By Sam Smith Since 1989, we have occasionally published a guide to getting through the crummy era that we are still in. In 2003, we

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By The Associated Press The Food and Drug Administration is warning patients about a potential mix-up between powerful prescription pain drugs and common over-the-counter medications

By Corinne Gretler Stocks in Switzerland (SMI) dropped as the Swiss National Bank President Philipp Hildebrand resigned after a currency purchase by his wife last

Wegelin & Co one of last pure Swiss private banks Negotiations at critical stage in Wegelin case Investigations shake Swiss banking secrecy tradition   By

Aristotle’s Politics Book V and VI By Michael Hudson Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies

By Tyler Durden Curious how the US, on a state by state basis, stacks up against the rest of the world, in terms of economic

By Gregor Macdonald 2011 was an abysmal year for the global insurance industry, which had to cover yet another enormous increase in damages from natural

As state-backed firms once again become forces in global business, we ask what they can learn from the greatest of them all. By The Economist

By Clare Chapman A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment

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The Georgia Election Code (the “Code”) mandates that “[e]very candidate for federal and state office who is certified by the state executive committee of a

By jturbin The latest Fed minutes, a recap of the December 2011 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, revealed that the U.S. central bank is

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Reductions are expected in the program for the F-35 fighter jet. By Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker Washington — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is

A man walks on a container at a shipping terminal in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2011. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg By Keith Jenkins and Anchalee Worrachate

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By Steven Rosenfeld Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations

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By Robin Wigglesworth in London Almost $6.3 trillion was erased from global stock markets this year as the euro zone financial crisis reverberated across the

By Peter J. Wallison Peter Wallison has published his Dissent from the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. It’s a must read for

By David B. Collum Precious metals were in a Utopian bull market for almost a decade. The early bulls lounged poolside, taking the occasional dip

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A discourse by Markandeya in the Mahabharata  identifies some of the attributes of Kali Yuga: In relation to rulers Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy taxes unfairly.

By Barry Ritholtz “What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court

By Martin Holladay, GBA Advisor Several GBA readers have requested a copy of a presentation I gave at the recent annual meeting of the British

By Reuters Beijing (Reuters) – China took a further step on Tuesday toward ending its dependence on U.S. satellites to provide navigation and positioning services

By Eamonn Fingleton Tokyo, Japan — In this slot a few days ago I posed some historical questions that, judging by the email I have

By Scot Paltrow Four years after the banking system nearly collapsed from reckless mortgage lending, federal prosecutors have stayed on the sidelines, even as judges

By Lisa Du James Koutoulas, one of the founders of the Commodity Customer Coalition—which represents the interests of over 8,000 MF Global customers, was just

People walk over the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001.  By The Associated

By Foster Gamble Charles Eisenstein, the author of Sacred Economics, has written an article,”Synchronicity, Myth and the New World Order“, and a critique of THRIVE:

By TED and The Huffington Post Watch Open Source Ecology Founder Marcin Jakubowski discuss the prospects for an open source, do it yourself civilization. Then

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By Joseph E. Stiglitz It has now been almost five years since the bursting of the housing bubble, and four years since the onset of

By Reuters CME Group Inc., operator of the world’s leading energy, grains and precious metals markets, is in talks with China’s securities regulator to enter

By Peter Hitchens TT: What is the major failure of Christian education in the modern West? PH: Its lack of poetry. The abandonment of the great

By Margery A. Beck Maha, Neb. (AP) — The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots.

YouTube By Nina Bernstein The men showed up in a small town in Australia’s outback early last year, offering top dollar for all available lodgings.

By Barbara Pruitt Kauffman’s most popular content this year discovered a “jobs leak,” illustrated entrepreneurs’ contributions and recommended policy reforms for growth. (Kansas City, Mo.),

By IRS Washington—The Internal Revenue Service in coming days will release a new information reporting form that taxpayers will use starting this coming tax filing

By Rosalind S. Helderman Negotiations over how to extend a payroll tax holiday for 160 million Americans and avoid a government shutdown this weekend ground to

The St. Columbanus Church food pantry in Chicago feeds 500 households a week, but some weeks it struggles to keep up with demand. (CBS) By

Corzine is sworn in to testify about MF Global’s bankruptcy before a US senate committee in Washington, December 8, 2011. By Christopher Doering Regulators now

By Ryan Grim Washington — A month ago, Google lobbyist Katherine Oyama absorbed one of the more unusual congressional tongue-lashings in years when she appeared

By Michael Corkery Cities and states would be required to release projections of cash flows and pension costs five years into the future under a

HSBC Holdings plc is a public limited company incorporated in England in 1990, and headquartered in London since 1993. By Linda Sandler and Tiffany Kary

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By Vincent Graff Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too. Outside the police station in the

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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron By Gonzalo Vina and Rebecca Christie Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain refused to sacrifice sovereignty to save the euro,

By D. Michael Lindsay It seems that every week we hear of a C.E.O. who earned millions from a golden parachute after demonstrating poor business

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By Christopher Elias (UK) (Business Law Currents) A legal loophole in international brokerage regulations means that few, if any, clients of MF Global are likely to get

CEO Jon Corzine, center, at MF Global last year: A Senate panel Thursday grilled regulators about how loopholes let farmers’ commodity trades end up in

Technology and society: The “maker” movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation. It may even herald a new industrial revolution By The

By Herald Online Thousands of Americans will be finding guns in their Christmas stockings this year, after the biggest one-day buy-up on record. Black Friday

Fire boats battle a fire at the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. By Vivian Kuo

From Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin The U.S. is becoming increasingly aware and concerned about the possibility within a few years of an electromagnetic pulse attack

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By Nicholas D. Kristopf If you want to understand why the Occupy movement has found such traction, it helps to listen to a former banker

By Steve Karnowski Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS—The shock waves from the collapse of commodities trading firm MF Global Inc. are hitting hard across rural America, where

Hernando de Soto is a Peruvian economist who made enough money in Europe to retire before he was 40. Instead he began studying what makes

By David Brooks Why are nations like Germany and the U.S. rich? It’s not primarily because they possess natural resources — many nations have those.

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By RT News Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks at a press conference at City University London in central London December 1, 2011 (AFP Photo /

By Tyler Durden Simply put, “it does not last for ever” should be ringing in the ears of every investor in the world with more

By Scott Lanman and Jeff Black Six central banks led by the Federal Reserve made it cheaper for banks to borrow dollars in emergencies in

By Barry B. Burr AMR Corp.’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection leaves the future uncertain for American Airlines’ defined benefit pension plans, which have

By Chris Powell Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Market analyst Chris Martenson made an absolutely brilliant and eloquent presentation to the Spanish Precious Metals

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Contact: Heather Garlich hgarlich@fmi.org 202-220-0616 ARLINGTON VA – November 22, 2011 – Today, the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has joined with the National Association of

By Cam Hui The title, which refers to a possible “market crash”, may seem untimely on an occasion when ES futures are deeply in the

Unless Germany and the ECB move quickly, the single currency’s collapse is looming EVEN as the euro zone hurtles towards a crash, most people are

By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of

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By Gretchen Morgenson AS the debt mess in Europe deepens, bankers are pressing Greece’s bond holders to swallow big losses. Leading the charge is BNP

By Chris Anders While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday

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By Andy Bruce The euro zone is unlikely to survive its sovereign debt crisis in current form, according to a majority of leading economists and

Behind every credit default swap or short of subprime mortgage-backed assets sit legal counsel sanctioning these practices; their hands are no cleaner than those of