Author: Mark Gilmore

By Hans David Tampubolon

Three Citibank debt collectors [in Indonesia] allegedly killed Irzen Octa, 50, secretary general of the National Unity Party (PPB), on Tuesday after he protested an increas…

By Joe Weisenthal

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Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon Expects Inflation
USA Today (30 March 11)

By Sam Smith

Not every change in national policy and events is announced with a new conference or presidential speech.

A case in point is the rapid rise of apparent mental instability in the Repub…

A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn’t, forcing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to halt plans to implement a law that woul…

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By Kelsey Volkmann

The Public Patent Foundation, on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations, sue…

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was declining an offer from American International Group (NYSE: aig) to buy the mortgage-related assets it holds in its Maiden Lane II portfolio.

Ins…

By Joe Weisenthal

By now you know that the surge in silver prices has left gold in the dust.

One reason: it’s just cheaper to buy silver coins.

From Deutsche Bank:

According to a recent article …

By Dawn Kopecki

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said some municipalities will need to renegotiate debt and a hundred may not “make it.”

“I wou…

A Geiger counter in Itate village, some 40 kilometers northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi plant showing radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour. People living here would receive the yearly max…

By Neil M. Barofsky

Two and a half years ago, Congress passed the legislation that bailed out the country’s banks. The government has declared its mission accomplished, calling the program remark…

Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic …

By Alan Fram

House Republicans plan to introduce eight bills on Tuesday that would each take a small step toward pushing taxpayer-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of business, …

By Barbara Demick

The first pitch of Japan’s baseball season has been pushed back so people don’t waste gasoline driving to games. When the season does start, most night games will be switched to day…

By B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning

Culture Change note: As if you weren’t getting enough radiation: now comes really bad news in the form of smart grids. GE — the designer of Fukushima n…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Mike Ludwig

A coalition of farmers and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 18 to challenge the agency’s recent decision to fully deregul…

Naoto Kan says the situation at disaster-hit power plant is unpredictable as officials fear breach at one reactor.

Japan’s prime minister has warned the situation at the country’s quake-hit nuclear…

By Laurent Belsie

The earthquake that struck Burma Thursday night hit one of its more remote regions, once known as the world’s premier producer of opium and its derivative, heroin.

The extent of …

By Yuji Okada, Naoko Fujimura and Kaipin Yee
March 27 (Bloomberg) — Radiation in water at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant reached potentially lethal levels even as engineers made progress in resto…

By Shannon D. Harrington and Betty Liu

Pacific Investment Management Co., manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, invested in the finance arm of Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) after the earthquake i…

By Kadhim Ajrash and Nayla Razzouk

Iraq plans next week to sign power- plant contracts valued at $6.25 billion with Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) and other companies, in its biggest effort to boost electric…

Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson talks about the country’s progress since receiving a $4.6 billion International Monetary Fund-led loan. He speaks with Mark Barton on Bloo…

By Peter Garnham and Lindsay Whipp

The billions of dollars in yen sold by the world’s most powerful central banks have sent a strong message to speculative investors. Those daring to bet that the J…

By Jack Farchy and Roula Khalaf

The international community has hit Mommar Gadhafi with a raft of sanctions and asset freezes aimed at cutting off his funding. But the embattled Libyan leader is si…

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By Sam Smith

By the standards of the US Constitution as well as American and international law, Barack Obama is a criminal – as are many of his recent predecessors.

The fact that most Americans …

A fearless band of scientists and workers trying to stop a meltdown have inspired the entire country.

By Robin McKie

Exhausted engineers attached a power cable to the outside of Japan’s tsunami-cr…

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Americans’ Worries About Economy, Budget Top Other Issues
Gallup (21 March 11)

By Gregory White

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By Greg Stohr and Bob Ivry

The Federal Reserve will disclose details of emergency loans it made to banks in 2008, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an industry appeal that aimed to shield the rec…

By C. Powell

The New York Sun today editorializes brilliantly about the ironies in the conviction of Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von NotHaus. The editorial begins:

“Here is a thought experiment…

Department of the Treasury/Federal Reserve Board
March 15, 2011

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PLAYBOY: Is anyone asking the tough questions about Israel?

