Author: Mark Gilmore

“I was standing there, about to put a dollar bill into a vending machine, and it hit me: I could use my dollar to buy a pack of gum or a package of mints, or else I could use my dollar to buy a shar…

The full page ad in Ruppert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for its “Future of Finance Initiative” starts off by saying that the financial system has stopped working.

I completely disagree.

The fina…

At its beginning, the ruling powers in Great Britain embarked on one of the most sustained efforts to destroy community life ever undertaken.

From 1770 to 1830 some 3,280 enclosure bills were passed …

The new budget tells the story. The U.S. government collects taxes from Americans and debt tithes globally and then gives the money to the banks and funds the military.

Proposed US Budget
Global Re…

The Progressive Review is one of the finest news sources around. It’s esteemed publisher is proof positive that not everyone who graduates from Harvard goes along with the game. Sam’s comments on le…

Mathematicians Discover the Largest Number
Consent of the Governed Blog (11 Feb 2009)

PALO ALTO, CA – An international mathematics research team announced today that they had discovered a new integ…

There is a Internet rumor that the U.S. has granted the Chinese the power of eminent domain if the U.S. defaults on its debt. This does indeed raise the question: “What is the U.S. giving the Chine…

This first video is a documentary which describes a Southern Christian community exploring the creation of an ethanol business for energy independence and other businesses to build local self-sufficie…

In Stanley Kubrick’s thriller, Eyes Wide Shut, we watch as Dr. Bill Harford (played by Tom Cruise) attends a private party given by a secret society whose members have the power, among other things,…

From “Planting Seeds” in The Guardian in January:

“Bill and Melinda Gates hate controversy, but the world’s top philanthropists do seem to be moving ever deeper into political lobbying. They’ve jus…

Weakness Unmatched in 35 Years
Investor’s Insight (16 Feb 2009)

Catherine,

I’ve been visiting Solari for about a year, and I want to thank you for the information you provide.

I want to relate an experience I had with Bank of America lately. I’ve banked there fo…

There is a war going on but it is not one we are reading about in the news.

As tax revenues decline, the federal government can operate with deficits. By law, states and counties must balance their…

Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, talks straight about bailouts and makes sound suggestions about solutions. For example, how can you fix anything if you leave in charge the people who created t…

Here is a great idea – using wiki technology to bring transparency to government spending, starting with the stimulus package.

The Stimulus Wiki

OK, anyone want to wikify the bailout?

View this slide show from a network member:
Understanding and Navigating the Economic Crisis update
Lots of suggestions to help you take action.

The Associated Press breakdown of approximately $700 billion of the $789 billion economic stimulus bill agreed to by the Senate and House:

Aid To Poor And Unemployed

$40 billion to provide extende…

Aaron Russo was a fearless, talented, capable man. He loved life and people. He could not fathom why millions of Americans were adapting to fascism. I got to know Aaron while he was filming “America: …

From Sam Smith
The Progressive Review – 11 Feb 2009

Washington Monthly – The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology isn’t “new”; it was created by George W. Bush five years ago. More …

I grew up next to a University campus. My parents loved to learn. Our home was filled with books and people from diverse backgrounds.

One of my mother’s best friends had narrowly escaped the German…

I froze my credit recently.

Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws requiring the credit bureaus to enable consumers to protect their credit files with a security freeze.
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In assessing the advisability of a national health database, it is valuable to understand that a national health database will be:

one of many databases containing data about you that will feed p…

Here is the fact sheet and the new website for the Administration’s Financial Stability Plan.

Lord Acton once said, “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought soo…

“The net supply of Treasurys in 2009 and 2010 combined seems likely to total more than $3 trillion and could climb as high as $4 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the 2009 Fe…

When I served as Assistant Secretary of Housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the first Bush Administration, I discovered that the government was paying billions of dol…

Financial Permaculture on Vimeo.

Watch the video from the first-ever Financial Permaculture Summit in Hohenwald, Tennessee.

Here is a copy of House Resolution 6 being discussed by the New Hampshire Legislature. It certainly sets some limitations on the Presidency and the Congress …

Continue reading on Jesse’s Café Am…

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (popularly referred to as the President’s economic stimulus plan) as engrossed in the House of Representatives (as HR 1), Section 9202 “Investment …

Here is an excellent idea from one of our finest Congressional Representatives: Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur.

View the Mortgage Squatting video on YouTube

Rob Kirby of Kirby Analytics is the Sherlock Holmes on the tail of the derivatives cabal. Here is the product of his latest sleuthing.

According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, in The Funding Status of Locally Administered Pension Plans by Alicia H. Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry, and Kelly Haverstick, US state a…

According to a NY Times article, the following industries have experienced significant sales growth in the last 12 months (privately owned companies only):

View a complete list in the NY Times arti…

Well, we have swapped real assets for paper. Now we cannot even get the paper:

SEC Approves Eliminating Paper Certificates for Withdrawals-by-Transfer

Leaving your current place of employment? Here are frequently asked questions about IRA rollovers from employee sponsored plans.

Read the complete article …