Online Tour of the Sistine Chapel

Sistine Chapel is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. It is famous for its architecture, evocative of…

Jewish men wrapped with prayer shawls take part in the Annual Cohanim prayer or Priest’s blessing for the Pesach (Passover) holiday at the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem on April 1, 2010. T…

The World Gold Council (“WGC”) and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (“ICBC”) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for strategic cooperation within China’s gold market….Both parti…

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I just noticed a 3/4 page add in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. I thought I would publish the entire copy.

Here it is:

The Way Forward

JPMorgan Chase & C

Small Business Lending Makes A Big D…

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So it turns out it is full speed ahead for the Trans-Texas Corridor! You know, it’s kind of incredible. We can hardly keep track of the pressure being applied to the poor, bleedin…

Advance Notice of a Meeting Under Expedited Procedures

It is anticipated that a closed meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, April 5, 2010, will b…

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Tim Muffett went to Stroud in Gloucestershire, which prints its own currency, to find out how it has been working.

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Ever imagine getting your tie caught in a mechanical set of gears (sorry ladies – but I will spare you). The results are nasty! Now you know what the Sultans of Swap in the $695 Trillion global OTC …

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Continue reading [KR29] Keiser Report – Markets! Finance! Scandal! – And Mark Schapiro

The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted a new rule to place certain restrictions on short selling when a stock is experiencing significant downward price pressure. The measure is intend…

Dear Mr. Blankfein:

I write to request information about your firm’s market activities related to credit default swaps on municipal bonds in general, and State of California general obligation (GO)…

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By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova

There’s an enormous yet simple reason why America will remain an extremely powerful nation out to 2050. It’s demographics.

Thanks to…

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The Chinese government is reviewing proposals to adjust its currency exchange rate system next month, Chinese media reported, as international pressure grows on Beijing to revalue the yuan.

The pro…

As we read stories about a strong US dollar, it is good to keep a historical perspective in mind.

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By Robert Evans

Scientists smashed sub-atomic particles into each other with record energy on Tuesday, aiming to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang that gave rise to the universe 13.7 bill…

By Gretchen Morgenson

With all the hoopla over the health care bill, hardly anybody noticed that a job creation bill that President Obama signed on March 18 makes it much harder for United States c…

Here is a tool to track proposed federal food “safety” legislation.

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By Oliver Biggadike and Inyoung Hwang

The strengthening U.S. economy, subdued inflation and rising stock prices are propelling the dollar rally into its fifth month as traders seek refuge from Eur…

President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have sealed an agreement on a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty. Obama and Medvedev plan to officially sign the new Strategic Arms Reductio…

As of last week, there is now a U.S. Government national security agency called the Biometrics Identity Management Agency (BIMA).  It supersedes a Biometrics Task Force that was established in 2000.
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Higher yields are the “canary in the mine,” Greenspan said in a March 26 interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt.” The increases reflect concern over “this hu…

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Thanks to our friend Robert Ian of La Crosse, Wisconsin, video of GATA Chairman Bill Murphy’s testimony at today’s hearing of the U.S. Commodity Futures …

By William Selway and Martin Z. Braun

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and UBS AG were among more than a dozen Wall Street firms involved in a conspiracy to pay below-market …

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The fundamentals supporting the long term trend.

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By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova

The recent bond sell off might just be noise, but of course it’s causing people to discuss the long-term sustainability of US debt.

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By Adam Brochert

For those who already own Gold and want to buy a house in the future, here’s how to know when to start looking for a house (chart stolen from Adrian Ash at …

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By 2014, International Monetary Fund official John Lipsky remarked March 21, the debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of the Group of Seven countries will reach 100%, and the gove…

MDC activist Sam Chakaipa returns to his village in rural Zimbabwe to find his friends and neighbours starving to death.

Reduced to panning gold powder from the rivers to exchange for food at an ex…

By Michael Mackenzie and David Oakley

The bond vigilantes are finally flexing their muscles. A long period of stability for the US government bond market showed signs of cracking this week as a lack …

Dear Mr. President-Elect,

It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food polic…

By Anais Starr

The image above comes from a wonderful book I’m reading titled “Carrots Love Tomatoes” by Louise Riotte. The book’s byline is “Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening.”…

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“If each household in Montana spent just $10 a week on Montana-produced food, we would redirect $186 million dollars each year to the state’s food producers.”

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“Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding …

By Laura Litvan, Nicole Gaouette and Kristin Jensen

March 22 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. House passed the most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades, rewriting the rules governing medic…

By Jane Hamsher

The Firedoglake health care team has been covering the debate in congress since it began last year. The health care bill will come up for a vote in the House on Sunday, and as Nancy P…

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In his new book, In Search of Self-Governance, Scott Rasmussen observes that most Americans “have come to believe that the political system is broken, that most politicians are corrupt, and that n…

Wachovia bank executives have admitted that the banking giant laundered millions of dollars for Mexican drug lords between 2003 and 2008, prosecutors announced in Miami this afternoon.

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The People’s Party, the largest group in a five-party coalition, walked out amid disputes over how to cope with the country’s severe problems.

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A House committee requested that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke turn over documents related to Stephen Friedman’s purchase of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shares while he was on…

“Some people think the Federal Reserve banks are United States Government institutions. They are not Government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the Unite…

The following action alert came from Grow Montana and the Community Food Agriculture Coalition of Missoula County.

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The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.

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WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE? is a witty and provocative documentary produced and directed by award-winning Catherine Gund about kids and food politics. Filmed over the course of one year, the film follows …

By David Glovin and Bob Van Voris

The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout ever, a federal…

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The formal statement GATA Chairman Bill Murphy plans to submit as a witness at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s hearing next week on position limits in …

By Heather Smith

With just one slaughterhouse remaining within 80 miles of San Francisco, we stand to lose not only our local beef industry, but our grazing lands as well. Now a thick-skinned h…

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From French poodles to German shepherds, domestic dogs likely trace most of their ancestry to the Middle East, as opposed to East Asian origins suggested by previous research,…

The financial reform legislation passed in the House on December 11, 2009 is now in the Senate.

The Democrats in the Senate have produced a new version, .

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Central banks added the most gold to their reserves since 1964 last year amid the longest rally in bullion prices in at least nine decades, data compiled by the World Gold Counci…

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Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to pass a law saying no thanks to part of President Obama’s health care proposal.

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio announced on Wednesday he would switch his vote on the Democrat-led healthcare reform bill and support the legislation even though it does not create a public opt…