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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

By Intelligent Speculator at Seeking Alpha

I recently spent an entire evening talking to a good friend of mine about annuities. Why? Because his father was considering buying one, as he has just re…

By Daniel Wagner and Bernard Condon

He set out to create a mini-Goldman Sachs. In the end, he built a mini-Lehman Brothers.
Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine’s resignation Friday from the securi…

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The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have close…

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The investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in missing money at MF Global has widened, as the CME Group confirmed on Tuesday that the brokerage firm failed to…

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As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire d…

By David Hambling

Against all the odds, Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat cold fusion power plant passed its biggest test yesterday, producing an average of 470 kilowatts for more than five hours. (A technical …

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The International Monetary Fund may create a six-month credit line for countries facing shocks, officials from Group of 20 governments and IMF said, as the European debt crisis…

By Marc Heller – Waterton Daily Times (30 Oct 11)

WASHINGTON — For three New York lawmakers, serving on the Agriculture Committee is a badge of honor. But on the committee’s main order of busines…

By Mike Colpitts – Housing Predictor (31 Oct 11)

Responding to homeowner complaints, Nevada has become the first state in the nation to make illegally repossessing a home a felony, and may send banke…

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A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain as part major new scientific project that aims to answer some of the most fundamental qu…

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By Melanie Pelayo

The announcement of cost of living adjustments by the federal government a week ago not only heralded the first increase to Social Security benefits in 2 years, but it also increa…

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Mega-bank Goldman Sachs (assets $933bn), has declared war on one of the smallest banks in New Yo…

(Reuters) – MERS, the electronic mortgage registry used by the banking industry, was sued by Delaware on Thursday and accused of deceptive practices that led to unlawful shortcuts in dealing with the …

By Laura Bledsoe (24 Oct 11)

When an over-zealous regulator shows up at a farm dinner demanding that food be destroyed as hungry guests await, who do you call? Here’s Laura’s account written as a l…

The products we use everyday are complex combinations of specialized knowledge.

Harvard and MIT released a report, “The Atlas of Economic Complexity,” visually mapping the vast knowledge contained …

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) directed FDA to collect fees on businesses that have to be re-inspected because of some noncompliance. This new requirement could unfairly penalize small busin…

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The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often inef…

By Phil Howard

In the last 40 years, the commercial seed industry has transformed dramatically. It has shifted from a competitive sector of agribusiness, composed primarily of small, family-owned fir…

[Note from CAF: Given that the FDIC just picked up the BofA/Merrill derivatives position, you would think BofA would be a bit more sensitive to the branding of the federal credit!]

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