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Worried about inflation, Federal Reserve policymakers at their May meeting considered raising a key interest rate by half a percentage point...

U.S. consumer confidence dropped from 109.8 to 103.2 in May by the most since Hurricane Katrina last fall, the Conference Board said. Reta...

Americans Living Abroad Get a Nasty Tax Surprise He said rough calculations showed that a married couple paid $300,000, of which $20,000 was...

Bush and Rove May Find `It's the Economy, Stupid' Won't Work One explanation for the public malaise may be the distribution of p...

Neo-cons question Bush’s democratisation strategy Short-term economic costs of the empire have been bearable, says Mr Fuller, but long-term ...

To provide for the common defense by requiring all persons in the United States , including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform ...

Easy-to-get loans cause thousands to lose homes What is known is that, rich and poor alike, South Florida homeowners are on a collision cour...

Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV' "The public obviously expects their news reports are going to be based on real ...

Congress reveals its double standard But if one of their own – no matter what party or what wrongdoing is suspected – is the recipient of a ...

Mike Farrell on "Baghdad ER" John F. Kennedy said America would never start a war. Well, it has now, and its architects have damag...

What May Come of the Haditha Massacre? We ought to set our sights a bit higher, and begin in a serious way to politically destroy those peop...

Apple Loses Bid to Unmask Bloggers' Sources A California appeals court has smacked down Apple's legal assault on bloggers and their ...

Retiree benefits grow into 'monster' Taxpayers owe more than a half-million dollars per household for financial promises made by go...

Tony Blair Will Make Britain Look Like It Lost To The Nazis A government engaging in escalating criminal actions and becoming more and more ...

Report: Jet stream shift is expanding the Earth's tropics and deserts

Consumer personal spending rose 0.6% in April, while personal incomes were up 0.5%. The core rate of personal consumption spending was up 2....

The U.S. economy grew at a revised 5.3% annual rate in the first quarter, a half-percentage point higher than previously reported, the Comme...

Federal Reserve Board Governor Randall Kroszner said on Wednesday the U.S. central bank must consider the lags with which interest rate chan...

Why Does the NSA Engage in Mass Surveillance of Americans When It's Statistically Impossible for Such Spying to Detect Terrorists? No ma...

April durable goods orders tumble 4.8 percent Even when transportation orders were stripped out, orders for goods meant to last three years ...

Iran Requests Direct Talks on Nuclear Program "You know, two months ago nobody would believe that Mr. Khamenei and Mr. Ahmadinejad toge...

U.S. Consumer confidence hit a six-month low in the latest week, pushed down by high gasoline prices and a rise in broader inflation, ABC Ne...

Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher on Monday said U.S. inflation was running too high for comfort, but the central bank h...

According to Barclays IShares Silver ETF Website the trust now holds 907,291,198 ounces of silver as of 5/19/06. This is up from 69,992,918 ...

The Federal Reserve needs to consider the lags with which interest rate changes affect the economy, Kansas City Fed Bank President Thomas Ho...

Supreme Court Officially Emasculates Taxpayers Remember - these taxpayer giveaways are accelerating and come at a huge cost in terms of high...

U.S. Jobless claims were up 42,000 last week to 367,000. The Conference Board's U.S. index of leading indicators was down 0.1% in April...

Rents a Key Driver of Inflation The biggest component of the core consumer price run-up last month came from rent increases. Directly and in...

Watch out: Your mutual fund could report you Yet you won't know your information was sent to the government, because by law, companies c...

Another year, another tax cut, and look who's cleaning up In each year since Bush took office, he has signed at least one significant mo...

U.S. consumer price index was up 0.6% in April, a little more than expected. Excluding food and energy, prices were up 0.3% in April. YoY th...

Permit glut undermines EU carbon scheme

''Iraq's Impending Fracture to Produce Political Earthquake in Turkey''

U.S. Consumer confidence dropped to a new low for the year last week, pushed down again by the high gasoline prices and a weak job market, A...

Bush & Nixon photo finish While Bush’s approval rating is still a bit higher than Nixon’s at a comparable point, his disapproval rating ...

The New York Federal Reserve's regional index of manufacturing dropped from 15.81 to 12.36 in May, weaker than expected, but still a sig...

U.S., Seeking Smaller Deficit, Signals Comfort With Dollar Drop The Bush administration, seeking to narrow its near record trade deficit, is...

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NSA Whistleblower Says "People Are Going To Be Shocked" By His Testimony Next Week..."This Is Only The Tip Of The Iceberg...

Say "Thank You" to the one phone company that refused to give the NSA your phone records.

Basics, Not Luxuries, Blamed for High Debt The debt of the typical American family earning about $45,000 a year rose 33.1 percent from 20...

U.S. Exports in March were up $2.1 billion to $114.7 billion while imports were down $1.5 billion to $176.7 billion. The difference of $62....

Global miner BHP Billiton Where To From Here? Demand for commodities is not just being driven by Chinese economicgrowth, other emerging econ...

Retail sales increased in April by a seasonally adjusted 0.5%, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Wall Street expected a 0.8% advance. G...

Homes piling up The number of unsold homes on the Denver-area market hit a record 29,045 in April, according to reports released Thursday.

A World Too Complex To Be Managed If you look inside an elderly person’s medicine cabinet and see the many drugs that are used to suppress ...

Rumsfeld on Daily Show Nixon ... “He’s a ruthless ">little bastard. You can be sure of that.”

Anger toward US boosts Latin America's leftist leaders

House Panel Urges Reworking of Leases for Oil Drilling in U.S.-Owned Waters