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Connecticut’s attorney general sued Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s over ratings the firms issued on risky investments.

In the civil lawsuit filed Wednesday, Atty. Gen. Richard …

By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova

According to the most recent fund flow data from The Investment Company Institute (ICI), U.S. mutual fund investors came back to U.S. stocks in late February …

Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American wor…

By Vincent Del Giudice

The U.S. budget deficit widened to a record in February as the government boosted spending to help revive the economy.

The excess of spending over revenue increased to $221 …

By James Bowen, National Chairperson of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

By James Bowen, National Chairperson of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

In the late 19th century, change…

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By Andrew Clark and Zoe Wood

Korean company Samsung kicks off the industry-wide push by launching a 3D range that will be in British shops by the end of the month.

The…

By Elena Moya

European countries are blocking Wall Street banks from lucrative deals to sell government debt worth hundreds of billions of Euros in retaliation for their role in the credit crunch.
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Bay Area permaculture designer Eric Broberg explains the need for greywater and gives a walk-through of one of the systems he has installed in Oakland.

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA today delivered to the chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, a letter from GATA Chairman Bill Murphy, appealing to the CFTC to …

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, …

By Gretchen Morgenson

As more details surface about how derivatives helped Greece and perhaps other countries mask their debt loads, let’s not forget that the wonders of these complex products ar…

By Megan Quinn Bachman

…The good news is that it hasn’t been all hard times for these lifestyle leaders. Many changes have made their lives better, like adopting a low-energy and local diet, g…

By Anthony Faiola

Icelanders this weekend resoundingly rejected a plan to reimburse overseas depositors after the failure of an online Icelandic bank, a rare public referendum on the repayment of a…

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It’s coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tian’anmen Square.
It’s coming from the feel
that this ain’t exactly …

By Gary Null
So, here is the raw data. The next time you see the head of one of these private corporations appearing as an objective independent expert on CNBC, CNN or FOX, return to this list an…

BY Dave Miller

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By Nicholas Carlson

The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004. 

Then called “thef…

Mish Shedlock has another story out about how government is broke and union workers are selfishly asking for pay raises in the face of these fiscal catastrophes.

Chicago Public Schools System Is Br…

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The 2008 Organic Production Survey (OPS) is a follow-on survey to the 2007 Census of Agriculture. It is the first organic production and practices survey conducted on t…

The U.S. Census Bureau has awarded IBM (NYSE: IBM) Global Business Services a contract to provide data tabulation and dissemination services in support of the 2010 Census and other key Census Bureau…

By Jon Rapppoport

MARCH 4, 2010. A week ago, I wrote and emailed and posted this article. Since then, I’ve had time to reflect further, and I’ve also gotten suggestions from readers. The situat…

By Wayne Madsen

WMR has learned from sources who worked in senior positions for the telecommunications company Qwest that its former chairman and CEO, Joseph Nacchio, was threatened with retal…

Views of the country’s short- and long-term economic future are gloomier these days than they have been at any time since President Obama took office in January of last year.

Forty-two percent (42%) …

By Scribe

Yesterday, there was a major victory for privacy.  Unfortunately, it was not in the US.  The German Constitutional Court threw out as unconstitutional a law which required storage of all…

By Mayuri Onerheim

The Rolling Stone March 2009 issue had an article by Matt Taibbi called Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle in which he likens the financial crisis bailout to a street con and makes a v…

By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova

There’s no doubt you’ve seen the wild images of rioters in Athens.

They’re violently objecting to the painful budget measures officials are taking.

But offici…

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We bring transparency to influential social networks by tracking the key relationships of politicians, corporate executives, lobbyists, financiers, and their affiliated …

By Suzy Jagger

Washington has backed down on proposals to block investment banks from engaging in proprietary trading activities, Britain’s top financial regulator told MPs yesterday.

Lord…

One of the challenges of learning about the UFO phenomenon is finding an overview which is both thorough and intellectually rigorous.

Richard Dolan has done an excellent job of providing us with on…

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By Kieren McCarthy

The US government’s policy of leaving the Internet alone is over, according to Obama’s top official at the Department of Commerce.

Instead, an “Internet Policy 3.0” appr…

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How many of you people out there
Been hurt in some …

Denise Franklin needed a healing place. She’d been through a major illness (more than 20 years earlier doctors had told her she had six months to live) and had walked away from a house and husband….

U.S. Domestic Version March 2008

By Addy Dugdale

Microsoft has acted swiftly after the Web site Cryptome leaked its “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook.” The guide does exactly what it says: outli…

By Josh Funk

Billionaire Warren Buffett says health care costs are a major drain on U.S. businesses and act like an “economic tape worm.”

The head of the holding company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said…

Tracy (California) residents will now have to pay every time they call 9-1-1 for a medical emergency.

