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Happy Birthday, Bill [of Rights]: Obama Breaks Promise To Veto Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans I am not sure which is worse:...

Having vetoed his way into isolation at last week's European Union summit, Cameron is now looking for allies. Spain ’s ten-year yiel...

Steve Freed analyst with ADM is expecting a bullish Jan. corn report saying that yield should be cut 1.5 bushels an acre = tight carryout. ...

Say goodbye to Xe. The company formerly known as Blackwater — the world’s most infamous private security corporation — has also jettisoned t...

Every Euro pean nation except for Britain (Cameron is trying to “protect bankers from regulation") agreed to consider forging closer ec...

U.S. wholesale inventories roe 1.6% in October. U.S. initial jobless claims in the week ending Dec. 3 fell 23,000 to 381,000. ECB cut...

The DoE increased crude oil stocks by 1.3 million barrels in the week ending December 2, gasoline stocks rose by 5.1 million barrels, and di...

Occupied Washington Americans are not opposed to the rich getting richer—as John Steinbeck is said to have noted, "Socialism never too...

Martell Crop Projections, warned that "intense heat and moisture stress has developed in a swathe of South America of the past month...

U.S. factory orders fell by 0.4% in October after falling a downwardly revised 0.1% in September Cargill is firing 2,000 people due to “co...

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.6% in November, the lowest level in more than two and a half years. (FT) Globally, wireless capacity...

Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer I’m a very rich person. As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, I’ve star...

US jobless claims back above 400,000 again. U.S. construction spending rose 0.8% in October The ISM said its manufacturing index in Novem...

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U.S. consumer confidence rose 15 points to 56 in November – the largest gain since 2003. Standard & Poor's lower ratings on 37 ban...

(Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are planning more drastic means - including a quick new Sta...

It is not inevitable that the EU – or democracy – will survive this mess   Pessimism always has the best tunes, and I remain instinctively a...

Poll: Fox News Viewers Are Less Informed Than Those Watching No News . Why has no one at MF Global nor Corzine been charged by powers that...

Self-serving myths of Europe’s neo-Calvinists The hallmark of fiscal integration is mutualisation – a greater pooling of budgetary resourc...

You may want to examine the Euro Dollar and Libor Fed Funds Spread charts.

U.S. leading indicators rose 0.9%, the most since February (SBMRY) SabMiller the brewer reported that fiscal first-half net income rose 2...

MoM U.S. October Retail Sales rose 0.5%; MoM U.S. PPI fell 0.3% in October and 5.9% YoY Canada: Manufacturing Shipments rose 2.6% in Sept...

A limitless power source for the indefinite future Some background: By 2030–40, the projected annual electrical energy consumption will be...

Pritchard: The ECB is under intense pressure to step up purchases of Italian bonds after premier Silvio Berlusconi finally relinquished powe...

Dispelling An Enduring Myth With One Image If the Earth’s temperature was the same year after year, then the effects of increasing greenho...

YoY U.S. intermodal traffic rose 3.5% for the week ended Saturday The Greek Unemployment rate in August 2011 was 18.4% compared to 12.2% i...

Bonuses were paid to MF Global ‘s UK staff just hours before the company filed for bankruptcy protection in New York. (Bloomberg) A kilogr...

(Washington Post) Wall Street firms — either independent companies or the high-flying trading arms of banks — are doing even better. They’v...

Mario Draghi made his debut as head of the ECB with a surprise interest rate cut from 1.5% to 1.25%. Mario Gabelli: Greece has about as mu...

Revenge of the Sovereign Nation When the history books are written, I think scholarship will be very harsh on the handful of men running EMU...

Angela Merkel's approach -- to decelerate rather than succumb to panic -- is starting to pay off. Euro-zone agreed to reduce Greece'...

IT's view of Dow Theory is back to bullish http://is.gd/U7MWjQ Big banks found themselves under pressure in Europe's debt crisis ...

Senate GOP kills Obama plan for  hiring  400,000  teachers and first responders. (FT)The European banking crisis is spilling over into com...

U.S. wholesale prices rose 6.9% YoY. Human Genome (HGSI) rose on Tuesday following a report in the U.K.'s Daily Mail that GlaxoSmithKl...

OWS Sign: "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one" Bloomberg: European leaders have one week to settle...

Rabbit-Hole Economics The Great Recession should have been a huge wake-up call. Nothing like this was supposed to be possible in the modern...

While some warn of an imminent recession transports seem to point the other way. http://is.gd/5w3qPd          http://is.gd/ikXlcm (FT) Chi...

My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters by Matt Taibbi 1. Break up the monopolies . The so-called "Too Big to Fail" fina...

PIMCO's Bill Gross: Class warfare by the 99%? Of course, they’re fighting back after 30 years of being shot at. Senate Republican/Tea v...

Dexia, a Belgian-French Bank, was leveraged by more than 100 times. It has assets exceeding Euro 500 billion and equity of just 5 billion  -...

Confronting the Malefactors There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise ...

European Central Bank surprised and kept rates at 1.5%. U.S. first time claims for unemployment benefits rose 6,000 to 401,000 U.S. Home...

Financial Times: European Union finance ministers are examining ways of coordinating recapitalizations of financial institutions. Dexia is...

The Occupy Wall Street / 99% had at least 700 people arrested over the weekend. Wall Street bankers are withholding funds from Barack Obama...

Protectionism beckons as leaders push world into Depression   "The need to act in the collective interest has yet to be recognised. Unl...

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...