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Fed kills a key inflation gauge The U.S. Federal Reserve made big news at the end of March. And almost nobody noticed.

U.S. factory orders rose 0.2% in February following a decline the previous month, the Commerce Department reported Friday. U.S. personal in...

Updates will resume March 31st.

Silver ETF moves closer to approval The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a rule change for a silver exchange-traded fund in r...

The U.S. producer price index fell 1.4% in February, the largest decline since April 2003, as food and fuel prices fell, the Labor Departmen...

The Conference Board's index of U.S. leading indicators was down 0.2% in February, to 139.0. With the steady trend of rising core infla...

The Torture Judge In a startling, ominous decision—ignored by most of the press around the country—Federal District Judge David Trager, in t...

A Peculiar Politician a naïf who voted against the war in Iraq and the Patriot Act. On principle!

The Boston Legal fan website The James Spader monologue video " Stick It "can still be seen here.

The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index was weaker than expected at 86.7. U.S. Industrial production was up 0.7% in Febru...

GOP Senators Submit Bill Legalizing Warrentless Spying

Debt on top of debt Congress raised the limit on the federal government's borrowing by $781 billion yesterday, and then lawmakers voted ...

Commodity Strategists: Rally to Resume, Lehman Says Growth, geopolitical risk and potentially higher energy prices point to the possibility...

Commodity Strategists: Rally to Resume, Lehman Says ``Growth, geopolitical risk and potentially higher energy prices point to the possibili...

Commodity Strategists: Rally to Resume, Lehman Says ``Growth, geopolitical risk and potentially higher energy prices point to the possibili...

U.S. consumer prices were up 0.1% in February and up 3.6% YoY The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business index fell from 15.4...

Every Man Needs a Theory While we shared many of their views, we saw the war as a historical necessity. Every empire needs to find a way to ...

US backs first-strike attack plan The US will not shy away from attacking regimes it considers hostile, or groups it believes have nuclear o...

The economy headed into the spring season with solid momentum, helping to generate more employment opportunities and keep factories humming,...

When Democracy Looks Like Civil War Recent studies offer a damning assesment of the Bush administration's policies in Iraq. Thanks to U...

Farmers Face Immigrant Workers Shortage "I wound up hiring some locals that weren't worth hauling to the field," he said. ...

The U.S. current account deficit totaled $224.9 billion in the fourth quarter, more than expected. For 2005, the current account shortfall t...

Former top judge says US risks edging near to dictatorship Sandra Day O'Connor, a Republican-appointed judge who retired last month aft...

The Federal Reserve has moved U.S. interest rates up into a zone where policy-makers need to weigh the risk of raising them too far as they ...

Search for Katrina's dead stymied by bureaucratic wrangling There is unfortunately little public pressure on government officials to spe...

The Health Report: Cheerful Men at Lower Risk of Heart Disease Neil Osterweil, MedPage Today staff writer, reported recently that cheery, op...

The U.S. government ran a monthly budget deficit of $119.20 billion in February – this is an all-time monthly record. Last years Feb. defici...

'SECRET DOCKET' IN D.C. COURTS In a study released this week, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press says that, over a fiv...

Gitmo: The Worst of the Worst? On February 16, a British high court judge, Sir Andrew Collins, emphasized: " America's idea of what...

FREE SPEECH ON THE RUN IN THE WEST Much of Europe has painted itself into a corner on the censorship issue. What can Norway say to pro-censo...

The International Monetary Fund is set to raise its forecast for global economic growth this year to 4.8 percent, Germany's Handelsblatt...

For 2005, U.S. business productivity was up 2.9%. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise official interest rates again for the 15t...

Harry Browne, RIP The words of Harry Browne Kind words from some of Harry's friends:

U.S. Factory orders were down 4.5% in January, the biggest monthly drop in over five years. Excluding transport, factory orders were up 1.6%...

Patriot Act E-Mail Searches Apply to Non-Terrorists, Judges Say

Fidelity Estimates $200,000 Now Needed to Cover Retiree Health Care Costs; Five Percent Increase over 2005 Estimate of $190,000

Mother Of All Tax Shelters Both supporters and opponents of the proposal said that the enhanced HSAs offer unprecedented tax advantages and...

Future moves in official U.S. interest rates will be closely tied to incoming data, but for now the Federal Reserve does not need to push ra...

Willis Is Mad As Hell... "I'm sick of answering this [expletive] question," he says. "I'm a Republican only as far as...

Bush Privatize Tax Collection Members of the National Treasury Employees Union, visiting Washington from around the country for an organizin...

Bush Plan to Sell Public Lands To Fund Schools Forest Service officials and Western lawmakers battled Tuesday over an administration proposa...

Armed forces are put on standby to tackle threat of wars over water Across the world, they are coming: the water wars. From Israel to India,...

U.S. Jobless claims were up 15,000 last week to 294,000, more than expected. Top executives of U.S. companies expect to see continued stre...

FOX Ratings In Free Fall - O'Reilly Leads The Way Down As we all know, the media is rampant with sycophantic, corporate shills and can...

Gonzales Seeks to Clarify Testimony on Spying "It seems to me he is conceding that there are other NSA surveillance programs ongoing th...

U.S. Commerce Department said that Personal income increased 0.7 percent, consumer spending rose 0.9%. The average U.S. home increased 12.95...

Prodded to spend, China's consumers prefer to save

Fed Official Warns of Changes A top Federal Reserve official warned yesterday that the U.S. financial system is evolving faster than the ab...

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...