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	05/09/13 - Solari Story: The Blue Light This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "The Blue Light." Here's a bit of the transcript: " As you know, I was in litigation for approximately 11 years ...

	05/01/13 - Government Regulations Revisited You might not think it considering my relentless concerns about the growing power of government, but I am not a pessimist. There are many areas of life where liberty is making ...

	04/27/13 - The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever – and the VESTS Solution Uber financial investigative journalist Matt Taibbi has discovered what we too realized when we began to scrutinize the financial industry. In his latest article, he writes, ...

	04/22/13 - Suddenly Carbon is a US$6 Trillion Bubble Carbon-Intensive Investors Risk $6 Trillion 'Bubble,' Study Says ... Investors in carbon-intensive business could see $6 trillion wasted as policies limiting global warming ...

	04/11/13 - Opportunity Begins With Freedom, Not a 'Living Wage' In favour of the living wage ... In the United States and some other developed economies, wages for the least well paid are too low. A mandatory living wage is the best way to ...

	04/09/13 - Apparatchiks or Journalists? A good sign that your investigation has hit the mark is when law enforcement agencies start demanding to see your data. That's the position the International Consortium of ...

	04/08/13 - What the Eurozone Needs Is More Centralization A banking union for the Eurozone ... The crisis has highlighted the need for, and difficulties with, a Eurozone banking union. This column argues that, to make a union, you ...

	04/06/13 - Offshore Banking and the Shadow of the Gallows ... Is it over? This is an issue I want to address today because it has not been adequately reported by the mainstream media. Listen closely and you will hear shrieks of silent, ...

	03/25/13 - Controversial IRS Star Trek Video Revealed on YouTube "Star Trek" parody video produced by IRS in-house studio and served as the opening of a training and leadership conference in 2010. – YouTube Dominant Social Theme: Here ...

	03/20/13 - We Were Right About UK Phone Hacking Scandal After All Internet sites targeted by MPs for first time 'in chilling threat to free speech'... but could bloggers also face huge damages in Press crackdown? ... The internet will be ...

	03/19/13 - Euro Leaders ... Be Careful What You Wish For S&P warns of socially explosive situation in euro zone ... Standard and Poor's sees a high risk that Spain, Italy, Portugal and France will not be able to carry through ...

	03/13/13 - Why the EU's New Bill of Rights for Airline Passengers Won't Fly EU unveils new air passenger rights ... New rights for airline passengers have been unveiled by the European Commission. They include rerouting travellers with rival carriers ...

	03/12/13 - Greece's Futile Austerity Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Saturday promised his recession-weary nation that there would be "no more austerity measures" as international creditors prolonged an ...

	03/08/13 - Will Grillo's Dubious Affiliations Send the EU Back Into a Sterile Debate? Platform ... Comedian Beppe Grillo, the surprise, true winner of Italy's inconclusive February 24-25 elections, has a secret card up his sleeve: an economic 'guru' with close ...

	03/01/13 - A Close Encounter with Zombiedom Ben Bernanke spoke out on Tuesday, leaving no doubt where he stands on the QE issue. To print or not to print? He hardly seemed to think about it. Instead, he announced himself ...

	02/20/13 - Economist's Wishing and Hoping Won't Make a Minimum Wage Effective Minimum human wages ... The empirics of the minimum wage debate are complex, but it isn't impossible to draw some conclusions. A recent Free exchange column attempted to do ...

	02/18/13 - The Republicans' Achilles Heel In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, "Generational Theft Needs to be Arrested," three men advanced some suggestions to Republicans. Their main focus was the need for ...

	02/14/13 - Redress for Swartz Is Not on the Way Despite Petitions White House Must Respond to Petition Seeking Swartz Prosecutor's Firing ... A whitehouse.gov petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration remove Aaron Swartz's ...

	02/01/13 - US Military Drawdown to be Filled by Europe? Global Leadership Vacuum: Europe Incapable, America Unwilling ... The Exhausted Nation ... US Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Germany this week in an effort to strengthen ...

	01/18/13 - Professor Misstates Glass Steagall History? Why No Glass-Steagall II? ... Eighty years ago this month, Ferdinand Pecora, the cigar-chomping former assistant district attorney for New York City, was appointed chief ...

