By Laurence Kotlikoff

The notion that education pays and that better education pays better is taken for granted by almost everyone. For college professors like me, this is a very convenient idea, p…

Michael Moore Speaks in Madison, WI — March 5, 2011

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-…

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Legislators in at least ten states have introduced bills in the past few years to allow state commerce to be conducted with gold and silver.

Georgia, Montana, Missouri, Colorado , Idaho , Indiana ,…

By B. Blake Levitt

Area Democrats were recently asked to endorse Chris Murphy for his upcoming bid for the U.S. Senate. Full disclosure—I am a lifelong Democrat, an ardent environmentalist, and v…

By Michael Powell and Gretchen Morgenson

FOR more than a decade, the American real estate market resembled an overstuffed novel, which is to say, it was an engrossing piece of fiction.

Mortgage br…

By Clifford E Carnicom

Note: I am not offering any medical advice or diagnosis with the presentation of this information. I am acting solely as an independent researcher providing the results of …

By Paritosh Bansal and Nadia Damouni

The London Stock Exchange is eyeing a takeover of its rival Nasdaq just weeks after announcing a merger with the Toronto stock exchange, the Sunday Times report…

“Board Member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Charged in Insider Trading Scheme”

Washington, D.C., March 1, 2011 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading…

By Daniel Indiviglio

Is the 30-year, fixed rate mortgage — so beloved by Americans — in danger of extinction? That’s what banks, investors, and realtors would have you believe. They have been war…

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Last Thursday night, I attended a dinner party for Darlene Zschech and her Hillsong team and then attended their concert at the Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose on Friday night.

I learned that Zs…

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Products made with synthetic chemicals have hidden costs that affect all of us—these externalized costs are called ag “externalities,” and they include damage and the chemical contamination of…

By Owen Fletcher and Juro Osawa

Beijing—Asia’s major telecom operators scrambled Monday to eliminate the impact on their operations from damage to several submarine cables following the massive e…

Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the Economic Council of Finland

10th February 2011, Helsinki, Finland

Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen,

It is my great pleasure …

By Thomas Content

Under the budget-repair bill passed by the Assembly on Friday, no bids would be required for the state to sell up to 37 heating and cooling plants across the state.

The bill woul…

Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops

For years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered crops will produ…

I am participating in a new loan through Kiva to Mary – To buy stock items for her store as well as items to equip her husband’s upholstery shop.

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A Greenpeace statement on today’s vote on zero tolerance for GM contamination in animal feed will be sent once the vote has taken place.

February 22 – Industry data released on Tuesday is expected …

How much iodine do we need? What are the best sources? What happens if we don’t get enough? Or get too much?

The Iodine Group is gathering information on iodine in an attempt to understand how iodi…

Before November’s election, Republican leaders in the House of Representatives solemnly promised that they would cut spending by $100 billion this year alone if voters put their party in charge. V…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on Thursday issued a final rule that amends the regulations under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) regarding Form TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and…

By Dennis Cauchon

Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. The poll found 61% would oppose a l…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Yves Smith

American leadership is reliable in one respect: it consistently undershoots my already low expectations.

Or maybe I have it backwards because I keep forgetting who the authorities ar…

By Cassandra Anderson

Farmers like genetically modified (GM) crops because they can plant them, spray them with herbicide and then there is very little maintenance until harvest. Farmers who plant M…

By Tripoli

A defiant Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday he was ready to die “a martyr” in Libya, vowing to crush a growing revolt which has seen eastern regions break free of his 41-year rule and brou…

By Jon Hilsenrath and Justin Lahart

The pace of consumer price increases in the U.S. is quickening after being dormant for months. But a tug of war between the prices of goods and the prices of ser…

By Meredith Shiner

Someone in Egypt has been paying attention to what’s happening in Madison and wanted to send a message of solidarity from across the globe — so they ordered a pizza.

It migh…

By Bob Willis

Residential real-estate prices dropped in the 12 months to December by the most in a year, a sign the U.S. housing market is struggling even as the rest of the economy recovers.

The …

18 Jan 2011

By Truth Cafe’

Former Wall Street-Washington insider Catherine Austin Fitts offers insights into the financial coup d’etat.

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Budget fight wages on as nearly 70,000 show up for peaceful rally in Madison

An estimated 70,000 protesters converged on the Wisconsin Capitol on Saturday, with supporters of Republican efforts to …

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A federal judge dismissed the Internal Revenue Service’s lawsuit against Wisconsin’s Commissioner of Insurance and Ambac Assurance Corp., saying her court lacks jurisdiction in t…

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By The CNN Wire Staff

Egypt has agreed to allow two Iranian warships to cross through the Suez Canal in a move that puts the country’s new military regime in a prickly position with its Israeli nei…

By QMI Agency

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in an effort to clamp down on websites that host and advertise child pornography, inadvertently shut down more than 84,000 innocent websites …

By Paul Rincon

Scientists around the world will be watching closely as three eruptions from the Sun reach the Earth over Thursday and Friday.

These “coronal mass ejections” will slam into the Eart…

By Dmitry Orlov

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By William Glaberson

Major disasters like terrorist attacks and mass epidemics raise confounding issues for rescuers, doctors and government officials. They also pose bewildering legal questions, i…

By NASA

STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). The mission, launched in October 2006, has provided a unique and revo…

By Theophilos Argitis and Greg Quinn

Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement said he will review London Stock Exchange Group Plc’s C$3.2 billion ($3.2 billion) bid for TMX Group Inc., owner of th…

By Thom Weidlich

(Corrects to show parties would come before the judge to lift the automatic ban in 20th paragraph.)

Merscorp Inc., operator of the electronic-registration system that contains abo…

Capital is slowly withdrawing from the American housing stock.

We are transitioning from a model in which most Americans think of their homes as an investment, to one in which housing is a consumpt…

By Paul Krugman

On Friday, House Republicans unveiled their proposal for immediate cuts in federal spending. Uncharacteristically, they failed to accompany the release with a catchy slogan. So I’…

By Jacob Bunge and Aaron Lucchetti

Votes on Tap; Schumer Speaks Up for Big Board’s ‘Brand’

New York Stock Exchange operator NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse AG are likely to announce a merger as …

By Gretchen Morgenson

KUDOS to Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for some straight talk about the nation’s broken mortgage system.

A report to Congress from those depa…

Bolivian president Evo Morales has abruptly left the southern highlands city of Oruro after protesters angered by rising prices booed him and set off dynamite.

Mr Morales cancelled plans to partici…

NEW YORK and FRANKFURT, 9 February 2011 – In light of recent market rumors, Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext (NYX) today confirmed that they are engaged in advanced discussions regarding a po…

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The Suez Canal (Arabic: ???? ??????? Qan?t al-S?wais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869, it allo…

By Stacy Herbert

Stacy Summary: Max interviews Catherine Austin Fitts. They talk revolution, Ben Bernanke and the US dollar being a unit of war.

By Jon Rappoport

January 30, 2011. It’s a grim party. People in the streets, riots, police, soldiers, and nobody seems exactly sure what it’s for.

Take your choice: kick out the dictators; new…

By Robert Kuttner

Once again, the job numbers are dismal. In January, the U.S. economy created just 36,000 domestic jobs, far below the roughly 145,000 that economists had forecast. The unemploymen…

Assets are in billions as of Sept. 30.

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By Martha Stewart

As a professional cook, cookbook author and teacher, I have a noticed a shift in the role that food plays in our lives and in our culture. Food has become more than one of life’s…