The Truth About the Health Care Bills
By Michael Connelly
Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area…
45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul
By Terry Jones
Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices…
Weston Price Foundation & Food-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
I just renewed my annual memberships in the Weston Price Foundation and the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund with additional donations.
I expect my donations to meet the same performance stand…
How Many Unexplained Deaths Will We Tolerate?
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Rockefeller & Co. CEO Dies From Gunshot Wound
By Charles Stein
James McDonald, chief executive officer of New York investment firm Rockefeller & Co., died Sunday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Bristol Count…
Financier Finn Casperson Dead in "Apparent" Suicide
By Kim LaCapria
Ex-CEO of Beneficial Corp. Finn H.W. Casperson was found dead in an apparent suicide behind an office building in Westerly, Rhode Island.
Casperson, 67, was discovered dead of what…
Blagojevich Fundraiser Found Dead
By Jesse Solomon and Justin Lear
Police are investigating the death of the former chief fundraiser for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich as a “death-suicide,” an Illinois mayor said Sunday.
Financi…
Newport Beach Financier Danny Pang Dies at 42
By Ruben Vives and Louis Sahagun
Newport Beach financier Danny Pang died early Saturday at a local hospital, according to the Orange County coroner’s office. The cause of death has not been deter…
The Kitchen Garden
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Kirby and Kaiser on Derivatives
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How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
By Ryan Grim
The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of…
Does the EU Club Have a Future?
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Broadly speaking, the world is run at the outset of the 21st Century by the United States and China together in uneasy condominium. This is the surprising reality of our er…
U.S. Dollar Index
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By Jesse
The weekly chart on the U.S. Dollar Index has rather awful technicals, as it has dropped to a recent low, and set the ‘iron cross’ in the moving averages that is generall…
Jewels of The Galaxies!
By Hubble space telescope
By David Derbyshire
These stunning images – taken by the rejuvenated Hubble space telescope – have captured the jewel-bright colours of colliding galaxies, exploding s…
Fannie Mae Legal Expenses
By Brian Baxter
Recent disclosures from the Federal Housing Finance Agency reveal that lawyers representing former Fannie Mae executives Franklin Raines, J. Timothy Howard and Leanne Spencer have r…
Can a Farm State Feed Itself?
by: Brooke Jarvis
Illinois, home to 76,000 farms and more than 950 food manufacturing companies, is a solidly agricultural state in the heart of America’s bread basket. Fully 80 percent of it is …
Davos Meets In China
Business and government officials met in China to continue discussions on centralizing control and management of the global economy.
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Money & Markets – Week of 9.13.09
SEC Proposes Ban on Allowing Stock Flash Orders (Update1)
Bloomberg.com (18 Sept 09)
Cap-and-Trade Memos Fire Up The Skeptics
The Washington Post (17 Sept 09)
Iraq’s Missing Billions
Top Document…
Precious Metals – Week of 9.13.09
Will This Gold Rush Continue?
Seeking Alpha (11 Sept 09)
Geopolitical – Week of 9.13.09
AP NewsBreak: Nuke Agency Says Iran Can Make Bomb
Breitbart (17 Sept 09)
Japan Urges Talks on US Military Base
Financial Times (17 Sept 09)
‘Merkel Factor’ Could Decide German Vote
BBC News (17 Sep…
Food & Health – Week of 9.13.09
‘Safe’ Lead Levels Harm Children
BBC News (16 Sept 09)
Why Millions of Americans Don’t Need a Swine Flu Vaccine
Natural News.com (16 Sept 09)
Chickens Not Fooled by GM Crops
Mercola.com (05 Sept 0…
Catherine Goes to North Dakota
If you are in Fargo, North Dakota this weekend, I hope you will join us! This is a free event to promote sound money, free markets, and to encourage a return to fiscal responsibility among people …
US and China Plan to 'Take Over' Cleantech Market
By Jonathan Watts
Under the plan, money would be used to expand China’s solar, wind, carbon capture and smart-grid markets. Photograph: Graham Turner
A joint US-China plan to “take over the world”…
Surviving the Depression & Reviving Local Economies!
Franklin Sanders has a speaking engagement in Columbia, South Carolina, September 21, 2009.
