Feature Article "It's Not My Debt" Edition Bailouts More euro trouble... Sierra Hancock
ECB buying Portugal's debt... Bullish on natural gas... End of America Watch... China protecting its agriculture... Can states file for bankruptcy?... Last day to register for Retirement Conference... Porter's court case, again...
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Israel Israel Unveils New Drone Fleet That Can Reach Iran
02-21-2010
AP
Israel introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and fly as far as the Persian Gulf, putting rival Iran within its range. The Heron TP drones have a wingspan of 86 feet making them the size of Boeing 737 an
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Bailouts Since When Does The WSJ Edit Page Want To Bring Back Glass-Steagall? (C)
08/05/2009
The Business Insider
It has been a day of firsts, folks.
Today we not only found ourselves nodding along with a Wall Street Journal editorial, but an editorial siding with Andrew J. Hall, the castle-owning commodities trader fighting for his $100 million payday.
And ab
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Crony Capitalism The Great Lie and Destiny
07-22-2009
Buffalohair Gazette International
As Barack Obama and henchman Rahm Emanuel makes another pitch for the tax payer dollar by convincing us all is well Americans continue to lose jobs and homes. Clearly the people to have benefited from these bail-outs and give-a-ways were members of
Carlos Guevara
Feature Article Global Edition Economy - Economics USA Today... Another Day to Watch Ernest Hancock
Gold now over $1200. Does $1500 look so far away now? Look for more talk of "Bank Holidays" and new currency and civil unrest and hunger and... solutions that people come up with for themselves... and governments will not be consulted.
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Corruption Whistleblower protections axed from stimulus
2-12-09
Rawstory.com
The Senate quietly stripped whistleblower protections from the final stimulus package Wednesday afternoon, as the bill's authors bragged of a bipartisan compromise.
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Economy - International UK Faces Worst Recession In 100 Years
2-12-09
Michael Shedlock / Mish
In an extraordinary admission about the severity of the economic downturn, Ed Balls even predicted that its effects would still be felt 15 years from now. The Schools Secretary's comments carry added weight because he is a former chief economic a
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Police State Militarizing Police Depts. With Your Bailout Money
02-11-2009
http://lonestartimes.com
The United States Conference of Mayors has assembled the most ridiculous and repulsive example of government excess I think I have ever seen.
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Military Army Corps seeks buyouts on Gulf Coast
02-11-2009
MSNBC
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to spend about $1.2 billion on Mississippi's Gulf Coast to buy some 2,000 seaside properties, relocate a small town's public buildings and restore hurricane-damaged wetlands and beaches.
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Obama Administration Meredith Whitney speaks out on Geithners Bank Bailout
2-11-09
Reuters.com/
"Nothing the government can do is capable of altering the unavoidable reality that fewer American businesses and consumers will have access to prior levels of credit," Oppenheimer & Co's Whitney said.
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Economy - Economics USA Cut My Pay? Take Your Money Back!
2-11-2009
NY Times
Wall Street banks have taken billions of taxpayer dollars. Now some of them are starting to wonder if they should give the money back. Banking executives worry that the government may intrude further into their businesses as long as they are beholden
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Corruption Bankers go before Congress today to defend bailout
02-11-2009
MyWay - AP
If Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner could get an earful of skepticism over the government's financial bailout plans, the nation's top bankers can expect no less when they make their maiden voyage to Congress as recipients of the widely cri
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Media: Radio IN SIRIUS TROUBLE
02-11-2009
New York Post
Two sources familiar with the situation said Sirius XM is favoring a Chapter 11 filing over a deal with satellite-TV operator EchoStar, whose CEO, Charlie Ergen, has been buying up Sirius XM debt in a bid to take control of the company.