	01/12/13 - Coming Clean Beyond the Fiscal Cliff "Information is the hardest currency." ~ Andrew Vachss Washington's negotiations to address the fiscal cliff of automatic tax increases and spending cuts legislatively ...

	01/10/13 - Why Honor Politicians? Once, when my son was in elementary school, they had some kind of special event celebrating the achievements of various students – I can't recall just what the ...

	01/08/13 - Zombie Nation Creating and sustaining a nation of zombies is expensive. Large sections of the US population have been turned into zombies. Retirees. Medicare dependents. Food stamp ...

	12/31/12 - Fiscal Cliff ... Whatta Meme! Offers fly, but still no 'fiscal cliff' agreement ... Last-minute deal elusive despite GOP concessions ... Senate Negotiators Remain Short of a Fiscal Deal ... With hours to ...

	12/11/12 - Budget Farce Suggests Term Limits Needed Put simply, the fiscal cliff debate is an illustration of staggering political cowardice. Politicians of both parties are unwilling to ask voters to pay for all of the big ...

	12/03/12 - Kabul Bank Shows Us Afghan War is for Control Not Resources Report brands Kabul Bank a fraud ... Kabul Bank, which accounted for more than a third of Afghanistan's banking assets before it was seized by the authorities two years ago, ...

	11/30/12 - Seeking SEC Transparency The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Sallie Krawcheck, formerly of Citi and Bank of America, is the leading contender to be named chairman of the Securities and ...

	11/02/12 - Don't Conceal Your Face At Canadian Protests Commons approves bill to ban masks during violent protests ... It's not a trick – and for would-be masked rioters, it's no treat, either. While tens of thousands of ...

	10/31/12 - Spain: Consequences of a Generalized Depression Spanish unemployment hits new peak ... One in four Spanish workers are now without a job. Spain's unemployment rate hit a record high of 25% in the third quarter, as the ...

	10/29/12 - Spain Probes Shoppers for Tax Evasion Tax crackdown on shoppers in Spain ... A Spanish department store has been ordered to hand over transaction details of all customers spending more than 30,000 euros, as part of ...

	10/18/12 - Banks Punished For Central Bank and Political Errors In recent decades politicians have increasingly followed the Keynesian prescription of economic growth through continued government borrowing and the creation of undreamt of ...

	10/11/12 - Too Often Regulators Play the Role of Police, Judge and Executioner: Witness Liberty Silver Corp. To say that regulatory democracy is out of control and doing more damage than good ... well, that may be an understatement. In this editorial I will examine a very disturbing ...

	10/08/12 - Green Shoots Withering? The Best Sign That It's Safe to Start a Business Again ... Self-employment is suddenly spiking in 2012. That might sound like more people are giving up hope on the job market ...

	10/03/12 - Subprime Prosecutions Miss the Point Sub-prime feeding frenzy haunts Wall Street five years on ... A fresh lawsuit filed by New York's top government prosecutor is a reminder that the financial crisis is still ...

	09/28/12 - Death of Democracy Propagated on Purpose Another chapter in the slow death of politics ... The public has lost faith in Left and Right – and it's hard to see how it can be recovered ... Apathy rules: the late ...

	09/12/12 - Can the SEC Improve if it Does Not Perform a Viable Function? The Great Debate ... Can the SEC ever improve? ... The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's case against Citigroup's Brian Stoker, a director in the bank's Global Markets ...

	08/31/12 - Mitt Romney Game Changer Mitt Romney gave a game-changing convention speech. Rebranded as a centrist, he looks like a winner ... Mitt Romney's convention speech may have redefined both the man and the ...

	08/25/12 - Lance Armstrong and Kim Dotcom ... Guilty Until Proven Innocent? Here at the Daily Bell we've always maintained that the dominant social theme of Western "justice" would be the last to tumble because it is bound to be ferociously defended. ...

	08/23/12 - Our Deal with CNN Plagiarist Fareed Zakaria CNN and Time should explain why he's being forgiven and what he's doing to cut down on his workload and multiple payrolls. More than that, reporters should press CNN and Time ...

	08/21/12 - What Jules Kroll Is Not Saying About Ratings Agencies Time and again, the traditional agencies' analyses have lacked any foresight, even after the lessons of the subprime mortgage debacle. It's hard to trust companies that have ...

