According to a NY Times article, the following industries have experienced significant sales growth in the last 12 months (privately owned companies only): View a

Well, we have swapped real assets for paper. Now we cannot even get the paper: SEC Approves Eliminating Paper Certificates for Withdrawals-by-Transfer

Leaving your current place of employment? Here are frequently asked questions about IRA rollovers from employee sponsored plans. Read the complete article …

by James Turk Read the full article on gata.org An important document buried in the Federal Reserve’s archives has been discovered by writer and researcher

Larry Summers, engineer of the housing bubble and gold price suppression, is returning to power on Monday. Ditto, the folks who lost $3.3 trillion at

CNN is running the documentary ‘I.O.U.S.A.’ this weekend. We thought you might find our commentary from this summer regarding ‘I.O.U.S.A.’ of interest.

Citigroup Inc. said Robert Rubin has retired from the bank. According to a spokesman, “Rubin did not anticipate the ‘extreme circumstances’ that the financial system

In fiscal 1999, the Department of Defense was “missing” $2.3 trillion dollars. To put that amount of money in perspective, it is approximately 3X what

There appears to be a chorus of people with very good resumes predicting that the dollar is about to fall. While the economic fundamentals for

Obama Picks Leon Panetta to Head CIA Yahoo News (05 Jan 2009) Leon Panetta on Wikipedia wikipedia.org Central Intelligence Agency on Wikipedia wikipedia.org

The following snapshot from MarketWatch reveals that 2008 was, indeed, a difficult year for many investors.

by James Bowen, National Chairperson of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/848045.html In the late 19th century, changes in Ottoman law created a new class of

The U.S. Dollar just took a nose dive….

Monsanto’s Destruction of Seed Cleaners and the Immense Threat to Human Access to Seeds

Bernie Madoff on the Modern Stock Market YouTube I have started and managed several small businesses. It is hard to run one set of books

The Minneapolis Firefighters and the Southern Louisiana Sheriffs have taken on CitiGroup and the Citi board and underwriters. It’s one thing to put up with

On December 2, the US Congress’ investigative arm — the GAO — criticized the Treasury Department’s handling of the $700 billion bailout program: Read the

I decided to search out the reported indictment of Vice President Richard Cheney… Texas DA Reveals Evidence Against Cheney The Raw Story (27 November 2008)

Here is a must-see video: 137 pages of foreclosure notices in the Detroit Free Press BEFORE the bailout and resulting layoffs from the big three

Following my recent interpretation of the G20 communique, the editor of Expresso wrote back: “Catherine, can you elaborate a little more about this printing euphoria?”