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Fed Audit Shield Takes Blow After Ron Paul Proposal Advances
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul610.html

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Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Passes Key Hurdle

By Ryan Grim

In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan 43-26 vote on Thursday afternoon despite harried last-minute lobbying from top Fed officials and the surprise opposition of Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who had previously been a supporter.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24018.htm



The Great Stimulus Debate of '09

"Crybabies need not apply"

By Mike Whitney

Barack Obama has decided to push the economy back into recession, and no one can figure out why. Perhaps the impressionable Obama has come under the spell of the deficit hawks and crystal gazers who see Armageddon around every corner.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24025.htm



The Pending Collapse Of The U.S.A.

By Timothy V. Gatto

The truth that most people realize but can't openly talk about is that America has seen better days and that the system of capitalism has long outlived its usefulness.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24020.htm



Economic Crisis Is Getting Bloody

Violent Deaths Are Now Following Evictions, Foreclosures and Job Losses

By Nick Turse

Despite ever rosier economic predictions and a surging stock market, the body count from the economic crisis is destined only to grow in the weeks and months ahead.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24023.htm

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Seven big lies about the stimulus

National Review
by Stephen Spruiell

11/24/09

1. Raises = jobs: This one turns out to be pretty common. For example, the Associated Pressreported that one nonprofit in Georgia used stimulus money to give its employees raises, then multiplied its total number of employees (508) by the percentage points of the raises (1.84) and told the White House that the stimulus had saved 935 jobs. (Its directors said they were just following instructions they received from the White House.) Other nonprofits did the same. According to the AP, this fraud exaggerated the number of jobs created or saved by 9,300...

http://tinyurl.com/ylnqr6k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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