HOW FAR WILL YOU GO TO PROTECT A FRIEND/FAMILY MEMBER?

A recent police video, captured by a patrol car's dash camera, has been all over the internet. The video is of two North Charleston, SC brothers who were pulled over by police for a broken headlight. After police searched their vehicle and found plastic bags with white powder...

Indonesia execution of Bali bombers sparks clashes

TENGGULUN, Indonesia (Reuters) - Thousands of people including some hardliners gathered for the funerals of three Indonesians executed on Sunday for the 2002 Bali bombings, sparking clashes between police and emotional supporters. The three men from the militant group Jemaah...

Banks are the new Hunts: highly bullish short position for silver! « Peter J...

"Silver investors owe a serious debt of gratitude to Theodore Butler for alerting the US regulators to the manipulation of the silver market in August by two major banks in one of the most blatant actions since the days of the Hunt Brothers in the 1970s. "

Best outlook for silver since the days of the Hunt brothers « Peter J. Coope...

"Not since the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market in the late 1970s has there been more dramatic news for silver prices than last week’s confirmation from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission enforcement division is investigating the silver market."

Silver market fixing under official investigation « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

"This is potentially the biggest thing to hit the silver market since the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the market in the late 1970s. Once the short positions are removed then the upside for silver is parabolic. "

PWC: Lehman US owes Europe $8bn

Just one of many risky practices Lehman Brothers seems to have been engsged in was storing money belonging to the European headquarters of the firm in New York overnight to earn interest. It seems that in the final days before the firm's collapse, that money was not returned...