CEO Jon Corzine, center, at MF Global last year: A Senate panel Thursday grilled regulators about how loopholes let farmers’ commodity trades end up in risky bonds.

More than 100 Minnesota farmers…

Technology and society: The “maker” movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation. It may even herald a new industrial revolution

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The scene in the park sur…

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Thousands of Americans will be finding guns in their Christmas stockings this year, after the biggest one-day buy-up on record.

Black Friday set the biggest one-day record of back…

Fire boats battle a fire at the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico.

By Vivian Kuo

BP is accusing Halliburton of having “intentionally destroyed evidence” re…

From Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin

The U.S. is becoming increasingly aware and concerned about the possibility within a few years of an electromagnetic pulse attack from an enemy’s high-altitude nuclea…

William J. Clinton (left) and Jon S. Corzine

By  Neil W. McCabe

A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory fi…

By Nicholas D. Kristopf

If you want to understand why the Occupy movement has found such traction, it helps to listen to a former banker like James Theckston. He fully acknowledges that he and othe…

By Steve Karnowski Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS—The shock waves from the collapse of commodities trading firm MF Global Inc. are hitting hard across rural America, where farmers, ranchers and ag…

Hernando de Soto is a Peruvian economist who made enough money in Europe to retire before he was 40. Instead he began studying what makes some countries rich and keeps others poor. His advocacy for f…

By David Brooks

Why are nations like Germany and the U.S. rich? It’s not primarily because they possess natural resources — many nations have those. It’s primarily because of habits, values a…

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By Christopher Ketcham

We are now exposed to electromagnetic radio frequencies 24 hours a day. Welcome to the largest human experiment ever.

Consider this sto…

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks at a press conference at City University London in central London December 1, 2011
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By Tyler Durden

Simply put, “it does not last for ever” should be ringing in the ears of every investor in the world with more than a few millisecond return horizon. And neither do any and all charta…

By Scott Lanman and Jeff Black

Six central banks led by the Federal Reserve made it cheaper for banks to borrow dollars in emergencies in a global effort to ease Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis.

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By Barry B. Burr

AMR Corp.’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection leaves the future uncertain for American Airlines’ defined benefit pension plans, which have a combined $8.3 billion in asse…

By Chris Powell

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst Chris Martenson made an absolutely brilliant and eloquent presentation to the Spanish Precious Metals Association’s conference in Madrid …

Private prison companies strive to keep millions behind bars to keep their profits up. (photo: Gallo/Getty images)

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“Despite a falling crime rate and widespread overcrowdi…

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ARLINGTON VA – November 22, 2011 – Today, the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has joined with the National Association of Convenience Store…

By Cam Hui

The title, which refers to a possible “market crash”, may seem untimely on an occasion when ES futures are deeply in the green, but the newsflow from Europe is getting more and more conf…

Unless Germany and the ECB move quickly, the single currency’s collapse is looming

EVEN as the euro zone hurtles towards a crash, most people are assuming that, in the end, European leaders will …

By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz

The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the wo…

By Richard K Moore

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When the Industrial Revolution began in Britain, in the late 1700s, there was lots of money to …

Clean drinking water can be provided to the world for just $20 billion.

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By Gretchen Morgenson

AS the debt mess in Europe deepens, bankers are pressing Greece’s bond holders to swallow big losses.

Leading the charge is BNP Paribas, the big French bank, which has b…

By Chris Anders

While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are a…

* Freddie and Fannie had deep political connections
* Rahm Emanuel, Tom Donilon were on payroll

By Tim Reid, Margaret Chadbourn and Mark Hosenball

While presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich was forc…

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By Andy Bruce

The euro zone is unlikely to survive its sovereign debt crisis in current form, according to a majority of leading economists and former policymakers polled by Reuters.

Fourteen out …

Behind every credit default swap or short of subprime mortgage-backed assets sit legal counsel sanctioning these practices; their hands are no cleaner than those of their clients.

By Katherine Fran…

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Brought to us courtesy of senators Kay Hagan of North Carolina and one of the banking lobby’s most obedient lap dogs, Bob Corker of Tennessee; The United States Covered Bond Act of 2011 is de…

View IBEW Local 90 Pension Fund v Corzine (PDF) complaint for violation of the Federal Securities Laws filed November 18, 2011 at the United Sates District Court Southern District of New York

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By Barani Krishnan

U.S. stocks skidded on Monday, extending losses from across Europe as fears over out-of-control government debt on both sides of the Atlantic hit financial markets.

Commodities …

By Yahoo News

The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywh…

Lecture By Dr. Franz Adlkofer

On Nov. 3, Dr. Franz Adlkofer, former executive director of the VERUM Foundation for Behavior and Environment, spoke to a Harvard Law School audience as part of the le…

Mario Monti Prime Minister of Italy

Mario Monti (Italian pronunciation: [?ma?rjo ?monti]; born 19 March 1943) is an Italian economist and academic who has been Prime Minister of Italy, as well as …

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Our Ken Lovett reports:

In a 5-2 decision, a bitterly split Court of Appeals, said the state’s awarding of tax-payer funded state economic development loans and grants to private…

By Rhiannon Hoyle

Total central-bank gold purchases in the third quarter more than doubled from the second quarter and were almost seven times higher than a year earlier as countries continued to div…

General Assembly holds mock trial and journalist Chris Hedges reads indictment accusing Goldman Sachs of financial crimes against humanity.

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By William Thomas 

If you did not enjoy “traditional” chemtrails raining down on you, you are not going to like the new version, which the United States Air Force promises will feature aerial dump…

By Steven Levy

“What I’m about to show you,” Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we’ve been doing for 15 years.”

The CEO of Amazon.com, in regulation blue oxford sh…

By Laura Sanders

Instead of the indiscriminate destruction of the atom bomb or napalm, the signature weapon of future wars may be precise, unprecedented control over the human brain. As global conf…

By Wall Street Journal

Concerns are rising that the Federal Housing Administration could run out money if the economy doesn’t recover soon, raising the risk the agency would seek a taxpayer bailout…

By Jon Rappoport

Mark Madden, a Pennsylvania radio host, wrote a piece about Jerry Sandusky, the accused Penn State pedophile, back in April, while a grand jury was deciding whether to indict Sandus…

By Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

In a beleaguered economy, the country needs entrepreneurs – the nation’s job creators. Fortunately, a recent poll shows that the so-called millennial generatio…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Something special happened this week. I finished paying off Nissan Motors.

In 2000, I leased or purchased three Nissan Pathfinders for Solari, Inc. As…

By Stacy Mitchell

Under a measure that passed the House last Thursday, you may soon be able to invest in a portfolio of your favorite independent businesses. The bill, which won bipartisan suppor…

France President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama

By Yann Le Guernigou

“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama, unaware that the microphones in their meeting room had been swi…

By Associated Press

The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for youn…

By Nieman Watchdog

Longtime journalist and commentator Bill Moyers was the keynote speaker on October 20 at the 40th anniversary celebration of Public Citizen, the “countervailing force to corporate…

By Malcolm Gladwell

One of the great puzzles of the industrial revolution is why it began in England. Why not France, or Germany? Many reasons have been offered. Britain had plentiful supplies of c…

By Sarah A. Low and Stephen Vogel

This study uses nationally representative data on marketing of local foods to assess the relative scale of local food marketing channels. This research documents t…