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After almost four years of negotiations, the Canadian government and the European Union are reportedly close to finalizing a controversial integration deal known as the “Comprehen…

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Cyprus and the EU reached a new late-night bailout deal last night that will reduce the chance that Cyprus’s financial system and economy will completely implode.

The 10 billion e…

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By Margaret Collins & Devin Banerjee

Private-equity firms, the exclusive money managers overseeing $3 trillion worldwide for the wealthiest investors, are discovering a new type of client: ordinary…

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By Ken Tysiac

U.S. public companies can use social media to make company announcements as long as they inform investors of the channels they will use to di…

By Natasha Lennard

Slipped into the Agricultural Appropriations Bill, which passed through Congress last week, was a small provision that’s a big deal for Monsanto and its opponents. The provisi…

By Eric Toensmeier

To save the planet we may need to turn it into an edible paradise… help me write the book that explains how and why.

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The new Form 8938 filing requirement does not replace or otherwise affect a taxpayer’s obligation to file Form TD F 90-22.1 (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts). Individuals mus…

By Yves Smith

One of the big lessons of the fraught negotiations over bailing out (or more accurately, in) Cyprus’s banks is that deregulating institutions with an implicit or explicit state guaran…

[CAF Note: Now that we have turned over $27 trillion in bailouts to private investors and $4 trillion is “missing”
from the US government, we are now going to transfer control of the infrastructure …

By Glenn Greenwald

The use of drones by domestic US law enforcement agencies is growing rapidly, both in terms of numbers and types of usage. As a result, civil liberties and privacy groups led by …

By The Economist

On April 5th 2012 the pitched political battles in Washington, DC, briefly paused as Barack Obama signed a law endorsed by both Republicans and Democrats. The Jump Start Our Busine…

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Glenn Greenwald…”Brown – who has been imprisoned since September on a 17-count indictment that could result in many years in prison – is a serious journalist who has spent the…

By Weill Cornell Medical College

Humans don’t “own” their own genes, the cellular chemicals that define who they are and what diseases they might be at risk for. Through more than 40,000 patents on …

By The Economist

In 1999 Trudy Dai used to spend all night sending e-mails from her friend Jack Ma’s apartment, trying to answer queries from American customers without letting on that she was …

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By Mike Cohen & Ilya Arkhipov

The biggest emerging markets are uniting to tackle under-development and currency volatility with plans to set up institutions that encroa…

By Jeffery Sparshott

The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to “virtual currencies,” amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit activitie…

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The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years. There are towns and counties aroun…

By William Alden

The lack of women on corporate boards has been a hot topic in financial circles recently, especially after a debate in Europe last year over imposing quotas.

Now, Wall Street is off…

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The euro zone agreed on Saturday to hand Cyprus a bailout worth 10 billion euros ($13 billion), but …

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Like YouTube, Facebook, or blogging platforms, it’s almost hard to believe there was an Internet without Kickstarter, which may be the greatest testament to its success. In 2009, t…

By Urs Geiser

A rightwing group has submitted more than 106,000 signatures to the federal authorities, seeking a vote on stopping the sale of gold reserves held by the Swiss National Bank (SNB). It…

By Tom Simonite

In 2012 the startup Pinterest became a peer of more established social sites by offering things that they didn’t—an attractive design, a focus on images rather than text, and a …

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The 2013 BRICS summit will be the fifth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference attended by the head of states or heads of government of the five member states Brazi…

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By Tara Siegel Bernard

Until recently, the tax man rarely held you accountable for how much you profited — or lost — when you sold stocks or mutual funds.

Instea…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Google has launched Glass. You can check it out here: Link

Better yet, to understand what it is like to facilitate 24-hour surveillance and data collection, watch The Tru…

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by Catherine Austin Fitts

This weekend I read Forbes’ new special edition on billionaires.

In his introduction, “They succeed by meeting your needs,” Steve Forbes writes: “The overwhelming major…

[CAF Note: The following is a complete lie. Shadowstats estimates the current annual inflation rate at 9+%.
That fits with what I am observing. The theory that price rises are modest, excepting foo…

By Bruce Japsen

As Medicare whacks away at what doctors are paid and health insurers move away from paying fees for service to bundled payments, more physicians who own their own practices will sta…

By Mark Drajem

President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they should consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from pipel…

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By Nicholas Shaxson

Up until the 18th century, Knightsbridge, which borders genteel Kensington, was a lawless zone roamed by predatory monks and assorted cutthroats. It d…