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As always, there are lessons to be learned in even the most negative situations, and here are nine lessons from this one.

1. An event hundreds of miles away can directly impact your life.
Initially, …

By Gregory White and Kamelia Angelova

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Continue reading We’re Not The First Empire To Have A Serious Currency Problem

By C. Powell

Because of recent inquiries to GATA about the possibility of an attempt by the U.S. Government to confiscate privately held gold and silver bullion and coins and shares in companies mi…

By Tyler Durden

As we reported on Friday, a critical bill that was unable to pass this past week was the extension of unemployment benefits to millions of Americans currently collecting a $1,200 aver…

In his occasional paper THE RETURN TO GOLD 1925 , Cambridge University scholar, Donald E. Moggridge, tells us that it was Sir Isaac Newton, who, back in 1717, set the price of gold at 77 shillings 1…

On Eve of 1st Anniversary of King of Pop’s death LaToya Jackson says he was killed for Cash.

Michael Jackson was murdered to gain control over his music catalog his sister LaToya Jackson has charge…

By Joel Salatin

I’ll never forget the morning, about twenty years ago, when a knock at the front door brought me face-to-face with a man who announced he was from the Virginia Meat and Poultry In…

By Denise Smith Amos and Mike Boyer

‘This is devastating,’ school official says of company’s plan to cut $40 million in property taxes.”

Southwest Ohio school districts said they have recently rec…

Republicans on Thursday defeated Democrats’ showcase election-year jobs bill, including an extension of weekly unemployment benefits for millions of people out of work more than six months.

The 57-…

Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.

In the week that the UN Security …

A prominent US economic and banking expert has portrayed a grim outlook for the world’s most powerful economy, saying the “crony capitalism” runs rampant in the US.

Writing in the Wall Street Journ…

For the first time, researchers have been able to control the remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once and that too in the most common electronic material, silicon-a feat tha…

…our friends at Nanex have conducted an exhaustive analysis (must read for everybody concerned about market structure), in which they identify the various parties responsible for the market crash…

By Shobhana Chandra and Timothy R. Homan

Purchases of U.S. new homes fell in May to the lowest level on record after a tax credit expired, showing the market remains dependent on government support…

By Joe Mysak

The bonds designed by the U.S. government to help municipalities recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression may cost them millions of dollars in unforeseen borrowing c…

As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientist…

By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova

Continue reading Hugo Chavez Defeats American Capitalism

Cell phones emit radiation to send voice and text messages to the other caller. Health risks aren’t confirmed, but some (not all) studies of frequent cell phone users suggest increased risks for bra…

By Joseph Galante

Amanda Dorsey has spent dozens of hours categorizing search results on eBay, verifying search-engine links and doing other online jobs for CrowdFlower Inc., a San Francisco employ…

By Andrew Fowler

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has given his strongest indication yet about the next big leak from his whistleblower organisation.

There has been rampant speculation about Wi…

By Kirsty Walker and Jason Grove

VAT to rise 2.5% to 20% from January 2011
Deficit reduced 77% by spending cuts, 23% by tax rises
Departments face cuts of 25% over the next five years
Two-ye…

By   Michael Hastings

This article appears in RS 1108/1109 from July 8-22, 2010, on newsstands Friday, June 25.

‘How’d I get screwed into going to this dinner?” demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It…

By Denis C. Theriault

A new report on who supplies — and who spends — California’s public dollars shows an interesting disparity between the givers and the takers:

Continue reading Report: Bay…

By Christie Keith

Sido was a little tan-and-white dog, mixed-breed, pretty, charming and devoted to her owner. Not that different, maybe, from the dog lying at your feet while you read this.

You m…

The Supreme Court lifted Monday a four-year ban on the sale in the United States of genetically modified alfalfa, which farmers fear contaminates others crops.

A district court judge in California …

By Tyler Durden

Even as increasingly desperate falling knife catchers try to convince someone, anyone to buy up some or all of their shares of BP stock, which is certainly on its way to a guarantee…

By Isao Hashimoto

“2053” – This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe from 1954-1998.

Continue reading “1945-1998”

By Alan Zibel

The Obama administration’s flagship effort to help people in danger of losing their homes is falling flat.

More than a third of the 1.24 million borrowers who have enrolled in the $7…

By David Wilson

Continue reading U.S. Profit-Margin Outlook `Extremely Bad’: Chart of the Day

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Continue reading Criminal Investigation of BP Staged Oil Spill Vital to Gulf Recovery

Continue reading Jon Kyl Tells of Obama Holding US Security Hostage

By Abby Phillip

When BP executives filed into the West Wing on Wednesday morning to meet with President Barack Obama, they were joined by at least one familiar Washington hand: former Clinton admin…

If you live in Okaloosa County, Florida, or Destin on Florida’s Emerald Coast and are wondering who’s going to be calling the shots if black crude oil comes ashore — wonder no more. It won’t be the…

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By Restore Liberty

In response to fixing the obviously corrupt and broken global financial system and all of its products, we believe that the first step, even before the implementation of a new, s…

By Michael Wei and Benjamin Kang Lim

China will gradually make the yuan’s exchange rate more flexible, the central bank said on Saturday a week before a G20 summit, strongly suggesting that it was …

By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova

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Continue reading Here’s Why Politicians Are Falling Over Themselves To Skewer BP Right Now

By Jon Bruner

More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate ne…

Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA 11th District) responds to a caller on C-Span, who, struggling to support her family while earning fewer than ten dollars an hour, was questioning the unaccounted r…

By Static Chaos

After busy making several outrageous comments regarding BP and the Gulf oil spill as recent as last evening, Matt Simmons abruptly announced today that he would retire from the board…

By Jim Roberts
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By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova

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Continue reading America Industrial Output Is Breaking Record Highs In One Category

By David Liechty

One of the many considerations to make in purchasing gold and silver is the divisibility of the coins you buy. With today’s gold prices at over $1,200 per ounce, a 1-ounce gold …

In the summer of 2006, Harry Blazer invited me to discuss the Solari investment model with him. We recorded our conversation, calling it The Essence of Solari.

When I worked in the first Bush Admini…

Scientists in Florida are concerned that large plumes of oil floating beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico originated from the Deepwater Horizon spill, and want to test their samples against oi…

Commander Adama:

“…I need some serious “out-of-the-box” thinking”

Kara Thrace aka Lieutenant Starbuck:

“Out of the box is where I live.”

From Battlestar Gallactica, The Hand of God

By Daisy Maxey

Here’s something most teens overlook as they get ready to head off for college: a last will and testament.

That’s the last thing, of course, any parent wants to think about. But som…

By Joan Lowy

Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure’s on to allow them in the skies over the United States.

The F…

The 2010 G-20 Toronto Summit is the fourth meeting of the G-20 heads of government in discussion of financial markets and the world economy which will take place at the Metro Toronto Convention Cent…

By Jessey McKinley

Imposing roughly the same cautionary standards for cellphones as for fatty food or sugary soda, this city — never shy about its opinions — voted on Tuesday to require all retai…

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Continue reading Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, and Stop Fretting

[CAF Note: This is proof positive that US Treasury bills and bonds are not subject to 10b-5 and other basic rules of financial disclosure and forward projection!]

By James Risen

The United States …

By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova

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Continue reading Gold: The Safest Of The Safe Havens

Portugese magazine, Revista Grande Reportagem, ran a series of eight flag-related images in 2005 designed to provoke an awareness of life issues in different parts of the world.

Brazil
Green live wi…