Most of us think of insider trading as illegal. It allows those with inside knowledge to tilt the playing field. Wikileaks has been taken down but many of their leaked documents to include this one are now in our possession.
“These are complicated companies,” one CEO said. Offered another: “We’re competing for talent on an international market.” But President Barack Obama wasn’t in a mood to hear them out.
Like a financial tornado sucking money into it, but never throwing any out, it lays waste to the true productive economy. Thus is the disaster that is the current United States Financial crisis.
In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall o
As the government gets set to spend nearly $800 billion to stimulate the economy, make sure to get your fair share of the plunder by participating in Reason's Personal Stimulus Generator™.
Many seniors think they are saving money when they buy AARP insurance. However, they may be paying twice as much as they would with a competing product.
In this short video clip Bob Rodriguez and Art Cashen discuss the fact that the Fed has a lot of new debt (treasuries) to sell and they won't admit it. But the critical fact is the Fed will have to pay much higher interest rates to reward relucta
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone.
California's octuplets mom, already jobless and receiving food stamps, has gone into hiding with her six older children because of death threats, her spokesman said. Nadya Suleman, 33, has come under mounting public ridicule for expanding her alr
Over the span of just three months, Bill Richardson has gone from being on the shortlist for secretary of state to late-night punch line, a breathtaking descent that has tarnished his once-sparkling career.
Finding this item from 2007 gives us an important snapshot of a key crop in the American tropics and informs us that key crops easily moved between the Amazon and Central America
as one would reasonably expect but was disputed because of a lack of
Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada was charged with lying to the US Congress about taking a performance-enhancing substance.Tajeda’s alleged lies about the steroid usage did not result in one person, and certainly not 1.3+ million people,
A new lawsuit is being prepared... and this one will include a demand from state lawmakers who forward state funds to Washington for documentation of his qualifications.
• Gary, Indiana wants $750,000 for a host of “modernization” upgrades to its police department, including “sub-automatic machine guns” and an “armored vehicl”
The silence was overwhelming when Nassim Taleb had the temerity to suggest that the bonuses of the Wall Street financiers should be withdrawn as punishment for ripping off the taxpayer. Maria Bartiromo looked ashen.
Phoenix Objectivists will host a viewing of the documentary "Indoctrinate U" at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism on Thursday, February 12th at 7 p.m.
History tells us that Lincoln was a politically ambitious lawyer who eagerly prostituted himself to northern industrialists who were unwilling to pay world prices for their raw materials and who, rather than practice real capitalism, enlisted brute g
...mandatory American national service as the cure – more Americans to man-up and prepare to die for the government overseas, with the remainder fearfully indoctrinated on the necessities of eternal service and submission to the state.
Marvel does not hide the fact, as most other Lincoln "scholars" do, that Seward, on Lincoln’s instructions, orchestrated the passing through the U.S. Senate of a "constitutional amendment specifically prohibiting congressional interfer
The Senate quietly stripped whistleblower protections from the final stimulus package Wednesday afternoon, as the bill's authors bragged of a bipartisan compromise.
California is facing its worst drought in recorded history . The drought is predicted to be the most severe in modern times, worse than those in 1977 and 1991. Thousands of acres of row crops already have been fallowed, with more to follow.
In an extraordinary admission about the severity of the economic downturn, Ed Balls even predicted that its effects would still be felt 15 years from now. The Schools Secretary's comments carry added weight because he is a former chief economic a
A 93-year-old man who froze to death after the municipal power company restricted his electricity left $600,000 to a local hospital. PLEASE NOTE...Governor Granholm issued a statewide moratorium on utility cutoffs that DOES NOT apply to municipal ut
Indiana municipal official gives an account of meetings with FEMA & DHS beginning with a Hazard Mitigation Plan but soon FEMA & DHS officials began to inquire about sensitive infrastructure, weapons storage, creating \\\"hardened\\\" bunke