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By Shadowstats

Here we show year-to-year growth as a measure of the changing money supply.

Note: A downward slope in this growth curve does not necessarily mean that the money supply is dropping. O…

From tourist trips to the edge of the atmosphere to satellite companies propelling products into the ether, the galactic gold rush is on. And now private firms are making millions from Nasa, says Je…

By Gregory White

While the presumption may be that southern members of the eurozone are lazy, the evidence suggests otherwise, according to Societe Generale.

This chart shows the gaps in labor utili…

By Michael J. Green

Q1: What is the significance of this summit?

A1: On January 19, Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao will hold their eighth bilateral meeting, but only their second state visi…

By Paul Ferguson

The following chart shows some long-term trends in the gold mining industry.  The grade of gold discoveries is declining while the cost of discovering gold is increasing:

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History has shown that giant countries on the way down are very dangerous because they are desperate. But this year the U.S. has stabilized and is going to grow modestly.

One more thing: Janet Yell…

Timed for tax season, the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched a pilot today to offer taxpayers a safe, convenient and low-cost financial account for the electronic delivery of their federal tax…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Are we headed toward another Great Depression? Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts gives Financial Survival Radio a brutally honest answer to that question.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Solari.com investment adviser Catherine Austin Fitts tells Financial Survival Radio why the “Crash JP Morgan” (which she recommends and supports) by purchasing physical silv…

Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts says America has a bad case of the tapeworms: A tapeworm media and a tapeworm economy.

A tapeworm, she explains, is a parasite that attaches itself to th…

By John Pilger

My favorite secret document – leaked by WikiLeaks, of course – is from the Ministry of Defense in London. It describes journalists who serve the public without fear or favor as “subv…

WikiLeaks brings truth to the world by publishing fact-based stories without fear or favour.

Our organisation exists because of the work of many volunteers who have contributed thousands of hours t…

Where would we be without seeds? Between a rock and hungry place, that’s where!  Despite their importance, seeds don’t get the attention or respect they deserve. This month, we shine our bright ed…

The yuan is, in the Chinese language, the base unit of a number of modern Chinese currencies. The distinction between yuan and renminbi is analogous to that between the pound and sterling; the pound…

The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre’s extraordinar…

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Julie Haviv

State-owned Bank of China Ltd has opened trading in the yuan currency to U.S. customers, according to a posting on the bank’s website dated December 2010…

By Paul Menchaca

After suffering often staggering losses since the financial crisis shook global markets in 2008, US endowments have been forced to reassess their approach to investing Many endowme…

By Brad DeLong

My suspicion is that this is simply coincidence and proves once again the dangers of drawing conclusions in the field of human action from historical data.

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For many people, smart phones are almost as indispensable as wallets. And soon, your smart phone could replace your wallet. A collection of the biggest wireless carriers, handset makers and software…

(24 September 2010) After six years of intense negotiations, parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety finally agreed on a new international treaty in Nagoya, Japan. According to the treaty, co…

Car was in a Capitol Hill garage. DC, Capitol police on the scene.

Deceased identified as Ashley Turton, wife of White House liaison to the House of Representatives Dan Turton.

Turton worked as a …

By Thom Weidlich

US Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co. lost a foreclosure case in Massachusetts’s highest court that will guide lower courts in that state and may influence others in the clash bet…

By Project Avalon

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Welcome to Facebook Members Want Stock In Facebook

This Group is dedicated to having Facebook members receive a share of the revenue that the site is generating. The site is currently valued at $500 …

By Paul Levy

Note: I consider this series of articles one of the most important things I’ve ever written. If after reading it you feel so inspired, please forward this to all of your friends and li…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The US is drifting from a financial crisis to a deeper and more insidious social crisis. Self-congratulation by the US authorities that they have this time avoided a repe…

Voter Concern About Economy Hits Highest Level In Over Two Years

With a new Congress scheduled to swing into action this week, the number of voters who rate the economy as a Very Important issue ha…

There will soon be seven billion people on the planet.

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By Joseph A. Giannone

The efforts by Facebook to raise as much as $1.5 billion outside of regulated markets is the latest test of the walls between private and public markets.

Goldman Sachs this w…

By Alex MacDonald and Liam Pleven

A prominent indicator of international food prices hit a record high in December, sounding a warning about looming threats to the world’s poor and to global growth…

Welcome back to the Worldwide Fiat Currency Race to Debase!

In US dollar terms gold was up 29.6% on the year.  Beginning the year at $1097, gold showed a steady pace reaching $1421 to close out th…

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By Richard A. Lovett

Earth’s north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the …

By Ronnie Cummins

If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.” – Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, q…

By Molly Peterson

President Barack Obama will sign a $1.4 billion food-safety bill today that marks the biggest change to oversight of the food industry since 1938 and sets up a funding fight with …

By Graham Bowley

A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.

Few humans are present in …

By Sam Smith

The day after Julian Assange of WikiLeaks threatened to “take down” a major American bank, the shares of Bank of America fell 3 percent. . . Since then, a team of 15 to 20 top Bank…

By Paul Ferguson

I noticed something last week.  But before I get into it a little background is required.  Most of the junior mining stocks trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) or the Venture…

By Jonathan Benson

In response to the recent passage of “food safety” bills S. 510 and corresponding H.R. 2751, the Vermont Coalition for Food Sovereignty has drafted its own resolution called “The…

By Oliver Sacks

New Year’s resolutions often have to do with eating more healthfully, going to the gym more, giving up sweets, losing weight — all admirable goals aimed at improving one’s phy…

By Gregory White and Kamelia Angelova

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By John Hussman

Why are Treasury yields rising despite hundreds of billions of Treasury purchases by the Federal Reserve? There are two possibilities in the current debate. One is that the Fed’s po…

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By Gregory White

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced changes to rules on how it calculates long-term unemployment Tuesday, according to The Hill.

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Our indexes are designed to provide real-time information on major inflation trends, not to forecast official inflation announcements. The official CPI series are shown for reference purposes only. Yo…

By Hibah Yousuf

U.S. stocks ended Monday mixed as investors digested a surprise interest rate hike by the Bank of China and a blizzard put a damper on post-holiday retail sales.

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By Bill Carter and Brian Stelter

Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up a…

Georgie Anna Branham LaRue passed from this world on December 26, 2010 at 2:22am at the Falls Center Hospice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Services will take place on Thursday, December 30th at …

By Jesse

Most people confuse freedom with power.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever we wish when we wish however we wish, to serve our passions as ends unto themselves, to be rude and demea…

By Michael Hudson

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