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Obama signs the financial reform bill: Towards a new volatile phase of economic disruptions?

The Eleven Pens Of Barack Obama: Signing Financial Reform Is Signing Up For A New Struggle To Make It Real With eleven pens for souvenirs, President Obama signed the financial reform bill in a rare celebratory moment. Significantly, the ceremony did not take place in the Oval Office but up the block at the Ronald Reagan building perhaps to signal recalcitrant Republicans that this is a cause they should sign on to. It wasn’t clear if he was aware that he was signing up for the a new volatile phase of struggle to rein in out of control financial power. The three GOP lawmakers who voted for the bill receiving a standing O, from the largely democratic crowd that watched Obama embrace Paul Volcker while Elizabeth Warren stood by applauding (before taking her picture with the former Fed head.) Warren’s presence didn’t make many news stories or the Times photo caption perhaps because many—mostly bankers and some Obama advisors-- want her out of the picture permanently.. » read more

An unkind complicatedness

July 18, 2010 - What should have been a simple bank transaction required a trip from the hospital. . . In the end, nothing else would do for Scotiabank but that Amar Patel – 73 years old, bald from chemotherapy, in the throes of metastatic breast cancer – should drag her aching bones down to the bank’s head office in downtown Toronto. The trip from her airy apartment above the Indian Rice Factory, the landmark restaurant she founded in 1970 and has run ever since, was an agony of no fewer than five transfers – from the hospital bed in her living room to a commode, from commode to the chair lift for the first set of stairs, from that chair to the next chair lift for the second set, from that chair to a walker, from walker to the car.. » read more

Where the World’s Millionaires Are

Where the World’s Millionaires Are 1) Singapore: Population: 4.7 million; Percentage: 11.4% 2) Hong Kong: Population: 7.1 million; Percentage: 8.8% 3) Switzerland: Population: 7.. » read more

Crisis in Asia's Currency Markets: Indonesia Moves to Tame Speculative Capital Flows

Within three days of South Korea imposing currency controls, Indonesia (a member of G-20) unveiled several policy measures to regulate potentially destabilizing capital flows. The policy announcement by Indonesia is the latest initiative by emerging markets to tame speculative money which could pose a threat to their economies and financial systems. On June 16, 2010, Bank Indonesia, country’s central bank, announced the following policy measures: 1. To make short-term investments less attractive, there will be a one-month minimum holding period on Sertifikat Bank Indonesia (SBIs) with effect from July 7, 2010. During the one-month period, ownership of SBIs cannot be transferred.. » read more

DHS and military preparing to engage the AMERICAN PEOPLE - relocation because of GULF SPILL??!!!! -Video

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‘Extremely Active’ Hurricanes Set to Test Cat Bonds

-- As the U.S. enters this year’s hurricane season, the market for catastrophe bonds may face its biggest test since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008 brought sales to a six-month standstill. Insurers and reinsurers sell cat bonds to investors such as hedge funds to help cushion potential claims from the most costly disasters, including earthquakes and U.. » read more

European Union Near Collapse

UNITED STATES of America - It can now be reported that the European Central Bank, along with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the United States Federal Reserve, is restricting the publication of a recently completed stress test involving major European banks. The stress test is currently in the hands of Lucas Papademos, the Vice President of the European Central Bank. The stress test aka audit identifies the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Hypo Bank of Germany, along with the noted Deutsche Bank, AS INSOLVENT. The derivative cash ratio is now at an enormous 95 to 1. The stress test aka audit also shows $1.. » read more

Social Crisis in America. Coming Soon: Corporate Town Halls Against Social Security

In the old days the U.S. government used different tactics to trick the population into accepting policies that only the elite wanted. For example, it took legions of hired speakers (propagandists) to travel the country and to explain to people the “necessity” of fighting WWI and WWII. Movie stars were put on the government payroll, too, dazzling and awe-striking working people into buying war bonds and constantly cheerleading the war effort.. » read more

Foreclosure Fraud: Judge Orders Injunction Stopping ALL Foreclosure Proceedings by Bank of America; Recontrust; Home Loa

Bombshell - Judge Orders Injunction Stopping ALL Foreclosure Proceedings by Bank of America; Recontrust; Home Loan Servicing et al Foreclosure Fraud . » read more

Oldie but Goodie: Let’s Play 20 Questions!

Here is an article I published eight years ago. It reminds us that we should ask the question if the Greek bailouts are not just a series of infusions into banks that engaged in fraudulent inducement. If you simply track the circulation of book entries on US bailouts, IMF bailouts and financial frauds like Enron, you begin to realize each sounds like a different story. From a book entry point of view, they look remarkably similar. Catherine Austin Fitts Poses 20 Questions on Enron- Jan.. » read more

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