Shock Employment Data: Only 46% Of Americans Have Jobs

• Awaiting the “Zero Hour” of Available Credit
• Shock employment figures: Fewer than 46% of Americans have jobs
• Bank of America Profit Drops Nearly 36%
• China's GDP Soars by 9.7 Percent From One Year Prior, Inflation At High
• Larry Summers: Don't Blame Financial Innovation For Crisis
• Ron Paul also starts 'testing the waters' organization for 2012
• Ron Paul's son Robert considering a congressional run
• Foreclosure Investors Flip Homes, Reap Rewards
• Feds Made Over $125 Billion In Improper Payments Last Year
• Rating Agencies Repeatedly Caved To Banks' Demands And Helped Cause Crisis, Senate Finds

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William Black On NPR: It's A Wall Street Government

Bill Black - NPR Planet Money - April 14, 2011

• Read the transcript at PBS

Give this a listen.  Runs 2 minutes.

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A Third Dr. Paul In Congress?: Dr. Robert Paul Considers Senate Run To Join Brother, Father (Video)

Video - Oklahoma City 2008

Ron Paul's son Robert considering a congressional run

Now a third Paul -- Robert, a doctor who runs a family medical practice in Benbrook and lives in Fort Worth -- is mulling a congressional bid of his own.

After campaigning for his father, most notably giving speeches during the elder Paul's 2008 presidential bid, Robert Paul is considering whether to jump into the race to replace Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison when her term expires in January 2013.

"I have thought about running," Robert Paul, one of five children, told the Star-Telegram. "I am very happy as a physician, but [I] have a lot of concern about the debt."

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Taxman Live Clapton & Harrison - "It's 1 For You, 19 For Me"

George Harrison and Eric Clapton...

The marginal tax rate in the U.K. at the time was 95% on all income above a certain threshold.  And the Beatles apparently met that threshold.

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Donald Duck Income Tax Propaganda From 1943

Video - The Spirit of '43

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China Bubble Pops, Still No Wall Street Jail Time, Fed Prez Sees No Inflation, Food Prices In Danger Zone, Glass-Steagall Is Back, Goldman Execs In Trouble For Lying (Links)

• In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures - NYT Must
• Banks Should Face Criminal Charges Over Foreclosuregate
• China Bubble Pops: Beijing Real Estate Prices Plunge 27% In One Month
• Fed Prez Says He Doesn’t See Signs of Inflation
• Bloomberg rips Warren Buffett
• Goldman Sachs accused of misleading Congress
• World Bank: Food prices have entered the 'danger zone'
• Banks face $3.6 trillion "wall" of maturing debt: IMF
• 5 Shocking Examples Of Government Corruption That Will Blow Your Mind
• Glass-Steagall Reintroduced (Basically) - HR.1489 - Denninger
• Gillian Tett interviews Simon Johnson at Bretton Woods
• Obama $1 Trillion Tax Proposal Slams Into Republican Wall
• Raising the Debt Ceiling, and Extending QE-2 Indefinitely
• Rep. Walter Jones: "Cut This! Cut That! We're Spending 8 Billion Dollars A Month On A War That Can't Be Won!"

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William Black: Why aren’t the honest bankers demanding prosecutions of their dishonest rivals? (Links)

• Gov't orders 14 lenders to reimburse homeowners
• Banks Forced to Pay Foreclosure Victims as Talks Continue
• The rule of foreclosure law is not even worth 20 basis points
• Fraudclosure Draft Settlement - Scribd Document
• Germany acknowledges Greece may need to restructure bailout
• David Stockman - Who will stop the Fed
• David Stockman - Federal Reserve’s path of destruction - Part 2
• Average Traders Getting Killed in FX Markets
• Barry Bonds Found Guilty in Federal Steroids Probe Trial
• Goldman Sachs’s Special Situations Unit Produced 9% of Firm's '07 Revs
• PROFESSOR: Sarah Palin Staged A Gigantic Hoax About Being Trig's Mother
• Guerrilla Hoarding - Mises
• All Paperwork "Errors" Eh? - Denninger
• International JOKE: President Obama - Denninger
• Bernanke Urges Republicans to ‘Deal With’ Debt Without Backing Any Plan
• JPMorgan Ex-Structured Product CDO Head Llodra May Face SEC Suit
• William Black: Why aren’t the honest bankers demanding prosecutions of their dishonest rivals? - Naked Capitalism
• Frederic Mishkin Iceland Prize for Intellectual Integrity Goes to Calomiris, Higgins, and Mason Paper on Mortgage Settlement - Naked Cap
• Louisiana Bankruptcy Court Ruling Confirms Claims Made Against Lender Processing Services in Class Action Filings

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Goldman Traders Tried to Manipulate Derivatives Market in '07, Senate Report Says

Fab looks at Swenson (glasses) during Senate testimony last Summer.

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Spillionaires: Profiteering And Mismanagement In The Wake Of The BP Oil Spill (ProPublica Special Investigation)

The oil spill that was once expected to bring economic ruin to the Gulf Coast appears to have delivered something entirely different: a gusher of money.

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Clarke & Dawe On The BP Oil Spill: "The First Thing To Do Is To Underestimate The Problem"

Brilliant satire from the Australian duo.

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TSA Strip Searches 3 Year Old Boy: Video

This act of Homeland Insecurity genius occurred over the Christmas holidays...

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TSA Search & Harrass 9 Year-Old Boy And Other Train Passengers AFTER Their Trip (VIDEO)

Video - Feb. 13, 2011

Anyone with any answers why the search after the trip, otherwise we might be left with no other conclusion outside of general TSA stupidity.

And that's just not possible.

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Gillian Tett & Martin Wolf Interview Simon Johnson, Joseph Stiglitz And Henry Kaufman At Bretton Woods INET

Videos can't be embedded due to luddite policy at the FT.

Apr 12 2011 - The interviews are excellent.

• Simon Johnson
• Joseph Stiglitz
• Henry Kaufman

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AWESOME Video Timeline Of Obama's Daily Response To BP Oil Spill (White House Won't Like This Clip)

Since BP is in the news again...

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