News & Commentary
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Conrad Black: My Prison Education
In my 28 months as a guest of the U.S. government, I often wondered how my time in that role would end. I never expected that I would have to serve the whole term, though I was, and am, psychologica…
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Federal Judges vs. ‘Chipotle Experience’
By Max Fisher
Two judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled that Mexican chain restaurant Chipotle must pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for the “Chipotle Experience,” …
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Federal Judges vs. 'Chipotle Experience'
By Max Fisher
Two judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled that Mexican chain restaurant Chipotle must pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for the “Chipotle Experience,” …
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Monsanto: The World’s Poster Child for Corporate Manipulation and Deceit
By: Jeffrey M. Smith
At a biotech industry conference in January 1999, a representative from Arthur Anderson, LLP explained how they had helped Monsanto design their strategic plan. First, his team…
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Monsanto: The World's Poster Child for Corporate Manipulation and Deceit
By: Jeffrey M. Smith
At a biotech industry conference in January 1999, a representative from Arthur Anderson, LLP explained how they had helped Monsanto design their strategic plan. First, his team…
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Preparing For World War III, Targeting Iran
By Michel Chossudovsky
Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in “an advanced state of readiness”. Hi tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully d…
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Dr. Gwen Scott on Morgellon’s
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—Dr. Gwen Scott with Jeff Rense on Morgellon’s Disease
Also recommended:
Dr. Gwen Scott – Natural Medicine: A Survivor’s Guide
Dr. Gwen Scott, N.D.
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Dr. Gwen Scott on Morgellon's
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—Dr. Gwen Scott with Jeff Rense on Morgellon’s Disease
Also recommended:
Dr. Gwen Scott – Natural Medicine: A Survivor’s Guide
Dr. Gwen Scott, N.D.
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Financial Times Says European Banks Lent Their Customer’s Gold to the BIS
Although it does not appear until almost the end of this article in the Financial Times, BIS Gold Swaps Mystery Unravelled, the source of the gold provided in the dollar swaps with BIS is coming from …
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Financial Times Says European Banks Lent Their Customer's Gold to the BIS
Although it does not appear until almost the end of this article in the Financial Times, BIS Gold Swaps Mystery Unravelled, the source of the gold provided in the dollar swaps with BIS is coming from …
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High-speed Railroading
America’s system of rail freight is the world’s best. High-speed passenger trains could ruin it.
Union Station in Los Angeles has been restored as a fine example of the Art Deco architecture th…
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New Evidence On A Chinese Housing Bubble
By Yongheng Deng, Joseph Gyourko and Jing Wu
China is experiencing spectacularly fast growth – so fast that many fear it is driven by a bubble – a property bubble to be precise. Recent memories…
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Salary of $800,000 Sparks California Taxpayer Mutiny
By Joe Mysak
The search is on for the next $800,000-a-year city manager.
The taxpayers of Bell, California, a 2.5-square-mile city just outside Los Angeles forced the resignations last week of thr…
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Global Prices for Big Mac Burgers
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Google, CIA Invest in Predicting the ‘Future’ via Web Monitoring
By Noah Shachtman
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
The company i…
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SEC Says New Financial Regulation Law Exempts it From Public Disclosure
By Dunstan Prial
So much for transparency.
Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with…
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How Many Ounces of Gold Does It Take to Buy a House?
By Jeff Clark
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Who Owns The Rain?
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Ed Griffith Interviews Norm Dodd on Tax Exempt Foundations
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U.S. Rescue May Reach $23.7 Trillion
By Dawn Kopecki and Catherine Dodge
U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector gene…
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Frank-Dodd Financial Reform Bill – Catherine on Coast-to-Coast
“Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts shared her critical reaction to the new financial regulations just signed into law. “We have a couple thousand pages of legislation from the federal govern…
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The Shrinking Middle Class
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J Parsson Dying of Money
Dying of Money
Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations [Hardcover]The author vividly and thoroughly recounts the influence of inflation throughout history with special emphasis on the U…
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Mises Institute Offers A Free Week-Long Economics Seminar
By Gary North
On Wednesday, July 28, at 11:30 a.m. central daylight time, I will lecture to about 250 college students at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
You can go to the Web a…
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LA is Armed Against Yogurt
Some people balk at restrictions on selling unprocessed milk and other foods. ‘How can we not have the freedom to choose what we eat?’ one says. Regulators say the rules exist for safety and fairnes…
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Amelia Leavell Askew – April 24, 1920 – July 24, 2010.
Susan Sanders mother (Franklin’s mother in law) passed away this weekend. Prayers are appreciated.
