Finance
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Stocks, Commodities Rally on Fed Stimulus Plan (Stephen Kirkland and Rita Nazareth)
Nov. 4, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks surged, sending the MSCI World Index to a two-year high, and commodities rallied after the Federal Reserve announced plans for more bond purchases and earnings ...
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Fed to Buy Extra $600 Billion of Treasuries to Boost Growth (Scott Lanman)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Nov. 3, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will buy an additional $600 billion of Treasuries through June, ...
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U.S. 'Quantitative Easing' is Fracturing the Global Economy (Prof Michael Hudson)
Moreover, it may well be asked whether we can take it for granted that a return to freedom of exchanges is really a question of time. Even if the reply were in the affirmative, it is safe to assume ...
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Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now (Ted Rall)
Oct. 21, 2010 -- SAN FRANCISCO (Information Clearing House) -- What would happen to you if you got caught forging a mortgage application? You'd go to jail. And rightly so. In one case in Florida, an ...
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Fraud Task Force Pursues Criminal Investigation of Mortgage Servicers (Carrie Bay)
Oct. 19, 2010 (DSNews) -- Allegations that some of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers cut corners in processing foreclosures and filed unsubstantiated paperwork could turn criminal. ...
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Jim Rogers Says Bank Balance Sheets Full of Rotten Stuff (CNBC)
Oct. 20, 2010 (CNBC) -- The problems banks have with mortgages will take a long time to be solved and bank stocks are not attractive despite the recent drop in price following fears over problems ...
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Why The Paperwork Appears 'Sloppy' (Neil Garfield)
Oct. 20, 1010 (Livinglies) -- After centuries of lending money and preparing loan documents it seems that the least likely suspect for screwing up the paperwork on tens of millions of “loans” would ...
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When Banks Are the Robbers (Amy Goodman)
Oct. 20, 2010 (TruthDig) -- The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in ...
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America's False Consciousness (Charles Sullivan)
Oct. 20, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- An essay authored by Patrick Martin, and published at the World Socialist Web Site Oct. 13, 2010, revealed some interesting findings regarding the ...
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Obama Hires a Hustler (Robert Scheer)
Oct. 19, 2010 (TruthDig) -- One day as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson: “How did this happen?” Paulson, ...
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Algorithms And Red Wine: Is The 'Digital Hive' A Soft Totalitarian State? | Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant at Innie's Cafe in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Oct. 24, 2010 -- Ferrara, Italy -- Sitting in a bottliberia, one of those wine bars that brings out food to match your ...
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