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Perry Vieth, Co-Founder of Ceres Partners, stands in front of corn crops in Granger, Indiana on June 22, 2011. By Seth Lubove Perry Vieth baled

By Margaret Chadbourn The Obama administration is looking for new ideas to shrink a glut of foreclosed properties held by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae

By Erica Orden and Jack Nicas Marilyn Monroe Sculpture, Skirt Billowing, Has Windy City Breathing Heavily CHICAGO—Marilyn Monroe was always larger than life. But here

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd Jackie O believed LBJ conspired to have her husband assassinated, according to tapes she made in 1964 with the historian Arthur

An experimental, arrowhead-shaped aircraft that could reach blistering speeds of 13,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean is set to blast off Wednesday from Vandenberg Air

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By Nils Pratley The US finished its last round of quantitative easing just five weeks ago. But the cries for more will grow deafening if

By Danny Mayer One of the major players in the global financial crisis is now in charge of all financial transactions in an entire state.

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By Dan Freed New York (TheStreet) — The fragile housing market may attract the attention of the Congressional committee charged with finding ways to cut

By Tyler Durden While the impact on Treasurys as a result of the downgrade may be limited (after all the other side of the Atlantic

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked a state judge to reject a proposed $8.5 billion settlement agreement over soured loans between Bank of America

By John Detrixhe Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.’s AAA credit rating for the first time, slamming the nation’s political process and criticizing lawmakers for

“We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’ and affirmed the ‘A-1+’ short-term rating. * “We have

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker

By: David Thomas Chief Executive Officer Equitas Capital Advisors LLC The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few

By Catherine Austin Fitts Yesterday, Rawesome Foods in Venice, California was raided by a Los Angeles swat team. Several people were arrested. There are numerous

Note from Catherine: Check out “The Whistleblower” opening this weekend, a story based on the efforts of a few brave people to stop sex slave

By David Woolley “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, – go from us in

By Sam Smith Not since the Civil War has there been such a major assault on accepted principles of the Union as defined by a

By Bruce Levine Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions

By Catherine Austin Fitts I left San Francisco on Saturday, July 23 and drove to Laguana Beach. The next day I drove to Tucson, Arizona.

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Mike Dorning Congressional leaders, leaving no extra time before a default threatened for tomorrow, are racing to push through a

By Jenna Wortham When Lisa Marion’s roommates moved out of her apartment in Toronto in February, she scrambled to find replacements. But instead of finding

By Brad Plumer and Aaron Blake As lawmakers struggle to resolve the debt crisis, a growing number of observers wonder whether President Obama has one

Republished Article Original (5 Nov 2008) Obama has proposed restoring the PAYGO policy that prohibits increases in federal spending without a way to compensate for

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined Administration officials today to announce initiatives aimed at modernizing the nation’s electric grid, including USDA’s goal to invest $250 million

In the second installment of our 2-part interview with investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts, we hear her advice for both the young and young at

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By Ross Kerber A senior Federal Reserve official is prescribing sweeping medicine to stabilize the $2.5 trillion money market mutual fund industry, which would be

By Ryan Grim Washington – Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public’s unwillingness to

By Senator Bernie Sanders The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion

By Sam Smith Percentage of total U.S. debt, according to Business Insider: •    Hong Kong: $121.9 billion (0.9 percent) •    Caribbean banking centers: $148.3 (1

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Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts on Financial Survival Radio, a fascinating 2-part interview. In this installment of our discussion, Catherine explores whether we are going through

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Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and House Speaker John Boehner. By: Reuters Ratings agency Moody’s on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit

Update: As Previously Announced, Treasury to Employ Final Extraordinary Measure to Extend U.S. Borrowing Authority Until August 2 Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury

Paul Levy’s Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity From the Foreword by Catherine Austin Fitts: “My search to understand evil and its transformation

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Documentary about how the military and the wireless industry influenced the cell phone radiation standards. Featured in this documentary are interviews with Dr. Michael Repacholi,

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Questions about cancer seem to percolating these days. I have gotten several questions about what a person should do if they

Crowdfunding from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd financing, crowd sourced capital, or street performer protocol) describes the collective cooperation, attention and

By Gloria Vogel Could radio frequency-producing antennas that are essential for the wireless world be the next asbestos for the insurance industry? They could, writes

By Corbett B. Daly President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and

By Linda Brown/King 5 News Auburn, Wash. – Buying his own home was a big accomplishment for construction worker, Ikenna Njoku, of Auburn. He’s only 28 years

