CSM News: il Trattato di Maastricht è ULTRA VIRES

Signoraggio Bancario - Giulietto Chiesa eurodeputato risponde (video)
Il Sistema del Signoraggio Creditizio (video) - Domenico De Simone
Cos'è il signoraggio? (video) Signoraggio, Banca d'Italia, debito pubblico (video) - Eugenio Benetazzo
The End of Money & the Liberation of Exchange: toward social harmony & universal prosperity (video) - T. Greco, Malaysia, 2007
Crisis Preparedness: Reconnecting the Financial Lifeline (video) - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

- April 15th 2008 Global Strike: join with the millions of Americans who now know about the IRS fraud
- unMoney Convergence Conference - Seattle, WA, April 14th-16th, 2008
- Nasce ufficialmente ARCIPELAGO SCEC e sorge l'idea di uno SCEC POINT - 5 aprile 2008
- Signoraggio: Zeitgeist con sottotitoli in italiano (video) a Rebus - Odeon TV, Venerdì 28 marzo 2008 e venerdì 4 aprile alle ore 21:30 (video della versione originale)

Attualità (Lo sapevate che il petrolio costa sempre 70 euro al barile da 8 anni? Chi sta barando con la benzina?)

See also: Oil Aid, tracking subsidies to the international oil industry: ITALY

SCEC NEWS (MARZO 2008):

Fase di stampa degli SCEC, il sistema più economico per restituire il potere d'acquisto al popolo SOVRANO:

Pordenone: banchetto presso lo stand dei Grilli di Pordenone nel pomeriggio di Sabato 29 marzo dalle ore 15: sarà possibile avere informazioni sul Toc, iscriversi e ricevere la prima donazione di 50 Toc.

Lo scec: una lodevole iniziativa nel nome di Masaniello - Achille della Ragione, Lady Silvia, 29 Marzo 2008

25 marzo 2008: alle ore 10.20 sul canale TV Rai2, durante il TG2, l'inviato in Germania Marco Barbello ha parlato delle circa 20 monete locali usate nel sud della Germania, in Baviera, definendole "voucher". Il giornalista non ha precisato che si tratta delle monete del circuito REGIO, un progetto che coinvolge oltre 60 città tedesche.

Salmè: "Una lira udinese per i piccoli negozi" - Messaggero di Udine, 22 marzo 2008

SCEC Meeting a Bergamo, 21 marzo 2008 (Purìm): Eliahu Gal Or, David Orban, Shlomo Basevi Magi, Marco Saba

Documentario video a cura del meet-up di Grillo di New York sull'Ithaca Hour - una moneta locale tipo SCEC con cui fanno anche prestiti senza interessi

Tesi di Laurea: Di Santo Giuseppina, Progetto SCEC. Lo Sconto chE Cammina. Prof. Adriano Nardi, Prof.ssa Paola De Vivo - 14 MARZO 2008

Meet-up di Napoli: primo impianto fotovoltaico parzialmente pagato in SCEC - 12 marzo 2008
Buoni spesa per rilanciare il commercio - Il Piccolo, 8 marzo 2008
SCEC, ecco l'alternativa ai supermercati -- Il Tirreno, 5 marzo 2008

ALTRE NEWS (MARZO 2008):

Denis Robert e Marco Saba, a Lecco

Le Luxembourg est toujours un paradis pour la corruption - par Nicolas Cori, journaliste à Libération, L'investigateur, 31/03/2008

Un New Deal firmato Goldman Sachs - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 31 marzo 2008

03/31/08 - The Voyages of the Economic Enterprise - by The Mogambo Guru
"Computer, research the economic history of the planet Earth and all the planets in this galaxy, and find any instance of a healthy economic boom that started after 'the biggest orgy of speculation and debt creation' the planet had ever seen!"

HUD chief quitting - By MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer, Mar 31, 2008
Jackson is under criminal investigation and has been fending off allegations of cronyism and favoritism involving HUD contractors for the past two years. He did not mention the probe in his statement Monday to the media
Jackson

- Conferenza Stampa: MORO, la verità negata - Sala Stampa Estera, Via dell'Umiltà 83/C 00187 Roma, ore 11.30, 31 Marzo 2008

PANEL DIGITAL PROSPERITY: Registrazione della conferenza di venerdi al More Than Zero Crossmedia Festival di Milano (su Second Life) - 30 marzo 2008, h. 22.30

80 MILIARDI A FONDO PERDUTO - di Sigfrido Ranucci, Report, RaiTRE, In onda domenica 30 marzo ore 21.30

Statistiche false, disoccupazione vera - Beppe Grillo, 30 Marzo 2008

Operaio disoccupato si uccide dandosi fuoco nella sua auto - La Repubblica, 30 marzo 2008

[signoraggio] Intervista a Antonio Miclavez del partito No Euro/Lista dei Grilli Parlanti (video) - RaiTre 28/03/08 ore 22.50

Chase mortgage memo pushes 'Cheats & Tricks': The bank says it never backed the strategies, which detail how to get an iffy loan approved - JEFF MANNING, The Oregonian, March 27, 2008
It is a primer on how to get risky mortgage loans approved by Zippy, Chase's in-house automated loan underwriting system. The secret to approval? Inflate the borrowers' income or otherwise falsify their loan application

THE JOB: The immigration debate just got a little funnier (short video) - Screaming Frog Production, 2008

Oggi il bus/metro/treno già ve lo paga lo Stato: col biglietto pagate solo i controllori che lo controllano e coloro che ci mangiano sopra - 30 marzo 2008

Su Canale 5 alle 14.30 uno di Padova (elettricista disoccupato) ha detto che alla cassa del supermercato non ha pagato perché non aveva soldi: lo hanno semplicemente lasciato andare con la sua spesa dopo aver preso gli estremi di un documento - 30 marzo 2008

IL TRIPLICE ERRORE DELLE GRANDI BANCHE PRIVATE - DI ERIC TOUSSAINT E DAMIEN MILLET, Réseau Voltaire, Comedoncisciotte, 27 Marzo 2008

Fed may not want its cash loans back any more than governments want their gold loans back - Gata.org, March 29, 2008
News organizations and Congress have not yet realized the purposes to which infinite money may be put and so haven't begun questioning all the money being flung around. But it's not about free-market capitalism; it's what's called lemon socialism, wherein private interests take any profits and the public assumes any losses

Traffico di armi in Albania e la morte del cognato di Berisha - Etleboro, 26.03.2008

Revolution Monday: The Bankster's Coup - The Independence Journal, March 29, 2008

SEC Openly Invites Corporations To Lie - Michael "Mish" Shedlock, March 29, 2008

Treasury’s Plan Would Give Fed Wide New Power, SWAT teams - By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, The New York Times, March 29, 2008

Nickel Rant: Mr. Mental Explains: Everything You Need to Know About Economics - by Edgar J. Steele, March 27, 2008
Total debt

CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reports an increase in middle class Americans eho are turning to their local food banks for help (video) - Mar 27, 2008

NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years - By Jennifer Saba, Editor&Publisher, March 28, 2008

Edison plans a massive installation of photovoltaic cells on rooftops, and FPL Energy proposes a 250-megawatt plant - By Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, March 27, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Southern California Edison plan to announce today the country's largest rooftop solar installation project ever proposed by a utility company. And on Wednesday, FPL Energy, the largest operator of solar power in the U.S., said it planned to build and operate a 250-megawatt solar plant in the Mojave Desert

Kids Go to Gold Camp - by The Mogambo Guru, 03/28/08
"How in the hell can the global glut of derivatives be 37 times as big as total, global GDP? Hell, just a yield of 0.1%, a tenth of a percent, would mean that $516 billion would be needed just to annually service the debt of that $516 trillion! Hahahaha!"

