Banknotes go electric to outwit counterfeiters
Image: Action Press/Rex Features Editor’s Note: Used to “simplify tracking” of bank notes. How convenient. John Evans New Scientist GOOD old-fashioned cash is to go…
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Banknotes go electric to outwit counterfeiters
Image: Action Press/Rex Features Editor’s Note: Used to “simplify tracking” of bank notes. How convenient. John Evans New Scientist GOOD old-fashioned cash is to go…
Bloomberg Files Lawsuit Against European Central Bank
UNC Biz Blog Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News, filed a lawsuit Wednesday that asks the European Union’s General Court in Luxembourg to overturn…
Down Argentine Way
A scene from Argentina’s collapse: source Ron Holland The Daily Bell There are many ominous parallels between Argentina and the U.S. and the question often…
Banks accused of illegally looting homes
‘When a burglar goes in, they don’t take your photos and your husband’s ashes,’ says alleged victim of wrongful foreclosure Andrew Martin The New York…
Profiting from Policy
Dave Galland, Managing Director Casey Research These days, it’s hard to draw any conclusion other than that the train is gaining speed on wobbly tracks…
WikiLeaks Founder: We Have Enough Information To Make An Exec At A Major Bank Resign
Ryan McCarthy The Huffington Post An upcoming data dump by WikiLeaks will be damaging enough that an executive at a major American bank will resign,…
Pimco says ‘untenable’ policies will lead to eurozone break-up
Pimco, the world’s largest bond fund, has called on Greece, Ireland and Portugal to step outside the eurozone temporarily and restructure their debts unless the…
Soon the government check won’t be in the mail
Martin Crutsinger Associated Press WASHINGTON — Before too long, the government check will no longer be in the mail. Officials have settled on the dates…
UK Interest rates ‘will have to rise sixfold in two years’
Interest rates will have to rise almost sixfold over the next two years to cope with rising inflation, business leaders have warned. Myra Butterworth —…
$2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities
Overdrawn American cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery. Nor…
80% of Baby Boomers Pessimistic About America’s Direction
New study finds baby boomers are in a funk Stephanie Chen CNN Eighty percent of baby boomers are pessimistic about the current direction of the…
How to Survive the Collapse of America
Activist Post reviews National Bestseller, How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, by author James Wesley, Rawles (makes an important Christmas…
Word of the Year: Austerity
InfoWars The noun was searched so many times on Merriam-Webster’s website, the dictionary decided to make it word of the year. According to John Morse,…