By Bernie Becker

The House Ways and Means Committee formally announced 11 separate working groups they hope will push the ball forward on tax reform.

The working groups will not be charged with craf…

By The Economist

WHEN THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT, a sister organisation of this newspaper, published the first bound edition of “Tax Havens and Their Uses” in 1975, a queue several blocks …

By English.News.cn

China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to a senior official wi…

By Julia Werdigier

Novartis, one of Switzerland’s biggest drug makers, said Tuesday it scrapped a planned $78 million payment to its departing chairman because of pressure from shareholders and l…

By Sam Byford

3D printers are getting smaller and cheaper all the time, but they’re still not exactly mainstream. The 3Doodler is an attempt to change that — it’s a small pen-style device that it…

By Rebecca Christie & Ben Moshinsky

The European Union failed to seal a deal on Basel bank rules after disagreeing on bonuses, capital requirements for big lenders and disclosure of profit and tax …

A provider of “realistic” shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies has created a line of “non-traditional threat” targets that include pregnant wome…

“One person can make a difference and every person should try.” ~ John F. Kennedy

About Presidents’ Day

[Note from CAF: This is both a phenomenon and verb that is very useful to have available on the tip of your tongue these days!]

From Wikipedia

Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse in which…

By Suzan Mazur

“We know the abiotic world is very good at making amino acids. Abiotically produced amino acids are literally raining down on our heads, in meteors. It is difficult to imagine a pr…

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By Halia Pavliva

The Moscow Exchange’s $498 million debut on Russian markets will probably fail in enticing companies to list exclusively on the bourse, …

The Inventioneers are a group of young entrepreneurs inventing tomorrow’s solutions today! Their “why not’ philosophy has led to four provisional patents and one utility patent (pending). Thei…

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By By Sara Gates

While China’s air pollution has reached hazardous levels in some major cities, chemical pollutants in the air are hardly the only proble…

By Gretchen Morgenson

MANY people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through the bac…

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By Philip Pullella

Pope Benedict’s decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him…

By Jan Strupczewski and Lesley Wroughton

G20 officials will disregard key parts of a currency statement issued this week by the Group of Seven powers, according to a communiqué drafted for financ…

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” ~ C.S. Lewis

By Kristen Linton

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By Seed Daily

Two of the most widely used nanoparticles (NPs) accumulate in soybeans – second only to corn as a key food crop in the United States – in ways previously shown to have the potential t…

By Pat Garofalo

Last year, economist Emmanuel Saez estimated that the richest 1 percent of the U.S. captured a whopping 93 percent of the income gains in 2010, as the U.S. was emerging from the Gre…

By BBC News

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made the announcement following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.

A deal would bring down trading barriers between …

We would like to wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year, as we welcome in the Year of the Snake!

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President Obama delivers his State of the Union address to the nation tonight. What’s he going to say? You’ll have to tune in to WhiteHouse.gov to watch the enhanced livestream at 9 p.m. EST and find …

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The debate, between both the main participants and many of those who have left comments, is running on two tracks. One argument has developed about the nitty-gritty of shale-gas extraction. What the i…

By The Economist

SMALLISH countries are often in the vanguard when it comes to reforming government. In the 1980s Britain was out in the lead, thanks to Thatcherism and privatisation. Tiny Singapor…

By David Chance and Jack Kim

The reclusive North said the test was an act of self-defense against “U.S. hostility” and threatened further, stronger steps if necessary.

It said the test had “greate…

We had a great discussion at the Money, Magic, & Consciousness panel moderated by Kimberly Carter Gamble at the Consciousness Life Expo this morning in Los Angeles.

There were many participants i…

By Chiara Vasarri & Flavia Krause-Jackson

Pope Benedict XVI, saying he no longer has the strength to lead the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, will resign from the papacy at the end of the month, t…

By John R. Emshwiller

The Department of Energy is proposing to allow the sale of tons of scrap metal from government nuclear sites—an attempt to reduce waste that critics say could lead to radiatio…

By Jonathan Benson

A new vaccine for influenza has hit the market, and it is the first ever to contain genetically-modified (GM) proteins derived from insect cells. According to reports, the U.S. F…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In 1987, I rented a magical apartment in a brownstone on Manhattan’s West Side next to Central Park. Full of fireplaces, wood paneling and tall ceilings, my picture window…

By Sarah Mervosh

Thousands are expected to attend next week’s memorial service for Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, who died Saturday when a veteran he was trying to help allegedly turned a gun on hi…

By Barbara Pruitt

The newest installment of the Kauffman Sketchbook video series tells the great American success story of an immigrant entrepreneur who starts with very little yet achieves great t…

By Max Raskin & Jasmine Zhao

The number of foreigners who have purchased green cards by investing in the U.S. has exploded in the last decade.

