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By Liz Farmer

Public pension managers are gearing up for another battle against what they say would be costly — and unnecessary — accounting disclosure requirements being floated on Capitol Hill ev…

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” ~Ludwig van Beethoven

By Catherine Austin Fitts

My job is to help people understand what is happening in this world – and to use that …

View Full Size Chart of The Day: Credit May Crunch Again Before Getting Back To Normal

“At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn’t working, so they set up their own system. Money was ne…

By Gretchen Morgenson

MANY people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through the bac…

By Heather Smith

With just one slaughterhouse remaining within 80 miles of San Francisco, we stand to lose not only our local beef industry, but our grazing lands as well. Now a thick-skinned h…