Notice the discrepancy between total assets, domestic deposits, and insured deposits. That's a huge potential disaster for someone. I recommend getting while the getting is still good. Anyone over the FDIC limit is....
Congressman Ron Paul slammed Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke today for following a policy of deliberately destroying the dollar and wiping out the American middle class.
Alas, the vote was taken, and a fresh steaming pile of fascism was passed onto the floor of the Senate. Only Senator Gorman had the presence of mind (apologizing as she did so) to point out that the committee had not been notified of the Bill’s heari
The Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (ACIEP) will meet on Monday, March 10, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. in the Harry S. Truman Building (DC). The meeting is open to the public.
William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesd
Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the US intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other multiplayer games, according to the Director of National Inte
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION HEARING about net neutrality this week was so crowded that police had to turn away an estimated 100 people from the Harvard Law School classroom where the event was held.
Spokeo is the latest social search info aggregator/people search service--a new offering that the Pandia team has dubbed "the Big Brother of social networking" because of how thorough the engine is. Once a user submits the username and pass
Wells Fargo has named nearly every California county a “Severely Distressed Market” which requires LTV reductions of 5% for any conforming loan over 75% LTV and also eliminates financing over 75% LTV....
The Terrorist Screening Center had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 - and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month.
Oil prices broke through a new intraday high of $102 a barrel Wednesday as a slide in the U.S. dollar prompted investors to pump more money into energy futures as a hedge against inflation.
The potential economic fallout from housing may be far from over. That’s bad news for the economy at large. Once widely viewed as a well contained problem, economists are now worried that housing could stimulate a wide range of damage to the economy
As consumer and wholesale prices climb, home values continue to slump. House prices in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas fell in December by 9.1 percent from a year before, the most in the 20-year history of the S&P/Case-Shiller index, a private report show
The unfolding political contest in the United States is a window into America's soul. The nation is arguing with itself. The candidates embody separate impulses. As voters choose sides, a red state-blue state polarity again takes shape. Within th
Police are continuing to investigate the death of a 61-year-old Scottsdale motorcyclist and cannot say whether a photo-radar van played a role in the accident.
The van was monitoring one lane of eastbound traffic from 6:30 to 9:45 a.m. Sunday near
No good news today on the economic front. Consumer confidence plunged, the wholesale inflation rate soared, the number of homes being foreclosed jumped, home prices fell sharply and a report predicts big increases in health care costs.
Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US central bank has said that inflation rates in Gulf states, which are reaching near record levels, would fall "significantly" if oil producers dropped their US dollar pegs.
Joe Lents hasn't made a payment on his $1.5 million mortgage since 2002. That's when Washington Mutual Inc. first tried to foreclose on his home in Boca Raton, Florida. The Seattle-based lender failed to prove that it owned Lents's mortga
Companies and countries that buy petroleum products are encouraged to hold dollar reserves to pay for their supplies, coincidentally helping the American economy support its trade deficit.
In 1776 the founders risked their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to establish a free and prosperous nation whereby individuals were able to do as they pleased without any interference from government officials unless the individual initiated for
"I will not resign and take on the cloak of guilt because I am innocent," Renzi said. "My legal team ... will handle these legal issues while I continue to serve my constituents." Renzi returned since the 35-count indictment was i
Feb. 25--MACHIAS -- Sheriff Donnie Smith of the Washington County Sheriff's Department has ordered his staff members not to work with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency until further notice.