She suggested a Financial Product Safety Commission in a 2007 article in the magazine Democracy. President Barack Obama proposed it to Congress in June as the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Full Article at A Tiny Revolution

"No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money." Full Article at The Market Oracle

As a rule we favour capitalism in an expansion and socialism in a contraction. -- George Cooper "You know we need to de-addict," she said, late one night as I finished reading and was about to call it a day. "De-addict? Full Article at DNA India

In 1964 the USGovt introduced the zinc dimes clad with silver. They at least admitted the debauchery publicly. Now pre-1964 silver coins are all considered different, and valued differently too, higher. Full Article at The Market Oracle

I don't know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another resource has already peaked and gone into free fall: the credibility of the body that's meant to assess them. Full Article at Mail & Guardian Online

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was hauled before a Congressional Committee last year to explain why he had been blindsided by the global financial cataclysm. To his credit, he (...) This is just the beginning of the article. Full Article at Commonweal