Sen. Feinstein Loaded up on Biotech Stock Just Before Company Received $24 Million Gov’t Grant November 15, 2011 Print Version Source: Big Gov With a new congressional insider trading scandal unfolding in Washington, another name has been added to the hit parade: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). In the new blockbuster tell-all Throw Them [...]
System D: The Shadow Superpower November 3rd, 2011 Via: Foreign Policy: Forget China: the $10 trillion global black market is the world’s fastest growing economy — and its future. … You probably have never heard of System D. Neither had I until I started visiting street markets and unlicensed bazaars around the globe. System [...]
How the Eurocrisis laid bare world’s new economic order October 30, 2011 Print Version Source: Guardian The French Riviera in November conjures up images of ageing playboys eking out the last rays of autumn sunshine on the Croisette over a pastis. So it may be fitting that Nicolas Sarkozy has chosen Cannes as the [...]
Top US foreclosure law firm threw Halloween party where staff dressed as homeless, foreclosed-upon Americans October 30, 2011 Print Version Source: Boing Boing From a NYT opinion piece by Joe Nocera, “What the Costumes Reveal“— On Friday, the law firm of Steven J. Baum threw a Halloween party. The firm, which is located near [...]
Snake Oil Economic Models October 29th, 2011 Remember, this isn’t physics. —Gold Eyes Biggest 3-Day Fall In 28 Years This is hilarious. It reminds me of my experiences in trying to develop black box trading systems. It’s relatively easy, for example, to program an autotrading system for EURUSD that does extremely well on some [...]
State Debts Total Over $4 Trillion October 25th, 2011 Via: Reuters: The total of U.S. state debt, including pension liabilities, could surpasses $4 trillion, with California owing the most and Vermont owing the least, according to an analysis released on Monday. The nonprofit State Budget Solutions combined states’ major debt and future liabilities, primarily [...]
A 25 Billion Dollar Secret: The NY Fed, Goldman & The AIG Cover-Up October 25, 2011 Print Version Source: Daily Bail Why did the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), whose Chairman was Stephen Friedman (a Goldman Sachs board member who resigned from the New York Fed earlier this year when it was [...]
Are The Conspiracy Theorists Right? Study shows that one ‘super-corporation’ pulls the strings of the global economy October 19, 2011 Print Version Source: Daily Mail A University of Zurich study ‘proves’ that a small group of companies – mainly banks – wields huge power over the global economy. The study is the first to look [...]
US State Department Funded Agitator in DC Advising Occupy Wall Street crowds October 18, 2011 Print Version By Tony Cartalucci Wired Magazine has just reported that Ahmed Maher, of the infamous US-funded Egyptian “April 6″ revolutionary movement that helped the US topple Egypt’s government early in 2011, is now back in Washington D.C. “advising” Occupy [...]
Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD October 16th, 2011 My guess is that we would all be taken aback if we could know the complete list of agencies working that thing. Via: Gawker: The Occupy Wall Street protests have been going on for a month. And it [...]
Goldman Sachs let off paying £10m interest on failed tax avoidance scheme October 12, 2011 Print Version Source: London Guardian Britain’s tax authorities have given Goldman Sachs an unusual and generous Christmas present, leaked documents reveal. In a secret London meeting last December with the head of Revenue, the wealthy Wall Street banking firm was [...]
Boston police impose curfew for protesters October 11, 2011 Print Version Source: Boston.com Boston police moved in and began arresting scores of Occupy Boston protesters who refused to leave a large part of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway early this morning. At 1:20 a.m., the first riot police officers lined up on Atlantic Avenue. Minutes [...]
Wall Street Protesters Plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Tycoons’ New York City Homes October 11, 2011 Print Version Source: Fox News NEW YORK – Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement plan to leave their downtown Manhattan headquarters Tuesday and head uptown as part of a “Millionaires March” visiting the homes of some of New York [...]
Even before its scheduled start this weekend, mention of the “Occupy the Fed” movement, which aims to bring attention to the real culprits behind America’s economic plight, is spreading, not just across the United States, but overseas as well. The corporate-financier elite which dominates the Western media are attempting in vain to redirect the [...]
Economist: The Financial System Is Broken And Corrupt October 9, 2011 Print Version Source: Washington’s Blog Prominent economist Michael Hudson explains that the financial system is so fundamentally broken and corrupt that the message of the Occupy Wall Street protesters can’t be reduced down to a handful of “technocratic fixes”. Hudson also said: Banking should [...]
