By Valerie Richardson

It’s no secret that members of Congress qualify as political insiders, but a new report strongly suggests that they also may be insiders when it comes to trading stocks.

An…

By Laura Saunders

The Internal Revenue Service, moving aggressively to collect more taxes from small businesses, is telling companies being audited to turn over exact copies of the electronic recor…

By Natsuko Waki;

Cash-rich global pension funds are starting to increase their miniscule emerging market allocations, raising the prospect of a rapid acceleration in flows that could swamp the rela…

By Sam Smith

A chart showing the mentions of the Constitution by year as estimated by Google.com.

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By Spencer Ackerman

You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s worse than you know.

Congress is set to reauthorize three …

By Katharine Q. Seelye

The Justice Department plans to move ahead with criminal charges against John Edwards, the former senator and presidential candidate, contending that he misused campaign fund…

By Congressman Ron Paul

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By Greg Stohr

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive a suit that claimed Verizon Communications Inc. owed as much as $1.7 billion in additional retirement benefits because of an error made by a l…

By Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg

For the residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan the question is will America have prosperity and democracy, or live in poverty under the heel of open corporate power. Th…

By C. Martenson

Well, it now turns out that many of my worst fears about Fukushima have been confirmed with the news that TEPCO has finally admitted that Reactor #1 has experienced a meltdown event t…

Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?

By Jane Mayer

On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he wi…

Move Would Follow Senate Subcommittee’s Report

By Liz Rappaport and Jean Eaglesh

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives expect to receive subpoenas soon from U.S. prosecutors seeking more information…

By Yves Smith

Texas is not exactly a consumer-friendly state, so the Federal court ruling in the Eastern District of Texas against MERS has the potential to have broad ramifications (note a Federal…

If So, How Long Will He Survive ?

By Michael Collins

Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times just published one of the few feel good stories in months following the 2008 financial crisis. She des…

By Chris Ordal

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By Sebastian Moffett

The normally easy-to-understand Christine Lagarde walked a diplomatic tightrope Thursday over the choice of a new IMF head.

European and Asian governments are engaged in a pol…

By Stacey Herbert

There are some that since 2001 have doubted the bull market in precious metals.  In these past six weeks, however, everyone from former silver bulls to those who sell freeze drie…

By Shahien Nasiripour

A set of confidential federal audits accuse the nation’s five largest mortgage companies of defrauding taxpayers in their handling of foreclosures on homes purchased with go…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce legislation that allows the shipment and distribution of unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption across state lines. This legislation removes an u…

By Stan Humphries

Home values fell three percent in the first quarter of this year, marking a pace of decline not seen since 2008 when the housing recession was at its worst.  Home values fell one…

By Jack Greiner

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Ohio’s proposed budget for the coming year includes a plan to sell an additional six prisons to private operators.  If that saves money or ra…

By Washington’s Blog

Americans who have been paying attention are outraged that Bush lied us into Iraq by making up false claims about weapons of mass destruction and pretending that Saddam Hussein…

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By Michael Gormley

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is seeking records from three major Wall Street banks as part of a broad investigation into the mortgage crisis that fueled the recess…

By Joe Weisenthal

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John Lipsky is an American economist. He is currently the acting Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Previously the First Deputy Managing Director, he assumed his current position …

By Joe Weisenthal

Commodities have been getting clubbed of late, but it’s not clear yet whether this is a “dip” or the start of something big.

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The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first and second reviews of Ireland’s performance under an economic program supported by a three-year, SDR 19.5 bil…

By Paul Joseph Watson

A top Duma political leader caused shock waves in a recent television interview when he warned that Russia could deploy an arsenal of new technology to “destroy any part of th…

By Ben Dover

After an emergency meeting of its Board of Governors on Sunday afternoon, the International Monetary Fund announced that it would sell gold to raise bail for its managing director, Dom…

Dugersuren Tsagaantsooj is 30 years old and lives with his wife and two sons in a house in Hovd province, Mongolia. His older son goes to a local secondary school, while the younger one is in kinderg…

By Tyler Durden

As we reported previously, Obama has found himself on the verge of another environmental scandal now that he has no choice but to redirect the Mississippi river via the Morganza spi…

By Joe Carroll and Michio Nakayama

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said one of the reactor cores at its stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is more seriously damaged than previously thought, setting…

By Joe Weisenthal

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Phone signals confuses bees and cause them to begin flying erratically before suddenly dying

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The next 50 years of spaceflight will carry many challenges and surprises for explorers hoping to extend their reach into the cosmos. But it will also likely hold untapped riches for space science an…

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By Rolling Stone Magazine

A Senate committee has laid out the evidence. Now the Justice Department should bring criminal charges

They weren’t murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money…

By Joe Brennan and Dara Doyle

Ireland’s government will impose a temporary levy on domestic private pension savings to fund a jobs plan aimed at cutting unemployment and aiding the economic recov…

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“Every 30 Minutes”: Crushed by Debt and Neoliberal Reforms, Indian Farmers Commit Suicide at Staggering Rate

By Nadia Damouni and Bill Rigby

Microsoft Corp plans to buy Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion in its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich bet on mobile and the Internet to try to be…

Shares in American International Group Inc. tumbled on Monday, deepening a slide that’s brought the insurer’s shares to the lowest point in eight months and stoked concerns over whether the U.S. gov…

By Joe Weisenthal

The big news of the day: Yet again, students are graduating college with a record amount of debt.

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Trading set to kick off in May as Hong Kong burnishes status

By Chris Oliver

Hong Kong is on track to kick off a new gold-futures trading platform with settlement in the physical metal next month,…

By Daniel Wagner

Fannie Mae asked the government Friday for an additional $8.5 billion in aid after declining home prices caused more defaults on loans guaranteed by the mortgage giant.

The compan…

San Francisco’s one-of-a-kind program puts nonviolent criminals to work for clean records.

By Caroline Cournoyer

In San Francisco, people accused of low-level, nonviolent crimes were sent to cri…

Top contractors dominate the market with billions in government business.

The Top 100 government contractors pulled in nearly $130 billion in prime contracts last year. We rank these companies bas…

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called for more lending to people and small businesses in lower-income neighborhoods, saying they’ve been disproportionately hurt by the recession.

Many of the…

By Christian Reiermann

The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government’s actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering w…