Investment Banking Revenues for 2007
For those of you who keep asking me “Who is doing this?” here is a very
useful tool from the Financial Times which provides revenue and deal value rankings of the global investment banks for 2007.
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Action Alert
Urgent Action on Behalf of Oaxacan Political Prisoners
From Food First (21 Jan 2008)Learn more about Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
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Countrywide's Underwriters Sued for Fraud
Countrywide’s Underwriters Sued for Fraud by New York Agencies
By David Mildenberg & Karen Freifeld – Bloomberg.com (26 Jan 2008)The New York lawsuit has been consolidated with other lawsuits ag…
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Ohio Pension Fund Sues Freddie Mac
Mortgage Lender Hid Big Risks, Suit Alleges
By James Nash – Columbus Dispatch (23 Jan 2008)
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Market Flash: Barrick Insider Selling
Earlier news re insider selling by senior Barrick executives has me wondering what they know about market liquidity, 2008 prices for precious and base metals and how they know it. The heads of explora…
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The Lone Trader
Usually it’s the “lone” assassin. Now that coup d’etats are financial, we have the “lone” or “rogue” trader.
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The lone trader strikes again ala 2008:
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Top Picks ~ Week of January 21, 2008
Money & Markets
You Should Be Wary of This Market Rebound
By John Crudele – New York Post (24 Jan 2008)
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Ditching Google
That’s it. I’m ditching Google. It is lots of little things, but the reality is I don’t trust ’em.
Centralizing internet data does not lend itself to promoting freedom, particularly the way these guy…
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Recent Reads
I finished up some good reads this weekend.
The first read: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan is a good well, written summary of everything you probably already know about fo…
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Cleveland Sues 21 Lenders Over Subprime Mortgages
Cleveland Sues 21 Lenders Over Subprime Mortgages
By Christopher Maag – New York Times (12 Jan 2008)
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See City of Cleveland Press Release for a list of lenders.
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Interesting Timing…
World Bank Closes Offices After Bomb Threat
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Top Picks ~ Week of January 14, 2008
Money & Markets
FBI Wants Instant Access to British Identity Data
By Owen Bowcott – The Guardian (15 Jan 2008)Citigroup’s Hopes for Investment From Chinese Bank Hit a Snag
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Coming Clean!
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Merrill & Citi Get Capital Injections From Foreign Investors
Let’s say $40 of every barrel of oil sold to the US by large oil companies sourced in the middle east goes into a sovereign wealth fund. Let’s say there is $4 trillion missing from the US Treasury, an…
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Merrill & Citi Get Capital Injections From Foreign Investors
Let’s say $40 of every barrel of oil sold to the US by large oil companies sourced in the middle east goes into a sovereign wealth fund. Let’s say there is $4 trillion missing from the US Treasury, an…
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Mayor and City Council of Baltimore vs. Wells Fargo Bank
Life gets interesting when the lawyers willing to sue big banks grow in number.
Baltimore is Suing Over Foreclosure Crisis
By Gretchen Morgenson – New York Times (8 Jan 2008)Lawyers’ fear of bein…
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FDIC Loan Sales Privatize Access
In an e-mail (1.02.08) from the FDIC:
The e-mail is to inform you that the FDIC is retiring the loan sales website at www.fdicsales.com effective January 4, 2008. From this point forward, the FDIC wil… -
Quote du Jour
With thanks to “The King Report.”
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New Hampshire Primary Results – Diebold Wins Again
NH Primary: Pre-Election Polls Wildly Different Than Results Announced for Clinton/Obama
Blogged by Brad Friedman – The Brad Blog (8 Jan 2008)2008 New Hampshire State Primary Results
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Top Picks ~ Week of January 7, 2008
Money & Markets
China is Quietly Revaluing its Currency
By Richard Spencer – London Telegraph (8 Jan 2008)
Baltimore is Suing Bank Over Foreclosure Crisis
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A Review of Political Ponerology
Thanks to a very special reader, Catherine’s blog review of Political Ponerology has been translated into Swedish.
Click on this image to access the translation:
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Price vs. Force
Brilliant (and darling) investment newsletter writer Rob Kirby and I have been having a heated debate. He says that markets clear through price. I say they clear through force. At the heart of the deb…
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Letter to the Editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer
Ladies And Gentlemen:
Thank you for your excellent article “Hungry Times For Area Food Banks” by Alfred Lubrano, Mari A. Schaefer and Joseph Dolan.
