If it is bothering you that the price of everything that is losing value is up and the price of everything that is increasing in

Fighting Foreclosure: Subprime Borrowers Battle (and Beat) Lenders in Court By Amanda Stutt – Village Voice (3 Sep 2008) Excerpt: “If the paperwork is garbage

“Deja Vu View” is our title to revive things we have written in the past that are worth revisiting given current events. The federal government

Moody’s ratings downgrades of Freddie and Fannie preferred last week are going to be bad news for insurance companies and regional and small banks who

Financial Permaculture Blog: a resource for gathering information and conversations about financial permaculture Also see: The Farm Blog

In 1989, I was serving as Assistant Secretary of Housing. The housing bubble of the 1980’s had burst, and foreclosures were rising. The mortgage insurance

The financial permaculture conversation continues . . . Pebble Mine At Gaiapoiesis – 19 Aug 2008) Pebble Mine – at Wikipedia

This weekend, Barrons published a piece on Fannie and Freddie indicating the chances for nationalization were rising. Today, the stocks dropped like a stone. Bailout

Charles Warns GM Farming Will End in Ecological Disaster By Robert Booth – The Guardian (13 Aug 2008)

Bohemian Grove 2008 – July 11-27 Wikileaks: Bohemian Grove 2008 Guest List Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 was passed by the United States

On August 12, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times that Hillary Clinton is planning on staging a commotion at the Democratic convention at

Even Bloomberg is saying something stinks on the Bear Stearns option trading: Bringing Down Bear Began as $1.7 Million of Options By Gary Matsumoto –

Nestlé to renegotiate McCloud Deal By David Benda – Redding News (6 Aug 2008) “Nestle Waters North America announced Tuesday it’s pulling out of its

The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008: An Analysis by Catherine Austin Fitts ~ Click here for the full article. If there is to

In the Destruction of the Old, Let There Be the Creation of the New The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is now marketing a new documentary

Gauging life by the Koolee Index by Micheal Overall – Tulsa World.com (11 Aug 2008

The Two Great Financial Mysteries of Our Time: Missing Money and Collateral Fraud There are two great financial mysteries in America: where is all the

Excerpt: U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth … later was removed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which said he

Andrew Cuomo Owes Us $5 Trillion It is not easy to engineer the bankrupting of the American middle class and the U.S. government. Alan Greenspan

The Tapeworm Corporation Comes Out of the Closet (Comparison Chart: Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and the DOW, 1989-2008) Eisenhower warned us about a military industrial

Withholding Taxes Chart – Current through the Daily Treasury Statement dated August 4, 2008 From Matt Trivisonno’s Blog ~ Thanks to The King Report for

It looks like Royal Dutch Shell will end up paying about $600 million in connection with global class action lawsuits and enforcement that were triggered

Overview I have had several requests to comment on the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. This afternoon I read hundreds of pages of

Nation State or Investment Syndicate? One of the instructive features of the housing bill is the nature of creditor politics that is a subtext on

Your House Is Bigger than My House When I was Assistant Secretary of Housing – Federal Housing Commissioner, then Secretary of HUD Jack Kemp asked

The Profits of Playing Ball The housing bill brings up a number of important questions about the risks and rewards that result from government subsidy

Where Is the Collateral? Any government official asked to come up with a workout plan for troubled financial institutions, large portfolios of financial assets and

What will be the successful business models of the future? This is an important conversation and our ally at Gaia Emerging has some thoughts. This