By Gretchen Morgenson

Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about a secret agreement struck in July 2012 by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Bank of America. The existence of the confidential deal …

By Renee Sharp and J. Paul Pestano

Water Treatment plants along the east coast are struggling to recover from superstorm Sandy, whose torrential rains washed tens of millions of gallons of raw or par…

By Raphael Minder

Swiss citizens voted Sunday to impose some of the world’s most severe restrictions on executive compensation, ignoring a warning from the business lobby that such curbs would un…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

I love really fine coffee. I also love it hot. Keeping it hot is a challenge given all the long road trips I take. I have been known to spend way too …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly referred to as the ACA or Obamacare, will go into full effect in 2014. This decree mandates that all Americans must purchase and mainta…

By John Hathaway

The investment case for gold, in our opinion, rests squarely on the prospect for U.S. sovereign credit, and by extension, the value of the U.S. dollar. The prospect, in short, ap…

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By Witta Priester

What kind of clouds are these? Although their cause is presently unknown, such unusual atmospheric structures, as menacing as they might seem, do not appear to be harbingers of me…

By S. Derek Turner

AT&T has a sneaky plan.

It wants to exploit a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s rules to kill what remains of the public telecommunications network —…

By Dan Cossins

Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats, enabling the animals to communicate directly via implanted microelectrode arrays to solve simple behavioral proble…

By April Rabkin

Beijing’s Forbidden City was the Chinese empire’s seat of power for 500 years. It was built out of rammed earth and wood in the early 1400s, and its majesty has been largely preserv…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A governance transition by the largest organization in the world is always important. In a world in which we are encouraged to forgo the sacred or to forget that our freedom…

[CAF Note: One must ponder whether the Justices were really free to decide or are subject to control file fears.]

By The New York Times

The Supreme Court severely damaged the rule of law in its deci…

Alaska House Passes 2nd Amendment Preservation Act, 31-5

Today, February 25th, Alaska’s Second Amendment Preservation Act, HB69, has passed the State House and will now move on to the Senate for co…

[CAF Note: Last week Jin Zengmin was the Solari Hero, for challenging a local politician to swim in the polluted rivers in China. This week another activist, Chen Yugian, spoke out online against t…

By Skylar Bergl

Venture capital was a who-you-know business, until AngelList made a mass introduction. Like online dating, its transparent network connects startups with accredited investors, and n…

By John Hooper

By any standards, and whatever happens, Beppe Grillo and the Five Star Movement (M5S) have emerged from Italy’s general election as big winners.

Because of the way the electoral sys…

By William Selway & Michael C. Bender

Federal budget cuts will probably push the U.S. back into recession by damaging states’ economies recovering from the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Dep…

[CAF Note: This article persuaded me to significantly increase my Vitamin D intake starting over the holidays. The results have been both positive and dramatic. Hmmm…..]

By Jeff Bowles

I have neve…

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By Jack Healy

After enduring last summer’s destructive drought, farmers, ranchers and officials across the parched Western states had hoped that plentiful winter snows would replenish the ground …

By Dave Smith

Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Yuri Milner have teamed up to create the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, which now offers the most lucrative annual prize in the history…

Incarceration in the United States is one of the main forms of punishment, rehabilitation, or both for the commission of felony and other offenses. The United States has the highest documented incar…

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Introduction from Catherine Austin Fitts:

I wanted our readers to have this case study that embodies a robust selection of the criminal and civil violations visited upon homebuyers and homeowners in…

By Cha Cha

As a high school or college graduate, you’re really excited to leave your parents behind and move out into your own place. You find a decent apartment at a reasonable price, and you prep…

By Catherine O’Driscoll

A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine conducted several studies 1,2 to determine if vaccines can cause changes in the immune system of dogs that might le…

By Age of Autism

Three controversial television films suppressed as part of the continued persecution of Andrew Wakefield are now available to watch on YouTube. The drama ‘Hear the Silence’ sta…

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This Solari Story, “The Fiscal Cliff and Gun Control”, is the first of many brief and insightful videos that Catherine will be releasing throughout the year. Che…

By Bernie Becker

The House Ways and Means Committee formally announced 11 separate working groups they hope will push the ball forward on tax reform.

