By Kevin Drum
Last Wednesday, the Fed announced that it would not be tapering its bond buying program. This news was released at precisely 2 p.m. in Washington “as measured by the national atomic clock.” It takes seven milliseconds for this information to get to Chicago. However, several huge orders that were based on the Fed’s decision were placed on Chicago exchanges two to three milliseconds after 2 p.m. How did this happen?
By Joseph A. Giannone
The efforts by Facebook to raise as much as $1.5 billion outside of regulated markets is the latest test of the walls between private and public markets.
Goldman Sachs this w…
by Glenn Greenwald
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse wit…
Fiscal Cliff Monday December 10, 2012 Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts offered analysis and commentary regarding the current ‘fiscal cliff’ that the United States is facing. If Congress do…
Cave Complex Allegedly Found Under Giza Pyramids
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The Electric Acid Test
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Windows7sins: FSF Launches Campaign Against Window 7 and Propreitary…
By Laurence Gonzales
As a journalist, I’ve been writing about accidents for more than thirty years. In the last 15 or so years, I’ve concentrated on accidents in outdoor recreation, in an effort to…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
My use of the word turtle as a verb began in 1998 during a period of extraordinary stress.
Almost all of my 1,001 best friends and colleagues decided to go with the flow …