The Economist (8 Feb 10) THERE was a time when conservation meant keeping people away from nature. America’s system of national parks, a model for similar set-ups around the world, was based on the idea

Talk about your political upsets. Texas Rep. Ron Paul, hero of a fervant band of libertarians, unexpectedly won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference today, claiming 31% of the votes cast.

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Tesla Motors, makers of sporty electrical cars, filed their registration statement on January 29th to go public with a $100 million offering through Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Deutsch Bank. The offering would

By Darrell Preston and Nanette Byrnes Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — U.S. states must contend with a more than $1 trillion gap between what they have saved and what they have promised to retired workers for

Posting rages at IRS, claims, “I have had all I can stand” FEBRUARY 18—The man suspected of intentionally crashing an airplane into a Texas office building today appears to have posted a lengthy online diatribe

Rasmussen Reports (16 Feb 10) Forty-three percent (43%) of U.S. voters rate the performance of their local government as tops compared to its counterparts on the state and federal level. A new Rasmussen Reports national

Introduced in the Georgia General Assembly B 416 – “Sound Money In Banking Act”; require any bank serving as a depository for the state to offer/accept gold and silver coin for deposit A BILL to

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Large financial institutions that engage in speculative activities for profit should be allowed to fail if they get in trouble, White House advisor Paul Volcker said on Sunday. “If a big non-bank

By Suzanne Goldenberg The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent. The claim, which comes from

Kinzers, PA – At 9:40 a.m. Thursday, February 4, only a few miles from the scene of the Nickel Mines Amish massacre of 2006, another drama against the Amish began as agents of the U.S.

With Geoff Lawton Also see previous blog post: Greening the Desert

From Chris Powell – GATA – 7:45p ET Monday, February 15, 2010 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In a fascinating 50-minute interview with Eric King of King World News, JSMineSet.com’s Jim Sinclair remarks that

By Tom Engelhardt, Tom Dispatch Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere,

By Alan Feuer The critical lawsuit challenging that mystery of finance known as the Bailout started, oddly enough, with a casual newsroom chat. Mark Pittman, an investigative reporter for Bloomberg News, had filed a Freedom

By Daniel Tencer Concerns over privacy have aligned with apocalyptic Biblical prophecy in a proposed Virginia law that limits the use of microchip implants on humans because of a lawmaker’s concern that the chips will

I have been looking at the impact of various events and natural disasters on the price of gold. Paul Ferguson made this chart that marks various events on a gold price history for last week’s

By Paul Krugman For the truth is that lack of fiscal discipline isn’t the whole, or even the main, source of Europe’s troubles — not even in Greece, whose government was indeed irresponsible (and hid

In an attempt to rein in the shadow economy and collect more tax revenue, Greece outlaws cash transactions greater than 1500 Euros. Please consider Greek Finance Minister unveils tax reform, wage policy. “From 1. Jan.

By Jonathan Petre The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. Colleagues

By Chris Powell While our hopes to have a documentary film made from GATA’s conference in Washington on April 18 and 19, 2008, have not been realized, videos of the 17 major presentations there now

By Jeremy Singer-Vine A boost in blood sugar appears to increase the perceived value of future rewards, according to a study in Psychological Science. Researchers asked 65 college students seven questions about delayed rewards, such

Novella Carpenter on her experience moving to a ramshackle house in Oakland, California, and turning a weed-choked, garbage-strewn lot next door into a small farm, complete with egg-laying chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, rabbits, and two

By Tony Marrero Charlie and Maria Cardoso are among the millions of Americans who have experienced the misery and embarrassment that come with home foreclosure. Just one problem: The Massachusetts couple paid for their future

By Jonathan Stray On Tuesday, the Icelandic parliament is expected to introduce a measure aimed at making the country an international center for investigative journalism publishing, by passing the strongest combination of source protection, freedom

The dirt is flying on Soros and his investments: Good news: Obama Backs Off-shore Drilling! Update: A Soros Connection? Hot Air (18 Aug 09) Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling The Wall Street Journal (18 Aug 09)