Money & Markets ~ Charts 12.17.09
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View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report on Thursday, January 7, 2010.
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The key to business success is in learning how to provide a useful product or service at a competitive price while covering costs. For many children, their first opp…
By Melanie Pelayo
With the end of the year fast approaching, I want to bring your attention a change taking place next year regarding Roth IRA rules. Surveys have shown that not a lot of people are a…
By David Liechty
JAK Medlemsbank is a member-owned bank in Skovde, Sweden that has operated an interest-free savings and loan system since 1970.
Members accumulate points monthly based on their sa…
By Dakin Campbell and Andrew MacAskill
Citigroup Inc. said the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is seeking to end an agreement to buy the bank’s stock for more than 8 times its current price, or to r…
By Alan Bjerga
A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government …
Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite ‘the best practices [to stop contamination]'(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials o…
By Rajeev Syal
Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Antonio Ma…
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
While premier George Papandreou offered pro forma assurances at Friday’s EU summit that Greece would not default on its €298bn (£268bn) debt, his words to reporters afte…
By Evelyn Pringle
Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue o…
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As the cost of formal education grows, many families are limited by economic considerations in what they can provide for their children. This is of concern particularl…
Sorting through the wreckage of those related failures has generated more questions than answers so far. Taylor Bean was shut down by the Federal Housing Administration, citing possible mortgage fra…
By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova
Continue reading Small Business Cash Crunch Fears Getting Worse And Worse. . .
By Jim Ostroff
No personal jet packs at the big-box store just yet, but we foresee technological breakthroughs that will make a real difference.
Kiplinger clients have long come to rely on Kipling…
By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova
Continue reading The Average Investor Remains Terrified Of The Stock Market. . .
The European AIG: How Moody’s Downgrade Of Greece Can Start The Avalanche
Zero Hedge (18 Dec 09)
PIMCO Sells $26.5 Billion In Treasuries And MBS In November, Goes To Cash
Zero Hedge (17 Dec 09)
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The European AIG: How Moody’s Downgrade Of Greece Can Start The Avalanche
Zero Hedge (18 Dec 09)
PIMCO Sells $26.5 Billion In Treasuries And MBS In November, Goes To Cash
Zero Hedge (17 Dec 09)
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Is The Price of World Silver The Result of Legitimate Market Discovery?
Jesse’s Crossroads Cafe (15 Dec 09)
Comex Acts to Curb Speculation (In Gold)
Jesse’s Crossroads Cafe (15 Dec 09)
The Return of…
What 10 Reasons Will Keep a Lid on The Housing And Economic Recovery For California?
Dr. Housing Bubble (2009)
The Trend In The Freddie Mac US Housing Price Index
Jesse’s Crossroads Cafe’ (12 Dec 0…
World Leaders May Drop 2010 Climate Deadline – Draft
Reuters (18 Dec 09)
Obama Heads to High-risk, Uncertain Climate Talks
Associated Press (18 Dec 09)
EU Drops Antitrust Case Against Microsoft
Law….
SkyGrabber: The $26 Software Used by Insurgents to Hack Into US Drones
Guardian.co.uk (17 Dec 09)
Good-bye, Laptop. Hello, Smart Phone.
Kiplinger (05 Aug 09)
Rural Broadband Access
To Grow, Slowly B…
For America’s Santas, It’s Hard to Be Jolly With the Tales They’re Hearing
The Wall Street Journal (14 Dec 09)
Berlusconi Attack Prompts Italy Soul Searching
Reuters (14 Dec 09)
Hollywood’s Bril…
Woman Claims Swine-flu Shot Caused Paralysis
WorldNetDaily (11 Dec 09)
Woman Claims Swine-flu Shot Caused Paralysis
WorldNetDaily (11 Dec 09)
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Good health is the foundation of a successful life. It is challenging to find or pursue your calling if you are struggling with poor health.
Maintaining optimum h…
Joel Salatin
Pathways to Relocalization, Carbon Economy Educational Series, December 9th
Santa Barbara Central Library
The Flyer:
Joel Salatin, fulltime family farmer of the highly successful Pol…
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It’s the second week of the month. That means I am headed over this …
There is no better way to build real wealth than to find ways of raising up the children in our lives. Whether it’s the young people in our families—children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, co…
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, December 10, 2009.
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By Kim Zetter
Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?
That’s the ques…
By Kim Zetter
Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?
That’s the ques…
By Stephen Bernard
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s top executives will not receive cash bonuses this year, as the Wall Street giant bows to sharp criticism over its pay practices.
The 30 high-ranking ex…
If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday.
