by Staff Writers This millennium has not gotten off to a great start as far as the economy is concerned. With the dot-com bubble bursting, the stock market crashing, and the "Great Recession" setting in, it’s been a bumpy dozen years. Here we’ve lined up our picks for the most important ... Read More

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It seems that the dark days of the recession are nearly behind us. Businesses in a variety of sectors are bouncing back, strengthening the job market and economy right along with them. While businesses across the board are seeing a positive shift, there are several sectors that are doing considerably ... Read More

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A new study from the highly esteemed Pew Hispanic Center says the millions of Mexicans who risked their lives crossing the desert to get here to the promised land for a better life have given up on the U.S. Mexicans flee Obama economy ... Read More

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Because so many notable business pundits appear to be bemused by America’s most recent economic vexation, specifically the collapse of the mortgage markets; I thought I’d take a crack at edifying your readers, to the extent I’m capable, as to its true nature and causes. To begin with one must remember ... Read More

China should cap forex reserves at 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars: China banker BEIJING, April 23 (Xinhua) -- China should reduce its excessive foreign exchange reserves and further diversify its holdings, Tang Shuangning, chairman of China Everbright Group, said on Saturday. The amount of foreign exchange reserves should be restricted to between 800 ... Read More

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WASHINGTON - The United States has never defaulted on its debt and Democrats and Republicans say they don't want it to happen now. But with partisan acrimony running at fever pitch, and Democrats and Republicans so far apart on how to tame the deficit, the unthinkable is suddenly being pondered. The government ... Read More

REGULATING WALL STREET AND THE ECONOMY THE DYLAN RATIGAN SHOW http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/36233217#36233217 Dylan Ratigan Explains 'Con Job': Greenspan, Banks, Congress To Blame http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/07/dylan-ratigan-explains-co_n_529363.html thanks Druanna http://www.youtube.com/Druanna http://www.youtube.com/ThankYouWhiteKnights ... Read More

By Paul Craig Roberts 3-1-11 This essay is about three recent books that explain how we lost our economy, the Constitution and our civil liberties, and how peace lost out to war. Matt Taibbi is the best--certainly the most entertaining--financial/political reporter in the country. There is no better book than Griftopia (2010) to ... Read More

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The Euro zone participants who have financial problems, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and Italy are expected to deflate via austerity and at the same time be more competitive. This is supposed to be accomplished quickly so that overhanging debt can be extinguished. This, of course, is an impossible task. ... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans are putting more money on their credit cards after more than two years of cutting back, a sign that they are gaining confidence in the economy. The first increase in credit-card debt since the financial crisis hit helped to boost overall consumer borrowing 3 percent in December, ... Read More

By Sara Murray Nearly a year and a half into the economic recovery, some 43.6 million Americans continued to rely on food stamps in November. More than 14% of the population drew food stamps in November to purchase groceries as high unemployment and muted wage growth crimped budgets. The number of recipients ... Read More

Billionaire developer and potential presidential candidate Donald Trump predicts the price of gold will continue to climb because Americans have no confidence in President Barack Obama. In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, he also warned that trouble looms for the U.S. economy. “If oil prices are allowed to inflate ... Read More

The royal tomb of Pharaoh Psusennes I is one of the most spectacular of all the ancient Egyptian treasures -- even more remarkable than that of Tutankhamun. So why hasn't the world heard about it? What mysteries does it contain? And what does it reveal about ancient Egypt? The tomb was ... Read More

Economic Turmoil In 2011 By Stephen Lendman 1-23-11 Wall Street predicts blue skies. Economic recovery will continue. Stocks will deliver double-digit gains. On January 14, the Wall Street Journal's Economic Forecast Survey headlined, "Economists Optimistic on Growth," expecting in 2011: -- 3.3% GDP growth; -- unemployment declining to 8.8%; -- inflation contained at 1.9%; -- crude oil ... Read More

Exclusive to Rense.com By Devvy 1-17-11 The damnable lies that continue out of lazy, corrupt media mouthpieces regarding the true state of the economy is nothing short of reprehensible. We expect politicians to lie every time they open their mouths. We expect ethically bankrupt crooks like Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner to lie ... Read More

Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute, believes that the Internet will empower the youth of the world to unite to start a revolution that will overthrow the existing deadlocked elitist establishment. He predicts that in 2011 every citizen is going to realize that the Great Recession the ... Read More

This time, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, about the US State Department's genetically modified retaliation against France, more missing billions in Afghanistan and shopping frenzies in Britain. In the second half of the show, Max talks to author and blogger, James Howard Kunstler, about shopping stampedes and revolutionary times. ... Read More

