Putting Madoff in Perspective
These days I am wondering if Madoff’s biggest problem is that he stole from the rich. Feels to me like when you steal from ordinary people, particularly when it makes the rich much richer, it is cal…
Month: December 2008
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The Lewis County Herald
One of the things that makes a town wonderful is a great local newspaper. Hohenwald, Tennessee (of financial permaculture fame) has the Lewis County Herald, which is the finest local newspaper I hav…
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Ivy League Endowments
The housing and derivatives bubble sure was good for retired Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and wife NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell. They just turned up in the University …
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Eartha Kitt: An Anti-War Patriot
Forty years ago, America’s cultural icons expressed the frustratation of the American people with the failure of then-President Lyndon Johnson to end this country’s undeclared war in Vietnam by bold…
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The Red Button Problem
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the summer of 2000, I asked a group of 100 people at a conference of spiritually committed people who would push a red button if it would immediately stop all narcoti…
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The Red Button Problem
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the summer of 2000, I asked a group of 100 people at a conference of spiritually committed people who would push a red button if it would immediately stop all narcotics…
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Money & Markets – Week of 12.28.08
IMF Agrees $2.5bn For Belarus
Telegraph.co.uk (01 Jan 2009)Japan’s Bonds May Post First Loss Since 2003 as Debt Sales Rise
Bloomberg (02 Jan 2009)Money Flows Out Of Hedge Funds At Record Rate
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Money & Markets – Week of 12.28.08
IMF Agrees $2.5bn For Belarus
Telegraph.co.uk (01 Jan 2009)Japan’s Bonds May Post First Loss Since 2003 as Debt Sales Rise
Bloomberg (02 Jan 2009)Money Flows Out Of Hedge Funds At Record Rate
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Geopolitical – Week of 12.28.08
Russia-Ukraine Gas Row Heats Up
News.bbc.co.uk (31 Dec 2008)Bush Signs Pension Relief Bill Into Law
Reuters (30 Dec 2008)Pakistan Moves Troops To Indian Border
Financial Times (30 Dec 2008)IDF …
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Food & Health – Week of 12.28.08
Chinese Drywall Causes Problems on Florida’s Treasure Coast
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Food & Health – Week of 12.28.08
Chinese Drywall Causes Problems on Florida’s Treasure Coast
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Life – Week of 12.28.08
How We Went From $42,000 To $6,500 And Lived To Tell About It!
CountrySide (31 Dec 2008)Gallup: Americans See Religious Influence Waning
USA Today (29 Dec 2008)Helen Fisher: The Science of Love, a…
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Money & Markets – Week of 12.21.08
Using Your Credit Cards and Other Depression Survival Tactics
lewrockwell.com (17 Dec 2008)Ecuador Defaults, Says to Fight “Monster” Creditors
Reuters (12 Dec 2008)America’s Total Debt Report: $53…
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Money & Markets – Week of 12.21.08
Using Your Credit Cards and Other Depression Survival Tactics
lewrockwell.com (17 Dec 2008)Ecuador Defaults, Says to Fight “Monster” Creditors
Reuters (12 Dec 2008)America’s Total Debt Report: $53…
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Geopolitical – Week of 12.21.08
Israel Strikes Demolish Hamas Compounds, Kill 192
Truthout (27 Dec 2008)Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source in 2008
PewResearchCenter (23 Dec 08)CIA Using Viagra to Bribe Afghan Warlords
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2008: Looking Back
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The Solari Report – 26 Dec 2008
The global financial bubble burst in 2008 — and that’s a good thing. It means that the bubble economy will …
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Life – Week of 12.21.08
Electric Drag Racing
Oregon Public BroadcastingNo Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’
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Mortgage Markets – Week of 12.21.08
Home Foreclosures and Taxes
kiplinger.com (18 Dec 2008)New Rules on Home-Sale Profits
kiplinger.com (17 Dec 2008)New Tax Breaks for Homeowners
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Precious Metals – Week Of 12.21.08
Venezuela to Seize Gold Concessions as Oil Falls
Yahoo Finance (27 Dec 2008)Positive Carry
Kitco.com (09 Dec 2008)GoldDrivers 2009 – Extraordinary Bullish Outlook for Gold
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In Hoc Anno Domini
Vermont Royster’s Christmas message of 1949 has been republished by the Wall Street Journal every Christmas since. As I can not think of a more beautiful way to celebrate the birth and life of Christ…
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Food & Health – Week Of 12.21.08
Dam Breach in Tennessee Releases Tsunami of Toxic Coal Sludge
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Food & Health – Week Of 12.21.08
Dam Breach in Tennessee Releases Tsunami of Toxic Coal Sludge
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This Week’s Solari Report: Traditional Portfolio Strategy
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The Solari Report – 18 Dec 2008
It is difficult for me to express …
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Quote du Jour
What we’re witnessing isn’t finance or investment as usual. We’re watching a shift to a managed economic structure, where government officials determine who will live and who will die. It’s a shift fr…
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Look Out Below?
