The Head of the DOJ Department that was in the process of charging JP Morgan with RICO Charges of Criminal Conspiracy to Rig the Silver Market just resigned! How many times have the US Regulators "Dropped the Ball" on silver manipulation investigations over the past 50 years??? Too many to count!Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is t...Read More
"I watched Spongebob when I was a kid. Never once did I consider there was anything sexual about him at all. Why? Because I was a child, watching a children's show, AND HE'S A SPONGE."Continue...Read More
"It's going to be really wait and see. I don't think there's going to be an immediate pullback for those kinds of [travel] restrictions.""Looking at what's going on with the infection rate, I think it's more likely measured in months rather than weeks."Continue...Read More
One of the key players in the O.J. Simpson trial was Los Angeles Police Department Detective Mark Fuhrman. Detective Fuhrman supplied much of the evidence that incriminated O.J., including the infamous blood-soaked glove. A few months after the murders, the detective was charged with perjury for saying he hadn't used the n-word in the 10 years preceding the trial. When tapes surfaced of him repeat...Read More
Fed policymakers cut growth forecast … The Federal Reserve sharply reduced its forecast for U.S. economic growth Wednesday but also predicted that the unemployment rate by year's end will be lower than it previously estimated. This year's growth forecast is now just above 2% — in line with the pace so far in the five-year-old recovery. Yet the falling jobless rate, combined wit...Read More
Why The World's Dumbest Idea Is (Finally) Dying … Bad ideas don't die just because they are bad. They hang around until a consensus forms around another idea that is better. This is what's happening now with a stupid idea has dominated American business for the last four decades: that the purpose of a firm is to maximize shareholder value. The massive problems that this notion ha...Read More
Fed policymakers cut growth forecast … The Federal Reserve sharply reduced its forecast for U.S. economic growth Wednesday but also predicted that the unemployment rate by year's end will be lower than it previously estimated. This year's growth forecast is now just above 2% — in line with the pace so far in the five-year-old recovery. Yet the falling jobless rate, combined wit...Read More
Why The World's Dumbest Idea Is (Finally) Dying … Bad ideas don't die just because they are bad. They hang around until a consensus forms around another idea that is better. This is what's happening now with a stupid idea has dominated American business for the last four decades: that the purpose of a firm is to maximize shareholder value. The massive problems that this notion ha...Read More
"Cluster Of Central Banks" Have Secretly Invested $29 Trillion In The Market … Another conspiracy "theory" becomes conspiracy "fact" as The FT reports "a cluster of central banking investors has become major players on world equity markets." The report, to be published this week by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), confirm...Read More
In an ongoing effort to bridge the gap between the GOP and minority voters, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) deviated from traditional party lines during a speech at the Iowa State Republican Party Convention Saturday, criticizing racist drug policies in the United States and calling for the restoration of voting rights for ex-convicts. – Huffington PostDominant Social Theme: Lock 'em up and throw...Read More
"Cluster Of Central Banks" Have Secretly Invested $29 Trillion In The Market … Another conspiracy "theory" becomes conspiracy "fact" as The FT reports "a cluster of central banking investors has become major players on world equity markets." The report, to be published this week by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), confirm...Read More
In an ongoing effort to bridge the gap between the GOP and minority voters, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) deviated from traditional party lines during a speech at the Iowa State Republican Party Convention Saturday, criticizing racist drug policies in the United States and calling for the restoration of voting rights for ex-convicts. – Huffington PostDominant Social Theme: Lock 'em up and throw...Read More
On Wednesday, March 12th 2014 Fresno State hosted guest speaker Kevin Hines to share his story. Kevin was diagnosed at age 17 with Bipolar Disorder. In the year 2000 he attempted suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge and survived. Here we share Kevin's powerful story about living mentally well.Read More
Investing: The Message of a $549,000 Watch … I have been hearing a lot about the spending habits of the 0.01 percent lately. Perhaps, a little bit too much. Don't worry, this isn't going to be a class-warfare rant or a treatise on living the simpler, less materialistic life. Rather, it is a suggestion to some folks that perhaps they might want to make some of their conspicuous consum...Read More
Has the Dept. of Homeland Security become America's standing army … If the United States is a police state, then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its national police force, with all the brutality, ineptitude and corruption such a role implies. In fact, although the DHS' governmental bureaucracy may at times appear to be inept and bungling, it is ruthlessly efficient when...Read More
Investing: The Message of a $549,000 Watch … I have been hearing a lot about the spending habits of the 0.01 percent lately. Perhaps, a little bit too much. Don't worry, this isn't going to be a class-warfare rant or a treatise on living the simpler, less materialistic life. Rather, it is a suggestion to some folks that perhaps they might want to make some of their conspicuous consum...Read More
Has the Dept. of Homeland Security become America's standing army … If the United States is a police state, then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its national police force, with all the brutality, ineptitude and corruption such a role implies. In fact, although the DHS' governmental bureaucracy may at times appear to be inept and bungling, it is ruthlessly efficient when...Read More
Sukari gold mine, located 700 km from Cairo.London and Toronto-listed gold miner Centamin (LON:CEY) (TSX:CEE) said Monday its long-dragged dispute with Egyptian authorities over its flagship Sukari gold mine is likely to settle before the end of the year.The Alexandria-based company, which is Egypt's largest gold producer, is betting on the new government to pass an investor-friendly law that wil...Read More
IRS lost emails by official in tea party probe … The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it has lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy, sparking outrage from congressional investigators who have been probing the agency for more than a year. The IRS told Congress Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 beca...Read More