On Wednesday, Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve was overwhelmingly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The vote was 327 to 98. You would think that a bill with such overwhelming support would easily become law. But it won’t, because Barack Obama and the Democrats plan to kill it. Senate Majority Leader [Continue]
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 07/27/2012 06:46 -0400 Below is an email that I recieved from a reader: RIO Canada is one of the biggest reit’s in Canada I know some of there management and from what I can see they are buying property’s left right and center that are in bad locations and are doomed to [Continue]
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 07/27/2012 08:53 -0400 Facebook gave its first quarterly report as a public company yesterday, and it failed to deliver the goods. Unfortunately, but as can be expected, the MSM and the sell side have apparently failed to pick up on the most pertinent aspect of the conference call, which also happens to [Continue]
Topic: Protests in Syria Dawoud Rajha © AFP/ PHOTO / HO / SANA 15:40 25/07/2012 Russia accused Western powers on Wednesday of encouraging terrorism over their refusal to condemn the suicide bombing that killed Syria’s defense minister last week. “In other words, they are saying: ‘We will continue to support such terrorist acts until the [Continue]
Are you ready for the next major global food crisis? The price of corn hit an all-time record high on Thursday. So did the price of soybeans. The price of corn is up about 50 percent since the middle of last month, and the price of wheat has risen by about 50 percent over the [Continue]
Dina Spector | Jul. 23, 2012, 9:05 AM | 68,112 | 8 Sylvain Margaine/www.Forbidden-places.net Gary, Indiana was once of the center of American steel production. Movie theaters, department stores, and restaurants were part of the fabric of a bustling industrial city. Now Gary is a ghost town. Broadway Avenue in downtown Gary, formerly a [Continue]
Topic: Protests in Syria Russia, China Block West’s UN Resolution on Syria © AFP/ DON EMMERT 18:31 19/07/2012 UNITED NATIONS, July 19 (RIA Novosti) Russia and China vetoed on Thursday a Western-backed UN resolution on Syria over fears that it could lead to foreign military intervention in the violence-wracked Middle East country. “We [Continue]
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has covered world politics and economics for 30 years, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, serving as Washington correspondent and later Europe correspondent in Brussels. He is now International Business Editor in London. Subscribe to the City Briefing [Continue]