AOL Acquires The Huffington Post
In a clear case of having more dollars than sense, America Online (AOL) is undertaking its least palatable acquisition to date: Arianna Huffington’s...
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Chairman Ron Paul to Tackle the Fed and Jobs
According to a press release for February 2, Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee...
Russia Moving to Gold Standard?
With the value of the U.S. dollar exponentially declining since the establishment of the...
News Baron Murdock Set to Launch Daily iPad Paper
Media mogul Rupert Murdock, whose News Corp. owns and operates scores of daily newspapers,...
Commodities Skyrocket After Fed Announces $600 Billion More Inflation
One day after the Federal Reserve Bank's “Federal Open Market Committee” (FOMC) announced it...
IMF Outlook for Global Economy Gloomy
There is little growth on the horizon for the global economy, and a significant...
Corn Syrup Makers Seek Name Change for Sweetener
With high-fructose corn syrup suffering from years of bad press, and consumption of the...
Recession is Over?
With a straight face, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that the...
Bernanke Whitewashes Fed Responsibility for “Great Recession”
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke largely whitewashed Federal Reserve responsibility for the housing...
Housing Bubble Refuses to Re-Inflate
Housing sales dropped by more than 25 percent nationwide in July, according to the...
Fed Confirms Recovery Stalled
When the Federal Open Market Committee announced yesterday that “the pace of economic recovery...
From China, With Love
Addison Wiggin asked his readers to imagine an older happily married couple, having their...
The Invisible Recovery
On Friday Reuters reported that non-government payrolls rose only slightly in June and overall...
Fannie and Freddie De-listed From NYSE: Now What?
When ABC News announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be de-listed by...
Fannie/Freddie Bailout May Reach 1 Trillion
Just when Americans thought that the bailouts were over, Bloomberg Financial News service reported...
Fed Manipulations in the Crosshairs
Before the economic meltdown was in full swing, a Florida real-estate developer named William...
Economic Forecast: Summer of Discontent
After six straight months of gains in consumer spending the April numbers showed no...
Mortgage Defaults Increasing
According to the New York Times, “A growing number of the people whose homes...
Top Banks Conspired to Defraud Taxpayers
More than a dozen top American banks were involved in a conspiracy to swindle...
Dow Theory’s Russell Says Major Crash Coming
The day after the “flash crash” in the stock market on May 6th, Richard...