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The Georgia Election Code (the “Code”) mandates that “[e]very candidate for federal and state office who is certified by the state executive committee of a political party or who files a notice of can…

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The latest Fed minutes, a recap of the December 2011 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, revealed that the U.S. central bank is making several noteworthy changes to the manner …

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Reductions are expected in the program for the F-35 fighter jet.

By Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker

Washington — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is set this week to reveal his strategy that …

A man walks on a container at a shipping terminal in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2011.
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By Keith Jenkins and Anchalee Worrachate

Governments of the world’s leading eco…

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The Daily Bell is pleased to publish an interview with financial advisor Catherine Austin Fitts.

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The Austrian School, and Who’s “Really”…

By Steven Rosenfeld

Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional r…

By Scott Barber

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By Robin Wigglesworth in London

Almost $6.3 trillion was erased from global stock markets this year as the euro zone financial crisis reverberated across the world in the latter half of 2011, calli…

By Peter J. Wallison

Peter Wallison has published his Dissent from the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. It’s a must read for those of us interested in the financial crisi…

By David B. Collum

Precious metals were in a Utopian bull market for almost a decade. The early bulls lounged poolside, taking the occasional dip and enjoying returns in the high teens. It was a leis…

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A discourse by Markandeya in the Mahabharata  identifies some of the attributes of Kali Yuga:

In relation to rulers

Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy taxes unfairly.
Rulers will …

By Barry Ritholtz

“What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind t…

By Martin Holladay, GBA Advisor

Several GBA readers have requested a copy of a presentation I gave at the recent annual meeting of the British Columbia Building Envelope Council in Vancouver. The p…

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Beijing (Reuters) – China took a further step on Tuesday toward ending its dependence on U.S. satellites to provide navigation and positioning services with the start of trial operations…

By Eamonn Fingleton

Tokyo, Japan — In this slot a few days ago I posed some historical questions that, judging by the email I have been receiving, have perplexed a lot of readers.  

Let me now f…

By Scot Paltrow

Four years after the banking system nearly collapsed from reckless mortgage lending, federal prosecutors have stayed on the sidelines, even as judges around the country are pointing…

By Lisa Du

James Koutoulas, one of the founders of the Commodity Customer Coalition—which represents the interests of over 8,000 MF Global customers, was just on CNBC to talk about the recent blitz…

People walk over the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001. 

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(AP) New York – A federal judge has si…

By Foster Gamble

Charles Eisenstein, the author of Sacred Economics, has written an article,”Synchronicity, Myth and the New World Order”, and a critique of THRIVE: What on Earth Will It Take? , …

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Watch Open Source Ecology Founder Marcin Jakubowski discuss the prospects for an open source, do it yourself civilization. Then read Isaiah Saxon’s follow-up blog post …

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By Robert Frank

Who says the rich always get richer?

Despite heated rhetoric emanating from politicians and pundits, the top 1% is hardly a fixed group that enjoys consi…

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By Joseph E. Stiglitz

It has now been almost five years since the bursting of the housing bubble, and four years since the onset of the recession. There are 6.6 million fewer jobs in the United Sta…

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CME Group Inc., operator of the world’s leading energy, grains and precious metals markets, is in talks with China’s securities regulator to enter the mainland’s financial derivati…

By Peter Hitchens

TT: What is the major failure of Christian education in the modern West?

PH: Its lack of poetry. The abandonment of the great poetic text of the King James Bible (and of the Boo…

By Margery A. Beck

Maha, Neb. (AP) — The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.

He asked to pay so…

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By Nina Bernstein

The men showed up in a small town in Australia’s outback early last year, offering top dollar for all available lodgings. Within days, their company, Serco, was flying i…

By Barbara Pruitt

Kauffman’s most popular content this year discovered a “jobs leak,” illustrated entrepreneurs’ contributions and recommended policy reforms for growth.

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Washington—The Internal Revenue Service in coming days will release a new information reporting form that taxpayers will use starting this coming tax filing season to report specified fo…

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…

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By Linda Sandler and Tiffany Kary

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

Table 1- Cumulative facility totals, in billions

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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron

By Gonzalo Vina and Rebecca Christie

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