By David Icke I am always being asked the question: ‘What can we do?’ Well, this weekend I am launching something with fantastic potential that

By Motoko Rich Despite a competitive economy in which success increasingly depends on obtaining a college degree, one in four students in this country does

By Tyler Durden Boiling Frog Alert: Congress Wants Automatic Wage Deductions To Pay Down The Debt Folks… you just can’t make this stuff up. On

By Paul Delean Faced with tax claims of more than $300 million from Revenu Quebec, embattled Montreal-based gold trader Kitco Metals Inc. now is officially

By Matt Nesto It’s official. Through the persistence of Bloomberg’s lawyers and the teeth of the Freedom Of Information Act we can now all add

By Lori Montgomery President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social

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Mexican President, Felipe Calderón and President Obama By Binyamin Appelbaum Mexican truckers will be able to carry goods deep into the United States, and vice

By Stacey Herbert The fact is that Russia now joins Iceland and Afghanistan as the ONLY nations to have international arrest warrants out for banking

Southern Essex Registry of Deeds Audit Reveals That 75% of Assignments of Mortgage Are Invalid; O’Brien Says Banks Responsible for an Epidemic of Fraud.  Once

By Sam Smith I was driving along when one of those smugly assured network financial advisors began talking about how to prepare for one’s retirement.

[CAF Note: The day that Strauss-Kahn was arrested, I predicted that he would be released as soon as his candidacy in France was dead and

[CAF Note: Great for front running or what?] By Zack Whittaker At the Office 365 launch, Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK, gave the

In Finance, the simple ideas are often the best. Exchange-traded funds, first launched 21 years ago, were a great idea. They were in effect tradable

Most call it one of the biggest financial crises in living memory. Others call it one great big Ponzi scheme. Whatever you want to call

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Your Source for blueberries and fresh local produce Highland Berries and Produce, 4411 Hampshire Pike, announces the opening of their produce stand at The Barn.

By Joe Weisenthal The chaos in Greece continues. Particularly disturbing is that PASOK PM Alexandros Athanasiadis got attacked on the street. Athanasiadis voted FOR the

By Jennifer Liberto The Senate will officially take up three trade deals and a scaled-back version of a jobs retraining program for laid-off workers on

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 Hi Catherine . . . Wanted to share with you an issue that is unfolding in Burlington, Vermont. Our mayor

By Franklin Sanders Remember General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Battle of Brice’s Crossroads, 147 years ago, 10 June 1864, between here & Tupelo, Mississippi. Forrest

For Immediate Release June 09, 2011 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of

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Posted By Ann Barnhardt – June 24, 2011 Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I’ve had for

Catherine will be on Coast-to-Coast tonight, 30 June 2011 talking about the  “Ten Economic Trends You Want to Know About“: Trend # 1 – The Slow

Listen, let the experts all cry & whine & puke in their wastebaskets all they want, y’all just keep your head on your shoulders.  Should

Madam Secretary: You have asked Congress “Whose side are you on?” when they questioned US efforts in Libya. See: Clinton Asks Congress, Whose Side Are

By Free Press Staff Oakland County is hoping to recover more than $1.5 million in real estate transfer taxes that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and

On 6/20/11: Hi Solari folks: My mom and I were traveling in the White Mountains this weekend and saw lots of signs in people’s yards:

By End of the American Dream from LewRockwell.com As the mainstream media continues to be obsessed with Anthony Weiner and his bizarre adventures on Twitter,

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By Rainey Reitman A few weeks ago, we mentioned a rather unusual technological endeavor to create an online currency. We received a few queries about

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By Devin Banerjee David Lender has wanted to be a writer since college. Now after a 25-year career in finance, he’s become a top-selling author

By Frank James U.S. mayors voted Monday in favor of a resolution calling on Congress to wind down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so

By Washington Blog I’ve repeatedly demonstrated that fraud caused the Great Depression and the current economic crisis, and that the economy cannot stabilize until the

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By Yves Smith One of the interesting features of the seemingly unending Eurozone crisis is that the half life of rescue measures is decreasing. The

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By Masaki Kondo, Yoshiaki Nohara and Saburo Funabiki Japan’s biggest bond investors see increasing parallels between the nation’s government debt market and Treasuries, indicating that

By James G. Neuger and Stephanie Bodoni Europe faltered in its race to save Greece from default as finance chiefs said further aid hinged on

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