By David Kravets

The Obama administration has told Congress it supports renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire at year’s end, measures making it easier for the government to spy…

by: Matthew Goldstein

Sometimes legal fishing expeditions pay off.

A year ago, a Connecticut hedge fund sued UBS, contending that it knowingly sold toxic mortgage-backed securities to institutiona…

That’s the way it is down here. If you can’t be counted “on”, you can’t be counted “in.”

~ PI Burke, from Down Here by Andrew Vachss

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Just before President Obama gave his speech to Congress last week, 44% of voters nationwide supported his health care reform proposal and 53% were opposed. Today, eight days after the speech and a b…

By Liu Guoyuan

Many analysts are still pessimistic about the outlook of the Doha Round of global trade negotiations, despite recent positive signs.

Following a mini-ministerial meeting held on Sep…

By Matthew McDermott,

A new report coming from Optimum Population Trust and carried out by the prestigious London School of Economics says that expanding access to family planning and contraception…

By Jeremy Scahill

On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out a lawsuit against CACI International and L-3 Communications T…

By Michael Connelly

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area…

By Terry Jones

Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices…

I just renewed my annual memberships in the Weston Price Foundation and the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund with additional donations.

I expect my donations to meet the same performance stand…

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By Charles Stein

James McDonald, chief executive officer of New York investment firm Rockefeller & Co., died Sunday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Bristol Count…

By Kim LaCapria

Ex-CEO of Beneficial Corp. Finn H.W. Casperson was found dead in an apparent suicide behind an office building in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Casperson, 67, was discovered dead of what…

By Jesse Solomon and Justin Lear

Police are investigating the death of the former chief fundraiser for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich as a “death-suicide,” an Illinois mayor said Sunday.

Financi…

By Ruben Vives and Louis Sahagun

Newport Beach financier Danny Pang died early Saturday at a local hospital, according to the Orange County coroner’s office. The cause of death has not been deter…

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By Ryan Grim

The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Broadly speaking, the world is run at the outset of the 21st Century by the United States and China together in uneasy condominium. This is the surprising reality of our er…

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By David Derbyshire

These stunning images – taken by the rejuvenated Hubble space telescope – have captured the jewel-bright colours of colliding galaxies, exploding s…

by: Brooke Jarvis

Illinois, home to 76,000 farms and more than 950 food manufacturing companies, is a solidly agricultural state in the heart of America’s bread basket. Fully 80 percent of it is …

Business and government officials met in China to continue discussions on centralizing control and management of the global economy.

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If you are in Fargo, North Dakota this weekend, I hope you will join us! This is a free event to promote sound money, free markets, and to encourage a return to fiscal responsibility among people …

By Jonathan Watts

Under the plan, money would be used to expand China’s solar, wind, carbon capture and smart-grid markets. Photograph: Graham Turner

A joint US-China plan to “take over the world”…

Franklin Sanders has a speaking engagement in Columbia, South Carolina, September 21, 2009.

Franklin is a long-time member of the League of the South Board of Directors, a delegate to the Southern …

By Helaine Olen
John Halko was halfway through renovating an expanded space for Comfort, his mostly organic eatery in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., when the credit crisis hit. His source of funding — a …

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By Mark Morford

So far ahead in weapons sales to the world are we, it’s not even a contest. We own the game. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, while overall weapons sales…

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By Cameron French

Barrick Gold (ABX.TO) will issue $3 billion in stock to eliminate all of its fixed-price gold hedges and a portion of its floating hedges, taking a $5.6 billion hit to third-quart…

By Robert Cookson in Hong Kong

China will issue sovereign bonds denominated in its own currency to offshore investors for the first time this month – a crucial step towards making the renminbi a …

By Sven Egenter

Switzerland knocked the United States off the position as the world’s most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking system left it more exposed to some long-standing wea…

By James T. Areddy

China’s government on Monday offered public encouragement to state-owned companies challenging foreign banks over huge losses from derivative contracts, a move that bankers say h…

By Don Nicoloff

It would appear IBM in 2006 was planning for a global epidemic sometime before 2011.

