By Jon Hilsenrath and Justin Lahart

The pace of consumer price increases in the U.S. is quickening after being dormant for months. But a tug of war between the prices of goods and the prices of ser…

By Meredith Shiner

Someone in Egypt has been paying attention to what’s happening in Madison and wanted to send a message of solidarity from across the globe — so they ordered a pizza.

It migh…

By Bob Willis

Residential real-estate prices dropped in the 12 months to December by the most in a year, a sign the U.S. housing market is struggling even as the rest of the economy recovers.

The …

18 Jan 2011

By Truth Cafe’

Former Wall Street-Washington insider Catherine Austin Fitts offers insights into the financial coup d’etat.

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Budget fight wages on as nearly 70,000 show up for peaceful rally in Madison

An estimated 70,000 protesters converged on the Wisconsin Capitol on Saturday, with supporters of Republican efforts to …

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A federal judge dismissed the Internal Revenue Service’s lawsuit against Wisconsin’s Commissioner of Insurance and Ambac Assurance Corp., saying her court lacks jurisdiction in t…

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By The CNN Wire Staff

Egypt has agreed to allow two Iranian warships to cross through the Suez Canal in a move that puts the country’s new military regime in a prickly position with its Israeli nei…

By QMI Agency

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in an effort to clamp down on websites that host and advertise child pornography, inadvertently shut down more than 84,000 innocent websites …

By Paul Rincon

Scientists around the world will be watching closely as three eruptions from the Sun reach the Earth over Thursday and Friday.

These “coronal mass ejections” will slam into the Eart…

By Dmitry Orlov

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Dmitry Orlov: Teaching Us to Survive and Thrive

By William Glaberson

Major disasters like terrorist attacks and mass epidemics raise confounding issues for rescuers, doctors and government officials. They also pose bewildering legal questions, i…

By NASA

STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). The mission, launched in October 2006, has provided a unique and revo…

By Theophilos Argitis and Greg Quinn

Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement said he will review London Stock Exchange Group Plc’s C$3.2 billion ($3.2 billion) bid for TMX Group Inc., owner of th…

By Thom Weidlich

(Corrects to show parties would come before the judge to lift the automatic ban in 20th paragraph.)

Merscorp Inc., operator of the electronic-registration system that contains abo…

Capital is slowly withdrawing from the American housing stock.

We are transitioning from a model in which most Americans think of their homes as an investment, to one in which housing is a consumpt…

By Paul Krugman

On Friday, House Republicans unveiled their proposal for immediate cuts in federal spending. Uncharacteristically, they failed to accompany the release with a catchy slogan. So I’…

By Jacob Bunge and Aaron Lucchetti

Votes on Tap; Schumer Speaks Up for Big Board’s ‘Brand’

New York Stock Exchange operator NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse AG are likely to announce a merger as …

By Gretchen Morgenson

KUDOS to Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for some straight talk about the nation’s broken mortgage system.

A report to Congress from those depa…

Bolivian president Evo Morales has abruptly left the southern highlands city of Oruro after protesters angered by rising prices booed him and set off dynamite.

Mr Morales cancelled plans to partici…

NEW YORK and FRANKFURT, 9 February 2011 – In light of recent market rumors, Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext (NYX) today confirmed that they are engaged in advanced discussions regarding a po…

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The Suez Canal (Arabic: ???? ??????? Qan?t al-S?wais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869, it allo…

By Stacy Herbert

Stacy Summary: Max interviews Catherine Austin Fitts. They talk revolution, Ben Bernanke and the US dollar being a unit of war.

By Jon Rappoport

January 30, 2011. It’s a grim party. People in the streets, riots, police, soldiers, and nobody seems exactly sure what it’s for.

Take your choice: kick out the dictators; new…

By Robert Kuttner

Once again, the job numbers are dismal. In January, the U.S. economy created just 36,000 domestic jobs, far below the roughly 145,000 that economists had forecast. The unemploymen…

Assets are in billions as of Sept. 30.

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By Martha Stewart

As a professional cook, cookbook author and teacher, I have a noticed a shift in the role that food plays in our lives and in our culture. Food has become more than one of life’s…

By Better Health Guy

In a world that is full of harmful electromagnetic fields, how to evaluate these issues and what to do about them is often elusive to most of us.

In this blog post, I’ll provi…

By Darlene Heckman

Virtually all of your electronics are sucking up energy even if they’re turned off or not being used. Some of the biggest culprits include your TV, computer, and printer. Even yo…

By Nick Timiraos

More than two years after the government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Obama administration will recommend phasing out the housing-finance giants and gradually reducing th…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Daniel Tencer

In what will likely be seen as something of a Freudian slip by the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said recently in a Mexican news interview that the United States cannot le…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Ashland Current

U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) today took to the floor of the House to oppose the effort to reauthorize expiring provisions of the PATRIOT Act, which ultimately failed…

By Jeffrey Jones and Farah Master

PetroChina is purchasing half of a prolific shale gas project from Canada’s Encana Corp for C$5.4 billion ($5.4 billion), marking the largest Chinese investment ye…

We Declare:

That the political, legal, and economic systems of the United States allow, in each generation, an elite few to impose policy and governing decisions that threaten the very survival of …

By Mary Bottari, Bankster USA

Earnings and bonus reports are rolling in and the big, bailed-out banks are back in the black. In 2010, total compensation and benefits at publicly traded Wall Street …

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The bee crisis has been treated as a niche concern until now, but as the UN’s index of food prices hits an all time-high, it is becoming urgent to know whether the plight…

The Chrysler 200 has arrived. Imported from Detroit.

By Los Angeles Times

New job figures released Friday might have been more meager than most economists had expected, but at least one set of numbers made some people happy. That’s because the Bureau…

By Robert Gehrke

Rep. Bill Wright, as he puts it, “grew up in the dirt,” raising dairy cattle since he was a boy.
But now he fears farming is in jeopardy, threatened by the heavy hand of federa…

By Court Skinner

I’m just getting started in a new, at least to me, software for keeping track of money. The software is the open source, GnuCash, which is available for download here http://www.gn…

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Hi Catherine,

I trust you are well. I’m still enjoying and very much impressed by your weekly Solari Reports, guests, and the Solari blog. Your perception, level head and lack of …

By KT Arasu

U.S. grain prices should stay unrelentingly high this year, according to a Reuters poll, the latest sign that the era of cheap food has come to an end.

U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat pr…

What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of the universe!

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By Joe Weisenthal

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Tuesday, senior S&L regulator William K. Black slammed the FCIC for failing to call out fraud. As told the Real News:

• The Commission was unwilling to use the “F” word (“fraud”)
• “They’ve d…

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By C. Powell

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Federal Reserve can keep secret most of the gold documents at issue in GATA’s freedom-of-information lawsuit against it, a federal judge ruled today….

By Paul Ferguson

A junior mining company I’ve followed for years recently announced that they were raising money.  The initial response from some investors was to cry “Dilution!”.  Virtually all mi…

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By Adam

This week’s Straight Talk contributor is Catherine Austin Fitts: investment advisor and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Solari, where she offers subscribers guidance fo…

There is complexity because the artist, the writer, doesn’t know why he or she is doing the work. That complexity results from a lack of clarity.

There is complexity because the creator of the work…

By Jason Fell

On the heels of President Barack Obama’s big State of the Union address last week, during which he talked up the vital role of entrepreneurs in the recovery of the U.S. economy, the Whi…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Political risk has returned with a vengeance. The first food revolutions of our Malthusian era have exposed the weak grip of authoritarian regimes in poor countries that …

Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under i…