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U.S. GDP grew by 1.3% in Q2, up from 0.4% in Q1 U.S. unemployment benefits dropped 37,000 to 391,000 in the week ending September 24 and th...

It's the Inequality, Stupid A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth o...

The 111% MoM rise in the Swiss monetary base is by far the biggest since 1973. The IMF said that the global economy had entered a “new and...

S&P cuts Italy's sovereign-debt rating to A. German PPI YoY rose 5.5% Swiss exports fell 7% MoM in August Construction output ...

Can China escape as world's debt crisis reaches Act III? Whatever the mix: there is simply too much global investment, and too little c...

(FT) European central banks have become net buyers of gold for the first time in more than two decades. The bungling execs at UBS, announ...

U.S. consumer sentiment rose to 57.8 in the preliminary reading for September after tumbling to a nearly three-year low 55.7 in August Lux...

UBS said a trader of its investment bank unit has caused a loss estimated at USD 2 bln   Moody's cutting the long-term credit rating...

Greek 10 year yields at 24%. German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the idea of a hasty bankruptcy by Greece. The dry bulk market kept ...

The U.S. National Association for Business Economics (NABE) cut projections for U.S. economic growth in 2011 and 2012 to 1.7%t this year, do...

'We Did Exactly What Al-Qaida Wanted Us to Do' The Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu said a long time ago: "If you know your...

The parrot thinks the short term S&P cycle low should be right about now http://is.gd/VAPqgS The M’s are moving right along especially...

An Impeccable Disaster What Mr. Trichet and his colleagues should be doing right now is buying up Spanish and Italian debt — that is, doing...

Germany Said to Ready Plan to Help Banks If Greece Defaults. The resignation of a key official from the European Central Bank was the late...

U.S. Fixed mortgage rates fell this week to the lowest levels in six decades. U.S. weekly applications for unemployment benefits rose 2...

(Bloomberg) The Swiss central bank imposed a ceiling on the franc for the first time in more than three decades and pledged to defend the ...

Ready for the fall Euro-zone governments have effectively spent the past year making a departure from the euro zone ever more attractive, ...

Baltic Dry Index is looking quite positive http://is.gd/3sQ34N and so is the Capesize http://is.gd/Ilicqu European markets are showed a...

The U.S. jobless rate held at 9.1%. Private sector firms added 17,000 jobs while state and local governments continued to shed workers. The ...

The U.S. advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims for jobless benefits was 409,000 in the week ending August 27, fell 12,000 fr...

Ukraine raised its forecast for exports of grains by 1 million metric tons to 25 million tons The amount of cargo handled at the port of ...

Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact The population of the United States is more than 300 million and it includes some of the best...

Graphics Gallery: The Most Important Facts about the Global Debt Crisis

(WSJ) Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co. genetically modified to thwart a voracious bug are falling prey to that very pest in a few ...

Betting on a bailout again? Buffett is investing $5 billion in B of A -- and plans to hold a Sept. 30 fundraiser in New York City to benefi...

Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal Why? My theory is that the Obama administration is trying to secure its 2012 campaign war chest wi...

Obama Administration Pressures Prosecutors To Drop Criminal Investigations Of Banks Over Mortgage Fraud Various organizations have denounce...

YoY U.S. Truck tonnage rose 3.9% in July American Trucking Associations said. U.S. new home sales fell 0.7% in July -- near expectation...

Early warning sign: GLD overtakes SPY (S&P) as world’s largest ETF. U.S. feedlots placement at 2.15m cattle last month is up 22% YoY....

Torture in Bahrain Aided by Nokia Siemens The toolbox allows more than the interception of phone calls, e-mails, text messages and Voice Ov...

E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions

Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Fed Loans ..as much as $1.2 trillion of public money, about the same amount U.S. homeo...

(NYT) Broad areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could soon be declared uninhabitable, perhaps for decades, after a gov...

Don’t look down The poor like taxing the rich less than you would think One paradoxical consequence of this “last-place aversion” is that ...

(Bloomberg) Insiders buying stocks are at the Highest Rate since 2009. The USDA projected 2011 U.S. soybean yields at 41.4 bushels per ac...

Richard Koo: The Ratings Agencies May Destroy The Global Economy Once Again   These experiences demonstrate that during a balance sheet rece...

Stiglitz: "We don't know the kinds of exposures to say European [credit default swaps] American banks have," he says. There ar...

The Fed promised to keep interest rates near zero for at least two more years and said it would consider further steps to help growth, spar...

634.76 -- the sixth-worst point decline for the Dow in 112 years

We face recession without shock absorbers as Berlin loses patience with the eurozone SP should have acted six years ago when the rot was ...

Gwynne Dyer: Food crisis looms as a result of cutbacks in irrigation A lot of those aquifers are “fossil”, meaning that they filled with wat...

The subprime and "A" rating for Lehman   expert S&P downgrades US debt to AA+, late on Friday. The U.S. unemployment rat...

Powerful typhoon Muifa likely to land in east China over the weekend creating -- damage to corn and soy ? The Fox, Tea, Republican generat...

The Wrong Worries But the policy disaster of the past two years wasn’t just the result of G.O.P. obstructionism, which wouldn’t have been s...

Arctic sea ice is melting at a near- record pace, opening shipping lanes for cargo traffic between Europe and Asia, Russia’s environmental a...

US: Obstacles to progress Indeed, the US spends only 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product on infrastructure – less than half the average ...

(FT) Investors should remember that national accounts must sum to zero. Falling rich world public deficits lead to lower corporate profits, ...

How the Billionaires Broke the System There are two ways of cutting a deficit: raising taxes or reducing spending. Raising taxes means taki...