The authors state that the reasons for the current…
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How Goldman Sachs Ranks the Candidates
From opensecrets.org – Race for the White House
Here is how Goldman Sachs employees have voted with their money for the 2008 presidential candidates:
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More on the Missing Money
There is $4 trillion missing from the US government. On Coast to Coast last week, I referred to Rumsfeld’s testimony before Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney on the missing money and sex slave traffick…
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Top Picks ~ Week of December 31, 2007
Money & Markets
Venezuela Cuts Zeroes From Currency in Hope of Stalling InflationBy Jorge Rueda – Associated Press (1 Jan 2008)
Cyprus and Malta Adopt the Euro
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US Downgraded to Endemic Surveillance Society; Joining Russia & China
From: Privacy International
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US Downgraded to Endemic Surveillance Society; Joining Russia & China
From: Privacy International
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Barclays Sues Bear Stearns
Title: US District Court, Southern District of New York
Parties: Barclays Bank, PLC vs Bear Stearns, et al
Filed: December 19, 2007Complaint ~ Part 1
Complaint ~ Part 2
Exhibit A1-3
Exhibit B1-4
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Improving My Gas Mileage
For the last year, several members of the Solari network have been lobbying me to try Fuel Freedom International’s MPG-CAPSâ„¢. These are small caplets that are added to my gas which improve milea…
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Top Picks ~ Week of December 24, 2007
Money & Markets
Dollar’s Shares of Currency Reserves Falls to Record Low
By Christopher Swan – Bloomberg News (28 Dec 2007)Exit U.S.
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“He reads. He reads…everything.”
In 1984, I gave away my television after overhearing a conversation about the subliminal programing and entrainment technology being rolled out to manage public opinion through television. Not being s…
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"He reads. He reads…everything."
In 1984, I gave away my television after overhearing a conversation about the subliminal programing and entrainment technology being rolled out to manage public opinion through television. Not being s…
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Is Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal in Play?
Pakistan Nuclear Weapons at Play
By Newsmax Staff – Newsmax.com (27 Dec 2007)Pakistan and Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Is Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal in Play?
Pakistan Nuclear Weapons at Play
By Newsmax Staff – Newsmax.com (27 Dec 2007)Pakistan and Weapons of Mass Destruction
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A Wish…
It’s Catherine’s birthday today!
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Winter Wonderland
I drove up through Vermont to New Hampshire to visit my aunt and uncle.
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Top Picks ~ Week of December 17, 2007
Money & Markets
China Takes 10% Stake in Morgan Stanley to Cover Junk Mortgages
By Joseph A. Giannone – Reuters (19 Dec 2007)Credit Crisis Hits Top US Bond Insurer
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Winter Solstice
From Wikipedia: The winter solstice occurs the instant when the Sun’s position in the sky is at its greatest angular distance on the other side of the equatorial plane as the observer. Depending on th…
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The Checklist
The Checklist
If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?
By Atul Gawande – The New Yorker (10 Dec 2007)
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The Creeping Financial Coup d’etat
One of the newsletters that I use as an excellent predictor of what the Tapeworm will do next (in the rah-rah Tapeworm mode) says that state and local governments are going to plug their deficits with…
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The Creeping Financial Coup d'etat
One of the newsletters that I use as an excellent predictor of what the Tapeworm will do next (in the rah-rah Tapeworm mode) says that state and local governments are going to plug their deficits with…
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New Forum is Percolating
We are in the process of developing a new forum that will be part of a subscription service we will launch next year. We will be shutting down http://www.solariactionnetwork.com as we bring up the pr…
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Time to do it again?
Here is a picture from the Monitor-Herald in Calhoun City, Mississippi during my bicycle trip through the Southern states in 1978. I just got a new bicycle and keep thinking about doing another trip.
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What reforms should a presidential candidate propose?
Someone just asked me for a comment on a Presidential candidate’s policies to reform the sub-prime mortgage market. Here are the items I suggested.
1. Return currency issuance to the US Treasury;2. …
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Integrating the Model
New Zealand ally Claude Lewenz reminds me that ‘doing good’ first got split from ‘doing well’ with granting of a royal charter to the Honourable East India Company 407 years ago in December 1600 and…
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Extraordinary Popular Debt
Extraordinary Popular Debt
By Bill Bonner – Rude Awakening Blog (10 Dec 2007)
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P.S. Financial Fraud vs Financial Coup d’etat
P.S. Financial Fraud vs Financial Coup d’etat
By Catherine Austin Fitts – Scoop Independent News (11 Dec 2007)
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P.S. Financial Fraud vs Financial Coup d'etat
P.S. Financial Fraud vs Financial Coup d’etat
By Catherine Austin Fitts – Scoop Independent News (11 Dec 2007)
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Multi-Purpose Trampoline
One reason why trampolines may be dangerous.
