Author: Mark Gilmore
Who’s Your Foodbank?
Claims for Emergency Unemployment Compensation increased by 265,300 in one week to an all time record of 3,859,553 for the week ending November 14.
If you can give money or volunteer time, I encour…
Who's Your Foodbank?
Claims for Emergency Unemployment Compensation increased by 265,300 in one week to an all time record of 3,859,553 for the week ending November 14.
If you can give money or volunteer time, I encour…
Truth or Consequences
How To Tell The Truth and Stay Alive ~ Catherine’s 12 Points (pdf)
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The Solari Report – 03 Dec 2009
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Money & Markets ~ Charts 12.03.09
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, December 3, 2009.
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Money & Markets ~ Charts 12.03.09
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, December 3, 2009.
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Health Care: Of Lives And Principle
By Sam Smith
The pending health care legislation is as corrupt, cynical and contemptuous of simple decency as any bill I’ve seen in over a half century of covering national politics. Which still le…
Competitive Devaluations Threaten a Trade War
By Michael Pettis
Vietnam’s decision to devalue its currency by 5 per cent last week to protect itself from undervaluation of the Chinese renminbi, and the worried response from Thailand and othe…
Questions about Larry Summers & Harvard Endowment
Derivatives have many purposes. One is to quietly launder the profits out of one place into another without the niceties of legal authorizations and documents. Everything is hidden behind the pricing …
Questions about Larry Summers & Harvard Endowment
Derivatives have many purposes. One is to quietly launder the profits out of one place into another without the niceties of legal authorizations and documents. Everything is hidden behind the pricing …
WTO Demands Emerging Nations Permit Derivatives
by Greg Palast
On 10th Anniversary of the Battle in Seattle Bankers’ scheme to re-open finance casino worldwide. Apparently, one meltdown isn’t enough for the World Trade Organization. They meet to…
Oh, Really?
“It wasn’t scary at all.”
Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn on the plunge in Goldman’s stock price from $207.78 in February to $47.41 in November 2008 as reported in the latest Vanity Fair.
Catherine on “Pieces of the Puzzle” Radio in Memphis
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Catherine on "Pieces of the Puzzle" Radio in Memphis
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Preparing for the Worst
The levels of government debt have reached the point where even mainstream banks are encouraging investors to consider the “collapse scenario” in their strategies.
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Barron’s 25 Best Givers
By Suzanne McGee
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers.
The name of the game in philanthropy this year is to make your dollars g…
Barron's 25 Best Givers
By Suzanne McGee
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers.
The name of the game in philanthropy this year is to make your dollars g…
Bloomberg Reporter Who Sued Fed Dies at 52
By Bob Ivry
Mark Pittman, the award-winning reporter whose fight to make the Federal Reserve more accountable to taxpayers led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died Nov. 25 in Yonker…
Goldman Sachs – Going Long Lead?
Commentary by Alice Schroeder
I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to t…
Duopoly
Max Keiser has me using a new word—duopoly. It is a word worth learning and a phenomenon worth considering as we look around the landscape.
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America’s Most Charitable Cities
By: Wanda Lau
Cities take on different faces during the holiday season–some are the spitting image of Scrooge, others look like Santa. Which one your town resembles has nothing to do with Styrofoa…
America's Most Charitable Cities
By: Wanda Lau
Cities take on different faces during the holiday season–some are the spitting image of Scrooge, others look like Santa. Which one your town resembles has nothing to do with Styrofoa…
The Great Depression of the 14th Century
“The Triumph of Death”
by Murray N. Rothbard
Most people — historians not excepted — are tempted to think of economic and cultural progress as being continuous: in every century people are bett…
China, Gold, and the Civilization Shift
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Stephen Jen from the hedge fund Blue Gold Capital has a warning for those who think that gold has risen far too high, is necessarily in a speculative bubble, and must soo…
AIG & Greenburg Drama Continues with Mega Settlement
American International Group, Inc. (AIG), its former Chairman Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg, its former Chief Financial Officer Howard I. Smith, C.V. Starr & Company, Inc. (“C.V. Starr”), …
Connecticut to Sue Rating Firms
By Caroline Salas and Matthew Leising
Connecticut plans to join Ohio in suing credit-rating companies for “negligent, reckless and incompetent work” in grading debt purchased by state pension f…
Brother, Can You Spare an American Buffalo?
Author: Dorothy Kosich
Unprecedented demand, a shortage of blanks, and restrictive policies and regulations continue to exacerbate what is almost becoming a chronic shortage of gold and silver coins…
Please Support Your Local Foodbank!
