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I was going through old pictures looking for one of my childhood home in West Philadelphia and came upon this photo from the 1989 campaign. I figured you would get a kick out of this one!

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By  Daniel Kreps The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will celebrate its 15th anniversary in part with a new Elvis Presley exhibit set to open this September 13th. “Elvis 1956: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer” will feature intimate photos of the King in the studio and at home, just as he was on the brink of [...]

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“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that [...]

By Robert Preidt American parents are more likely than European parents to have conflicts with their adult children, finds a new study. Researchers examined parent-adult child relationships in six countries (England, Germany, Israel, Norway, Spain and the United States) and found that most older parents had relatively conflict-free, affectionate relationships with their adult children. For example, about 75 [...]

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By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday, I am headed over to Top of the World Farm to join Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger for the Precious Metals Market Report. After my review of Money & Markets, we will review recent developments in the silver and gold markets. Franklin has just published a fascinating analysis on the [...]

Excerpts from “Options For Storing Precious Metals” By Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts “In this article, we summarize some of the better-known custodial, vaulting, and digital gold arrangements available to individual investors in precious metals and provide a list of considerations for those interested in exploring these and other alternatives available to them…“ We provide some key [...]

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 on Thursday, August 12, 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 [...]

While analyzing HFT (High Frequency Trading) quote counts, we were shocked to find cases where one exchange was sending an extremely high number of quotes for one stock in a single second: as high as 5,000 quotes in 1 second! During May 6, there were hundreds of times that a single stock had over 1,000 [...]

The latest Superman comic book (701, Sep ‘10) starts out in my old Philly neighborhood. The address of my childhood home was 503 South 48th Street. This is the block portrayed in this story of Superman’s walk through Philadelphia as he seeks to inspire people to resist injustice, cruelty and murder. My Philadelphia neighborhood was the [...]

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By Tyler Durden In what could be the most important news of the day, German Die Zeit reports that, in a stunning move, the EU has ordered Germany to count the holdings of WestLB and Hypo Real Estate (the latter of which failed the stress farce from last month which nobody cares about or remembers anymore) [...]

“It’s a culture of do-it-yourself, organize it yourself. It’s a new economic culture. Don’t give up the value of your life for the value of their stock because the value of your life, you control. The value of your stocks, you don’t control and it’s very unsettling.” Manuel Castells Wikipedia Professor Manuel Castells Oxford Internet Institute

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Out-of-touch leaders don’t see the need to cool things off. By Peggy Noonan It is, obviously, self-referential to quote yourself, but I do it to make a point. I wrote the following on New Year’s day, 1994. America 16 years ago was a relatively content nation, though full of political sparks: 10 months later the Republicans would [...]

By Helen Jung It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red. So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again. Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie [...]

By Jessica E. Vascellaro A confidential, seven-page Google Inc. “vision statement” shows the information-age giant in a deep round of soul-searching over a basic question: How far should it go in profiting from its crown jewels—the vast trove of data it possesses about people’s activities? Should it tap more of what it knows about Gmail users? Should [...]