Archive for the ‘FINANCIAL’ Category

Saturday, February 04, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) Imagine that instead of having to pump fossil fuel-based gasoline into your boat or car, you could instead use “liquid air?” The London-based Dearman Engine Company (DEC) has reportedly developed a new engine technology that uses cryogenic air to power vehicle engines, and one of [...]

Via: CNN: A growing number of states are seeking shiny new currencies made of silver and gold. Worried that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. dollar are on the brink of collapse, lawmakers from 13 states, including Minnesota, Tennessee, Iowa, South Carolina and Georgia, are seeking approval from their state governments to either issue their [...]

Presstitute – Anthony Freda Art Paul Craig Roberts Activist Post Last Friday (January 27) the US Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its advance estimate that in the last quarter of 2011 the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8% in real inflation-adjusted terms, an increase from the annual rate of growth in the third [...]

Dees Illustration Dr. Ron Paul The Federal Reserve’s interest rate price-setting board, the FOMC, met last week. They will continue to set the federal funds rate at well below 1%, and plan to keep it low until the end of 2014. That’s a year and half longer than they planned when they met just last [...]

Daily Bell January 28, 2012 Partial results from the poll, released Wednesday, found voters feeling more positively about the economy and of Mr. Obama‘s handling of it. Some 30% believed the country was headed in the right direction, up eight percentage points from a month ago. Some 60% said the country was on the wrong [...]

Karen De Coster, Contributing Writer Activist Post This story in the Wall Street Journal barely made a splash last week – “FDA Panelists Had Ties to Bayer.” Three advisors who had financial ties to Bayer AG were invited to serve on a “safety committee” for the FDA to assess the safety of four Bayer AG [...]

Activist Post Living in a world engulfed by economic crisis teetering on collapse requires preparation for worst-case scenarios. Whether it is losing a job to downsizing, a currency crisis, or full-blown economic system failure, being prepared is just plain smart. Already, nearly 30% of Americans are either unemployed or under-employed, and desperation is surely setting [...]

Friday, January 27, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) When times get tough, many people cope by flocking to their favorite “comfort” foods that make them feel good, and that are perceived as being affordable. And this appears to be precisely why fast food giant McDonald’s has posted record revenues for this past [...]

Eric Blair Activist Post Why is it when the rich super class speaks about class warfare, the downtrodden applaud? When billionaire Warren Buffett said, “There’s class warfare all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning,” the struggling middle class treated him like one of them, as if he’s [...]

Monday, January 23, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Food commodity prices have been on the rise over the past two years, which means food retailers, vendors, and restauranteurs have had to figure out creative ways to absorb these added costs while still offering quality products that their customers can afford. But it [...]

Via: Guardian: The long-running standoff between Iran and the west over Tehran’s nuclear programme has shifted into a more unpredictable phase after Europe decided to impose an oil embargo on the Islamic republic. The decision by EU foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels raised the stakes dramatically in the war of wits between Iran [...]

Saturday, January 21, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Just a few months ago, FBI agents raided the headquarters of now-bankrupt solar panel company Solyndra, which received more than half-a-billion dollars in federal stimulus funds as part of the federal government’s green energy stimulus initiative. But according to a new investigation by CBS [...]

Source: Washington Times BUENOS AIRES — Off the coast of Rio de Janeiro — below a mile of water and two miles of shifting rock, sand and salt — is an ultradeep sea of oil that could turn Brazil into the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, behind Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States. The country’s [...]

Source: Bloomberg President Barack Obama’s decision yesterday to reject a permit for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL oil pipeline may prompt Canada to turn to China for oil exports. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a telephone call yesterday, told Obama “Canada will continue to work to diversify its energy exports,” according to details provided by Harper’s [...]

Mark Matheny Sic Sempter Tyrannis January 21, 2012 Peter Schiff appeared on Fox Business January 17, 2012 arguing that U.S. debt is out of control, and the situation in the U.S. is much worse than that of Europe. Peter Schiff was one of the few economists who warned of the crisis that hit in 2008. [...]

Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, January 19, 2012 Money insider Charles Ortel has warned that a worsening economic picture across the globe will see civil unrest hit the streets of America, not on behalf of leftist OWS types, but by an armed, “irascible and vocal Majority”. Ortel, a managing partner with Newport Value Partners, LLC [...]

The Economic Collapse Thursday, January 19, 2012 The warning signs are all around us. All we have to do is open up our eyes and look at them. Almost every single day there are more prominent voices in the financial world telling us that a massive economic crisis is coming and that we need to [...]

Activist Post Can Bank of America foreclose on a homeowner without showing any evidence that their client actually owns the promissory note? Can a Mortgage-Backed Security sue for damages after they have already been made whole through credit default swaps and a negotiated settlement with the originator of the security? One Georgia couple is about [...]

Oil prices, Iran are increasingly sources of concern Stephan Mufsan Washington Post January 15, 2012 The price of crude oil and growing tensions with Iran are bubbling to the top of economists’ and policymakers’ worry lists for 2012, as U.S. and European Union sanctions threaten to reduce the sales of Iranian oil and put pressure [...]