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By RT

The stock exchange is going to start trading gold and silver by the end of this year, and platinum and palladium in 2014. Trading physical metals is …

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CAF Note: This article has an excellent insight into the NSA and economic warfare.

By William Blum

Despite these concerns the US has continued to expand ECHELON surveillance in Europe, partly becaus…

By Silla Brush and Cheyenne Hopkins

U.S. regulators will inject risk into the derivatives market if they don’t take more time to coordinate Dodd-Frank Act rules with their overseas counterparts, si…

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[CAF Note: Force rules]

By Daniel Bases and Manuela Badawy

After a 12-year hiatus, the United States reclaimed first place among top executives in a survey on f…

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By Doug Short

The bond market selloff after the FOMC meeting and Chairman Bernanke’s surprising specifics about exiting QE was quite stunning. However, his hawkish position was supported by today’s…

By Jonathan Weil

In one corner, we have five former Bank of America Corp. employees who told a federal court they were instructed to mislead customers on the verge of losing their homes and stall t…

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The Shibor overnight lending rate in Shanghai spiked violently to 29pc, with wild moves in seven-day and one-month money. The central bank refused to int…

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The Don Coxe Call

A weekly review of the Global Capital Markets.

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The summer solstice occurs when the tilt of a planet’s semi-axis, in either the northern or the southern hemisphere, is most inclined toward the star (sun) that it orbits. Earth’s maxi…

The $400,000,000 Story Video Part I

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By Amy O’Leary

You may have seen some odd-shaped plastic trinkets on someone’s desk or heard about the first shots fired a few weeks ago from a 3-…

By: Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs

In this bombshell episode of the Boiling Frogs Post Podcast Show NSA whistleblower Russ Tice joins us to go on record for the first time with new revelations and th…

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By James Risen and Nick Wingfield

When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter or a simil…

[CAF Note: A Solari subscriber reported yesterday that they suddenly could not access their e-mail until they signed an agreement that AT&T can scan their e-mail.]

By Joe Schoffstall

Are you a cus…

[CAF Note: Looks like the Ango-American alliance is moving closer to doing bail-ins!]

By BBC News

The cross-party Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards’ fifth report said bankers should in…

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By Brian Chappatta, Chris Christoff & Mark Niquette

Detroit (9845MF) is suspending payments on $2 billion of unsecured debt, marketing parking ga…

By Bill O’Boyle

All Natalie Gunshannon wanted was to be paid a fair wage for her work, she said.

Gunshannon, 27, of Dallas Township, worked at McDonald’s Restaurant on the Dallas Highway from Apri…

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Today’s article is from the “too scary to think about” file. One problem with this particular genre is that it leads most people into shutdown or mindless diversion mode jus…

By John P. Hussman, Ph.D.

The central issue in the current financial markets, in my estimation, is distortion. Because monetary distortion dominates the financial markets here (helped by fiscal dis…

[CAF Note: Some interesting comments on the relationship between intelligence and enforcement agencies and media disinformation]

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By Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association

A three-judge panel at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that a group of organic and otherwise non-GMO farmer and seed company plain…

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By Robert Reich

There are two great centers of unaccountable power in the American political-economic system today – places where decisions that significantly affect l…

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By Peggy Noonan

The U.S. surveillance state as outlined and explained by Edward Snowden is not worth the price. Its size, scope and intrusiveness, its ability to target and monitor …

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By Wall Street Journal

BERLIN–Europe is currently moving from a bail-out environment to a bail-in environment when it comes to rescuing failing banks, a member of the European Central Bank’s execu…

By FOW Intelligence

This week the latest stage in the US swaps reforms was implemented under a cloud of uncertainty as to how ready the industry was for the change, writes Jonathan Watkins.

The se…

By Geoff Olson

More of a tourist than a traveller, I’m standing on an outcropping of volcanic rock in the Caribbean, scratching away at my archipelago of bug bites. My guide Calvin, a relaxed fel…

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By Wikipedia

The 39th G8 summit will be held on 17–18 June 2013 at the Lough Erne Resort, a five-star hotel and golf resort on the shore of Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It wi…

[CAF Note: I spun through all the news channel repeatedly this morning at the gym. There was coverage of a multitude of trials EXCEPT Manning’s trial. That was not an accident]

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By Tim Shorrock

Amid the torrent of stories about the shocking new revelations about the National Security Agency, few have bothered to ask a central question. Who�…

By Jesse’s Cafe

It appears that President Obama is bidding adieu to CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler, purportedly for being ‘too aggressive’ with the Banks over their antics in the markets, with special …

The Washington Post and The Guardian have revealed a US government mass Internet surveillance program code-named “PRISM”. They report that the NSA and the FBI have been tapping directly into the ser…

By David Gaffen and Daniel Bases

Standard & Poor’s on Monday removed the near-term threat of another credit rating downgrade for the United States by revising its outlook to stable from negative, c…

[CAF Note: The CPAs are getting ready for crowdfunding!]

The AICPA has issued its Financial Reporting Framework for Small- and Medium-Sized Entities. The FRF for SMEsTM accounting framework is desi…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Responsibility. Coherence. Humanity. Life. The Earth. An inspiring exploration of the real and important were at the heart of John Trudell and Bad Dog’s wonderful concert …

By Matthew Cooper

Nineteen years ago this month, Eric Holder was having a very different spring in Washington. It wasn’t cruel or grueling. Conservatives didn’t want his scalp and liberals didn’t t…

By Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras

The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assis…

By Catherine Bosley

The Swiss parliament will probably pass a bill allowing banks to resolve a tax-evasion dispute with the U.S., dropping opposition for fear of leaving the country’s 300 institu…

By Liz Gannes

Mary Meeker both tells and shows how fast the Internet industry is moving, via her rapid-fire delivery of the hundreds of slides that make up her annual trend reports.

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A New York Landmark Moves Toward an I.P.O. Despite Legal Appeals

Investors hoping to own a piece of the Empire State Building may soon get their chance.

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“The net worth of U.S. households and nonprofits rose 4.5% in the first quarter to $70.349 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. It is a significant milestone as it shows, on average, American…

By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats,…

By Matt Clinch

Tight security restrictions at Thursday’s Google (GOOG) shareholder meeting led even the company’s much-hyped Google Glass technology to be banned, infuriating a consumer watchdog gr…