THOMAS: We’re still not getting the full story on Israel. I asked both President Obama at a news conference and Hillary if they knew …

By Ora Coren

The CEO of the Israeli company that installed the security system at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant said Thursday that those workers who have elected to stay behind are “putting…

At a time when all the tough guys in Washington are making plans to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits for high-living seniors and to cut Head Start for low-income kids, it was generous of Wa…

With peer to peer digital currencies like BitCoin, it seems our ideas about what money is and isn’t, are in flux. Take the cell phone for example. There are countries where mobile phones are the m…

By Ben Dowell

The BBC World Service is to receive a “significant” sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of TV and internet services in countries including Iran and China.
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Earthquakes strike suddenly, violently and without warning. Identifying potential hazards ahead of time and advance planning can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss of life from an earthqua…

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Opponents contend the state’s open meetings law was violated.

By Johann Hari

The vast majority of people behave in the aftermath as altruists, saving their fellow human beings and sharing what they have.

Before the Second World War, the Ministry of War confide…

By Trader Dan

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Once hailed as a solution to poverty, microfinance lenders are criticised for profiting from exploitative usury.

The recent ouster of the Nobel Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist Mohammed Yunus as…

By Kartikeya Sharma

Japan on Friday raised the severity rating of its nuclear disaster from level 4 to 5 on a seven-point international scale for atomic incidents as firefighters continued with the…

By Beth Ford Roth

The Department of Defense is gearing up to help American military families evacuate from the island where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is situated, according to Reuters. Th…

By Justin McCurry

Elite squad of technicians face fire, radiation and exhaustion in cramped and potentially lethal conditions to cool reactors.

The men and women struggling to avert disaster at th…

Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker will be featured in a tribute to former President George H. W. Bush. The 41st President of the United States is being honored for his …

By Sarah Parsons

Like most parents, Michigan resident Rachael Hilliker cares very much about the kinds of foods her kids eat. Hilliker has a three-year-old daughter, Claire, and her fiance is the f…

China has overtaken the UK as a global art market for the first time, a report suggests.

The UK was knocked from second spot to third place as a global market for antiques and arts, according to Th…

Nasa fears ‘Kessler Syndrome’, where there is too much space junk for it to be safe to fly out, leaving us trapped on Earth.

By Daniel Bates

Nasa is considering using lasers to deflect space j…

By Courtney Comstock

According to Gasparino, Lloyd Blankfein’s friends say he’s on the way out.

They say this is Blankfein’s last year at Goldman Sachs, according to Charlie.

What does Goldman sa…

By Meredith Lepore

It’s no wonder Goldman Sachs is having trouble trying to sell its mortgage servicing unit, Litton Loan.

The allegations against the unit are absolutely horrific– from not ret…

The Japanese yen has risen against the US dollar hitting the highest level since the end of the Second World War.

The yen climbed as high as 76.25 against the US dollar in US trading on Wednesday. …

By Gregory White

Today’s was a wild day for markets. Pretty much every dramatic movement in the Dow can be traced back to one source: The crisis in Fukushima.
Here’s a quick rundown:
• 11:01 AM ET:…

By Nachum Kaplan and Denny Thomas

Foreign bankers are fleeing Tokyo as Japan’s nuclear crisis worsens, scrambling for commercial and charter flights out of the country and into other major cities i…

Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan

The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced its approval of the application and notice by Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., Tokyo, to become a bank …

Well, I just activated and tested my radiation alert from SE International at The Farm here in Tennessee. S.E. International, Inc. is a manufacturer of radiation detection equipment for use in indus…

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By Terje Langeland

Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), the world’s largest carmaker, may lose output of at least 40,000 vehicles after Japan’s strongest earthqu…

By Barry Brook

Along with reliable sources such as the IAEA and WNN updates, there is an incredible amount of misinformation and hyperbole flying around the internet and media right now about the F…

By Lily Nonomiya and Mayumi Otsuma

The Bank of Japan began pouring cash into the banking system after the nation’s most powerful earthquake on record, while later today it may keep its asset- pur…