70% of All Stock Market Trades Are Held for an Average of 11 SECONDS
Washington’s Blog The Fourteenth Banker writes today: In the stock market, program trading dominates volume. I heard recently that 70% of trade positions are held…
Corruption
Justices Scalia And Thomas’s Attendance At Koch Event Sparks Judicial Ethics Debate
Sam Stein Huffington Post Reports that two Supreme Court Justices have attended seminars sponsored by the energy giant and conservative bankroller Koch Industries has sparked…
Doomsdayers Are Not Cynical Enough
Rick Ackerman [Like your editor, Rick’s Picks forum regular Wayne Razzi (aka “Red Will”) is a veteran floor-trader who grew up in South Jersey. When…
Some members of the WHO advisory panel on swine flu pandemic connected to drug companies
Jonathan Benson Natural News Several members of the Emergency Committee expert panel that advised the World Health Organization (WHO) during the swine flu pandemic have…
Tony Blair Must Be Arrested
John Pilger New Statesman Having helped destroy other nations far away, our former prime minister — “peace envoy” to the Middle East — is now…
What the Oil-Rig Cook Saw: Corruption, Mostly
Ben Sandmel Politics Daily For 15 years, Dan Peterson worked as a cook on oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana. During much of that…
America: It’s Time to Stand Up and Scream “We Want New Leadership”
Jim Boswell Business Insider Where is Howard Beale when we need him? Two years into the Greatest Recession Since the Great Depression (GRSGD) and our…
Ron Paul: War Waste, US Spends $400/gallon for Gas
A Brutal Case of Backwards Justice in America
By John Galt Michael Ellner said this about our crazy society: “Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health,…
Dylan Ratigan: Stock Market an ‘Obviously Corrupt’ Fraud
Daniel Tencer – Raw Story July 1, 2010 On his afternoon show Tuesday, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan explained why he believes the usual explanations given in…
Kucinich: ‘We are losing our nation to lies about the necessity of war’
Stephen C. Webster – Raw Story In Afghanistan, corruption is rife. It is so abundant, in fact, that a senior US lawmaker declared on Monday…
Washington Posts’ Pathetic Attempt to Smear Ron Paul
Ron Paul is the headliner in today’s Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Dan Keating’s article titled Lawmakers’ Committee Assignments and Industry Investments Overlap. The premise of…