The U.S. Dollar just took a nose dive….
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Monsanto's Destruction of Seed Cleaners
Monsanto’s Destruction of Seed Cleaners and the Immense Threat to Human Access to Seeds
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Monsanto’s Destruction of Seed Cleaners
Monsanto’s Destruction of Seed Cleaners and the Immense Threat to Human Access to Seeds
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Would You Invest With Someone Named "Made-Off?"
Bernie Madoff on the Modern Stock Market
YouTubeI have started and managed several small businesses. It is hard to run one set of books for a small business. There are other people involved — not…
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Would You Invest With Someone Named “Made-Off?”
Bernie Madoff on the Modern Stock Market
I have started and managed several small businesses. It is hard to run one set of books for a small business. There are other people involved — not just the…
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Money & Markets – Week of 12.14.08
UAW Busting, Southern Style
Truthout (18 Dec 2008)Obama Names Insider to Commodities Post
The New York Times (18 Dec 2008Toronto Stock Exchange Suffers Daylong Trading Halt (Update3)
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Money & Markets – Week of 12.14.08
UAW Busting, Southern Style
Truthout (18 Dec 2008)Obama Names Insider to Commodities Post
The New York Times (18 Dec 2008Toronto Stock Exchange Suffers Daylong Trading Halt (Update3)
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Geopolitical – Week of 12.14.08
US Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare, FM3-05.130
wikileaks.orgJesse Ventura: CIA Embedded in Every State Government
Grand Jury Probes Richardson Donor’s New Mexico Financing F…
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Precious Metals – Week of 12.14.08
People Used to Buy Certificates — Now They Want Physical Gold
GATA / Reuters (17 Dec 2008)More on Gold Backwardation
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Food & Health – Week of 12.14.08
FDA Stuns Scientists, Declares Mercury in Fish to be Safe for Infants, Children, Expectant Mothers!
Natural News (17 Dec 2008)Horrifying New Disease Contains Identical Material to GM “Food”
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Food & Health – Week of 12.14.08
FDA Stuns Scientists, Declares Mercury in Fish to be Safe for Infants, Children, Expectant Mothers!
Natural News (17 Dec 2008)Horrifying New Disease Contains Identical Material to GM “Food”
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Life – Week Of 12.14.08
A Giant Breach in Earth’s Magnetic Field
NASA (16 Dec 2008)World’s First Refrigerated Beach To Be Built Next To Luxury Hotel In Dubai
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Bloomberg v. The Fed
I have been searching for updates on Bloomberg’s lawsuit seeking disclosure of collateral held by the Fed in exchange for a trillion plus in loans. Kudo’s to Bloomberg’s Mark Pittman for his coverage …
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The Solari Report: Dec. 11 Resources
In our December 11 Solari Report, we discussed several of these resources:
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein’s outstanding book explaining the intentional use of violence and torture as part of the ec… -
Quotes du Jour
In the 1930s, it was not obvious to people living through debt deflation that their world was coming apart. The crisis came in pulses, each followed by months of apparent normality – like today. The…
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Slow Burn or Crash?
One of the most important financial questions on my mind these days is “What is the end game for the ‘strong dollar policy’?”
As members of the economics team who engineered this policy in the mid-…
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Firefighters and Sheriffs v. Bob Rubin et. al.
