The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 8.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the Index decreased 27.4 percent compared with the previous week.
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Some purchasers are balking at buying gold at $1250 an ounce and turning to silver instead,...momentum is probably key here and silver's momentum in recent weeks has been stronger than that for gold...
Despite the world slowly falling apart around us, trust in government is still higher today than it was in 1994, right before Republicans took over Congress, with Waco and Ruby Ridge then still recent memories.
Come down to the Freedom's Phoenix Workshop Friday Sept. 24th 7pm and learn some things you've probably never heard about the the history of the state of Arizona and much of the American continent.
Mr. Tom Denny says there are many facts that li
Just six miles of atmosphere separates mankind from outer-space. In fact, a rocket can travel from the surface of our planet to space in just five minutes. In space, everything is different. With no atmosphere, the human eye can literally see for hun
The FBI and other police agencies don't need a search warrant to track the locations of Americans' cell phones, a federal appeals court ruled in a precedent-setting decision.
"There is no question that there is an orchestrated campaign at the federal level to make sure that their scientists can't communicate to the public about what they do," says Weaver, adding that the crackdown is seriously undermining morale..
"That lack of trust in government is not a recent phenomenon - except for a brief spike fueled by patriotism immediately after 9/11, a majority have not trusted the government since the early 1970s," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
But how much long will the general watch his growing grass get mowed down? It could be quite some time, as Petraeus agreed that “success over the insurgency” could be another 9-10 years away.
You see, right now — despite the “public” opposition — Uncle Sam is secretly authorizing the largest onshore oil extraction project in U.S. history.
Combined with Canadian production, we're looking at more than three trillion barrels!
When long DNA chains that had been added to the water went through the opening one-by-one, they blocked the flow of ions, resulting in a change in the electrical signal. The exact nature of those changes allowed the researchers to determine the size
the creature was man-like in shape and covered in hair of a distinctly rusty color – but, unlike the towering Bigfoot of the west-coast, was little more than three-feet in height. Little-Foot might have been a far better term to use, I mused, as I li
This year's retreat from a winter maximum of about 15 million square kilometres to a September coverage area of just five million square kilometres also means that the four greatest melts since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s have occ
The National Institute of Mental Health, a division of the National Institutes of Health, spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
France’s deportations of Gypsies are "a disgrace" and probably break EU law, the European Union’s executive body declared Tuesday in a stinging rebuke that set up a showdown with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative government.
A group of researchers led by McLean candy company Mars is nearly done sequencing the genome of the cacao tree, which produces the seeds used to make cocoa. The information will speed up the process for creating a stronger tree that is more resistant
Nor are any of the left-wing groups that pushed for the passage of the bill doting on their healthcare baby. Its godfather, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), isn’t bragging about his authorship of “historic” legislation. He says he didn’t even “waste time” rea
Tea party favorite Christine O'Donnell, a little-known underdog, defeated veteran Delaware congressman Mike Castle for the state's Republican U.S. Senate nomination, the latest in a nationwide series of 2010 upsets by grassroots conservative candidat
A reclusive old lady who died alone in her flat in southwest England and had no one to pay for her funeral has posthumously shot to fame after it emerged she was an intrepid World War Two secret agent.
The French Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure that effects less than 2,000 women but that has been widely seen as a symbolic defense of French values.
Iraq might be running a budget surplus but that doesn't mean it should spend it, U.S. officials said Tuesday, arguing that the Iraqi government's finances are too fragile for it to pay a greater share of its security costs. Iraq has a surplus of $52.
Just days before she was scheduled to be sworn in as governor, her son's lawyer convinced Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Pendleton Gaines to seal the entire criminal record. Such action is relatively unheard of in Maricopa County.
Imagine this: A wedge-shaped aircraft attached to a supersonic jet engine is hurtling along an electrified track, carrying a pod or spacecraft destined for orbit.
Sound farfetched? It may not be.
The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to sweeten its image with a new name: corn sugar. The Corn Refiners Association applied to the federal government for permission to use the name on food labels. The group hopes a new name will ease confusio
During their missions, the two Viking landers vaporized Martian dirt and scrutinized the samples for signs of carbon-based molecules that could serve as the raw ingredients for life. At the time, all they found were chlorine compounds attributed to c