By Diana Furchtgott-Roth Buried in the 1,017 pages of the House Democrats’ health-care bill is a little-noticed provision that for the first time could give

Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley Mayor Michael Nutter said the clock is counting down to the implementation of a devastating ‘doomsday budget’ in Philadelphia. During

How do the current deficits compare with past administrations? And how did the national debt get so big anyway? This video tries to answer those

Jackson Hole Every year, the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank sponsors a meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The 2009 event starts tonight.

View Full Size Chart of The Day: Credit May Crunch Again Before Getting Back To Normal

Having received another repayment, I just made my next loan at Kiva.org to an entrepreneur in Palestine starting a grocery store. Learn more about the

By Ed Mendel The CalPERS chief actuary says pension costs are “unsustainable,” and the giant public employee pension system plans to meet with stakeholders to

By William Selway JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to lend California $1.5 billion, a cash infusion that will allow the most-populous U.S. state to stop

The “Impossible” Healthcare Solution: Go Back to Cash Here are the costs of childbirth as of 1952 at one of the finest hospitals on the

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by Meg White I don’t like it when scientists feel the need to explain that they’re scared out of their wits, or use exclamation marks.

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Water Color by Lesta Frank By Anne Stuhldreher …Unless, that is, you’re friends with someone like Maria del Carmen Torres. In between serving up pupusas

Target, Burlington, MA By Eric Janszen The first half of 2009 goes like this: 1. After Christmas sales: 20% to 50% off 2. Liquidation sales:

If you planned to check out a library book, visit a city clinic or have your garbage picked up on Monday, you’re out of luck.

If nuclear weapons exist, then nuclear war is a real possibility. And Delhi is a prime target. It is. But where shall we go? Is

By Rebecca Smith Only a third of nurses have said they are willing to have the vaccine against swine flu amid fears it has not

Sir! No Sir! Sir! No Sir! is a documentary produced, and written by David Zeiger  about the opposition to the Viet Nam War in military

Thank you for all of your wonderful comments at the blog. Alas, not all those commenting had the readers and our best interests at heart.

The Lockheed Fire in Santa Cruz was one of nine big wildfires burning more than 100,000 acres in California last week. It was named after

The 2008 GAAP-based deficit (counting unfunded Social Security and Medicare liabilities, etc.), using accrual accounting, was $5.1 trillion, up from $1.2 trillion ($4 trillion-plus, using

By Daniel Whitten and Simon Lomax The U.S. Senate should abandon efforts to pass legislation curbing greenhouse-gas emissions this year and concentrate on a narrower

Congressman Paul Broun (R-Ga) also spoke of a “socialistic elite” – Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – who might

Dear Senator Boxer: You were so right on when you scolded the general on TV for using the term, “ma’am,” instead of “Senator”. After all,

By Laurence Gonzales As a journalist, I’ve been writing about accidents for more than thirty years. In the last 15 or so years, I’ve concentrated

By David Liechty On December 23, 1913, Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act (ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251) and again fundamentally changed the monetary structure

“”A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.” I keep getting e-mails that militia are on the

Nothing would please Bernanke and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York more than to see both low long term yields and higher highs in

A friend of mine who has worked in the prison system tells me that the prisoners say the way to tell when the economy is

By Peter Whoriskey Hate car salesmen? Want to skip the test drive? General Motors has some cars to show you. The government-rescued automaker announced on

The Case-Shiller has been signalling an improvement in the second derivative of housing prices for a few months, and in the latest report it even

By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova Hopefully deficits don’t matter, because if they do, then boy are we screwed. Today’s chart was put together by

By Richard Milne in Amsterdam Manufacturers are abandoning global supply chains for regional ones in a big shift brought about by the financial crisis and

Secret Office, at The General Post-Office Welcome to John Potter’s world. He’s the nation’s postmaster general. Yes, that’s right: for the last nine years, he

When Mexico Had the Blues: A Transatlantic Tale of Bonds, Bankers, and Nationalists, 1862–1910 By Steven C. Topick As Joseph Schumpeter lyrically described the broader

By Gretchen Morgenson and Don Van Natta Jr. Before he became President George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary in 2006, Henry M. Paulson Jr. agreed to

Southern Presidential Peaks By Gary Tompkins By Catherine Austin Fitts As a child, my summers were spent hiking in the White Mountains (New Hampshire). My

“Our goal was to find out whether we could program DNA to assemble into shapes that exhibit custom curvature or twist, with features just a

The United States on Thursday issued new rules on oil market manipulation that prohibits market players from providing misleading information to influence prices. The Federal

Deutsche Bundesbank Germany’s gold is in U.S. custody, Bundesbank confirms. Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: International journalist Max Keiser has just posted a nine-minute

From Wikipedia The South Atlantic Anomaly (or SAA) is the region where Earth’s inner Van Allen radiation belt makes its closest approach to the planet’s

By Brody Mullins Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a

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By Charles Abbott For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries, government figures said on

The picture above is an article about allegations of sex slave trafficking relating to a defense government contractor named DynCorp. I became interested in DynCorp

By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova The severe bloodletting in the construction industry is slowly waning. The pace of layoffs is coming well off its

Russian Nuclear-powered Submarine By Mark Mazzeti and Thom Shanker A pair of nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines has been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse February 9, 2009 A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on August 6, 2009, the third of four lunar eclipses in 2009.

