By Leslie Scism BlackRock Inc., which scored multiple government assignments during the financial crisis, is a contender for another prestigious gig: helping state regulators size

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Eric Toensmeier gave a wonderful workshop at the Financial Permaculture Convergence in Hohenwald. He has a marvelous sense of how to take permaculture to profits.

View Larger By Jesse Gold has apparently broken out of a big inverse Head and Shoulder formation, possibly an ascending triangle if you prefer that

Since the Third Circuit said so, in its September 22, 2009 decision in AT&T v. Federal Communications Commission (No. 084024). Most privacy practitioners would not

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My colleagues at GATA (Chairman Bill Murphy and Treasurer Chris Powell above) have done an extraordinary job of documenting manipulation of the gold market. By

The United Nations called on Tuesday for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy which has allowed the United States the “privilege” of

Continue reading Robert Fisk on the Gulf ‘Ditching The Dollar’ in Oil Trade

By Josh Fineman More than a third of Wall Street finance professionals surveyed expect their bonuses to increase for 2009, a year after the credit-market

By Susan Ferrechio As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative

By Clif [High] ,Cathy and Igor at Half Past Human In running our MOM (model of modelspace) cleanup of the lexicon prior to tuning, it

By Andrew Jack in London Patients who fail to pop pills on time could soon benefit from having a chip on their shoulder, under a

View Larger Chart This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report examines the pressures facing the federal budget over the coming decades by presenting the agency’s projections

By George Friedman Two major leaks occurred this weekend over the Iran matter. In the first, The New York Times published an article reporting that

By Pam Martens A federal agency tasked with expanding the American dream of home ownership and affordable housing free from discrimination to people of modest

By David G. Savage By agreeing to hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to Chicago’s handgun ban, the justices may open the door to similar lawsuits

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By Martin Crutsinger Finance ministers from the world’s seven most developed economies may not even issue a joint communique when they meet in Istanbul this

By Karen Hube As firmer CEO of South African Airways and co-founder of Bain Capital, Coleman Andrews has spent his career in some of the

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Mr Nakagawa, 56, was found dead in a bedroom at his Tokyo home, Japanese news agencies reported. The long-time LDP lawmaker stepped down as finance

Legend: Blue – Introduced. Yellow – Passed one or more houses. Green – Passed Both Houses. Black – Failed Vote. White – No Resolution Introduced.

By Xinhua writer Ding Yi While the whole Europe hailed Irish “yes” to the Lisbon Treaty, the Czech republic remains reluctant to sign the document,

School children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi take part in a cultural programme on the eve of Gandhi’s 140th birth anniversary, in the central Indian city

View Larger Chart By Vincent Fernando If anyone mentions the just-released 3.5% U.S. third quarter GDP growth, just throw this chart in their face. Cash

I just love Mother Earth News. Their latest edition has an article “Five DIY, Low-Cost & Multipurpose Greenhouses.” I have been contemplating building a pre-fab

Last year, we planted butternut squash at the lower end of the garden. It started to migrate south. Then this summer we put up a

Friday, October 2, 2009 (NOTE: This Resolution and Appeal was adopted by the 2nd. Southern National Congress on 12 September 2009 while assembled upon Cheaha

By Frank Luntz Digging still deeper, my research suggests that we can dial back American anger if we begin to fix two complaints: the lack

By Rowena Mason Police have raided the offices of KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Reykjavik, seizing documents and computer data as part of an investigation

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Few nations are as generous with their time and money as the United States, but right now Americans are a suspicious bunch. Sixty-six percent (66%)

By: Allison Kilkenny This technology has been deployed in Iraq as an “anti-insurgent weapon” – it could easily be used as a torture tool. Pittsburgh

B.C. might suspend seasonal flu shots as early as Monday for people who aren’t seniors, in the wake of a Canadian study that suggests people

By Jonathan D. Rockoff and Peter Loftus Amid rising concern about the threat of influenza pandemics, three big drug makers announced deals Monday that give

By Dan Fitzpatrick and Joann S. Lublin After fighting to keep his grip on the bank he helped build from a scrappy Southern outsider to

By John Crudele SO, is this how Goldman Sachs does it? “It,” of course, is making gobs of money even when nobody else on Wall

This is important information. What I’ve found and present below is that the Federal Reserve is not just supporting the housing market, it is the

By Aliakbar Dareini and George Jahn In an unusually frank disclosure, Iran’s nuclear chief said Tuesday the country’s new uranium enrichment site was built for

By Gretchen Morgenson With the mortgage bust approaching Year Three, it is increasingly up to the nation’s courts to examine the dubious practices that guided

By Patrick White A “perplexing” Canadian study linking H1N1 to seasonal flu shots is throwing national influenza plans into disarray and testing public faith in

by Adam Brochert In the end as an investor, it’s all about the scoreboard. For those who aren’t traders, allocation to the correct asset classes

The leaders of the G-20 countries, which account for 85% of the world’s income, cannot meet in an American city without 12,000 cops outfitted like

By Erin Geiger Smith and Gayathri Vaidyanathan The SEC alleged that Siemens had bribed officials operating metro transit lines in Venezuela, power plants in Israel,

EDMONDS: Okay. So these conversations, between 1997 and 2001, had to do with a Central Asia operation that involved bin Laden. Not once did anybody

By Peter Brimelow Looks like the gold bugs had reason to be wary when gold broke through $1000. But now it’s back down, they’re not

By George Friedman There are four permutations Obama might choose in response to the dual crisis. He could attack Iran and increase forces in Afghanistan,

We have reached our election goal,” said Merkel, who is about to start coalition talks with the business-friendly Free Democratic Party. Together with the FDP,

Continue at Rep. Alan Grayson: “Has the Federal Reserve Ever Tried to Manipulate the Stock Market?”

