Archive for December, 2006

Top Picks ~ Week of December 25, 2006

Project Censored - The News That Didn’t Make the News
From Project Censored - (Dec 2006)

North Korea Selling Gold; May Have Up To 2,000 Tonnes
From Yomiuri Shimbum, Tokoyo (Dec 26, 2006)

Value of Euros in Circulation Exceeds Value of Dollars
By Ralph Atkins - Financial Times, London (Dec 27, 2006)

Insider Selling Ratio Near a 20-Year High
By Roben Farzad - BusinessWeek Online (Dec 6, 2006)

China Lowers Gold Trading Threshold for Small Investors
From Zinhua News Agency (Dec 25, 2006)

US Economic Growth Revised Downward
German Press Agency (Dec 21, 2006)

These People Will Be TOASTING the IMF
By Adam Goldman - AP (Dec 19, 2006)

Wall Street Bonuses Flood NYC’s Economy
By Adam Goldman - AP Business Writer (Dec 19, 2006)

Top Picks ~ Week of December 18, 2006

US Mint Moves to Limit Exportation & Melting of Coins
US Mint Press Release (Dec 14, 2006)

Boston Air Traffic Controller Says 9/11 An Inside Job
By Paul Joseph Watson - prison planet.com (Dec 14, 2006)

The Charge of the Muny Light Brigade
By Joshua Scheer - Truthdig.com (Dec 14, 2006)

Even Little Slovenia Gets Roped into the Gold Price-fixing Scheme
By Christian Vits - Dow Jones Newswires (Dec 22, 2006)

Government’s Power to Debase Currency is Unlimited
From Agence France-Presse (Dec 21, 2006)

Ballot Initiative: Democracy Unlimited
Daniel McLeod Interviews Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap - Z Magazine (Dec 2006)

Diamond Market is Next Target for Derivatives
A MineWeb Report - (Dec 22, 2006)

Top Picks ~ Week of December 11, 2006

Gold is Cheap, Yamada, Banks Assert as Sales Pared (Update4)
By Pham-Duy Nguyen - Bloomberg (Dec 11, 2006)

US Dollar Facing Imminent Collapse?
By Jerone R. Corsi - WorldNetDaily.com (Dec 10, 2006)

Oil Producers Shun Dollar
ByHaig Simonian - Financial Times (Dec 10, 2006)

US Warns of Threat to Satellites
By Barry Schweid - AP-Forbes.com (Dec 13, 2006)

US Mortgage Delinquency Rate Rises Sharply
Late Mortgage Payments Jump in Summer
By Jeannine Aversa - AP (Dec 13, 2006)

Mortgage Delinquencies Threatening US Borrowers and Banks
By March Gordon - AP (Dec 11, 2006)

Inflation is Four Times Higher Than CPI, US Economist Says
By Jonathan Chevreau - National Post, Toronto (Dec 13, 2006)

Leading Asian Economist Urges Joint Action on Dollar
By Keith Bradsher - NY Times (Dec 7, 2006)

Top Picks ~ Week of December 4, 2006

China Seeks Direct Talks with OPEC
By Jim Krane - AP (Dec 4, 2006)

Revealed: The Real Rate of Inflation
By Edmund Conway - The Telegraph, London (Dec 4, 2006)

Bank of New York to Buy Mellon for $16.5B
New York - Reuters (Dec 4, 2006)

Dollar’s Fall Aids London’s Drive for Financial Supremacy
By David Smith - The Times, London (Dec 3, 2006)

The Ten Worst Corporations of 2005
By Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman - CommonDreams.org (Apr 25, 2006)

Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization
By Antonia Juhasz - AlterNet (Dec 7, 2006)

Leading Asian Economist Urges Joint Action on Dollar
By Keith Bradsher - NY Times (Dec 8, 2006)