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Rethinking Gold: What if It Isn’t a Commodity After All? Yahoo Finance (21 Aug 10)

U.S. Home Sales Fall to 15-Year Low CBC News (24 Aug 10) Figueroa v. Law Offices Of David J. Stern, P.A. and Merscorp, Inc. StopForeclosureFraud.com (27 July 10)

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* Fidelity exec: Savers tap funds to avoid foreclosure * Record levels of hardship withdrawals, loans * 401(k) balances slipped in Q2 as stock market fell By Ross Kerber A record number of U.S. workers are tapping into their retirement accounts to make it through the economic downturn, Fidelity Investments found in a survey released on Friday. Among the 11 [...]

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By Javier Blas and William MacNamara The rise of China and India has sparked a renewed surge in aggressive dealmaking in the resources sector, with more than $50bn in proposed take­overs this week alone wagering on continued strong commodities demand. BHP Billiton on Friday tabled formally its $39bn hostile take­over for PotashCorp, the world’s largest listed fertilised [...]

George Soros has slashed the amount of money he is willing to gamble on the fortunes of the US stock market in the second quarter as market volatility increased. By James Quinn The legendary investor’s Soros Fund Management – which has approximately $25bn (£16bn) under management – reduced its equity investments by 42pc to $5.1bn by the [...]

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View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, August 19, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency charts are from StockCharts.com. Gold vs Oil Gold [...]

This Thursday, I will be speaking with Dr. Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania about his marvelous translation of the classic military treatise, The Art of War: Sun Zi’s Military Methods. One of the questions of greatest interest to our subscribers is “What are the best books to [...]

Wasn’t the new health care reform law supposed to make health care more affordable for everyone?  Well, imagine my surprise when I opened up a letter from my health insurance company recently and found out that my health insurance premiums were going up by nearly 50 percent.  I am in perfect health and I have [...]

A diet including unlimited amounts of junk food can cause rats to become so addicted to the unhealthy diet that they will starve themselves rather than go back to eating healthy food, researchers have discovered. In a series of studies conducted over the course of three years and published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Scripps Florida [...]

Near the Iraq-Kuwait border — The last U.S. combat troops were crossing the border into Kuwait on Thursday morning, bringing to a close the active combat phase of a 7½-year war that overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush and left more than 4,400 American service members [...]

Research By: Lisa Lombardi Some places are just too dangerous for children: crocodile ponds, stores that sell barbed wire, Jacksonville. . . . Okay, the Sunshine State’s largest city may not be that unsafe, but it’s probably riskier than its residents realize. When we looked at perils posed to children in 100 cities, Jacksonville came in [...]

By Hillel Koren No reason for the sale was mentioned in the report to the SEC. In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010. No reason for the sale [...]