To maintain his or her standard of living, each person in the United
States requires over 22 tonnes of minerals each year:
* 5,640 kg of stone
* 4,250 kg of sand and gravel
* 430 kg of cement
* 125 kg…

To maintain his or her standard of living, each person in the United
States requires over 22 tonnes of minerals each year:
* 5,640 kg of stone
* 4,250 kg of sand and gravel
* 430 kg of cement
* 125 kg…

On February 5, 2008 at 12:19:07 at Hickory Valley City Hall I was assigned access code 1723 to vote in the Tennessee primary. I elected to vote in the Republican primary and voted for Ron Paul and 12 …

Solari’s E-Mail Update ~ January 31, 2008
“The gold reserves of the United States have not been fully and independently audited for a half century. Now there is proof of those gold reserves and those …

Exit U.S.
By Mike Muehleck posted by Eric Fry – the Rude Awakening (27 Nov 2007)

I posted this in Top Picks in December. Given the interest, I am reposting with an excerpt:
One and a half million U….

Massachusetts Charges Merrill With Fraud
By George Morcroft – MarketWatch.com (1 Feb 2008)

“This complaint is focused on Merrill Lynch’s sale, through agents Kipper and Choy, of certain esoteric fin…

Hidden Swap Fees by JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley Hit School Boards
By Martin Z. Braun & William Selway – Bloomberg.com (2 Feb 2008)
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My question is not why do the leading banks and investment ban…

Coast to Coast AM Radio is distributed by Premiere Radio Networks which is owned by Clear Channel Communications.

On January 15, 2008, Coast to Coast’s host, George Noorie, announced the signing o…

Want great barbecue with high quality ingredients at affordable prices?

I just had dinner at Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q in Memphis. They have restaurants in Colorado, Florida and throughout the South.

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For those of you who keep asking me “Who is doing this?” here is a very
useful tool from the Financial Times which provides revenue and deal value rankings of the global investment banks for 2007.

(C…

Urgent Action on Behalf of Oaxacan Political Prisoners
From Food First (21 Jan 2008)

Learn more about Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca

Countrywide’s Underwriters Sued for Fraud by New York Agencies
By David Mildenberg & Karen Freifeld – Bloomberg.com (26 Jan 2008)

The New York lawsuit has been consolidated with other lawsuits ag…

Countrywide’s Underwriters Sued for Fraud by New York Agencies
By David Mildenberg & Karen Freifeld – Bloomberg.com (26 Jan 2008)

The New York lawsuit has been consolidated with other lawsuits ag…

Mortgage Lender Hid Big Risks, Suit Alleges
By James Nash – Columbus Dispatch (23 Jan 2008)
“The giant mortgage financer known as Freddie Mac swindled an Ohio pension system out of as much as $27 mi…

Earlier news re insider selling by senior Barrick executives has me wondering what they know about market liquidity, 2008 prices for precious and base metals and how they know it. The heads of explora…

Usually it’s the “lone” assassin. Now that coup d’etats are financial, we have the “lone” or “rogue” trader.

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The lone trader strikes again ala 2008:
SocGen Reels From Record $7billion Rogue…

That’s it. I’m ditching Google. It is lots of little things, but the reality is I don’t trust ’em.

Centralizing internet data does not lend itself to promoting freedom, particularly the way these guy…

Source:

Cleveland Sues 21 Lenders Over Subprime Mortgages

By Christopher Maag – New York Times (12 Jan 2008)
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See City of Cleveland Press Release for a list of lenders.

Click the image to vi…

World Bank Closes Offices After Bomb Threat
By Lesley Wroughton – Reuters (17 Jan 2008)

Let’s say $40 of every barrel of oil sold to the US by large oil companies sourced in the middle east goes into a sovereign wealth fund. Let’s say there is $4 trillion missing from the US Treasury, an…

Let’s say $40 of every barrel of oil sold to the US by large oil companies sourced in the middle east goes into a sovereign wealth fund. Let’s say there is $4 trillion missing from the US Treasury, an…

In an e-mail (1.02.08) from the FDIC:
The e-mail is to inform you that the FDIC is retiring the loan sales website at www.fdicsales.com effective January 4, 2008. From this point forward, the FDIC wil…

NH Primary: Pre-Election Polls Wildly Different Than Results Announced for Clinton/Obama
Blogged by Brad Friedman – The Brad Blog (8 Jan 2008)

2008 New Hampshire State Primary Results
A Closer Look a…

Thanks to a very special reader, Catherine’s blog review of Political Ponerology has been translated into Swedish.

