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Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home We encourage you to read the provisions of the Cap and Trade Bill that has passed the House of Representatives and being considered by the Senate. We are ready to join the next march on Washington! This Congress and whoever on their staffs that...

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Half of Commercial Mortgages to Be Underwater: Warren ELIZABETH WARREN, BANKS, TARP, BANKING, OVERSIGHT, GOVERNMENT, ECONOMY, CNBC.com | 29 Mar 2010 | 07:04 PM ET By the end of 2010, about half of all commercial real estate mortgages will be underwater, said Elizabeth Warren, chairperson...

"One of the disturbing facts of history is that so many civilizations collapse," warns anthropologist Jared Diamond in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Many "civilizations share a sharp curve of decline. Indeed, a society's demise may begin only a decade or two after it reaches...

http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/10/worlds-richest-people-slim-gates-buffett-billionaires-2010_land.html Some noteable mentions: Buffett: $47 billion Paulson: $12 billion Soros: $14 billion Simons: $8.5 billion Arnold: $4 billion

'It's Going to Be Inflation Everywhere:' Deputy 'Doom' ECONOMY, SUPERCYCLE, NOURIEL ROUBINI, ARUN MOTIANEY, DEPUTY DOOM CNBC.com | 10 Mar 2010 | 09:40 AM ET The global economy is entering a next "supercycle" phase that will generate inflation necessary for recovery, a strategist and...

President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday. Proposed tax cuts for the middle class account for nearly a third of that shortfall. The 10-year outlook released by the nonpartisan...

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UBS Report The pound may fall below parity with the euro and drop to the lowest level against the dollar since the mid-1980s should the U.K. cut spending too quickly, Mansoor Mohi-Uddin, chief currency strategist at UBS AG, said in a Feb. 24 report. Sterling slid to a nine-month nadir...

Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The euro is being “severely tested” and “may not survive” the Greek deficit crisis, billionaire investor George Soros said. The European currency’s construction is “flawed” because there is “a common central bank, but you don’t have a common...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fannie Mae needs another $15 billion in federal assistance, bringing its total to more than $75 billion. And worse, the mortgage finance company warned its losses will continue this year. The rescue of Fannie Mae and sister company Freddie Mac is turning out to be one of...

With uncharacteristic bluntness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States could soon face a debt crisis like the one in Greece, and declared that the central bank will not help legislators by printing money to pay for the ballooning federal...

And when Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) begged him to drop his objection, Politico reports, Bunning replied: "Tough shit."

Rogers admits to being a terrible short term trader. He was saying last January that the pound will reach parity with the dollar sometime within a decade. Rogers and Faber should have been actors seeing how much they love being in the limelight with their daily forecasts. All of these...

February 25, 2010 - Press Dispensary - The UK Pound is on the brink of a collapse which will herald a downturn worse than 2008/9, it could well happen within weeks and the British government is powerless to prevent it. And this in turn will foreshadow a global economic winter that could come...

I too thought this was a hatchet job on the company till all the facts came out. You have a company bragging about saving $100 million by delaying recalls that resulted in the deaths of dozens of innocent people. I don't see how anyone can defend them.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- More than 700 banks, or nearly one out of every 11, are at risk of going under, according to a government report published Tuesday. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said that the number of banks on its so-called "problem list" climbed to 702, its highest level...

'Buy farmland and gold,' advises Dr Doom Leo Lewis, Asia Business Correspondent The world’s most powerful investors have been advised to buy farmland, stock up on gold and prepare for a “dirty war” by Marc Faber, the notoriously bearish market pundit, who predicted the 1987 stock market...

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