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By Bob Ivry JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) are among lenders whose commodity-trading is in jeopardy

By Wikipedia Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range solar powered aircraft project developed at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The project eventually hopes to

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By Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Something peculiar has been going on in the treasury market during the latest round of quantitative easing (QE). If we study

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By CNBC In Dubai, city of opulence and excess, the obese are worth their (over) weight in gold. In an effort to fight increasing obesity

By Pew Research Publics around the world believe the global balance of power is shifting. China’s economic power is on the rise, and many think

[CAF Note: I just finished reading Planet Earth by Rosalie Bertell. Rather than review it, I am linking to Dr. Farrell’s review from 2011] By

By Michael A. Fletcher Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history Thursday afternoon, capping a long and spectacular decline that left the

By Jenna Johnson Under pressure from the White House, Senate leaders are quickly moving forward with a plan to change how the government sets federal

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By Garakami Scientists are eager to bring the universe a little closer to home with the soon-to-be world’s largest optical Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The

By Grant Williams A few weeks ago, I put a chart with which I am acutely familiar up on my Bloomberg. It is a chart

By Lidia Kelly and Douglas Busvine G20 summits do not always set the pulse racing, but this week’s gathering of finance ministers and central bankers

By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell Yesterday I blogged about that nice bright shiny new NSA facility being built (for all to photograph from their spy

By Loveday Morris and Ahmed Ramadan After more than two years of relentless conflict, Syria’s government is desperately trying to avert a secondary crisis: a

[CAF: Clifford Carnicom continues to provide leadership and invaluable information to help us understand the impact of global spraying programs. Here is his latest –

Photo Credit: The Nation By Robert J. Samuelson The International Monetary Fund’s latest global economic forecast makes for unhappy reading. You may remember that, some

Photo Credit: AFP By The Economist Compared with other modes of transport, train technology might seem to be progressing as slowly as a suburban commuter

By Inhabitat It’s no surprise that the country that has kicked butt at the Solar Decathlon competition (to produce energy positive solar houses) year after

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By RT The Obama administration will not be allowed to terminate a lawsuit by asserting that a civil argument would risk exposing national secrets, a

(Click on the image to enlarge.) By Mark Koba Manufacturing jobs in the U.S. appear to be coming back—if ever so slightly. Several American firms,

Photo Credit:AP/Susan Walsh By FoxNews.com Interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford student loans doubled overnight, soaring from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent after Congress failed

By Jon Rappoport This article is a compilation of a number of pieces I’ve written about Ed Snowden and the NSA. It doesn’t replace them,

By George Ure OK, bear with me here: The largest story of the week, when the history books are written, could be that the latest

Photo Credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell Over the past two days, I’ve been blogging about the emergence of GMOs as a political

By Chris Lazare Oregon has come up with a plan to help provide higher education for free at their 7 state universities. Advocates of the

By Plansponsor Are new distribution regulations around the corner? Policymakers within the federal government sent yet another strong signal that they are reassessing the role

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Photo Credit: Gobierno de Chile The 18th round of TPP negotiations will take place in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia July 15-24, 2013. Stakeholder events will take

Photo Credit: Tineke D’haese for Via Campesina Published on June 15, 2013 By Salena Tramel The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Monsanto

By Folker Hellmeyer, Translation Lars Schall Since 1997 – 2004, the U.S. was changed from an income-driven economy into an economy, whose economic performance is

By Appraisal Institute Bank of America reportedly opened a unit in India to review valuation reports in an effort to boost its share of the

By Paul Levy A few days before my interview on Why Shamanism Now? Internet Radio Show, I received an email from the well-known anthropologist, author

By BBC News The director and deputy director of the Vatican bank have resigned following the arrest of a senior Italian cleric over corruption and

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By Silla Brush and Cheyenne Hopkins U.S. regulators will inject risk into the derivatives market if they don’t take more time to coordinate Dodd-Frank Act

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By Doug Short The bond market selloff after the FOMC meeting and Chairman Bernanke’s surprising specifics about exiting QE was quite stunning. However, his hawkish

By Jonathan Weil In one corner, we have five former Bank of America Corp. employees who told a federal court they were instructed to mislead

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[CAF Note: A Solari subscriber reported yesterday that they suddenly could not access their e-mail until they signed an agreement that AT&T can scan their

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By Bill O’Boyle All Natalie Gunshannon wanted was to be paid a fair wage for her work, she said. Gunshannon, 27, of Dallas Township, worked

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By John P. Hussman, Ph.D. The central issue in the current financial markets, in my estimation, is distortion. Because monetary distortion dominates the financial markets

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By Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association A three-judge panel at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that a group of

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By Wall Street Journal BERLIN–Europe is currently moving from a bail-out environment to a bail-in environment when it comes to rescuing failing banks, a member

By FOW Intelligence This week the latest stage in the US swaps reforms was implemented under a cloud of uncertainty as to how ready the

By Geoff Olson More of a tourist than a traveller, I’m standing on an outcropping of volcanic rock in the Caribbean, scratching away at my

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By David Gaffen and Daniel Bases Standard & Poor’s on Monday removed the near-term threat of another credit rating downgrade for the United States by

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Responsibility. Coherence. Humanity. Life. The Earth. An inspiring exploration of the real and important were at the heart of John Trudell

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By Catherine Bosley The Swiss parliament will probably pass a bill allowing banks to resolve a tax-evasion dispute with the U.S., dropping opposition for fear

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