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	EPA Lawyers Challenge Cap and Trade While we need to speed to saving the environment, Cap and Trade is just another fallacy designed to enrich a group of special interests.
	Contango v Normal Backwardation If you are trying to understand the oil and natural gas, or other commodity markets, this is an important article. Simplified, yet technical in nature.
	Bill Moyer's Journal: Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform from Washington, has Wall Street really changed?
	Solar Energy Report by National Geographic
	The Man Who Crashed the World Almost a year after A.I.G.’s collapse, despite a tidal wave of outrage, there still has been no clear explanation of what toppled the insurance giant. The author decides to ask the people involved—the silent, shell-shocked traders of the A.I.G.
	In Somalia, Piracy Is An Attractive Career Option
	We Can't Subsidize the Banks Forever Government has to show it can handle major insolvencies. By MATTHEW RICHARDSON and NOURIEL ROUBINI printed in the Wall Street Journal. Messrs. Richardson and Roubini are professors at New York University's Stern School of Business.
	Jeremy Grantham Q1 Letter The Last Hurrah and Seven Lean Years
	Bill Moyer's Journal: William K. Black & the Banksters The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with William K. Black, the former senior regulator...
	The End (of Wall Street) The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.
	Jim Rogers Doesn't Mince Words About The Crisis "Always in the past, when people have printed huge amounts of money or spent money they didn't have, it has led to higher inflation and higher prices."
	Are You Adequately Insured Against Risk At Morningstar, we firmly believe that the best investors are at least as attuned to the risks they're taking as they are the money they're making...
	Seeking Unsexy Annuities As the economic earth continues to quake underfoot, unsexy insurance products with guarantees, such as variable annuities, are getting a second look from advisors...
	Licentious Behavior "As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to unfold, observers have been hunting for both culprits and solutions." From the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
	Confessions of An Economic Hitman John Perkins on what goes on behind global affairs.
	FBI: 2007 Mortgage Fraud Report The purpose of this study is to provide insight into the breadth and depth of mortgage fraud crimes perpetrated against the United States and its citizens.
	Subprime Mortgages: What, Where, and to Whom? Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
	Missing the Ten Best (and Worst) Days For years Wall Street and the mutual fund industry have advanced the concept that investors should buy and hold. A closer look reveals that all may not be as it first appears...
	The Truth Behind Hidden Fees in 401(k) Plans Bloomberg Video