Florida Governor Rick Scott may have just one more day to veto Florida’s big-bank friendly foreclosure act, HB 87. Nearly 1,200 Floridians have signed the Veto Florida’s Foreclosure Act Petition, despite indifferent coverage by Florida’s mainstream media. We would know the exact deadline required for the governor’s veto if HB 87 appeared on the governor’s [...]
A unanimous supreme court ruled that patent agreements run with the object. This means that buying patented beans, planting them, and then finding out which ones have patented genes, requires paying the patent owner.
UPDATE May 14, 12:19 AM EDT Where is HB 87? Governor Rick Scott has not vetoed the big bank friendly Florida foreclosures law according to his 2013 Bill Action web site. In fact, the law, passed by the Senate on May 3, 2013, is not even listed on the bill action web site. Since the [...]
That’s what Blythe Masters of JPMorgan does based on evidence from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and JPMorgan’s recent history. (Image: UCS)
Coal power is the leading source carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. CO2 is the leading cause of climate change. Once airborne, the man made filth sticks around for 2 to 20 [...]
Dave Kranzler of Golden Returns declares the April payroll jobs report that was released on May 3 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be “fictitious.” [1]
Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) says both the jobs report and unemployment rate are “nonsense.”
I agree with both. But don’t expect the financial [...]
By Paul Craig Roberts April 28, 2013 | Original here Reposted with permission
“From the end of the recession in 2009 through 2011 (the last year for which Census Bureau wealth data are available), the 8 million households in the U.S. with a net worth above $836,033 saw their aggregate wealth rise by an estimated [...]
Neal Stephenson is what most bloggers would wish to be, able to describe the shape that people want of things to come. His Snow Crash divined the natural result of computers, aging, inter-networking, combined with a decaying post-industrial and service economy. People would root themselves in imaginative virtual worlds, and seek to hit human nerves [...]
By Paul Craig Roberts (with permission) Originally posted here
Today the stock market is high not from profits from expanding sales revenues, but from labor cost savings.
Officially, since June 2009 the US economy has been undergoing an economic recovery from the December 2007 recession. But where is this recovery? I cannot find [...]
Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky remains as vigorous as ever at the age of 84. His popularity – or notoriety as some would say – endures because he is still criticising politicians, business leaders and other powerful figures for not acting in the public’s best interest. At the heart of Chomsky’s work [...]
Sen. Bernie Sanders has issued a statement saying that treasury secretary nominee Jacob Lew is the wrong person at the wrong time for the job.
“As a supporter of the president, I remain extremely concerned that virtually all of his key economic advisers have come from Wall Street. In my view, we need a treasury [...]
(Washington, DC 1/9/13) Let’s say that on a Monday, you sit down and take a hard look at your finances. Your bills exceed your income, assets are just a feint memory, and there is no relief in sight. Reluctantly, you decide that your only choice is to declare bankruptcy. On Tuesday [...]
What a bunch of self-entitled pricks. I’m going to reproduce this Salon post in full, I hope they forgive me but it’s worth it.
AIG confirmed to Reuters today that it is considering joining a shareholder lawsuit against the federal government over the bailout, on the grounds that it deprived shareholders of billions of dollars.
I realize the political establishment is uncomfortable with large deficits and a massive debt — though oddly the discomfort only seems to emerge when there’s a Democratic president — but it’s worth remembering a few truths from time to time.
…when there’s a global economic crash, and the government needs to [...]
You really should click on over to AmericaBlog to read Gaius Publius on what the DC insiderers have decided is a great deal for everyone the care about: Obama’s fiscal cliff frame: “Let’s each kill one of our own”.
Politico discusses the Klein-described deal, and in the process, confirms that this is where the discussion [...]
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