The Great Silver Sell Out Caper - by The Mogambo Guru, 03/27/08
"I know that you think it is such a bargain that you cannot resist, and so I urge you to hurry, hurry, hurry to the Mogambo Silver Storage Service (MSSS), where our motto is, 'Send us the money, then we'll talk.'"

Lehman Brothers replaces structured product research head - Cardiff de Alejo Garcia, Financial News, 28 Mar 2008
The head of European structured finance research at Lehman Brothers has left the bank after six years and been replaced by an internal manager

Ex-employee accuses US mutual funds giant of cover-up - - Mark Cobley, Financial News, 28 Mar 2008
A former employee at Fidelity Investments in the US is suing the company for wrongful discharge, alleging that she was harassed and forced out after bringing attention to problems in the way it reports profitability figures for its funds

Commerzbank chief to step down after 25 years - Vivek Ahuja, Financial News, 28 Mar 2008

Citigroup loses co-heads of prime brokerage group - Shanny Basar and William Hutchings, Financial News, 28 Mar 2008
The co-heads of global equity finance and prime brokerage have left Citigroup, and have been replaced by a single global head based in London as more layoffs are expected at the bank in New York

UK money manager liquidates all its funds amid SEC threat - The Wall Street Journal, 28 Mar 2008
Pentagon Capital Management, the UK investment manager, has decided to liquidate all of its funds after being advised that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to bring a civil complaint for its alleged involvement in market-timing trades in mutual funds

JFK, i Frati Neri e Vespa - Ugo Gaudenzi, Rinascita, 28 Marzo 2008

Argentina: il governo chiede l'arresto dell'ex ministro dell'economia José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz - Ersilia Contu, Rinascita, 27 Marzo 2008

Bombacci, il rivoluzionario rosso - Sauro Ripamonti, Rinascita, 27 Marzo 2008

Before Rockefeller, There Was Rothschild - By Deanna Spingola, 27 March 2008

Novità nella sezione testi: Friedrich August von Hayek (Nobel Laureate 1974), Choice in Currency: A WAY TO STOP INFLATION, THE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, 1976

Bernanke's Bracket Breakdown: Cleveland, Ohio - Kevin Depew, Mar 27, 2008

Iceland contagion may spread far and wide - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, 27/03/2008

CREDIT CRUNCH FALLOUT: Germans Fear Meltdown of Financial System - DER SPIEGEL, March 26, 2008
INIEZIONI DI NEUROINA

Les banques en question - Jean-Pierre Balligand, député PS de l'Aisne, Le Monde, 20.03.08 (English version here)

Protesters enter Bear Stearns building in New York - Reuters, Mar 26, 2008

Clear Channel and buyers sue Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Scotland, Wachovia and Deutsche Bank as merger unravels - Stephanie Baum, Financial News, 27 Mar 2008

Credit Suisse co-operates with US authorities in sanctions probe - Financial Times, 27 Mar 2008
Credit Suisse said that it was co-operating with the Department of Justice and other US authorities investigating potential sanctions violations by several European banks

Goldman sees credit losses totaling $1.2 trillion - Reuters, Mar 26, 2008

03/26/08 - Ingesting the Polluted Ocean of Commerce - by The Mogambo Guru
"Now get this: Total reserves are $43 billion (about the same as it has been for more than a decade!), and out of that total, $17 billion of it is borrowed from the Fed! Hahahaha! We are so freaking doomed!"

Signoraggio: Zeitgeist con sottotitoli in italiano (video) a Rebus - Odeon TV, Venerdì 28 marzo 2008 e venerdì 4 aprile alle ore 21:30 (video della versione originale)

Its Credit and its Crunchy (funny video) - John Bird and John Fortune, The Last Laugh

LSE share price plummets 30% from last month - Tara Loader Wilkinson, Financial News, 26 Mar 2008

NOEURO: RENZO RABELLINO SARA' A PORTA A PORTA - TV-RaiUNO, 26 MARZO ORE 23,00 (L'intervento di Rabellino è stato oscurato, Vespa gli ha tolto subito la parola lasciandogli il microfono spento...)

Inflationary Economy Causes Massive Coronary - By: Richard Daughty, The MOGAMBO GURU, news.goldseek.com, 26 March 2008
I am frantically pantomiming 'dialing the telephone' with the little mobility I have in my right arm, trying to get someone to call 911 to get me a little medical attention, and maybe save my life from the heart attack caused by such terrible news about inflation

LIECHTENSTEIN: 390 INDAGATI, ATTI A 37 PROCURE - ANSA, 2008-03-26

Michigan pension funds seek injunction against JPMorgan-Bear deal - The Wall Street Journal, 26 Mar 2008
The legal fight over JPMorgan’s planned $1.2bn (€764m) purchase of Bear Stearns pushed into high gear as two Michigan pension funds filed court papers seeking a temporary restraining order against the transaction

Morgan Stanley and Merrill face suits over auction-rate securities - The Boston Globe, 26 Mar 2008
Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch were sued by customers who claim investors were misled about the risks of bonds known as auction-rate securities

ECB injection - The Wall Street Journal, 26 Mar 2008
The European Central Bank, responding to continued liquidity strains, on Tuesday pumped extra funds into the European banking system as part of a global effort to lift market confidence

US consumer confidence hits 35-year low - The Wall Street Journal, 26 Mar 2008
The Conference Board's barometer of US consumer confidence plummeted 11.9 points to 64.5, marking a downturn in sentiment to levels usually seen only during recessions

Fed Is Just One Part Of Much Bigger Scam: My Two-Loop Theory - By Dick Eastman, 3-25-8
The global elite are international and they own the debt of the world. The Fed is the institution. It is the link between the elite international loop and the domestic debt-slavery tax-slavery loop of M1 money. (The plebian loop is that of the domestic commercial banks, their regulation by the Fed, their system for creating demand deposits by making loans under a fractional reserve system and the ability to borrow from the Fed at the discount window.)

