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Fallout from JP Morgan trading losses, which led to rater Fitch downgrading their debt yesterday, aren’t the only financial worries the banking behemoth is facing. Nestled in that s…

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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone)

The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns

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Catherine,

Franklin Sanders had CC’d me your email address in regards to any soil questions you might have. My name is Brian G. Bankston (but y…

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The equity market went vertical this morning on the back of the US…

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Tamera, Portugal, May 7th, 2012: – Tamera Water Retention Landscape has been named a 2012 Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, the prestigious annual design science competition named “Soc…

Volkswagen People’s car project.

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Japan has none of its 50 reactors operating as of today after its sole operating nuclear unit was halted for planned maintenance last week.
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Today’s world can be summarized in two sentences:

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The future of media on mobile devices isn’t with applications but with the Web.

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By Eleanor Laise

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published in the April 2012 issue of Kiplinger’s Retirement Report.

Traditional pension plans are supposed to offer a predictable plot …

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Economic stabilization and structural reforms as foundations for growth and employment.

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A company has developed a robot to help autistic children learn social reference skills and is raising $1.25 million to produce more in a beta production run.

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Joel Salatin talks to Lew about Big Agra authoritarianism, and how to emancipate yourself.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

While I was in Portugal, I received the following e-mail from my assistant in Hickory Valley:
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A phenomenal series of Venn diagrams at the end of this article shows in painstaking detail just how corrupted our political sy…

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It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management’s ability to run a smart com…

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US exports to China in 2011 total $103.9 billion?30 states now count China as one of their top three export markets

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Would legalization disrupt the economics of the Prison Industrial Complex and its pool of slave laborers?

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An unbelievable story, the source of which appeared to be a single Spanish-language news broadcast, made the blogosphere rounds yesterday: Iceland is forgiving nearly all o…

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