The working groups will not be charged with craf…

By The Economist

WHEN THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT, a sister organisation of this newspaper, published the first bound edition of “Tax Havens and Their Uses” in 1975, a queue several blocks …

By English.News.cn

China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to a senior official wi…

By Julia Werdigier

Novartis, one of Switzerland’s biggest drug makers, said Tuesday it scrapped a planned $78 million payment to its departing chairman because of pressure from shareholders and l…

By Sam Byford

3D printers are getting smaller and cheaper all the time, but they’re still not exactly mainstream. The 3Doodler is an attempt to change that — it’s a small pen-style device that it…

By Rebecca Christie & Ben Moshinsky

The European Union failed to seal a deal on Basel bank rules after disagreeing on bonuses, capital requirements for big lenders and disclosure of profit and tax …

A provider of “realistic” shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies has created a line of “non-traditional threat” targets that include pregnant wome…

“One person can make a difference and every person should try.” ~ John F. Kennedy

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[Note from CAF: This is both a phenomenon and verb that is very useful to have available on the tip of your tongue these days!]

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Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse in which…

By Suzan Mazur

“We know the abiotic world is very good at making amino acids. Abiotically produced amino acids are literally raining down on our heads, in meteors. It is difficult to imagine a pr…

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The Moscow Exchange’s $498 million debut on Russian markets will probably fail in enticing companies to list exclusively on the bourse, …

The Inventioneers are a group of young entrepreneurs inventing tomorrow’s solutions today! Their “why not’ philosophy has led to four provisional patents and one utility patent (pending). Thei…

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While China’s air pollution has reached hazardous levels in some major cities, chemical pollutants in the air are hardly the only proble…

By Gretchen Morgenson

MANY people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through the bac…

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G20 officials will disregard key parts of a currency statement issued this week by the Group of Seven powers, according to a communiqué drafted for financ…

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” ~ C.S. Lewis

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Two of the most widely used nanoparticles (NPs) accumulate in soybeans – second only to corn as a key food crop in the United States – in ways previously shown to have the potential t…

By Pat Garofalo

Last year, economist Emmanuel Saez estimated that the richest 1 percent of the U.S. captured a whopping 93 percent of the income gains in 2010, as the U.S. was emerging from the Gre…

By BBC News

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made the announcement following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.

A deal would bring down trading barriers between …

We would like to wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year, as we welcome in the Year of the Snake!

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The debate, between both the main participants and many of those who have left comments, is running on two tracks. One argument has developed about the nitty-gritty of shale-gas extraction. What the i…

By The Economist

SMALLISH countries are often in the vanguard when it comes to reforming government. In the 1980s Britain was out in the lead, thanks to Thatcherism and privatisation. Tiny Singapor…

By David Chance and Jack Kim

The reclusive North said the test was an act of self-defense against “U.S. hostility” and threatened further, stronger steps if necessary.

It said the test had “greate…

We had a great discussion at the Money, Magic, & Consciousness panel moderated by Kimberly Carter Gamble at the Consciousness Life Expo this morning in Los Angeles.

There were many participants i…

By Chiara Vasarri & Flavia Krause-Jackson

Pope Benedict XVI, saying he no longer has the strength to lead the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, will resign from the papacy at the end of the month, t…

By John R. Emshwiller

The Department of Energy is proposing to allow the sale of tons of scrap metal from government nuclear sites—an attempt to reduce waste that critics say could lead to radiatio…

By Jonathan Benson

A new vaccine for influenza has hit the market, and it is the first ever to contain genetically-modified (GM) proteins derived from insect cells. According to reports, the U.S. F…