By Gregor Peter Schmitz Pittsburgh, a city built on steel production, is showing its tough side as it hosts the G-20 summit. The 4,000 police

By Joel Stashenko Despite strenuous objections from New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration, New York Gov. David A. Paterson has signed a bill

By Evan Shamoon Meat “ethics” are about to get even more complicated. For electronics manufacturer Electrolux’s recent design competition, first place went to a device

By Sheldon I. Cohen While the Obama Administration says it is trying to save jobs, stave off foreclosures, fight real estate fraud, and help small

By Dawn Kopecki State housing agencies in the U.S. that provide mortgages to low-income borrowers would get as much as $35 billion in federal aid

By Stacy Meichtry The Holy See announced a sweeping overhaul of the Vatican bank’s management as part of Pope Benedict XVI’s push for greater transparency

By Mary Foster Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can’t keep up with the nation’s demand for ammunition. Shooting

By Kenneth Chang There appears to be, to the surprise of planetary scientists, water, water everywhere on the Moon, although how many drops future astronauts

Continue reading Economics 101 – Michel Chossudovsky on the Banker Bailouts

A huge outback dust storm swept across eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney disrupting transport, forcing people to stay indoors and stripping thousands of tonnes of

View full size This image arose out of a frustration with the reporting of billion dollar amounts in the media. That is, they’re reported as

By Stephen Smith Using technology originally developed for mass disasters, Boston disease trackers are embarking on a novel experiment – one of the first in

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I had several requests for old clippings. A member of the Solari team called Business Week about several articles. They recommended we simply scan in

By John Poirier The top U.S. communications regulator plans to unveil proposals Monday for ensuring Web traffic is not slowed or blocked based on its

By Tyler Durden “The degree of intermediation by the Federal Reserve in the issuance of US Treasuries hit a record in Q2, accounting for just

By Kathleen E. Kraft On March 19, 2009, the Supreme Court of Arkansas determined that Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. (“MERS”) was not a necessary

Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O) tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help it to

TEHRAN – Pakistan’s former chief of army staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.), has said the U.S. private security company Blackwater was directly involved in

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By Melissa Golden Q: What role does the Federal Reserve have in our current economic downturn? — Brad Thomas, Kalamazoo, Mich. Ron Paul: The Federal

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I recently received an Action Alert about the National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (NLGMA) from Weston Price (available to subscribers only.) From the Weston Price

Here are links to draft versions of HR3200: America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 House version CRS Summary Senate version

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By Laura Saunders Five years ago, car-wash owner Orman Wilson set up a pension plan for himself and six employees. For that, he may owe

By Jessica Holzer Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said Friday her agency may tap its $500 billion credit line with the U.S. Treasury

The Japanese government is prepared to spend some 2 trillion yen on a one-gigawatt orbiting solar power station—and this week Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies

I just watched Spike Lee’s documentary about the floods in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. There is a lot that has gone

View Larger Chart By James Turk September 18, 2009 – The performance of the gold/silver ratio over the past month has been stunning. From a

By Jess Bravin In her maiden Supreme Court appearance last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a provocative comment that probed the foundations of corporate law.

By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in

By Matt Latimer As a speechwriter for George W. Bush during the final years of his presidency, I’d seen crises and controversies. But nothing prepared

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By Peter Henderson California Attorney General Jerry Brown issued subpoenas on Thursday to Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings as he launched

By David Liechty Wednesday I had the chance to amble on over to The Farm, with the blessing of organizers Greg Landua and Ethan Roland,

By Steven R. Hurst President Barack Obama is betting Moscow will return the favor on missile defense by helping him blunt Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In

James Turk’s reports have been subscriber only since 1987. He is now making them accessible for free. James is one of the finest commentator on

By David Kravets The Obama administration has told Congress it supports renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire at year’s end, measures

by: Matthew Goldstein Sometimes legal fishing expeditions pay off. A year ago, a Connecticut hedge fund sued UBS, contending that it knowingly sold toxic mortgage-backed

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Just before President Obama gave his speech to Congress last week, 44% of voters nationwide supported his health care reform proposal and 53% were opposed.

By Liu Guoyuan Many analysts are still pessimistic about the outlook of the Doha Round of global trade negotiations, despite recent positive signs. Following a

By Matthew McDermott, A new report coming from Optimum Population Trust and carried out by the prestigious London School of Economics says that expanding access

By Jeremy Scahill On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out

By Michael Connelly Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act