Presidential Candidate Ron Paul’s “Extremism”
Claiming that presidential candidate Ron Paul leads the “economic suicide wing” of the Republican Party, Brent Budowsky, writing for The Hill, says that...
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The Real Impact of a U.S. Debt Downgrade
When Standard and Poor’s moved up their timeframe for a downgrade on U.S. sovereign debt from three to five years to just 90...
Debt Ceiling Talks: from Disagreement to Impasse to Crisis
House Speaker John Boehner walked away Friday from debt ceiling negotiations with President Obama, saying that the White House had “moved the goalposts”...
Obama’s Letter to Americans: Stand Behind Efforts to Raise Debt Limit
President Obama’s open letter to the American people published yesterday in USA Today challenges them “to do something big and meaningful" and stand...
Minn. Govt Shutdown Ends With Compromise That Pleases No One
Now that the Minnesota state government shutdown has ended, details of the compromise between Governor Mark Dayton and the Republicans are now public...
President Obama Pledges Spending Cuts Down to Eisenhower Era
At last Friday?s press conference, President Obama reviewed the status of talks with Republicans over the debt ceiling and reiterated his determination to...
Looking for Green Shoots in the Economy
Just a month ago one of the most accurate economic forecasters on the planet looked at the economy and concluded that another recession...
August 3: Day of Reckoning
On Tuesday evening, President Obama was being interviewed by Scott Pelley, who asked the President whether he could guarantee that Americans would get...
Using the Food Crisis
According to internationally acclaimed author and highly regarded expert Lester Brown (pictured), writing in the January 10 issue of Foreign Policy magazine: ...
Bohemian Grove: Where the Elite Meet to Eat (and Conspire)
Debra Saunders complained that, because she is a woman, she wasn?t invited to the upcoming Bohemian Club meeting which begins this Thursday...
Fed Insiders Selling Inside Information
In an effort to plug leaks at the Federal Reserve, the U.S.'s central bank issued a statement yesterday that members of the Federal...
Food Prices Rocket
Eighty-year-old Dottie Bell is a volunteer at the Community Market food bank in Opelika, Alabama, and every day she sees the impact of...
Economists Are at a Loss; So Are Jobs
Once the awful job numbers announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics job numbers were digested, it was clear that the clairvoyant economists...
Treasury Secretly Exploring Options if Debt Ceiling Isnt Raised
Unnamed White House and U.S. Treasury sources told MoneyNews.com that options to handle the government’s debts in the event no debt ceiling...
FTC Probes Google in Fishing Expedition
Google announced on its blog on June 24th that the Federal Trade Commission had launched “a review of our business. We respect the...