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The precious metals markets have tremendous potential for investors. But they are also wrapped up in great mystery — deliberately so.

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The Federal Reserve asked bond dealers and investors for projections of central bank asset purchases over the next six months, along with the likely effect on y…

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. and HSBC Holdings Plc were hit with two lawsuits on Wednesday by investors who accused them of conspiring to drive down silver prices and reaping an es…

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The Green Phoenix Rising conference at Schweibenalp was one of the most inspiring times I can remember, bringing leaders in science, engineering a…

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Back-up for the human brain, including its entire memory, will be possible within the next two decades.

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Former hedge fund manager Shah Gilani notes:

In creating MERS, these institutions actually changed the land-title system that this country – for much of its history – has relied upon to determine l…

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Lawyers representing delinquent homeowners have been shouting for years about documentation problems in residential mortgages. Now that their complaints have gained traction wit…

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Finance ministers from the G20 leading economies have agreed reforms of the International Monetary Fund, giving major developing nations more of a say.

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I just finished watching Edward Griffin, Mike Murphy and Paul Wittenberger’s new documentary “What in the World Are They Spraying?” It is terrific.

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Yesterday, I showed that mortgages were fraudulently pledged to multiple buyers at the same time.

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Several people have asked me what methods I use for detoxification. Here are the actions that I use that work for me.

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The latest currency war escalation does not come from any of the usual suspects (the Fed-PBoC-BOJ-ECB-SNB hate pentagongram) but from non-axis player Brazil. An…

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Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child. Mandelbrot spent much of his life living and working in the United Sta…

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A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence servi…

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Attorney General Eric Holder is warning that the federal government will not look the other way, as it has with medical marijuana, if voters next month make California the first s…

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The mortgage-foreclosure crisis spilled into the financial markets on Thursday, driving down bank stocks and weighing on mortgage bonds as investors took a grim view of the potential…

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When I was assistant secretary of HUD during Bush I and the lead financial advisor to the Federal Housing Administration under President Clinton, I watched from the position…

Catherine’s letter to the NY Times about the perverse incentive systems and “tapeworm” economics of prison stocks before she knew that Dillon had banked and cashed out of Cornell:

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I get on an airplane, and there are more dramatic developments by the time I land.

Even though the headline item is the fact that the attorneys general in all 50 states are joining t…

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The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down an Ohio state ban last week that prohibited dairy not treated with bovine growth hormone from being labeled “rbGH free,” “rbST free” or �…

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If you were to sign a false legal document, the courts and police would not call it “flawed paperwork.” But that’s the term the Associated Press is using about the foreclosure situatio…

This is a series giving a basic explanation of the current foreclosure fraud crisis: This is Part One.

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Lars Schall has just translated my article “The American Tapeworm” into German.

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The Cornucopia Institute’s report, Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factory Farm Egg Production from Authentic Organic Agriculture, will empower consumers and wholesale buyers who want to invest their f…

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The Navy is set to be reduced to the smallest size in its history after admirals yesterday offered drastic reductions in the fleet in order to save two new aircraft carriers from defence cuts.

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First reported by Dawn Kopecki back in 2006 when she reported in BusinessWeek Online in a piece titled, Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules , “President George W. Bush has bestowed o…

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