Money & Markets – Week of 12.16.2012

By Melanie Pelayo On Jan. 1, 2013, Congress averted the so-called fiscal cliff by approving new legislation titled the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee Monday in a desperate attempt to protect an Illinois town

By Nick Turse One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand

By John Hussman Why are Treasury yields rising despite hundreds of billions of Treasury purchases by the Federal Reserve? There are two possibilities in the