By Sophia Tareen
Prentice Jones worked construction jobs around Chicago for most of his 60 years and is quick to boast of a foreman job he once held at a revamped city college and 23 years at a ste…
Americans Are More Broke, And More Desperate For Deals
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State Individual Income Tax Rates – 2009
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Short Selling American Lives
By Anne Seith
Two Deutsche Bank funds were designed to profit from premature deaths in the US by buying up life insurance policies. But investors have seen precious little return on their investmen…
AIG in Kentucky
By Yasha levine
Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.
What are we getting in return for the bailout? So far, p…
Judge Spinner, You Rock!
By Kieran Crowley, Rich Wilner and Dan Mangan
A Long Island couple is home free after an outraged judge gave them an amazing Thanksgiving present — canceling their debt to ruthless bankers trying …
Paulson Likes Gold
By Joshua M Brown
Continue reading John Paulson Likes Gold…More Than a Friend
Quote du Jour
Whoever controls space, therefore, will control the world’s oceans. Whoever controls the oceans will control the patterns of global commerce. Whoever controls the patterns of global commerce will b…
WikiLeaks Leaks 9/11 Pager Intercepts
WikiLeaks releases 573.000 pager intercepts from 9/11 2001.
From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks will release over half a million US …
Money & Markets – Week of 11.29.09
Matt Weinstein, Playfair Inc.
Depressed Americans Quit The Labor Force
The Business Insider (04 Dec 09)
Israel’s Fischer Says World Must Accept A Weaker US Dollar
Reuters (03 Dec 09)
Warning on …
Precious Metals – Week of 11.29.09
Trader Dan Discusses What You Need To Know About The Gold/Bond Ratio
MineSet (02 Dec 09)
S&P Launches Gold-Hedged Index To Protect Against Dollar Risk
The Wall Street Journal (03 Dec 09) [Must subsc…
Mortgage Markets – Week of 11.29.09
Anatomy of a Government-Abetted Fraud: Why Indymac/OneWest Always Forecloses
IamFacingForeclosure.com
Geopolitical – Week of 11.29.09
House Bill Extends Current Estate Tax
The Wall Street Journal (04 Dec 09)
Siegelman: Justice Department Hasn’t Changed Under Obama
Legal Schnauzer (01 Dec 09)
Queen Flexes Muscle to Demand Copenhage…
Technology – Week of 11.29.09
Comcast-NBC Deal Faces Regulatory Hurdles
Reuters (03 Dec 09)
Lawsuit Demands Answers About Social-Networking Surveillance
EFF.org (01 Dec 09)
Uh, oh – Raw Data in New Zealand Tells a Different St…
Life – Week of 11.29.09
4 Urgent Home Fixes Before You Retire
Yahoo Finance (04 Dec 09)
Taking The Private Jet to Copenhagen(Glittering Eco-credentials)
TimesOnline (29 Nov 09)
Child Abuse: Test Pests Going After 3-4 Year…
Food & Health – Week of 11.29.09
After Delays, Vaccine to Counter Bad Beef Is Being Tested
The New York Times (03 Dec 09)
Novavax: A Risky But Potentially Lucrative Vaccine Play
DailyFinance (02 Dec 09)
Ukraine Economic Catastroph…
Dubai Financial Crisis
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg)—Dubai’s debt woes may worsen to become a “major sovereign default” that roils developing nations and cuts off capital flows to emerging markets, Bank of America Corp. sai…
Dark Side of the Internet
Nov. 26 (Guardian-UK) Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science. For his thesis pro…
The Value of Leadership
One of the many blessings of living in Hickory Valley, Tennessee is that I know, respect and like my Mayor and the members of my Town Council.
The Council meets monthly and reviews and pay the bills …
Katherine Jenkins – I Believe
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Negative Equity Mortgages
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More Independent Than Ever
By David M. Halbfinger
The Lou Dobbs-for-Senate rumor had barely crested when the Lou Dobbs-for-president rumor suddenly overtook it this week.
Mr. Dobbs, the former cable television anchor of the…
Facebook Creates Dual-Class Stock Structure
By Brian Womack
Facebook Inc., the world’s biggest social-networking site, introduced a dual-class stock structure to let current shareholders hold onto voting control.
The decision shouldn’t …
EU President Promises EU Tax to Bilderbergers
By Bruno Waterfield, Justin Stares and Colin Freeman
Within days of taking office in January, the former Belgian prime minister will put his weight behind controversial proposals already floated by t…
Iran: Will Sanctions Work?
