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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Joe Weisenthal and Vincent Fernando Continue reading Chart of The Day: Americans Are More Broke, And More Desperate For Deals

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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…

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…

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 …

By Joshua M Brown

Continue reading John Paulson Likes Gold…More Than a Friend

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 …

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…

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…

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 …

Continue reading CHART OF THE DAY: We’re Still Generating Too Many Negative Equity Mortgages

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…

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 …

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…

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 …

Continue reading Climategate: Dr. Tim Ball on The Hacked CRU Emails

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…

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…

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…

Continue reading Gold Contrarians Will Get Killed

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…

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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…

Continue reading Europe Chooses a President
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…

Continue reading Pranav Mistry: The Thrilling Potential of SixthSense Technology
YouTube (18 Nov 09)

Let us guard against inhumans, but let us guard even more against becoming inhuman ourselves.

~ Patriarch Pavle

Continue reading Patriarch Pavle of Serbia

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 …

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 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…

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…

Continue reading Arsenal of Hypocricy (part 1)

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Continue reading Chart of The Day: An Inflation Warning Sign

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

By Eric deCarbonnel

The graphic below shows counties designated as disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Continue reading USDA Declares Half of Midwest as Agricul…

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…

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…

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Continue reading ETF Investors Are Still Fleeing U.S. Stocks

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…

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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…

The Rasmussen Report

After being knocked out of first place last month for the first time in nearly two years, the economy is back as the issue voters view as most important.

The latest Rasmussen …

ZeroHedge.com (10 Nov 09)

The decline in the number of U.S. listed companies has cost our economy millions of potential jobs.
Market structure changes began to erode support for small cap stocks an…

November 8, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing of a security guard b…

By J.N. Tlaga

Between January 3 and April 18 of 1995, the value of US dollar in Japanese yen declined 20% from 100 to 80 yen. This 20% drop created automatic 20% price subsidy in Japan for American…

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By Andrew Torchia

LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar may come under renewed pressure from emerging market currencies and the euro after a meeting of the world’s top finance officials failed to take c…

By Timothy R. Homan

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) — The unemployment rate in the U.S. jumped to 10.2 percent in October, the highest level since 1983, casting a pall over the prospects for a sustained recove…

By Jason Leopold

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who was the sponsor of an amendment that would have allowed individual states to create a single-payer system—essentially a Medicare-for-all bill—v…

By Katie Drummond – Wired.com (4 Nov 09)

The Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can “degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities.�…

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Catherine with Max Keiser at maxkeiser.com.

By Mark Gilbert – Bloomberg.com (5 Nov 09)

“In price is knowledge,” an editor used to scream at me. Whether or not you believed in efficient markets, you could be sure the price of a bond, a currency…

By Dina ElBoghdady – The Washington Post (5 Nov 09)

The Federal Housing Administration abruptly delayed the release of a long-awaited independent audit of the financial soundness of the agency, cit…

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By Marcy Gordon / Associated Press (4 Nov 09)

WASHINGTON – JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to a settlement worth more than $700 million over federal regulators’ charges that it made unlawful pa…

First Time Home Buyers As A Percent of Total Home Purchases

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By Lindsey Tanner
Breitbart.com (2 Nov 09)

CHICAGO (AP) – Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from t…

By Tamal Bandyopadhyay and Anup Roy

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India, or RBI, is buying 200 tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), nearly half of what the fund plans to sell.

In…

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Pat Marfisi carries alfalfa hay into his Hollywood Hills bakyard, but there aren’t any animals to feed. It’s for his “no-dig” vegetable garden. (Robert Lachman / LA Times)
View the article ~ By Lisa…

McClatchy (1 Nov 2009)

WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it…

The information, relayed to a specialized light-processing region of the brain called ”cluster N”, helps the robin find its way on migration flights.

Experts know birds possess an internal magnet…

By Pam Martens

The financial tsunami unleashed by Wall Street’s esurient alchemy of spinning toxic home mortgages into triple-A bonds, a process known as securitization, has set off its second ro…

Albany, NY – Oct 23, 2009. NYS State Health Commisioner Dr. Richard Daines has suspended the controversial mandatory influenza immunization requirement for New York health care workers, citing a sho…

James E. (Jay) Hughes, Jr.  is the author of Family Wealth—Keeping It in the Family: How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual and Financial Assets as well as Family�…

The Living Matrix – The Science of Healing uncovers new ideas about the intricate web of factors that determine our health. You will meet a group of dedicated scientists, psychologists, bioenerget…

By Peggy Noonan

The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be dancing in the streets. No one is, because no one has any faith in these numbers. Waves …

By Gary Dorsch

Operating under the elixir of ultra-low interest rates, and flush with trillions of fiat currency at their disposal, courtesy of the world’s top-20 central banks, hedge funds and ban…

Mission managers watch as NASA’s Ares I-X rocket launches from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. The flight test will provide NASA with an…

By Polina Devitt

The Russian government said on Tuesday it had postponed its plans to sell up to 50 tonnes of gold this year, after information about the sale was leaked to the market, but the gold…

By Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark

The Finchley Road is one of the busiest thoroughfares heading out of London. It leads traffic north past Lord’s Cricket Ground and the multimillion-pound houses…

By Javier Blas

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday decided to drop the widely used West Texas Intermediate oil contract as the benchmark for pricing its oil, dealing a serious blow to the New York Mercantile…

By Peter Robison, Pat Wechsler and Martin Z. Braun

Salvatore Calvanese, the treasurer of Springfield, Massachusetts, for four years, had a ready defense for why he risked $14 million of taxpayer mo…

By Tyler Durden

“Although the main interests of the Federal Reserve are macroeconomic in nature, well-functioning financial markets are ancillary to good economic performance. Conversely, financial i…

It appears that local governments are getting serious about enforcing Wisconsin’s livestock premises registration law. Last week, Patrick Monchilovich of Cumberland became the first person in the stat…

Here’s something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bendin…

By David B. Caruso

It was the most expensive real estate deal in U.S. history. Now it’s poised to become one of the biggest flops.

At the height of the real estate bubble in 2006, an investment gr…

“By Jesse”

The theory of a short squeeze in Eurodollars which we had first put forward last year “The Dollar Rally and Deflationary Imbalances in the US Dollar Holdings of Overseas Banks” seems to …

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Biofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May. Almost a third of the US corn harvest will be diverted into ethanol for motors th…