10/09/09 Stockholm, Sweden – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talked about the tremendous size of the central bank’s $2.1 trillion balance sheet at a recent conference. He openly recognized that the current measures he’s taken to support the eco
Meanwhile, Americans’ per capita wealth has fallen from $172,000 in September from $212,000 two years earlier. And the UN reports that the quality of life in America has gone down too…from #5 on its list in 2000, it fell to #13 in 2007. No doubt it i
If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's pledge to "drain the [congressional] swamp" of corruption actually had teeth, she'd have to boot more than just embattled Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel.
Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over the photographs' release that has reached the Supreme Court.
Federal courts hav
Heavily armed militants were holding up to 15 soldiers hostage inside Pakistan's army headquarters Saturday after they stormed the complex in an audacious assault on the nuclear-armed country's most powerful institution.
Lobbyists from the financial industry have paid hundreds of millions to Congress and the Obama administration. They have bought virtually all of the key congress members and senators on committees overseeing finances and banking.
Politico.com has put out a bit of background information on Robert Fisk, the reporter who sent gold soaring and the dollar crashing as a result of his column reporting secret meetings between the Chinese, Arabs and Russians. They are supposedly meeti
Justin Holmes gets “pulled over” for the non-crime of rollerblading, and rightly refuses to identify himself to law enforcement. When asked why he’s being detained, the officer cites some local ordinance that prohibits rollerblading, which ordinance
Impeccably reliable sources have informed me that as recently as Sept. 30, 2009 - the last possible day of trade in the Sept. 09 futures - a number of well-healed market participants "bought" substantial tonnage worth of gold futures on the London Bu
So much for the "unprecedented level of openness in Government" promised by our Nobel Laureate in Chief. While Attorney General Eric Holder continues stonewalling the Civil Rights Commission on the Justice Department's stunning dismissal of the civil
The president’s a real comedian. I’m not referring to the performance on Letterman as much as I am at the G20 Summit, where, humorously, he spoke of his determination to prevent and prohibit the “reckless risk-taking” that he asserts brought about th
If the world was stunned to learn that President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, it will be even more amazed by all the awards that are still coming his way.
A trends forecaster says the current economic "rebound" from last winter's Wall Street collapse of banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers is an artificial blip created by 'phantom money printed out of thin air backed by nothing."And
Imagine if the U.S. had raised interest rates the world has realized they can buy a cheap dollar does the U.S. Government prop up the stock market, prop up the housing bubble yet destroy the dollar?
Anti-War left doesn't exist anymore. When President Bush took a position against Nation Building nothing obama more war, more bombing gets peace prize. Internationalism WORLD GOVERNMENT!
Everything you should know about government transparency and accountability under President Obama and the Democratic Congress was made crystal clear by two events this week. I
..turns out an older lady walking an angry little dog called the cops on me. "Man with a gun in a blue shirt, khaki pants and a little boy". Textbook aggression.
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are leaping head-first into gold futures, do you wonder why? It should be fairly clear. If you need an explanation, feel free to get in touch. I invite any of the Evil Twin rats to comment... anonymously, of course. Come o
When Venezuela's Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz walked into a televised Cabinet meeting this week, President Hugo Chávez impishly asked, "So how's the uranium for Iran going? For the atomic bomb." Chávez was joking, but few were laughing outside Caraca
ust 39% of Americans now say the United States needs stricter gun control, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to review the constitutionality of state and local anti-gun laws.
even short steps to the cost of living doubling or more inside 3 years...
HYPERINFLATION is widely accepted as a period of out of control price rises, doubling the cost of living inside three years.
Public health officials would have the power to isolate individuals and order quarantines to contain the outbreak of serious contagious diseases under a bill approved by the Massachusetts House. Supporters say that while the bill has been in the work
A House intelligence committee meeting was abruptly terminated when Justice Department officials refused to be sworn in before briefing the lawmakers. They were to brief the committee on the 2001 shootdown of a plane over Peru that was carrying Ameri
The suburban Chicago cop who was caught on video beating a 15-year-old student for refusing to tuck his shirt is being accused of raping a woman while holding a pillow over her face. He also killed his ex-wife’s new husband last year by shooting him