By George Friedman
The Iranian government has rejected, at least for the moment, a proposal from the P-5+1 to ship the majority of its low-enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment. The group …
Climategate: Dr. Tim Ball on The Hacked CRU Emails
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A Solari Report – Canadian Banking
Overview
Canadian banks, trust companies, loan companies, credit unions, deposit-taking insurance companies, pension funds and retail associations are regulated and examined for safety and soundnes…
Victory For Private PA Food Buying Club
Magisterial District Judge Jene Willwreth today dismissed both charges brought by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture against C.A.R.E. member Jan Haller in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. Before cros…
US Commercial Banks: The Turkeys Are Stuffed
by Jesse
The increase in the monetary base created by the Fed’s monetization of debt is striking, not seen since the early stages of the Great Depression.
Banks are not lending despite the massive…
On the "Government Version"
“It only seems controversial because there is a such a glaring difference of opinion between those who believe the government’s version of events and those who have actually studied the case.”
– Jim …
Putting the Gold Market in Perspective
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France Finds Monsanto Guilty
Posted By Dr. John Mercola
France’s highest court has ruled that U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto had not told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The court confirme…
"Missouri Billboard"
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Will California Become a Federal Territory?
by John Myers
A new report estimates that California officials will face a budget gap of nearly $21 billion over the next year and a half.
Not only is there no light at the end of the tunnel of Cali…
Money & Markets – Week of 11.22.09
‘One Worker, One Vote:’US Steelworkers to Experiment with Factory Ownership, Mondragon Style
Solidarity Economy (27 Oct 09)
Washington Post to Close Three Regional Bureaux
BBC News (25 Nov 09)
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Precious Metals – Week of 11.22.09
US Mint to Suspend American Eagle Gold 1-oz Coins
Reuters (25 Nov 09)
Gold and Newton’s First Law of Motion
Financial sense Observations (25 Nov 09)
IMF Sells 10 Tonnes of Gold to Sri Lanka
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Geopolitical – Week of 11.22.09
Green World Government
The Washington Times (27 Nov 09)
Obama Says Will “Finish The Job” in Afghanistan
Reuters (25 Nov 09)
Obama to Offer 17% Emissions-Cut Goal in Copenhagen
Bloomberg.com (25 Nov …
Mortgage Markets – Week of 11.22.09
Wall St. Finds Profits by Reducing Mortgages
The New York Times (21 Nov 09)
World’s Most Expensive Homes
Yahoo Finance (22 Nov 09)
FHA-Backed Lending Is a ‘Train Wreck,’ Toll Says
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Life – Week of 11.22.09
Oprah’s Departure Presents Problem For TV Stations
Yahoo Finance (20 Nov 09)
Food & Health – Week of 11.22.09
Superstar CBS Reporter Blows the Lid Off the Swine Flu Media Hype and Hysteria
Mercola.com (24 Nov 09)
GlaxoSmithKline Pulls Swine Flu Vaccines in Canada
Forbes (24 Nov 09)
Fat Of Up To 60 Bodies Us…
Europe Chooses a President
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Stratfor (20 Nov 09)
More than eight years after the idea was first mooted, Europe has finally got a President. Leaders of the 27 members of the European…
SixthSense Technology
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YouTube (18 Nov 09)
Catherine Austin Fitts on Alex Jones
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Quote du Jour
Let us guard against inhumans, but let us guard even more against becoming inhuman ourselves.
~ Patriarch Pavle
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The Paul-Grayson Amendment Passes
Paul-Grayson “Audit The Fed” Bill Passes Financial Services Committee
Fire Dog Lake (18 Nov 09)
The Paul-Grayson Amendment
Lew Rockwell.com (19 Nov 09)
Showdown: Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Take On …
Family Wealth
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The Solari Report – 19 Nov 2009
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Money & Markets ~ Charts 11.19.09
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, November 19, 2009.
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The Darker Profits from Unemployment
Hi Catherine:
This article and video have been going around on Facebook, and after reading about it I was very disturbed.
I’m wondering what your take on it is beyond the obvious and if you have any…
Goldman, God & the Great Vampire Squid
Goldman Sachs has a political problem and the tension is rising daily as the housing market continues to swoon and unemployment grows.
Goldman’s business model is simple.
