Wall Street Getting Away With Financial Murder

MSNBC—Feb. 28--From the Dylan Ratigan Show. Banks getting away with financial murder.

Irish Voters Prepare to Ditch Government on Bank Crisis

Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) - Irish voters go to the polls today with anger over the collapse of the economy and the cost of rescuing banks expected to result in the biggest shift of political power in the country's history.


it is going to take bold action against the banksters to rid themselves(Irish) of their slavery. Let's hope more go the way of Iceland. I just think that the banksters will have something up their sleeve..I'm always hearing more and more of a one world currency, that's something the whole world should be fighting against.

Dollar Armageddon Ahead?

Feb. 25 2011 | Why the dollar is about to crash, with Damon Vickers, Nine Points Capital Management founder, and "The Day After Dollar Crash" author.

Jobless Claims Fall for Week of February 19th 2011

Jobless Claims Fall for Week of February 19th 2011

Less people filed for unemployment than economists expected last week. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 391,000 individuals claimed benefits during the week of February 19th. Economists, on average expected 405,000 filings.

The unemployment measure has been volatile in past weeks, likely fluctuating due to severe winter weather throughout the country. Checking in on the 4-week average for better perspective, there appears to be a downtrend occurring, which suggests an improving job market.

Richard Wolff:Greece & Ireland:Epic Fiscal Failure

Richard Wolff:Greece & Ireland:Epic Fiscal Failure

100,000 Protest for Union Rights in Wisconsin

AlJazeeraEnglish--February 20, 2011--Budget problems are forcing state governors across the US to propose drastic measures to balance the books. In the state of Wisconsin, roughly 100,000 people turned up for a fifth straight day of protests. Public sector workers accuse the state's Republican governor of using the crisis as a reason to attack their union rights. Roger Wilkison reports.


None of these public sector employees could figure out that it was in large part the private sector manufacturing jobs that payed thier wages. As those jobs where being destroyed by the tens of millions the public sector didn't think for one minute that the financing for thier wages was being shipped out of the country. The only thing they could see was what foreign made crap was on sale at Walmart? Class War 101, divide and conquer

Wisconsin Budget Battle

Feb. 18 2011 | Protests roll in Wisconsin, with Zac Schultz, WMTV reporter; Robert Reich, UC Berkeley; and Rep. Scott Suder, (R-WI).

Initial Jobless Claims Higher Than Expected

410,000 people filed for unemployment benefits during the week of February 12th. That's an uptick from the prior week's 383,000 filings, which was the lowest level in 2.5 years. Economists were spot-on in their projection of the latest claim number. Analysts attribute the latest rise to winter weather, which delayed the filing and processing of many claims.

The U.S. unemployment rate stands at 9.8%.

World Bank: Global Food Prices at Dangerous Levels

The World Bank says that global food prices are at dangerous levels with food prices hiking security issues.

Economic Data Reports: February 15th, 2010

U.S. January Import Prices are up 1.5% for the month of January. That number is up from December's revised increase of 1.2%. Inflation worries continue to be in the realm of food and energy where price rates increases are in the mid-teens. Higher energy and food costs particularly pressure consumer spending.

The February Empire State Factory Index also yielded a rise for the month of January. The index came in at 15.4, up from the prior month's 11.92. Analysts were expecting a reading of 15 even. A jump in new orders is a sign of further improvement in the economy.

Also out early this morning, retail sales which rose by 0.3% in January. A dip from February's revised 0.5% rise. The gain in January sales is attributed to higher gasoline prices. Economists on average expected a rise of 0.5% for the first month of 2011.

Worst of the Global Financial Crisis Yet to Come

Feb. 13 2011 | With inflation set to rise further, Martin Hennecke, associate director at Tyche, recommends investing in commodities such as gold and silver. He talks to CNBC's Bernard Lo and Oriel Morrison.

Obama Takes Scalpel to Budget, Avoiding Pain

President Barack Obama's $3.5 trillion-plus budget plan will likely be ignored by resurgent Republicans intent on cutting tens of billions of dollars from the president's old budget. (Feb. 13)

Bernanke Opening Statement

Feb. 9 2011 | Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke takes questions on the economy and inflation.

End of Japan Deflationary Environment is Near

Feb. 7 2011 | Robert Parker, senior advisor at Credit Suisse, says prospects of a weaker yen and low price-to-book ratios for Japanese corporates will benefit the country's equity market this year. He tells CNBC's Martin Soong & Saijal Patel that he's forecasting positive inflation in Japan by mid-year.

Jobs, Ads and Mubaraks Pay Raise - Bloomberg TV

Bloomberg TV's Dominic Chu and Adam Johnson go under the radar to talk about the stories you may not have heard today.Jobs, Ads and Mubaraks Pay Raise - Bloomberg TV

Fractals, Fibonacci and socionomics

In the 1930s Ralph Nelson Elliott identified repeating patterns in stock market, which he termed "waves". Robert R. Prechter Jr. linked the psychological basis of waves to humans` unconscious impulse to herd and observed that social mood governs not only finance but also areas as diverse as popular culture, economic production, electoral politics and war. He has proposed a new field called socionomics - the science of history and social prediction.
Wojtek Luciejewski,

Unemployment Falls to 9.0%, Only 36K New Jobs

The unemployment rate dropped sharply last month to 9 percent, the lowest level in nearly two years. But the economy generated only 36,000 net new jobs, the fewest in four months. (Feb. 4)

Inflation Threat to Markets

Feb. 3 2011 |Discussing how big a threat inflation poses to the markets, with CNBC's Courtney Reagan; Peter Boockvar, Miller Tabak; Alan Valdes, DME Securities; and Peter Costa, Empire Executions.

