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Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #14. Listen to Solari Report Digest #14 The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Solari Report briefings. In the rapidly changing political and economic landscape the Solari Report Digest provides up to date analysis of money and markets, insightful commentary on [...]

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Although it does not appear until almost the end of this article in the Financial Times, BIS Gold Swaps Mystery Unravelled, the source of the gold provided in the dollar swaps with BIS is coming from customers of about 10 European banks who are holding their gold at the banks in ‘unallocated accounts.’ “The gold used [...]

America’s system of rail freight is the world’s best. High-speed passenger trains could ruin it. Union Station in Los Angeles has been restored as a fine example of the Art Deco architecture that typified California in the 1930s. It has served as a backdrop for many Hollywood films, from “Union Station” (naturally) to “Blade Runner” and [...]

By Yongheng Deng, Joseph Gyourko and Jing Wu China is experiencing spectacularly fast growth – so fast that many fear it is driven by a bubble – a property bubble to be precise. Recent memories of what happened when the US housing market bubble burst make the possibility of a Chinese housing bubble a critical concern [...]

By Joe Mysak The search is on for the next $800,000-a-year city manager. The taxpayers of Bell, California, a 2.5-square-mile city just outside Los Angeles forced the resignations last week of three public officials who made too much money. The taxpayers were responding to a Los Angeles Times article of July 15 that asked the question, “Is a [...]

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By Noah Shachtman The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between [...]

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” ~ Albert Einstein

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By Dunstan Prial So much for transparency. Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act. The law, signed last week by President Obama, exempts the SEC from [...]

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By Dawn Kopecki and Catherine Dodge U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. The Treasury’s $700 billion bank-investment program represents a fraction of all federal support to resuscitate the [...]

“Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts shared her critical reaction to the new financial regulations just signed into law. “We have a couple thousand pages of legislation from the federal government” that still doesn’t account for the $4 trillion missing from federal accounts. And the new regulations will essentially increase the amount of centralization, and give [...]

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By Heidi Jon Schmidt CHINCOTEAGUE, Moonstone, Bayou La Batre, Blue Point, Wellfleet, Malpeque … this was what I knew of the sea as a child: the list of oysters on the menu board at Grand Central Terminal’s Oyster Bar. My father used to take my sister, Laura, and me there after our parents divorced. I had never [...]

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Dying of Money Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations [Hardcover] The author vividly and thoroughly recounts the influence of inflation throughout history with special emphasis on the U.S. economy and the hyperinflationary events of the 1920s in the Weimar Republic, Germany. Continue reading the article . . .