Désobéir - Denis Robert, 25.3.08

How the Fed Buys an Ounce of Gold for 10¢: A primer on how the bankers’ policies—and greed—have led us to the brink of disaster - By Pat Shannan, American Free Press, Issue # 13, March 31, 2008

Nino Galloni: «Circa 400mila famiglie faticano con il mutuo Ma le banche sono furbe e l’allarme qui non c’è» - Fabio Sebastiani, Liberazione, 25 marzo 2008
Noi abbiamo due problemi, ovvero la produzione di moneta è stata demandata alla Bce, quindi è ovvio che il grosso della moneta è quella creditizia. Se le banche non la producono il sistema si blocca. Le aziende e le famiglie sono indebitate a garanzia dei prestiti e quindi le banche possono diventare padrone di tutto

Affaire du banquier François Rouge : l’argent « pur » vient du Luxembourg - L'investigateur, 24/03/2008

CRISI DELLE BORSE? E’ IL LIBERISMO, BELLEZZA - di Nino Galloni, altrenotizie, 21 Marzo 2008

Wall Street Firms Cut 34,000 Jobs, Most Since 2001 Dot-Com Bust - By Yalman Onaran, Bloomberg, March 24, 2008

BANKS: Bleeding Value And Hiding Desperation - by Ronald R. Cooke, Financial Sense, March 24, 2008
Under existing accounting rules, Banks can cook the books by claiming income long before actual cash comes in the door. Option loan income includes interest which has not been paid, but merely added to the balance of the loan. Earnings from mortgage backed securities can be booked as income long before they are earned. Banks have considerable flexibility when it comes to identifying the status of bad debt. Add these items up, and a bank may face asset losses that exceed reserve capital

The Die is Cast, The Cast Will Die - Darryl Robert Schoon, 321gold, Mar 24, 2008
Today, private bankers control not only the issuance of money in America, but the corporations (that will grow up around the bankers) control what Americans see, read, and hear because of their influence in the media. The clear and present dangers Jefferson warned about two centuries ago are now clearly present

03/24/08 - Risk Management Addiction - by The Mogambo Guru
"I sat the kids down and told them that gambling with every dime I can squeeze out of anything is not 'gambling' anymore; it is 'risk management', and it is now obvious that I am a modern kind of guy seeking to 'maximize risk-adjusted rates of return'!"

[fuggi fuggi] Capital International loses three senior managers - Phil Craig, Financial News, 24 Mar 2008
Three of Capital International’s top asset managers in London are stepping down—a rare event for a firm which prides itself on retaining talent

Bear Stearns staff slam Fed over bailout - David Rothnie, Financial News, 24 Mar 2008
Staff at Bear Stearns have turned their anger on the Federal Reserve after it emerged that the US central bank set the price of its acquisition by JP Morgan Chase at $2 a share as a condition of underwriting the deal

Qualified borrowers face credit squeeze - By Kimberly Blanton, Globe Staff, March 23, 2008

Fed's rescue halted a derivatives Chernobyl - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, 23/03/2008
"There was the risk of a total meltdown at the beginning of last week. I don't think most people have any idea how bad this chain could have been, and I am still not sure the Fed can maintain the solvency of the US banking system."

THE DEATH OF THE "DOLLAR" - by Alan Stang, NewsWithViews.com, March 23, 2008
The “almighty” dollar is gone. As I write, believe it or not, people don’t want it. Were you thinking of a European vacation? You had better visit Yosemite instead. In Europe, they don’t have to take the “dollar” and they won’t. They are even starting to prefer the Euro in New York

'THE ULTIMATUM'- Project Camelot interviews BENJAMIN FULFORD - Ladyhawke, 22 March 2008

Signoraggio Bancario - Giulietto Chiesa eurodeputato risponde (video)

Emirs take pity for now, as dollar days near their end - Fabrice Taylor, Globe and Mail, March 22, 2008

Fake gold suspects denied bail in Ethiopia - By Tsegaye Tadesse, Reuters, 21 Mar 2008

03/21/08 - Sadly Repeating Economic History - by The Mogambo Guru
"And even if you COULD pay off everyone's debts, to have another boom with the existing structure left intact would require the same degree of economic stupidity all over again! And nobody is that stupid. Are they?"

A REFUTATION OF MENGER'S THEORY OF THE “ORIGIN OF MONEY” - by Stephen Zarlenga, American Monetary Institute

Croatian Moral Collapse - Crom Alternative Money Forum, Mar 22, 2008

Pension plans take chance on mortgages - By JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press, Mar 21, 2008

Debtor Nation: The Hijacking of America’s Economy - Interview to Michael Hudson, ACRES Vol. 38, No. 1, January 2008

Il signore senza anelli - Eugenio Benetazzo, Rinascita, 21 Marzo 2008
Ecco come sta finendo quest’epoca: con il padre di famiglia che porta al banco dei pegni gli anelli di fidanzamento, le fedi nuziali della mamma e gli orecchini della nonna...

Alice in Wonderland - Peter Schiff, 321gold, Mar 21, 2008
In the early stages of the biggest credit crunch in U.S. history, buying shares in Visa, a company that derives its revenues based on transaction fees from credit card purchases, qualifies as a particularly ill- timed investment. Perhaps buyers of these shares didn't get the memo, but the days of Americans using credit cards to buy products they cannot afford are about to come to an end

The Subprime Crisis Is Just Starting - Daniel R. Amerman, InflationIntoWealth.com, 3/20/08
Troubles can arrive in threes, and the triple whammy of recession, rising interest rates and falling property values can indeed come ashore one after another, like three great tsunamis hitting a beach

Goldman, Lehman outlooks cut to "negative" by S&P - Reuters, Mar 21, 2008

Pagheremo noi per lui - Antonio Di Pietro, 21 Marzo 2008

Quanto dichiarano i parlamentari che dovrebbero rappresentarci - Yahoo! finanza, 20 Marzo 2008

American Refugees are flooding into Canada: Tens of thousands of Americans are now economic refugees - by chycho, 2008-03-19

The Coming Second Life Industrial Revolution? - By Matthew Beller, Mises Institute, 3/21/2008

Tesla’s Engine - A New Dimension For Power - the New York Herald Tribune Oct. 15, 1911

Ron Paul on why he's still running for president - By Sarah Elkins, Newsweek Web Exclusive, Mar 21, 2008

LaRouche Declares: Paulson Is `F**king Incompetent' - by John Hoefle, Executive Intelligence Review, March 21, 2008

PLUNDERING THE PUBLIC PURSE - By Patrick Wood, NewsWithViews.com, March 21, 2008

Tent Cities Spring Up In California (video) - BBC, March 16, 2008

Sì, è la Casta da abbattere - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 21 marzo 2008

Revealed: The Dirty Tricks of Rogue Traders - By Robert Winnett - The Telegraph, March 21, 2008

Europe's Central Banks Inject Additional Cash - By Joellen Perry, The Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2008
Broke, European banks get daily injections from ECB, BoE

GREEN BUILDINGS MAY BE CHEAPEST WAY TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING - Scientific American, March 17, 2008
[Rachel's introduction: By building green -- and retrofitting existing buildings -- the countries of North America could cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25 percent]

A Bankrupt Superpower: The Collapse of American Power - By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, Counterpunch, March 18, 2008
I sometimes wonder if the bankrupt "superpower" will be able to scrape together the resources to bring home the troops stationed in its hundreds of bases overseas, or whether they will just be abandoned

OUR THREE-DECADE RECESSION - Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2008
[Rachel's introduction: By some measures of economic performance, the United States has been in a recession since 1975 -- a recession in quality of life, or well-being.]