The investment bank uses t…
Paulson To Invest $250m In New Gold Fund
By James Quinn
Mr Paulson, best known for making $3.7bn from bets on the collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market, is believed to have told investors that the new fund, to be run by Paulson &am…
"Space War"
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Chart of The Day: An Inflation Warning Sign
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Changing The World With Wireless Broadband
The Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI) exists to advance economic opportunity for the wireless broadband industry worldwide. WCAI is a technology-neutral trade association that…
Letter to the Editors of The Wall Street Journal
November 14, 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Your editorial “The FHA’s Bailout Warning” states that the deterioration in The Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) financial position “is the result of th…
Insiders & Outsiders: Financial Class Society
By Vivien Lou Chen and Sandrine Rastello
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said the central bank could curtail the risk of future liquidity crises by providing a “backstop…
Authoring Legislation
“We were approached by the lobbyist, who asked if we would be willing to enter a statement in the Congressional Record. I asked him for a draft. I tweaked a couple of words. There’s not much reason …
Reality? What A Read!
I enjoy reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s work.
Ehrenreich seeks reality. She goes to great lengths to personally experience the phenomenon about which she writes. She combines intimate effort with the …
Goldman's $ Has No Smell
By Geraldine Fabrikant
The latest tax filing for Goldman Sachs’s foundation is as thick as a phone book. The list of trades is more than 200 pages, single spaced. Goldman, it seems, invests like …
USDA Declares Half of Midwest as Agricultural Disaster Area
By Eric deCarbonnel
The graphic below shows counties designated as disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Big Medicare Cuts Coming
Report: Reform would cut senior healthcare.
They simply want to steal $500 Billion of “entitlements”(already paid for) health care for the elderly.
More than $500 billion in cuts from Medicare spen…
Till Death Do Us Part?
By Carrie A. Moore
Women diagnosed with cancer or multiple sclerosis are over six times more likely to be divorced than men with the same diagnosis, according to a new study co-authored by a former…
ETF Investors Are Still Fleeing U.S. Stocks
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Super-rich Seen Buying Gold, Selling Hedge Funds
By Steve Lodge
The investment preferences of the world’s wealthiest families have shifted significantly in favour of gold and other commodities and away from hedge funds in the wake of the financ…
The Geography of a Depression
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Money & Markets – Week of 11.15.09
Stocks Plunge as Treasury Three-Month Bill Yields Turn Negative
Bloomberg.com (19 Nov 09)
Wells Fargo to Pay $1.4 Billion in Auction-Rate Securities Settlement
Law.com (19 Nov 09)
Geithner Blames C…
Precious Metals – Week of 11.15.09
U.K. Royal Mint Quadruples Production of Gold Coins (Update2)
Bloomberg.com (19 Nov 09)
Mauritius Buys IMF Gold, Follows India as Metal Soars (Update4)
Bloomberg.com (17 Nov 09)
Waiting For The Tr…
Mortgage Markets – Week of 11.15.09
Chicago Judge Lambastes Sidley Lawyers Over Brief
Law.com (11 Nov 09)
Latest Foreclosure Activity Report Presents Conflicting Perspectives
Zero Hedge (12 Nov 09)
Geopolitical – Week of 11.15.09
DynCorp Says It May Have Broken U.S. Law
The Wall Street Journal (19 Nov 09)
Karzai Sworn In As Afghan Leader; Vows To Fight Graft
Reuters (19 Nov 09)
His & Her Benefits: Getting Ex’s Social Securi…
Technology – Week of 11.15.09
Intel Agrees to Pay AMD $1.25 Billion in Sudden Settlement
Law.com (13 Nov 09)
A Fresh Way to Take The Salt Out of Seawater
The Economist (29 Oct 09)
Life – Week of 11.15.09
Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives
The New York Times (15 Nov 09)
India Rain A Harvest of Water
National Geographic (Nov 2009)
Food & Health – Week of 11.15.09
Crimes And Abuses Of The Pharmaceutical Industry (pdf)
Sister Teresa Forcades I Vila, PhD
49 mn Americans Food Insecure
Market Skeptics (19 Nov 09)
Air Force Adds Kids to Pentagon’s Mandatory H1N1 V…
Quote du Jour
“Do the kinds of things that come from the heart.
When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you
won’t be longing for somebody else’s things.
On the contrary, you’ll be …
Reviving Local Economies: Set Up Your Own Silver Exchange
By Franklin Sanders
~ Franklin Sanders has graciously agreed to allow us to post his article which originally appeared in the October 14, 2009 issue of The Moneychanger newsletter.
After I spoke in…
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The Solari Report – 12 Nov 2009
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It’s the second week of the month. That means I am headed over to see …