Not Even The Most Severe Austerity Can Pay The Debt By Carl F. Worden 1-4-11 So, the Tea Party is here to reverse the spending mistakes of the past fifty years, eh? I don't see how they expect to accomplish any such thing, given the basic math involved. We have a $13 TRILLION dollar ... Read More

George Soros talks New World Order, Special Drawing Rights, Decline of Dollar, and Replacing Dollar with International Currency and how this is already taking place on a small scale. Eye-opening!  ... Read More

The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you ... Read More

Nine 2011 Predictions By David Chu A Rense.com Exclusive 12-23-10 1. The U.S. will implement QE3/4 when the $600 billion of QE2 is not enough (already it is not enough as admitted by the Fed's chairman Benjamin Shalom Bernanke recently on CBS' 60 Minutes). Except it won't be called as such in ... Read More

"I hold the precepts of Jesus, as delivered by himself, to be the most pure, benevolent, and sublime which have ever been preached to man." Thomas Jefferson to Jared Sparks, November 4, 1820 While a substantial number of people around the world don't believe Jesus Christ was born, Dec. 25th, probably ... Read More

SANFORD, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - One by one folks showed up to Sanford City Hall trying to take care of business, only to find out it's closed until next year. The sign on the door reads “Notice: City Hall will be closed December 23rd through January 2nd.” "Then they don't get ... Read More

VISTA (AP) — To trim $9 million from their budget, Vista officials say they will shut off half of the city’s residential street lights in March unless property owners agree to pay higher lighting fees. Fees could cost residents of the north San Diego County city between $4 and $20 a ... Read More

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By Alan Caruba In the course of the first year of the Obama administration, it has become clear to many close observers that it is intent on destroying the U.S. economy and, with it, the Republic. It has virtually shut down all exploration for energy resources such as oil and natural gas ... Read More

SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal emergency and is asking lawmakers to meet in a special session to save the state $9.9 billion over the next two years. more ... Read More

Hillary Clinton revealed America's deep anxiety over China's growing economic power and hold on US finances by asking Australia's then prime minister: "How do you deal toughly with your banker?" The question, at a lunch with Kevin Rudd last March and reported in a US Department of State cable, underscores the ... Read More

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Widespread government and corporate corruption (and not just banking) is destroying the US economy and thus the livelihoods and standards of living of tens of millions of Americans. ... Read More

All I can say is WOW! Genius Plan to Fix California Economy - Watch more Funny Videos ... Read More

Nassim Taleb, known worldwide for his book "The Black Swan," discusses his new book, "The Bed of Procrustes," and more with CNBC. ... Read More

Road to Great Depression II - This is all OBAMA's fault, with Obamanomics as people are now standing in the cold for a chance to get help with the electric bills. Reported Unemployment is at 9.7% in November 2010. Actual Unemployment is over 18%. To all the people who voted ... Read More

By Tommy Tucci Philadelphia, PA December 2010……….The Roman Empire dispensed bread and circuses to its citizenry to distract them from the criminality that had taken over Rome  c.46BC.  Circuses that were extravagant productions to divert citizenry from storming the gates of the corrupt Roman Senate. America c.2010 confiscates it's citizenry bread daily and ... Read More

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The first gentleman in this video giving his report to Parliament is now dead, and this video was recorded on November 1st, just 21 days ago. Source: http://alligatorfarm.wordpress.com/20... Info: Lord James of Blackheath describes a Private "Foundation" which has more money than all the governments of the world put together. This "Foundation ... Read More

The following are 28 hard questions that you should ask anyone who believes that having a highly centralized economy and a highly centralized government is good for us.... #1 Why is the U.S. government trying to put a choke hold on our food production system? S. 510, The Food Safety ... Read More

When I say shĭt-iz-tōt’l-ē-fŭkd-up........... By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Tom Raum, Associated Press – 44 mins ago WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a two-year freeze of the salaries of some 2 million federal workers, trying to seize the ... Read More

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NEW YORK (CBS 2) — Budget cuts are putting your pets at greater risk if they are lost in New York City. Animal Care and Control will no longer take reports of lost pets, and staffers at shelters will no longer search the facilities for missing animals. ... Read More

Business leaders across the world are continuing to lash out at the US decision to print an additional 600 billion dollars in new stimulus money. Central bankers and economists warn of inflation, new bubbles and hot money inflows. And Russia could be on the receiving end of them all - ... Read More