Franklin is a long-time member of the League of the South Board of Directors, a delegate to the Southern …
Love a local business? Buy a share
By Helaine Olen
John Halko was halfway through renovating an expanded space for Comfort, his mostly organic eatery in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., when the credit crisis hit. His source of funding — a …
Precious Metals Market Report
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The Solari Report – 10 Sept 2009
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This is the second week of the month. That means I am headed over to…
Money & Markets ~ Charts 9.10.09
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, September 10, 2009.
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The S&P 500 PE Ratio Peaks at Record Highs
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The Big Picture (21 Aug 09)
America: Arms Dealer to The Stars!
By Mark Morford
So far ahead in weapons sales to the world are we, it’s not even a contest. We own the game. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, while overall weapons sales…
Poverty and Income
By Avi Feller and Chad Stone
Two-thirds of the nation’s total income gains from 2002 to 2007 flowed to the top 1 percent of U.S. households, and that top 1 percent held a larger share of income i…
Consumer Credit Shrinks
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The Amazing US Manufacturing Worker
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UN Calls for New Global Currency
By Jonathan Tirone
The dollar’s role in international trade should be reduced by establishing a new currency to protect emerging markets from the “confidence game” of financial speculation, t…
Game Over: Barrick Dilutes by $3 Billion to Buy Back Gold Hedges
By Cameron French
Barrick Gold (ABX.TO) will issue $3 billion in stock to eliminate all of its fixed-price gold hedges and a portion of its floating hedges, taking a $5.6 billion hit to third-quart…
China to Issue Renminbi Bonds to Offshore Investors
By Robert Cookson in Hong Kong
China will issue sovereign bonds denominated in its own currency to offshore investors for the first time this month – a crucial step towards making the renminbi a …
Swiss Topple U.S. as Most Competitive Economy
By Sven Egenter
Switzerland knocked the United States off the position as the world’s most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking system left it more exposed to some long-standing wea…
China Derivative Deals in Doubt
By James T. Areddy
China’s government on Monday offered public encouragement to state-owned companies challenging foreign banks over huge losses from derivative contracts, a move that bankers say h…
Quote du Jour
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
~ E.B. White
IBM: Planning on an Epidemic
By Don Nicoloff
It would appear IBM in 2006 was planning for a global epidemic sometime before 2011.
Continue reading IBM: Planning on an Epidemic
Google Loses Another Ruling
The US Court of Appeals in the Second Circuit has ruled against Google. Google was offering competitors trademarked names to advertisers as a search term so the advertisers’ ads appeared when searc…
China, Bernanke, and the Price of Gold
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
China has issued what amounts to the “Beijing Put” on gold. You can make a lot of money, but you really can’t lose.
I happened to see quite a bit of Cheng Siwei at …
Goldman Sachs Wives Hate To Wait
[How did we miss this one from last month?]
Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein has warned his employees to avoid high-profile spending, as The Post reported — but his wife evidently didn’t get the…
Food Stamp Numbers Climb
by Roberta Rampton and Chuck Abbott
More than 35 million Americans received food stamps in June, up 22 percent from June 2008 and a new record as the country continued to grapple with the worst rec…
Hatoyama's Currency Views
The head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Yukio Hatoyama, who will be named Prime Minister on Sep. 14 in the wake of his party having swept the Parliamentary elections on Aug. 30, is a followe…
Dr. Hulda Clark
Dr. Hulda Clark passed away peacefully in her sleep September 3, 2009.
A website is being setup in memory of Dr. Clark where people may leave their thoughts and experiences to share with all.
