September 2010 Global Pensions Being Stripped
Global Pension Tension: September 2010 Submitted by Leo Kolivakis on 09/14/2010 08:54 -0500 As you can see, global pension tension is heating up all around the world. This is all part of the “new normal” which basically means get ready to work longer and get a lot less during your…
FOIA – Prudential Financial Inc. Secret Agreement allows her to Keep Military Death Benefit Payments
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs failed to inform 6 million soldiers and their families of an agreement enablingPrudential Financial Inc. to withhold lump-sum payments of life insurance benefits for survivors of fallen service members, according to records made public through a Freedom of Information request. The amendment to Prudential’s…
A Free Market Is Not Possible Without Strong Laws Against Fraud
A Free Market Is Not Possible Without Strong Laws Against Fraud Many economists are now starting to question long-held assumptions that bubbles don’t matter, that huge amounts of leverage are good, and that the Federal Reserve has mastered monetary policy. They are starting to read Minsky and other forgotten economic…
Executives with criminal records slip through FHA crackdown, documents show
Executives with criminal records slip through FHA crackdown, documents show By Brian Grow Center for Public Integrity Sunday, September 12, 2010 A crackdown on reckless mortgage lenders by the Federal Housing Administration has failed to root out several executives with criminal records whose firms continue to do business with the…
Visualizing Propaganda – Nearly 100 percent Errors – Behind The US Bureau Of Labor Statistics
Visualizing The Propaganda “Error Term” Behind The Bureau Of Labor Statistics Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/09/2010 10:31 Today’s announcement by the BLS that it decided to flat out estimate nearly a third of all initial jobless claims (courtesy of several large outliers) due to a “clerical holiday” which resulted…