Eulogy for Mrs Amelia Leavell Askew
Readings: Proverbs 3:13-20; Romans 8:31-39; Psalm 23.
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How to Resist Federal Tyranny
By Tom Woods
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American’s Household Net Worth
By Gregory White and Kamelia Angelova
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American's Household Net Worth
By Gregory White and Kamelia Angelova
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Prepare For Emergencies And Disasters
Listening to Katrina is a record of my personal experience of hurricane Katrina, and a guide to help you prepare for emergencies and disasters of all kinds. This work is very straightforward and av…
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Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care
By Sarah Lyall
Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search …
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Who Will Be My Sheriff?
My candidate for Sheriff here in Hardeman County has one tough race. It just got dirtier!
Continue reading Dirty Politics: Sheriff Candidate’s Sex Tape Leaked
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Who’s Your Sheri…
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Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing
By Miguel Bustillo
Apparel supervisor Sonia Barrett uses a handheld scanner to read EPC labels on men’s denim jeans on July 19, while checking inventory at the Walmart Supercenter Store No. 1 in Ro…
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Franklin Sanders on the Coming Avalanche of 1099 Forms
Thursday, 22 July a.d. 2010
I have now lost count of all the emails, hysterical & otherwise, I have received about the “new tax on silver & gold” that was slipped into the Obamacare bill.
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A Solari Report – The Coming Avalanche of 1099 Forms
[CAF NOTE: We originally published this on May 7, 2010 under the title of “A Solari Report – The Biggest 2010 Health Care Act Change You Never Heard About: The coming avalanche of business-to-busin…
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Wyoming Food Freedom Act
Want the right to eat real food instead of poison? Now is a good time to organize locally to protect local fresh farmers.
Want to see more jobs in America? Now is a good time to organize locally to…
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Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill
The first commercial organic feed mill in Texas and the home of Jeremiah Cunningham’s Worlds Best Eggs
Continue watching Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill at the Entreprenuer Showcase from Slow Money….
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Lowering Brain Capacity
Gordon J. F. MacDonald, a geophysicist specializing in problems of war, has written that accurately timed artificially excited electronic strokes could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce r…
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Where Does Your Tax $ Really Go? Find Out With CAFRs!
A Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), now a government accounting standard, found its first roots with the establishment of the “National Committee on Municipal Accounting” (or NCMA, a pri…
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Is College Education The Next Bubble Set To Burst?
By Gregory White and Kamelia Angelova
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American Wealth: Destroy or Grow?
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Obama’s Next Focus of Reform: Housing Finance
By Zachary A. Goldfarb
After President Obama signs into law an overhaul of financial regulation at a ceremony set for Wednesday, his administration will turn to reforming an area at the root of the…
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Obama's Next Focus of Reform: Housing Finance
By Zachary A. Goldfarb
After President Obama signs into law an overhaul of financial regulation at a ceremony set for Wednesday, his administration will turn to reforming an area at the root of the…
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From Seedlings to Servings: 11-Year-Old Grows Tons of Veggies for the Homeless
By Diane Herbst
It all began in third grade, when Katie Stagliano’s 40-pound cabbage fed 275 homeless people. Now, Katie’s six gardens have produced over 4,000 pounds of vegetables to feed the need…
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Create a 3-D Hologram With Your iPad
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Can Malaysia's Islamic Gold Dinar Thwart Capitalism?
Imagine a world trading solely in gold and silver coins. Imagine the size of your wallet.
Yet this is the ideal world envisaged by some of Malaysia’s activists championing the Islamic gold dinar and…
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Can Malaysia’s Islamic Gold Dinar Thwart Capitalism?
Imagine a world trading solely in gold and silver coins. Imagine the size of your wallet.
Yet this is the ideal world envisaged by some of Malaysia’s activists championing the Islamic gold dinar and…
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Senate Set to Vote on Extended Unemployment Benefits Tuesday
The Senate is expected to vote on a bill to restore extended unemployment benefits on Tuesday, shortly after a successor to the late Sen. Robert Byrd is sworn in.
Byrd’s replacement is expected to …
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California Official’s $800,000 Salary in City of 38,000 Triggers Protests
By Christopher Palmeri
Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns …
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California Official's $800,000 Salary in City of 38,000 Triggers Protests
By Christopher Palmeri
Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns …
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Europe Freezes Out Goldman Sachs
By Elena Moya
Shocked by past deals with Italy and Greece, governments are excluding the Wall Street bank from sovereign bond sales.
