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By James Turk
Because people generally calculate the price of goods and services only in terms of the national currency of the country where they live, it is not easy for them to …
The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
This talk by Larry Wilkerson was the keynote speech given at an event sponsored by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, American University History Department, American University…
Tim Geithner's $14 Billion Gift of Taxpayer Funds to Goldman Sachs
By Jesse
Tim Geithner should be given the option to resign immediately, or be fired. He is either incompetent, too conflicted to do his job with the banks properly, or possibly both.
Stephen Fried…
New York Fed’s Secret Choice to Pay for Swaps Hits Taxpayers
By Richard Teitelbaum and Hugh Son
In the months leading up to the September 2008 collapse of giant insurer American International Group Inc., Elias Habayeb and his colleagues worked nights and wee…
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The Real Deal on US Housing Policy
The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing by E. Michael Jones is a remarkable history of the application of private foundation and federal housing policies and dollars in Boston, C…
US Residential Borrowers Underwater
By Diana Golobay
The majority — 60% — of remaining performing borrowers within ‘06- and ‘07-vintage residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) bear negative home equity, meaning they are…
When the Crooks Run the Show
By Paul Craig Roberts
One conclusive hallmark of a failed state is that the crooks are inside the government, using government to protect and to advance their private interests.
Another conclusive…
Madoff Associate Drowns; Trail Grows Cold?
By Brian Skoloff,
A man accused of making more than $7 billion off the investment schemes of jailed financial manager Bernard Madoff drowned after having a heart attack, authorities said Monday.
J…
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Money & Markets – Week of 10.25.09
Shell Profit Plunges
Reuters (29 Oct 09)
Einhorn’s Next Call Won’t Be as Easy as Lehman: William Pesek
Bloomberg.com (29 Oct 09)
Unemployed Tap Their 401(k)s
CNN Money (28 Oct 09)
Soros: China…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.25.09
Gold ETC Slow To Take Off In Gulf
Reuters (28 Oct 09)
Gold’s New Ally
The Daily Reckoning (24 Oct 09)
Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.25.09
In Detroit, A Housing Auction Of Last Resort
MSNBC Business (25 Oct 09)
Home-buyer Tax-credit Refunds Delayed For Months
Fox Business (26 Oct 09)
Guess What: The Next Housing Bubble Is Already Under…
Geopolitical – Week of 10.25.09
Flotsam & Jetsam: Time For A Little Moderation
Undernews (27 Oct 09)
North America’s Largest Industrial union And World’s Largest Cooperative Join Forces
Prorev.com (27 Oct 09)
Draft Law Would Exten…
Technology – Week of 10.25.09
Ares I-X Rocket Chalks Up Successful Test Flight
Cenet.com (28 Oct 09)
Asteroid Blast Reveals Holes in Earth’s Defences
New Scientist (26 Oct 09)
Disclosure: Why It is a Must
Unknown Country (28 O…
Life – Week of 10.25.09
In San Francisco, Nightmare Traffic Expected After Bay Bridge Rod Snaps; No Injuries Reported
WGNtv.com (28 Oct 09)
Kids Spend More Than 32 Hours in Front of TV a Week
Slatest (27 Oct 09)
$13 an Hou…
Food & Health – Week of 10.25.09
North Carolina Pandermic Response Project
Vaccine Rights (27 Oct 09)
Low Milk Prices Have Dairy Farmers Killing Cows
CNS News.com (27 Oct 09)
Is There A Link Between Antidepressants And Violence?
Al…
Business Continuity Exercises
Business continuity exercises at the big clearing houses and banks this weekend have rumors flying. Combined with the White House declaring a swine flu emergency on Friday and the web bot project pred…
Evans-Pritchard's Dollar Defense
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Let me stick my neck out.
The dollar will still be the world’s dominant reserve currency in 2030, sharing a degree of leadership in uneasy condominium with the Chinese…
Russia To Sell Gold
By Polina Devitt
Russia plans to sell as much as 50 tonnes of gold this year to help plug a budget deficit in the first major bullion sale by its precious metals repository since the fall of the So…
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Uh-Oh – Food "Safety" Bill
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Michel Chossudovsky: Where the bailout money is going
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Hyperinflation Watch
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By James Turk
Evidence continues to emerge that the US dollar is headed for hyperinflation. For example, consider why US stock markets are rising.
The Dow Jones Industrials, S&a…
Money & Markets ~ Charts 10.22.09
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The New Roth Rollover Rules Explained
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FDIC’s Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program Ends
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Round 'Em Up, Stock Goes Up
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William Ackman said he bought shares of Corrections Corp. of America, giving his Pershing Square Capital Management LP hedge fund a 9.5 percent stake in the biggest U.S. operator of pr…
Google Search: Buy Gold vs. Dollar Collapse
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'Goldman Sachs says 'Tolerate The Inequality'
By Kathryn Hopkins
One of the City’s leading figures has suggested that inequality created by bankers’ huge salaries is a price worth paying for greater prosperity.
