By Joe Weisenthal

Are precious metals like silver and gold in a bubble?

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Chamba Lane was as known for giving back to the community as he was for his sometimes controversial commentary.

The KVMR host succumbed to lung cancer Tuesday evening at his Nevada City home.

Last…

By Joe Weisenthal

Citi’s Tobias Levkovitch is out with a new survey of Citigroup institutional clients.

This chart really caught our eye.

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By Kelly Heffernan-Tabor

Collier County, Florida — Have you heard the one about a homeowner foreclosing on a bank?
Well, it has happened in Florida and involves a North Carolina based bank.

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By Joel Millman

Wolfgang Candy Co. is looking for capital to help the 90-year-old company expand. GreenLine Paper Co. could use a cash infusion to improve its distribution of environmentally friend…

U.S. Trust Insights on Wealth and Worth explores both the rational and emotional perspectives of the high net worth in the United States.

Key topics covered in the 2011 U.S. Trust Insights on Wea…

By Vandana Shiva

Part 1

Scientists Under Attack
Directed by Bertram Verhaag
“Billed as “a political thriller on GMOs and freedom of speech”, this film by the German film-maker Bertram Verhaag tells the stories of two…

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By Martin de Sa’Pinto and Joe Giannone

Zurich – Wealthy U.S. individuals have already pulled most of their money from Swiss private banks and could exit altogether as a global clampdown on tax evas…

By Joe Weisenthal

“Confirmed” is the word used in the latest announcement from Case-Shiller, which showed a surprise 3.61% year-over-year decline in home prices.

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By Tyler Durden

That average monthly benefit of $133.24 for 44.199 million people will help with the purchase of one third of a very edible iPad. Food stamp participation chart presented without furt…

By Tony Paterson and John Lichfield

Englishmen may see themselves as king of their own castles, but the fact that Europe largely did away with its monarchies many years ago does not necessarily expla…

By Alan Purkiss

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) offered Libya the opportunity to become one of its biggest shareholders two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people fam…

By Tony Arnold

There are a lot of investment options out there — but have you ever considered weather? The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has, and starting today, you can invest in rain futures. But ar…

By Joe Weisenthal and Gregory White

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Central Bank Gold Bullion War Reallocations Part 1 of 5

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By Valerie Richardson

It’s no secret that members of Congress qualify as political insiders, but a new report strongly suggests that they also may be insiders when it comes to trading stocks.

An…

By Laura Saunders

The Internal Revenue Service, moving aggressively to collect more taxes from small businesses, is telling companies being audited to turn over exact copies of the electronic recor…

By Natsuko Waki;

Cash-rich global pension funds are starting to increase their miniscule emerging market allocations, raising the prospect of a rapid acceleration in flows that could swamp the rela…

By Sam Smith

A chart showing the mentions of the Constitution by year as estimated by Google.com.

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By Spencer Ackerman

You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s worse than you know.

Congress is set to reauthorize three …

By Katharine Q. Seelye

The Justice Department plans to move ahead with criminal charges against John Edwards, the former senator and presidential candidate, contending that he misused campaign fund…

By Congressman Ron Paul

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Greg Stohr

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive a suit that claimed Verizon Communications Inc. owed as much as $1.7 billion in additional retirement benefits because of an error made by a l…

By Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg

For the residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan the question is will America have prosperity and democracy, or live in poverty under the heel of open corporate power. Th…

By C. Martenson

Well, it now turns out that many of my worst fears about Fukushima have been confirmed with the news that TEPCO has finally admitted that Reactor #1 has experienced a meltdown event t…

Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?

By Jane Mayer

On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he wi…

Move Would Follow Senate Subcommittee’s Report

By Liz Rappaport and Jean Eaglesh

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives expect to receive subpoenas soon from U.S. prosecutors seeking more information…

By Yves Smith

Texas is not exactly a consumer-friendly state, so the Federal court ruling in the Eastern District of Texas against MERS has the potential to have broad ramifications (note a Federal…

If So, How Long Will He Survive ?

By Michael Collins

Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times just published one of the few feel good stories in months following the 2008 financial crisis. She des…

By Chris Ordal

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By Sebastian Moffett

The normally easy-to-understand Christine Lagarde walked a diplomatic tightrope Thursday over the choice of a new IMF head.

European and Asian governments are engaged in a pol…

By Stacey Herbert

There are some that since 2001 have doubted the bull market in precious metals.  In these past six weeks, however, everyone from former silver bulls to those who sell freeze drie…

By Shahien Nasiripour

A set of confidential federal audits accuse the nation’s five largest mortgage companies of defrauding taxpayers in their handling of foreclosures on homes purchased with go…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce legislation that allows the shipment and distribution of unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption across state lines. This legislation removes an u…

By Stan Humphries

Home values fell three percent in the first quarter of this year, marking a pace of decline not seen since 2008 when the housing recession was at its worst.  Home values fell one…

By Jack Greiner

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Ohio’s proposed budget for the coming year includes a plan to sell an additional six prisons to private operators.  If that saves money or ra…

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Americans who have been paying attention are outraged that Bush lied us into Iraq by making up false claims about weapons of mass destruction and pretending that Saddam Hussein…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Michael Gormley

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is seeking records from three major Wall Street banks as part of a broad investigation into the mortgage crisis that fueled the recess…

By Joe Weisenthal

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John Lipsky is an American economist. He is currently the acting Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Previously the First Deputy Managing Director, he assumed his current position …

By Joe Weisenthal

Commodities have been getting clubbed of late, but it’s not clear yet whether this is a “dip” or the start of something big.

