The UK inflation genie is out of the bottle
As 2010 draws to a close, it’s becoming ever clearer that the UK’s economic prognosis is not good. Liam Halligan Telegraph I’m a natural optimist…
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Ron Paul: Competing Currencies Can ‘End the Fed’ Softly (VIDEO)
Activist Post Ron Paul on the House floor introducing his bill for legalizing competing currencies — the HR 4248 Free Competition in Currency Act of…
Lawmakers seek cash during key votes
Carol D. Leonnig and T.W. Farnam Washington Post Numerous times this year, members of Congress have held fundraisers and collected big checks while they are…
Fading optimism in “new normal” America
Anthony Freda Illustration Bernd Debusmann, Op-Ed Reuters Optimism is so deeply embedded in the American national psyche that it withstood the Great Depression in the…
Fading optimism in “new normal” America
Anthony Freda Illustration Bernd Debusmann, Op-Ed Reuters Optimism is so deeply embedded in the American national psyche that it withstood the Great Depression in the…
Pentagon’s Christmas Present: Largest Military Budget Since World War II
Rick Rozoff Blacklisted News On December 22 both houses of the U.S. Congress unanimously passed a bill authorizing $725 billion for next year’s Defense Department…
Communist China to “Bailout” Cartel Capitalism in West?
Howard Beale Activist Post Communist China, with all of its resources gained through slave labor and favorable trade agreements, has announced that it will bailout debt-weakened European…
Record spike in EMU default risk on Portugal downgrade and Greek restructuring scare
The cost of default insurance on eurozone bonds has surged to an all-time high on reports that Greece is preparing the way for a sovereign…
Ingredients of Transition: Community Supported Farms, Bakeries and Breweries
Transition Culture Getting LOCAL FOOD INITIATIVES (3.10) and some of the PRACTICAL MANIFESTATIONS (3.9) that your initiative wants to do off the ground can be…
American Austerity: Crime Spikes, And Fear Explodes After Newark Chops Police Force
Corey Booker – Image: Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-Ledger Joe Weisenthal Business Insider Cuts have consequences. Case in point: Newark has seen a recent crime spike, coinciding…
Pension Checks Stopped in Alabama City
Robert Wenzel Economic Policy Journal The pension fund of Prichard, Alabama has run dry. It only impacts a small number of retired town workers, but…
Feast in Time of Plague: Wall Street Art of Sucking Money (VIDEO)
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Census: Fast Growth in States With No Income Tax
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Michael Barone The Washington Examiner For those of us who are demographic buffs, Christmas came four days early when Census Bureau director Robert…
How the Fed let small banks take on too much debt, then fail
Greg Gordon and Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve Board, chastised for regulatory inaction that contributed to the subprime mortgage meltdown,…