New Ways Bankers Are Spying on You
Karen Blumenthal Wall Street Journal Big Banker is watching you—more closely than ever. With lenders still skittish about making new loans, credit bureaus and others…
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ForeclosureGate Could Force Bank Nationalization
Dees Illustration – Web of Debt Ellen H. Brown Web of Debt For two years, politicians have danced around the nationalization issue, but ForeclosureGate may…
Most bank fails in one year since S&L crisis, FDIC bleeds red
Activist Post Government regulators closed four more banks Friday, which makes the total failures in 2010 to 143. It is the most in a single year…
Wholesale food prices soar as commodity costs rise
Despite the sharp rise in food prices, annual input price inflation – manufacturers’ raw material costs – slowed to 8% from 8.7% Julia Kollewe Guardian…
Oil hits six-month peaks on falling dollar, Fed move
AFP World oil prices hit fresh six-month peaks on Thursday as the dollar slumped on the back of the US Federal Reserve’s new huge stimulus…
More on the Case of Silver
Dave Galland, Managing Director Casey Research Last month gold broke into new record territory – reaching an all-time high of $1,387 on October 14. A…
Debt Collectors Accused Of Fake Courtroom, Judge
Pa. Attorney General Sues Unicredit In Erie Pittsburgh Channel ERIE, Pa. — A sign in the front of a building on West 39th Street tells…
Will food riots end the currency wars?
Food Shortages Sri Lanka: REUTERS image Simon Black Sovereign Man In ancient Sanskrit, the name means “venerable island,” and the Arabs used to refer to…
The Food Crisis of 2011
Addison Wiggin Forbes Every month, JPMorgan Chase dispatches a researcher to several supermarkets in Virginia. The task is to comparison shop for 31 items. In…
Is the world running out of food, alongside oil, metals, water and much else?
The Fed is fuelling the catastrophe of fast rising raw material prices Jeremy Warner Telegraph The answer to this question, according to a recent OECD…
Baby Boomers: Get Out of the Stock Market Now, the Rug is Being Pulled Out By Insiders
CNBC reports insider selling-to-buying ratio for top firms is a staggering 3177 to 1 Eric Blair Activist Post If you’re a baby boomer who still believes…
U.S. Wheat Crop in Worse Shape Than Year Ago on Dry Weather
Jeff Wilson Bloomberg The U.S. winter-wheat crop is in worse condition than last year at this time as dry weather slows plant development. The country’s…
Food Prices Expected to Rise Sharply
Brian A. Shactman CNBC Everyone is waiting for inflation. Corn is up 45 percent the last three months. We haven’t seen cotton prices this high…
Are Credit Checks Keeping The Jobless Out Of Work?
Laura Bassett Huffington Post After working for the same railroad for 14 years, never missing a house or car payment, Sammy Bailey says he never…