Continue reading IBM: Planning on an Epidemic

The US Court of Appeals in the Second Circuit has ruled against Google. Google was offering competitors trademarked names to advertisers as a search term so the advertisers’ ads appeared when searc…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

China has issued what amounts to the “Beijing Put” on gold. You can make a lot of money, but you really can’t lose.

I happened to see quite a bit of Cheng Siwei at …

[How did we miss this one from last month?]

Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein has warned his employees to avoid high-profile spending, as The Post reported — but his wife evidently didn’t get the…

by Roberta Rampton and Chuck Abbott

More than 35 million Americans received food stamps in June, up 22 percent from June 2008 and a new record as the country continued to grapple with the worst rec…

The head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Yukio Hatoyama, who will be named Prime Minister on Sep. 14 in the wake of his party having swept the Parliamentary elections on Aug. 30, is a followe…

Dr. Hulda Clark passed away peacefully in her sleep September 3, 2009.
A website is being setup in memory of Dr. Clark where people may leave their thoughts and experiences to share with all.
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“For there to be a world at all, every indigenous, original, natural thing must start singing its song, dancing its dance, moving and breathing, each according to its own nature. When any of these …

What would you see if you could fly over Mars in a plane and look out the window?

It must be something like the thousands of curious, intriguing and spectacular images taken by the High Resolution …

China began the long journey to a new international reserve currency with a single step – agreeing to buy $50 billion in notes from the International Monetary Fund.

Another proverb, less distinguis…

Our forefathers’ worst nightmare has now come upon us. They created a free government, limited in its powers and a servant to the people. But today the United States has become an empire, fast decay…

By Chris Oliver

Hong Kong is pulling all its physical gold holdings from depositories in London, transferring them to a high-security depository newly built at the city’s airport, in a move that wo…

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By Matt Falloon

Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 developed and developing economies meet in London this week to assess how far the world economy and banking system is recove…

By John Williams

Revived Crisis Brewing? A confluence of signals has aroused my gut instincts of an intensifying systemic liquidity crisis, and possible pending reaction by the Federal Reserve and/or…

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By Chelsea Schilling

Pandemic bill allows health authorities to enter homes, detain without warrant.

…the following states have implemented legal actions in response to the H1N1 virus:

Florida …

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Japans’s tax revenues have collapsed by 27pc over the last year, leaving it unclear how the incoming Democrats can pay for their blitz on welfare spending without floodin…

By Eadie Chen and Chen Aizhu

A report that Chinese state-owned companies will be allowed to walk away from loss-making commodity derivative trades provoked anger and dismay among investment bankers …

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Beijing is drawing up plans to prohibit or restrict exports of rare earth metals that are produced only in China and play a vital role in cutting edge technology, from hybr…

The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would like are counted, a Federal Reserve official said Wednesday.

“If…

Undercover armed Americans are swarming the Pakistani capital in the latest sign that the elected government has allowed Washington to dispatch what is believed to be a large number of American specia…

Are you planning to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus (also known as swine flu) this fall?

Response    Percent        Votes

Yes               23%          495…

By Linda Sieg

Japan’s next leader Yukio Hatoyama, fresh from a historic election win, faced the task on Monday of forming a government to tackle challenges such as reviving the economy and steering…

Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) may unilaterally terminate derivative contracts with six foreign banks that provide over-the-counter commodity hedging services, a leading financial magazine s…

The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers and cellphones can pose a threat to honey bees, a study  published in India has concluded.

An experiment conducted in the southern state of…

Here is a map of the three month change in the Philly Fed state coincident indicators. Forty six states are showing declining three month activity.

This is what a widespread recession looks like base…

In thinking about economic reform, if you want to contemplate construction techniques outside of “the matrix,” read about the Coral Castle and Nan Madol.

by Lauren Schenkman

A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world’s finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This…

by Declan McCullagh
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers f…

With much of the world still mired in recession, the IMF took action to bolster its members’ reserves through an allocation of SDRs, or Special Drawing Rights. The allocation, equivalent to 250 bi…

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By Andrew Ward and David Oakley

For a world first, the announcement came with remarkably little fanfare.

But last month, the Swedish Riksbank entered uncharted territory when it became the world�…

By Shannon P. Duffy

Ordinarily, the decision to settle a case while an appeal is pending means giving up the opportunity to set a legal precedent as well as forgoing the chance to win a reversal of a…