In what could to grow into a class action in US courts, a Chinese woman is suing the Federal Reserve after discovering that the real value of the USD250 she put in an account in 2006 had shrunk by 30%.
As Boston and U.S. security agencies congratulate themselves over the apparent neutralization of a pair of Chechens that bombed the Boston Marathon, troubling questions are beginning to arise.
E-commerce giant eBay is pulling its customers into its fight against legislation that would allow states to collect sales tax on online transactions, warning that the measure will lead to higher prices.
Gold climbed for a fifth day, the longest rally of the year, after the metal last week posted the biggest price slump in three decades. Oil rose and energy and raw-material producers led U.S. stocks higher.
I was innocently watching TV with the family, suffering only a tolerable minimum of constant, simmering anger and paranoia about the horrific economic cataclysm that is descending upon us
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Big investors are pouring unprecedented amounts of money into real estate hard hit by the housing crash, bringing those moribund markets back to life but raising the prospect of another Wall Street-fueled bubble that won’t be sustainable.
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Congress is again joining the fight over public pensions, as a Representative pushed a bill to require state and local funds to give more accurate information on their assets and to bar the federal government from bailing them out during a financial
Two months ago, Fed governor Jeremy Stein caused a major stir among the very serious excel-using economists and other wannabe "scientists"-cum-voodoo witchdoctors, when he hinted that it was the Fed's actions that were leading to "overheating" in the
When Suckers Finally Realize The fleecing of the American public continues.The theft takes different forms, but it all serves one purpose — to transfer wealth from the average Joe to the crony corporatists and their political lackeys.
It is no surprise that pension funds in the US are significantly underfunded (median 72% funded). California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CALPERS), specifically, is about 26% short of meeting its long-term commitments.
In the opening years of the last decade, most mainstream investors sat on the sidelines while "tin hat" goldbugs rode the bull market from below $300 to just over $1,000 per ounce.
Biggest sell-off in stocks of 2013 so far, and comes after weaker than expected economic data out of China, weak housing data in the United States this morning, and of course, a massive sell-off across the commodity complex, most notably in gold (whi
A watchdog has launched an investigation into whether children face “unfair pressure” to spend money on apparently free web and app-based games, it said Friday.
Outside the workshop just south of San Francisco where a platoon of women behind sewing machines assembles his company’s coveted American Giant sweatshirts—you know, the ones that have been sold out for months since being called the greatest hoodie e
I came across a recent report from the IMF, where they highlighted the importance of understanding commodity price fluctuations for commodity producing and consuming countries and the role of commodity prices in growth, inflation, and monetary and fi
Precious metals plunged today as did their lease rates. Which came first the gold price chicken or the lease rate egg? Cheaper lease rates make it potentially more profitable to borrow gold, sell it, and then invest the proceeds in other markets (car
Mike Dugger (former AZ libertarian party chair and friend of the Hancock's) comes in studio to talk about the Uniform Securitization Scheme (the birth scam) - Charles Goyette provides an update on the market