But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year which allo…

By Adrian Douglas

Recently I have written several articles that have discussed how much “paper gold” has been sold, principally through the unallocated accounts of the London Bullion Market Associat…

Continue reading $5 Billion In Political Contributions Bought Wall Street Freedom From Regulation, Restraint
Wall Street Watch (4 March 09)

By Jose Luis Saavedra

One of the world’s most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile on Saturday, killing at least 214 people, knocking down buildings and triggering a tsunami that th…

By James Turk

Instead of depositor money being used to stimulate economic activity in the private sector by lending to businesses and consumers, the banks are helping to fund the growing federal defi…

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Nigel Farage Insults EU President Herman Van Rompu
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Europe Chooses a President
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By Matthew Futterman and Kevin Helliker
Vancouver, British Columbia

Norway’s Olympic team has won a surprising 17 medals in Vancouver so far, enough to place it third overall and only one gold meda…

By Dawn Kopecki

The Obama administration may expand efforts to ease the housing crisis by banning all foreclosures on home loans unless they have been screened and rejected by the government’s Home…

By F. William Engdahl

A major diplomatic and political scandal is erupting that could have significant import for French-American relations. It involves new research into the mysterious outbrea…

Democrats have retreated from adding new privacy protections to the primary U.S counterterrorism law, stymied by Senate Republicans who argued the changes would weaken terror investigations.

The prop…

by Gordon T Long

The Bond Vigilantes are dead – RIP – Long Live the Sultans of Swap

Every parent has had that moment when their child asks them the simplest sounding question but in that instance …

When the US commodities regulator sought public input last year on a plan to damp oil speculation, most of the hundreds of missives it received were not about energy, but silver and gold.

One lette…

European banks need to roll over €1 trillion (£877bn) of debt over the next two years at a much higher cost and in direct competition with hungry sovereign states, according to a report by Morgan…

By Dawn Kopecki

Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance companies under government control, are reporting fourth-quarter losses after writing down the value of tax credit…

Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment

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By Richard Teitelbaum

Feb. 23 (Bloomberg)—When a congressional panel convened a hearing on the government rescue of American International Group Inc. in January, the public scolding of Treasury Sec…

Associated Press (21 Feb 10)

WASHINGTON – Americans who turn to terrorism and plot against the U.S. are now as big a concern as international terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitan…

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Global Crisis Leads I.M.F Experts to Rethink Long-Held Ideas
New York Times (21 Feb 10)

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund has long preached the virtues of keeping inflation low and all…

Fed Probes Goldman Role in Greek Crisis
Financial Times (25 Feb 10)

Bernanke Probing Goldman’s Dealings with Greece
MarketWatch (25 Feb 10)

London Firm Was Created to Route Cash
GATA (22 …

Zero Hedge (20 Feb 10)

Much has been said lately about the record cash balance on the books of S&P 500 companies (ex. financials- those are a different story altogether). Bullish pundits claim th…

Pensions & Investments (11 Jan 10)

The Internal Revenue Service wants to tax the State of Wisconsin Investment Board some $40 million, including interest, to recover income taxes owed by a compan…

GATA (20 Feb 10)

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

As you may have seen from the Bloomberg News story dispatched to you previously today,(http://www.gata.org/node/8352), Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Ber…

Bloomberg (22 Feb 10)

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Pacific Investment Management Co., clearing the way for a lawsuit seeking more than $600 million for the company’s al…

No, it’s not abstract, up there in the clouds!” exclaimed Talita Beck. “I can see it. I can measure it.” We were talking about carbon emissions; Beck is an emissions assessor, a profession t…

Two Breadwinners plus Extra Money to support the Banking Industry. How Middle Class Americans are losing Ground by Supporting the Financial Sector.
MyBudget 360 (19 Feb 10)

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By Paul Mylchreest (12 Nov 07)

THESIS: The biggest credit bubble in modern history is showing signs of unraveling in the US. Debt/credit expansion brings forward consumption—it must either be pur…

The Economist (8 Feb 10)

THERE was a time when conservation meant keeping people away from nature. America’s system of national parks, a model for similar set-ups around the world, was based on the…

Talk about your political upsets.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, hero of a fervant band of libertarians, unexpectedly won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference today, cl…

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By Newt Gingrich and Peter Ferrara

You did the responsible thing. You saved in your IRA or 401(k) to support your retirement, when you could have spent that money on another vacation, or an upscale…

Tesla Motors, makers of sporty electrical cars, filed their registration statement on January 29th to go public with a $100 million offering through Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and D…

By Darrell Preston and Nanette Byrnes

Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — U.S. states must contend with a more than $1 trillion gap between what they have saved and what they have promised to retired workers for …

Posting rages at IRS, claims, “I have had all I can stand”

FEBRUARY 18—The man suspected of intentionally crashing an airplane into a Texas office building today appears to have posted a lengthy on…

Rasmussen Reports (16 Feb 10)

Forty-three percent (43%) of U.S. voters rate the performance of their local government as tops compared to its counterparts on the state and federal level.

A new Rasmu…

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B 416 – “Sound Money In Banking Act”; require any bank serving as a depository for the state to offer/accept gold and silver coin for deposit

A BILL to b…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Large financial institutions that engage in speculative activities for profit should be allowed to fail if they get in trouble, White House advisor Paul Volcker said on Sunday…

By Suzanne Goldenberg

The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent.

The claim, which comes from…

Kinzers, PA – At 9:40 a.m. Thursday, February 4, only a few miles from the scene of the Nickel Mines Amish massacre of 2006, another drama against the Amish began as agents of the U.S. Food and Dr…

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From Chris Powell – GATA – 7:45p ET Monday, February 15, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In a fascinating 50-minute interview with Eric King of King World News, JSMineSet.com’s Jim Sincla…