Further…
Start Dancing
“For there to be a world at all, every indigenous, original, natural thing must start singing its song, dancing its dance, moving and breathing, each according to its own nature. When any of these …
Money & Markets – Week of 9.06.09
Business Lobby Urges Pension Freeze
Reuters.uk (11 Sept 09)
European Commission Sees Galloping UK Debt Crisis
Telegraph.co.uk(10 Sept 09)
As the Markets Climb on Top of One Big, Incestuous Pool of …
Precious Metals – Week of 9.06.09
Gold Rally Signals Move Away From Currencies, Greenspan Says
Bloomberg.com (10 Sept 09)
Mortgage Markets – Week of 9.06.09
CIC Looks to Pile Cash Into U.S. Real Estate
The Wall Street Journal (09 Sept 09)
Loan Losses Spark Concern Over FHA
The Wall Street Journal (04 Sept 09)
Geopolitical – Week of 9.06.09
Obama’s Big Political Gamble
The Wall Street Journal (10 Sept 09)
Curry Power Wins The Day
Straits Times (09 Sept 09)
Bigger and Badder Than Blackwater
Border Lines (25 Aug 09)
Putin Denies Secret…
Technology – Week of 9.06.09
Report: Microsoft Rivals Near Linux Patent Deal
Business Journal (08 Sept 09)
Hartford Courant Competitors Seethe Over Web Site
ABC News (04 sept 09)
Life – Week of 9.06.09
Children Face Cycling Bans Over Schools’ Safety Concerns
Guardian.co.uk (08 Sept 09)
Beer Better Option Than Pesticide to Kill Rats
Top News.in (03 June 09)
Fall Colors Fade in U.S. West as Aspen T…
Food & Health – Week of 9.06.09
US Families Turn to Food Stamps as Wages Drop
Financial Times (10 Sept 09) [Must subscribe to read full article.]
Global Starvation Imminent as US Faces Crop Failure
Sott.net (09 Sept 09)
Comparativ…
Happy Labor Day
Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man…
Mars Landscapes
What would you see if you could fly over Mars in a plane and look out the window?
It must be something like the thousands of curious, intriguing and spectacular images taken by the High Resolution …
China Starts Journey to New Reserve Currency
China began the long journey to a new international reserve currency with a single step – agreeing to buy $50 billion in notes from the International Monetary Fund.
Another proverb, less distinguis…
Going to a High School Football Game Friday Night
“Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It’s not about winning. It’s about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to lo…
The Southern National Covenant
Our forefathers’ worst nightmare has now come upon us. They created a free government, limited in its powers and a servant to the people. But today the United States has become an empire, fast decay…
13 More Things That Don't Make Sense
The fusion of two distinct evolutionary lines is not supposed to work – but the seas are teeming with chimeras that prove it can.
Strive as we might to make sense of the world, there are mysterie…
Hong Kong Recalls Gold Reserves
By Chris Oliver
Hong Kong is pulling all its physical gold holdings from depositories in London, transferring them to a high-security depository newly built at the city’s airport, in a move that wo…
Investors Rush Into Gold ETFs
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G-20 London Meeting
By Matt Falloon
Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 developed and developing economies meet in London this week to assess how far the world economy and banking system is recove…
Swine Flu Doubleheader
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Notes from Dr. Laura Thompson’s Interview
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Money & Markets ~ Charts 9.03.09
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, September 3, 2009.
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"Farewell America"
Here is an update on last week’s blog post:
Oldest Swiss Bank Advises Clients to Pull Out of US Securities
Here is the full investment commentary from the bank:
Wegelin & Co. Investment Comme…
Something Brewing in Systemic Solvency Crisis?
By John Williams
Revived Crisis Brewing? A confluence of signals has aroused my gut instincts of an intensifying systemic liquidity crisis, and possible pending reaction by the Federal Reserve and/or…
SASAC Clarifies Statement on Derivatives Contracts
The report that the State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) would allow Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to default on derivative deals was misinterpreted, Reuters repor…
U.S. Debt Clock
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Martial Law via Swine Flu
By Chelsea Schilling
Pandemic bill allows health authorities to enter homes, detain without warrant.
…the following states have implemented legal actions in response to the H1N1 virus:
Florida …
Bond Vigilantes Fret Over Japan
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Japans’s tax revenues have collapsed by 27pc over the last year, leaving it unclear how the incoming Democrats can pay for their blitz on welfare spending without floodin…
Beijing's Derivative Stance Rattles Banks
By Eadie Chen and Chen Aizhu
A report that Chinese state-owned companies will be allowed to walk away from loss-making commodity derivative trades provoked anger and dismay among investment bankers …
China Eyes Ban on Rare Metal Exports
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Beijing is drawing up plans to prohibit or restrict exports of rare earth metals that are produced only in China and play a vital role in cutting edge technology, from hybr…
Real Unemployment Rate = 16%
The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would like are counted, a Federal Reserve official said Wednesday.
“If…
What's Up in Pakistan?
Undercover armed Americans are swarming the Pakistani capital in the latest sign that the elected government has allowed Washington to dispatch what is believed to be a large number of American specia…
Quote du Jour
“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.”
