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Southlake Legislator Wants Texas to Have its Own Fort Knox, Just in Case of a Global Collapse

The United States Bullion Depository was, according to Wikipedia, an unintended byproduct of a 1933 executive order banning the private ownership of large quantities of gold. Those who didn't move their gold to Switzerland sold it to the Federal Reserve, which found that it didn't really have any pl ... More >>

The 10 Weirdest Members of Congress

Checkmate

Prosecutors team with debt collectors to terrorize consumers in ways both highly profitable and usually illegal.

Texas Economy Would Be Booming If It Weren't For the Damn Journalists

First, the good news. The Dallas Fed's most recent economic numbers show that Texas' economy is growing. That growth is moderate, 2.4 percent for the year, but it's better than in the country as a whole. Energy is booming; so is construction. Even the government sector is expanding slightly, in a st ... More >>

America's Petro-Terrorists

How greedy speculators bought politicians and drove up the price of oil.

Infowars Host Alex Jones and His Followers Occupy the Dallas Fed Friday

Friday evening, two groups of protesters, Occupy Dallas and Occupy the Federal Reserve, lined opposite side of N. Pearl Street at Woodall Rodgers in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. "We got sold out, Feds got bailed out!" Occupy Dallas protesters shouted in unison on the west side of Pea ... More >>

Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle

Rick Perry's Texas is a job-making, low-taxing oasis of prosperity. It's also pure fantasy.

Ron Paul Supporters Prove, Once and For All, That Meetup is Still Good For Something

Honk if you find politically motivated honking sort of annoying.​Driving home last night, I saw a few lonely sign wavers on the north side of Northwest Highway. "Bring our troops home now," the signs urged, and I thought: Hey. That's nice. A totally depoliticized protest of our country's ongoi ... More >>

Victory Park-Based PrimeLending Pays $2 Mil After Feds Say It Overcharged Black Borrowers

​On the other side you'll find a lawsuit I came across this morning while looking for something completely unrelated: United States of America v. PrimeLending. The residential mortgage lender, HQ'd in Victory Park, is a subsidiary of PlainsCapital, which, maybe you remember, took $87.6 mil in TARP ... More >>

State Rep. Johnson Would Like Gov. Perry to Go Get Some of That Federal Small-Bidness Money

​On the other side's a letter state Rep. Eric Johnson sent Governor Rick Perry yesterday, in which the District 100 representative asks Perry to apply for federal funds intended to "provide critical resources to help small businesses continue to drive economic recovery and create jobs." That's per ... More >>

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: Oliver Stone Goes Soft.

Black Students Are Leaving DISD And Heading For Suburban Schools. Is That Such A Bad Thing?

Let's Be Business Brief

Don't mince words, Richard Fisher, what do you really think?​Some Tuesday morning odds and sods:First, from The Wall Street Journal, this op-ed from Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who tells the Senate to lay off his boy Ben Bernanke as he tries to re-up his positi ... More >>

Better Off Deadbeat: Craig Cunningham Has a Simple Solution for Getting Bill Collectors Off His Back. He Sues Them.

No Justice: We've Bailed Out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind Our Financial Collapse?

Just Why Is the EPA Considering Waste Management's Lobbyist For Dallas Director?

Alexa SchirtzingerThis morning, in the reflection of Dallas's Fountain Place building, a small group of environmental activists gathered as previously announced to oppose the nomination of former Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission head John Hall as the new regional director of the Enviro ... More >>

Mayor Tom Leppert Goes to D.C. This Morning to Talk About Bonds. Municipal Bonds.

I see Schutze is finally cleaning out his closet ... Mayor Tom Leppert's in D.C. this morning at the invite of Barney Frank, whose House Financial Services Committee is set to discuss why it's become so danged difficult and cost-prohibitive for cities to issue bonds -- and how Washington can fix it, ... More >>

Yo, Bernanke, I Thought I Told You Not to Come 'Round Here No More

Patrick MichelsJarrod Atkinson, trying not to shout. If you're meeting up with friends later today, Jarrod Atkinson has a joke for you to try. He told his rendition through a megaphone Saturday afternoon, before a crowd outside the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and it went a little like this:"Knoc ... More >>

Dallas Fed Head Richard Fisher Tells Japan: "The Data from the United States are Grim."