Qui est responsable de quel dysfonctionnement au Luxembourg ? Les incompétents au pouvoir ! - L'investigateur, 19/03/2008

Consumare petrolio per il petrolio - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 20 marzo 2008

03/20/08 - Golden Codpiece Protection Strategy - by The Mogambo Guru
"I was going to unveil the new product from Mogambo Dubious Enterprises (MDE), which was a codpiece for men, made from ingots of pure gold, which makes wealth not only portable, but also protective in so many other important ways…"

Il costo umano della depressione - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 17 marzo 2008

Firestorm, Part 2 – Ty Andros, March 19, 2008

Five Things You Need to Know: The Point of Recognition - By Kevin Depew, March 19, 2008

BP left confused after Russian police raid oil giant's office - Scotsman News, 20 March 2008

Dollars tough to sell - Reuters, Mar 19, 2008

Citigroup cuts 2,000 jobs: source - Reuters, Mar 20, 2008

Bernanke: Federal Reserve caused Great Depression - By David Kupelian, WorldNetDaily, March 19, 2008

Smarter Than a Rothschild or a British Prime Minister? - by Douglas Herman, Exclusive to STR, March 20, 2008

NULLITA’ DELLE ELEZIONI POLITICHE 2008 - Avv. A.L. Marra, 20 marzo 2008

CIT Group forced to draw on credit lines - Shanny Basar, Financial News, 20 Mar 2008
CIT Group, the US mid-market financial services company, led by former Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse investment banker Jeffrey Peek, has become the latest financial services company to run into liquidity problems due to the turmoil in the credit markets

Bear Stearns braces for legal battles - Johanna Symmons and Cardiff de Alejo Garcia, Financial News, 20 Mar 2008
Bear Stearns has amended its bylaws to prepare for legal expenses as more than a half-dozen law firms have announced plans to file lawsuits on behalf of shareholders and employees, and as US regulators have indicated they might investigate possible violations of securities law

Blue Planet's Murray says much worse is to come - James Rutter, Financial News, 20 Mar 2008
Kenneth Murray, chief executive of specialist financial sector investor Blue Planet Investment Management has shown an uncanny knack for predicting how the banking crisis will unfold

Merrill Lynch sues bond insurer over deal terminations - Stephanie Baum, Financial News, 20 Mar 2008
Merrill Lynch has filed a lawsuit over a bond insurer in the latest sign of tensions in the structured credit markets

ISE fills posts left vacant by fraud suspect - Eugene Grygo, Financial News, 20 Mar 2008
The International Securities Exchange has named a replacement for a vice chairman who resigned last week after he was charged with securities fraud

“E’ il vecchio mondo che crolla, bellezza… e non lo puoi fermare” - Pierluigi Paoletti, Centrofondi, 17 marzo 2008

03/19/08 - A Bunch of Government Gobbledy-Gook - by The Mogambo Guru
"I am happy to report that Mr. Williams kindly does respond to requests from subscribers, and is now introducing the SGS-Alternate Unemployment Rate, which sounds like a bunch of government gobbledy-gook, which it actually is…"

Stepping Up the Spending Surveillance - By: Richard Daughty, The MOGAMBO GURU, news.goldseek.com, 19 March 2008
I note with alarm that with the index at 1293, everybody who bought the stocks of this index since the third quarter of 2006 has lost money! Hahaha! Nice investing, dudes!

Borrowing to Get a Better Bargain - By: Richard Daughty, The MOGAMBO GURU, news.goldseek.com, 18 March 2008
And what percent of each class felt like they were so far in debt that 'they will never be able to get out'? Oops! Low income: 25 percent. Middle income: 14 percent. Upper income: 10 percent!

Signoraggio questo sconosciuto - di Achille della Ragione, 18 Marzo 2008

Fed rallies Wall Street to aid ailing Lehman Brothers - By Helen Power and James Quinn, The Telegraph, March 18, 2008

U.S. Losing Confidence Vote as Investors Flee - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, March 17, 2008
Few noticed last week that the Italian treasury auction was also a flop. The bids collapsed. For the first time since the launch of the European Monetary Union, Italy failed to sell a full batch of state bonds

U.S. Banks Are Overvalued, Merrill's Bernstein Says - By Michael Patterson, Bloomberg, March 17, 2008

Welcome to the Future - by Michael Nystrom, March 16, 2008
Bear

La casta e gli "assegni di solidarietà" di fine mandato - di Kiriosomega, Arianna Editrice, 17/03/2008

The Power Elite Playbook, Oil War One, 1914-1918 - By Deanna Spingola, 16 March 2008

CASTA VIVA - ALTRI 4 PROFILI: D'ALEMA - DE GREGORIO - DELL'UTRI - DI PIETRO - di Rita Pennarola, La Voce della Campania, 16/03/2008

- Convegno sul signoraggio bancario - con Galloni, Della Luna, Paoletti - sala in viale Argonne 35, Milano, sabato 15 marzo 2008

Crise systémique globale - Fin 2008 : Déroute des fonds de pension - Communiqué public GEAB N°23 - 15 mars 2008

USA, non ce la fanno a pagare il mutuo: finiscono nelle tendopoli - Debora Billi, 14 marzo 2008

Asian markets plummet as credit crisis fears escalate - Kin Cheung/The Associated Press, Reuters - March 17, 2008
Hong Kong's benchmark index fell as much as 5.4 percent Monday on worries about U.S. financial markets

L'IPOTESI STEGOCRATICA - Parte Prima - Il dominio nascosto - DI ANTONELLA RANDAZZO, 16 Marzo 2008

Banche e debito pubblico, tutto sulla rendita monetaria illecita - di Irene Antoniazzi, 16 Marzo 2008

Nella trappola della stupidità terminale - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 16 marzo 2008

A Time for Caution - Bob Moriarty, 321gold, Mar 17, 2008
Bear Sterns crashed on Friday last. On Monday March 17th, President Bush meets with the infamous Plunge Protection Team. The alternatives are everything from a Bank Holiday to a nuclear attack on Iran to Bush declaring a "National Emergency" and naming himself Fuhrer

Argentina, Brazil to drop US dollar in bilateral commercial transactions - Xinhua, 2008-03-16

Goldman Sachs to unveil $3bn writedown - UK paper - Reuters, Mar 16, 2008

L'ALTRO MODELLO - di Michele Buono, Piero Riccardi, Report Rai3, In onda domenica 16 Marzo ore 21.30
E’ possibile ri-orientare l’economia e pensare a un nuovo modello di sviluppo che impieghi meno risorse e produca più benessere?

Bear Stearns: the banking twister heading your way - David Smith and Dominic Rushe, The Sunday Times, March 16, 2008
“But the real worry is that the whole UK economy relies on the international wholesale banking markets for finance. The Treasury forecast shows balance of payments deficits of more than £70 billion. It is hard to see how these deficits can be financed even if wholesale funding routes are reopened. If they are not, the consequences for sterling, the housing market and ultimately the public finances could be catastrophic.”

