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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Democracy Now (3 Nov 11)

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

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…

The New York Times (1 Nov 11)

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…

By The Wall Street Journal

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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By Sandrine Rastello

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…

UK Telegraph (30 Oct 11)

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…

Here is the WORST idea yet – allowing the NWO to destroy the U.S. Constitution by making it look like a neetsy keen grassroots movement.

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The 99% Declaration

WHEREAS THE FIRST AMENDMEN…

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…

Catherine with Max Keiser – (28 Oct 11)

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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…

By: Reuters

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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By Kareem Fahim and Rick Gladstone

MISURATA, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after an armed uprising toppled his regime two months ago, met a vio…

By Susanna Kim

While many law school graduates are all too aware of their accumulating pile of debt, few may realize it can prevent them from practicing law and kill any hopes of paying down their …

By Jonathan Benson

If you buy or sell secondhand goods and live in the state of Louisiana, you can no longer use legal tender to complete such transactions. Ackel & Associates LLC (A&A), a professi…

The Mises Institute dug up this cartoon from 1912 showing what would happen if the Federal Reserve Act was adopted in 1913; this is exactly what has happened.

The picture above was taken from a pro…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I just got a message from a reader for the third time today. It proposes that we support Warren Buffet’s proposals to amend the US Constitution.

I responded, “So you want t…

On October 17, 2011, the Supreme Court granted a certiorari petition to review a decision issued by a divided panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Kiobel v. Shell Petroleum N.V.1   The …

A transcript of Catherine’s September 22, 2011 interview of Adam Trombly on Zero Point Energy is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!

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Visions Green (5 Aug 11)

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By: Jeff Cox

The U.S. plans on being an active partner as efforts intensify to get Europe get back on its feet financially, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC Friday.

With global leader…

By Deirdre Walsh

Congress voted Wednesday on a bipartisan basis to pass free-trade bills with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

President Barack Obama, who dined Thursday at a Korean restaurant wi…

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By Matthew DeLuca

They’re protesting big banks and corporations, so which start-ups are Occupy Wall Street looking to for collecting donations and financing a new media endeavor?

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By SN Staff

In a controversial and potentially groundbreaking decision, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has submitted a document supporting the commercial production of a genetically engineer…

By Edith Honan

Pennsylvania’s capital, Harrisburg, filed for a rare Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy on Wednesday after it was unable to resolve its debt crisis with creditors and faced a possible ta…

How Firms Trimmed Pensions

As companies have been moving away from traditional pension plans, they have been shifting employees to new retirement plans, such as 401(k)s, that transfer the cost — …

Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova after the Slovak Parliament voted down plans to give the eurozone rescue fund more powers. Photo: Reuters

Supporters of the Eurozone measure, which is seen as c…

In response to Dr. Milham’s recommendations of Stetzer products, one of their distributors Stetzerizer-US.com has offered a 7% discount for Solari Report subscribers.

Stetzer Electric was found…

By Susan Gregory Thomas

Susan Gregory Thomas is the author of “In Spite of Everything: A Memoir.”

’I’M not interested in being hip or a hippie. Nor does my happiness particularly hinge on ar…

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

America cannot expect a bunch of disenfranchised park-dwellers to come up with a solution to its economic woes — they have a political ruling class to do that.

Co…

In 1910, some of the Nation’s most powerful bankers met secretly off the
coast of Georgia to draft a proposal for a private central banking system.

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The Finnish government and major insurance companies announced Wednesday they will pay for lifetime medical care for children diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccin…

“”No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, be…

By David DeCamp

Clearwater — Pinellas County will stop adding fluoride to its drinking water, ending a cavity-fighting effort that riled critics of Big Brother government despite decades of advoc…