By Eric Martin William Ackman said he bought shares of Corrections Corp. of America, giving his Pershing Square Capital Management LP hedge fund a 9.5

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By Kathryn Hopkins One of the City’s leading figures has suggested that inequality created by bankers’ huge salaries is a price worth paying for greater

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard A European super-regulator will have the final say over London’s vast derivatives market and will acquire powers to limit the positions taken

By Allan Sloan This is a quiz. What do the record-high Wall Street bonuses have in common with the record-low yields for savers? Answer: They

By Sam Smith Adam Storch, vice president of Goldman Sachs’ Business Intelligence Group has become head of the SEC’s enforcement division. It doesn’t get much

The Wall Project, the largest commemoration in the US of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, will be staged in Los

By Noah Shachtman America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews

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By Emre Peker CME Group Inc. and the Chicago Board Options Exchange are in informal talks for a takeover, Crain’s said, citing people familiar with

By Dr. Mercola: Urgent and vital information you need to know about the massive amount of disinformation that the media has recently escalated as best

China’s second-ranking military officer will travel to Washington later this month on a week-long visit designed to promote trust and avoid “misunderstandings,” the Pentagon said

The only EU leader who has not yet signed the Lisbon reform treaty has conceded he will not be able to derail it. Czech President

By “A Reader” This morning I received the following link, from a friend, regarding Jon Stewart skewering CNN for fact-checking a SNL skit while not

By Andrew Clark Put the bottles of Krug on ice. Golden days are here again for elite investment banks. Goldman Sachs is gearing up to

Latin American leaders have agreed on using a new intra- regional trading currency, dubbed as Sucre, instead of the US dollar. Bolivian President Evo Morales,

I am often asked what sources of information that I most trust. Hands down, one of my most valuable sources over the last two decades

The yellow dots are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period. Stay with the picture. You will see the light of the day

By Mansur Mirovalev Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte said Tuesday his mission was accomplished after a 10-day trip to the International Space Station where

By Jerry Kronenberg A real estate judge is refusing to reverse a landmark ruling that opens the door to voiding tens of thousands of Bay

The United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between December 7 and December 18, 2009. The conference

By Robert Pear, For the first time in more than three decades, Social Security recipients will not get any increase in their benefits next year,

By: Rob Kirby Earlier this week, I wrote about possible “incongruities” in the gold bar registry of GLD [SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)]. Specifically, here is

By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer The term influenza, which dates back to the Middle Ages, is taken from the Italian word for occult or

While watching football over at my daughter’s home, I got a call from Channel 15 asking if I could explain the motivation behind the “Support

By Aaron Klein President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission. Cass Sunstein also

Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer the hostile takeover in the 1980s and reshaped the mergers and acquisitions business into a

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Russia is hoping to sign deals worth $5.5bn (£3.5bn) with China as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits Beijing. The deals may lead to Russia selling

A progress report released last week by the Treasury Department showed that only 11 percent (about 95,000) of Bank of America’s delinquent borrowers who were

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By Martin Hutchinson The problem arises because of the size of the world’s capital pools in relation to its volume of trade. The total assets

By Anne Gearan The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000

By Liz Pulliam Weston Right now, your company could have a life insurance policy on you that you know nothing about. When you die—perhaps years

By Webster G. Tarpley A leading member of the Icelandic parliament called Monday night for the country to declare a debt moratorium and stop attempting

By Tyler Durden With everyone lately focused on China’s foreign reserve position, analysts have forgotten that America also has an International Reserve account consisting of

Remarks by Chris Powell Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. New Orleans Investment Conference Hilton Riverside Hotel Thursday, October 8, 2009 On Friday, September 25,

On this Columbus Day, when Columbus “discovered” The New World (Really? Native Americans weren’t already here?) one should, I believe, ponder the following. Is it

By Shelly Meron Seeking to find the safest routes for kids to walk in the neighborhood and to start a community conversation about safety, Beaulieu

On April 22, 2007, Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Matthew Tannin sent an e-mail to fellow hedge fund manager Ralph Cioffi. “The entire subprime market

Health care in America remains the best in the world, and we Americans have been blessed by compassionate, dedicated, and highly skilled medical professionals and

By David Cho The financial crisis has blown a hole in the rosy forecasts of pension funds that cover teachers, police officers and other government

A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America. The White

View Larger Chart By Jesse Those who have taken a huge share of the last three bubbles would like to stop the bubble now, keep

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By Andrew Taylor Dairy farmers suffering from low milk prices would benefit from $350 million in emergency funding approved by the Senate on Thursday as

The most wonderful Nick Laird at www.sharelynx.com has charted the prices of gold and silver using the latest CPI series as adjusted by John Williams

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By Leslie Scism BlackRock Inc., which scored multiple government assignments during the financial crisis, is a contender for another prestigious gig: helping state regulators size

“People are angry with all the shenanigans on Wall Street,” he said. “They believe their money stays local when they put it in a community

Eric Toensmeier gave a wonderful workshop at the Financial Permaculture Convergence in Hohenwald. He has a marvelous sense of how to take permaculture to profits.

View Larger By Jesse Gold has apparently broken out of a big inverse Head and Shoulder formation, possibly an ascending triangle if you prefer that

Since the Third Circuit said so, in its September 22, 2009 decision in AT&T v. Federal Communications Commission (No. 084024). Most privacy practitioners would not

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My colleagues at GATA (Chairman Bill Murphy and Treasurer Chris Powell above) have done an extraordinary job of documenting manipulation of the gold market. By

The United Nations called on Tuesday for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy which has allowed the United States the “privilege” of

Continue reading Robert Fisk on the Gulf ‘Ditching The Dollar’ in Oil Trade

By Josh Fineman More than a third of Wall Street finance professionals surveyed expect their bonuses to increase for 2009, a year after the credit-market

By Susan Ferrechio As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative

By Clif [High] ,Cathy and Igor at Half Past Human In running our MOM (model of modelspace) cleanup of the lexicon prior to tuning, it

By Andrew Jack in London Patients who fail to pop pills on time could soon benefit from having a chip on their shoulder, under a

View Larger Chart This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report examines the pressures facing the federal budget over the coming decades by presenting the agency’s projections

By George Friedman Two major leaks occurred this weekend over the Iran matter. In the first, The New York Times published an article reporting that

By Pam Martens A federal agency tasked with expanding the American dream of home ownership and affordable housing free from discrimination to people of modest

By David G. Savage By agreeing to hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to Chicago’s handgun ban, the justices may open the door to similar lawsuits

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By Martin Crutsinger Finance ministers from the world’s seven most developed economies may not even issue a joint communique when they meet in Istanbul this

By Karen Hube As firmer CEO of South African Airways and co-founder of Bain Capital, Coleman Andrews has spent his career in some of the

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Mr Nakagawa, 56, was found dead in a bedroom at his Tokyo home, Japanese news agencies reported. The long-time LDP lawmaker stepped down as finance

Legend: Blue – Introduced. Yellow – Passed one or more houses. Green – Passed Both Houses. Black – Failed Vote. White – No Resolution Introduced.

By Xinhua writer Ding Yi While the whole Europe hailed Irish “yes” to the Lisbon Treaty, the Czech republic remains reluctant to sign the document,

School children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi take part in a cultural programme on the eve of Gandhi’s 140th birth anniversary, in the central Indian city