	08/06/12 - Baby Boomers Bamboozled: Social Security Fades Into a Dreamtime Haze As recently as 1985, workers at every income level could retire and expect to get more in benefits than they paid in Social Security taxes, though they didn't do quite as well ...

	07/24/12 - Security and Self-Governance The senseless and horrific killings last week at a movie theater in Colorado reminded Americans that life is fragile and beautiful, and we should not take family, friends, and ...

	07/23/12 - Economics Professor: FedGov Should Run Mandatory Retirement Programs Our Ridiculous Approach to Retirement ... Seventy-five percent of Americans nearing retirement age in 2010 had less than $30,000 in their retirement accounts. The specter of ...

	07/20/12 - The Libor Scandal In Full Perspective The [previous] article about the Libor scandal, coauthored with Nomi Prins, received much attention, with Internet repostings, foreign translation, and video interviews. To ...

	07/17/12 - Hey, We Told You So! ... Bank of England Head Demands Immediate and Far-Reaching Bank Reforms Bank of England head says banks must change culture ... Sir Mervyn King: "Something went very wrong with the UK banking industry and we need to put it right." Bank of England ...

	07/02/12 - Barclays Scandal, Worse and Worse ... Whatever It Is! Barclays Chairman Marcus Agius resigns over rate rigging ... Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays, has resigned over the interest rate rigging scandal at the bank. He is ...

	06/26/12 - Government is Already Too Involved in Healthcare This week the Supreme Court is expected to issue its long-awaited decision regarding the constitutionality of the "Obamacare" law. I recently discussed absurd legal arguments ...

	06/21/12 - The Real Scoop on Public Service Unions - Part II In many states of the country, including California, there is a crisis brewing in the public service employment region. No longer are public service employees expected to be ...

	06/18/12 - The Real Scoop on Public Service Unions - Part I In the wake of Governor Scott Walker's survival of a recall vote, initiated by friends of Wisconsin's public service unions, let's explore again just why such unions are ...

	06/14/12 - Economist Portrait of Insider Trading Judge Trivializes Contradictions The very model of a modern major judge ... When the judge in the Rajat Gupta case has the gavel, the law itself is on trial ... The financial crisis has placed the muddled ...

	06/07/12 - The JOBS Act at FreedomFest: Jump-Starting Wealth? The JOBS Act, whose initials stand for Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups, went into effect immediately after it was passed on April 5, leaving the SEC to decide on the fly what ...

	06/06/12 - Wisdom of Regulators? ... Systemic Risk Group Formed to Supervise Wall Street Group Forms to Urge Strict Oversight of Wall Street ... Efforts to increase and improve regulation of Wall Street have bogged down, according to Sheila C. Bair, the former ...

	05/31/12 - Sandel's Distortions Some people lie without any hesitation. To bring lies to print, however, you need more than liars – you need editors who want the lies to circulate, good and hard. ...

	05/25/12 - Can Regulators Do the Job of Markets? INTERVIEW: ESMA's Ross: Regulators Struggle To Find Right Resources ... Financial regulators face the challenge of having the right resources and the right information to do ...

	05/14/12 - Thank Goodness for Regulation Why We Regulate ... What did JPMorgan actually do? As far as we can tell, it used the market for derivatives — complex financial instruments — to make a huge bet on ...

	05/09/12 - Catch These Corporate Bribers and Put Them in Jail Wrangling over anti-bribery law rages on, with top firms facing investigation ... The U.S. anti-bribery law that Wal-Mart may have violated in Mexico has ensnared leading ...

	05/04/12 - The Volcker Rule Advances Progress Is Seen in Advancing a Final Volcker Rule ... Daniel Tarullo, a Federal Reserve Board governor, held a meeting on Wednesday with the heads of six major banks. A major ...

	04/23/12 - Is the Case Against Megaupload Coming Apart? Kim Dotcom Lashes Out Against "Corrupt" US Government ... The US judge handling the Megaupload case noted today that it may never be tried due to a procedural error, a comment ...

	04/20/12 - The JOBS Act: Washington Takes One Step Back Toward Capitalism I know my editorial credibility and reader confidence will suddenly collapse when this goes to print but I have some good news out of Washington and Congress. Yes, I know what ...

