Economy
-
Dollar’s Reserve Status Waning, U.S. Treasury Borrowing Committee Says (Liz Capo McCormick)
Aug 3, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. dollar's status as the world's reserve currency "appears to be slipping," a committee of bond dealers and investors that advises the U.S. Treasury said in ...
Read more... -
New Pipeline to Challenge Obama's Promises (Bill McKibben)
Obama finally has the opportunity to make good on his environmental promises, but will he? Aug. 4, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- It took some serious digging in the sock drawer, but eventually I found ...
Read more... -
Earth's Systems In Rapid Decline (Stephen Leahy)
Aug. 4, 2011 (Al-Jazeera-English) -- Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, ...
Read more... -
The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression (John Atcheson)
Aug. 4, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Since Reagan, Republicans have been on a “starve the beast” campaign -- by which they mean eviscerate the government by taking away as much revenue as they can. ...
Read more... -
America In Collapse (Leon Fisher)
Aug. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- America is in the throes of collapse and the corporate controlled mass media is attempting to shift the blame to labor unions, senior citizens and the ...
Read more... -
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (Paul Craig Roberts)
Aug. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The United States Government and its presstitute media have wasted time and energy creating hysteria over a non-existent “debt ceiling crisis.” After ...
Read more... -
The United Loony Bin Of America (Sherwood Ross)
Aug. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- “Have we as a nation gone mad, waging war in the Persian Gulf while society crumbles?” Seymour Melman asked rhetorically when I interviewed him for The ...
Read more... -
Lansdowne Partners sells entire $850m stake in Goldman Sachs (Helia Ebrahimi, and Harry Wilson)
July 30, 2011 (Telegraph) -- Lansdowne Partners, Europe's biggest hedge fund, has sold its entire $850 million (£517 million) position in Goldman Sachs in a move that underlines growing concerns ...
Read more... -
Gerald Celente: 'Economic Martial Law Will Be Declared' (Mac Slavo)
Aug. 1, 2011 (SHTFplan.com) -- In his latest quarterly Trends Journal (Summer 2011), Gerald Celente provides us another “history of the future,” in which he discusses global economic, monetary, and ...
Read more... -
Record High Radiation at Crippled Japan Nuke Plant (Agence France-Presse)
Aug. 1, 2011 -- TOKYO (Agence France-Presse) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said Monday it had monitored record high radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March ...
Read more... -
Stocks Tumble as Two-Year Yield Drops to Record Low, Yen Weakens (Stephen Kirkland and Rita Nazareth)
Aug. 4, 2011 -- 11:15 a.m. EDT (Bloomberg) -- A tumble in stocks dragged the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and the global benchmark gauge down 10 percent from this year’s highs and two-year Treasury ...
Read more...
Page 124 of 163
