Economists Say US Must Prepare for “Savage Austerity”
YouTube – BloombergTV Best Howard Davies, chairman of the London School of Economics, and Willem Buiter, chief economist at Citigroup Inc., talk about the potential…
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The New Private Tax Man From Ancient Rome
Anthony Freda Illustration William Alden Huffington Post Sheila Rice, who sold her Maryland home to avoid foreclosure, was surprised to learn JPMorgan Chase was her…
G20 struggles to find common ground on currency war, triggers US push for trade caps
Finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations struggled to agree on how to prevent a currency war on Friday, with the United States switching…
Food Stamp Usage Soars Among Working Families
Mark Niesse Associated Press HONOLULU — Lillie Gonzales does whatever it takes to provide for three ravenous sons who live under her roof. She grows…
Oil could hit $100 a barrel soon, JP Morgan predicts
China’s economy was quick to recover from the global downturn and has been growing at a spectactular pace, resulting in rampant demand for oil Julia…
7 Mega-Cartels That Kill the Free Market and Our Sovereignty
Dees Illustration Activist Post Think we have a free market? Think again. Think it was free market capitalism that collapsed the financial system? Think again….
Will the Federal Reserve Cause a Civil War?
Dees Illustration Stephen Gandel Time What is the most likely cause today of civil unrest? Immigration. Gay Marriage. Abortion. The Results of Election Day. The…
Cash-strapped governments ramping up tax-collection efforts
Markham Heid Washington Examiner Tax officials throughout the Washington region are trying new and often extraordinary measures to collect tens of millions of dollars in…
Fed Report: Banks Overlooking Small Businesses that Want Credit
Nathaniel Cahners Hindman Huffington Post Banks that lend to small businesses may have overlooked thousands of qualified loan applicants, according to a report released Monday…
Ratigan Slams Tea Party Borg Hive
Kurt Nimmo Infowars Less than two weeks out from the dog and pony show called mid-term elections and Dylan Ratigan wants to know what happened…
Getting Real About Real Estate
An interview with real estate professional Andy Miller, Miller Frishman Group David Galland Casey Research In 1990, following the real estate debacle of the 1980s,…
Hemp Is the Far Bigger Economic Issue Hiding Behind Legal Marijuana
Prop 19 will open up California to hemp, a multi-billion-dollar crop that has been a staple of human agriculture for thousands of years. Harvey Wasserman…
Wells Fargo Reports Record Profit as Credit Improves
Image: alta-california.com Dakin Campbell Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co., the largest U.S. home lender, reported record third-quarter profit that beat most analysts’ estimates as credit…
Time Magazine: Prospect of Civil War in U.S. “Doesn’t seem that far fetched”
Even establishment mouthpiece entertains notion of mass civil unrest as backlash to economic collapse Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet With protesters in France entering a…