At least 40 people were killed and 45 more were wounded in mostly small attacks across Iraq. Also, as many as 13 people were kidnapped across Anbar province.
Saturday, 18 May 2013 21:25
When the Rothchild’s HKMEx was launched in 2011, much of the metals community assumed that the COMEX & LBMA, were they not to outright default, would fade into irrelevance with the advent of the new Asian metals exchange. Two years after the exchange’s launch however, in perhaps the most glaring evidence of physical gold & [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:37
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum of Acting-Man blog, Full Court Press Not a day passes without the financial media denouncing gold as an investment option and hailing the bureaucrats heading the world's monopolist monetary central planning agencies as superheroes. It began prior to gold's recent breakdown, with widely cited bearish reports on gold published by Credit [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:28
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Saturday, 18 May 2013 19:00
Via Unwelcome Guests: Tony Wright was a student of plant biology at a university in Scotland when he became interested in ‘the human condition’. Over the course of two decades, self-experiments into consciousness developed into serious study. He became convinced that the mental state we regard as ‘normal’ – even perhaps the pinnacle of evolution [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:30
Excerpted from Jacob Steen’s Chronicle blog at Tradingfloor.com, The mystique of the Bermuda Triangle has caught the imagination and interest of generations. In much the same way it has also caught my attention and I feel that now there is a Bermuda Triangle of economics – a space where everything tends to disappear without radar [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 17:30
Despite ‘crashes’ in the market, the demand for physical silver continues to rise. “Buyers are already outpacing sellers by a stunning 50-to-1 ratio. We are seeing the beginning of shortages; but this will only accelerate if Western governments continue with this raid on paper gold and silver.” (Read more…) The Silver Squeeze – [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 17:00
Jonathan Franklin writes at Common Dreams: Without going over the edge to Rush Limbaugh territory, the internal spying on reporters and politicization of the IRS do raise the question. Could Obama be trumping “Tricky Dick” on the latter’s home turf? Few politicians can match Richard Milhous Nixon for obsession with leaks, propagation of secret wars [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 16:33
Submitted by Lance Roberts of Street Talk Live, There have been quite a few bold predictions, since the beginning of the year, that the dollar was set to soar and that the great “bond bull market” was dead. The primary thesis behind these views was that the economy was set to strengthen and inflation would [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 15:53
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter (Read more…) It was announced Friday afternoon, when no one was supposed to pay attention: after years of controversy, heated rhetoric, intense lobbying, and stiff opposition from some unlikely bedfellows, with multinational industrial and chemical companies weighing down one side of the bed, and environmentalists tossing and turning on the other, [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 15:32
70% of graduates had at least some debt according to the latest poll from Fidelity Investments but as the Wall Street Journal reports the average student-loan debt for a borrower who received a bachelor’s degree in 2013 is $30,000 – an all-time record. With $986 billion of outstanding student loan debt (up 50% from Q1 [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 14:30
Submitted by Daniel Cloud Boldly They Rode And Well I believe that Shinzo Abe has made a very serious strategic miscalculation. I used to be confused in much the same way he now seems to be, but I was cured of my confusion by thinking about Chinese inflation. (Read more…) For a long time, I [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 14:00
Scientific American on the mysterious benefit and power behind “irrational” rituals: Rituals take an extraordinary array of shapes and forms. At times performed in communal or religious settings, at times performed in solitude; at times involving fixed, repeated sequences of actions, at other times not. People engage in rituals with the intention of achieving a wide [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 14:00
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Saturday, 18 May 2013 13:09
Saturday, 18 May 2013 12:34
Now that the Federal Reserve has hired every single pennystock trader and momentum-chasing algo in the world (or at least is enjoying Citadel’s helping hand in regards to the latter) it is time for the Fed’s human resources department to branch out and fill those really important gaping holes. Great job opportunity! Penetration Tester: rfer.us/FRS5ERsd. [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 12:22
We examine stories about those who, using spoof trades, bogus securities and fictitious capital, steal real wealth and income. They discuss how it is that every benchmark index is rigged and introduce the concept of the ‘bonus benchmark.’ In the second half, Max talks to Dr. Michael Hudson, author of The Bubble and Beyond, about [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 12:20
It was less than a month ago that the new Italian government of the pseudo-technocrat Letta, of Bilderberg 2012 and Aspen Institute fame, was voted in by a majority of the PD and the PDL parties (the latter agreeing so Berlusconi would get an extension of his much needed political immunity from assorted prison sentences). [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 11:15
While it does have all the impromptu genuineness of a made for C-Span soap opera, the following exchange between Rep. Mile Kelly (PA) and the IRS’ commissioner Miller was the highlight of yesterday’s grilling of the IRS by the House Ways and Means committee, because rehearsed or not, it does capture the prevalent sentiment the [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 11:00
Pic: Shanna Riley (CC) Aaron Cynic writes at Diatribe Media: While Chicago’s Mayor and other administration officials seem to believe the closing of more than 54 public schools in Chicago is a done deal, resistance to the closures is about to peak just before the school board votes on the closures. This weekend, thousands plan [...]
Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:39
Nell’incontro col segretario di stato John Kerry, il ministro degli esteri Emma Bonino ha ribadito il fermo impegno dell’Italia nel contribuire a un accordo di pace israelo-palestinese e, in generale, al processo di pace in Medio Oriente. Che l’Italia sia…
Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:35
I «misteri della Repubblica» che Andreotti si è portato nella tomba non sono così misteriosi. Basta leggere il libro «La repubblica delle stragi impunite» del magistrato Ferdinando Imposimato, oggi presidente onorario della Suprema Corte di Cassazione. Resta da vedere se…
Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:07
There is a reason why in Europe, no matter how much some want to deny it, the Cyprus deposit confiscation “resolution” has become the norm. Quite simply, as BofA summarizes, “Europe’s economy struggles with too many banks, too much debt and too little growth. A long history of empire, trade, war and commerce means a [...]
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