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Inflation – The Dollar Peg Virus
These 3 snippets from Doug Noland’s Tight Money were pointed out by one of my favorite GATA team mates:
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Top Picks ~ Week of December 10, 2007
Money & Markets
Citigroup to Consolidate Seven SIVs on Balance Sheet
By Shannon D. Harrington & Elizabeth Hester – Bloomberg News (13 Dec 2007)World Bankers Resort to Firebreak
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UBS Admits $10B Subprime Loss, Gets Rescue From Singapore
UBS Admits $10B Subprime Loss, Gets Rescue From Singapore
By Andrew Hurst – Reuters (10 Dec 2007)
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The Paulson Plan
I named my last company after the first US Secretary of Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton believed in the sanctity of a contract. One of his quotes I often use is “a promise must never be broken….
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Bill Moyers’ Journal
Bill Moyers’ Journal (23 Nov 2007)
The power and beauty found in the African American church and spiritual experience reminds me of St. Timothy when he wrote “For God hath not given us the spirit of f… -
Bill Moyers' Journal
Bill Moyers’ Journal (23 Nov 2007)
The power and beauty found in the African American church and spiritual experience reminds me of St. Timothy when he wrote “For God hath not given us the spirit of f… -
Are You Financing KKR Up, Popsicle Index Down?
Robert Greenwald’s on-line video on Henry Kravis, partner of leveraged buyout and private equity firm, KKR, “Fight the War on Greed,” does not mention the European Union’s allegations in its lawsuit a…
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Top Picks ~ Week of December 3, 2007
Money & Markets
Top hedge Fund blow-up news and commentary
Britain’s Rate Cut Opens Gulf With European Central Bank
By Chris Giles & Ralph Atkins – Financial Times, London (6 Dec 2007)Top CD…
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Oldie, but Goodie
From November 2004 Interview in Optionetics —
Interview ~ Part I
Interview ~ Part II
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Top Picks from Scoop Media
Pentagon Poised to Resume Open Air Weapons Testing
By Sherwood Ross (4 Dec 2007)Burma: Junta Charges Monks’ Leader With Treason
By Terry Evans (3 Dec 2007)New Zealand One of the World’s Simplest…
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Taxes: Who’s Who Among Nations
Paying Taxes 2008 – The Global Picture
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Taxes: Who's Who Among Nations
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More Popsicle Index Down, Goldman Sachs Up
Is more profiting underway from the dump (as in “pump and dump”) of the US economy?
Goldman Short the Housing Market?
See Ben Stein – New York Times (2 Dec 2007)Cuomo Helping?
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Popsicle Index Down, Prison Stocks Up
In from Sam Smith at Progressive Review:
The Vortex
A Justice Policy Institute Report (Dec 2007)ACCORDING TO THE Department of Health & Human Services, the highest rate of illicit drug use is amo…
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More Money Talks?
AMC Chief Urges States to Drop Dollar Peg
By P.K. Abdul Ghafour – Arab News (1 Dec 2007)US Intelligence Says Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003
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Montana, Connecticut Holdings Downgraded by Moody’s
Montana, Connecticut Hold Downgraded by Moody’s
By David Evans – Bloomberg.com (3 Dec 2007)
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Montana, Connecticut Holdings Downgraded by Moody's
Montana, Connecticut Hold Downgraded by Moody’s
By David Evans – Bloomberg.com (3 Dec 2007)
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Circulating on the Internet ~ 911 Truth
I was depressed last night so I called Lifeline.
I got a call center in Pakistan.
I told them I was suicidal.
They got all excited and asked if I could fly a plane.
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Sontag on the Slow Burn
Susan Sontag was someone who had astonishing insights into our collective situations. Here is one that I read recently.
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Two Sides to Every Venezuela Story
Read the first story, published by CounterPunch:
CIA Venezuela Destabilization Memo Surfaces
By James Petras – CounterPunch (28 Nov 2007)Then read this story from today’s New York Times (top of fol…
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Guess Who Runs the Largest Cash Reserves in the World?
