Money & Markets
US Home Defaults, Foreclosures Rise 60% in February
By Alan Mirabella & Sharon Lynch – Bloomberg.com (14 Mar 2008)Dollar’s Clout Sinks Worldwide
By Alan Clendenning – Associated Press (13 Mar 2008)Abolish The Fed
By Jim Rogers – CNBC.com (12 Mar 2008)HUD E-Mails Refer to Retaliation
By Carol D. Leoning – Washington Post (12 Mar 2008)Dollar Plunge Sets Off Global Alarm Bells
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (14 Mar 2008)Fed Bails Out Bear Stearns As Stocks Plunge
By Martin Crutsinger – Associated Press (14 Mar 2008)Bear Stearns: The Drexel Burnham Lambert Precedent
Posted by Heidi Moore – Wall Street Journal (14 Mar 2008)Goldman Expects ‘Explosive’ Commodities, Oil Rising to $175
By Claudia Carpenter & Alexander Kwiatkowski – Bloomberg.com (14 Mar 2008)US Treasuries Riskier Than German Debt, Default Swaps Say
By Abigail Moses – Bloomberg News (11 Mar 2008)Market Panic After Bear Stearns Reports
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (11 Mar 2008)~ Updates on the Eliot Spitzer Story
The Spitzer Story – Something Doesn’t Add Up
By leevank – Daily Kos (11 Mar 2008)Some Questions About the Spitzer Incident
By Jane Hamsher – firedoglake.com (10 Mar 2008)
—~ View previous blog posts on this issue: (1)Sovereign Funds Soon May Surpass Official Foreign Reserves
By Vivianne Rodrigues – Reuters (11 Mar 2008)Emergency Interest Rate Cut Possible, Goldman Sachs Says
By Richard Leong – Reuters (10 Mar 2008)Blighted Kingdom? How Tax Changes are Spurring Non-Doms to Vote With Their Feet [Must subscribe to view full article.]
By Vanessa Houlder – Financial Times (9 Mar 2008)~ Updates on Clear Channel
Clear Channel Buyer Notifies Investors Of Pending Draw Down
By Shira Ovide – Dow Jones Newswires (6 Mar 2008)Morgan, Credit Suisse Break Ranks on Clear Channel
By Pierre Paulden – Bloomberg.com (12 Mar 2008)
—~ View previous blog posts on this issue: (1) (2) (3)Carlyle Group May Buy Major CIA Contractor: Booz Allen Hamilton
By Tim Shorrock – CorpWatch.org (8 Mar 2008)Fed Joins Three Other Central Banks with $200 Billion More in Lending
By The Associated Press (11 Mar 2008)TVA Board Approves 7% Rate Increase Effective April 1
Press Release from the Tennessee Valley Authority (15 Feb 208)Fannie Mae Shares Fall on Bailout Report
By MarketWatch (10 Mar 2008)Diebold filed a disclosure document with the SEC on March 3, describing the resolution of an ongoing SEC investigation and the potential restatement of earnings.
xxx ~ See Catherine’s earlier blog post: Did Someone Just Buy All The Votes in Texas & Ohio?
NAFTA, Immigrants and the Discussion That is Not Happening
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. – The Black CommentatorSwiss Bank Drops Lawsuit Against Wikileaks
The Associated Press (6 Mar 2008)Interest Rate Rift Resembles One That Led to 1987 Market Crash
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (8 Mar 2008)Wall Street Banks Face ‘Systemic Margin Call,’ Morgan Warns
By Walden Siew – Reuters (8 Mar 2008)SEC Steps Up Probe of BofA
By Dan Caterinicchia – The Charlotte Observer (6 Mar 2008)The ‘Fortunate 400’
Host Tom Ashbrook – IntRadio.org (7 Mar 2008)
xxx~ The Fortunate 400 pdf documentChina’s Investment Fund Pushes Back [Must subscribe to view full article.]