UK tycoon Joe Lewis loses $800m on Wall Street: Bear Stearns on brink of break-up - Dominic Rushe, Iain Dey and David Smith, The Sunday Times, March 16, 2008
The 71-year-old currency trading tycoon, who runs his empire from the Bahamas, holds almost 10% of the bank's shares. Bear’s shares fell 40% on Friday to $27, after it secured a 28-day credit lifeline to stave off collapse

[inflation] Zimbabwe - Homesick Diaspora Grows - From Cathy Buckle, 3-15-8

US Eye-popping prices: gas at $5.20 - Mar. 14, 2008

TODAY WE'RE ALL IRISH: DEBT SERFDOM COMES TO AMERICA - Ellen Brown, March 15th, 2008
The Irish banking system is suffering such acute strains from the downturn in the housing market that it may have to nationalize its banks. The same may soon be happening in the United States, and for much the same reasons

More rate cuts from Fed expected Tuesday - By Jeannine Aversa, Associated Press via Yahoo News, March 15, 2008
Desperate to aid an economy in crisis, the Federal Reserve is ready to deliver yet another big interest rate cut

Venezuela reported moving some oil contracts to euros - From Agence France-Press via Yahoo News, March 15, 2008

The Government Economy Con-Game = "Derivatives" - by Walter Burien, 03/15/08

US President convenes Plunge Protection Team on Monday - March 15, 2008

20 Canadian ABCP Trusts File Bankruptcy - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis, March 15, 2008

Inflation Is a Policy that Cannot Last - By Thorsten Polleit, mises.org, 3/14/2008

Were Spitzer's Privacy Rights Violated? - By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, March 11, 2008

Bear Stearns exposed as a bank saddled with toxic sub-prime debt - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, 15/03/2008

Betting the Bank - By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, 14 March 2008

PLAN B 3.0: MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION - Rachel's Democracy & Health News, March 13, 2008
[Rachel's introduction: We have reached a fork in the road to the future. In his new book, Lester Brown shows us that major economic change is inevitable. We can choose to stamp out poverty, prevent run- away global warming and invest in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and ecological restoration. Or we can pursue business as usual and watch civilization unravel.]

The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked - By Greg Palast, Reporting for Air America Radio’s Clout, March 14th, 2008

Real-world economics review [Formerly the post-autistic economics review] - Issue no. 45, 15 March 2008

Goldman expects 'explosive' commodities, oil rising to $175 - By Claudia Carpenter and Alexander Kwiatkowski, Bloomberg News Service, March 14, 2008

Save Housing: Put Financial System Into Receivership - by John Hoefle, Executive Intelligence Review, March 14, 2008

Italy's Tremonti Proposes `New Bretton Woods' - EIRNS, March 6, 2008

Ron Paul Survives Lies, Manipulation Of Mass Media - By Mark Anderson. AFP Issue # 12, March 24, 2008

Covert Nationalization of the Banking System - March 8, 2008

SPECIAL "CLOSED SESSION" OF U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DISCUSSED A LOT MORE THAN THE PENDING SECURITY SURVEILLANCE PROVISIONS! - Mar 14, 2008
Not only did members discuss new surveillance provisions as was the publicly stated reason for the closed door session, they also discussed:
1. the imminent collapse of the U.S. economy to occur by September 2008,
2. the imminent collapse of US federal government finances by February 2009,
3. the possibility of Civil War inside the USA as a result of the collapse...

The Implosion is Accelerating, Prepare While You Can - by former Kansas State Trooper, Greg Evensen, Ret., NewsWithViews.com, March 15, 2008
For thirty years, I have been writing, speaking, imploring, and begging others to make rational, concrete plans for a time in life that would offer no quarter, give no mercy, and that would in a word be--catastrophic. We are coming face to face with that moment. You have so little time left to do anything that will give you a fighting chance. What are you doing? National Guard units are training and preparing for urban combat. The United States has just reached an agreement with Canada’s armed forces to come in to this country and assume combat roles should they be needed in American cities and towns........

Jim Rogers: “Abolish the Fed” - Kurt Nimmo, Infowars, March 13, 2008

Jim Rogers says "Abolish the FED" on CNBC (video) - 2008.03.12

The Power Elite Playbook, Beating the Oil War Drums - By Deanna Spingola, 14 March 2008

Managers caught in bank debt trap - William Hutchings, Financial News, 14 Mar 2008

Financial Services Firms Facing Lawsuit - The Associated Press, March 14, 2008

The Magic Mirror Economy - Richard Benson, 321gold, Mar 14, 2008

Hundreds seeking housing money overwhelm Boca Authority - By KEVIN DEUTSCH, GRETEL SARMIENTO and LONA O'CONNOR, Palm Beach Post, March 12, 2008

Home Prices Plunge Across California - By ALEX VEIGA, AP, March 14, 2008

Global "Oil Shock" Rattles World Stock Markets - BY GARY DORSCH, Market WrapUp, 03.13.2008

Housing Update: Houston, We Have Lift Off - BY CHRIS PUPLAVA, Market WrapUp, 03.12.2008

Fed Invokes Little-Used Authority to Aid Bear Stearns - By Scott Lanman, Bloomberg, March 14, 2008

ISE vice chairman and two others charged with securities fraud - Stephanie Baum, Financial News, 14 Mar 2008
The US Securities and Exchange Commission and US prosecutors have filed civil and criminal complaints against three principals at Marshall Tucker & Associates,a financial consultancy, for insider trading. The charges are in connection with Eurex’s $2.8bn (€1.8bn) acquisition of options platform International Securities Exchange in April last year

2008 - 1929? - Beppe Grillo, 13 Marzo 2008

Chi ha paura dell'Argentina? - Siro Asinelli, Rinascita, 13 Marzo 2008

Il fantasma della povertà - Carlo Lupo, Rinascita, 13 Marzo 2008

Analisi: Il Mercato come sistema di razionamento e di esclusione - Eugenio Orso, Rinascita, 12 Marzo 2008

PIL: VELTRONI, O VOLTIAMO PAGINA O ELEVATISSIMO RISCHIO DECLINO - AgenParl, 13 Marzo 2008

03/14/08 - Bad News for Tax Revenues - by The Mogambo Guru
"Losses on this kind of scale are the worst kind of bad news for tax revenues and those governments and recipients who depend on tax revenues, which rhymes so well that I am going to turn it into a Mogambo Hit Song (MHS)…"

03/13/08 - The Dinosaur Gold-Standard Economy - by The Mogambo Gugu
"The dinosaurs had a monetary system based on gold, which explains why the historical record shows absolutely no inflation in prices during the entire Jurassic period, and anyone who says otherwise is a lying bag of crap."

03/12/08 - In Phony-Baloney Money We Trust? - by The Mogambo Guru
"And the good news is that CD buyers are looking downright intelligent compared to the morons buying two-year notes, which have been bid up so high that they are nominally yielding less than 1.5%!"

