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By Robert Cookson in Hong Kong China will issue sovereign bonds denominated in its own currency to offshore investors for the first time this month

By Sven Egenter Switzerland knocked the United States off the position as the world’s most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking system

By James T. Areddy China’s government on Monday offered public encouragement to state-owned companies challenging foreign banks over huge losses from derivative contracts, a move

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The US Court of Appeals in the Second Circuit has ruled against Google. Google was offering competitors trademarked names to advertisers as a search term

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard China has issued what amounts to the “Beijing Put” on gold. You can make a lot of money, but you really can’t

[How did we miss this one from last month?] Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein has warned his employees to avoid high-profile spending, as The Post

by Roberta Rampton and Chuck Abbott More than 35 million Americans received food stamps in June, up 22 percent from June 2008 and a new

The head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Yukio Hatoyama, who will be named Prime Minister on Sep. 14 in the wake of his

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Our forefathers’ worst nightmare has now come upon us. They created a free government, limited in its powers and a servant to the people. But

By Chris Oliver Hong Kong is pulling all its physical gold holdings from depositories in London, transferring them to a high-security depository newly built at

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By Matt Falloon Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 developed and developing economies meet in London this week to assess how

By John Williams Revived Crisis Brewing? A confluence of signals has aroused my gut instincts of an intensifying systemic liquidity crisis, and possible pending reaction

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By Chelsea Schilling Pandemic bill allows health authorities to enter homes, detain without warrant. …the following states have implemented legal actions in response to the

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Japans’s tax revenues have collapsed by 27pc over the last year, leaving it unclear how the incoming Democrats can pay for their

By Eadie Chen and Chen Aizhu A report that Chinese state-owned companies will be allowed to walk away from loss-making commodity derivative trades provoked anger

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Beijing is drawing up plans to prohibit or restrict exports of rare earth metals that are produced only in China and play

The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would

Undercover armed Americans are swarming the Pakistani capital in the latest sign that the elected government has allowed Washington to dispatch what is believed to

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By Linda Sieg Japan’s next leader Yukio Hatoyama, fresh from a historic election win, faced the task on Monday of forming a government to tackle

Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) may unilaterally terminate derivative contracts with six foreign banks that provide over-the-counter commodity hedging services, a leading financial magazine said. China’s

The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers and cellphones can pose a threat to honey bees, a study  published in India has concluded. An

Here is a map of the three month change in the Philly Fed state coincident indicators. Forty six states are showing declining three month activity.

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by Lauren Schenkman A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world’s finances are in the hands of

by Declan McCullagh Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power

With much of the world still mired in recession, the IMF took action to bolster its members’ reserves through an allocation of SDRs, or Special

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By Andrew Ward and David Oakley For a world first, the announcement came with remarkably little fanfare. But last month, the Swedish Riksbank entered uncharted

By Shannon P. Duffy Ordinarily, the decision to settle a case while an appeal is pending means giving up the opportunity to set a legal

Here is my #1 proposal for health care reform – stop suppressing the knowledge and technology that supports health and prevents and cures disease. If

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Scientists who developed the Small Pox vaccine are refusing immunization inoculation against the Swine Flu due to major medical side effects. 1 in 3 UK

by Michel Chossudovsky “Over the course of the next few months, with the assistance of our partners in the private and public sector and at

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Swiss private bank Wegelin announced on Tuesday that it is to stop doing business in the United States. The St Gallen-based bank, Switzerland’s oldest, said

By Steve Silberman Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster

(Reuters Pictures) Senator Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77. Continue reading Ted Kennedy Dies

by Dr. Anders Bruun Laursen The average quantity of squalene injected into the US soldiers abroad and at home in the anthrax vaccine during and

U.S. securities regulators are examining weekly meetings at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, where research analysts offer tips to traders and then to big clients, the

Argentina’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday it is unconstitutional to punish an adult for private use of marijuana as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else.

If someone else says to me that Americans are in a stupor and not doing anything, I will just spit. Lots of Americans are doing

By Karen Gullo The Federal Reserve must make public reports about recipients of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers under programs created to address the financial

“Non-event” — Congressman Ron Paul’s (R-TX) description of Swine Flu outbreak

By Carrie Johnson In appointing a prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA interrogation abuses, including episodes that resulted in prisoner deaths, Attorney General Eric H. Holder

By Matthew Cole,Richard Esposito and Brian Ross A “profanity-laced screaming match” at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today

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By Chris Powell Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, today confirmed that much of its gold is held outside the country at “trading centers” where the

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By Stephen Ohlemacher By law, Social Security benefits cannot go down. Nevertheless, monthly payments would drop for millions of people in the Medicare prescription drug

By BBC News China holds more US government debt than any other country and cut its holdings of US securities by more that 3% in

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By Dr. Mae Wen Ho Within the past several years, however, scientists have found that oxygen (O2) in the atmosphere has been dropping, and at

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