Wall Street Journal (7 Mar 2008)The Sovereign Wealth Funds Dilemma
By Mairi Mackay – CNN.com (7 Mar 2008)China Approves Market Investment by Norway Oil Fund
By Lu Jianxin & Eadie Chen – Yahoo, Malaysia (8 Mar 2008)Illinois AG Subpoenas Countrywide, Wells Fargo
Canadian Business Online (6 Mar 2008)Federal Reserve Gives Emergency Help to Wall Street Banks
By Larry Elliott – Guardian.co.uk (7 Mar 2008)Whistle While You Work ~ From government to big business, if you have a dirty secret, Wikileaks is your nightmare.
By David Leigh & Jonathan Franklin – The Guardian (23 Feb 2008)
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Precious Metals
Korea Resources to Lead $6 Billion Metal Investments
By Sungwoo Park – Bloomberg.com (13 Mar 2008)At Least There’s Something In Ethiopia’s Gold Vault
By Elizabeth Blunt – British Broadcasting Corp. (13 Mar 2008)
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Mortgage Market
Fed Begins Monetizing Everybody’s Busted Mortgages
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (13 Mar 2008)A Single "Toxic" CDO, A Multitude of Subprime Lawsuits
By Kevin LaCroix – The D&O Diary (9 Mar 2008)
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Food & Health
Frances Moore Lappé’s World Hunger: Twelve Myths
By Richard Moore – Richard Moore’s Blog ( 13 Mar 2008)One Woman’s Astonishing Experiment With Aspartame
By Victoria Inness-Brown – Mercola.com (Mar 2008)The NutraPoison ~ By Alex Constantine
AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water
By Jeff Donn, et al – Associated Press (9 Mar 2008)Surging Costs of Groceries Hit Home
By Robert Gavin – Boston.com (9 Mar 2008)Michael Pollan: Don’t Eat Anything That Doesn’t Rot
By Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (8 Mar 2008)Entangled Minds – "Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood"
By Dean Radin (23 Mar 2007)
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Life
Photo thanks to National GeographicConsumer Alert: Toxic Chemicals to be Sprayed Over San Francisco
By Rami Nagel – NaturalNews.com (3 Mar 2008)Fertility Falls, Population Rises, Future Uncertain
By Robert Engelman – WorldWatch (Mar 2008)Climate of 2007 – Annual Report
From the NOAA Satellite & Information Service (15 Jan 2008)The Invite – “Altenberg 16” Evolution Summit
By Suzan Mazur – Scoop Independent News (9 Mar 2008)Announcement: Immense Possibilities Radio (IPR) comes into the world this Tuesday. Look for IPR shows at www.eq.tv.
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Geopolitical
Prevention of Superstore Sprawl and Small Town Decline
By David Bollier – SprawlWatach.org (1998)Oklahoma High Court To Cut Off Online Access to Court Records
By The Associated Press (13 Mar 2008)US Commander Quits ‘Over Iran’
At Aljazerra.net (12 Mar 2008)Plumbing the Depths – How the Gears Turn
By Fred – fredoneverything.net (9 Mar 2008)Clinton-Papers Release Blocked
By Peter Eisler – USA Today (7 Mar 2008)Starbucks/Walmart Update – A statistical study at Columbia University’s
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference & Social Science Dept.
On the Take And Loving It ~ World Telecommunications Traffic Flows
At WikiLeaks (7 Oct 2007)Obama Wows Casper; Clinton Next
By David Olinger – Denver Post (7 Mar 2008)Wave-Power Proposals Alarm Locals
By Frank Hartzell – Christian Science Monitor (4 Mar 2008)Homeschoolers’ Setback Sends Shock Waves Through State
By Bob Egelko, et al – San Francisco Chronicle (7 Mar 2008)Air Force Cyber Command’s New Weapon: DMCA Notices
By Kevin Poulsen – Wired.com (7 Mar 2008)Exclusive Capitulation Report: House Democratic Leadership Circulates FISA Bill
By Glenn Grenwald – salon.com (7 Mar 2008)Washington Seeks Power to Ban Air Travelers – Even if They Are Only Flying Over the U.S.
News & Current Affairs – thisislondon.co.uk (9 Mar 2008)Half of New Orlean’s Poor Permanently Displaced
By Bill Quigley – Scoop Independent News (8 Mar 2008)
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Take Action
The Wire’s War on the Drug War
By Ed Burns, et al – Time (5 Mar 2008)
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