High Gas Prices Set to Cause Double Dip in Economy
"I'm sure the rising cost of energy is bothering the market," said Fred Dickson, chief investment strategist at D. A. Davidson & Company last...
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University of Texas Takes Possession of $1 Billion in Gold
The University of Texas decided this week to take physical possession of some 664,000 ounces of gold it has bought over the past...
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Beck May Leave Fox News and Pursue Own Channel
Speculation over the length of conservative pundit Glenn Beck’s tenure at Fox News has pervaded media circles and conservative blogs almost since the...
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Fannie, Freddie, and the Feds’ Double Standard on Executive Pay
On February 4, 2009, President Barack Obama signed legislation establishing a $500,000 limit on executive compensation at firms receiving federal aid through the...
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Cash For Clunkers 2? It’s Coming
Even after the Cash for Clunkers program failed, the federal government refuses to give up. It is now launching Cash for Clunkers 2,...
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Financial Sector Lures Math Talent from Industry
Credit Time magazine for identifying, however imprecisely, a very important but little understood consequence of the modern Federal Reserve-based financial system: a “brain...
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LSU Economist: Obama Drilling Moratorium Cost Billions
President Barack Obama's imprudent moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf Of Mexico cost not only the Gulf region but also the...
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New York Times Web Site to Go Behind Pay Wall
In the realm of online news, the New York Times is one of the premier go-to sites that hundreds of thousands of news...
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Postal Service Faces Shortfall
The number of activities contemplated by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution for the federal government is very small. However, astute Americans are...
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Foreclosures, Bankruptcies Hitting Churches
With the number of home foreclosures on pace to hit one million this year, many Americans were hoping to look to the church...
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Huffington Post Strikes Deal With AOL
Reports that the Huffington Post struck a deal with online company AOL, Inc. that involves the sale of the Huffington Post to the online...
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USPS to Close Thousands of Post Offices
With at least $7 billion in losses expected in 2011 and similar setbacks over the past several years, the United States Postal Service...
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Many Bailed-out Banks May Fail Anyway
As many as 98 banks, which took in a total of $4.2 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), may fail anyway,...
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Facebook Founder Named Time’s “Person of the Year”
Twenty-six-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social networking website Facebook, has been selected as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010. Facebook,...
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Small Gold Buyers Face Big Government Burdens
Gold has always been the bane of big government planners. The precious metal has, from time immemorial, constituted real and portable wealth. Diamonds...
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