Dallas Fed president Richard FisherRichard Fisher, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, just delivered a speech to the Japan Center for Economic Research in Tokyo, where he didn't quote Bob Dylan or compare the economy to the contraptions of Rube Goldberg -- t ... More >>

The Economist: The Stars at Night are Big and Bright and Soon to Be Out of Work

The Economist takes a gander at Texas -- "America's most robust big state" -- and concludes (spoiler alert!) that "many now fear that Texas's low-tax, low-spend model will need revision." Why come?In December 2008 and January 2009 the state lost tens of thousands of jobs. Unemployment reached 6.4% i ... More >>

Dallas Fed Head Richard Fisher May Be the Best Economics Professor in the Country

Rube Goldberg's "Self-Operating Napkin"As noted here several times in the past, Richard Fisher, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, gives mighty good speech -- full of literary references, song lyrics and the assorted accumulated detritus collected in a bright mind. He was down ... More >>

Dallas Fed Head Says of "Buy American" Clause, It's "The Crack Cocaine of Economics"

Dallas Federal Reserve president and CEO Richard FisherDallas Federal Reserve president and CEO Richard Fisher was on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning warning that the "Buy American" provision in the House's stimulus bill is bad, bad news. European officials said over the weekend they're ter ... More >>

Dallas Fed Head: "It Does the Economy No Good When Creditors Curl Up in a Ball and Clutch Their Money."

Dallas Federal Reserve president and chief executive officer Richard Fisher, pictured at right, spoke today in front of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth and the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations. As always, the text of his speech -- titled, hysterically, "Historical Perspectives on ... More >>

Fed Up, or: Yet Another Weekend Protest in Downtown Dallas

Over the weekend, A Scanner Darkly star (well ...) Alex Jones made the trip up to Dallas to take on the Federal Reserve -- though, really, how many folks are in the building on a Saturday? Those folks who ditched out on Dealey Plaza brought their bullhorns and placards to 2200 N. Pearl Street, where ... More >>

Council Committee Moves Toward Smoking Smackdown. Could Be Worse.

Dallas Fed's Richard Fisher Hails From "The Strongest Economic Region Within the United States"

Life Without Debt Leaves Jimmy Phipps Owing Society

Why the Dallas Fed Prez Voted Against the Interest Rate Cut. Something About Tequila, Punch and Whisky.

The Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs of Dallas Fed Head Richard Fisher

Dallas Man Wants Goverment to Account for All of Its Gold

Uncle Milty Gets Down with Dallas Fed

Tinsel Town Toppings

Tristan Simon expands his empire

Beige Book Filled With Gray

Fed Feeding Mexico's Addiction?

Screwdriver of Fact

History for Sale

Heritage Auction Galleries made a fortune selling rare coins. Now it’s making a mint offering gems from America’s rich past.

Heat, No Light

Young Conservatives make a fuss with immigration protest

Till Death. That's It.

The In-Laws is bigger and broader than the original, but not better

The View From the Bottom

What's it like surviving the telecom bust? Numbers alone don't tell the story.

Playing Chicken

Come boom or bust Dallasites gotta eat--out, that is

Déjà Vu

The new Farrakhan sounds a lot like the old -- anti-Semitic

Black like him

Despite the Starr report's dirty details, Paula Jones' case against the nation's "first black president" hinges as much on race as on sex

Paper chase

William Morgan says he's just an innocent document dealer snared in a campaign finance scandal. And if you believe that, he has some old railroad bonds he wants to sell you.

Hot Product

World-class embezzler Gary Lewellyn rebounds with a fast-selling treatment for A.D.D.

Lost in loonyland

Pat Buchanan waves the bigot's banner in New Hampshire

The all-O.J. channel

Bang for your buck

Crimson Tide and Die Hard With a Vengeance provide summer's action fix

Buzz

The Crow-Qadhafi Connection

How a mythic Texas family won the gratitude of a dictator