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Senate Dems move to curb Fed's powers

11-10-2009 • Yahoo Finance

Looks like a shell game to me

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Unemployment to dog US economy for years: Fed official

11-10-2009 • AFP

US unemployment, now in the double digits, may remain "high" for several years and dampen economy recovery from a brutal recession, a regional central bank official warned. "With such a slow rebound, unemployment could well stay high for several year

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SLEDGEHAMMER: Audit the Fed Update

11-04-2009 • Campaign for Liberty

Campaign for Liberty wants you to call Congress,... here are the numbers

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Farrakhan Exposes Rothschilds and Warburgs

11-04-2009 • EclippTV

"The King Financing Business"

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House Joint Resolution 192 of June 5, 1933 suspended your right to lawfully pay debts

11-03-2009 • www.truthsetsusfree.com/HJR192.htm

On June 5, 1933, Congress passed House Joint Resolution (HJR 192). HJR 192 was passed to suspend the gold standard and abrogate the gold clause in the national constitution. Since then no one in America has been able to lawfully pay a debt. This res

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Federal Reserve Policy Audit Legislation ‘Gutted,’ Paul Says

11-01-2009 • Bloomberg

Representative Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who has called for an end to the Federal Reserve, said legislation he introduced to audit monetary policy has been “gutted” while moving toward a possible vote in the Democratic-controlled House.

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NY Fed under Geithner paid AIG 100% of Face Value for Derivatives

11-01-2009 • Bloomberg

“There’s no way they should have paid at par,” she says. “AIG was basically bankrupt.” - Janet Tavakoli, founder of Chicago-based Tavakoli Structured Finance Inc., a financial consulting firm.

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The death of the “punchbowl” metaphor

10-29-2009 • Reuters

Don’t expect the year-long rally in risky assets to be undermined any time soon by the Federal Reserve becoming concerned about inflation. The old metaphor — that the Fed’s job is to take away the punchbowl just when the party starts getting good

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Heh Dodd You TWIT!

10-26-2009 • The Market Ticker

WTF is wrong with this clown?

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Who OWNS Foreclosed U.S. Properties?, Part I & 2 Scam in the making

10-26-2009 • Seeking Alpha

A thanks to Edward Harrison who publishes the blog “Creditwritedowns.com” for his superb explanation of foreclosure and title issues dealing with “foreclosed” properties – in his commentary “What are the legal rights of lenders and homeowners in fore

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Whitney Tilson: We Need To Break Up Goldman Sachs

10-26-2009 • The Business Insider

Goldman Sachs is a great firm but it's minting money because it has an implicit government guarantee. This is ridiculous. The firm should be split in two. Wall Street reforms should include high capital requirements and a reinstatement of Glass St

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Marc Faber On The Death Of Fiat Money - "Dollar Will Go To A Value Of Exactly Zero"

10-26-2009 • Zero Hedge

"The fiscal position of the US is a complete disaster. Eventually in ten years time about 50% of tax revenues will be used to just cover the interest payments on the government debt and that is unsustainable. Then you are forced to print money... As

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Two Trillion Tons (Bucks)

10-25-2009 • You Tube

We owe our soul to the federal reserve (and the red chinese)

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Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker admits the Federal Reserve is private, and he attended Bilderberg G

10-25-2009 • Exposing Faux Capitalism

On October 15, 2009, We Are Change Boston asked former Federal Reserve Chairman and current Chair of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Paul Volcker, about the Bilderberg Group.

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Bank Failure Century Mark Overshadowed By Six More

10-25-2009 • Pro Publica

The Office of Thrift Supervision was the first regulator to break the news of the 100th bank failure for the year. Yesterday, shortly after 5:00 p.m. EST, the OTS sent out an email announcing the closure of Florida’s

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The State of Financial Reform

10-25-2009 • NYT

It sounded good when the Treasury’s pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, announced that top executives at Citigroup, Bank of America and the other five institutions surviving at taxpayers’ expense would see their compensation packages cut in half this year an

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JP Morgan the new Lehman Brothers: Why Make Money through Commercial Banking when you can become a t

10-24-2009 • My Budget 360 HT Liberty Pulse

Why Make Money through Commercial Banking when you can become a taxpayer backed Investment Bank. How JP Morgan Really made the $3.6 Billion in Q3 Profits.

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Even the Fed Doesn’t Want to Hold U.S. Dollars

10-24-2009 • Commodity Trader Alert

This is the scariest image in finance:

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Bernanke's trillion-dollar decision

10-24-2009 • Politico

The biggest decision of the economic recovery will be made in the next 6 months, and Barack Obama will have almost nothing to do with it. This decision is about when to pull out $1 trillion that’s propping up the U.S. banking system. And it will be F

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More FDIC Malfeasance: 43% Loss

10-23-2009 • The Market Ticker

As of September 30, 2009, Partners Bank had total assets of $65.5 million. .... The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $28.6 million.

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Serious Plotting in Armonk, NY

10-23-2009 • Economic Policy Journal

Serious plotting gets located this weekend in Armonk, NY

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Stress Test Shenanigans: Round 2

10-23-2009 • Washington's Blog

The Federal Reserve will expand its so-called stress tests of the banking system to ensure they have enough capital during difficult periods, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday.

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Stock Market Down for the Week; Bonds Down for Third Week in a Row

10-23-2009 • Economic Policy Journal

If Bennie doesn't fly his money loaded jets, the stock market will eventually crack. A down close on a Friday is not a good sign.

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George Schultze: Another 100-150 Bank Failures Next Year, Gold To $2,000 Oz.

10-23-2009 • The Business Insider

Think commodities and emerging markets, and don't expect even high single digit portfolio returns. That was the grim message today at the Forum for Institutional Investors conference, where a panel of private equity managers on macro economics.