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The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first and second reviews of Ireland’s performance under an economic program supported by a three-year, SDR 19.5 bil…

By Paul Joseph Watson

A top Duma political leader caused shock waves in a recent television interview when he warned that Russia could deploy an arsenal of new technology to “destroy any part of th…

By Ben Dover

After an emergency meeting of its Board of Governors on Sunday afternoon, the International Monetary Fund announced that it would sell gold to raise bail for its managing director, Dom…

Dugersuren Tsagaantsooj is 30 years old and lives with his wife and two sons in a house in Hovd province, Mongolia. His older son goes to a local secondary school, while the younger one is in kinderg…

By Tyler Durden

As we reported previously, Obama has found himself on the verge of another environmental scandal now that he has no choice but to redirect the Mississippi river via the Morganza spi…

By Joe Carroll and Michio Nakayama

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said one of the reactor cores at its stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is more seriously damaged than previously thought, setting…

By Joe Weisenthal

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Phone signals confuses bees and cause them to begin flying erratically before suddenly dying

Signals from mobile phones could be partly to blame for the mysterious deaths of ho…

The next 50 years of spaceflight will carry many challenges and surprises for explorers hoping to extend their reach into the cosmos. But it will also likely hold untapped riches for space science an…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Rolling Stone Magazine

A Senate committee has laid out the evidence. Now the Justice Department should bring criminal charges

They weren’t murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money…

By Joe Brennan and Dara Doyle

Ireland’s government will impose a temporary levy on domestic private pension savings to fund a jobs plan aimed at cutting unemployment and aiding the economic recov…

By Joe Weisenthal

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“Every 30 Minutes”: Crushed by Debt and Neoliberal Reforms, Indian Farmers Commit Suicide at Staggering Rate

By Nadia Damouni and Bill Rigby

Microsoft Corp plans to buy Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion in its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich bet on mobile and the Internet to try to be…

Shares in American International Group Inc. tumbled on Monday, deepening a slide that’s brought the insurer’s shares to the lowest point in eight months and stoked concerns over whether the U.S. gov…

By Joe Weisenthal

The big news of the day: Yet again, students are graduating college with a record amount of debt.

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Trading set to kick off in May as Hong Kong burnishes status

By Chris Oliver

Hong Kong is on track to kick off a new gold-futures trading platform with settlement in the physical metal next month,…

By Daniel Wagner

Fannie Mae asked the government Friday for an additional $8.5 billion in aid after declining home prices caused more defaults on loans guaranteed by the mortgage giant.

The compan…

San Francisco’s one-of-a-kind program puts nonviolent criminals to work for clean records.

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In San Francisco, people accused of low-level, nonviolent crimes were sent to cri…

Top contractors dominate the market with billions in government business.

The Top 100 government contractors pulled in nearly $130 billion in prime contracts last year. We rank these companies bas…

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called for more lending to people and small businesses in lower-income neighborhoods, saying they’ve been disproportionately hurt by the recession.

Many of the…

By Christian Reiermann

The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government’s actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering w…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Doug Palmer

Tens of billions of dollars of Chinese investment could flood into the United States in the next decade, creating a multitude of American jobs if officials do not succumb to a politi…

By Ivan Katz

The decision by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association to file for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code may well turn out to be one of the most bone-headed business j…

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Need help producing your new album or financing a film? Just ask someone you’ve never met to stump up the cash. ‘Crowdfunding’ is taking the web by storm, says Rhodri Marsden

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By Joe Weisenthal

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee Monday in a desperate attempt to protect an Illinois town from rising floodwaters.

The corps said the break in…

By Kevin Johnson

In the Justice Department’s ornate Great Hall, a space traditionally reserved for its most important functions, Attorney General Eric Holder stepped before staffers last week to ma…

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I thought I would post an old report made in 1996 from our Community Wizard databases. Rich place based data that facilitated re-engineering government investment by place were on …

After 18 consecutive short-term extensions dating back to 2007, last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration since 2003. The FAA …

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Measure to Abolish North Dakota Property Taxes on Ballot
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BISMARCK — A proposed constitutional amendment to abolish property taxes in North Dakota has been approved for the ballo…

Catherine Austin Fitts understanding of the global financial system and the inner workings of the Wall Street-Washington axis are unparalleled. As the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federa…

(Reuters) 28 Apr 2011 – Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern states, killing at least 284 people in the country’s deadliest series of twisters in nearly four decades.

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Wall Street Journal (27 Apr 11) – The Federal Reserve used its first-ever news conference to signal it will phase out a controversial bond-buying program—and to reassure a skeptical public that the …

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The spying iPhone is no accident. A recent Apple patent application reveals that the location-tracking dossiers accumulated in iPhones are to be used in apps from Apple and any number of other compa…

Video about a project that is developing do-it-yourself versions of 50 essential machines for civilization, many of which are food and agriculture-oriented:

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The U.S. Department of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for passport applicants. The proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history includ…

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I just finished Peter Dale Scott’s new book on the American military-industrial-intelligence establishment and its historical dependency on the global drug trade. This is essential reading for anyone …