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I KNEW Free Range Studios HAD to be the animation movie team riffing on the tune ‘Superstition’ with dancing piggies and agribusiness villains to inspire voters to take action on industrial farm animal cruelty for HSUS.

Here's an educational 'lecturing' or 'schooling' that all 'economists' who moonlight as pundits in the media should watch. As well as, We the People. Thanks to my friend Tab for the link. Ron Paul schools Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke.

By Ray Paulick Halsey Minor, the technology entrepreneur and Thoroughbred owner and breeder whose bid to purchase Hialeah Park was recently rebuffed by owner John Brunetti, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the auction company Sotheby’s for transparency and disclosure issues that may parallel those in the Thoroughbred auction business.

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals Way back in December of 2006, NVIDIA and AMD were both pegged for potential price fixing, and nearly two years later it seems it’ll finally be paying the piper. A settlement agreement is detailed in a recently filed 8-K form, which asserts that NVIDIA would pay $850,000

By: D. H. Williams @ 12:28 PM - EST Ron Paul confronts Ben Bernanke and Warren Buffett on price fixing. The bailout plan will begin with a 700 billion is created credit but will likely exceed 5 trillion as the Fed will have no limitations on what or how it operates what will be a complete socialist centrally planned and controlled economy.

The Wall Street Journal is out with some major news: The Justice Department has opened investigations into food price collusion by tomato processors and producers of liquid and powdered eggs. The department’s already formally looking into price fixing in the cheese and milk markets as well as the citrus industry.

Allegations of price-fixing in the tomato- and egg-processing industries. (AP) Another food-safety scare in Asia: Two people in Japan fall ill after eating China-made bean paste. (AFP) Some Neanderthals had a taste for seafood. Cool story. (Guardian) - Ian Froeb

As readers know, I love to collect reasons for the sharp increase in food prices that has occurred this year.  Here’s a new one: price fixing.  Although you might not know it from looking at the similar prices of food products in the same category, price fixing is illegal.  Federal prosecutors are

Drivers in the south and parts of the eastern seaboard of the United States are pulling up to gas stations only to discover dry pumps. Some factors resulting in shortages include the consequences of Hurricane Ike and rumors of gas shortages, which results in panic buying.

Savers should beware that the U.S. Supreme Court recently reversed earlier Anti-Trust rulings preventing price fixing. Under new rules established a year ago, manufacturers are now allowed to fix minimum prices for resale of their products and coerce retailers to stop discounts by cutting off supplies and refusing to sell to them.