~Thomas Jefferson
Washington Times Poll as of September 1st, 3pm ET
Are you planning to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus (also known as swine flu) this fall?
Response Percent Votes
Yes 23% 495…
Japan – An Historic Shift in Power
By Linda Sieg
Japan’s next leader Yukio Hatoyama, fresh from a historic election win, faced the task on Monday of forming a government to tackle challenges such as reviving the economy and steering…
China May Terminate Derivative Contracts
Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) may unilaterally terminate derivative contracts with six foreign banks that provide over-the-counter commodity hedging services, a leading financial magazine s…
Cell Towers Harming Honey Bees
The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers and cellphones can pose a threat to honey bees, a study published in India has concluded.
An experiment conducted in the southern state of…
Still a Widespread Recession in July
Here is a map of the three month change in the Philly Fed state coincident indicators. Forty six states are showing declining three month activity.
This is what a widespread recession looks like base…
Lowering Construction Costs
In thinking about economic reform, if you want to contemplate construction techniques outside of “the matrix,” read about the Coral Castle and Nan Madol.
Sibel Edmonds Deposition
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
~ Sir John Harrington
Continue reading Sibel Edmonds Deposition: Deep Corruption Beneath the Surface
Stock Market Concentration
by Lauren Schenkman
A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world’s finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This…
Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet
by Declan McCullagh
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers f…
IMF Injects 283 Billion SDR to Boost World Economy
With much of the world still mired in recession, the IMF took action to bolster its members’ reserves through an allocation of SDRs, or Special Drawing Rights. The allocation, equivalent to 250 bi…
New Foreclosures Dwarf New Home Sales
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Swedish Riksbank Introduces Negative Interest Rate
By Andrew Ward and David Oakley
For a world first, the announcement came with remarkably little fanfare.
But last month, the Swedish Riksbank entered uncharted territory when it became the world…
After Settlement, Legal Opinions Erased From Lexis and Westlaw
By Shannon P. Duffy
Ordinarily, the decision to settle a case while an appeal is pending means giving up the opportunity to set a legal precedent as well as forgoing the chance to win a reversal of a…
Money & Markets – Week of 8.30.09
Lehman Downfall Triggered by Mix-up Between London And Washington
Guardian.co.uk (03 Sept 09)
Bailout Propaganda Begins
True/Slant (01 Sept 09)
Washington vs. Silicon Valley
The Wall Street Journa…
Precious Metals – Week of 8.30.09
China Pushes Silver And Gold Investment to The Masses
Mineweb (03 Sept 09)
Massive Institutional Gold Market Change
Run To Gold.com (Sept 09)
Mortgage Markets – Week of 8.30.09
China Said to be Buying U.S. Mortgages
CNN Money.com (17 aug 09)
Geopolitical – Week of 8.30.09
Why Not Crippling Sanctions for Israel and the US?
Infowars.com (01 Sept 09)
Congressman Pete Stark Explains Leverage, Tells Reporter To “Get The F### Out”
Zero Hedge (03 Sept 09)
Broun Warns of D…
Technology – Week of 8.30.09
Grand Rapids Business Journal: HTI Builds Biomass Energy Plant
WZZM13.com (24 Aug 09)
Life – Week of 8.30.09
Arson Caused California Blaze, Officials Say
CNN.com (04 Sept 09)
Surfing for Change
Good Times (02 Sept 09)
Why They Stay(ed)
National Catholic Reporter (17 Aug 09)
Food & Health – Week of 8.30.09
A National Movement of Foodies, Farmers, Parents and Educators is Pushing for Better School Food
MercuryNews.com (04 Sept 09)
Approaching Epidemic: Brain Damage from Mobile Phone Radiation
Mercola.c…
Health Care Reform
Here is my #1 proposal for health care reform – stop suppressing the knowledge and technology that supports health and prevents and cures disease.
If you are curious about what health care might lo…
From Susan Johann
This is a special flower called a Cereus. It blooms only once a year at night and by dawn the flower is gone, My friend David brought it to my house because he knew it would be opening and we wat…
Scientists Refuse Swine Flu Vaccine
Scientists who developed the Small Pox vaccine are refusing immunization inoculation against the Swine Flu due to major medical side effects. 1 in 3 UK nurses refuse the jab. . . . . .
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Money & Markets ~ Charts 8.27.09
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, Thursday, September 3, 2009.
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