It was a Revelation for me to read today that godtube.com got $30 million in financing to start a youtube-like service for Christians to upload spiritual videos onto the Internet. Like a lot of New Economy types, (people who started dot-coms back in the mid-1990's), I keep an eyed peeled...

If the competition between Activists and Big Business were played out as a baseball game, we would see the Activists lineup featuring a fantastic infield and pitching staff, but no outfield, probably because the brawn needed to throw from center field to home plate is missing in left wing circles.

For fun, a few months ago (while the worst of the Bush administration Constitutional abuses were coming to light) a couple of friends and I set up gulagwealthfund.com (GWF) to track the performance of stocks that would go up in an economic environment of deprivation and loss of civil rights:...

Here's me on Al Jazeera's Inside Story yesterday following the UN's meeting regarding the global food crisis (I come in at 6 min. 30 sec's).

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I'll explain two reasons why you should not spend your economic stimulus check: the first applies to people who work regular jobs for wages, the second applies to people who work in investment banks for bonuses.

If you work for wages (or live on a pension), consider this, if...

One of the most fascinating New Economy consequences to emerge from the Eliot Spitzer sex sting is the apparent multi-hundred thousand dollar score bagged by Emperor's Club VIP escort and budding recording artist Ashley Alexandra Dupre. She had a couple of tracks listed on Dragon Slayer upstart and...

The problem with the 'left' in America is that they don't want to play the game any more. They refuse to accept the fact that democracy in America has been co-opted by Big Business and it is now virtually impossible to get it back by simply pointing to...

America's dollar problem comes from America counterfeiting its own currency and calling that GDP growth. As a result of this hoax we will see an escalation in the class war and possibly something more confrontational.

Historically speaking, it can be said that counterfeiting rankles the American psyche deeply. As...

James Turk at goldmoney.com points out that throughout history people living in a country whose currency is dying are the last in the world to know. I suppose it's like the husband who is the last to know his wife is cheating on him. What's obvious to everyone else...

Hedge fund managers who pay themselves billions are not 'making money' as most people understand that phrase. The cash they take is actually being carved out of the system; and this is no stray cash -- this is support cash. This is cash that should be employed to prop up...

Here's a follow up to a story posted here recently regarding Iceland's collapsing currency. The Icelandic Krona is down sharply this year. What makes this particularly interesting is that it's an example of how rumors drive global currency trends seemingly more than interest rate differentials and growth rates.

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Bernanke can't deny Greenspan's murder of the U.S. dollar because Bernanke is Greenspan.

Put aside for a moment the Federal Reserve Banking system's impairment of free-market capitalism with its supply/demand override of the price discovery mechanism when it artificially, (and for the most part arbitrarily) sets interest rates at...

Margin requirements should be the centerpiece of any congressional testimony dissecting the recent market meltdown on Wall Street (Iceland, Spain, and Poland). The securities acts of '33 and '34 (covered at length in the series 7 exam I took in 1983 when I got my broker's license) contain excellent reforms...