There's mounting legal pressure from the Justice Department to turn over 19,000 records of American clients who used hidden offshore accounts at the bank or face potential indictment.
Ron Paul reports that Congress is poised to open the money faucet to spill truckloads of worthless cash. Whatever your net worth, it will be severely depleted. Do you want to know what Congress intends to buy with our last few dollars? I don't
Overt criminality by leaders and passive, unclear thinking by the proles have become the norm. The two go together, creating a symbiotic ecosystem of tyranny.
Russia's ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, added from Brussels, "We know nothing of Russia's alleged agreement of military transit of Americans or NATO at large.
It's hard to believe, but the head of child support collections for Idaho says that unemployment is the "'unexpected' silver lining to Idaho's economic malaise." Why? Because it's easy to garnish dads' unemployment c
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked by far the most provocative question of the day: why tax-evasion problems landed actor Wesley Snipes in jail but seem inconsequential to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner?
We must completely abolish the central bank. Money itself must be wholly untied from the state. It must be restored as a private good, privately produced for private markets. Government must have no role at all in monetary affairs. - F.A. Hayek
The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling, perhaps much deeper than the global cooling from about 1945 to 1977.
"If we slip into February, we are going to be faced with another $160 million addition to our problem, because of the way money is going out the door," he told members of the Republican caucus.
Facing a $42 billion budget deficit, State Controller John Chiang told the Sacramento Bee he has already borrowed $21.5 billion to try to cover the state's checks, but by Feb. 1, there will be no more options left but to simply stop paying some o
Only five days into the Obama presidency, members of the new administration and Democratic leaders in Congress are already dancing around one of the most politically delicate questions about the financial bailout: Is the president prepared to nationa
In Phoenix, house prices have declined more than 42.5% from the peak. At the other end of the spectrum, prices in Charlotte and Dallas are only off about 6% to 8% from the peak.
Iceland's center-left Social Democratic Alliance Party was chosen Tuesday to lead the country following the collapse of the island nation's government amid deep economic troubles and intense political discord.
President Barack Obama presented a humble and conciliatory face of America to the Islamic world in the first formal interview since he assumed office, stressing his own Muslim ties and hopes for a Palestinian state, and avoiding a belligerent tone
[targeted taxes] Golf course owners and some of their customers are teed off at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. So are veterinarians, auto mechanics and amusement park operators.
Now, more than 18 months into the biggest financial upheaval in the last 80 years, those bank executives that still have jobs are preparing to swallow large doses of regulatory medicine to help cure a crisis they are accused of causing.
The same executives who were at the controls as the banking system nearly collapsed are the ones the government is counting on to help save it. Even top executives whose banks made such risky loans they imperiled the economy have been spared
At least 300 civilians were wounded and scores feared killed by Sri Lankan army artillery shells fired into a designated "safe zone" for ethnic Tamils trapped by fighting between the military and Tamil rebels, a health official alleged Tues
Even though the Aeroscraft dwarfs the largest commercial airliners, it requires less net space on the ground than any plane because it doesn't need a runway.
Extracts of A Witness in Palestine, written by Anna Baltzer. Anna Baltzer, a young Jewish American, went to the West Bank to discover the realities of daily life for Palestinians under the occupation.
Iceland's coalition government collapsed Monday, leaving the island nation in political turmoil amid a financial crisis that has pummeled its economy and required an international bailout.
The Urban Farmers guild of Sustainable NE Seattle descended on Joann's front lawn (with her cooperation) one November morning, to prepare it for growing food in the Spring.
An even more cynical interpretation is that those at the top have given up trying to stabilize the system and are determined to provoke an even graver crisis. China holds perhaps US$1 trillion in debt; a debt its leaders are starting to unwind at a r
The Iraq War destroyed the presidency of George Bush. Obama, if he orders an expansion of the war in Afghanistan, and thus takes ownership of that conflict, will be well on the way to destroying his own presidency.
The Mail on Sunday has been told that the Treasury was preparing for the banks to shut their doors to all customers, terminate electronic transfers and even block hole-in-the-wall cash withdrawals. Only frantic behind-the-scenes efforts averted finan