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 the New World Order bankrupting your local c…
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Quote du Jour
“Why does Goldman Sachs run your government? What’s wrong with America is that it’s run by investment bankers, mostly from the same bank. How can Americans stand for it? Is Barack Obama from Goldman…
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Bank of America to Politicians: Your Deposits or Else!
So the Governor of Illinois decides to pull the plug on Bank of America:
Illinois Governor Cuts off Bank of America After Chicago Factory-Worker Sit-In
And look what happens:
Illinois Governor Ar…
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Money & Markets – Week of 12.07.08
‘Broken Strategy’: The Fall of Legendary Investor Bill Miller
Yahoo Finance (11 Dec 2008)Swiss May Have to Print Money to Stave Off Deflation
GATA / The Telegraph (11 Dec 2008)Is the Fed Taking th…
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Money & Markets – Week of 12.07.08
‘Broken Strategy’: The Fall of Legendary Investor Bill Miller
Yahoo Finance (11 Dec 2008)Swiss May Have to Print Money to Stave Off Deflation
GATA / The Telegraph (11 Dec 2008)Is the Fed Taking th…
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Precious Metals – Week of 12.07.08
Backwardation: Facts From Fiction
Goldseek.com (08 Dec 2008)Fear Triggers Gold Shortage, Drives Treasury Yields Below Zero
gata.org (10 Dec 2008)Commodity Crash Tests Faith in Supercycle
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Geopolitical – Week of 12.07.08
The Case for Fraud: All-American Business Enterprise
It’s My Take (21 Nov 2008)The Case for Fraud: Our “Prison Industry”
It’s My Take (26 Nov 2008)The Case for Fraud: “HUD is a Sewer”
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Food & Health – Week of 12.07.08
Urban Farming Food Chain
urbanfarming.orgThe Famine Of 2009
silverbearcafe.comLast Minute Rulemaking by Bush USDA Threatens Organic Farmers
MarketWatch (03 Dec 2008)Swat Team Conducts Food Raid …
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Food & Health – Week of 12.07.08
Urban Farming Food Chain
urbanfarming.orgThe Famine Of 2009
silverbearcafe.comLast Minute Rulemaking by Bush USDA Threatens Organic Farmers
MarketWatch (03 Dec 2008)Swat Team Conducts Food Raid …
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Life – Week of 12.07.08
In Lean Times, SoCal Residents Trade Guns For Food
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The Solari Report: Dec. 11
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The Solari Report – 11 Dec 2008
As I mentioned in an e-mail to the Solari network, I’ve been struck by the questions I’m getting from friends,…
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Critical Issues Not Addressed in the Bailout
On December 2, the US Congress’ investigative arm — the GAO — criticized the Treasury Department’s handling of the $700 billion bailout program:
Read the story on truthout.org
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We Ask Your Prayers
This photograph shows me being sworn in as Assistant Secretary of Housing by Jack Kemp in 1989. My dear friend, Georgie LaRue, is holding the Bible.
Today, I am sitting with Georgie in Pennyslvania…
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Money & Markets – Week of 11.30.08
‘Ponzi Scheme’ at Citi: Suit Slams Rubin
NY Post (4 Dec 2008)ECB Cuts Rates to 2.5% and Mulls ‘Printing Money’
GATA / The Telegraph (4 Dec 2008)China Urges U.S. to Counter Crisis, Prepares for ‘…
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Money & Markets – Week of 11.30.08
‘Ponzi Scheme’ at Citi: Suit Slams Rubin
NY Post (4 Dec 2008)ECB Cuts Rates to 2.5% and Mulls ‘Printing Money’
GATA / The Telegraph (4 Dec 2008)China Urges U.S. to Counter Crisis, Prepares for ‘…
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Give Mint Oil for Xmas
I just got my box of mint oil drams from Crosby Mint Farm. It is excellent. In fact, I sent the planned presents out to the Solari team, so I am out and ordering more today. These make great presents …
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Geopolitical – Week of 11.30.08
Darwinian Struggle To Find Ticket Out Of Thailand
Scoop Independent News (1 Dec 2008)F2C: Freedom to Connect 2009
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