Vive La France - the Road to Hyperinflation - Peter Schiff, Mar 14, 2008

U.S. gold surges to record on Bear Stearns, dollar - Reuters, Mar 14, 2008

Watching The Dollar Die - By Paul Craig Roberts, 3-14-8

Shear leaves Morgan Stanley - Shanny Basar, 12 Mar 2008
Neal Shear, former head of fixed income and commodities at Morgan Stanley and recipient of the highest bonus at the investment bank in 2005, has resigned

Harvard endowment loses private equity specialist - Cardiff de Alejo Garcia, Financial News, 12 Mar 2008
A manager of Harvard University endowment’s private equity team has left for the University of North Carolina, as Harvard looks for another high-level replacement after its chief executive stepped down last September

NYSE bars floor specialist for life - The Wall Street Journal, 12 Mar 2008
The New York Stock Exchange fined and barred for life a convicted former floor specialist for allegedly trading ahead of other customers

Another SocGen employee taken into custody in trading probe - Dow Jones Newswires, 12 Mar 2008
French bank Société Générale said that another employee has been taken into police custody as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged €4.9bn ($7.6bn) trading fraud at the bank

[fuggi fuggi] Shear leaves Morgan Stanley - Shanny Basar, Financial News, 12 Mar 2008
Neal Shear, former head of fixed income and commodities at Morgan Stanley and recipient of the highest bonus at the investment bank in 2005, has resigned

Zapatero ha un problema. E anche noi - Maurizio Blondet, effedieffe, 10 marzo 2008
Tutto sta dunque a capire se le banche sono sane come dicono. Per ora, e da mesi, raccolgono tutti i debiti e le loro «garanzie» supposte che non riescono più a vendere sui mercati, ossia a rifilare agli ignari risparmiatori, li portano allo sportello di Francoforte, e Trichet, per quella carta straccia, paga euro sonanti, creati dal nulla a miliardi. Fingendo che la carta straccia abbia un valore, Trichet sta ovviamente salvando in grande la finanza a spese dell’industria, gli usurai a spese degli operai. Ma il gioco sta diventando rapidamente criminale, e pericolosissimo

THE 'LENDER' PUTS IN ~NOTHING~ OF VALUE": Why also ALL PRIME MORTGAGE are at even great risk now - March 12, 2008
All Bank loans consist of 'credit money' which is created by a mere bookkeeping/computer entry. There is no Legal Tender/Cash involved. Those are all fraudulent loans that were created with "Non-Existent Funds" !!!!
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Vs. Charles Conces:
"[Fraud] vitiates everything"--Boyce's Exec. v. Grundy, 3 Peters (28 U.S.) 210, 220 (1830)
"Fraud destroys the validity of everything into which it enters."--Nudd v. Burrows, Assignee, 91 U.S. 426, 440 (c. 1875)
"There is no question of the general doctrine that fraud vitiates the most solemn contracts, documents, and even judgments."--United States v. Throckmorton,, 98 U.S. 61, 64-65 (c. 1878); see, also Nudd v. Burrows, supra.

Pope Plans to Rehabilitate `Heretic' Martin Luther - Daily Mail, 6th March 2008
The Pope is planning to rehabilitate Martin Luther - whose actions instigated the Protestant Reformation - by arguing that he did not intend to split Christianity but only to purge the Church of corrupt practices. Benedict XVI will issue his findings on the 16th-century German theologian after discussing him at the papal summer residence, Castelgandolfo, during his annual seminar of 40 fellow theologians, the Ratzinger Schülerkreis

*IMPORTANT INFO*: IF FACING FORECLOSURE - CAN THE BANK PROVE IT OWNS YOUR LOAN? - 11 March 2008
U.S. v. Throckmorton, 98 US 61..."Fraud vitiates the most solemn Contracts, Documents and even Judgments."
“Fraud destroys the validity of everything into which it enters,” Nudd v. Burrows, 91 U.S
426. “Fraud vitiates everything,” Boyce v. Grundy, 3 Pet. 210.

Dramatic Fed Move to Unlock Markets - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, March 12, 2008
Le banche centrali continuano a pompare M3 mentre la gente ha bisogno di M1 per far ripartire l'economia. Di una M1 non gravata da debito, sennò il buco nero s'allarga sempre di più. Lo capiranno prima che sia troppo tardi? Chissà...

Fed in a desperate race with the spectre of collapse - By Damian Reece, The Telegraph, March 12, 2008

The US Federal Reserve averts crisis - for now - The Telegraph, 12/03/2008
There is a nagging worry that we have yet to see the full picture of the sub-prime collapse. If there are more horrors to come, the Fed and the other central banks cannot have many more shots left in their locker

Recession, GDP and Inflation: Conventional Wisdom or Data - Bud Conrad, Casey Research, 12, 2008

U.S. Treasuries riskier than German debt, default swaps say - By Abigail Moses, Bloomberg News Service, March 11, 2008

Oil peaks near $110 before easing on cenbank moves - Reuters, 11 Mar 2008

Reuters Summit-Yamana sees gold at $1,500 this year - Reuters, 11 Mar 2008

Top Ranking CIA Operatives Admit Al-qaeda Is a Complete Fabrication (video) - BBC

03/11/08 - Golden Lifeboats Flee the Titanic - by The Mogambo Guru
"Gold is essentially a rock! So why is it so valuable? Why do people always turn to gold at the end? The answer is that there is nothing else to take its place as a store of wealth that does not rot, corrode or disappear…"

ARE THE IRISH & TEL AVIV REAL ESTATE MARKETS CRASHING TOO ? - 11 March 2008

US Fed expands securities lending - The Wall Street Journal, 11 Mar 2008
In another global show of financial force, the US Federal Reserve and BoE, ECB, BoC, and SNB central banks announced significantly expanded loans of cash and securities to banks and securities dealers in an effort to alleviate growing strains in the credit markets

Question à (l'attaché de presse de) Clearstream - Denis Robert, 11.3.08

Market panic after Bear Stearns reports - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, 11/03/2008

DICHIARAZIONI DELL'ECONOMISTA GALLONI SULLA REALE SITUAZIONE DEL SISTEMA BANCARIO ITALIANO - AgenParl, 11 Marzo 2008

Derivatives the new 'ticking bomb': Buffett and Gross warn: $516 trillion bubble is a disaster waiting to happen - By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch, March 10, 2008

Call to action against Europe’s aggressive economic agenda in Africa

Dollaro: inflazione e scomparsa dell'oro - 11.03.2008

Union-backed investor group attacks banks over sub-prime losses - Financial Times, 11 Mar 2008
Union-backed CtW Investment Group will this week step up a campaign against a string of Wall Street banks, accusing them of failing to prevent their mortgage-related losses and threatening to vote against several directors at upcoming shareholder meetings.

Sovereign Wealth Messiahs - Tim Swanson, mises.org, March 11, 2008

Programmi a confronto: lotta alla precarietà. Berlusconi detassa gli straordinari, Veltroni pensa al salario minimo e Casini alle famiglie - Tiziano Scolari, 10 marzo 2008
Tassazione straordinaria di banche, assicurazioni, stock options di manager e utilizzazione dei proventi del cosiddetto "signoraggio bancario" finalizzati a: finanziare il mutuo sociale per l'acquisto dell'abitazione, contribuire al pagamento degli interessi dei mutui ventennali a tasso agevolato della prima casa popolare (costruita da enti pubblici) delle giovani coppie, sostenere la nascita di nuove imprese gestite da giovani, anche attraverso la sperimentazione di un periodo "no tax" per le nuove iniziative imprenditoriali e professionali giovanili, defiscalizzare di un terzo il lavoro femminile per arrivare alla pari retribuzione tra donne e uomini.

Billionaire investor Ross sees bank failures ahead - From CNBC, March 10, 2008

Credit crisis claims more victims - William Hutchings, Financial News, 10 Mar 2008
Three credit hedge fund managers have been forced to wind down their funds or restructure them, and two others have lost more than a fifth of their value, as the crisis deepens in their sector.