	04/20/12 - Does the CDC Tell the Truth About Vaccines and Immunizations? Measles cases reached 15-year high in 2011: CDC ... Measles cases in the United States hit a 15-year high in 2011, with 90 percent of the cases traced to other countries with ...

	04/19/12 - Time Magazine Predicts Many Cars to be Unaffordable by 2025 Why Millions Won't Be Able to Afford Cars in the Future ... By 2025, the government will require an average fuel economy of 54.5 m.p.g. for cars and trucks sold in the U.S. To ...

	04/16/12 - FDA Protects Drug Companies Again? Prescribing labels for Merck & Co's drugs for baldness and enlarged prostate will add reports of sexual side effects that continued after use of the medicines was stopped, ...

	04/14/12 - Regulation, Kobe Beef – and the Titanic, Too What do Kobe Beef and the Titanic have in common? They both are the subjects of articles this week that deal with regulation. Regulatory democracy is surely a meme of the 20th ...

	04/11/12 - Regulators Build Too-Big-to-Fail Empire Do Regulators Know Who the SIFIs Are? ... A little-noticed sentence in the 93-page regulation top U.S. regulators approved last week suggests officials could be well down the ...

	04/09/12 - America's JOBS Act Power Elite Yelp Did you read that on March 27th Congress passed the JOBS act, which stands for "Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups." There have been several write-ups of this bill now, including ...

	04/09/12 - Instead of Zoning...What? I have argued before why zoning laws are inconsistent with a free society's principles, in particular with the principle of private property rights. Basically they amount to ...

	04/07/12 - Tax Bill Is Beginning of Formal Debt Criminalization The United States Congress is steadily headed to a place where those who owe money to the US government shall be treated criminally. This phenomenon is advancing domestically ...

	04/03/12 - US Internet Criminalization Now Pursued at State Level – Conn. Attacked ACLU Blasts 'Electronic Harassment' Bill; Says It Criminalizes Free Speech ... The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut is blasting a bill proposed by state ...

	03/28/12 - The Progressive Mistake "A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave." – Captain ...

	03/27/12 - Stockholm Syndrome: Wall Street Execs Flog Themselves Hard Wall Street Admits It's to Blame For Public Perception–Survey ... Wall Street firms finally may be ready to admit that the public perceptions do matter. They may even ...

	03/26/12 - The FATCA Partner Framework - Automatic Information Exchange is Firmly Planted "A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn´t going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of ...

	03/15/12 - Is Regulation Good for You? The Inherent Tensions of Regulation ... (If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on ...

	03/09/12 - Cost-Benefit Analysis – Another Questionable Meme U.S. Regulators 'Paralyzed' by Cost-Benefit Suits, Chilton Says ... Wall Street banks are using the threat of lawsuits to prevent regulators from writing rules mandated by the ...

	03/07/12 - Stanford Conviction Re-Emphasizes Regulatory Questions Report says SEC missed earlier opportunities to investigate Allen Stanford ... Over a meal at a New Orleans restaurant last summer, a former top official at the Securities and ...

	03/05/12 - Democracy versus Liberty Over the last several decades of American political life the idea of liberty has taken a back seat to that of democracy. Liberty involves human beings governing themselves, ...

	02/13/12 - Switzerland Under Siege - Why Privacy Still Exists and Still Matters The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become ...

	02/10/12 - The Hopelessness of Insider Trading Prosecutions Rep. Bachus faces insider-trading investigation ... The Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee over possible ...

	02/07/12 - Yes! Robo-Signing Mortgage State Settlement Something to Cheer About Officials from more than 40 states have signed onto a record $25 billion settlement with the five biggest banks related to foreclosure abuses including "robo-signing" of ...

	02/06/12 - VIDEO: Super Bowl Not-So-Super Super Bowl XLVI highlights 11 ... The Giants and Patriots went toe to toe in Super Bowl XLVI, which came down to one final Hail Mary. In the end, Eli Manning was named MVP ...

	01/21/12 - Yes, The War for the Internet Has Begun By now, people who use the Internet seriously, and even plenty who don't, are aware of the arrest of six-foot-seven, 300-pound Kim Dotcom, an outsize figure in the business of ...

