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Hands Off Google! ..It was therefore only a matter of time before ideologues, cretins, and government regulators – or do I repeat myself? – ...

Taking a Byte Out of Free Expression .. But in reconsidering Google’s decision, I see potential benefits to the cause of liberty that go fa...

The Federal Reserve voted unanimously Tuesday to raise the benchmark U.S. interest rate a quarter-point to 4.5%. They also suggested that ...

Pentagon Can Now Fund Foreign Militaries

UN unveils plan to release untapped wealth of...$7 trillion (and solve the world's problems at a stroke)

Palace Revolt For nine months, from October 2003 to June 2004, he had been the central figure in a secret but intense rebellion of a small c...

The Department of Commerce said that December’s personal incomes were up 0.4% while consumer spending was up 0.9%. Japan 's retail sal...

Savings Rate at Lowest Level Since 1933 The Commerce Department reported Monday that the savings rate fell into negative territory at minu...

Greenspan hikes into sunset Tomorrow's session of the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will be the last for Dr Greenspan, 79, aft...

Energy gap: Crisis for humanity? Demand for energy, in all its forms, is rising Supplies of key fuels - notably oil and gas - show signs of ...

The Department of Commerce's said that U.S. GDP in the fourth quarter was up an annual rate of 1.1%, a listless showing that was the wor...

The bigger the balls, the smaller the brains ...males in some species "make an evolutionary trade-off between intelligence and sexual p...

'Suicide Seeds' Could Spell Death of Peasant Agriculture, UN Meeting Told Developed by multinational agribusinesses and the U.S. go...

China to drive world economy as US stumbles: economists

A congressional report released on Thursday said the U.S. budget shortfall will hit $337 billion this year, a figure that is up $23 billion ...

India sees record 75.5 million tonnes wheat output NEW DELHI: India is expected to produce a record wheat output of 75.5 million tonnes this...

Tech leaders press Bush on U.S. competitiveness After decades of uncontested global dominance, the United States is now at risk of falling b...

Environmental Report Rates New Zealand No. 1 The United States ranked below nearly every major country in Western Europe, although it outpe...

U.S. Existing home sales were at an annual rate of 6.6 million units in December, down 5.7% from November's pace. There are 2.8 million ...

White House Was Told Hurricane Posed Danger The White House was told in the hours before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans that the city wo...

77% of Google users don't know it records personal data Google maintains a lifetime cookie that expires in 2038, and records the user...

BoE’s Lomax warns of impact of global imbalances Of particular concern is the possibility that the “global savings glut” described by incomi...

Google Agrees to Censor Results in China Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the ...

The confidence of U.S. consumers rose in the latest week as concerns about weather and energy prices eased, ABC News and the Washington Post...

U.S. losing its luster as a talent magnet This talent outflow poses more long-term dangers to our economy than the migration of low-skill-le...

The massive and growing U.S. current account deficit poses a threat to the world economy and an eventual adjustment will not necessarily be ...

I, Greenspan Since I joined the Fed , outstanding home-mortgage debt has jumped from $1.8 trillion to $8.2 trillion. Total consumer debt wen...

America's dark materials STARE at something long and hard enough, and it will begin to swim before your eyes. Economists have been scru...

MS, AOL and Yahoo! caved to Feds' fishing expedition But on closer examination, Google's reasons for fighting the subpoena are less ...

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Iran's Bomb There's been a lot of talk recently about Israel and/or the United States bombing the nuclear facilities in Iran. I wou...

Nuclear Showdown With Iran So, at least for now, it appears President Ahmadinejad has decided to do a North Korea: that is, defy the western...

'Green' Measures Key to Earth's Future, Report Says

Iran calls for oil output cut Iran has called for a cut in global oil production while simultaneously preparing to shift its foreign assets...

U.S. Consumer sentiment rose for a third straight month from 91.5 to 93.4, according to the University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentim...

Q&A | Wireless pioneer looks to the future At 72, Irwin Mark Jacobs knows more about cellphones than any teen whiz kid ever will.

Shipping Rates for Coal, Ore Fall to Five-Month Low on Supply The cost of shipping commodities such as iron ore and coal fell to its lowest...

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Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Requests Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people h...

The number of U.S. workers filing initial unemployment claims fell 36,000 last week to 271,000, the lowest level since April 2000, the Labo...

43% of first-time home buyers put no money down The median first-time home buyer scraped together a down payment of only 2% on a $150,000 ho...

U.S. Consumer prices fell 0.1% in December as energy prices declined, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. The economy chugged ahead as ...

Gore Is Right Former vice president Al Gore gave what I believe to be the most important political speech in my lifetime, and the New York ...

Shell may pull out of Niger Delta after 17 die in boat raid

US Constitution in Grave Danger Can it be true that any president really has such powers under our Constitution? If the answer is "yes...

U.S. Industrial production was up 0.6% in December. U.S. Consumer confidence slid sharply in the latest week as prices of heating fuels and ...

Can farms yield fuel and feed the world? Some experts scoff at the idea of corn shortages, but others say it is possible, at least to some ...

U.S. Producer prices were up 0.9% in December and up 5.4% YoY. Excluding food and energy costs, prices were up 0.1% in December. U.S. retai...

Opec nations ‘set for record oil revenues’ It’s just been a phenomenal transfer of wealth from consuming to producing nations,” said Francis...

U.S. jobless claims were up 17,000 last week to 309,000 The U.S. trade gap shrank more than expected in November. The gap narrowed to $64....