CFPB is going to be the biggest cluster*@k ever.  They are chomping at the bit to rip companies to shreds. The new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wasted little time getting to work, using the agency’s new powers to start supervising payday lenders and other firms outside the conventional banking system. The bureau’s main goal will be ensuring that consumer loans, mortgages... 

The European Central Bank (ECB) must pump liquidity into the 17-member financial system to stop a run on bonds and even slap a ceiling on yields to avoid a breakup of the currency zone, says billionaire financier George Soros. Soros writes in a Financial Times column that policymakers should use the European Financial Stability Facility — an emergency assistance fund — to help the European Central... 

After WWI, America emerged as the dominant global military and economic power.  The allied victory in WWII cemented her place as a global superpower, and when the Cold War ended, the lone global superpower. America has weathered many storms and to date has always landed on her feet.  There were never any illusions that there were people and nations that have sought to take the USA down.  With the... 

“Reorganizing the world order will need to extend beyond the financial system“. Internationalist billionaire George Soros is holding his international conference April 8 to April 11 at Bretton Woods, N.H., the noted birthplace of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, where he plans to “rearrange the entire financial order,” as he noted in a November 2009 article in The Japan... 

When billionaire George Soros wrote two years ago that what the world needed now was “a new world architecture,” he was already laying plans for Bretton Woods II, April 8-11, 2011, to be held at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (pictured, left). Soros wrote: While international cooperation on regulatory reform is difficult to achieve on a piecemeal basis, it may be... 

On March 28, President Obama delivered a speech for the purpose of explaining his decision to use military force in Libya. Although the President gave multiple justifications for the U.S. intervention, it appears more and more that his philosophical basis for ordering the use of force by the United States is based on a doctrine known as “the responsibility to protect” (R2P). Relying on the R2P... 

Business Insider Reports: Hedge fund legend George Soros says bailing out countries alone won’t solve Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and, instead, the region’s bailout fund needs to be used to support its banks. He believes that if Europe doesn’t take control of its banks then it will “suffer something worse than a lost decade.” Soros emphasized that allowing... 

George Soros — whom we’re always told is not serving his own economic interests at all by promoting liberal politicians and big-government policies — is launching a new investment fund, that plans to profit off of the “green energy” boom, which is entirely dependent on government subsidies. As the press release puts it, this fund will “leverage technology and... 

The recent publication by the Human Rights Watch about Israel’s alleged “discrimination” against Palestinians puts the role of HRW in the anti-Israel movement back in the spotlight. [See here andhere] The criticism that HRW received, given the strong anti-Israeli tenor of its reports, is not new. Robert L. Bernstein (founder of Human Rights Watch) criticized it’s anti-Israel agenda last... 

Billionaire investor George Soros said the European Union shouldn’t delay a restructuring of sovereign debt and it would be “unjust” if Irish citizens absorbed the cost without losses to bondholders. “There is this unresolved problem,” Soros said in a Bloomberg Television interview with Erik Schatzker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today. “You can’t wait until 2013...