Bank recovery ‘could take three years’ - Shanny Basar, Financial News, 10 Mar 2008
Analysts have cut their earnings per share estimates for US investment banks by a third, after reducing them by a similar figure last month, and have said it will take up to three years for equity underwriting and advisory revenues to return to previous levels.

Why The Western World Needs Armageddon - By Benjamin Fulford, Former Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief Forbes Magazine, 3-10-8

Where Is The Bottom To This Housing Free Fall? - March 10, 2008
“The Federal Reserve announced this week that Americans’ percentage of equity in their homes fell below 50 percent for the first time since 1945. And economists expect this figure to drop even further. All of which brings up the question that’s on the lips of nearly everyone, especially Realtors: ‘Where is the bottom to this housing free fall?’”

03/10/08 - Bernanke Gets it Backwards - by The Mogambo Guru
"The rise in retail prices is caused by…the Federal Reserve creating excessive amounts of money and credit. High prices, therefore, are the RESULT of the ridiculous excesses of the Federal Reserve, not the cause."

Feedback Loop of Recession: Housing Bust, Debt and Layoffs - Charles Hugh Smith, March 10, 2008

Gas Prices Near Records, Following Oil - AP, March 10, 2008

I candidati Idv: Elio Lannutti (ADUSBEF) - Antonio Di Pietro, 10 Marzo 2008

Lettera finanziaria, Roma, 15/12/2011 - Beppe Grillo, 10 Marzo 2008

Countrywide drops 7% on FBI probe report - Reuters, March 10, 2008

YOU WILL COME TO LOVE BIG BROTHER - By Dennis L. Cuddy, NewsWithViews.com, March 10, 2008

L’informateur du Liechtenstein dit craindre pour sa vie - par Emma Goldman, 9 mars 2008

Fraude fiscale : l’Allemagne s’est vu proposer un deuxième DVD de données - AFP, 7 mars 2008

Bernanke on the Mortgage Market House of Cards - by Gary North, March 8, 2008

TERRA BRUCIATA (trascrizione) - di Bernardo Iovene, Rai3-Report, Domenica 9 Marzo 2008 alle 21.30

FRANCE/ALLEMAGNE: MEME COMBAT - Denis Robert, 7.3.08

Quand deux ministres des Finances se rencontrent et se font des « mamours » - L'investigateur, 09/03/2008

Senators: Where is Iraq's oil money going? - CNN

2008: The year of global food crisis - Special report By Kate Smith and Rob Edwards, March 9, 2008

Fed and Treasury Chiefs Fiddle as Economy Plummets - BY PETER MORICI, March 8-9, 2008

USA: ora il ciclone sulle credit cards - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 09 marzo 2008

HOW TO DESTROY A NATION - By Derry Brownfield, NewsWithViews.com, March 9, 2008

Rand Paul: Is the Revolution Over or Just Beginning? - March 8th, 2008

Tremonti ancora sugli Illuminati - Capitano Nemo, 8 marzo 2008

Global Elites Gone Bonkers - by sharon kayser, March 8, 2008

Una crisi bancaria che non può più essere tenuta nascosta - MoviSol, 4 marzo 2008

$300 MILLION FROM CHAVEZ TO FARC A FAKE - Greg Palast, March 7th, 2008

Already we have riots, hoarding, panic: the sign of things to come? - Carl Mortished, The Times, March 7, 2008

‘OPERATION DOUBLE-CROSS’: HILLARY RUNNING THE MONEY - Christopher Story, 7 March 2008

Tariffe, ad aprile nuovi rincari: +4,1% gas, +3,9% luce - RaiNews24, 8 marzo 2008

Dangerous cracks appearing in job market - By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer, Mar 8, 2008

Final US Economic End-Game - Randy, March 08, 2008

Increasing Systemic Risk: Portends Cartel 'End Game' Attempt - by DeepCaster LLC, March 7, 2008

Prepare To Panic! - Will Grigg, Pro Liberate, 2008-03-05

$US Foreclosures Rise As Owners Give Up - By Kathleen M. Howley, Bloomberg, 3-8-8

They Still Don't Get it - Peter Schiff, Mar 7, 2008

Foreclosures set records as housing troubles worsen - By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers, March 6, 2008

03/07/08 - An Apple a Day Will Kill You - by The Mogambo Guru
"An apple a day may keep the doctor away, as the saying goes, but you had better not say that anymore, either, because Big Pharma has yet to invent a drug that emulates apples, either!"

03/06/08 - "It Makes Your Money Worthless - Guaranteed!" - by The Mogambo Guru
"There is no known example, in the history of the world, where a fiat currency was debased in a wild fractional-reserve multiplication by the greedy banks that did NOT end badly. And 100% of the time is as close as you can get to 'guaranteed'."

03/05/08 - Drunk With Absolute Purchasing Power - by The Mogambo Guru
"So if people could buy oil with gold, the price would have been unchanged for 60 years! Wow! Now you see the beauty of gold as money; prices never change! Your purchasing power is absolute!"

Chi provoca inflazione? - Maurizio Blondet, Effedieffe, 09 marzo 2008

Nation's coins set to overtake face value - By Braden Quartermaine, news.com.au, March 09, 2008

U.S. Pins Economic Hopes on $200 Billion Liquidity Boost - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, March 8, 2008

Banks face "systemic margin call," $325 billion hit: JPM - Reuters, Mar 8, 2008I

Quella cinica battuta del 1971 sul dollaro - 7 marzo 2008

Fed Takes New Steps on Credit Crisis - By Jeannine Aversa, Associated Press via Yahoo News, March 7, 2008

talia sub-prime - Maurizio Blondet, 07 marzo 2008
sub

NY Fed chief says low rates are needed for some time - By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, Reuters, March 6, 2008

Euro at Record High as Trichet Sees `Upward' Inflation Pressure - By Bo Nielsen, Bloomberg, March 7 2008

Italy intervenes in bond market as spreads soar - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, March 6, 2008

Carlyle Fund Gets Default Notice After Margin Calls - By Edward Evans, Bloomberg, March 6, 2008

Home equity slips below 50% - BayNews, March 6, 2008

Draghi, stop ai super stipendi in banca - La Stampa, 5/3/2008

High-profile fraud case puts NYSE data reliability in focus - The Wall Street Journal, 05 Mar 2008
A high-profile regulatory case alleging that 14 elite New York Stock Exchange traders cheated investors could hinge on whether the US exchange's trading data are viewed as reliable

Usa, città del Vermont votano per arrestare Bush e Cheney - Reuters, 5 marzo 2008

RON PAUL WINS HIS CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY RACE - 05 Mar 2008

03/04/08 - Gold Explosion in a Precious Metal Mine Field - by The Mogambo Guru
"With an M3 money supply of about $12 trillion, this means that if gold rose to $46,153.00 per ounce, the entire money supply could be 100% backed by gold! We'd get back to the gold standard required by the Constitution!"

