By Dawn Kopecki

State housing agencies in the U.S. that provide mortgages to low-income borrowers would get as much as $35 billion in federal aid under a new U.S. Treasury Department program, people …

By Stacy Meichtry

The Holy See announced a sweeping overhaul of the Vatican bank’s management as part of Pope Benedict XVI’s push for greater transparency at one of the world’s most secretive finan…

By Mary Foster

Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can’t keep up with the nation’s demand for ammunition.

Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers…

By Kenneth Chang

There appears to be, to the surprise of planetary scientists, water, water everywhere on the Moon, although how many drops future astronauts might be able to drink is not clear.

D…

Continue reading Economics 101 – Michel Chossudovsky on the Banker Bailouts

A huge outback dust storm swept across eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney disrupting transport, forcing people to stay indoors and stripping thousands of tonnes of valuable farmland topsoil.

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This image arose out of a frustration with the reporting of billion dollar amounts in the media. That is, they’re reported as self-evident facts, when, in fact, they’re mind-boggl…

By Stephen Smith

Using technology originally developed for mass disasters, Boston disease trackers are embarking on a novel experiment – one of the first in the country – aimed at eventually creati…

Continue reading Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde on Swine Flu

I had several requests for old clippings. A member of the Solari team called Business Week about several articles. They recommended we simply scan in our copies. So we did.

Austin Fitts Better Be Goo…

By John Poirier

The top U.S. communications regulator plans to unveil proposals Monday for ensuring Web traffic is not slowed or blocked based on its content, sources familiar with the contents of …

By Tyler Durden

“The degree of intermediation by the Federal Reserve in the issuance of US Treasuries hit a record in Q2, accounting for just under 50% of all net UST issuance absorption. This is a…

By Kathleen E. Kraft

On March 19, 2009, the Supreme Court of Arkansas determined that Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. (“MERS”) was not a necessary party to a foreclosure action invo…

Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O) tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help it to develop implantable virus detection systems in humans.
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TEHRAN – Pakistan’s former chief of army staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.), has said the U.S. private security company Blackwater was directly involved in the assassinations of former Pakistan…

Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Status Report

Stats for states involved in the pilot program of using EBT to transact USDA Nutrition Assistance Benefits.

Note the contractor for many of these s…

By Melissa Golden

Q: What role does the Federal Reserve have in our current economic downturn? — Brad Thomas, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Ron Paul: The Federal Reserve is the key element in the formation an…

The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal

I just finished reading Nick Bryant’s new book, The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal.

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I recently received an Action Alert about the National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (NLGMA) from Weston Price (available to subscribers only.)

From the Weston Price alert: “A National Leafy Green…

Here are links to draft versions of HR3200: America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009

House version
CRS Summary
Senate version

By Jason Hamlin

A series of new and significant events have unfolded over the past few weeks that have influenced the precious metals markets and will likely continue to support gold’s price adva…

The bureaucratic grind to end national sovereignty in Europe continues with German approval of The Lisbon Treaty challenged in the courts and the second Irish referendum scheduled for October 2, 2009…

Continue reading Catching L.A.’s Rain With a City-sponsored Pilot Program

By Laura Saunders

Five years ago, car-wash owner Orman Wilson set up a pension plan for himself and six employees. For that, he may owe the IRS a $1.2 million tax penalty.

Mr. Wilson, the owner of…

By Jessica Holzer

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said Friday her agency may tap its $500 billion credit line with the U.S. Treasury to replenish its deposit insurance fund, t…

The Japanese government is prepared to spend some 2 trillion yen on a one-gigawatt orbiting solar power station—and this week Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies have signed on to boost the ef…

I just watched Spike Lee’s documentary about the floods in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

There is a lot that has gone unexplained about what happened in New Orleans, includ…

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By James Turk

September 18, 2009 – The performance of the gold/silver ratio over the past month has been stunning. From a high of 68.0 on August 19, the ratio closed today in …

By Jess Bravin

In her maiden Supreme Court appearance last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a provocative comment that probed the foundations of corporate law.