ADP Report Points to Positive Job News

Payroll processor ADP reported that private companies added 187,000 jobs in January, more than economists expected. (Feb. 2)

Insight From JPMorgan Leaders

Jan. 28 2011 | Discussing why economic optimism is justified, with Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan chairman/CEO and Mary Erdoes, JPMorgan Private Bank.

Food Inflation Sparking Unrest worldwide

Jan. 28 2011 | Philippa Malmgren, president of Principalis Asset Management told CNBC that inflation played an important part in the political uprising in North Africa. "First you have to price them out of food and then this happens, so we should expect this across many countries," she said.

2011 Davos Forum Kicks Off

The 2011 Davos Forum kicks off. This year's theme is Shared Norms For New Reality.

How Severe Is Europe's Intertwined Debt Crisis?

Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the ongoing fallout from Europe's debt crisis, which has led to political woes and bank bailouts among other problems. His update is park of his ongoing series on Making Sen$e of financial news.



It's a big problem for the banks that took the loans they knew they never should have made. These people are not idiots, they knew they were making choices that would end their companies. This is what bothers me about the media, they set up their story to make it seem like they're are defending the people, but then they always end it with some words like that, "a big problem for us all". How is a private company's bad loans my problem?

Interview with Rainer Brüderle, German Economics Minister

The German Economy : How can it continue to prosper? In the interview: the German Economics Minister, Rainer Brüderle.



German industry out sourced to cheap labour eastern europe and industrialist maximized their profits. German workers were forced into lower wages. the birth rate has collapsed because life in Germany is too competitive. the rich have become super rich at the expense of workers. in 50 years there will be no Germans workers left. germany will be a country only in name.

Niall Ferguson : Post-American World a New Dark Age ?

Historian Niall Ferguson fears a post-American world would bear close resemblance to the Dark Ages that followed the decline of the Roman Empire. He foresees chaos across the Middle East and the rise of China as the next superpower. "A world without a strong America is a dangerous world," he exclaims.
I normally like Niall but I don't think that it will be a new dark age.When Rome collapsed it was the dark ages in Europe only, a dark age for only about 8% of the world whereas in the rest of the world we couldn't care about Europe.


Niall Ferguson, David Gergen, and Mort Zuckerman discuss how America's global standing will be affected by the continuing financial crisis. This program was recorded in collaboration with the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival, on July 8, 2010.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.Yes we are headed for a new dark age and deceptive history professors/ globalist minded finacial advisors. are helping things along nicely.I could tell this man has an agenda from the start.

China-U.S. Sign-In 6 Trade Agreements

In Houston, China and the U.S. sign in about $600 million in trade deals; one day in advance of the Chinese President's visit to the U.S.

What is Money and the Money Supply?

Different Ideas on what money is instead of thinking about M1 M2 and M3.

Glenn Beck - The China Syndrome

think outside of the box, the chinese made the box


Though I often think that I'm glad that Beck is saying what he's saying on TV, I always suffix that thought with "HE IS A LITTLE LATE TO THE PARTY". To understand China you need to understand the culture which has endured 6500 years despite what the politics of the day might be.The family, education, and hard work (to severely simplify some tenets of Chinese culture) are engrained from birth. Beck thinks China advanced overnight - those who are aware knew the US was to be displaced 30 years ago.
It's the Wall Street, stupid. The German's are into the stock market for a quick profit and speculate like the Americans. The Germans are really have both of their feet on the ground focusing doing the finest work. Japan was the same way before they got seduced by Wall Street which crashed them until today. China are now realized what's their problem. They started to look at the German's and Japanese and study hard.All the 1% richest Chinese connected to the political power local or cenral. The rich gap in China is bigger than that of the US. China certainly outdone the American in such way. And they are way more greedy than the Americans. Many intelligent Chinese are very very worry about the future of China. They see China economy is empty from the inside out.

David Morgan, The Unexpected Coal Crisis

David Morgan, The Unexpected Coal Crisis

Foreclosures Hit Record

Jan. 13 2011 | Home foreclosures are topping 1 million for the first time ever in 2010, with Nishu Sood, HIS Analysis.

Delta Smelt & Undocumented Farm Workers: How Federal Policy Is Failing CA's Central Valley

California's Central Valley is a 450 mile long stretch of flat and fertile land that produces much of the food that we enjoy every day. But the people in small towns like Mendota (the cantaloupe capital of the world) are suffering these days, in part due to two federal policies.

In order to protect a threatened fish species called the Delta Smelt, much of the water that used to be pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to farms on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley is now allowed to flow into the ocean. The result is predictable: hundreds of thousands of acres of farm land lies fallow and tens of thousands of jobs have been lost. In Mendota, the unemployment rate is over 40% and food lines are the norm.

But people going hungry in a region dominated by agriculture is only one of the contradictions in the Central Valley.

Nearly all the valley's farm workers are immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and many of them are undocumented. These people are crucial to the valley's economy, but they're breaking the law according to the federal government.

To learn more about the Central Valley and its discontents, we spoke to Robert Silva, mayor of Mendota; Kim Sullivan, a small business owner who makes gear drives for irrigation pumps; Maria Angel, a cafe owner and GED instructor; and Chris Collins, who recently authored a special Fresno Bee series about illegal immigration called "In Denial".
Approximately 8 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.

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Portugal Bailout Inevitable

Jan. 11 2011 | Portugal says it is doing all it can to avoid external aid, but the country is "just a small economy in the massive sea of the euro zone", Piers Curran, head of trading at Amplify Trading told CNBC. "Portugal will inevitably have to ask for a bailout because the bond yields will not allow them to continue to fund their deficit," he said.

Portugal Under Pressure

Jan. 10 2011 | Portugal is under pressure to seek EU/IMF Aid, with CNBC's Guy Johnson.