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…

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…

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…

Continue viewing YouTube

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…

By Joe Weisenthal

View Larger Chart

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…

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…

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 …

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…

Listen to the show. . .

The levels of government debt have reached the point where even mainstream banks are encouraging investors to consider the “collapse scenario” in their strategies.

View full document . . .

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…

“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…

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

View the full document . . .

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

WikiLeaks releases 573.000 pager intercepts from 9/11 2001.

From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks will release over half a million US …

Nov. 27 (Bloomberg)—Dubai’s debt woes may worsen to become a “major sovereign default” that roils developing nations and cuts off capital flows to emerging markets, Bank of America Corp. sai…

Nov. 26 (Guardian-UK) Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science. For his thesis pro…

One of the many blessings of living in Hickory Valley, Tennessee is that I know, respect and like my Mayor and the members of my Town Council.

The Council meets monthly and reviews and pay the bills …

Continue reading CHART OF THE DAY: We’re Still Generating Too Many Negative Equity Mortgages

By David M. Halbfinger

The Lou Dobbs-for-Senate rumor had barely crested when the Lou Dobbs-for-president rumor suddenly overtook it this week.

Mr. Dobbs, the former cable television anchor of the…

By Brian Womack

Facebook Inc., the world’s biggest social-networking site, introduced a dual-class stock structure to let current shareholders hold onto voting control.

The decision shouldn’t …

By Bruno Waterfield, Justin Stares and Colin Freeman

Within days of taking office in January, the former Belgian prime minister will put his weight behind controversial proposals already floated by t…

By George Friedman

The Iranian government has rejected, at least for the moment, a proposal from the P-5+1 to ship the majority of its low-enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment. The group …

Continue reading Climategate: Dr. Tim Ball on The Hacked CRU Emails

Overview

Canadian banks, trust companies, loan companies, credit unions, deposit-taking insurance companies, pension funds and retail associations are regulated and examined for safety and soundnes…

Magisterial District Judge Jene Willwreth today dismissed both charges brought by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture against C.A.R.E. member Jan Haller in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. Before cros…

by Jesse

The increase in the monetary base created by the Fed’s monetization of debt is striking, not seen since the early stages of the Great Depression.

Banks are not lending despite the massive…

Continue reading Gold Contrarians Will Get Killed

Posted By Dr. John Mercola

France’s highest court has ruled that U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto had not told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The court confirme…

View at “Missouri Billboard”

by John Myers

A new report estimates that California officials will face a budget gap of nearly $21 billion over the next year and a half.

Not only is there no light at the end of the tunnel of Cali…

Continue reading Europe Chooses a President
Stratfor (20 Nov 09)

More than eight years after the idea was first mooted, Europe has finally got a President. Leaders of the 27 members of the European…

Continue reading Pranav Mistry: The Thrilling Potential of SixthSense Technology
YouTube (18 Nov 09)