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Regardless of what happens with this wave of protests (winter can be a big deterrent for popular movements), the occupy movement, its continuation, spawns, and follow-up movements are here to stay. Washington has two illusions: that the movement wanes during the winter months and doesn’t come back, and that the 1012 elections offer a relief, [...]

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• Why it is important that Occupy Wall Street Remains Independent
• The Lobbyist for the 99%
• Ghosts and Demons
• And yet the data shows a fast recovery
• Gold Chatter
• Increase in productivity (we are all Haitian)
• If you are honestly against subsidized health care
• Economic data supporting the need of health care reform
• Despite Risks, Workers Guzzle Company Stock – WSJ.com
• On long term trends
• The kintiskton llc dispointment
• Gold retesting 1,000 and then…
• Gold Correction Seems Over
• Some Historical Perspective on the Current Recession
• And Now They Tell US
• Web 3.0 in the making
• Being Independent On Election Day
• It’s the History, Stupid
• Rally to Begin for At Least Two Months
• The Timing of the "Liquidity Crisis"
• Congress expected to pass financial rescue package: Getting Ready for a Deeper Recession
• On The Wall Street Bailout
• The Terrible Plot of The American Economy
• Revisiting a post from May
• What’s Happening to The Republic
• Don’t Hold Your Breath for a Pink Wardrobe Malfunction
• A Rhapsody for Past Technologies
• Most Americans Don’t Like the Republican Party
• Newsbreak
• Linguistic Wars
• The Oncoming Depression
• The need for re-industrializing America
• Why fundamental analysis of commodities is wrong, and irrational
• Pardon our ads
• This 4th of July…
• The Myth of the Bush Administration Being Strong on Homeland Security
• Why Gann, Elliott Wave and Kondratiev Studies Fail
• Political Radar: McCain: Not Offended By Alleged Age-Baiting
• The Real Economy III: The People’s GDP
• American Workers’ Dwindling Participation in America’s Riches
• Remember When We Were Rich?
• US Economy: Fit, Fat or Bloated?
• The Richest Country On Earth
• The Gold Scam
• A Streetcar Named Wishful Economic Thinking
• Bush Admits to Top-Down Torture
• Looking for a Miracle
• You Are Not Going to Be Rich
• And Yet More Projects
• Facts Over Fear
• The House must not fail freedom
• Why Current Inflation Hurts So Much?
• Good Read
• New projects underway
• The Social-Networking Site for Traders and Investors is Born
• The Case for Gold as the Next Bubble Instrument (and How to Play it Safe)
• Is Gold the Object of the Next Bubble?
• Akismet has caught 1,463 spam for you since you first installed it.
• Great Projects for 2008
• Holidays are over!
• Apple’s IPhone, Macintosh Push Shares to Record High
• The Loneliness of Consumerism
• Housing Market Bottom?
• An Interesting Source of Information
• Black Swans, Bell Curves and Stagflation
• Mystery of Atlantis Solved
• Greenspan: Give Homeowners Financial Aid: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
• Things That Go Bump in the Night
• Disposable Personal Income Shows Disturbing Historical Trend
• Universal Health Care: How Stupid Have They Figured Out We Are?
• Oh. The unpredictability of the markets
• Timing The October High And November Bottom Of Dow Jones
• How Your 401k And IRA Rob You
• The Rags To Riches Trap
• Retailers post disappointing November sales – MarketWatch
• Dow Jones: Announced 2-day Pullback Over
• Is Gold a Hedge Against Excess Liquidity?
• The Myth Of Gold as Inflation Hedge
• US Businesses in Recession-Like Mode
• The Myth of Republican Fiscal Conservatism
• Dow Jones 13,252. Not All Clear Yet
• Dow Jones Ready for Next Leg Down
• First Thanksgiving Grace in History
• Transfer of Wealth from Individuals to Corporations
• Stagflation: This Time It Is Different
• Dow Jones Finds A Convoluted Way to Do Nothing
• Everything you wanted to know about ISVs
• Dow Jones at 13,099 should see a rest
• CNN.com agrees with TheBankruptcyNews
• The Real Economy II
• Dow Jones at 13,300.02
• From the American Dream to the American Nightmare
• Sinclair Lewis’ Quotations
• After exiting two weeks the Dow Jones goes nowhere
• In Shift, Spitzer Is Expected to Back a Federal ID – New York Times
• Asia volatile ahead of US data
• McElections 2008
• Dow Jones 400 to 600 more points of pain
• Does Pete Stark read thebankrupctynews.com?
• Economics and thermodynamics
• The Doors In the Walls (Beware of Illegal Immigrants…)
• Circulating ideas
• Bad News For the Dow (Short Term Bear Fest)
• Official Reports Confirm Economy Worse Than in 2000
• Banks Drive to Grab Land
• The real economy
• Is the Dow Jones at a new high?
• President Bush, support our troops!
• Strong jobs report brings relief
• Vogue launches in India
• Loonie nears $1.02 US on strong jobs report
• Tech to Bolster Bay Area Economy
• In Bush We Trust
• And we got increased volatility
• Expect increased volatility
• I have $ 100,000,000,000 and yet I can’t retire
• The US should leave Iraq and call in UN peacekeeping operations
• Let the party begin. We will be dead tomorrow
• Another guy with a conspiracy theory
• No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare
• A primer for living in a totalitarian state
• When being a Christian meant being compassionate
• How to survive hyperinflation
• At a financial crossroads
• U.S. Home Foreclosures Soar in August
• African-American and Latinos Hardest Hit by Foreclosure Crisis
• United States Poverty Map (PIC)
• Bush Aid to Mortgage Holders only Aids Wall Street
• Bernanke’s creative solution: Let’s do it again
• Edwards on the mortage mess
• Obama on the mortgage mess
• Subprime Mortgage Crisis Spreading to High-End Housing Market
• Site improvements
• Home Prices: Steepest Drop in 20 Years
• Inside the Countrywide Lending Spree
• The Plan to Protect Homeowners, Not Hedge Funds
• Really good commentary
• The law protects the bankrupt corporations
• Corporate Bk information for professionals
• Businesses Pinched as Loan Spigot Shuts Off
• The wonder of compounding
• Fed CUTS discount rate
• LA bank customers get ‘totally freaked out’
• Want to become a Millionaire??
• Bankruptcy Up 66%
• Bush team diverted tax dollars to campaigns