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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may seek sanctions against two former State Street Corp. executives accused of misleading investors in a bond fund involved

By Vincent Fernando Total assets under management for U.S. emerging markets funds is now pretty close to the peak level it hit pre-crisis and what’s

By Tyler Durden Today’s latest chapter in what is now known as the new 3M: the Massive Mortgage Mess, is that Fidelity National has told

By Kara Scannell and Tom Lauricella Regulators investigating the causes of the May 6 “flash crash” singled out a Midwestern mutual-fund company’s computer-driven trade as

By Satyajit Das Detox Cures In the first half of 2010, angst about European sovereign debt receded and market volatility eased. In the second half

By Karen Freifeld and David Mildenberg Ambac Assurance Corp. sued Bank of America Corp. over $16.7 billion of mortgage-backed securities, saying the bank’s Countrywide Financial

Ohio Secretary of State Brunner has sent a criminal referral to the US attorney general over ubiquitous mortgage fraud. Continue reading the article . .

By Lymari Morales For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report

Shares in Monsanto slumped by 10% on Tuesday amid talk that some of the group’s top-of-the-range corn seed, genetically modified to protect against insect pests,

Global governance—the collective management of common problems at the international level—is at a critical juncture. Although global governance institutions have racked up many successes since

The IRS deployed a new preparer tax identification number (PTIN) registration system Tuesday as a component of its initiative to register and regulate paid tax

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By Shawn Tully The housing crash not yet realized its full impact on budgets in the most vulnerable states. It’s the banking crisis all over

By Tyler Durden With each passing day, the revalations in mortgage-gate, which has for now implicated GMAC and JPMorgan in foreclosing on mortgages without titles,

By C. Powell GATA’s freedom-of-information lawsuit against the Federal Reserve in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an action seeking access to the

The Icelandic parliament, Althingi, just passed a parliamentary resolution with 33 votes against 30 to take former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde to High Court

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By Jack Farchy Financial Times Europe’s central banks have all but halted sales of their gold reserves, ending a run of large disposals each year

By Heidi Blake A space ambassador could be appointed by the United Nations to act as the first point of contact for aliens trying to

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By Harriet Johnson Brackey When Jason Grodensky bought his modest Fort Lauderdale home in December, he paid cash. But seven months later, he was surprised

[Thank you, Michael Shuman!] Every good or service imported unnecessarily from outside your community means lost income, jobs, and taxes from the business that might

by Eric deCarbonnel [You] will never know the difference if the toilet paper is 3/4″ narrower, right? Continue reading the article . . .

By Pete Kennedy More than ever S510 represents a major threat to the local food movement, states’ autonomy to regulate food, and the country’s ability

By John Hooper In unprecedented move, judge freezes €23m held in account at financial institution with close church links. The head of the Vatican bank

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By Joe Weisenthal The US economy is frequently compared to Japan in the early days of its lost decade, but here’s one way it’s way

By: David Gutierrez he Mexican government is moving forward with plans to ban all junk foods from public school by the start of the coming

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By Dr. Arthur Evangelista, PhD Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is

By Chris Dever High-Fructose Corn Syrup – The Corn Refiners Association recently asked the FDA in the U.S. to allow high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to

By: Robin Knight The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the

A gold dispensing ATM machine from Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: Abu Dhabi Gets an ATM

U.S. household wealth fell by $1.5 trillion in the second quarter, according to Federal Reserve data on Friday that showed the strain a slow-paced recovery

By Les Leopold How dare we ask such questions! How dare we consider targeting them for special taxes? How dare we even think about redistributing

DN! Gathered here in Bonn this week are some 80 Right Livelihood Award laureates, including the Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser who has battled the biotech

US tax dollars at work. The US Department of Homeland Security has been spying on people who don’t like gas drilling and handing on the

An Evening with Chris Martenson Thursday Sept. 23, 2010 7:00pm- 8:30pm Yucca Theatre 2000 W Wadley Ave, Midland, TX 79705 –– Dr. Chris Martenson is

The Senate on Thursday passed the Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (part of the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act, HR 5297) by

Growing an Already Disjointed and Duplicative Federal Government In 2008, GAO testified before a House subcommittee that “FDA is one of 15 agencies that collectively

Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate will not take up long-pending food safety legislation before the Nov. 2 elections, citing a Republican senator’s

By Michael W. Savage For those who have long argued that smoking marijuana should not be a crime, a potentially historic turning point is just

BOSTON (TheStreet) — The “automatic” IRA may be on the way. A bill filed by U.S. senators Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) and John Kerry (D-Mass.)

The U. S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced a joint public hearing on Sept.

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Queen of The Sun creatively explores the global bee crisis as a catalyst for culture shift. We highlight unsung heroes from past and present, from

By Brett Michael Dykes What you see above isn’t a rural gravel road. It’s a Louisiana waterway, its surface completely covered with dead sea life

In earlier times, it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people. Today it is infinitely easier to kill

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By Jeremy Scahill Blackwater author Jeremy Scahill reveals in The Nation new evidence about the connection between the security firm and a host of companies,

View Larger Chart By Timothy Noah The American aristocracy is less different from you and me than it was in Fitzgerald’s day. “Before World War

By Rebecca Thistlewaite You watched Food, Inc. with your mouth aghast. You own a few cookbooks. You go out to that hot new restaurant with the