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U.S. Consumer confidence rose from 105.3 to 109.0, an eight-month high, the New York-based Conference Board reported. The National Associat...

Japans Jiji news agency reported late Tuesday the Bank of Japan is likely to discuss raising rates to 0.5 percent next month. Retail sales ...

Personal income increased $33.8 billion, or 0.3 %, and disposable personal income increased $27.0 billion, or 0.3 %, in November. Consumer s...

U.S. GDP rose 2.0% in the third quarter of 2006, slightly less than expected. YoY real GDP was up 3.0%. Consumer spending rose 2.8% QoQ. U....

Want To Feel Rich? by Bill Bonner Being "rich" is easier than we think. You just have to get away from Miami or Los Angeles. If y...

The U.S. Labor Department said that producer prices were up 2.0% in November, the biggest gain since 1974. YoY producer prices were up 0.9% ...

Goldman building market for home price derivatives Property derivatives have the potential to become big on Wall Street. The value of U.S. h...

The huge U.S. current account deficit widened in the third quarter to a record $225.6 billion Canada 's composite index of leading indi...

Pot is called biggest cash crop For years, activists in the marijuana legalization movement have claimed that cannabis is America's bigg...

Even if they're off, cellphones allow FBI to listen in "This is a kind of surveillance we've never really seen before. The gove...

Bush 'Privacy Board' Just a Gag The three-hour meeting, held at Georgetown University, quickly established that the panel would be ...

McCain Bill Is Lethal Injection For Internet Freedom Exploits fear of sexual predators and basic misunderstanding of Internet to attack bl...

U.S. Consumer prices were unchanged in November and up 2.0% YoY, less than expected. Excluding food and energy costs, prices were up 2.6% Yo...

Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war He also reveals that British officials warned US diplomats that bringi...

Argentina 's economy expanded 8.7 percent in the third quarter compared with the year-earlier period, fueled by higher consumer spending...

Americans See Widening Rich-Poor Income Gap as Cause for Alarm Almost three-quarters of Americans believe inequality is a major issue, vers...

U.S. Retail sales were up 1.0% in November, more than expected. Excluding autos and gasoline, sales were up 0.9%. China 's economy may h...

The Federal Reserve left the federal funds rate at 5.25%, noting the economy has slowed and is hurt by "substantial cooling" in th...

ECB Warns of `Herd-Like' Mentality in Derivatives Sales of CDOs jumped 73 percent to $446 billion this year from a year earlier, accordi...

U.S. Economic growth will slow and inflation will ease in 2007, with energy prices and a falling dollar posing the biggest risks to a pick...

From Reuters, Automatic Trading Linked to News Events Today, the Reuters Group begins selling two trading services that allow subscribers t...

Updates will resume December 10.

Farm Animals More Damaging To Climate Than Cars It generates 65 percent of human-caused nitrous oxide, a gas that is 296 times more effectiv...

The U.S. Commerce Department said that personal incomes were up 0.4% in October and consumer spending was up 0.2%. The U.S. Labor Departmen...

QoQ U.S. GDP was up 2.2%, and up 3.0% YoY. Nominal GDP was up 6.0% YoY. Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke said he expects moderate economic ...

What Will You Do When the Government Demands Your Laptop? Thanks to a decision from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Customs officials...

The OECD today cut its forecast for 2007 OECD-country GDP growth to +2.5% from +3.2% in 2006, which would be the weakest level since 2003. ...

Carbon emissions show sharp rise From 2000 to 2005, the growth rate of carbon dioxide emissions was more than 2.5% per year, whereas in the...

On the Move to Outrun Climate Change As the Bush administration debates much of the world about what to do about global warming, butterflies...

Wall Street had its worst day in more than four months as the dollar weakened and concerns about the strength of the retail industry arose ...

Will Democrats Turn Blind Eye to Civil Liberty? The Bush regime was a coup d’etat against the Bill of Rights and the jurisdictions of Congr...

The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment dropped from 93.6 to 92.1 in November, more than expected. The U.S. jobless c...

Dollar May Fall a Second Day as Traders Add to Bets on Rate Cut ``Rising market perception rates will be cut in the U.S. could be enough to...

There is talk that OPEC may reduce production when they next meet on December 14th. Federal Reserve officials agree the U.S. labor force h...

China set to be biggest Malaysian cocoa buyer The current per capita consumption of chocolate in China is only 26g , far below the world...

Will there be enough corn? "There is a collision course on the horizon, but when and how severe it is going to be, I don't know,...

In Sydney Australia over the weekend, central bankers from the G-20 summit said central banks "will need" to raise rates to conta...

Updates will resume November 18 th .

The current economic downturn is "likely temporary," former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Monday, noting the worst ...

GOP Must Go The American Conservative There may be little Americans can do to atone for this presidency, which will stain our country’s repu...

White House slammed for Iraq nuke website "It's sheer stupidity. Plus it's illegal. We violated our own treaty obligations in l...

U.S. companies added 92,000 workers in October, pushing the unemployment rate down to a five-year low of 4.4%. Canada 's unemployment r...

Only 50 years left' for sea fish There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current tre...

The U.S. Labor Department said that productivity was unchanged in the third quarter while labor costs were up 5.3% from a year ago. U.S. Fa...

U.S. NEAR THE BOTTOM IN PRIVACY STUDY Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World

The Institute of Supply Management's index of U.S. manufacturing dropped from 52.9 to 51.2 in October, weaker than expected. YoY U.S. ...

Bond bear Grant sees threat to asset-backed bonds Instead of worrying about an instrument's yield, fixed-income portfolio managers shou...

Low inflation rate? Some consumers beg to differ Sean Taylor, 34, an information technology consultant in Trenton, N.J., ticks off the chan...

Baghdad is under siege Sunni insurgents have cut the roads linking the city to the rest of Iraq. The country is being partitioned as militia...

The National Association of Purchasing Management -Chicago’s manufacturing index dropped from 62.1 to 53.5 in October, more than expected. ...