Corzine is sworn in to testify about MF Global’s bankruptcy before a US senate committee in Washington, December 8, 2011. By Christopher Doering Regulators now

By Ryan Grim Washington — A month ago, Google lobbyist Katherine Oyama absorbed one of the more unusual congressional tongue-lashings in years when she appeared

By Michael Corkery Cities and states would be required to release projections of cash flows and pension costs five years into the future under a

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By Vincent Graff Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too. Outside the police station in the

The Fed’s $29 Trillion Bail-out of Wall Street By L. Randall Wray Table 1- Cumulative facility totals, in billions Continue reading the article . .

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron By Gonzalo Vina and Rebecca Christie Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain refused to sacrifice sovereignty to save the euro,

By D. Michael Lindsay It seems that every week we hear of a C.E.O. who earned millions from a golden parachute after demonstrating poor business

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By Christopher Elias (UK) (Business Law Currents) A legal loophole in international brokerage regulations means that few, if any, clients of MF Global are likely to get

CEO Jon Corzine, center, at MF Global last year: A Senate panel Thursday grilled regulators about how loopholes let farmers’ commodity trades end up in

Technology and society: The “maker” movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation. It may even herald a new industrial revolution By The

By Herald Online Thousands of Americans will be finding guns in their Christmas stockings this year, after the biggest one-day buy-up on record. Black Friday

Fire boats battle a fire at the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. By Vivian Kuo

From Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin The U.S. is becoming increasingly aware and concerned about the possibility within a few years of an electromagnetic pulse attack

William J. Clinton (left) and Jon S. Corzine By  Neil W. McCabe A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting

By Nicholas D. Kristopf If you want to understand why the Occupy movement has found such traction, it helps to listen to a former banker

By Steve Karnowski Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS—The shock waves from the collapse of commodities trading firm MF Global Inc. are hitting hard across rural America, where

Hernando de Soto is a Peruvian economist who made enough money in Europe to retire before he was 40. Instead he began studying what makes

By David Brooks Why are nations like Germany and the U.S. rich? It’s not primarily because they possess natural resources — many nations have those.

Photo Credit: Image by pfig via Flickr By Christopher Ketcham We are now exposed to electromagnetic radio frequencies 24 hours a day. Welcome to the

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By RT News Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks at a press conference at City University London in central London December 1, 2011 (AFP Photo /

By Tyler Durden Simply put, “it does not last for ever” should be ringing in the ears of every investor in the world with more

By Scott Lanman and Jeff Black Six central banks led by the Federal Reserve made it cheaper for banks to borrow dollars in emergencies in

By Barry B. Burr AMR Corp.’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection leaves the future uncertain for American Airlines’ defined benefit pension plans, which have

By Chris Powell Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Market analyst Chris Martenson made an absolutely brilliant and eloquent presentation to the Spanish Precious Metals

Private prison companies strive to keep millions behind bars to keep their profits up. (photo: Gallo/Getty images) rsn editors comment:   “Despite a falling crime

Contact: Heather Garlich hgarlich@fmi.org 202-220-0616 ARLINGTON VA – November 22, 2011 – Today, the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has joined with the National Association of

By Cam Hui The title, which refers to a possible “market crash”, may seem untimely on an occasion when ES futures are deeply in the

Unless Germany and the ECB move quickly, the single currency’s collapse is looming EVEN as the euro zone hurtles towards a crash, most people are

By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of

By Richard K Moore This article is Part 1 of a series.  Was first published in New Dawn Magazine When the Industrial Revolution began in Britain,

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By Gretchen Morgenson AS the debt mess in Europe deepens, bankers are pressing Greece’s bond holders to swallow big losses. Leading the charge is BNP

By Chris Anders While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday

* Freddie and Fannie had deep political connections * Rahm Emanuel, Tom Donilon were on payroll By Tim Reid, Margaret Chadbourn and Mark Hosenball While

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By Andy Bruce The euro zone is unlikely to survive its sovereign debt crisis in current form, according to a majority of leading economists and

Behind every credit default swap or short of subprime mortgage-backed assets sit legal counsel sanctioning these practices; their hands are no cleaner than those of

By cleg Brought to us courtesy of senators Kay Hagan of North Carolina and one of the banking lobby’s most obedient lap dogs, Bob Corker

View IBEW Local 90 Pension Fund v Corzine (PDF) complaint for violation of the Federal Securities Laws filed November 18, 2011 at the United Sates

By Barani Krishnan U.S. stocks skidded on Monday, extending losses from across Europe as fears over out-of-control government debt on both sides of the Atlantic

By Yahoo News The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and

Lecture By Dr. Franz Adlkofer On Nov. 3, Dr. Franz Adlkofer, former executive director of the VERUM Foundation for Behavior and Environment, spoke to a

Mario Monti Prime Minister of Italy Mario Monti (Italian pronunciation: [?ma?rjo ?monti]; born 19 March 1943) is an Italian economist and academic who has been Prime

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By Celeste Katz Our Ken Lovett reports: In a 5-2 decision, a bitterly split Court of Appeals, said the state’s awarding of tax-payer funded state

By Rhiannon Hoyle Total central-bank gold purchases in the third quarter more than doubled from the second quarter and were almost seven times higher than

General Assembly holds mock trial and journalist Chris Hedges reads indictment accusing Goldman Sachs of financial crimes against humanity. buzzflash Collected from youtube.com

By William Thomas  If you did not enjoy “traditional” chemtrails raining down on you, you are not going to like the new version, which the