In an e-mail (1.02.08) from the FDIC: The e-mail is to inform you that the FDIC is retiring the loan sales website at www.fdicsales.com effective

NH Primary: Pre-Election Polls Wildly Different Than Results Announced for Clinton/Obama Blogged by Brad Friedman – The Brad Blog (8 Jan 2008) 2008 New Hampshire

Thanks to a very special reader, Catherine’s blog review of Political Ponerology has been translated into Swedish. Click on this image to access the translation:

From opensecrets.org – Race for the White House Here is how Goldman Sachs employees have voted with their money for the 2008 presidential candidates: Hillary

Title: US District Court, Southern District of New York Parties: Barclays Bank, PLC vs Bear Stearns, et al Filed: December 19, 2007 Complaint ~ Part

Pakistan Nuclear Weapons at Play By Newsmax Staff – Newsmax.com (27 Dec 2007) Pakistan and Weapons of Mass Destruction At Wikipedia —-

Pakistan Nuclear Weapons at Play By Newsmax Staff – Newsmax.com (27 Dec 2007) Pakistan and Weapons of Mass Destruction At Wikipedia —-

New Zealand ally Claude Lewenz reminds me that ‘doing good’ first got split from ‘doing well’ with granting of a royal charter to the Honourable

Extraordinary Popular Debt By Bill Bonner – Rude Awakening Blog (10 Dec 2007) “What has happened? Credit, it turns out, soon reaches the point of

P.S. Financial Fraud vs Financial Coup d’etat By Catherine Austin Fitts – Scoop Independent News (11 Dec 2007) Catherine Austin Fitts’ Mapping the Real Deal

P.S. Financial Fraud vs Financial Coup d’etat By Catherine Austin Fitts – Scoop Independent News (11 Dec 2007) Catherine Austin Fitts’ Mapping the Real Deal

These 3 snippets from Doug Noland’s Tight Money were pointed out by one of my favorite GATA team mates: November 26 – Bloomberg (Glen Carey

UBS Admits $10B Subprime Loss, Gets Rescue From Singapore By Andrew Hurst – Reuters (10 Dec 2007) ZURICH, Switzerland — UBS revealed a $10 billion

I named my last company after the first US Secretary of Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton believed in the sanctity of a contract. One of his

Robert Greenwald’s on-line video on Henry Kravis, partner of leveraged buyout and private equity firm, KKR, “Fight the War on Greed,” does not mention the

Is more profiting underway from the dump (as in “pump and dump”) of the US economy? Goldman Short the Housing Market? See Ben Stein –

In from Sam Smith at Progressive Review: The Vortex A Justice Policy Institute Report (Dec 2007) ACCORDING TO THE Department of Health & Human Services,

AMC Chief Urges States to Drop Dollar Peg By P.K. Abdul Ghafour – Arab News (1 Dec 2007) US Intelligence Says Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons

China Wins From Credit Crunch Fallout Special Investigation – London Telegraph (27 Nov 2007)

Just as the United Arab Emirates are bailing out Citigroup, Sony and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.: Dubai Fund Appoints Sony ex-CEO to Advisory Board By

Talkin’ to America ”Talkin’ to America” is a weekly series of provocative, hard-hitting interviews that is posted in MP3 format on our website each week.

An excellent strategic overview of the global drain engineered via a falling dollar… Dollar’s Fall is Now a Bigger Political Issue Than an Economic One

Northern Norway Towns Lose $167MM on CitiCorp Investments  Townships Caught up in International Credit Crisis By Nina Berglund – Aftenpolten News from Norway (20 Nov

PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT – The nonprofit watchdog journalism organization the Center for Public Integrity published “Windfalls of War II.” Here are some of the

Meet Andrew Cuomo: Andrew was Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development overseeing the largest mortgage insurance and securities operation in the

US Supreme Court Agrees to Rule on Right to Own Gun By Greg Stohr – Bloomberg News (21 Nov 2007) The U.S. Supreme Court will

“In any event Bill King, editor of The King Report, may have had the most telling observation on the controversy: that the government would have

Well, they left out the part about creating 10 mortgages on one home and using dirty tricks to stop the market (such as Hamilton Securities

US Dollar Index Price & Chart Quote

By Catherine Austin Fitts: Gary, we gather in our hearts to say farewell and to tell you how grateful we are for your presence in

Testimony of Anne Williamson Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the United States House of Representatives September 21, 1999 Before I begin