By Michael Mackenzie and David Oakley The bond vigilantes are finally flexing their muscles. A long period of stability for the US government bond market

Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is

By Anais Starr The image above comes from a wonderful book I’m reading titled “Carrots Love Tomatoes” by Louise Riotte. The book’s byline is “Secrets

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By Huma Khan President Obama will sign the historic health care bill into law this morning, but Republicans are still fighting back with promises of

“If each household in Montana spent just $10 a week on Montana-produced food, we would redirect $186 million dollars each year to the state’s food

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By Laura Litvan, Nicole Gaouette and Kristin Jensen March 22 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. House passed the most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades, rewriting

By Jane Hamsher The Firedoglake health care team has been covering the debate in congress since it began last year. The health care bill will

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In his new book, In Search of Self-Governance, Scott Rasmussen observes that most Americans “have come to believe that the political system is broken, that

Wachovia bank executives have admitted that the banking giant laundered millions of dollars for Mexican drug lords between 2003 and 2008, prosecutors announced in Miami

By Matthew Day The People’s Party, the largest group in a five-party coalition, walked out amid disputes over how to cope with the country’s severe

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By Hugh Son A House committee requested that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke turn over documents related to Stephen Friedman’s purchase of Goldman Sachs

“Some people think the Federal Reserve banks are United States Government institutions. They are not Government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon

The following action alert came from Grow Montana and the Community Food Agriculture Coalition of Missoula County. The National Farm to School Network is a

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WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE? is a witty and provocative documentary produced and directed by award-winning Catherine Gund about kids and food politics. Filmed over the

By David Glovin and Bob Van Voris The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S.

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The formal statement GATA Chairman Bill Murphy plans to submit as a witness at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading

By Heather Smith With just one slaughterhouse remaining within 80 miles of San Francisco, we stand to lose not only our local beef industry, but

By Steve Gorman From French poodles to German shepherds, domestic dogs likely trace most of their ancestry to the Middle East, as opposed to East

The financial reform legislation passed in the House on December 11, 2009 is now in the Senate. The Democrats in the Senate have produced a

By Nicholas Larkin Central banks added the most gold to their reserves since 1964 last year amid the longest rally in bullion prices in at

By Dugald McConnell Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to pass a law saying no thanks to part of President Obama’s health care proposal.

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio announced on Wednesday he would switch his vote on the Democrat-led healthcare reform bill and support the legislation even though

By Elisa Martinuzzi and Sonia Sirletti Deutsche Bank AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co., UBS AG and Hypo Real Estate Holding AG’s Depfa Bank Plc unit

By Karl Denninger I know you’re not going to listen to me. I’m going to say it anyway, because as a concerned citizen of The

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Idaho lawmakers are backing a plan that would allow state tax bills to be paid down with silver medallions instead of cash. The bill approved

By Brian Stelter Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet. The

In the late fifth century BC, Athenian negotiators, speaking to their Spartan competitors, with whom they were soon at war, staked out their rationale for

Click for Larger chart Continue reading How The Fed Backed Itself Into A Corner, And Is Doomed To Pumping Cheap Money Forever Related Reading: The

I have made a new loan through Kiva to Concepcion Aracely Herrera Martillo who will use the funds to increase productivity of her plantain chip

This document is a classified (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. “The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in

By Vandana Shiva Since 1966 – and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming – India has

Financial markets are gripped by the role derivatives have played in Greece’s debt crisis, but Italy also has a derivatives time bomb, and hundreds of

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard China has succumbed to hubris. It has mistaken the soft diplomacy of Barack Obama for weakness, mistaken the US credit crisis for