China Wins From Credit Crunch Fallout
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Peace Talks or Money Talks?
Just as the United Arab Emirates are bailing out Citigroup, Sony and
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.:
Dubai Fund Appoints Sony ex-CEO to Advisory Board
By Kiyoshi Takenaka – Reuters (29 Nov 2007)Arab E…
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Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
Talkin’ to America
”Talkin’ to America” is a weekly series of provocative, hard-hitting interviews that is posted in MP3 format on our website each week. We also post interview notes for each interv… -
Quote du Jour
One . . . with courage makes a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson
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Navigate the Falling Dollar ~ Continued
An excellent strategic overview of the global drain engineered via a
falling dollar…Dollar’s Fall is Now a Bigger Political Issue Than an Economic One
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Top Picks ~ Week of November 26, 2007
Money & Markets
E*Trade Gets Help From Citadel [Must subscribe to read full article.]
By Susanne Craig, et al – Wall Street Journal (29 Nov 2007)China’s Hong Kong Pilot Stock Plan Will Proceed, …
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Fresh Food: Take Action
I just installed a freezer, bought my first lamb and quarter calf from
two local farmers, and joined the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund
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Norweigan Popsicle Index Down, Citi Up, Now Down, CEO Up
Northern Norway Towns Lose $167MM on CitiCorp InvestmentsÂ
Townships Caught up in International Credit Crisis
By Nina Berglund – Aftenpolten News from Norway (20 Nov 2007)Will Investigate Invest…
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Report Lists Major War Profiteers
PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT – The nonprofit watchdog journalism organization the Center for Public Integrity published “Windfalls of War II.” Here are some of the Center’s key findings:
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Study on Financial Returns of Angel Investors
Largest study on angel investing is released by the Kauffman Foundation and Angel Capital Education Foundation.
From the Press Release:
The largest study on the financial returns of angel investors…
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Kiva Update on Don Pancho: Challenges as a Microentrepreneur
Update from Kiva on my current loan . . .
Francisco is doing well. He is working hard at both of his businesses everyday. He has finished all payments on his first loan despite a huge setback; he …
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Mortgage Market Shakedown: Popsicle Index Down, Goldman Sachs Up
Meet Andrew Cuomo:
Andrew was Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development overseeing the largest mortgage insurance and securities operation in the world when it “los…
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US Supreme Court Agrees to Rule on Right to Own Gun
US Supreme Court Agrees to Rule on Right to Own Gun
By Greg Stohr – Bloomberg News (21 Nov 2007)
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Top Picks ~ Week of November 19, 2007
Money & Markets
Dollar to Fade, Not Fly, From Scene as Gulf Reforms
By Daliah Merzaban – Reuters (21 Nov 2007)The Currency Manipulation Follies, Chapter Umpteen
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More Documentaries
I have just added Micheal Moore’s documentary Sicko to my list of favorite recent documentaries.Sicko is a home run.
Thanks, Mike.
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Falling Dollar vs Liberty Dollar
“In any event Bill King, editor of The King Report, may have had the most telling observation on the controversy: that the government would have had no problem with the Liberty Dollar organization …
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Just in From a Member of the Solari Action Network…
They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables. When t…
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In From One of My Favorite People
Sh** Happens in World Religions:
Taoism
Sh** happensConfucianism
Confucius say, “Sh** happens.â€Buddhism
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Top Picks ~ Week of November 12, 2007
Money & Markets
Belgian Treasury Promises No Default
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (16 Nov 2007)Fund Managers Hold Nerve Despite Fears
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Access to Drinking Water
Globally human populations are growing, trade is increasing, and living standards are rising for many. But, according to the UN’s latest Global Environment Outlook report, long-term problems includi…
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Pete McCormack on Financial Coup d’Etat
Pete McCormack has taken my Financial Sense Newshour Interview
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News & Commentary
Well, they left out the part about creating 10 mortgages on one home and
using dirty tricks to stop the market (such as Hamilton Securities bringing
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The Fall of the US Dollar is Accelerating
US Dollar Index Price & Chart Quote
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Ron Paul ~ $12 Million to Win
Daily Updates ~ Ron Paul 2008
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Top Picks ~ Week of November 5, 2007
Shock Doctrine’s Shocking Short Shrift
By Carolyn Baker – Speaking Truth to PowerNew York’s $25,000 Dessert Sets Guinness Record
By Vivianne Rodrigues – Reuters (7 Nov 2007)The Witches’ Brew of 19…
