Month: March 2010

I have made a new loan through Kiva to Concepcion Aracely Herrera Martillo who will use the funds to increase productivity of her plantain chip

This document is a classified (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. “The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in

By Vandana Shiva Since 1966 – and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming – India has

Financial markets are gripped by the role derivatives have played in Greece’s debt crisis, but Italy also has a derivatives time bomb, and hundreds of

Continue reading Lehman Brothers,The Next Enron?

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard China has succumbed to hubris. It has mistaken the soft diplomacy of Barack Obama for weakness, mistaken the US credit crisis for

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver): GATA Chairman Bill Murphy was formally invited Friday by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to speak

Michael Lewis, author of one of the defining books about Wall Street excess, “Liar’s Poker,” told 60 Minutes that bonuses at banks bailed out by

By Brady Dennis Republicans on the Senate banking committee said they remain open to finding a bipartisan agreement on legislation to overhaul financial regulation, but

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