Archive for the 'Catherine' Category

U.S. Rescue May Reach $23.7 Trillion

By Dawn Kopecki and Catherine Dodge

U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The Treasury’s $700 billion bank-investment program represents a fraction of all federal support to resuscitate the U.S. financial system, including $6.8 trillion in aid offered by the Federal Reserve, Barofsky said in a report released today.

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Frank-Dodd Financial Reform Bill - Catherine on Coast-to-Coast

“Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts shared her critical reaction to the new financial regulations just signed into law. “We have a couple thousand pages of legislation from the federal government” that still doesn’t account for the $4 trillion missing from federal accounts. And the new regulations will essentially increase the amount of centralization, and give vast new powers to the Federal Reserve, she cautioned.
New Financial Regulations - Catherine Austin Fitts on Coast to coast am 07.21.2010

[Catherine begins at 7:12]
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The Shrinking Middle Class


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Memories on the Half Shell


By Heidi Jon Schmidt

CHINCOTEAGUE, Moonstone, Bayou La Batre, Blue Point, Wellfleet, Malpeque … this was what I knew of the sea as a child: the list of oysters on the menu board at Grand Central Terminal’s Oyster Bar. My father used to take my sister, Laura, and me there after our parents divorced.

I had never been close to my father and was shy during these meals. At the Oyster Bar, we didn’t have to face each other; we could sit side by side on barstools watching the waiters in their white aprons as they opened oyster after oyster, each with one deft flick of the wrist. These men had dignity and composure such as I’d never seen. They were giving a performance as much as preparing meals. We could watch, sip our oyster stew and count ourselves as having accomplished another visit.

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J Parsson Dying of Money


Dying of Money
Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations [Hardcover]

The author vividly and thoroughly recounts the influence of inflation throughout history with special emphasis on the U.S. economy and the hyperinflationary events of the 1920s in the Weimar Republic, Germany.

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On Financial Reform

Mises Institute Offers A Free Week-Long Economics Seminar

By Gary North

On Wednesday, July 28, at 11:30 a.m. central daylight time, I will lecture to about 250 college students at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

You can go to the Web and watch it for free. Free is good. I’ll give you the link later in this report.

Each summer, the Mises Institute hosts Mises University. This seminar is worth paying for, and thousands of students have either paid or have received scholarships to attend. Anyway, someone has paid. They come to Alabama from all over the world. The Mises Institute has a strong Web presence. Foreign students learn of Mises U and fly to attend.

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LA is Armed Against Yogurt

Some people balk at restrictions on selling unprocessed milk and other foods. ‘How can we not have the freedom to choose what we eat?’ one says. Regulators say the rules exist for safety and fairness.

The pair reasoned that they didn’t need to obtain a license from state or local agencies because they weren’t technically retailers. In 2004, Rawesome opened on Rose Avenue in Venice. “We’re just a place where people come to pick up the products they already own,” Vonderplanitz said.

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Amelia Leavell Askew - April 24, 1920 - July 24, 2010.

Susan Sanders mother (Franklin’s mother in law) passed away this weekend. Prayers are appreciated.

Memorial donations may be made to:
The Hospitality Hub
146 Jefferson, Memphis, 38103

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How to Resist Federal Tyranny

By Tom Woods


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