Is the Federal Reserve violating the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers with its new purchases of $600 billion worth of U.S. Treasuries? Is the Fed engaging in an unconstitutional monetization of the U.S. Congress' out of control spending spree that is really a bridge loan to fiscal insanity? At minimum, should ... Read More

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I bet they start putting armed guards at the local unemployment offices. When I say shĭt-iz-tōt’l-ē-fŭkd-up...... With one in every eight workers unemployed and empty state coffers, California is borrowing billions of dollars from the federal government to pay unemployment insurance. The Los Angeles Times reports that the state owes $8.6 billion already, ... Read More

Barack Obama India trip: jobs hope for US from $10 billion trade deal, says President Barack Obama began the longest foreign trip of his presidency in India with one eye firmly on the voters who delivered a stinging rebuff in last week's US elections. ... Read More

The Tipping Point has Arrived Our age is retrospective.  It builds the sepulchres of the fathers.  It writes biographies, histories, and criticism.  The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes.  Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?  Why should not ... Read More

The States have jurisdiction over whole-body scanners and backscatter machines if they threaten the health of the People within the State and are proven to be harmful. Idaho State Representative Phil Hart has written legislation opposing the airport and security whole-body scanners, and is adding backscatter machines to the legislation. Hart's ... Read More

Violeta Aylward, an agency nurse working for the NHS, was caught on camera turning off the ventilator keeping quadriplegic Jamie Merrett alive. The 37-year-old, left paralysed from the neck down following a car accident in 2002, had a bedside camera set up ... Read More

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By Mark Felsenthal and Pedro da Costa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A string of Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday indicated the central bank will soon offer further monetary stimulus to the economy, with one saying $100 billion a month in bond buys may be appropriate. While internal differences on the unconventional policy are ... Read More

New numbers posted today on the Treasury Department website show the National Debt has increased by more than $3 trillion since President Obama took office. The National Debt stood at $10.626 trillion the day Mr. Obama was inaugurated. The Bureau of Public Debt reported today that the National Debt had hit ... Read More

Joe Weisenthal Business Insider Oct 18, 2010 If you haven’t been paying attention, or are only paying attention to the US market you may have missed something: markets are screaming higher all over the world, with many risk assets hitting all-time historical highs. And so the question is: Is the economy really recovering all ... Read More

Amanda Cooper and Jan Harvey The Vancouver Sun October 13, 2010 Gold surged to a record high at $1,367.65 an ounce on Wednesday and silver to a 30-year peak after the Federal Reserve signalled the U.S. economy may need extra stimulus, which hit the dollar. Gold prices have rallied nearly 25 percent so far ... Read More

If you can still put a roof over your head and food on the table for your family, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate.  There are millions of Americans out there right now that are really, really suffering.  The cold, hard reality of it is that there aren't even ... Read More

Can President Obama be serious when he says he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people of all nations? Among all nations does he include the people of Iraq? Polls show folks there overwhelmingly want the U.S. to get out. ... Read More

The great American fraud factory William K. Black pulls back the curtain ... Read More

From You Tube......... "STOP SPENDING" T-SHIRTS @ http://executees.net/mens.html The problem in very recent history traces back to the September and October months of 2008, when Wall Street investment banks and the US banking system died. These banks have not and will not recover, since they died. Some deaths were obvious, but others remain ... Read More

Whether or not the taxpaying American will be paying for meals, they will definitely be footing the bill for the First Lady's 68-strong security detail, her personal staff - and the use of presidential jet Air Force Two. The per diems for the secret service team runs at around £172 each, ... Read More

President Obama Friday flew Marine One from the White House less than six miles to Northwest D.C. He choppered to Gelberg Signs, the Washington, D.C.-based company where he'll deliver remarks on the economy and July employment numbers. According to Google maps, the drive would have taken about 20 minutes from the ... Read More

On point as usual. This shit is going to get crazy. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTR... http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html... http://www.youtube.com/user/pulsescan72 ... Read More

The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to a Treasury Department report to Congress. The total U.S. debt includes obligations to the Social Security retirement program and other government trust funds. The amount of debt held by investors, which ... Read More

BP had increased the amount of oil it funneled to the surface to about 441,000 gallons on Saturday, the company said Sunday. This was an increase from about 250,000 gallons on Friday. In advance of approaching oil, Florida has about 250,000 feet of boom spread around the panhandle and has another ... Read More

(submitted 2010-05-17) I started an internet business out of pure desperation. I was out of work with a ton of bills, and a negative -$213.73 dollsrs checking account balance. I was at rock bottom. I made money online because I had too. I didn't have any other option. In this article ... Read More

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