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By Michael J. Murphy

Geo-engineers gathered once again near Monterey California at the Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies meeting to develop norms and guidelines f…

By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new global program to target what it calls “high wealth individuals,” IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman said Monda…

March 2010

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2010-23 and Announcement 2010-16 (collectively, the “IRS Guidance”) regarding Form TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank And Financia…

By Mike Zapler and Mike Swift

Intervening in a high-stakes battle over regulation of Web traffic, a U.S. appeals court issued a ruling Tuesday that sharply undermines the federal government’s abili…

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Huffington Post has posted an essay by GATA Chairman Bill Murphy in reply to an essay by banker Warren Mosler posted there this week asserting that central banks l…

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Continue reading The Consumer Dies Again

Introduction

In our previous blog article about the census A Solari Report— The 2010 Census, we indicated that under 13 U.S. Code § 221, failure to respond to the decennial census was punish…

By Christopher Helman

How can it be that you pay more to the IRS than General Electric?

As you work on your taxes this month, here’s something to raise your hackles: Some of the world’s biggest, mo…

By Nelson D. Schwartz and Louise Story

The Lazarus-like recovery of the nation’s big banks did not benefit just the bankers — it also created huge paydays for hedge fund managers, including a r…

By Mish

Food stamp usage is up again except the program is now called SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Inquiring minds are looking at a SNAP Participation Table that shows a record 39…

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Continue reading Why The Gold-To-Oil Ratio Suggests Oil Could Go A Lot Higher

By David Sanger and Peter Baker

President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear we…

NATO and Russia clashed on Wednesday over how to tackle the drug problem in Afghanistan, where Western nations have been fighting a Taliban-led insurgency for eight years.

The country is the world…

A new generation of 3D mobile phones that don’t require special glasses, could go on sale by the end of this year.

Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp unveiled a new three-inch liquid crystal d…

The World According to Monsanto The following documentary is a thorough, in-depth look at the history of one of the world’s most dangerous and despised corporations and the serious..

The World Accor…

With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such in…

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Buy Organic Certified organic products cannot be produced using GMO ingredients. So if you can, buy only products labeled “100% organic”, “organic,” or “made with organic ingredients.”

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India is launching a new census in which every person aged over 15 will be photographed and fingerprinted to create a biometric national database.

The government will then use the information to is…

Adrian Salbuchi from Agentina. A very competent and serious gentleman. A prime example of where the train is heading. People will drive the corrupt power elites over the cliff. It is not a question if…

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Continue reading Engineered Poison Lurking in Your Everyday Food?

By John Antczak

After a decade of development, the Air Force this month plans to launch a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide hom…

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

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Small Business Lending Makes A Big D…

By The Daily Bell

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.

Continue reading The Town Printing Its Own Currency

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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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Continue reading The Military: Another Spiraling Government Jobs Program

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.

Continue reading Tracking Food Safety Proposals

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.

Continue reading Gold in US Dollars Correlated to US Sovereign Debt

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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.

Continu…

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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 …

By Spengler

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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By Huma Khan

President Obama will sign the historic health care bill into law this morning, but Republicans are still fighting back with promises of lawsuits and heated rhetoric, including a shot f…

“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…