Archive for October 5th, 2011

By Mike Shedlock Global Economic Analysis Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois is telling Americans to “Get the heck out of that bank”, right on the Senate Floor. His comments are in response to Bank of America hiking fees on debit cards. Please consider BofA Customers Urged by Lawmakers to Quit Lender Over Debit Fee.... »

Class warfare accelerating, democracy losing grip By Paul B. Farrell MarketWatch.com Oct. 4, 2011 SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Memo to the Super Rich, your high-paid lobbyists and your no-compromise political puppets whose sole mission is destroying the presidency: Yes, you are succeeding. You’re also killing the economy. Thanks to your self-destructive ideology,... »

SilverDoctors.com Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Yesterday 10/3, the US Mint sold a whopping 737,000 Silver Eagle 1 oz coins in a single day! To put this number in perspective, in Dec of 2010 with silver in the mid $20′s, the US Mint sold a total of 1,772,000 Silver Eagles FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF... »

Commodity Online.com 04 October 2011 Gold consolidated its position as a safe haven asset and advanced further in Asian trade Tuesday after fears of another recession in three years hit markets. Spot gold rose as high as $1669 an ounce in early trade before eased to $1665.41 an ounce at 12.30 p.m Singapore time... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 10/05/2011 Still bullish on the Friday NFP number? According to Challenger we just went through a “sea-change” event as “Employers announced plans to shed 115,730 workers from their payrolls in September, making it the worst jobcut month in over two years. Heavy reductions planned by the military accounted for a... »

by Jim Goad Taki’s Magazine The children – dozens of them at first, then hundreds – gathered in downtown Manhattan on September 17 to change the world. For better or worse, they’re still there. They may even be multiplying. Many of them, especially the girls, seemed too young to have so much facial hair.... »

by Bob Bauman LewRockwell.com Rarely in my long life’s experience have two news items been published on the same day that demonstrated such palpable irony. The two stories that appeared in The New York Times last Friday (Sept. 30) and when read together, they present a sharp incongruity and discordance that far exceeds the... »

Audit Bernanke by Ron Paul LewRockwell.com Before the US House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Hearing on: “Audit the Fed: Dodd-Frank, QE3, and Federal Reserve Transparency,” October 4th, 2011 In his 1974 Nobel Prize address, the late Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek attacked the pretense of... »

By Debra Rae October 5, 2011 NewsWithViews.com Church Tradition, Transition, and Transformation “Old timers” remember with fondness the community church of yesteryear, when both the church and grammar school operated out of a single building, likewise used as a gathering place for town meetings. Portraying the spiritual life of simple folks in Walnut Grove,... »

By Jon Christian Ryter October 5, 2011 NewsWithViews.com North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue, a Democrat, garnered a ton of unwanted national attention because of very serious comments she made to the Rotary Club in Cary, North Carolina on Tuesday, Sept. 28. In her speech, she said, “I don’t know if the president or any... »