By RT.com

Madrid’s high-class escorts have found a way to regulate the Spanish banking sector. The ladies want to have their say in the economy by withholding sexual pleasures from bank employees…

By Joe Pompeo

Herbert “Pug” Winokur, the former Enron board member and finance committee chairman when the company was destroyed by an accounting-fraud scandal in 2001, has stepped down from the b…

By Jesse j. Holland

Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court’s conservative justices has cast serious doubt on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Ob…

By Bob Ivry

The White House submitted a budget plan to Congress this year that would have provided the FHA as much as $688 million from the U.S. Treasury , the first bailout in the agency’s 78- y…

By Ed Keller

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By C. Powell

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In an essay headlined “Fake Bars — The Facts,” Bron Suchecki of the Perth Mint today explains why tungsten-filled and other counterfeit gold bars like t…

By Gary Victor Dubin

Gary Victor Dubin is a dynamite Honolulu foreclosure defense attorney with over 40 wins by the DUBIN LAW FIRM in Hawaii foreclosure courts for his clients just in the last year…

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By Richard Wolf

Health coverage for more than 30 million people. The power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. President Obama’s re-election. The reputati…

By Ruby Lian and Fayen Wong – Reuters

The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange plans to launch yuan-settled gold and copper futures by July, its president said on Friday, as it looks to tap growing intere…

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina

By Catherine E. Shoichet

On the campaign trail, Otto Perez Molina vowed to rule his country with an iron fist.

The retired general said he would send troops …

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The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) operates a worldwide financial messaging network which exchanges messages between banks and other financia…

By Janet Lorin

U.S. student-loan debt reached the $1 trillion mark, as young borrowers struggle to keep up with soaring tuition costs, according to the initial findings of a government study.

The …

By Joseph T. Salerno

Under cover of its multiplicity of fabricated wars on drugs, terror, tax evasion, and organized crime, the US government has long been waging a hidden war on cash. One symptom …

By Arshad Mohammed and Andrew Quinn

The United States exempted Japan and 10 EU nations from financial sanctions because they have significantly cut purchases of Iranian oil, but left Iran’s top cus…

By James Bamford

The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow o…

Dennett’s IGA supermarket in Mullumbimby is FOR SALE

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By Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Tehran’s threats to block the Strait of Hormuz in response to sanctions are not mere words, warned Iran’s senior spokesman on sanctions. As long as the West ignores interna…

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Executive order issued Friday entitled “National Defense Resources Preparedness”

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[Note from CAF: Yes, it is simply an update of existing Executive Orders. However, why now? La…

By Pete Kennedy, Esq.

In a brazen power grab threatening the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using the state Invasive Species Act to e…

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Secret Deals, Foreclosure Settlements,Stress Tests, and Vampire Squid Whistle-Blowers

By L. Randall Wray

No Hollywood scriptwriter could plot a more implausible story. Here is the plotline sequenc…

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National Foreclosure Settlement Complaint (PDF)
 
 
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Ally/GMAC Settlement (PDF)

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[CAF Note: Goldman’s head of derivatives for Europe just happens to resign in the middle of the Greek CDS debacle and writes a big NY Times piece attacking Goldman on culture? What a coincidence! A …

By Joe Weisenthal

Sectoral Excess returns

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By Jeff Horwitz

JPMorgan Chase & Co. took procedural shortcuts and used faulty account records in suing tens of thousands of delinquent credit card borrowers for at least two years, current and for…

Lesley Stahl profiles British musical savant Derek Paravicini, whose computer-like memory for music is matched by his creative abilities to play it in any style.

By Nina Mehta

New York — Robert Rubin, who as U.S. Treasury secretary in the 1990s promoted a stronger dollar, said he has too much of his personal investments in the currency.

A “disproportionat…

Apple Inc. (AAPL) stock for last 5 years

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A sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere — this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal we…

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Jeff Clark, Casey Research writes: On February 29, gold dropped 4.8% and silver 6.2% (based on London fix prices). That’s quite the fall for one day. We’ve seen prices that have ris…

JULIAN ASSANGE RT EXCLUSIVE – FULL INTERVIEW (PART 1 of 2)

He famously warns that social media and in particularly Facebook, Google, Yahoo are among the greatest spy machines ever invented. Once ag…

By Kim Hart

In the wake of the Internet blackout that led to the dramatic death of two controversial online piracy bills, a new warning has entered the Hill vernacular: “Don’t get SOPA’d.”
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By Katey Culver

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As many of you know I have been involved in 2 lawsuits against the State of TN with the Green Party of TN.  Our first lawsuit took 3 years and ended in a W…

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By Jenna Blumenfeld

Lately it seems like non-GMO supporters simply can’t catch a break.

In the wake of an unsuccessful lawsuit between the Organic Seed Growers and Monsanto Co., and news that B…

By Heidi Przybyla

Representative Dennis Kucinich’s exit from Congress is among many setbacks defining his 42-year political career, dating to the 1978 attempt to recall him as the “boy mayor”…

By Steven Aftergood

U.S. special operations forces are engaged in “more than 100 countries worldwide,” said Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), in tes…

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Angel Babcock, the 15-month-old found alive in an Indiana field, died on Sunday, bringing t…

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By Gretchen Morgenson

Stop your bellyaching.
That was the message delivered last Thursday to Americans who today make almost nothing on the savings in their bank accounts.

It came from Sarah Bloom…

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Dozens of unusually strong tornadoes cut a path across five states in the U.S. Midwest and South, smashing houses and damaging schools. A least 15 people were ki…

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Morgan Stanley said it will have to post another USD 6.52 billion in collateral to counterparties and clearinghouses if Moody’s follows through on a warning that it might cut the Wa…

By Brock Vergakis

A super-powerful gun that shoots rounds more than 160 kilometres away — at several times the speed of sound — is being developed for Navy warships.

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I’m a home owner in California. My wife and I are trying to refinance our house. Since the housing market has collapse right after we have purchased our home, the value has gone down…

In the heart of Seattle, a public park is planned like no other: an urban food forest that is free for the plucking!

By Michael Ricciardi

Due to its mild temperatures and routinely wet climate, Seat…

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By David Pogue

You’re probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I’m paying $5 a month, and …

By Ken Murray

Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. It was diagnosed as pancreatic cancer by one of the best surgeons in the country,…