In remarks that will fuel the r…
Paris Regulators to Govern City of London Risk Positions? Oh my!
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
A European super-regulator will have the final say over London’s vast derivatives market and will acquire powers to limit the positions taken by banks and hedge funds, ac…
Uncle Sam's Gift to the Prudent Saver: Less Money
By Allan Sloan
This is a quiz. What do the record-high Wall Street bonuses have in common with the record-low yields for savers? Answer: They show yet another way that prudent people, especially tho…
Our Hero – E. Adam Webb
By R. Robin McDonald
An Atlanta attorney has sued one of the nation’s largest credit card distributors on behalf of a potential class of credit card holders in a complaint that reflects the public …
Insider Trade of the Day
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Adam Storch, vice president of Goldman Sachs’ Business Intelligence Group has become head of the SEC’s enforcement division. It doesn’t get much more cynical than that.
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Social Media Next On CIA List
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America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA …
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Futures in Talks with Options
By Emre Peker
CME Group Inc. and the Chicago Board Options Exchange are in informal talks for a takeover, Crain’s said, citing people familiar with the discussions.
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China’s second-ranking military officer will travel to Washington later this month on a week-long visit designed to promote trust and avoid “misunderstandings,” the Pentagon said Wednesday.
General…
Vaclav Klaus: Too Late to Stop Lisbon Treaty
The only EU leader who has not yet signed the Lisbon reform treaty has conceded he will not be able to derail it.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus’s admission has paved the way for the document to become…
Is the Media really Stupid?
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Goldman Sachs Bonus Pot Breaks Record
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Latin America Plans US Dollar Replacement
Latin American leaders have agreed on using a new intra- regional trading currency, dubbed as Sucre, instead of the US dollar.
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Money & Markets – Week of 10.18.09
Goldman Sachs Still Paid for Swaps on Redeemed Bonds (Update2)
Bloomberg.com (23 Oct 09)
Companies Played Key Role in Getting Salaries Cut
The Slatest (22 Oct 09)
BOE’s King: Big Banks Should Get…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.18.09
Roubini: A Big Crash Is Coming, But I Don’t Believe In Gold
The Money Game (23 Oct 09)
CME To Allow Gold As Collateral For All Exchange Products
Market Watch (19 Oct 09)
Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.18.09
A Million Frozen Out Of Mortgage Market
The Independent (20 Oct 09)
FDIC Failed to Limit Commercial Real-Estate Loans, Reports Show
Bloomberg.com (20 Oct 09)
Irish House Prices To Fall 45pc As Deb…
Geopolitical – Week of 10.18.09
China Expands Cyberspying in U.S., Report Says
The Wall Street Journal (23 Oct 09)
Roberts Speaks Out on DWI Case
AOL News (20 Oct 09)
The Geopolitics Behind The Phoney US War in Afghanistan
Financ…
Technology – Week of 10.18.09
High-speed Chase Ends When OnStar Halts Stolen SUV
Yahoo News (19 Oct 09)
Rats Can Save Human Lives
Ode (Sept/ Oct 09)
How To Make Electricity
Zero Hedge (19 Oct 09)
Moscow Mayor Promises a Winter…
Life – Week of 10.18.09
Foreclosures Force Ex-Homeowners to Turn to Shelters
The New York Times (19 Oct 09)
Food & Health – Week of 10.18.09
Keeping The Customer Satisfied
Philly.com (Oct 2009)
New York Suspends Mandatory Flu Shots For Health Workers
CNN Health.com (22 Oct 09)
Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?
CBS News.com (21 Oct 09)
Flo…
Ten Days in Space = $35 Million
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Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte said Tuesday his mission was accomplished after a 10-day trip to the International Space Station where he hosted a global Web broadcast th…
Ruling Could Undo Thousands of Foreclosure
By Jerry Kronenberg
A real estate judge is refusing to reverse a landmark ruling that opens the door to voiding tens of thousands of Bay State foreclosures dating as far back as 1989.
“The forecl…
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Freeze in Social Security Benefits
By Robert Pear,
For the first time in more than three decades, Social Security recipients will not get any increase in their benefits next year, federal forecasts show.
The absence of a cost-of-livi…
What's Up With Gold?
By: Rob Kirby
Earlier this week, I wrote about possible “incongruities” in the gold bar registry of GLD [SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)]. Specifically, here is what has happened to the GLD bar list whi…
Does the Vaccine Matter?
By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer
The term influenza, which dates back to the Middle Ages, is taken from the Italian word for occult or astral influence. Then as now, flu seemed to appear out o…
It Begins – The No Vaccine Campaign
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Does the State Own Your Organs?
By Aaron Klein
President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission.
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Bruce Wasserstein, Chairman of Lazard, Dies Unexpectedly
Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer the hostile takeover in the 1980s and reshaped the mergers and acquisitions business into a high art, died Wednesday.
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Russia And China Eye $5.5bn Deals
Russia is hoping to sign deals worth $5.5bn (£3.5bn) with China as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits Beijing.
The deals may lead to Russia selling more oil and gas to China – the world’s second…