Subcommittee Guts Ron Paul’s Bill to Audit the Fed
The Federal Reserve Transparency Act (H.R. 1207), Congressman Ron Paul’s landmark bill to audit the Federal Reserve, has been gutted in a House subcommittee as it works its way...
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Samuelson Ponders Unthinkable: U.S. Govt Default
In Robert J. Samuelson’s latest op-ed piece for the Washington Post, “Could America Go Broke?”, the longtime editor and economic and business writer — who can normally be counted...
Karzai’s Brother on CIA Payroll, N.Y. Times Says
According to a New York Times report published on October 27, Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai, is on the CIA’s payroll. Not only that, Ahmed...
Did N.Y. Fed Engineer Sweetheart Deal for AIG Debt Holders?
A year after the onset of the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, details continue to emerge of the sordid secret deals cut by the Federal Reserve in...
Legislation Targets Financial Sector
Less than a week after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged Congress to act with dispatch to pass new legislation giving the Fed and the Federal Government more surveillance...
Bernanke Urges More Regulation of Financial Sector
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is growing impatient. With the financial crisis continuing to drag on, Bernanke appeared again before Congress yesterday to urge lawmakers to pass legislation aimed at...
Review: Michael Moore’s “Capitalism”
Subtlety has never been one of filmmaker Michael Moore’s strong suits. And the latest offering from Hollywood’s pre-eminent leftist “documentarian,” Capitalism: A Love Story, is, like most of Moore’s...
G-20 Summit Designs for Global Economy
The G-20 Pittsburgh summit is over, and the Steel City is returning to normal. For the rest of the world, however, the latest gathering of leaders of the world’s...
G-20 May Agree on Limiting Bankers’ Bonuses
According to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the leaders of the G-20 nations now assembled in Pittsburgh are close to agreement on a set of international limits to be...
G-20 Summit Opens in Pittsburgh
As world leaders gather today in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the latest G-20 meeting, expectations are running high among global elites that this, the latest international economic summit in a...
Fatima and the Turbulence of Our Times
May 1917 was a time of troubles. In France the titanic Battle of Arras was raging. The United States, which had declared war on Germany the previous month, was...
Browning: One Man’s Impact
On a particular fall day in 1889, the members of the Ogden Rifle Club of Ogden, Utah, were out in force. The men were target shooting, but doubtless found...
Recession Far From Over, Says Zuckerman
The economy isn’t out of the woods yet, not by a long shot. That, at least, is the conclusion drawn by none other than U.S. News & World Report’s...
Doha Round (WTO) Accord Sought by 2010
In a sign that globalists are running out of patience with the protracted negotiations known as the Doha Development Round of the World Trade Organization, leading economic powers (the...
The New GM: Image vs. Reality
After a mere 40 days under bankruptcy protection, a “new GM” has emerged amid promises from CEO Fritz Henderson to operate more profitably and competitively in the future. ...
G-8 Leadership Wants to Regulate Climate, Finance
The G-8 — the Group of Eight leading industrial nations (plus five other add-ons: China, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa), meeting in the earthquake-ravaged Italian city of L’Aquila...
The New Public-Private (Mostly Public) GM
Weeks before it was supposed to happen, a bankruptcy judge has approved the restructuring of large portions of once-mighty GM and the liquidation of the automaker’s remaining assets. Under...
Obama Wants Consumer Financial Protection Agency
The Obama administration on June 30 unveiled its latest attempt to put an end to the free market in financial services in the United States. ...
Gov. Mark Sanford and Fidelity
The story is becoming painfully routine: powerful, charismatic, widely-admired politician and family man admits marital infidelity and is pilloried by the press and by his colleagues. From Gary Hart...
Whither the Dollar?
As the fallout from the global financial crisis continues, the burning question in international financial circles is whether the U. S. dollar, the world’s reserve currency since the Second...