European governments are turning their backs on Goldman Sachs, …
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"Top Secret America" Washington Post Investigation
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“Top Secret America” Washington Post Investigation
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Scientists Baffled By Upper Atmosphere Shrinkage
By Derrick Ho
An upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said on Thursday.
The thermosphere, which blocks harmful ul…
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1977 Environmental Modification Convention
The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD), formally the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques is an international treaty…
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BIS Footnote Unlocks Major Development in Gold Use
By Jan Harvey and Veronica Brown
A small footnote in the Bank of International Settlements’ latest annual statement has flagged up a potentially major development in the way the metal can be used a…
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Fiscal Localism On Rise In Germany
By Eric Westervelt
The Havelbluete, the Augusta and the Chiemgauer might sound like the names of locally brewed beers, but they are in fact micro-currencies which, like micro-breweries, are in abun…
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Why I Don’t Trust Matt Simmons
I remember being puzzled by Matt Simmons hawking of peak oil theories in 2004 and 2005. He was unusually aggressive. While I never took the time to investigate what he was saying in depth, something…
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Why I Don't Trust Matt Simmons
I remember being puzzled by Matt Simmons hawking of peak oil theories in 2004 and 2005. He was unusually aggressive. While I never took the time to investigate what he was saying in depth, something…
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Competing Currency Being Accepted Across Mid-Michigan
By Dan Armstrong
New types of money are popping up across Mid-Michigan and supporters say, it’s not counterfeit, but rather a competing currency.
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Is The Gold Trade “Crowded”?
By Jeff Clark
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Electronic Reading Devices Are Transforming Books
By Alex Pham and David Sarno
Digital tools advance beyond screens that talk and play videos, connecting readers to authors and online fan communities.
Emma Teitgen, 12, thought the chemistry book …
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The Source of Our Despair in the Gulf
With a new containment cap atop the damaged well, many are hopeful.
But all is not well, after all.
National Incident Commander Thad Allen said Friday that the pressure within the cap is not incre…
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Rooftop Farm
By Martyn Burns
Amidst the industrial terrain of Greenpoint, Brooklyn sits the magical Eagle Street Rooftop farm – one of the boroughs unique plots and part of the Community Supported Agriculture…
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Higher Education Fund Buys Gold Over Economic Worries
By R.G. Ratcliff and Jeannie Kever
Fearing unstable international financial markets and the possibility of high inflation, Texas’ higher education investment managers have bought more than $500 milli…
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What It Took To Get An 8th Grade Education in 1895…
By Vincent L. Guarisco
Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out.
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Sa…
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Fed Gets More Power, Responsibility
By Luca Di Leo
After fending off most challenges to its independence and winning new powers to oversee big financial firms, the Federal Reserve has emerged from a bruising debate on the overhaul of…
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Financial Reform? Hah! US Halts Financial Management Systems; $4 Trillion Still Missing
White House officials point to $300 million spent by the Veteran’s Administration over the past decade on a financial systems project that still isn’t done.
At the Department of Homeland Security, me…
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Hauser’s Law
From Wikipedia
In economics, Hauser’s Law is an empirical observation that, in the United States, federal tax revenues since World War II have always been equal to approximately 19.5% of GDP, regar…
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Hauser's Law
From Wikipedia
In economics, Hauser’s Law is an empirical observation that, in the United States, federal tax revenues since World War II have always been equal to approximately 19.5% of GDP, regar…
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Inflating War
By Thomas Dilorenzo
“One can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism,” Ludwig von Mises wrote. “Without it, the repercussions of war on welfare become …
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Farewell Evergreen Farm
Evergreen Farm, the finest farm and dairy in my county, announced this week that they are closing and will auction their herd and land. This is in response to the cash flow impact of regulatory requ…
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Equities vs. Gold
By Joe Weisenthal
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Carnicom Institute – Live Webinar
July 22, 2010 – 7PM MDT with Clifford E Carnicom
The Carnicom Institute will hold a live webinar on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 at 7PM MDT. Clifford Carnicom will be discussing a recent experiment inv…
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Yet Another Options Expiration "Surprise"
By Karl Denninger
Since when does the SEC announce that it’s about to make an announcement – about an hour before the market closes the day before options expiration?
There’s clearly biased and then…
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Yet Another Options Expiration “Surprise”
By Karl Denninger
Since when does the SEC announce that it’s about to make an announcement – about an hour before the market closes the day before options expiration?
