LEWISBURG, Tenn. — Five years ago, this small factory town was struggling to pay the interest on a bond for new sewers. Bob Phillips, Lewisburg’s

In my segment on Flashpoints Radio with Dennis Bernstein. April 8, 2009, I address real levels of unemployent and describe why the financial fraud is

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The 10×10 website “Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis

This in this morning: “My construction friend said he talked to two separate people who had been to Chernobyl recently and asked how things were

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“A former quantitative analyst at Harvard Management Company, the university’s once-vaunted endowment manager, tells the Harvard Crimson she was fired for voicing concern to then-university

“Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe

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A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order. “We have agreed

The investment community was already suspicious last week when Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled his plan, announcing that Treasury would select four or five companies as

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (April 1, 2009) — America’s top economics bloggers—a diverse group of writers with wide-ranging intellectual and political vantage points—largely agree on one

This is the full version of the communique agreed by the G20 group in London today. 1. We, the Leaders of the Group of Twenty,

One of the great mysteries is who controls, uses and really has access to the Department of Justice’s information and data systems. The idea of

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Max Keiser: ….they (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan et al) are systematically undermining the entire system. They are creating a mechanism to carve out equity and

By Carolyn Betts I am an attorney who was working in Washington with RTC during the S&L crisis, so I know something about “toxic asset”

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With special thanks to one of our favorite sources, Jim Willie at Golden Jackass, here is a roundup of some of articles that indicate the

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“Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro warned yesterday that the agency will “make significant cuts in its current operations” this year unless Congress authorizes

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“You knew what the banks were doing and yet were touting it for months and months – the entire network was. And so now to

To: The Wall Street Journal Re: “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble” By: Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Dated: Wednesday, March

Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh Describes ‘Executive Assassination Ring’ Minnesota Post (11 March 09)

Catherine Austin Fitts speaking at the GoldRush 21 conference held in Dawson City, Yukon Canada on August 7-9 2005 – predicts current crisis and the

Congress Saves on Online Contracts: Senate Makes Major Concession in Stripping Internet Posting Provision from Stimulus Internet junkies and wonks alike may have jumped the

This Kissinger image (by David Levine) is one of 320 illustrations—by 142 of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary artists – that The New York Times

If the Administration wants to provide bailout relief, here is a simple solution. Waive taxes on 401ks and IRAs and allow Americans to withdraw all

We thought we would dig out the data to update Bloomberg’s calculation of November 2008 that totaled the bank bailouts at $8.5 trillion. Here is

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