Archive for June 1st, 2010

By RENEE SCHOOF AND CHRIS ADAMS MiamiHerald.com WASHINGTON — If the growing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t contained soon – and the latest efforts suggest that’s unlikely – then the damage to the fragile region will intensify over the coming summer months as changing currents and the potential for hurricanes complicate... »

by Ron Paul (R), Congressman FinancialSense.com June 1, 2010 Most everyone agrees that health care in the United States has major problems, the biggest problems relating to skyrocketing costs. No one doubts the system is in need of reform. However, too many in Washington see tighter government controls as the solution. In fact, the... »

By: Steve Moyer Market Oracle Jun 01, 2010 “…and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” ~William Orville Douglas First of all, please allow me to apologize for the infrequency of my Safehaven posts, as obviously... »

It could take months or years for the true impact of the spill on surrounding ecosystems to emerge David Adam Guardian.co.uk Monday 31 May 2010 The White House says the BP oil spill is probably the greatest environmental disaster the US has faced, but the true impact on surrounding ecosystems could take months or... »

By: CAPTAINHOOK GoldSeek.com Make no mistake about it, what is happening in Greece and Thailand right now will be coming soon to a theatre near you as well, with a war between our bloated bureaucracy and the public at center. It’s important to understand that the weaker periphery states in the Western alliance is... »

Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Goldman Sachs will get a hand slap, the Greek Tragedy continues, signs of growth not real, more market manipulation to report on, never incremental news, a broken system of risk-free trade and return The DOE reported crude oil inventories up 646,000 barrels, gasoline fell 3.19 m/b and distillates rose... »

The Freedom of Association by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. LewRockwell.com It seems incredible that in the last days, a fundamental right of the whole of humanity, the freedom of association, has been denounced by the New York Times and all major opinion sources, even as a national political figure was reluctant to defend his... »

Guarding Your Money from Government Onslaughts by Richard Daughty LewRockwell.com Grandfather-economic-report.com is famous for presenting whole constellations, in graphic form, of horrors about the mess that fiat money and government, in the hands of incompetent do-gooders, has allowed. He writes that, in 2009, people worked, “3 times longer per year to pay all taxes... »

Congress looked serious about finance reform – until America’s biggest banks unleashed an army of 2,000 paid lobbyists Matt Taibbi RollingStone.com FRONT #1 AUDITING THE FED The most successful of the reform gambits was probably the audit-the-Fed movement led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont. For nearly a century, the Federal Reserve... »