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 a halt Wednesday after a standoff in…

The St. Columbanus Church food pantry in Chicago feeds 500 households a week, but some weeks it struggles to keep up with demand. (CBS)

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Washington – Squeezed by rising living costs, a record …

Corzine is sworn in to testify about MF Global’s bankruptcy before a US senate committee in Washington, December 8, 2011.

By Christopher Doering

Regulators now have a more complete picture of mon…

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 before a hearing of the House Judi…

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 proposed financial-reporting rule due to be released…

HSBC Holdings plc is a public limited company incorporated in England in 1990, and headquartered in London since 1993.

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An HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) unit sued the MF…

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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 small Victorian mill town of Todmorden, West Yor…

The Fed’s $29 Trillion Bail-out of Wall Street

By L. Randall Wray

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Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain refused to sacrifice sovereignty to save the euro, remaining outside an agreement by …

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 judgment or cutting thousands of jobs with no financ…

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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 their money back. Although…

CEO Jon Corzine, center, at MF Global last year: A Senate panel Thursday grilled regulators about how loopholes let farmers’ commodity trades end up in risky bonds.

More than 100 Minnesota farmers…

Technology and society: The “maker” movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation. It may even herald a new industrial revolution

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Thousands of Americans will be finding guns in their Christmas stockings this year, after the biggest one-day buy-up on record.

Black Friday set the biggest one-day record of back…

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

BP is accusing Halliburton of having “intentionally destroyed evidence” re…

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The U.S. is becoming increasingly aware and concerned about the possibility within a few years of an electromagnetic pulse attack from an enemy’s high-altitude nuclea…

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A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory fi…

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 like James Theckston. He fully acknowledges that he and othe…

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 farmers, ranchers and ag…

Hernando de Soto is a Peruvian economist who made enough money in Europe to retire before he was 40. Instead he began studying what makes some countries rich and keeps others poor. His advocacy for f…

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. It’s primarily because of habits, values a…

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By Christopher Ketcham

We are now exposed to electromagnetic radio frequencies 24 hours a day. Welcome to the largest human experiment ever.

Consider this sto…

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By Tyler Durden

Simply put, “it does not last for ever” should be ringing in the ears of every investor in the world with more than a few millisecond return horizon. And neither do any and all charta…

By Scott Lanman and Jeff Black

Six central banks led by the Federal Reserve made it cheaper for banks to borrow dollars in emergencies in a global effort to ease Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis.

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By Barry B. Burr

AMR Corp.’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection leaves the future uncertain for American Airlines’ defined benefit pension plans, which have a combined $8.3 billion in asse…

By Chris Powell

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst Chris Martenson made an absolutely brilliant and eloquent presentation to the Spanish Precious Metals Association’s conference in Madrid …

Private prison companies strive to keep millions behind bars to keep their profits up. (photo: Gallo/Getty images)

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ARLINGTON VA – November 22, 2011 – Today, the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has joined with the National Association of Convenience Store…

By Cam Hui

The title, which refers to a possible “market crash”, may seem untimely on an occasion when ES futures are deeply in the green, but the newsflow from Europe is getting more and more conf…

Unless Germany and the ECB move quickly, the single currency’s collapse is looming

EVEN as the euro zone hurtles towards a crash, most people are assuming that, in the end, European leaders will …

By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz

The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the wo…

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Clean drinking water can be provided to the world for just $20 billion.

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AS the debt mess in Europe deepens, bankers are pressing Greece’s bond holders to swallow big losses.

Leading the charge is BNP Paribas, the big French bank, which has b…

By Chris Anders

While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are a…

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While presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich was forc…

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The euro zone is unlikely to survive its sovereign debt crisis in current form, according to a majority of leading economists and former policymakers polled by Reuters.

Fourteen out …

Behind every credit default swap or short of subprime mortgage-backed assets sit legal counsel sanctioning these practices; their hands are no cleaner than those of their clients.

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Brought to us courtesy of senators Kay Hagan of North Carolina and one of the banking lobby’s most obedient lap dogs, Bob Corker of Tennessee; The United States Covered Bond Act of 2011 is de…

View IBEW Local 90 Pension Fund v Corzine (PDF) complaint for violation of the Federal Securities Laws filed November 18, 2011 at the United Sates District Court Southern District of New York

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By Barani Krishnan

U.S. stocks skidded on Monday, extending losses from across Europe as fears over out-of-control government debt on both sides of the Atlantic hit financial markets.

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The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywh…

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On Nov. 3, Dr. Franz Adlkofer, former executive director of the VERUM Foundation for Behavior and Environment, spoke to a Harvard Law School audience as part of the le…

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In a 5-2 decision, a bitterly split Court of Appeals, said the state’s awarding of tax-payer funded state economic development loans and grants to private…

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Total central-bank gold purchases in the third quarter more than doubled from the second quarter and were almost seven times higher than a year earlier as countries continued to div…