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Daily Digest 2/3 - In Gold We Trust, Efford To Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires In Iran, China's Tight Grip On Rare Earths

  • Fiat Currency Failure Means: ‘In Gold We Trust’
  • Senate Approves Ban on Insider Trading by Congress
  • Effort to Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires in Iran
  • S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks
  • An Abundant Supply of Cheap Oil is the Most Important Resource for Our Future
  • Nepal and Bangladesh to Establish Joint Venture 3,000 Megawatt Power Plant
  • Trading China’s Tight Grip On Rare Earths
  • Pet Rescuers Venture Into Japan's Exclusion Zone

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Daily Digest 2/2 - Counterfeit Money And Policy, Global Lending Standards Tighten, Food Crisis And Drought In Mexico

  • MF Global Customer Funds Were Not "Vaporized" - Stanley Haar Takes WSJ to Task
  • MF Global: Oops, They DID Find the Money After All As We Had Said, But...
  • Holder & Obama’s Propaganda is “Belied by a Troublesome Little Thing Called Facts”
  • Vicious Cycles Persist As Global Lending Standards Tighten
  • Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit Policy
  • International Pipelines - Peacemakers or Hostages to Fortune?
  • Industry Experts Say Iranian Oil Sanctions Will Not Affect Supply
  • Oil Rich Venezuela's Electricity Shortfalls Lose Economy $80 Billion
  • Food Crisis as Drought and Cold Hit Mexico
  • Increasing ocean acidity due to humans’ CO2

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Daily Digest 2/1 - Euro Zone Jobless Rate Hits High, Nat'l Debt Nears $15.3 Trillion, 'Metal Rush' Thefts Of Trains and Bridges

  • France faces 79-bn-euro charge for nuclear power: auditor
  • Federal pension-insurance agency pressures American Airlines to save retirement plans
  • Greek debt accord requires c.bank involvement - sources
  • Euro zone jobless rate hits euro-era high
  • If unions won't budge, Detroit may have to take drastic budget measures
  • Government Health Care Spending To Reach $1.8T by 2022, CBO Predicts
  • (CBO) The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022
  • Plaque, statue theft on rise across Palm Springs area
  • Czech 'metal rush' sees theft of trains, bridges and statues
  • Ga. college students: Without food stamps we wouldn't be able to eat
  • National debt nears $15.3 trillion
  • Many Californians have no emergency savings
  • Public tells Quinn to halt speed-enforcement cameras
  • New red light cameras target busy intersections
  • U.S. Highway Trust Fund Faces Insolvency Next Year, CBO Says

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Daily Digest 1/31 - The Despicable MF Global, Entering The Debt Dimension, Rare Earth Shortage Could Threaten Innovation

  • 3 Months After The MF Global Bankruptcy, We Find That $1.2 Billion (Or More) In Client Money Has "Vaporized"
  • Exposing Silver Mythology – Part III
  • MF Global - A Despicable State Of Affairs
  • MF Global 4-1-9
  • Entering The Debt Dimension
  • Countrywide Protected Fraudsters By Silencing Whistleblowers, Say Former Employees
  • In 2011, Global Spending on Renewable Energy Rose 40 Percent
  • Has Petroleum Production Peaked, Ending the Era of Easy Oil?
  • Shortage of Rare Metals Could Threaten High-Tech Innovation
  • Is a Reduction in Population Numbers the only Sustainable Solution?

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Daily Digest 1/30 - Greece Plans Orderly Eurozone Exit, Between Iran And A Hard Place, TX's Electrical Predicament

  • Greece plans orderly exit of the Eurozone
  • Anxiety Mounts Over Maturing Real Estate Loans
  • With Focus on Income Inequality, Albany Bill Will Seek $8.50 Minimum Wage
  • U.S. Banks Tally Their Exposure to Europe’s Debt Maelstrom
  • Greece - Between Iran and a Hard Place
  • Transmission Line Under the Mediterranean to Supply Italy with Clean Power
  • Texas's Electrical Power Predicament - Part 1
  • Monsanto & Cancer Milk: Fox News Kills Story And Fires Reporters

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Daily Digest 1/29 - 150 Arrested In Oakland Protest, PA Town Blames Water Quality On Fracking, When Will Housing Hit Bottom?

