While I was in Portugal, one of my Portuguese friends took me by his brother’s home for an early dinner. We watched the sunset across the Atlantic Ocean. It was truly beautiful.

It turns out his brot…

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The plight of natural gas driller Chesapeake Energy could almost make you feel sorry for the board of directors and CEO Aubrey McClendon. He lost his chairmanship af…

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New Study May Provide the Proof

Is the Earth a giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery made at the University of …

On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations

In the early months of 2002, Wall Street Journalreporter Daniel Pearl was abducted and executed by his captors while pursuing a story abo…

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The circle below shows the gross external, or foreign, debt of some of the main players in the eurozone as well as …

By Om Malik

We are on the cusp of a big economic shift. I believe that the industrial era is coming to an end and Kickstarter just might be the most visible representation of that. When I look at K…

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Today, the Cornucopia Institute released a report titled The Organic Watergate revealing widespread corruption in the USDA’s organic food monitoring panel — the National Org…

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By Tyler Durden

China is now on its way to becoming the biggest source of gold demand, surpassing India, but more importantly as of hours ago, in a truly historic move, “Okayama Metal & Machine…

By Bob Van Voris

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sued a group of banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) , Citigroup Inc. (C) , Bank of America Securities and Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) in two…

By Chris Puplava

The decline in bullish optimism towards stocks is usually associated with more severe declines than what we typically see and is likely a result of the chronic market volatility. For…

By Danielle Douglas

John Marshall Bank in Reston has de-registered its shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission, taking advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act permitting small banks to…

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By Andrew Dalton

Venture capitalist and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel is inching closer towards realizing his dream of creating a government-free floating island utopia for tech startups off the co…

“About 32 leading men of the community,” according to the original minute book, assembled December 24, 1883, in Malvern Hall for the purpose of “starting a National Bank of Malvern.”

The Willits Fa…

Andrew Bartholomew, son of Lydia Willits Bartholomew grew up in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree from Lynchburg College, in Economics, in 2005, followed by a M.A. i…

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New York/San Francisco (Reuters) – Facebook Inc priced its initial public offering at the top of its target range to raise more than $16 billion, as strong demand, …

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An Italian court has ruled there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

In what may be a ground-breaking decision, the Italian Court of Rimini has ruled that causa…

By Jon Rappoport

The day of the Smoking Gun has arrived.

The discovery of a page, on the FDA’s own website, proves the FDA is fully aware that:

the drugs it certifies as safe have been killing …

[CAF Note: Reposting this for the second time given ongoing events in Greece and the Eurozone]

You are an opponent of the project for single currency. Why?

The effects of a single currency go far be…

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Washington (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has opened an inquiry into JPMorgan’s multibillion-dollar trading loss, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a pers…

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Two weeks ago, before Jamie Dimon’s thoughtful diversion, Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway instructed viewers of CNBC that “civilized people don…

By Joseph Trento

The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens of billions of dollars worth of Americ…

By Teri Buhl

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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Last week, I wrote to expect a short-term rally, which was a tactical trading call (see The “Merde” rally?) but I wasn’t convinced that any rally would be the start of an intermediate t…

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Of all the signals and symbols that shape Russian foreign policy, this one seemed particularly blunt: Vladimir Putin, in one of …

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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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One of the more controversial ideas I wrote about last year was the decoupling of Europe and the USA

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

By Sanat Vallikappen

That’s what some of the world’s largest wealth-management firms are saying ahead of Washington’s implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act , known as Fatca…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

[Excerpt from our Annual Wrap Up in January 2012]

This year was my first opportunity to meet a lot of Solari Report subscribers in person. I was astonished as I le…

The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the application by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, China Investment Corporation, and Central Huijin Investment Ltd., a…

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…

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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.
Hokkaido Electric Power Co. shut the …

By John Rubino

Today’s world can be summarized in two sentences:

Unless continuously fed with new credit, the global financial system will implode. And when confronted with this possibility, go…

“When we took over berkshire, berkshire was selling at $15 a share and gold was selling at $20 an ounce. And gold is now $1600 and berkshire is $120,000. but you take take a broader example. if yo…

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

By Jason Pontin

By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announ…

This is not the end folks, this is only the beginning of a change that is sweeping across the World – these are stunning defeats of the status quo by people who are finally as mad as Hell – and th…

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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With this goal in mind, Mexico has established the following priorities:

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

      [CAF Translation: Conce…

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“Not success.  Not growth.  Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life is death.”

-Stephen Jenkinson  

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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.

The Popchilla…

By Katharina Bart

An indictment of Zuercher Kantonalbank by U.S. officials in an ongoing tax probe would not mean the state-backed bank’s demise, Chief Executive Martin Scholl said in an interview …

By Martin Hutchinson

It now looks as though Nicolas Sarkozy’s days are numbered. In the balance lies the fate of the Eurozone itself.

It appears Socialist Francois Hollande will win the French el…

TWO FUTURES? Privacy, piracy, security, sovereignty—the divisions on these issues reflect an even deeper split between those who want tight control and those who want unfettered freedom.

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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:
“The local energy authority stopped by regarding Smart meter, said that he wa…

By Matthew Philips

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By Fred Meier

Ford announced today that it would offer a lump-sum payment to its 90,000 salaried retirees as well as U.S. salaried former employees due pensions to get them to voluntarily give up a…

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

Three targeted Americans: A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these U.S. citizens was charged with a crime, but they have…