By Eric deCarbonnel

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

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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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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
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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)
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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 Familyâ…

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…

[Information originally from Weston Price.]

The debate on food safety is heating up in Congress. Last Thursday, October 22, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) hel…

Scientists claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world.

In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr M…

By David Espo

Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms would owe significant penalties if any worker needed go…

By Sam Smith

If you see and hear a lot in the media about volunteerism and community service in the coming days, it’s no accident. Major media – ranging from Time magazine to a whole string of TV s…

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By James Turk

Because people generally calculate the price of goods and services only in terms of the national currency of the country where they live, it is not easy for them to …

This talk by Larry Wilkerson was the keynote speech given at an event sponsored by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, American University History Department, American University 

By Jesse

Tim Geithner should be given the option to resign immediately, or be fired. He is either incompetent, too conflicted to do his job with the banks properly, or possibly both.

Stephen Fried…

By Richard Teitelbaum and Hugh Son

In the months leading up to the September 2008 collapse of giant insurer American International Group Inc., Elias Habayeb and his colleagues worked nights and wee…

The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing by E. Michael Jones is a remarkable history of the application of private foundation and federal housing policies and dollars in Boston, C…

By Diana Golobay

The majority — 60% — of remaining performing borrowers within ‘06- and ‘07-vintage residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) bear negative home equity, meaning they are…

By Paul Craig Roberts

One conclusive hallmark of a failed state is that the crooks are inside the government, using government to protect and to advance their private interests.

Another conclusive…

By Brian Skoloff,

A man accused of making more than $7 billion off the investment schemes of jailed financial manager Bernard Madoff drowned after having a heart attack, authorities said Monday.

J…

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