Thursday 4 November 2010

Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab: Even though water privatization has been a massive failure around the world, the World Bank just quietly gave $139 million to its latest corporate buddy.

Obama humbled by conservative wave: A conservative wave roared across the American political landscape last night, humbling President Barack Obama and instantly redrawing the landscape in Washington with a new place on the high perches of power for the flag-bearers of the ultra-conservative Tea Party movement.

The GOP Plan To Investigate Obama: The First Four Potential Investigations

US Federal Reserve's latest bubble threatens mayhem: The prospect of more quantitative easing (QE) is driving government bond yields to levels that price in a depression.

Federal Reserve to print billions of dollars in massive shadow stimulus: The Federal Reserve's policy-setting panel began a crucial two-day meeting Tuesday, poised to cast aside its long-held reluctance to micro-manage the economy in a bid to avoid a lost decade of growth.

US to spend $200 mn a day on Obama's Mumbai visit: About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the White House and US security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-end security instruments.