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By Josh Funk Billionaire Warren Buffett says health care costs are a major drain on U.S. businesses and act like an “economic tape worm.” The

Tracy (California) residents will now have to pay every time they call 9-1-1 for a medical emergency. But there are a couple of options. Residents

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By Jose Luis Saavedra One of the world’s most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile on Saturday, killing at least 214 people, knocking down

By James Turk Instead of depositor money being used to stimulate economic activity in the private sector by lending to businesses and consumers, the banks

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Continue reading Who Are You Mr President? Nigel Farage Asks Van Rompuy Related reading: Nigel Farage Insults EU President Herman Van Rompu TimesOnLine (25 Feb

By Matthew Futterman and Kevin Helliker Vancouver, British Columbia Norway’s Olympic team has won a surprising 17 medals in Vancouver so far, enough to place

By Dawn Kopecki The Obama administration may expand efforts to ease the housing crisis by banning all foreclosures on home loans unless they have been

By F. William Engdahl A major diplomatic and political scandal is erupting that could have significant import for French-American relations. It involves new research into

Democrats have retreated from adding new privacy protections to the primary U.S counterterrorism law, stymied by Senate Republicans who argued the changes would weaken terror

by Gordon T Long The Bond Vigilantes are dead – RIP – Long Live the Sultans of Swap Every parent has had that moment when

When the US commodities regulator sought public input last year on a plan to damp oil speculation, most of the hundreds of missives it received

European banks need to roll over €1 trillion (£877bn) of debt over the next two years at a much higher cost and in direct competition

By Dawn Kopecki Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance companies under government control, are reporting fourth-quarter losses after writing down the

Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to

By Richard Teitelbaum Feb. 23 (Bloomberg)—When a congressional panel convened a hearing on the government rescue of American International Group Inc. in January, the public

Associated Press (21 Feb 10) WASHINGTON – Americans who turn to terrorism and plot against the U.S. are now as big a concern as international

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Global Crisis Leads I.M.F Experts to Rethink Long-Held Ideas New York Times (21 Feb 10) WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund has long preached the

Fed Probes Goldman Role in Greek Crisis Financial Times (25 Feb 10) Bernanke Probing Goldman’s Dealings with Greece MarketWatch (25 Feb 10) London Firm Was

Zero Hedge (20 Feb 10) Much has been said lately about the record cash balance on the books of S&P 500 companies (ex. financials- those

Pensions & Investments (11 Jan 10) The Internal Revenue Service wants to tax the State of Wisconsin Investment Board some $40 million, including interest, to

GATA (20 Feb 10) Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: As you may have seen from the Bloomberg News story dispatched to you previously today,(http://www.gata.org/node/8352),

Bloomberg (22 Feb 10) WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Pacific Investment Management Co., clearing the way for a lawsuit seeking more than

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By Paul Mylchreest (12 Nov 07) THESIS: The biggest credit bubble in modern history is showing signs of unraveling in the US. Debt/credit expansion brings

The Economist (8 Feb 10) THERE was a time when conservation meant keeping people away from nature. America’s system of national parks, a model for

Talk about your political upsets. Texas Rep. Ron Paul, hero of a fervant band of libertarians, unexpectedly won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative

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By Newt Gingrich and Peter Ferrara You did the responsible thing. You saved in your IRA or 401(k) to support your retirement, when you could

Tesla Motors, makers of sporty electrical cars, filed their registration statement on January 29th to go public with a $100 million offering through Goldman Sachs,

By Darrell Preston and Nanette Byrnes Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — U.S. states must contend with a more than $1 trillion gap between what they have

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Introduced in the Georgia General Assembly B 416 – “Sound Money In Banking Act”; require any bank serving as a depository for the state to

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By Suzanne Goldenberg The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same

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By Tom Engelhardt, Tom Dispatch Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re

By Mark Anderson According to an independent British newspaper editor, in the not-so-distant future, English drivers will be charged based upon the number of miles

By Alan Feuer The critical lawsuit challenging that mystery of finance known as the Bailout started, oddly enough, with a casual newsroom chat. Mark Pittman,

By Daniel Tencer Concerns over privacy have aligned with apocalyptic Biblical prophecy in a proposed Virginia law that limits the use of microchip implants on

I have been looking at the impact of various events and natural disasters on the price of gold. Paul Ferguson made this chart that marks

By Paul Krugman For the truth is that lack of fiscal discipline isn’t the whole, or even the main, source of Europe’s troubles — not

In an attempt to rein in the shadow economy and collect more tax revenue, Greece outlaws cash transactions greater than 1500 Euros. Please consider Greek

By Jonathan Petre The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted

By Craig Torres and Christopher Condon The Federal Reserve is in talks with money-market mutual funds on agreements to help drain as much as $1

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By Chris Powell While our hopes to have a documentary film made from GATA’s conference in Washington on April 18 and 19, 2008, have not

By Jeremy Singer-Vine A boost in blood sugar appears to increase the perceived value of future rewards, according to a study in Psychological Science. Researchers

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By Aoife White The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers — a

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New Mexico’s House of Representatives voted Monday to pass a bill that allows the state to move $2 billion – $5 billion of state funds

By Julianna Goldman and Ian Katz President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive

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By Paul Joseph Watson Subversives who think government is corrupt and should be controlled by the people face 10 years in prison and a $25,000

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By Paul Ferguson “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” I just had one of the best weeks ever! And

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By Dunstan McNichol Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, will consider Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection along with tax increases and asset sales as options to address

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