By Matthew McDermott, A new report coming from Optimum Population Trust and carried out by the prestigious London School of Economics says that expanding access

By Jeremy Scahill On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out

By Michael Connelly Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act

By Terry Jones Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about

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By Charles Stein James McDonald, chief executive officer of New York investment firm Rockefeller & Co., died Sunday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according

By Kim LaCapria Ex-CEO of Beneficial Corp. Finn H.W. Casperson was found dead in an apparent suicide behind an office building in Westerly, Rhode Island.

By Jesse Solomon and Justin Lear Police are investigating the death of the former chief fundraiser for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich as a “death-suicide,” an

By Ruben Vives and Louis Sahagun Newport Beach financier Danny Pang died early Saturday at a local hospital, according to the Orange County coroner’s office.

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By Ryan Grim The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Broadly speaking, the world is run at the outset of the 21st Century by the United States and China together in uneasy

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by: Brooke Jarvis Illinois, home to 76,000 farms and more than 950 food manufacturing companies, is a solidly agricultural state in the heart of America’s

Business and government officials met in China to continue discussions on centralizing control and management of the global economy. Continue reading Summer Meeting 2009

If you are in Fargo, North Dakota this weekend, I hope you will join us! This is a free event to promote sound money, free

By Jonathan Watts Under the plan, money would be used to expand China’s solar, wind, carbon capture and smart-grid markets. Photograph: Graham Turner A joint

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By Helaine Olen John Halko was halfway through renovating an expanded space for Comfort, his mostly organic eatery in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., when the credit crisis

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By Mark Morford So far ahead in weapons sales to the world are we, it’s not even a contest. We own the game. According to

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By Cameron French Barrick Gold (ABX.TO) will issue $3 billion in stock to eliminate all of its fixed-price gold hedges and a portion of its

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

By Don Nicoloff It would appear IBM in 2006 was planning for a global epidemic sometime before 2011. Continue reading IBM: Planning on an Epidemic

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

Dr. Hulda Clark passed away peacefully in her sleep September 3, 2009. A website is being setup in memory of Dr. Clark where people may

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China began the long journey to a new international reserve currency with a single step – agreeing to buy $50 billion in notes from the

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.

In thinking about economic reform, if you want to contemplate construction techniques outside of “the matrix,” read about the Coral Castle and Nan Madol.

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

This is a special flower called a Cereus. It blooms only once a year at night and by dawn the flower is gone, My friend