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05/16/13 - Solari Story: Moving the Money
This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "Moving the Money." Here's a bit of the transcript: "During the '90s I had an investment bank in Washington, ... |
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05/09/13 - Shock: Economist Mag Predicts North American Common Market?
In Mexico, if you read between the lines, there is something ... that gets little mention ... Héctor Aguilar Camín, an expert on the bilateral relationship, says ... |
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04/30/13 - Fisker's Spendthrift Tale: Failure of Green Government Action
Fisker Spent $660,000 on Each $103,000 Plug-in Car ... Fisker Automotive Inc. spent more than six times as much U.S. taxpayer and investor money to produce each luxury plug-in ... |
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04/16/13 - Gold: Enter the Conspiracies ...
How the gold market was crashed ... There's been a recent huge draw down of physical gold at the New York COMEX and at the JPMorgan Chase depository ... So what to do? And how ... |
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04/10/13 - Big Banks, Baby!
Why Canada Can Avoid Banking Crises and U.S. Can't Since 1790, the United States has suffered 16 banking crises. Canada has experienced zero — not even during the Great ... |
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04/03/13 - Holding Your Nose for Principles
One of the difficulties with standing on principle is that often one is defending them when they are practiced by bad people. Or when bad conduct is involved. In both kinds of ... |
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04/02/13 - Confederacy of Dunces?
Why We Need to Fix Our Health care ... I think you should read both Brill's essay and Goldhill's book. There are actually some points of agreement about how to reform what ... |
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03/28/13 - Fashion of Public Solutions Is Doomed
The federal government's collection of unused and vacant properties is killing taxpayers. Watchdog groups say maintenance and bureaucratic red tape related to the U.S. ... |
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03/25/13 - Rare Earth Is Not so Rare ... Redux
Japan breaks China's stranglehold on rare metals with sea-mud bonanza ... Japanese scientists have found vast reserves of rare earth metals on the Pacific seabed that can be ... |
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02/28/13 - USSR Redux: Top Eurocrats Indicate Europe's Recovery Will Be Centrally Planned and Green
Europe's Green Recovery ... BRUSSELS – The need for clean energy has returned to the top of the global economic agenda ... In his second inaugural address, US President ... |
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02/22/13 - Harvesting of Big Game Animals to Be Legalized? Oxford Mathematical Equation May Approve
Cracking the code of rhino poaching ... A team of academics are building a mathematical model they hope will shed light on the complexities surrounding the illegal trade of ... |
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02/15/13 - Ed Rendell Calls for Massive Infrastructure New Deal
Rebuilding our economic backbone ... We're getting beat by Estonia. Not that there's anything wrong with the tiny state on the Baltic Sea. But the nation that built the Hoover ... |
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01/28/13 - Nationalize Banking? Or Apologize for the Suggestion ...
Breaking Up the Big Banks is Not a Solution: Make Them Public Utilities ... Leo Panitch: Global capitalism needs massive banks, but big private banks have the power to prevent ... |
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12/29/12 - The Invisible Hand Strikes Back
Bloomberg has posted an article entitled "Americans Miss $200 Billion [by] Abandoning Stocks" that is presumably supposed to illustrate the folly of avoiding equities but in my ... |
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11/21/12 - Let Us Remember the Apocalyptic Rhetoric of Peak Oilers
Peak Oil And The Olduvai Gorge ... Commodities / Crude Oil ... The Olduvai Gorge theory of Richard Duncan was that human society would be forced back to the anthropoid ape ... |
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11/13/12 - Usury or Taxes?
It's the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World ... In the 2012 edition of Occupy Money released last week, Professor Margrit Kennedy writes that a stunning 35% to 40% of ... |
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10/22/12 - What is a Government Job?
The Myth of Job Creation ... The headlines from the last presidential debate focused on President Obama challenging Mitt Romney on issue after issue. There was a less noticed, ... |
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08/20/12 - The Allure of Mandates
Peter Coy of Bloomberg/Businessweek is an avid fan of mandates (see his "The Case for Way More Mandates" 7/9-7/15, 2012, p. 24). That is to say he prefers forcing people to do ... |
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06/25/12 - Forty Million Houses in the US That No One Needs?
40 million houses too many ... one explanation for falling prices ... America has too many big houses – 40 million, to be exact – because consumers are shifting ... |
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05/05/12 - New Private Equity Opportunities Are Coming Thanks to the JOBS Act
An exceptional entrepreneurial company structure tainted unfairly by the actions of misnamed leveraged private equity buyout firms. "Their new label became 'private equity,' a ... |
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04/14/12 - Regulation, Kobe Beef – and the Titanic, Too
What do Kobe Beef and the Titanic have in common? They both are the subjects of articles this week that deal with regulation. Regulatory democracy is surely a meme of the 20th ... |
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04/09/12 - Lincoln Must Have Worked for Money Power
New Tim Burton film features Abraham Lincoln, vampires ... "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" to premiere in June 2012 ... While sitting in the theater waiting for "The Hunger ... |
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04/02/12 - The World Bank Is Hopeless and Changing Leaders Won't Help
Hats off to Ngozi ... A golden opportunity for the rest of the world to show Barack Obama the meaning of meritocracy ... When economists from the World Bank visit poor ... |
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03/29/12 - Central Banks Won't Produce Natural Interest
The Bank of England should raise interest rates next week ... Most people that read finance columns have heard of the "natural rate of unemployment", and many will know that ... |
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03/14/12 - Does the Market Really Want 'Smart Meter Version 2.0'?
New Arm chips herald 'Internet of things' ... New processors from Arm Holdings use so little power they could allow a new generation of connected devices, from credit cards to ... |
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03/12/12 - Elite Promotion Rolls On – Are BRICs the Hope of the World's Future?
Don't be scared away by BRIC inflation ... Whether it's been ongoing inflation fears and rising interest rates or the extreme volatility in commodity prices, it's been a pretty ... |
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02/01/12 - Obama Carefully Crafts Health Care Failure
The End of Health Insurance Companies ... Here's a bold prediction for the new year. By 2020, the American health insurance industry will be extinct. Insurance companies will ... |
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12/29/11 - Big Picture Scenarios for 2012 - Most Probably, A "Deflationary Debt Trap"
The four most expensive words in the English language are, "This time it's different." ~ Sir John Templeton Sir John knew what he was talking about. Every excessive boom in ... |
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12/23/11 - Lotophagian Greed
In book nine of Homer's Odyssey , Odysseus tells of how he and his men came upon an island populated by the Lotophagians – people who do nothing but eat the Lotus plant, ... |
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11/16/11 - What Is Naked Capitalism?
ECONNED shows how the financial crisis is ultimately rooted in dubious economic theory. Its wide-ranging historical treatment starts with changes in methodology in the ... |
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11/12/11 - A Realistic Economic Bill of Rights Is Not Possible
Is an economic bill of rights possible? Ellen Brown thinks so. And her newest article, "Now Is the Time for an Economic Bill of Rights," is the lead story of the new Occupy ... |
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11/09/11 - The Moral Virtue of Self-Interested Work
People are appreciated when they give to others through charity, volunteer work, or other acts of kindness, and rightly so. When you can help another person in some way that ... |
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11/03/11 - Fed Control: Whose Side Is Senator Sanders REALLY on?
The Veil of Secrecy at the Fed Has Been Lifted, Now It's Time for Change ... Over two years ago, I asked Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, a few simple ... |
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09/29/11 - Barroso Says EU Will Overcome
Union faces huge crisis of confidence, admits Barroso ... In his annual "State of the Union" speech today (28 September), Commission President José Manuel Barroso ... |
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