Prices are now off -6.8% from their August peak. It looks to me like the housing double dip is here and Ben Bernanke rolled out QE2 just in time to prepare for massive MBS purchases in 2011 when the banks hit another rough patch...
The dollar's position as a reserve currency is now "absurd": namely that more and more in the world are starting to look at the CNY as the new reserve currency.
Silver touched $28.46 an ounce, the highest since March 1980, palladium saw $728.22 an ounce, its highest since April 2001. Platinum hit $1,790 an ounce its highest since July 2008. Spot gold hit $1,422.30 a troy ounce.
Jordan Decker worked too hard, both inside and outside of the ring, to come away from the World Kickboxing Association world championships without a title.
NEW YORK/LONDON – Gold powered to an all-time high above US$1,400.
Gold has risen almost 6% since just before the Federal Reserve detailed its plans last Wednesday to buy $600-billion worth of Treasuries to revive the economy.
Whether it is examining your bank records, your e-mails, listening in on your phone calls, examining your purchases to what television shows you watch we never rest in protecting you from your neighbors, your family -- even yourself.
UOH is an ardent supporter the Bureau of Land Management’s roundups of our wild horses. And, Sue Wallis really wants our excess and unwanted horses. Lots of them. About 200 a day. She’s working hard to get money for a slaughterhouse near Guernesey, W
Following a three-hour discussion at the Oct. 21 Town Council meeting, there appears to be a split on whether the town should pursue a single trash hauler.
Iraq's dwindling Christian community was grieving and afraid on Monday after militants seized a Baghdad church during evening Mass, held the congregation hostage and triggered a raid by Iraqi security forces. The bloodbath left at least 52 people kil
a look at the debate on legalizing pot. Are police wasting our time and tax money by investigating certain cases? Or do you back them up for enforcing the law no matter the circumstances?
Now with biometrics technology, Bergen County has implemented a solution that helps the DHS keep an accurate count of the homeless people who receive social services. In September, the DHS unveiled a fingerprint identification system...
Are they really simpletons, or are they just taking orders from the Financial Elites who have the most to lose when the whole sagging sandcastle finally collapses into the waves?
The official explanation if a benign one: "Armed security guards will be on hand at 36 unemployment offices around Indiana in what state officials said is a step to improve safety and make branch security more consistent."
On Tuesday, when the Republican Party and its Tea Party chump-proxies re-conquer the sin-drenched bizarro universe of the US congress, they'll have to re-assume ownership of the stickiest web of frauds and swindles ever run in human history...
“The idea of tax courts concerns either the setting up of special tribunals that would deal with tax cases without having to go through normal courts or the appointment of an adequate number of specialized judges to the existing structure...
Nashville's Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison company in the country, basically wrote Arizona Bill 1070 — the controversial immigration bill...
Maricopa County officials believe the discovery of a duplicate payroll log and database hidden in a secure computer system at the Sheriff's Office could reveal the extent of alleged misspending in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's agency.
Water levels have dropped 133 feet. Islands have emerged and grown. Rocky outcroppings push through the surface, creating watery obstacle courses whose paths shift almost daily.
But there is one distinct benefit of such a policy – it alters the composition of bank balance sheets. At the end of the day it’s really just an asset swap and a transfer of risk via bond duration or bond type. The kicker here, is that if...