Behind every credit default swap or short of subprime mortgage-backed assets sit legal counsel sanctioning these practices; their hands are no cleaner than those of

By cleg Brought to us courtesy of senators Kay Hagan of North Carolina and one of the banking lobby’s most obedient lap dogs, Bob Corker

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By Barani Krishnan U.S. stocks skidded on Monday, extending losses from across Europe as fears over out-of-control government debt on both sides of the Atlantic

By Yahoo News The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and

Lecture By Dr. Franz Adlkofer On Nov. 3, Dr. Franz Adlkofer, former executive director of the VERUM Foundation for Behavior and Environment, spoke to a

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By Celeste Katz Our Ken Lovett reports: In a 5-2 decision, a bitterly split Court of Appeals, said the state’s awarding of tax-payer funded state

By Rhiannon Hoyle Total central-bank gold purchases in the third quarter more than doubled from the second quarter and were almost seven times higher than

General Assembly holds mock trial and journalist Chris Hedges reads indictment accusing Goldman Sachs of financial crimes against humanity. buzzflash Collected from youtube.com

By William Thomas  If you did not enjoy “traditional” chemtrails raining down on you, you are not going to like the new version, which the

By Steven Levy “What I’m about to show you,” Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we’ve been doing for 15 years.”

By Laura Sanders Instead of the indiscriminate destruction of the atom bomb or napalm, the signature weapon of future wars may be precise, unprecedented control

By Wall Street Journal Concerns are rising that the Federal Housing Administration could run out money if the economy doesn’t recover soon, raising the risk

By Jon Rappoport Mark Madden, a Pennsylvania radio host, wrote a piece about Jerry Sandusky, the accused Penn State pedophile, back in April, while a

By Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation In a beleaguered economy, the country needs entrepreneurs – the nation’s job creators. Fortunately, a recent poll shows that the

[View larger image] By Catherine Austin Fitts Something special happened this week. I finished paying off Nissan Motors. In 2000, I leased or purchased three

By Stacy Mitchell Under a measure that passed the House last Thursday, you may soon be able to invest in a portfolio of your favorite

France President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama By Yann Le Guernigou “I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama, unaware that the microphones

By Associated Press The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that

By Nieman Watchdog Longtime journalist and commentator Bill Moyers was the keynote speaker on October 20 at the 40th anniversary celebration of Public Citizen, the

By Malcolm Gladwell One of the great puzzles of the industrial revolution is why it began in England. Why not France, or Germany? Many reasons

By Sarah A. Low and Stephen Vogel This study uses nationally representative data on marketing of local foods to assess the relative scale of local

By Intelligent Speculator at Seeking Alpha I recently spent an entire evening talking to a good friend of mine about annuities. Why? Because his father

By Daniel Wagner and Bernard Condon He set out to create a mini-Goldman Sachs. In the end, he built a mini-Lehman Brothers. Former New Jersey

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency

The New York Times (1 Nov 11) The investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in missing money at MF Global has widened, as the

By The Wall Street Journal As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available

By David Hambling Against all the odds, Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat cold fusion power plant passed its biggest test yesterday, producing an average of 470 kilowatts

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By Sandrine Rastello The International Monetary Fund may create a six-month credit line for countries facing shocks, officials from Group of 20 governments and IMF

By Marc Heller – Waterton Daily Times (30 Oct 11) WASHINGTON — For three New York lawmakers, serving on the Agriculture Committee is a badge

By Mike Colpitts – Housing Predictor (31 Oct 11) Responding to homeowner complaints, Nevada has become the first state in the nation to make illegally

UK Telegraph (30 Oct 11) A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain as part major new

Here is the WORST idea yet – allowing the NWO to destroy the U.S. Constitution by making it look like a neetsy keen grassroots movement.

By Melanie Pelayo The announcement of cost of living adjustments by the federal government a week ago not only heralded the first increase to Social

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YouTube Mega-bank Goldman Sachs (assets $933bn), has declared war on one of the smallest banks in New York (assets $30m), the customer-owned community bank that

(Reuters) – MERS, the electronic mortgage registry used by the banking industry, was sued by Delaware on Thursday and accused of deceptive practices that led

By Laura Bledsoe (24 Oct 11) When an over-zealous regulator shows up at a farm dinner demanding that food be destroyed as hungry guests await,

The products we use everyday are complex combinations of specialized knowledge. Harvard and MIT released a report, “The Atlas of Economic Complexity,” visually mapping the

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) directed FDA to collect fees on businesses that have to be re-inspected because of some noncompliance. This new requirement

By: Reuters The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions

By Phil Howard In the last 40 years, the commercial seed industry has transformed dramatically. It has shifted from a competitive sector of agribusiness, composed

[Note from CAF: Given that the FDIC just picked up the BofA/Merrill derivatives position, you would think BofA would be a bit more sensitive to

By Kareem Fahim and Rick Gladstone MISURATA, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after an armed uprising toppled

By Susanna Kim While many law school graduates are all too aware of their accumulating pile of debt, few may realize it can prevent them