From Dennis Kucinich

"As Chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommitee, I have sent a letter to the SEC asking for documents that relate to [the NY Times] report that they were told to 'stand down' rather than enforce the law against the Stanford Group going back to 2006. If this is true - and this is an official that is quoted - then we have the ( Read more... )

What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.
George Wilhelm Hegel

I would like to stipulate for this essay that Barack Obama is honorable and really wants to do the right thing for this country and this world.

But I also want to go back in that so easily ( Read more... )

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posted October 07, 2008 10:36 am
Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, The Ultimate Election

Here we are, with ringside seats -- far too close for comfort -- at the Great Global Crash of '08. Nobody's quite calling it that yet, but what else could it be? All over the world yesterday stocks plummeted; the Russian and Brazilian stock indexes went down ( Read more... )

Germany takes hot seat as Europe falls into the abyss
We face extreme danger. Unless there is immediate intervention on every front by all the major powers acting in concert, we risk a disintegration of global finance within days. Nobody will be spared, unless they own gold bars.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Willem Buiter: Banking System in North Atlantic Probably Insolvent

Willem Buiter has a penchant for ruffling feathers with his blunt pronouncements. He caused a firestorm at the Fed's recent Jackson Hole conference by, in his presentation, telling the central bank that it was a victim of "cognitive regulatory capture" and was ( Read more... )

Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent

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TEL AVIV // No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel’s bestseller list - and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel’s biggest taboo.
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Jim Cramer: Time to get out of the stock market
Financial guru warns that investments could lose 20 percent of their value

Cramer: Stock market too risky

Oct. 6: TODAY’s Ann Curry talks to CNBC’s Jim Cramer, who advises pulling out of the stock market if you are going to need your assets in the next five years.

A look at who is benefiting and who is ( Read more... )