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Obama Administration Why Obamas new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks
02-11-2009
Financial Times
Obamas presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger. Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will
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Economy - Economics USA Schwarzenegger to send layoff warnings to 20,000 workers
2-10-2009
McClatchy News
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will send layoff warnings to at least 20,000 state workers Friday unless he reaches a budget agreement with legislative leaders. He intends to eliminate 10,000 full-time positions from the state's general fund, either
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"It's Not My Debt" Edition Foreign Aid Top US military officer: Don't stop payoffs to Egypt
02-04-2011
Rawstory
Adm. Mike Mullen said there shouldn't be any rush to terminate military assistance to President Mubarak's government. U.S. assistance to Egypt, which has averaged about $1.3 billion a year, Mullen said Congress shouldn't move too hastily to cancel th
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Bailouts Book Review: 'Overhaul' - A Tell-All Account of the Rescue of GM and Chrysler
12-07-2010
Seeking Alpha
Steven Rattners Overhaul: An Insiders Account of the Obama Administrations Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry will not disappoint readers with its poignantly detailed narration of the harrowing events surrounding the fate of two of the Big 3 U.
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Bailouts How Wall Street Is Generating Trading Profits
08/03/2009
The Golden Truth
The more alert blogs have finally figured out how Goldman Sachs, et. al. are creating enormous trading profits, especially at a time when trading volumes in most securities have seriously declined. These Wall Street firms are buying toxic, illiquid g
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Crony Capitalism Hillary Clinton Drinks Tea with Tyranny
07-21-2009
Buffalohair Gazette International
Chinas premier diplomat Hillary Clinton *likened North Korea to a child in need of attention in yet another sugar coated response to Chinas ally. In spite of the fact North Korea threatened nuclear war, aimed rockets at sovereign US soil and holds
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Food Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production
2-12-09
GlobalResearch.ca
California is facing its worst drought in recorded history . The drought is predicted to be the most severe in modern times, worse than those in 1977 and 1991. Thousands of acres of row crops already have been fallowed, with more to follow.
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Economy - International World stocks sag on concerns about Obama plans
2-12-1009
AP
World stock markets fell [for the second day] Thursday amid pessimism about the Obama administration's plans to fix the US banking system and restore the overall health of the world's largest economy. European stocks were also undermined by
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Economy - Economics USA Cutting the Mortgage Baby in Half
02-12-2009
arclein
The globe has lost half of its wealth and associated credit. Please sit down and consider that for a while. This means that no loans can be profitably called. All bank assets are technically under water. That means that their capital base is really z
Robert Klein
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Conscription The Draft-Nappers Are Stirring by Will Grigg
2-11-2009
Pro Liberate
The kind and thoughtful people who seek to relieve us of the burden of planning and managing our own lives are preparing to seize our children, and any of us who happen to be within the targeted age range (likely between 18 and 26)
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Obama Administration Meltdown 101: Highlights of economic stimulus plan
02-11-2009
Yahoo
Now that there's a tentative agreement on the economic stimulus plan that President Barack Obama and other supporters hope will provide a considerable jolt to the economy, how long will it take to get infrastructure and other projects moving?
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Criminal Justice System Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
2-11-2009
AP
For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor belt: Youngsters were brought before judges without a lawyer, given hearings that lasted only a minute or two, and then sent off to juvenile prison for months for minor off
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Economy - Economics USA California budget woes may force 20,000 layoffs
2-11-09
news.yahoo.com/
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will notify up to 20,000 state employees on Friday that their jobs will be eliminated if lawmakers fail to balance the state's budget by then, closing a shortfall of more than $40 billion, a spokesman said on
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Economy - Economics USA California's Pain Is Only Beginning
02-11-2009
Wall Street Journal
As Sacramento squabbles over the state's $42 billion deficit, Californians are getting a bitter taste of what's to come after the steep budget cuts that are inevitable when legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger finally hammer out a deal.
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Economy - Economics USA The Baltic Dry Index and Empty Store Shelves
02-11-2009
Surviving the Middle Class Crash
The relatively unknown Baltic Dry Index, or BDI is a leading economic indicator. Read this article, watch the video, then start stocking up on things you need while you can.
Fredy Riehl
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