Credit & Copyright: Barry & Noemi Diacon Continue reading Astronomy Picture of the Day

View full article at oftwominds.com So when you’re reading the news about how randomly careless and stupid everybody was, just remember the Argentine plan: all

At tipstrategies.com Go to the website to view an animated graphic of The Geography of Jobs between 2004 and 2009.

Photo: Moises Saman for The New York Times By Campbell Robertson Throughout the marshes, the reed gatherers, standing on land they once floated over, cry

President Barack Obama is nominating Robert Hormats, a vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, to a top economic position at the State Department. Hormats, 66,

Jackpot By Grant McCool  The report said bonuses for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. were “substantially greater” than the

Our very own Susan Johann just took 1st place at the Artists Guild of Spartanburg with Winter Hydrangea. Susan Johann – Fine Art and Commercial

Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal has transmitted the following memorandum and proposed resolution on state sovereignty to the Wyoming Legislature’s Management Council. Continue Reading Wyoming Governor

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“Thriller” 1,500 plus inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Philippines practice Michael Jackson’s global mega hit, Thriller.

Why a Recovery May Still Feel Like a Recession New York Times (31 Jul 09)  The recession has produced declines far greater than in previous

One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s

Continue Reading Obama Passing New Law to Allow Searching of PC’s, Laptops, And Media Devices

Each business day, the United States Treasury Department publishes a report on the workings of the government’s income and spending. One of the items on

In July, the Secretary of Health and Human Services announced that the federal government expects to initiate a voluntary fall vaccination program against the 2009

By Howard Berkes It was a Third World scene with an American setting. Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with

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The Moneychanger By Franklin Sanders Facing a collapsing national economy, we must revive local economies. To do that we need a local money that will

From the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (29 Jul 09) “Call your Senators TODAY to urge that NAIS funding be cut. The Senate is expected to

I have called my representative, Rep. Marsha Blackburn to request that she vote against HR 2749 (The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009). The Weston

Courtesy of Rob Kirby Continue Reading US Government Orchestrates Market Moves

By Kristina Cooke Frustrated by your spouse’s spending habits? It might be why you married them, according to a working paper titled “Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction”

By Stu Woo Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday signed a plan to close California’s $24 billion budget shortfall, after using his line-item veto powers to

Memorandum to all Primary Dealers and Recipients of the Weekly Press Release on Dealer Positions and Transactions The latest list reflects the following changes: Effective

Joel Salatin at Polyface Farm, Virginia. “When was the last time you heard a group of parents bragging? Ever hear one say, “Well, you can

Photo By Phil Ewing By David Axe “On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed,” a sub commander recalled.

By Jason Leopold Former Vice President Dick Cheney pressured President George W. Bush and other top administration officials to deploy US soldiers to a Buffalo,

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By David Davis When I read in the pages of this newspaper this month that the Conservative Party was planning to transfer people’s health data

Chinese US Dollar The dollar may be the focus of Chinese-U.S. talks starting in Washington today as China presses the Obama administration on how it

By Peggy Noonan This is big, what’s happening. President Obama appears to have misstepped on a major initiative and defining issue. He has misjudged the

The L-Curve graph represents income, not wealth If we divided the income of the US into thirds, we find that the top ten percent of

Treasury’s is borrowing $235B in one week: * 70-day CMB (7/24/09) $30B * 13-week Bill (07/27/09) $32B * 26-week Bill (07/27/09) $31B * 19-year 6-month

I subscribe to The Kiplinger Letter. Among other things, I find it a predictor of the “official story” combined with a useful flow of tax

By David Liechty In 1863, Congress authorized the Treasury to receive “deposits of gold coin and bullion” in exchange for “certificates” payable on demand, having

By Sam Smith One of the clues that Obama was not who he professed to be during the campaign was his closeness to Harvard professor

By Richard Gray By Ed Pilkington The world is about to cross a demographic landmark of huge social and economic importance, with the proportion of

By David Liechty With irredeemable Greenbacks and precious metal coin circulating at identical legal, “dollar”, value (see Thompson v. Butler, 95 U.S. 694 at 696

I believe one of the goals of the swine flu vaccine is depopulation. Perhaps it is the goal of a swine flu epidemic as well,

by F. William Engdahl The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has just signed a decree granting vaccine makers total legal immunity

By Barry B. Burr Pension fund fiduciaries under ERISA are “arguably required” to integrate environmental, social and corporate governance factors into their regular investment decision-making

By James Howard Kunstler The eulogy for Walter Cronkite as “the most trusted man in America” on the CBS “Sixty Minutes” show said a lot

By Arthur’s Baby Clipart …from a vaccine-death case in the U.S. Vaccine Courts. Explains the physiological mechanism by which the MMR vaccine caused the child’s

Illustration by S. Kambayashi By Peter Brimelow I’m amazed: Grousing about Goldman Sachs, and fury at the financial sector, is actually reaching the point where

Watch and learn people. This is how we do it ! Jon Stewart explains the great shape of our economy… Jon Stewart Explains The Great

Hank Paulson’s testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week was painful to watch. The hardest thing in the world is

By: Prison Planet I started F. William Engdahl’s new book, “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order,” this weekend and literally could