Post-Mortgage Meltdown, Where Do We Go Now?
NPR For more than 20 years, the mantra in Washington has been “more, not less” when it comes to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the…
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Policy Elite Acting Like The Priests of Some Ancient Cult
Paul Krugman NY Times As I look at what passes for responsible economic policy these days, there’s an analogy that keeps passing through my mind….
Greg Palast Confronts The Generalissimo of Globalization
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The State’s ‘Inception’ Fails
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Lew Rockwell Two years ago, the economy was seriously dragged down amidst an amazing banking crisis that spread throughout the world….
California May Jail Parents if Children Miss Too Much School
Washington Post Talk about parental responsibility. The California Senate just passed a bill that could send parents to jail for up to a year if…
Failure Of Obama’s Pet ShoreBank Costs Taxpayers $368 Million, Which Immediately Goes To Goldman Sachs Among Others
Tyler Durden Zero Hedge After a lengthy attempt to bail out his pet bank, ShoreBank Chicago, Illinois, which included several alleged armtwisting episodes by the…
NOAA’s Supposed Peer Reviewers: We Never Reviewed the Report
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones The federal government is facing mounting criticism over the oil budget report released on August 4 that has been characterized as painting an overly rosy picture…
Grim future for young workers in ‘pensioner ghettos’
Emma Simon The Telegraph Photo: ALAMY Rural areas, particularly in the South West of England, will be the worst affected by a significant increase in…
Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof?
Ellen Brown Seeking Alpha Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the…
Which safe-haven currency will benefit most?
Tamawa Desai Reuters Risks of global economic slowdown have triggered a shift toward “safe-haven” assets this month, pushing world stock prices off their peaks and…
Black Swans Need Not Apply (6 Reasons Why the Economy is Going Down)
By Louis James, Chief Metals Strategist, Casey Research I was pounding pavement instead of kicking rocks recently, on Wall Street of all places. There were Suits…
The Anti-Fed Revolution
Anthony Gregory Campaign for Liberty Through his 2008 presidential campaign, Ron Paul managed to make monetary policy a national political issue. For nearly a century…
Hindenburg Omen Confirmation #1
Tyler Durden Zero Hedge Today we got our first Hindenburg Omen confirmation. The number of new highs was 136, and new lows was at 69…
Poll: Opposition to Wars at All Time High
Press TV A new opinion poll says the number of Americans opposed to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is at an all time…