ON AIR NOW
Click to Play
China surpassed Japan in September to become the biggest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries, as foreign investors sought the relative safety of government debt as stocks plunged 9.1% that month. [relative is right; who owns whom?]
Funding from billionaire George Soros, the Center for American Progress has become in just five years an intellectual wellspring for Democratic policy proposals, including many that are shaping the agenda of the new Obama administration.
A friend of mine spent many years in the security business doing contract work for the CIA, some of which involved killing people. One of the things he told me was, “A guy will do almost anything if he thinks it’s for the good of other people.”
Obnoxious? Yes -- but gifted, too: 50-year-old billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban, targeted by the Feds for daring to oppose the Great Plutocrat Swindle.
A New York Times writer discovers Internet news sites, run by refugees from failing newspapers. These sites are run by Mainstream Media “professional journalists” and are the future, says the Times. We say: put Internet lipstick on the MSM and it’s s
Remember PardonGate? DBKP takes a look back at past Presidential pardons, in particular the numerous and “unusual” pardons granted by Bill Clinton including members of the terrorist group, FALN, and financier Marc Rich.
"Hilmar points to events surrounding the election of Barack Hussein Obama as reminiscent of the way the Nazi regime came to power." Tom Horn, CEO of Anomalos Publishing, recently sent out the mailing "Former Hitler Youth to Appear o
No appointees have been named as yet, but questions are already being raised about the people heading Obama’s transition efforts on intelligence policy.
Scan these 30 "leading indicators." Each problem has one or more possible solutions, but lacks unified political support. Time's running out. We're already at the edge. Add up the trillions in debt:
Head to head with ALL the network mouthpieces... It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
Japanese economists, increasingly concerned that the United States might seek to pay its enormous and growing debt obligations in a weakened US dollar, are looking to the possibility of US Treasuries being issued in yen.
"What this crisis reveals is a broken financial system like no other in my lifetime," he told a conference at Lombard Street Research in London.
And who better to lay it out for us than radical lefty, Ralph Nader,...so that when Congress only enacts about 2/3rds of the items listed here, they can claim to be "centrist", and "moderate".
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Dozens of masked gunmen blocked a mountain pass and hijacked a convoy of trucks carrying military vehicles and other supplies bound for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. But don't worry,...all is well. (Gag!)
With Obama in power, the Weather Underground and peacenik movements renew their struggle to win. The revolution against war … must win. Bill Ayers
When the leaders of the three Detroit auto companies and the United Automobile Workers union travel to Washington to make their case for a federal bailout, they will be flying into stiff headwinds of public opinion.
Over the last 7 years, Walter Andre Sharpe Jr. has been forced to pay $12,000 in child support, jailed four times and estranged from his four children. It all began to unravel seven years ago when he signed a certified letter from
Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur, billionaire, Dallas Mavericks owner, and ardent attention-seeker is getting a new title by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today: "defendant."
The problem, according to Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge of Draycote is that most young people get their information from the internet. He said: "They are not listening. They are reading." Worse, they are so used to doing their own research
Imagine, however, if instead of getting a "hello" or "good morning," the manager of the store asks you to greet him. Further, imagine if the manager holds you at gunpoint and threatens you with imprisonment.
Japan became the latest major economy to fall into recession and Citigroup said on Monday it would cut 52,000 jobs, one of history's largest layoffs, stoking fears the global economic slump is worsening.
With a recession in sight, the case for legalizing marijuana and taxing it for government revenue seems more practical than ever.
Iran has converted financial reserves into gold to avoid future problems, an adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in comments published on Saturday, after the price of oil fell more than 60 percent from a peak in July.
When it was revealed that manager, and niece of the owner, Marjorie Chrisoffersen had contributed to the Yes on 8 campaign to strip gay couple of marriage rights business dropped off.
I don't mean Hillary Clinton, though I could ask that too. I mean Madeleine Albright. She has spoken for Obama's campaign, and now she is one of his representatives at the G-20 meeting on how to fix the world financial markets. Shudder.
In the stone ages, when I worked for a short while at Goldman, it would have been unthinkable to trade openly against clients. But those proprieties were abandoned long ago.
Everybody want to interview Ron Paul on the economy these days.
The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring West
Progressives very quickly dig up the decaying corpse of Franklin Roosevelt, apparently in order to demonstrate a case where so-called critical support from the Left worked — that is, it supposedly worked because it got us the New Deal