During arguments in a campaign-fin…

By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial system—without restrictio…

By Matt Latimer
As a speechwriter for George W. Bush during the final years of his presidency, I’d seen crises and controversies. But nothing prepared me for the imminent collapse of America’s fr…

G-20 meets in Pittsburgh this coming week in a meeting chaired by President Obama. This meeting follows up on the Action Plan on the Financial Markets and World Economy developed in the Washington m…

By Peter Henderson

California Attorney General Jerry Brown issued subpoenas on Thursday to Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings as he launched an investigation of wheth…

By David Liechty

Wednesday I had the chance to amble on over to The Farm, with the blessing of organizers Greg Landua and Ethan Roland, to attend the last day of the Ecovillage Training Center Tenn…

By Steven R. Hurst

President Barack Obama is betting Moscow will return the favor on missile defense by helping him blunt Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

In what could shape a major geopolitical realignme…

James Turk’s reports have been subscriber only since 1987. He is now making them accessible for free.
James is one of the finest commentator on the precious metals markets and the economy we know.

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By David Kravets

The Obama administration has told Congress it supports renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire at year’s end, measures making it easier for the government to spy…

by: Matthew Goldstein

Sometimes legal fishing expeditions pay off.

A year ago, a Connecticut hedge fund sued UBS, contending that it knowingly sold toxic mortgage-backed securities to institutiona…

That’s the way it is down here. If you can’t be counted “on”, you can’t be counted “in.”

~ PI Burke, from Down Here by Andrew Vachss

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Just before President Obama gave his speech to Congress last week, 44% of voters nationwide supported his health care reform proposal and 53% were opposed. Today, eight days after the speech and a b…

By Liu Guoyuan

Many analysts are still pessimistic about the outlook of the Doha Round of global trade negotiations, despite recent positive signs.

Following a mini-ministerial meeting held on Sep…

By Matthew McDermott,

A new report coming from Optimum Population Trust and carried out by the prestigious London School of Economics says that expanding access to family planning and contraception…

By Jeremy Scahill

On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out a lawsuit against CACI International and L-3 Communications T…

By Michael Connelly

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area…

By Terry Jones

Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices…

I just renewed my annual memberships in the Weston Price Foundation and the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund with additional donations.

I expect my donations to meet the same performance stand…

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By Charles Stein

James McDonald, chief executive officer of New York investment firm Rockefeller & Co., died Sunday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Bristol Count…

By Kim LaCapria

Ex-CEO of Beneficial Corp. Finn H.W. Casperson was found dead in an apparent suicide behind an office building in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Casperson, 67, was discovered dead of what…

By Jesse Solomon and Justin Lear

Police are investigating the death of the former chief fundraiser for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich as a “death-suicide,” an Illinois mayor said Sunday.

Financi…

By Ruben Vives and Louis Sahagun

Newport Beach financier Danny Pang died early Saturday at a local hospital, according to the Orange County coroner’s office. The cause of death has not been deter…

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By Ryan Grim

The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Broadly speaking, the world is run at the outset of the 21st Century by the United States and China together in uneasy condominium. This is the surprising reality of our er…

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By David Derbyshire

These stunning images – taken by the rejuvenated Hubble space telescope – have captured the jewel-bright colours of colliding galaxies, exploding s…

by: Brooke Jarvis

Illinois, home to 76,000 farms and more than 950 food manufacturing companies, is a solidly agricultural state in the heart of America’s bread basket. Fully 80 percent of it is …

Business and government officials met in China to continue discussions on centralizing control and management of the global economy.

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If you are in Fargo, North Dakota this weekend, I hope you will join us! This is a free event to promote sound money, free markets, and to encourage a return to fiscal responsibility among people …

By Jonathan Watts

Under the plan, money would be used to expand China’s solar, wind, carbon capture and smart-grid markets. Photograph: Graham Turner

A joint US-China plan to “take over the world”…

Franklin Sanders has a speaking engagement in Columbia, South Carolina, September 21, 2009.

Franklin is a long-time member of the League of the South Board of Directors, a delegate to the Southern …

By Helaine Olen
John Halko was halfway through renovating an expanded space for Comfort, his mostly organic eatery in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., when the credit crisis hit. His source of funding — a …

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The Big Picture (21 Aug 09)

By Mark Morford

So far ahead in weapons sales to the world are we, it’s not even a contest. We own the game. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, while overall weapons sales…

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By Cameron French

Barrick Gold (ABX.TO) will issue $3 billion in stock to eliminate all of its fixed-price gold hedges and a portion of its floating hedges, taking a $5.6 billion hit to third-quart…

By Robert Cookson in Hong Kong

China will issue sovereign bonds denominated in its own currency to offshore investors for the first time this month – a crucial step towards making the renminbi a …

By Sven Egenter

Switzerland knocked the United States off the position as the world’s most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking system left it more exposed to some long-standing wea…

By James T. Areddy

China’s government on Monday offered public encouragement to state-owned companies challenging foreign banks over huge losses from derivative contracts, a move that bankers say h…