The crisis in Greece and Spain has now reached such a break point, as of Friday afternoon, that the existence of ``Plan B'' can no longer be kept a secret. On Sunday, Richard Ward, the CEO of Lloyds of...
As an increasing number of Internet users rely daily on social media as an ambitious 21st Century method to promote themselves and communicate with others, they also stand the risk of becoming targeted victims...
Abruptly, the Spanish debt crisis has erupted over the past 48 hours into a systemic rupture in the entire London/Wall Street financial and monetary facade, posing the immediate question: Will the European...
Shariah law is famous for making headlines in the West over its penalties, such as beheadings and amputations; its treatment of women and the violence that is allowed, and its relegation to those who follow other faiths to a subservient status.Now, it seems, there’s a new...
The Dodd-Frank Act, a law passed to {prevent} the passage of Glass-Steagall and other necessary reforms, is now being used openly to {protect} the derivatives market! (a fitting image of Barney Frank might...
Correspondence between Nixon and Italian Industrial Managers Shows: Mistakes of 1969-1971 Are Being Repeated A new book on the history of Italian industry contains correspondence between U.S. President...
Democratic Party Congressional Candidates Start To Abandon Obama's Foundering Ship Perhaps it was the May 8 West Virginia primary, where a federal prison inmate won 42% of the Democratic vote for President,...
Landbank CEO: "The Euro Was a Big Mistake From The Start" In an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung today, Ludwig Poullain (92), eminence grise of traditional banking in Germany and former CEO of...
Colin Powell Rebukes Republican Charge that Russia Is an Adversary; Defense, Foreign Policy Circles Send Romney a Message During three television interviews yesterday as part of a book tour, Gen. (Ret.)...
The European situation is rapidly spinning out of control, with bank runs known to be underway in at least two countries (Greece and Spain), and the beginning of a flight out of the euro itself, into...
A federal judge has allowed (not ruled but just allowed) a court case to proceed on the clearly unconstitutional practice of stop/frisk in New York City. Technically stop/frisk are two different things. Stop supposedly needs only reasonable suspicion. The frisk part requires...
A satire published on TheModerateVoice.com, by columnist Michael Silverstein, tells the story of how ``Mr. B.'' [Blankfein] enounters the Goldman Sachs washroom attendant, Selig Cartwright, who remarks that Mr....
May 23, 2012- The Wine'tastic Mile of Baltimore is the new proposed name for the 1.3 mile stretch that runs through the main corridor of downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The Wine'tastic Mile will...
Far right-wing political commentator, Jesse Lee Peterson, spoke on the rights of women. Sort of. He was a board member of the California branch of the Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson's group, by the way. Well, this is what he said about women and voting:"Women cannot...
The growing derivatives-loss crisis at JPMorgan Chase continues to drive a renewed urgency for the restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act, beginning with its overdue introduction into the U.S. Senate. Senate...