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 …
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 …
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The Big Picture (21 Aug 09)
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…
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…
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Continue reading The Amazing US Manufacturing Worker
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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
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…
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 …
[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…
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…
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 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…
“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 …
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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Continue reading Chart of The Day: Investors Rush Into Gold ETFs
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Are you planning to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus (also known as swine flu) this fall?
Response Percent Votes
Yes 23% 495…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In thinking about economic reform, if you want to contemplate construction techniques outside of “the matrix,” read about the Coral Castle and Nan Madol.
“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
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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 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. . . . . .
Read One in …
by Michel Chossudovsky
“Over the course of the next few months, with the assistance of our partners in the private and public sector and at every level of government, we will move aggressively to pre…
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Highlights from the Solari Report Briefings in this month’s Solari Report Digest Podcast include:
~ A look at Goldman Sachs and why their recent profits and predictably optimistic outlook for the eco…
Swiss private bank Wegelin announced on Tuesday that it is to stop doing business in the United States.
The St Gallen-based bank, Switzerland’s oldest, said the decision had been taken in response to…
By Steve Silberman
Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were about to expire, which would al…
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Senator Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.
Continue reading Ted Kennedy Dies at Age 77
by Dr. Anders Bruun Laursen
The average quantity of squalene injected into the US soldiers abroad and at home in the anthrax vaccine during and after the Gulf War was 34.2 micrograms per billion mi…
U.S. securities regulators are examining weekly meetings at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, where research analysts offer tips to traders and then to big clients, the Wall Street Journal reported on its we…
Argentina’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday it is unconstitutional to punish an adult for private use of marijuana as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. The unanimous ruling makes Argentina the se…
If someone else says to me that Americans are in a stupor and not doing anything, I will just spit.
Lots of Americans are doing things and have been doing things at great expense and risk. America is…
By Karen Gullo
The Federal Reserve must make public reports about recipients of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers under programs created to address the financial crisis, a federal judge ruled.
C…
“Non-event”
— Congressman Ron Paul’s (R-TX) description of Swine Flu outbreak
By Carrie Johnson
In appointing a prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA interrogation abuses, including episodes that resulted in prisoner deaths, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday shoo…
By Matthew Cole,Richard Esposito and Brian Ross
A “profanity-laced screaming match” at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning int…
“A little help from my friends.”
Ann, private investigator, on Paul Krugman’s new $1.7 million pad.
Read Paul Krugman Gets a New Place to Hang His Hat and Nobel
Extreme Sheep Herding – With Lights!
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By Tami Luhby
In Pennsylvania, day care centers are closing. Food banks and libraries are cutting back. A school district is taking out a multi-million dollar loan.
Local governments and social se…
Dear Catherine,
I enjoyed your appearance on Coast last night. It was a very insightful discussion as always. You will be shocked and saddened by the following, but I implore you to read on.
You t…
By Chris Powell
Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, today confirmed that much of its gold is held outside the country at “trading centers” where the bank conducts “its gold activities.”
The Bu…
It’s been three years since Sarah and Susan Banks had the revelation over coffee at their Aunt Mary’s restaurant, where Sarah had worked summers putting herself through college. They had returned to O…
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By Tyler Durden
The fact that more than the entire float of AIG has traded daily on several occasions, should be a bright red light for the regulators to analyze whether this abno…
By Stephen Ohlemacher
By law, Social Security benefits cannot go down. Nevertheless, monthly payments would drop for millions of people in the Medicare prescription drug program because the premium…
By BBC News
China holds more US government debt than any other country and cut its holdings of US securities by more that 3% in June, said the BBC’s Chris Hogg.
Japan and the UK – second and third…
While New York is the capital of banking, one could argue that Boston is the capital of equity investment, being home to numerous mutual fund companies such as Fidelity and Putnam, and home as well of…
By Dr. Mae Wen Ho
Within the past several years, however, scientists have found that oxygen (O2) in the atmosphere has been dropping, and at higher rates than just the amount that goes into the inc…
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins
It is a messy combination of sequences from bird, human and swine flu virus lineages from North America and Eurasia. A senior virologist based in Canberra, A…
King Assasination – The Trial in 1999 (Part 2-10)
Trial Transcript
Ramadan starts today, Friday, the 21st of August, and will continue for 30 days until Saturday, the 19th of September.
Muslims are called upon to use this month to re-evaluate their lives in ligh…
By Jason Kelly and Jonathan Keehner
U.S. pension funds contributed to the record $1.2 trillion that private-equity firms raised this decade. Three of the biggest investors, state pensions in Californ…
Warren Bamford, the special agent in charge of the FBI in Boston, said Tuesday that he is baffled by opposition to a proposal to give some neighborhood police officers the semiautomatic weapons.
Cont…
By Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Buried in the 1,017 pages of the House Democrats’ health-care bill is a little-noticed provision that for the first time could give the government access to the checking or…
Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley
Mayor Michael Nutter said the clock is counting down to the implementation of a devastating ‘doomsday budget’ in Philadelphia.
During a morning press conference…
How do the current deficits compare with past administrations? And how did the national debt get so big anyway? This video tries to answer those questions by looking at the debt as a road trip …
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Jackson Hole
Every year, the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank sponsors a meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The 2009 event starts tonight. For prior year topics, click here.
By …
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Having received another repayment, I just made my next loan at Kiva.org to an entrepreneur in Palestine starting a grocery store. Learn more about the syndicate I have joined, and how you or your So…
By Ed Mendel
The CalPERS chief actuary says pension costs are “unsustainable,” and the giant public employee pension system plans to meet with stakeholders to discuss the issue.
So, are the critics …
By William Selway
JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to lend California $1.5 billion, a cash infusion that will allow the most-populous U.S. state to stop issuing IOUs to businesses, taxpayers and mun…
From CalPERs Schedule of Fees & Commissions paid to securities brokers in fiscal 2008.
JP Morgan Securities, Ltd. $944,000
JP Morgan Securities, Inc. $1,142,000
JP Morgan Securities (A…
Why are state and local governments despositing funds with JP Morgan Chase and other banks that refuse to accept California IOUs?
Why are the state pension funds investing in stock of JP Morgan Chase…
The “Impossible” Healthcare Solution: Go Back to Cash
Here are the costs of childbirth as of 1952 at one of the finest hospitals on the West Coast, The Santa Monica Hospital:
Having a baby cost $3…
by Meg White
I don’t like it when scientists feel the need to explain that they’re scared out of their wits, or use exclamation marks.
I also get a little nervous when they say stuff like, “We’re …
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