BOSTON (TheStreet) — The “automatic” IRA may be on the way.

A bill filed by U.S. senators Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) would automatically enroll most U.S. workers in indi…

The U. S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced a joint public hearing on Sept. 14, 2010, and if necessary on Sept. …

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Note from Catherine:

I am not sure why the IMF was surprised. The world jobs crisis was intentionally engineer…

Queen of The Sun creatively explores the global bee crisis as a catalyst for culture shift. We highlight unsung heroes from past and present, from poets and philosophers, to scientists and biodynami…

By Brett Michael Dykes

What you see above isn’t a rural gravel road. It’s a Louisiana waterway, its surface completely covered with dead sea life — a mishmash of species of fish, crabs, stingray a…

In earlier times, it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people.
Today it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people.

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The Shrinking Middle Class
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By Joe Weisenthal

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By Jeremy Scahill

Blackwater author Jeremy Scahill reveals in The Nation new evidence about the connection between the security firm and a host of companies, from Disney to Monsanto. Says Scahill: …

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By Timothy Noah

The American aristocracy is less different from you and me than it was in Fitzgerald’s day. “Before World War II,” they wrote, “the richest Americans were overwhel…

By Rebecca Thistlewaite

You watched Food, Inc. with your mouth aghast. You own a few cookbooks.

You go out to that hot new restaurant with the tattooed chef who’s putting on a whole-animal, nose-…

By Rachel Armstrong

New bank capital requirements agreed by global regulators brought relief to Asia’s financial sector on Monday as fears that lenders might be forced into fresh capital raising we…

Homeowners in Illinois are almost evenly divided on whether the value of their home is worth more than their mortgage, and they are not very optimistic about their home values in the near future.

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This is the movie that Pepsi and Coca Cola don’t want you to see.

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Our Sweet Water Tilapia are ready for you! This one and only batch is available for public purchase at three open house fish sales.

If you have pre-purchased your tilapia at one of our farmers mark…

Want proof of what wonderful people Americans are and how much we care about our small farmers? Just take a look at the Crosby Mint Farm “Expect Miracles” Gratitude List

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Dr. Burzynski has found cures for cancer. He practices in Texas. The US government has attempted to indict him more than 5 times since 1976. Persecuted at the hands of the FDA with its long arm to t…

By Paul Laster

Photographer Edward Burtynsky knows a lot about oil and our uncontrollable dependency on it. The 2005 TED prizewinner traveled the world for more than a decade photographing polluted…

By Artyom Danielyan and Emma O’Brien

China and Russia plan to start trading in each other’s currencies as the world’s second-biggest energy consumer and the largest energy supplier seek to di…

A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business — he opened a “milk filling station.”

The “Milchtankstelle” near Cologne in the town of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid dispenses …

By Robert Barr

Britain’s financial regulator hit Goldman Sachs International with a 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) fine on Thursday for failing to notify U.K. authorities about an investigation …

By David Liechty

The Austrian 100 Corona coin is a good choice for investors looking to maximize the value of their gold investment purchase. Weighing just under an ounce, at 0.9802 ounces (gold…

Margarine is the bad guy and butter and eggs are the good guys.

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The Oiling of America: How the Vegetable Oil Industry Demonized Nutritious Animal Fats…

Dairy Herdshare Told to Cease Operations by Massachusetts Dept. of Agriculture

Former 1st Assistant Attorney General Takes the Case

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Brigitte Ruthman is 50 years old, a career j…

By Christine Harper and Saijel Kishan

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is shutting its principal-strategies business, a group that makes bets with the firm’s own capital, to comply with new U.S. rules aime…

By Alex Bogusky

Video Interview with Jeffrey Smith author of Seeds of Deception.

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The Great American Food Experiment and how to opt out. Jeff is in the middle of everything you see and read…

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A ticking time bomb of American debt. Over $830 billion are owed by college students in the US with $3 thousand more added on every second. This is debt that is NOT extinguished in bankruptc…

Dear Catherine,

I miss having our mini conversations but I am thrilled that you have had that road trip and time in Montana. I l-o-v-e Montana and have driven its vast and varied expanses of beauty s…

By Anne E. Kornblut and Lori Montgomery

With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks – potentially worth hundreds of bil…

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Read How One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America’s Food Supply– and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself The Unhealthy Truth By Robyn O’Brien

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Minnesotans struggling with debt have their bank accounts and pay seized with no judicial oversight.

By Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt

After two weeks without a decent meal, Van Tran looked tired …

By Michael Patterson and Tal Barak Harif

Emerging-market stocks are trading at the highest valuations relative to advanced-country shares in more than two years as faster economic growth persuades th…

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Vi tackar Catherine Austin Fitts för att ha emottagit följande artikel till att publicera på denna blogg. Mrs Fitts har tidigare verkat som VD och styrelsemedlem i investmentbanken D…

Flathead Lake, MT

I left Hickory Valley on August 21st. I drove into Memphis first, to pack my cooler full of fresh organic salads and fruits. I have learned not to search for fresh food on the road…

Despite a judge’s ruling putting key provisions of Arizona’s new immigration law on hold,most U.S. voters still favor passage of such a law in their own state. They also think it’s better to hav…

By Lars Schall

Hardly another serious plague to society is associated with more hypocrisy and erroneous assumptions than the drug business. So Lars Schall talked with Catherine Austin Fitts, who ex…

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By Marian Burros

The 250 farmers, bakers, millers, scientists and just plain eaters, all of them fanatics about the kind of bread that is so good it doesn’t need butter or jam, gathered here last…

By Pallavi Gogoi

Raghavan Mayur, president at TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, follows unemployment data closely. So, when his survey for May revealed that 28% of the 1,000-odd households surveye…

From Naked Capitalism

Normally, I don’t report on anecdotes from my immediate circle, but a set of conversations in less than a 24 hour period suggests that even those comparatively unaffected by t…

If you’re in a financial pinch, you might be able to tap your 401k for a bailout — but it could really cost you.

You’re not alone in wondering if you should tap your retirement savings. With an un…