	01/21/12 - You'd Have to be Crazy to Start a Global Business in the USA – As a Public Company I'll bet you don't know that I may be the first person in recorded history to move voluntarily from the warm beach and golf resort of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to cold ...

	01/17/12 - Real Reason for Lehman Bros. Collapse? Another Insane International Tribunal ... Finance tribunal opens to settle disputes ... Disputes arising from complex transactions can be put for possible resolution at the world's first international specialist ...

	01/09/12 - Conrad Black – Destroying the US Justice Meme Prosecutors Gone Wild: How Many Wrongful Convictions Will the Public Stand for? ... Even casual samplers of the media now come across colossal injustices and failures in the ...

	12/23/11 - Lotophagian Greed In book nine of Homer's Odyssey , Odysseus tells of how he and his men came upon an island populated by the Lotophagians – people who do nothing but eat the Lotus plant, ...

	12/19/11 - Is It a Prison Planet? ... One Out of Three Now Face Arrest in US "Arrest is a pretty common experience," says Robert Brame, a criminologist at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and principal author of the study. Nearly one in three ...

	12/05/11 - Fed to Investors: Let's Be Fair! NY Fed to Release Its Surveys of Primary Dealers ... The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Friday it will release to the general public surveys of primary dealer banks done ...

	11/30/11 - Let Paulson Go ... And Free the Alternative Media, Too! How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Warning ... After a perfunctory discussion of the market turmoil, the fund manager says, the discussion turned to Fannie Mae and Freddie ...

	11/29/11 - Everything Wall Street Does Is Illegal? Judge Blocks Citigroup Settlement With S.E.C. ... Taking a broad swipe at the Securities and Exchange Commission's practice of allowing companies to settle cases without ...

	11/25/11 - Should the Government Step In? We're done folks. CNBC is reporting that there are now clients running out of the markets entirely because they do not believe their customer funds are safe. That's the end of ...

	11/19/11 - Heal Us From This! "Cuiusvis hominis est errare; nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseveare." Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one. – Cicero ( Status ...

	11/18/11 - Is the US Government Anti-Monopoly? So you may have heard that the US Federal Government is opposed to monopolies and that is why the Department of Justice has its various rules against them. All those antitrust ...

	11/15/11 - Attorney Responds To the Daily Bell Best Satire of Faux Austrian Economics Ever ... Someone has created a fabulous, richly detailed parody of Austrian economics. They call it The Daily Bell and claim that its ...

	11/09/11 - Occupy Wall Street to Protest Tax Cuts in March on Washington DC Occupy The Highway: The 99% March to Washington ... On November 23rd, the Congressional Deficit Reduction Super-Committee will meet to decide on whether or not to keep Obama's ...

	11/08/11 - Occupy Wall Street's Prosecutor: Building a Bigger Regulatory State ... Again Systematically Ignoring Fraud as a Systemic Risk ... One of the most revealing things about this crisis is the unwillingness to investigate whether "accounting control fraud" ...

	11/07/11 - Ruin is the Result of Regulatory Democracy Extreme Poverty Is Now At Record Levels ... According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty than they have ever measured ...

	10/18/11 - Showdown at the CFTC CFTC heads for showdown with industry ... With the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) set to vote on Tuesday on a final rule imposing position limits in commodity ...

	10/06/11 - What Amanda Knox Tells Us About Justice So who is the real Amanda Knox? The trial of 'Foxy Knoxy' highlighted the gulf between the legal systems and social values of Italy and the US, and a defendant who refused to ...

	10/04/11 - Don't Look to Government to Address Grievances CLEAR LIST OF DEMANDS FOR CONGRESS when we engage in direct action at the Capitol complex. – By GandhiKingMindsetResist Dominant Social Theme: Let us use the power of ...

	09/30/11 - Transparency in Mainland China In today's article entitled Transparency Meme Creeps Closer , we report on how the idea of "transparency" for democratic institutions is seemingly an elite dominant social ...

	09/14/11 - Machan's Archives: The Myth of Job Creation and Security During one of his campaigns for the presidency Bill Clinton was stomping one state with a talk parts of which were aired on National Public Radio, the radio network of record ...

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