There’s clearly biased and then…
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Subdued AgBank Debut Dampens China Fundraising Outlook
By Samuel Shen and Kennix Chim
Agricultural Bank of China’s (601288.SS) $19 billion IPO made a lackluster debut in Shanghai, weighing on the market and underscoring the difficulty other Chinese ban…
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Chinese Rating Agency Strips Western Nations of AAA Status
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Dagong Global Credit Rating Co used its first foray into sovereign debt to paint a revolutionary picture of creditworthiness around the world, giving much greater weight …
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Wall Street Reform Clears Congress
By Andy Sullivan and Kevin Drawbaugh
The Congress on Thursday approved the broadest overhaul of financial rules since the Great Depression and sent it to President Barack Obama to sign into law.
B…
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Goldman To Pay $550M To Settle Civil Fraud Charges
By Marcy Gordon and Daniel Wagner
Goldman Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges that the Wall Street giant misled buyers of mortgage-related investments.
The…
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Goldman's Silent Board
By Richard Teitelbaum
Amid a storm of criticism, government investigations and an SEC suit, the investment bank’s outside directors have failed to speak out.
Greg Palm, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. …
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Goldman’s Silent Board
By Richard Teitelbaum
Amid a storm of criticism, government investigations and an SEC suit, the investment bank’s outside directors have failed to speak out.
Greg Palm, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. …
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Shanghai vs S&P 500
By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova
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Shanghai vs S&P 500
By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova
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Small-Business Lending Is Down
By Sewell Chan
The chairman of the Federal Reserve urged banks and regulators on Monday to help the nation’s small businesses get the loans they needed to create jobs.
He also acknowledged that …
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California Bankruptcy Court Holds That MERS Cannot Transfer Note For Want of Ownership
The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California has issued a ruling dated May 20, 2010 in the matter of In Re: Walker, Case No. 10-21656-E-11 which found that MERS could no…
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The National Bank of Malvern
[Note from CAF: My wonderful bankers at National Bank of Malvern did not tell me about this story published last year. I just found it, so I am publishing it now.]
Not many banks are in a celebrato…
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Franklin Sanders on Revitalizing Local Economies
This is an excellent talk that Franklin gave recently in Mississippi. If you want to understand what each community needs to do to create jobs in the United States, this is one for you!
Listen to t…
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Resort Opens In Singapore
By Lucy Ballinger
The impressive, boat-shaped ‘SkyPark’ perched atop the three towers that make up the world’s most expensive hotel, the £4billion Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
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The Con of the Decade
The con of the decade (Part I) involves the transfer of private debt to the public (the marks), who then pays interest forever to the con artists.
I’ve laid out the Con of the Decade (Part I) in o…
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Job Growth in U.S. Driven Entirely by Startups
Kauffman Foundation Study
New firms add an average of 3 million jobs in their first year, while older companies lose 1 million jobs annually
(KANSAS CITY, Mo.), July 7, 2010 – When it comes to U.S…
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A Debate on Geoengineering: Vandana Shiva vs Gwynne Dyer
Amy Goodman Interview
DemocracyNow! (8 Jul 10)Supporters of geoengineering have proposed radical ways to alter the planet to decrease the level of greenhouse gas emissions. Proposals include creat…
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Public and Private: Restoring a Montana Spring Creek
New York Times
By Verlyn Klinkenborg (8 Jul 10)A couple of weeks ago, I walked along a spring creek in the upper Madison Valley, just south of the town of Ennis, Mont. As my guide, Jeff Laszlo, expl…
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Allstate CEO Says U.S. State, Local Borrowing ‘Out of Control’
Bloomberg.com (7 Jul 10)
Allstate Corp. Chief Executive Officer Thomas Wilson said a surge in borrowing by U.S. state and local governments may trim the value of municipal debt holdings, and called f…
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Allstate CEO Says U.S. State, Local Borrowing 'Out of Control'
Bloomberg.com (7 Jul 10)
Allstate Corp. Chief Executive Officer Thomas Wilson said a surge in borrowing by U.S. state and local governments may trim the value of municipal debt holdings, and called f…
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US-Backed Loans to Expand Nuclear Power: A Boon for Overseas Jobs?
A report released Thursday finds that all 18 firms lining up for tens of billions in US-backed loans for new nuclear power plants would use overseas jobs to build most of them.
Nuclear power opponent…
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Is it Almost Over? BP Will Try to Stop Oil Flow
By Mark Seibel (9 Jul 10)
Washington – In a dramatic turn of events, the Obama administration has given BP the go-ahead to remove the containment cap atop the runaway Deepwater Horizon oil well and r…
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Chinese Credit Firm Says US Worse Risk Than China
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese firm that aims to compete with Western rating agencies declared Washington a worse credit risk than Beijing in its first report on government debt Sunday amid efforts by Chi…