Question for Catherine: As a foreigner (Canadian), I am nearly as concerned about the state of American politics as those at home. I hope you

By Stephen Ohlemacher Washington (AP) — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped

Narrated By Ed Asner and Architect Richard Gage Continue reading the article . . . Note: The SEC has not quantified the number of active

By Pete Danko One would be excused for suspecting that Aidan Dwyer, said to be 13, is in fact a small, very young-looking, 37-year-old college-educated

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By Louise Story The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in

By Paul Panckhurst Morgan Stanley cut its forecast for global growth this year, citing an “insufficient” policy response to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, weakened confidence

By Daniel Cancel and Nathan Crooks Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’

By Cam Hui I reviewed many of the world’s stock market charts this weekend and what I found were numerous Dark Crosses where the 50-day

By Greg Keller and Juergen Baetz Paris (AP) — France and Germany called on Tuesday for a “new economic government” for Europe, with mandatory balanced

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By David G. Savage and Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau Reporting from Washington — A federal appeals court struck down a pillar of President Obama’s

Submitted by Brian Rogers of Fator Securities Markets are trading sharply lower this morning after yesterday’s late afternoon rally on the change in language in

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Perry Vieth, Co-Founder of Ceres Partners, stands in front of corn crops in Granger, Indiana on June 22, 2011. By Seth Lubove Perry Vieth baled

By Margaret Chadbourn The Obama administration is looking for new ideas to shrink a glut of foreclosed properties held by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae

By Erica Orden and Jack Nicas Marilyn Monroe Sculpture, Skirt Billowing, Has Windy City Breathing Heavily CHICAGO—Marilyn Monroe was always larger than life. But here

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd Jackie O believed LBJ conspired to have her husband assassinated, according to tapes she made in 1964 with the historian Arthur

An experimental, arrowhead-shaped aircraft that could reach blistering speeds of 13,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean is set to blast off Wednesday from Vandenberg Air

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By Nils Pratley The US finished its last round of quantitative easing just five weeks ago. But the cries for more will grow deafening if

By Danny Mayer One of the major players in the global financial crisis is now in charge of all financial transactions in an entire state.

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By Dan Freed New York (TheStreet) — The fragile housing market may attract the attention of the Congressional committee charged with finding ways to cut

By Tyler Durden While the impact on Treasurys as a result of the downgrade may be limited (after all the other side of the Atlantic

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked a state judge to reject a proposed $8.5 billion settlement agreement over soured loans between Bank of America

By John Detrixhe Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.’s AAA credit rating for the first time, slamming the nation’s political process and criticizing lawmakers for

“We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’ and affirmed the ‘A-1+’ short-term rating. * “We have

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker

By: David Thomas Chief Executive Officer Equitas Capital Advisors LLC The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few

By Catherine Austin Fitts Yesterday, Rawesome Foods in Venice, California was raided by a Los Angeles swat team. Several people were arrested. There are numerous

Note from Catherine: Check out “The Whistleblower” opening this weekend, a story based on the efforts of a few brave people to stop sex slave

By David Woolley “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, – go from us in

By Sam Smith Not since the Civil War has there been such a major assault on accepted principles of the Union as defined by a

By Bruce Levine Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions

By Catherine Austin Fitts I left San Francisco on Saturday, July 23 and drove to Laguana Beach. The next day I drove to Tucson, Arizona.

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Mike Dorning Congressional leaders, leaving no extra time before a default threatened for tomorrow, are racing to push through a

By Jenna Wortham When Lisa Marion’s roommates moved out of her apartment in Toronto in February, she scrambled to find replacements. But instead of finding

By Brad Plumer and Aaron Blake As lawmakers struggle to resolve the debt crisis, a growing number of observers wonder whether President Obama has one

Republished Article Original (5 Nov 2008) Obama has proposed restoring the PAYGO policy that prohibits increases in federal spending without a way to compensate for

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined Administration officials today to announce initiatives aimed at modernizing the nation’s electric grid, including USDA’s goal to invest $250 million

In the second installment of our 2-part interview with investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts, we hear her advice for both the young and young at

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By Ross Kerber A senior Federal Reserve official is prescribing sweeping medicine to stabilize the $2.5 trillion money market mutual fund industry, which would be

By Ryan Grim Washington – Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public’s unwillingness to

By Senator Bernie Sanders The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion

By Sam Smith Percentage of total U.S. debt, according to Business Insider: •    Hong Kong: $121.9 billion (0.9 percent) •    Caribbean banking centers: $148.3 (1