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By Catherine Austin Fitts Are we headed toward another Great Depression? Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts gives Financial Survival Radio a brutally honest answer to

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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

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By John Hussman Why are Treasury yields rising despite hundreds of billions of Treasury purchases by the Federal Reserve? There are two possibilities in the

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By Gregory White The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced changes to rules on how it calculates long-term unemployment Tuesday, according to The Hill. Continue reading

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Following a nearly year-long review, the biggest US public pension has OK’ed a new asset allocation to position the fund for better risk-adjusted performance. The

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