From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again

Excellent piece by London Review of Books writer John Lanchester, discussing the British banking crisis.

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The shadow banking system has collapsed, not because the market is "frozen" or because investors are in a state of panic after Lehman, but because derivatives and securitization have been exposed as a fraud propped up on insufficient capital. It's snake oil sold by charlatans.

The US Federal Reserve apparently can't account for $9 trillion in off-balance sheet transactions.

There seems to be a lack of curiosity about the costly frauds that flushed our economy down the toilet.

So many of us know in detail about all the false warnings and exaggerated claims that were used to justify the war in Iraq.

By now, six years later, and after many books, reports, news sto

President Obama is nearing the most important decision a President has made in modern times regarding the American economy. On or about June 1, he will push General Motors (GM), the nation's largest industrial company, into bankruptcy. The key trigger may be on May 26, when GM's offer to bondhold

Our government is rightly going through every line in its budget at the moment to save money. That's why I think our government should look very seriously at dropping its addiction to Microsoft and moving its IT systems and platforms to open source software such as Ubuntu and Open Office.

The result is that the supply of money -- and the corresponding volume of debt -- has for several decades outstripped the production of goods and services that it promises. The continuation of capitalism as we know it depends on an infinite supply of these new industries, which essentially must co

PocketSmith, a Dunedin based startup, recently secured a partnership with US-based Workplace Options, the world's largest provider of work-life employee benefits, delivering support to over 18.5 million employees in more than 10,000 organizations.

There’s no way IBM’s spin doctors can make this look good. And yet the genderless ‘spokesperson’ contacted for IBM hits staff for coffee and tea by Australian IT’s Mitchell Bingemann and Andrew Colley still gave it a shot.

Remember the "ownership society"? Just an election cycle ago, conservatives were urging Americans to give up their antiquated social-insurance programs--Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance--in favor of tax-subsidized individual accounts that would vest responsibility for dealing wit

Good to see Bunnings investing in NZ - showing faith despite the Australian economy appearing to hold up better.

Another idea for helping newspapers survive when they can no longer afford to print . . .

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