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We Are All Killers..Until we stop flying New fuel consumption figures for both fast passenger ships and ultra high-speed trains suggest that...

Global credit ocean dries up "There are several hundred billion dollars of positions in the carry trade that will be unwound as soon as...

The National Association of Realtors said resales of U.S. homes dropped 2.8% in January to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 6.56 mi...

Neocons jump ship

Harper's Calls For Impeachment “To take away the excuse,” he said, “that we didn't know.” So that two or four or ten years from now,...

Senator Feinstein's War-Profiteering The Democrats aren’t just letting the Republicans get away with murder, however, some of them are a...

Venezuela Cautions U.S. It May Curtail Oil Exports The minister, Rafael Ramírez, said Venezuela, which is the world's fifth-largest oil...

America's younger workers losing ground on income From 2001 to 2004, median income fell 8 percent for householders under 35, a survey s...

A survey by the National Association for Business Economics increased its estimate of first quarter U.S. GDP growth from an annual rate of 3...

Free speech, even if it hurts Today, you may be imprisoned or fined for dissenting from the accepted Holocaust history in the following coun...

Cancelled home orders: Latest bubble prick? Home builders are growing concerned about an increasing number of cancelled new home orders, whi...

Verizon Faces New $20B Suit over NSA Spying Complicity Upping the ante in what may be a high-stakes legal battle, an Upstate New York lawyer...

U.S. to Pay Big Employers Billions Not to End Their Retiree Health Plans

Mr. Reed Consults With Padre Kino

Durable goods orders dove 10.2% in January from the previous month for the biggest drop in six years, led by a decline in commercial aircraf...

India spreads its net for gas, any gas

Families' budget squeezed by rising costs From an economic point of view, core inflation — for now — isn't overly worrisome but it ...

U.S. Jobless claims were down 20,000 last week to 278,000, signaling a stronger economy than expected. The Bank of Japan on Thursday sent ...

Following two months of downturns, the U.S. consumer prices rose 0.7% in January the most in a year, the Labor Department reported Wednesday...

Segway creator unveils his next act Inventor Dean Kamen wants to put entrepreneurs to work bringing water and electricity to the world'...

Rising Risk of Epidemics Seen “A good analogy to this is that we’re living through a mass extinction,” said Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Inf...

Culture of Fear Attempting to avoid all risk is a recipe for technological and economic stagnation.

The Conference Board's U.S. index of leading indicators rose by 1.1% in January, to a record high of 140.1. A high-ranking Japan ese ban...

Senior Lawyer at Pentagon Broke Ranks on Detainees

U.S. Rejects U.N. Report on Gitmo The United States, which is a member of the commission, has criticized the body itself for including membe...

China Rushes to Complete $100B Deal With Iran China is hastening to complete a deal worth as much as $100 billion that would allow a Chinese...

Senate Rejects Wiretapping Probe

Iraq economy falls below pre-war levels Senator Conrad, citing the special inspector general, said almost all economic indices showed Iraq w...

Sea levels likely to rise much faster than was predicted Scientists have found that many of the huge glaciers of Greenland are moving at an ...

The U.S. producer price index rose 0.3% in January and up 5.7% YoY. Excluding food and energy, prices were up .4% in January. The United St...

Australian bird flu vaccine on its way Releasing early results of a clinical trial on a vaccine to combat the deadly virus, CSL (csl.ASX:) c...

Japanese Putting All Their Energy Into Saving Fuel "We're saving [$100] a day at city hall by shutting off the heat,"

EPA Revokes Gasoline-Additive Mandate States no longer will have to add corn-based ethanol or MTBE to gasoline to fight pollution — a requir...

Amid China Threat US To Hold Mammoth Naval Operations In Pacific

The number of workers filing initial unemployment claims rose by 19,000 last week to 297,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. U.S....

K Street keeps growing Early returns on end-of-year revenues show strong growth all along Washington’s lobbying corridor

Congressional Probe of NSA Spying Is in Doubt Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantl...

Whistleblower says NSA violations bigger A former NSA employee said Tuesday there is another ongoing top-secret surveillance program that mi...

Bernanke: Agrees some rate hikes may be needed. Inverted yield curve doesn't signal slowdown. Concerned about path of budget deficits ....

U.S. federal government will give away $7 billion Projections in the Interior Department's new budget estimate the federal government wi...

U.S. retail sales were up 2.3% in January -- more than expected. Excluding autos, sales were up 2.2%. The Bush administration on Tuesday v...

The Bush administration, facing rising political pressure over the record U.S. trade deficit , on Monday urged China to further liberalize i...

The U.S. trade deficit widened to a record 725.8 billion in 2005. U.S. exports were up $2.3 billion in December to $111.5 billion while impo...

The number of workers filing initial unemployment claims rose by 4,000 last week to 277,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. U.S. whole...

China may eradicate poverty by 2050 However, he was keen to point out that the current situation is still not that optimistic. The economic ...

Another cyberdissident imprisoned because of data provided by Yahoo Reporters Without Borders today condemned the US firm Yahoo ! for handin...

The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity for the week ended February 3 decreased...

Industrial output in Brazil expanded in December at its fastest pace in more than two years. Toyota earned roughly $3.3 billion in the qua...

Bush is asking Congress to increase federal spending by 2.3% in 2007 to $2.77 trillion with a projected shortfall of $354 billion. Dallas F...

Will Europe’s Flat Tax Revolution Spread from East to West? Under a flat tax, all households receive a generous family-based allowance, and ...