Goldman Sachs asset management co-head retires - Shanny Basar, Financial News, 05 Mar 2008

Investors predict wave of fund closures - William Hutchings, Financial News, 05 Mar 2008

$1bn Swiss hedge fund faces liquidation - William Hutchings and Stephanie Baum, Financial News, 04 Mar 2008

Citigroup and Wachovia hit with lawsuits - The Wall Street Journal, 04 Mar 2008

Citigroup's Job Cuts Could Total More Than 30,000 - By Charlie Gasparino, CNBC, 04 Mar 2008

Bernanke Urges Banks to Forgive Portion of Mortgages - By Scott Lanman and Steve Matthews, Bloomberg, March 4, 2008
The number of U.S. homeowners entering foreclosure rose 75 percent in 2007, with more than 1 percent in some stage of foreclosure during the year, according to RealtyTrac Inc. of Irvine, California. For the year, more than 2.2 million default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions were reported on about 1.3 million properties

EXPECT EUROZONE HARDLANDING FOR 2008 - by Krassimir Petrov, PhD, The American University in Bulgaria, March 4, 2008

Demand a Referendum On EU Lisbon Treaty - Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Executive Intelligence Review, March 7, 2008
"Let's ratify it as quickly as possible, through the parliaments, without public debate—neither in the media nor in the parliaments—of any significance, because if such a debate would take place, it would not go through."

The Federal Reserve Has Become Irrelevant - by John Hoefle, Executive Intelligence Review, March 7, 2008
Could they really be that stupid? That is the question which comes to mind watching the recent spate of statements by government officials discussing what they see as the problems facing the economy, and what needs to be done to solve them

Buffett sees US already in economic recession - The New York Times, 04 Mar 2008

Carlyle hires Sarkozy's half-brother from UBS - Paul Hodkinson, Financial News, 03 Mar 2008
US buyout house The Carlyle Group has continued its tradition of hiring senior political figures with the appointment of Olivier Sarkozy, the half-brother of the French president, from Swiss bank UBS

Bank of America tops table for trading losses - Shanny Basar, Financial News, 03 Mar 2008
Bank of America lost money in trading on nearly one in three days last year, a sixfold increase on the previous year and worse than any other Wall Street bank, according to regulatory filings

Buy ratings at five-year high as Sells tumble... - Dawn Cowie and Tara Loader Wilkinson, 03 Mar 2008
Equity analysts have placed more Buy recommendations and fewer Sells on the stocks they cover than at any time since investment banks were forced to pay $1.4bn (€922m) in a settlement with New York State Attorney-General Eliot Spitzer in 2002 over conflicts of interest, according to research by Financial News

New recession worry: Bank failures - By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com, March 3 2008
Jaret Seiberg, the financial services analyst for policy research firm Stanford Group, said it appears that regulators are expecting about 200 bank failures in the coming year or two. If that occurs, it could rival the flood of bank failures seen during the S&L crisis. In 1989, the nation saw a post-Depression era record of 206 bank failures.
The FDIC itself has less than one percent of the huge number of deposits it "insures."

WANTAGATE OBFUSCATION: ‘OPERATION DOUBLE-CROSS’ - Christopher Story, 3 March 2008
"If 'Operation Double-Cross' succeeds, the world will be plunged into a crisis of unprecedented proportions, as we first predicted in our posting dated 2nd September 2006. There are ominous immediate signs of this happening. For instance, the FDIC has a list of 76 US banks which it expects to fail at any time, as they are operating below minimum capital requirements. Military sources tell us that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) itself is on the brink of collapse."
The FDIC itself has less than one percent of the huge number of deposits it "insures."

THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S RESCUE HAS FAILED - "The risk is that the 'shadow banking system' completely collapses" - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, TELEGRAPH, 04/03/2008
Eagle

RON PAUL - WSJ - "WE CAN ALLOW INDIVIDUALS TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES WHAT CURRENCY THEY WISH TO USE" - 2 March 2008

03/03/08 - A World Without Demand - by The Mogambo Guru
"Oops! Without demand, supply overwhelms supply, and prices plummet, and without new derivative sales to finance the existing clot of derivatives, things go from bad to worse!"

No Country for Old Maids - Bill Gross, PIMCO Bonds, March 2008

Novità della sezione TESTI online:
- Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment, New York: Books in Focus, 1981
- Carroll Quigley, The Evolution of Civilizations - An Introduction to Historical Analysis, 1979
- Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966
From ‘The Naked Capitalist’, A Review and Commentary on Carroll Quigley’s Book, Tragedy and Hope by W. Cleon Skousen - WHAT MATTERS-105, October 24, 2002

Ubs: titolo crolla a Zurigo - ANSA, 3 Marzo 2008

Global debt markets fall 45% in fourth quarter - The Wall Street Journal, 03 Mar 2008
Borrowing in international debt markets plunged in the fourth quarter of last year from 2006, amid fears of rising defaults and widespread economic fallout from the credit-market turmoil, the Bank for International Settlements has said in its quarterly review

ATTORNEY MICHAEL MINNS BEATS IRS, AGAIN - by Ted Peck investigative reporter, with Edward Snook, NewsWithViews.com, March 3, 2008

Hedge fund manager to sue SEC over advertising ban - Financial Times, 03 Mar 2008
Phil Goldstein, the hedge fund manager who derailed the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s attempt to require hedge-fund registration, will sue the regulator to lift its ban on hedge-fund marketing and advertising

[Il voto degli italiani poveri all'estero costa 90 euro...] Assegno per gli indigenti italiani all’estero; vero o falso? - 28 gennaio 2008

Meno tasse: Giovanni Caporaso intervista l'economista Fabrizio Zampieri

Gold beats other financial assets as investors seek haven - By Millie Munshi and Pham-Duy Nguyen, Bloomberg, March 3, 2008

Economists call subprime fallout biggest threat: Growing number say it could harm economy most during next two years - msnbc, March 3, 2008

Asian Stocks Decline After UBS Predicts More Losses for Markets - By Masaki Kondo and Emma O'Brien, Bloomberg, March 3, 2008

Sulla crisi e altro - Gianfranco La Grassa, Effedieffe, 02 marzo 2008

[also Israel is dropping the dollar] Dollar Dip a Mixed Bag for Israelis - By Dina Kraft, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 2, 2008

I Like Ron Paul And He Can Win - By Alan Stang, 3-2-8

Commodity prices at historic heights - Daily News, March 02, 2008

Housing bust means at least 12 more months of pain - By Jennifer Ablan, Reuters, Mar 2, 2008

Note per i lettori dell’eredità culturale di Auriti - Giuliano Rodelli, Effedieffe, 01 marzo 2008

Activists bare teeth over foreclosures - msnbc, March 1, 2008

Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Letter Online Version - March 01, 2008

5 Reasons Why The Housing Market Will Continue to Decline Until 2010 - March 1st, 2008

Clearstream: Villepin dénonce des "partis pris" et des "procès d'intention" - La Croix, 01 mars 2008

Gold: 974.30 - March 1, 2008

- AMI 2008 Monetary Reform Conference at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Sept. 25-28, 2008
- 314° anniversario del signoraggio il 27 - 7 - 2008 (anno sabbatico) - 314th seigniorage anniversary (anno Templare 890)

- Third International Conference on Islamic Banking and Finance: Risk Management, Regulation and Supervision, April 2008, Karachi Pakistan- CALL FOR PAPERS