The CHART OF THE DAY shows approved applications for …

By Charles Mead and Matt Robinson

Fifteen months after Harold “Terry” McGraw III sparked a $4.6 billion stock gain at McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP) with a plan to focus the business on its Standard & …

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By Vincent Ryan

Like the entrepreneurs on Kickstarter trying to raise money to sell hot-chocolate cubes, cut an album, or manufacture a wireless dive-log device for scuba divers, later-stage private …

By Damien Gayle

UK spy agencies want to install ‘black box’ surveillance devices across the country’s communications networks to monitor internet use, it emerged today.

A report by an influential …

By Eric Engleman

International proposals to control the Internet will continue after a United Nations conference in Dubai and the U.S. should be ready to fight such efforts, lawmakers and a regulator…

[CAF Note: Bill Cosby used to have a comedy routine about medics. Referring to a military landing, he quipped that their life expectancy from the time they hit the water to the time they almost got t…

By Margaret Collins

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) is giving its wealthiest clients the chance to invest in the single-family rental market after other investments linked to the U.S. housing recovery j…

By David E Sanger

A secret legal review on the use of America’s growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United …

On Wikipedia

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. govern…

By Jeff Eisenhauer

Harbin is one of the most genuinely unique places in China. Though it’s known for its annual ice festival, the city has many other marvels like a huge tiger park and a train that…

By Ovetta Wiggins

A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesso…

By CBS News

The U.S. government is expected to file civil charges against Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, alleging that it fraudulently gave high ratings to mortgage debt that later plunged in va…

by Jon Rappoport

By liberals, I simply mean those people who accept big government as a given, regardless of their political affiliation.

And yes, at certain key levels, they are a club. They come f…

By Melanie Pelayo

On Jan. 1, 2013, Congress averted the so-called fiscal cliff by approving new legislation titled the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA-2012). President Obama signed the bi…

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By Mike Adams

Under Obamacare, American families are forced to buy conventional health insurance that primarily benefits the pharmaceutical industry. By 2016 — just three years from now — the che…

By RT

A functioning prototype of revolutionary airship is undergoing tests south of Los Angeles. A US company is developing a series of gigantic heavy-payload dirigibles with an innovative ballast …

By Adam Mann

One of the largest storms ever seen on Saturn may have been a victim of its own success, choking when it ate its own tail.

The “Great Springtime Storm” was a colossal maelstrom th…

By Kate Brumback

A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police s…

By RT

Switzerland will now assist international tax authorities in disclosing information on bank accounts held by foreigners who avoid taxation at home.

Joint efforts by the EU, the US and number…

By Joshua Zumbrun & Jeff Kearns

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled he isn’t close to easing up on $85 billion in monthly bond purchases to spur a stalled economy and bring down 7.8 p…

By Ethan Bronner

Law school applications are headed for a 30-year low, reflecting increased concern over soaring tuition, crushing student debt and diminishing prospects of lucrative employment upo…

By Bloomberg Rankings and Nikhil Hutheesing

Bernie Rooney, owner of Oak Barrel Winecraft in Berkeley, Calif., says you can make a bottle of wine for about $5 or less once you have the equipment. Th…

Report: Three People Shot At Phoenix Office Complex

A shooting has been reported at an office complex in Phoenix, Ariz., according to ABC 15.

Three people were shot and another two were hurt, acco…

[Note from CAF: While I admire Congressman Giffords, what she is saying flies in the face of overwhelming documentation of the facts. Gun ownership saves many more lives than those lost from acciden…

[Note from CAF: From a subscriber today – someone who is very, very smart]

“Just watched him do an interview on Today. The guy is a complete nut job. He was talking about some of the most dangerous …

By Leslie Patton

Abercrombie & Fitch sells sex. Harley-Davidson (HOG) sells rebellion. Chipotle sells idealism.

The burrito chain has long pushed sustainable food in its 1,400 restaurants. Now Chi…

Awarded Solari Best Film of the Year, 2012, Genetic Roulette has an opportunity to receive the AwareGuide Top Transformational Film, 2012! IRT is offering a free screening of GRM so you can watch and …

By Pete Brook

In the past 40 years, the number of people living in the city of Detroit has halved. This has lead many to write it off — in many ways, wrongly — as a decrepit ghost town. Unbroke…