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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

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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

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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

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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

YouTube NOTE: CAF Note: Open up the constitution in this environment and you will create a process that will be controlled by the wealthiest, most powerful

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

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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

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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 /