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The recent bond sell off might just be noise, but of course it’s causing people to discuss the long-term sustainability of US debt.

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By 2014, International Monetary Fund official John Lipsky remarked March 21, the debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of the Group of Seven countries will reach 100%, and the gove…

MDC activist Sam Chakaipa returns to his village in rural Zimbabwe to find his friends and neighbours starving to death.

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The bond vigilantes are finally flexing their muscles. A long period of stability for the US government bond market showed signs of cracking this week as a lack …

Dear Mr. President-Elect,

It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food polic…

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The image above comes from a wonderful book I’m reading titled “Carrots Love Tomatoes” by Louise Riotte. The book’s byline is “Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening.”…

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March 22 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. House passed the most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades, rewriting the rules governing medic…

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The Firedoglake health care team has been covering the debate in congress since it began last year. The health care bill will come up for a vote in the House on Sunday, and as Nancy P…

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Wachovia bank executives have admitted that the banking giant laundered millions of dollars for Mexican drug lords between 2003 and 2008, prosecutors announced in Miami this afternoon.

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The People’s Party, the largest group in a five-party coalition, walked out amid disputes over how to cope with the country’s severe problems.

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The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout ever, a federal…

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The formal statement GATA Chairman Bill Murphy plans to submit as a witness at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s hearing next week on position limits in …

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With just one slaughterhouse remaining within 80 miles of San Francisco, we stand to lose not only our local beef industry, but our grazing lands as well. Now a thick-skinned h…

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The financial reform legislation passed in the House on December 11, 2009 is now in the Senate.

The Democrats in the Senate have produced a new version, .

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Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to pass a law saying no thanks to part of President Obama’s health care proposal.

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Idaho lawmakers are backing a plan that would allow state tax bills to be paid down with silver medallions instead of cash.

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Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet.

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In the late fifth century BC, Athenian negotiators, speaking to their Spartan competitors, with whom they were soon at war, staked out their rationale for their refusal to abandon their position as Gr…

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Michael Lewis, author of one of the defining books about Wall Street excess, “Liar’s Poker,” told 60 Minutes that bonuses at banks bailed out by the government are akin to “a very elegant form of th…

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The city of Los Angeles is putting banks it does business with on the spot.

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Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds, the …