Continue reading Anyone For Some Arctic Roll? Myst…
By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is an economic indicator for the U.S. manufacturing sector, in blue below. It tends to be a leading indicator for future r…
By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is an economic indicator for the U.S. manufacturing sector, in blue below. It tends to be a leading indicator for future r…
By Jackie Calmes
President Obama and Congress are ending the year as they began it, at work on an economic stimulus package of tax cuts and spending, with the latest effort likely to raise the tota…
By Chris Serres
Local foundations are fighting Wells Fargo in court, saying it lied about safety of investments made before market plunge.
For years, some large charitable foundations in the Twin Ci…
By Alison Fitzgerald
Wall Street firms are recovering. Their standing with the American public isn’t.
“The fact that they’re even in existence should be bonus enough,” says Cassie Swihart, a…
By Alison Fitzgerald
Wall Street firms are recovering. Their standing with the American public isn’t.
“The fact that they’re even in existence should be bonus enough,” says Cassie Swihart, a…
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Ben Bernanke
Chairman
Federal Reserve System
20th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20551
Dear Chairman Bernanke,
I write with concern about two announced…
By Charlie Savage
The federal government announced on Tuesday that it intends to pay $3.4 billion to settle claims that it has mismanaged the revenue in American Indian trust funds, potentially end…
By F. William Engdahl
The man with the nickname “Dr Flu”, Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by Dutch media researchers as the person at t…
Continue reading Ron Paul with Judge Napolitano on Glenn Beck- Bernanke To Be Renominated
By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova|
Continue reading The Amazing Spiraling Mortgage Delinquencies
With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today — …
Pope Benedict XVI and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Thursday to upgrade Vatican-Kremlin relations to full diplomatic ties, the Vatican said.
The step forward on the diplomatic f…
Pope Benedict XVI and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Thursday to upgrade Vatican-Kremlin relations to full diplomatic ties, the Vatican said.
The step forward on the diplomatic f…
By Anne Tergesen
Starting Jan. 1, Uncle Sam will permanently eliminate both the income and filing-status restrictions on transferring money from a traditional IRA to a Roth — a procedure known as …
Continue reading Geithner, Bernanke “Complicit” in Financial Crisis and Should Go
By Danny Westneat
Rachel Porcaro knows she’s hardly rich. When you’re a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don’t need government experts to tell you how broke you are.
But that’s what happene…
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SCWAG ~ Scientifically Calculated Wild Assed Guess. An estimate calculated using sound mathematics and science which is, never the less, little more than a wild guess. Generally because one or more of…
GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk was interviewed for 27 minutes this week by Eric King of King World News. They discussed the second phase of the bull market in gold, Barrick Gold’s st…
Charlie Rose – Robin Williams
YouTube (07 Dec 09)
Soros Seeks $100 Billion in IMF Funds for Green Plan
Bloomberg.com (10 Dec 09)
Brown And Sarkozy Call For Special Tax on Bank Bonuses
Reuters (10 D…
Charlie Rose – Robin Williams
YouTube (07 Dec 09)
Soros Seeks $100 Billion in IMF Funds for Green Plan
Bloomberg.com (10 Dec 09)
Brown And Sarkozy Call For Special Tax on Bank Bonuses
Reuters (10 D…
Gold Market Updated :A Contrarian’s Dilemma (PDF)
Zero Hedge (Dec 2009)
Gold: Expect a Technical Correction Before the Final Frontie
Seeking Alpha (07 Dec 09)
Bank of Korea Sees ‘Illusion’ in…
Dubai Property Merger Blocked
Financial Times (09 Dec 09) [Must subscribe to read full article.]
10 Looming Geopolitical Disasters
The Money Game (09 Dec 09)
Turkey To Israel: Cross Our Airspace To Bomb Iran & We Will Respond Like An Earthquake
Political Theatrics (08 Dec 09)
Will Missour…
Learning About the Sun Through Sound Waves
Stanford Solar Center (2008)
Scientists Say Paper Battery Could Be In The Works
Reuters (08 Dec 09)
Facebook Forms Board On Online Safety
Reuters (07 Dec 0…
For Elderly in Rural Areas, Times Are Distinctly Harder
The New York Times (10 Dec 09)
5 Things Your Mom Was Right About
Shine (07 Dec 09)
Ore. School Removes Holiday Tree, Bans Santa Claus
Komonews…
Dirt! The Movie Trailer
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The 6 Weirdest,Scariest Processed Foods
AlterNet (06 Dec 09)
Dirt! The Movie Trailer
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The 6 Weirdest,Scariest Processed Foods
AlterNet (06 Dec 09)
By Joe Weisenthal
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Continue reading Morgan Stanley: Here Comes A Brutal 2010
DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives and policies that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Established in 1995 and funded by t…
By Scott Lanman and Craig Torres
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke left a Senate confirmation hearing with support for a second term heading a central bank that may be shorn of its powers to…
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for t…
Claims for Emergency Unemployment Compensation increased by 265,300 in one week to an all time record of 3,859,553 for the week ending November 14.
