Gordon J. F. MacDonald, a geophysicist specializing in problems of war, has written that accurately timed artificially excited electronic strokes could lead to a pattern

A Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), now a government accounting standard, found its first roots with the establishment of the “National Committee on Municipal Accounting”

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By Zachary A. Goldfarb After President Obama signs into law an overhaul of financial regulation at a ceremony set for Wednesday, his administration will turn

By Diane Herbst It all began in third grade, when Katie Stagliano’s 40-pound cabbage fed 275 homeless people. Now, Katie’s six gardens have produced over

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Imagine a world trading solely in gold and silver coins. Imagine the size of your wallet. Yet this is the ideal world envisaged by some

The Senate is expected to vote on a bill to restore extended unemployment benefits on Tuesday, shortly after a successor to the late Sen. Robert

By Christopher Palmeri Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over

By Elena Moya Shocked by past deals with Italy and Greece, governments are excluding the Wall Street bank from sovereign bond sales. European governments are

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By Derrick Ho An upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said

The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD), formally the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques is an international

By Jan Harvey and Veronica Brown A small footnote in the Bank of International Settlements’ latest annual statement has flagged up a potentially major development

By Eric Westervelt The Havelbluete, the Augusta and the Chiemgauer might sound like the names of locally brewed beers, but they are in fact micro-currencies

I remember being puzzled by Matt Simmons hawking of peak oil theories in 2004 and 2005. He was unusually aggressive. While I never took the

By Dan Armstrong New types of money are popping up across Mid-Michigan and supporters say, it’s not counterfeit, but rather a competing currency. Continue reading

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By Alex Pham and David Sarno Digital tools advance beyond screens that talk and play videos, connecting readers to authors and online fan communities. Emma

With a new containment cap atop the damaged well, many are hopeful. But all is not well, after all. National Incident Commander Thad Allen said

By Martyn Burns Amidst the industrial terrain of Greenpoint, Brooklyn sits the magical Eagle Street Rooftop farm – one of the boroughs unique plots and

By R.G. Ratcliff and Jeannie Kever Fearing unstable international financial markets and the possibility of high inflation, Texas’ higher education investment managers have bought more

By Vincent L. Guarisco Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. This is the

By Luca Di Leo After fending off most challenges to its independence and winning new powers to oversee big financial firms, the Federal Reserve has

White House officials point to $300 million spent by the Veteran’s Administration over the past decade on a financial systems project that still isn’t done.

From Wikipedia In economics, Hauser’s Law is an empirical observation that, in the United States, federal tax revenues since World War II have always been

By Thomas Dilorenzo “One can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism,” Ludwig von Mises wrote. “Without it, the repercussions of

Evergreen Farm, the finest farm and dairy in my county, announced this week that they are closing and will auction their herd and land. This

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July 22, 2010 – 7PM MDT with Clifford E Carnicom The Carnicom Institute will hold a live webinar on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 at 7PM

By Karl Denninger Since when does the SEC announce that it’s about to make an announcement – about an hour before the market closes the

By Samuel Shen and Kennix Chim Agricultural Bank of China’s (601288.SS) $19 billion IPO made a lackluster debut in Shanghai, weighing on the market and

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Dagong Global Credit Rating Co used its first foray into sovereign debt to paint a revolutionary picture of creditworthiness around the world,

By Andy Sullivan and Kevin Drawbaugh The Congress on Thursday approved the broadest overhaul of financial rules since the Great Depression and sent it to

By Marcy Gordon and Daniel Wagner Goldman Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges that the Wall Street

By Richard Teitelbaum Amid a storm of criticism, government investigations and an SEC suit, the investment bank’s outside directors have failed to speak out. Greg

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By Sewell Chan The chairman of the Federal Reserve urged banks and regulators on Monday to help the nation’s small businesses get the loans they

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California has issued a ruling dated May 20, 2010 in the matter of In Re:

[Note from CAF: My wonderful bankers at National Bank of Malvern did not tell me about this story published last year. I just found it,

This is an excellent talk that Franklin gave recently in Mississippi. If you want to understand what each community needs to do to create jobs

By Lucy Ballinger The impressive, boat-shaped ‘SkyPark’ perched atop the three towers that make up the world’s most expensive hotel, the £4billion Marina Bay Sands

The con of the decade (Part I) involves the transfer of private debt to the public (the marks), who then pays interest forever to the

Kauffman Foundation Study New firms add an average of 3 million jobs in their first year, while older companies lose 1 million jobs annually (KANSAS

Amy Goodman Interview DemocracyNow! (8 Jul 10) Supporters of geoengineering have proposed radical ways to alter the planet to decrease the level of greenhouse gas

New York Times By Verlyn Klinkenborg (8 Jul 10) A couple of weeks ago, I walked along a spring creek in the upper Madison Valley,

Bloomberg.com (7 Jul 10) Allstate Corp. Chief Executive Officer Thomas Wilson said a surge in borrowing by U.S. state and local governments may trim the

A report released Thursday finds that all 18 firms lining up for tens of billions in US-backed loans for new nuclear power plants would use

By Mark Seibel (9 Jul 10) Washington – In a dramatic turn of events, the Obama administration has given BP the go-ahead to remove the

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese firm that aims to compete with Western rating agencies declared Washington a worse credit risk than Beijing in its first

By Richard Winton The Swiss government’s decision not to extradite Roman Polanski to Los Angeles means the famed director can now travel freely in Switzerland