  • 150 Arrested in Daylong Occupy Oakland Protests
  • Elite Wall Street Donations Jumped 700% in the Last 20 Years
  • When Will Housing Hit Bottom?
  • Ex-Congressman Retreats on Energy Project
  • New Report by Agency Lowers Estimates of Natural Gas in U.S.
  • FirstEnergy closing 6 coal-fired power plants
  • Penn. town blames contaminated water on fracking
  • North Dakota Oil Boom Strains Roads, Schools

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Daily Digest 1/28 - Davos OWS Style, Greece Inches Toward Credit Deal, Endangered Wolf Makes Comeback

  • 17 Questions To Ask Next Time Someone Tells You The Economy Is Getting Better
  • Davos, in the Style of Occupy Wall Street
  • Latin America Looks at West’s Fiscal Crises, and Sees Its Own Past
  • Don't Be A Wall Street Patsy
  • Greece Inches Toward Deal in Talks With Its Creditors
  • Everything You Know About Peak Oil Is Wrong
  • Energy Tax Breaks Proposed, Despite Waning Support for Subsidies
  • Lone Wolf Commands a Following

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Daily Digest 1/27 - Sting Cost Google Millions, Outlook Still Grim For Greece, Aging Population Stresses Prisons

  • Con Artist Starred in Sting That Cost Google Millions
  • Israel Senses Bluffing in Iran’s Threats of Retaliation
  • Pattern of Intimidation Is Seen in Arrests of Iranian Journalists and Bloggers
  • At Euro Talks, a Calm Arm-Twister From the U.S.
  • For Greece, the Outlook Is Still Grim
  • Number of Older Inmates Grows, Stressing Prisons
  • Waste to Energy: A Great Source of Clean Energy - But is it the Correct Waste?
  • Poland Gives Green Light to Massive Fracking Efforts

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Daily Digest 1/26 - A Look At The Gold Tree, What You Need To Know About The Petrodollar, Bird Flu Health Report

  • Obama to Use Pension Funds of Ordinary Americans to Pay for Bank Mortgage “Settlement”
  • Bill Gates on Using His Money to Save Lives and Fix U.S. Schools, and Steve Jobs
  • Less Than Two Months Ahead Of The Greek D-Day, Rogoff Says "Europe Is Clearly Not Ready For A Greek Default"
  • A Look At The Gold Tree: Where Gold Comes From And Where It Goes
  • Detlev S. Schlichter, Paper Money Collapse
  • Bottom Line: Federal Reserve Says No Rate Hikes Until At Least Late 2014
  • City Controller Says Philly School District Must Cut $400,000 Per Day
  • The Petrodollar, Iran, and Gold—What You Need to Know
  • TITLECan Iran Survive Now That Europe Has Also Agreed to Boycott Its Oil?
  • Obama Calls on Energy Companies to Disclose the Ingredients of Fracking Fluid
  • Health Report: Bird Flu Threat
  • Tokyo sees high quake probability, scientists warn

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Daily Digest 1/25 - 2011 Unemployment Ins. Benefits Taxable, States Face Grim Budgets, Most Americans Uninsured In 2011

  • All 2011 unemployment insurance benefits taxable
  • China Narrows Gap On US As Favored Investment Destination
  • Bloomberg says pension costs stressing NYC budget
  • Rising costs push Kimberly-Clark 4Q profit lower
  • Nixon Budget Cuts Impact Higher Education
  • 'There will be riots on streets of America': George Soros predicts class war in U.S. as euro triggers collapse of global economy
  • SD Unified faces another grim budget
  • IMF Says EU Bailout Fund Financing An Issue After Downgrade
  • IMF calls on ECB to take Greek hit
  • Binding Greek Deal Would Trigger Swap Payments, Millstein Says
  • Graphic: UK debt passes £1 trillion for the first time
  • Students seek food stamps for financial aid
  • Mortgage fees soar 70% to pile pressure on cash-strapped homeowners
  • Tuition to rise at Saint Louis University
  • Number of children living in poverty up in Michigan, Kalamazoo County
  • Gallup: Most Americans were uninsured in 2011

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