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Goldman Following Morgan in Ending Proprietary Trading

5 hours 24 min ago
By Christine Harper and Saijel Kishan Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is shutting its principal-strategies business, a group that makes bets with the firm’s own capital, to comply with new U.S. rules aimed at curbing risk, two people with knowledge of the decision said. Wall Street’s most profitable investment bank plans to hold off on announcing the wind-down [...]

The Great American Food Experiment

5 hours 25 min ago
By Alex Bogusky Video Interview with Jeffrey Smith author of Seeds of Deception. YouTube The Great American Food Experiment and how to opt out. Jeff is in the middle of everything you see and read about Genetically Modified Organisms. Continue reading the article . . .

US Students - Drowning in Debt

5 hours 26 min ago
YouTube A ticking time bomb of American debt. Over $830 billion are owed by college students in the US with $3 thousand more added on every second. This is debt that is NOT extinguished in bankruptcy. Continue reading the article . . .

A Letter From Fleurette

5 hours 27 min ago
Dear Catherine, I miss having our mini conversations but I am thrilled that you have had that road trip and time in Montana. I l-o-v-e Montana and have driven its vast and varied expanses of beauty so many times. My friends are in Deer Lodge, Missoula, Bozeman and (formerly) in Big Fork, so everything you described [...]

Money & Markets - Week of 9.5.10

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 11:00
EU Austerity Policies Risk Civil War in Greece, Warns Top German Economist Dr Sinn Telegraph.co.uk (3 Sept 10) Heavy in Dollars, China Warns of Depreciation GATA (3 Sept 10)

Precious Metals - Week of 9.5.10

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 10:45
Islamic Gold Dinar Gains Ground in Malaysia: Official Yahoo News (4 Sept 10)

Housing & Mortgage Markets - Week of 9.5.10

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 10:30
Florida’s High-Speed Answer to a Foreclosure Mess The New York Times (4 Sept 10) Soldier’s Home Foreclosed While She Was Serving Abroad Orlando Sentinel (3 Sept 10)

Geopolitical - Week of 9.5.10

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 10:15
Tony Blair Pelted With Eggs And Shoes at Dublin Book Signing Belfast Telegraph.co.uk (4 Sept 10) Band of Bigots: Dr. Sarrazin, Herr Henkel, And The Bank of America The Wall Street Journal (4 Sept 10) Elite Paedophile Ring in Portugal cryptogon.com (3 Sept 10) The Ungreat Debate The New York Times (3 Sept 10) Middle East Loses Trillions As U.S. Strikes Record Arms Deals Stop [...]

Food & Health - Week of 9.5.10

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 10:00
Public Still In The Dark On Transgenic Salmon The True Food Network (3 Sept 10)

Life - Week of 9.5.10

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 09:45
Canterbury Picks Up Pieces After Massive Quake Scoop News (4 Sept 10) Mayor: Quake Hit City ‘Like an Iceberg’ nzherald.co.nz (4 Sept 10)

Science & Technology - Week of 9.5.10

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 09:30
His Corporate Strategy: The Scientific Method The New York Times (4 Sept 10) Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button? Live Science (2 Sept 10)

White House Considers Pre-midterm Package of Business Tax Breaks to Spur Hiring

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 09:48
By Anne E. Kornblut and Lori Montgomery With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks - potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars - to spur hiring and combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt small businesses, according to people with knowledge of [...]

Quote du Jour

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 09:47
-- “I found out something I never knew. I found out that my world was not the real world.” Robert Kennedy , speaking about the assassination of his brother, John F. Kennedy -- -- -- -- -- -- Catherine Austin Fitts’ Blog Commentaries YouTube How Many Unexplained Deaths Will We Tolerate? (16 Sept 10)

Money & Markets Charts ~ 9.02.10

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:40
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, September 2, 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 [...]

The National Security State & the Clash of Civilizations

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:00
“…This three volume series is the nearest thing to an official history of the UFO phenomenon that we are ever likely to see. While this second volume is an authoritative account, this is no dry history - in this gripping account, Dolan captures the cases, the controversies and the characters, giving us the definitive [...]

The Unhealthy Truth

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:41
Read How One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America’s Food Supply– and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself The Unhealthy Truth By Robyn O’Brien Continue reading the article . . .

Disturbing Debt Seizures

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:41
Minnesotans struggling with debt have their bank accounts and pay seized with no judicial oversight. By Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt After two weeks without a decent meal, Van Tran looked tired and agitated as he walked into the Ramsey County courtroom for a hearing in May. Tran, 55, a janitor and security guard from St. [...]

September DOL-Treasury Hearings on Options For Retirement Plans

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:09
The U. S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced a joint public hearing on Sept. 14, 2010, and if necessary on Sept. 15, to hear testimony on several specific issues relating to lifetime income and other arrangements that provide a stream of income after retirement [...]

Emerging Stocks Rebalancing Against Advanced Country Stocks

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 15:04
By Michael Patterson and Tal Barak Harif Emerging-market stocks are trading at the highest valuations relative to advanced-country shares in more than two years as faster economic growth persuades the biggest investors to look past historical sell signals. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is valued at 14.1 times reported profits and 1.9 times net assets, compared with [...]