Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Beware Our Shadow Banking System (Bill Gross)
We have a secret banking system built on derivatives and untouched by regulation, says Pimco's Bill Gross. Here's how to protect your pocketbook. By Bill Gross, founder and chief investment officer o ...
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Adaptive Responses to Peak Oil (John Michael Greer)
John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Nov. 21, 2007 -- One of the occupational hazards of writing a blog on the future of industrial civilization, I’ve discovered, is the occasional incoming mis ...
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Mushrooms and Mankind (James Arthur)
A Brief Introduction to Ethnomycology
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A single scandalous fish in a river full of crimes (sofa king)
The transgressions of the Bush Administration run so thick and so deep that future historians will be able to look at no single act of this Presidency without considering that act part of an enormous ...
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Bush's `Ownership Society' Founders as U.S. Economy Weakens (Brendan Murray)
President George W. Bush spent years promoting an ``ownership society,'' the idea that Americans should own everything from homes to the assets needed to pay for their own health care and retirement. ...
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Warning: This mess will only get worse (Bill Fleckenstein)
The inevitable demise of the subprime mortgage market leaves the entire housing market -- and with it the economy -- on the verge of collapse.
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Unstable, Unbalanced, Uncoordinated, and Unsustainable (Stephen S. Roach)
In uncharacteristically blunt language, China’s Premier, Wen Jiabao, used the occasion of his annual press conference following the conclusion of the National People’s Congress to send a very clear m ...
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Who else did the Bush DoJ target? (Kagro X)
As predicted, part of the fallout of the scandal surrounding the political dismissal of U.S. Attorneys around the nation is that every public figure under federal investigation on charges of public c ...
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The Prisoner (Danzinger)
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Subprime Defaults to Soar, Hurt Lenders, Funds Say (Jenny Strasburg)
``We believe we are in the early stage of a correction in this market and that the market will eventually implode,'' New York-based Paulson & Co., which manages $11 billion, said in a letter to inves ...
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Loans From Hell (Bill Bonner)
Like a comically misplaced banana peel, the subprime mortgage industry has slipped up more than a few big names in the housing industry. But as Bill Bonner explains, when the collateral on these loan ...
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