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China ruled out the "nuclear" option of dumping its vast holdings of U.S. Treasury securities but called on Washington to be a responsible guardian of the dollar. In a series of statements explaining its work to the Chinese public, the State
China ruled out the "nuclear" option of dumping its vast holdings of U.S. Treasury securities but called on Washington to be a responsible guardian of the dollar. In a series of statements explaining its work to the Chinese public, the State
The government’s “spending on weapons through 2016 likely will grow faster than the overall defense budget, which will have annual increases of only about 1 percent above inflation”, Mr. Cappacio reported.
The government’s “spending on weapons through 2016 likely will grow faster than the overall defense budget, which will have annual increases of only about 1 percent above inflation”, Mr. Cappacio reported.
This Military-Industrial-Complex has now “morphed into a new type of public-private partnership — one that spans military, intelligence, and homeland-security contracting — that amounts to a ‘national security complex’.”
This Military-Industrial-Complex has now “morphed into a new type of public-private partnership — one that spans military, intelligence, and homeland-security contracting — that amounts to a ‘national security complex’.”
Phoenix Police go hunting for motorists who owe $2 million in unpaid parking tickets, using high-tech cameras capable of scanning thousands of vehicle tags a day to recover more than 15,000 unpaid fines going back 10 years.
In an espionage drama worthy of the Cold War, Russia wants a spy swap to return home its suspected agents arrested in the United States last month, a lawyer involved in the affair said. The swap plans include exchanging a Russian nuclear expert jaile
Judicial Corruption in Los Angeles County has resulted in only 3 people winning cases against LA County since 2005. California State Legislators and Schwarzenegger granted the judges and themselves retroactive immunity from criminal prosecution. Ju
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) recently introduced an amendment to a bill to require drug testing for those receiving welfare. Hatch claimed it will save money. Why not save some REAL money and start drug testing members of Congress, their staff and fede
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Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Now it has been reported on CNN that the vast majority of those who worked to clean up the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska are now dead. Almost all are dead
"You should not throw a rock through your neighbor's window and then yell anti-Semite!" says Rabbi for Jews United Against Zionism...."Ahmadinejad has a Jewish community in Iran"...
Normally, after a bubble, prices not only return to the mean but crash right through it, and Ritholtz thinks that that may be possible again this time.
There's growing evidence of a generational impact from the crisis, similar to how the Great Depression created a generation of penny pinchers.
The report said a new reserve system "must not be based on a single currency or even multiple national currencies but instead, should permit the emission of international liquidity - such as SDRs - to create a more stable global financial system."
In this edition, Gary blows off some steam taking a look at Obama's agenda at the Toronto G20 Conference as protesters burn police cars. He also sits down with Kurt Wallace to discuss the NullifyNow.com national tour. Michael Boldin, founder of the
The police state will continue forever.
The recession has directly hit more than half of the nation's working adults, pushing them into unemployment, pay cuts, reduced hours at work or part-time jobs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
The internal numbers from yesterdays Consumer Confidence Survey were really very ugly. The American public has no interest in buying a house or car, and their view of the economy is down right bearish.
The 76-year-old general denied taking payments from Colombian drug lords in the 1980s and told a Paris courtroom that cash deposits transferred to French banks came from his legitimate businesses and the CIA.
When the government began rescuing AIG from collapse in the fall of 2008 with a $182 billion lifeline, AIG was required to forfeit its right to sue several banks over any irregularities with most of the mortgage securities it insured in the precrisis
Policy makers are betting that the private sector can make up for the withdrawal of stimulus over the next couple of years. If they’re right, they will have made a head start on closing their enormous budget deficits. If they’re wrong, they may set o
Sometimes laws meant to help don't do anything at all, but in some cases they make the situation much worse, and by much worse I mean they completely backfire and cause bigger problems than whatever it is they were trying to fix in the first place.
If a Western Slope woman is to be believed, vampires may be lurking in Colorado's Grand Valley which would explain why she crashed her car.