If you can give money or volunteer time, I encour…
Claims for Emergency Unemployment Compensation increased by 265,300 in one week to an all time record of 3,859,553 for the week ending November 14.
If you can give money or volunteer time, I encour…
How To Tell The Truth and Stay Alive ~ Catherine’s 12 Points (pdf)
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View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, December 3, 2009.
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View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, December 3, 2009.
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By Sam Smith
The pending health care legislation is as corrupt, cynical and contemptuous of simple decency as any bill I’ve seen in over a half century of covering national politics. Which still le…
By Michael Pettis
Vietnam’s decision to devalue its currency by 5 per cent last week to protect itself from undervaluation of the Chinese renminbi, and the worried response from Thailand and othe…
Derivatives have many purposes. One is to quietly launder the profits out of one place into another without the niceties of legal authorizations and documents. Everything is hidden behind the pricing …
Derivatives have many purposes. One is to quietly launder the profits out of one place into another without the niceties of legal authorizations and documents. Everything is hidden behind the pricing …
by Greg Palast
On 10th Anniversary of the Battle in Seattle Bankers’ scheme to re-open finance casino worldwide. Apparently, one meltdown isn’t enough for the World Trade Organization. They meet to…
“It wasn’t scary at all.”
Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn on the plunge in Goldman’s stock price from $207.78 in February to $47.41 in November 2008 as reported in the latest Vanity Fair.
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The levels of government debt have reached the point where even mainstream banks are encouraging investors to consider the “collapse scenario” in their strategies.
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By Suzanne McGee
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers.
The name of the game in philanthropy this year is to make your dollars g…
By Suzanne McGee
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers.
The name of the game in philanthropy this year is to make your dollars g…
By Bob Ivry
Mark Pittman, the award-winning reporter whose fight to make the Federal Reserve more accountable to taxpayers led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died Nov. 25 in Yonker…
Commentary by Alice Schroeder
I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to t…
Max Keiser has me using a new word—duopoly. It is a word worth learning and a phenomenon worth considering as we look around the landscape.
Duopoly at Wikipedia
By: Wanda Lau
Cities take on different faces during the holiday season–some are the spitting image of Scrooge, others look like Santa. Which one your town resembles has nothing to do with Styrofoa…
By: Wanda Lau
Cities take on different faces during the holiday season–some are the spitting image of Scrooge, others look like Santa. Which one your town resembles has nothing to do with Styrofoa…
“The Triumph of Death”
by Murray N. Rothbard
Most people — historians not excepted — are tempted to think of economic and cultural progress as being continuous: in every century people are bett…
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Stephen Jen from the hedge fund Blue Gold Capital has a warning for those who think that gold has risen far too high, is necessarily in a speculative bubble, and must soo…
American International Group, Inc. (AIG), its former Chairman Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg, its former Chief Financial Officer Howard I. Smith, C.V. Starr & Company, Inc. (“C.V. Starr”), …
By Caroline Salas and Matthew Leising
Connecticut plans to join Ohio in suing credit-rating companies for “negligent, reckless and incompetent work” in grading debt purchased by state pension f…
Author: Dorothy Kosich
Unprecedented demand, a shortage of blanks, and restrictive policies and regulations continue to exacerbate what is almost becoming a chronic shortage of gold and silver coins…
By Sophia Tareen
Prentice Jones worked construction jobs around Chicago for most of his 60 years and is quick to boast of a foreman job he once held at a revamped city college and 23 years at a ste…
By Joe Weisenthal and Vincent Fernando Continue reading Chart of The Day: Americans Are More Broke, And More Desperate For Deals
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By Anne Seith
Two Deutsche Bank funds were designed to profit from premature deaths in the US by buying up life insurance policies. But investors have seen precious little return on their investmen…
By Yasha levine
Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.
What are we getting in return for the bailout? So far, p…
By Kieran Crowley, Rich Wilner and Dan Mangan
A Long Island couple is home free after an outraged judge gave them an amazing Thanksgiving present — canceling their debt to ruthless bankers trying …
By Joshua M Brown
Continue reading John Paulson Likes Gold…More Than a Friend
Whoever controls space, therefore, will control the world’s oceans. Whoever controls the oceans will control the patterns of global commerce. Whoever controls the patterns of global commerce will b…
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