Click on this image to access the translation:

From opensecrets.org – Race for the White House

Here is how Goldman Sachs employees have voted with their money for the 2008 presidential candidates:
Hillary Clinton – $301,350
John Edwards – $61,950…

Title: US District Court, Southern District of New York
Parties: Barclays Bank, PLC vs Bear Stearns, et al
Filed: December 19, 2007

Complaint ~ Part 1
Complaint ~ Part 2
Exhibit A1-3
Exhibit B1-4
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Pakistan Nuclear Weapons at Play
By Newsmax Staff – Newsmax.com (27 Dec 2007)

Pakistan and Weapons of Mass Destruction
At Wikipedia

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Pakistan Nuclear Weapons at Play
By Newsmax Staff – Newsmax.com (27 Dec 2007)

Pakistan and Weapons of Mass Destruction
At Wikipedia

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New Zealand ally Claude Lewenz reminds me that ‘doing good’ first got split from ‘doing well’ with granting of a royal charter to the Honourable East India Company 407 years ago in December 1600 and…

Extraordinary Popular Debt
By Bill Bonner – Rude Awakening Blog (10 Dec 2007)
“What has happened? Credit, it turns out, soon reaches the point of diminishing returns. During the entire period up until…

P.S. Financial Fraud vs Financial Coup d’etat
By Catherine Austin Fitts – Scoop Independent News (11 Dec 2007)
Catherine Austin Fitts’ Mapping the Real Deal ~ A Serialized Story ~ Part 20 of 20 (pub…

P.S. Financial Fraud vs Financial Coup d’etat
By Catherine Austin Fitts – Scoop Independent News (11 Dec 2007)
Catherine Austin Fitts’ Mapping the Real Deal ~ A Serialized Story ~ Part 20 of 20 (pub…

These 3 snippets from Doug Noland’s Tight Money were pointed out by one of my favorite GATA team mates:
November 26 – Bloomberg (Glen Carey and Matthew Brown): “The United Arab Emirates, the seco…

UBS Admits $10B Subprime Loss, Gets Rescue From Singapore
By Andrew Hurst – Reuters (10 Dec 2007)
ZURICH, Switzerland — UBS revealed a $10 billion writedown and an emergency injection of funds from S…

I named my last company after the first US Secretary of Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton believed in the sanctity of a contract. One of his quotes I often use is “a promise must never be broken….

Robert Greenwald’s on-line video on Henry Kravis, partner of leveraged buyout and private equity firm, KKR, “Fight the War on Greed,” does not mention the European Union’s allegations in its lawsuit a…

Is more profiting underway from the dump (as in “pump and dump”) of the US economy?
Goldman Short the Housing Market?
See Ben Stein – New York Times (2 Dec 2007)

Cuomo Helping?
See Staff Reports – Ma…

In from Sam Smith at Progressive Review:

The Vortex
A Justice Policy Institute Report (Dec 2007)

ACCORDING TO THE Department of Health & Human Services, the highest rate of illicit drug use is amo…

AMC Chief Urges States to Drop Dollar Peg
By P.K. Abdul Ghafour – Arab News (1 Dec 2007)

US Intelligence Says Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003
By Gary Thomas – Voice of America News (3 Dec…

China Wins From Credit Crunch Fallout
Special Investigation – London Telegraph (27 Nov 2007)

Just as the United Arab Emirates are bailing out Citigroup, Sony and
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.:
Dubai Fund Appoints Sony ex-CEO to Advisory Board
By Kiyoshi Takenaka – Reuters (29 Nov 2007)

Arab E…

Talkin’ to America
”Talkin’ to America” is a weekly series of provocative, hard-hitting interviews that is posted in MP3 format on our website each week. We also post interview notes for each interv…

An excellent strategic overview of the global drain engineered via a
falling dollar…

Dollar’s Fall is Now a Bigger Political Issue Than an Economic One
By Liam Halligan – London Telegraph (25 Nov 2…

Northern Norway Towns Lose $167MM on CitiCorp Investments 

Townships Caught up in International Credit Crisis
By Nina Berglund – Aftenpolten News from Norway (20 Nov 2007)

Will Investigate Invest…

PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT – The nonprofit watchdog journalism organization the Center for Public Integrity published “Windfalls of War II.” Here are some of the Center’s key findings:
– U.S. g…

Meet Andrew Cuomo:

Andrew was Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development overseeing the largest mortgage insurance and securities operation in the world when it “los…