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Sooner or later, it will be America’s turn to fall out of favor with investors and to see its own interest rates rise By Simon Johnson ...

The Great Escape By Wolf Richter     “We’re engaging in trench warfare,”   proclaimed   Alain Afflelou, head honcho and founder of an...

The awful truth is that WE are responsible  “Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic u...

Where are we today, 221 years after the Bill of Rights was made the law of the land ? by Karen Kwiatkowski We are standing here no...

If money printing can create prosperity then why are all the poor nations still poor? by Frank Shostak On Wednesday December 12, ...

Keynesian policies have retarded recovery and extended the downturn, just as they did in the 1930s and the 1970s by Peter Foster Keyne...

Scratch a 'Liberal,' Find a Fascist by William Norman Grigg Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer of California, a bottomless foun...

Τhe focus on political power doesn't do much for ordinary blacks by Walter E. Williams JoAnn Watson, Detroit city council member,...

The infanticidal maniac of Sandy Hook was merely conscripting grade-school extras for a hollow, hyper-narcissistic act of public suicide ...

US Birth Rate Hits New Low  by Gary D. Halbert One of the issues I have been focused on for the last several years has been the tren...

Karl Marx has left the London library and is now residing in Washington D.C.  “For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across th...

The Treasury Department has just revised its estimate upward to $25 billion in losses By  David Harsanyi  You may recall that during ...

Highest-Paid California Trooper Is Chief Banking $484,000 By Alison Vekshin, Elise Young and Rodney Yap  California Highway Patrol  di...

Texas Pension Manager Paid $1 Million Trails Peers Who Make Less By Mark Niquette and Martin Z. Braun  Britt Harris arrived at the Te...

Gee Takes Jets as $1.9 Million Payday Roils Ohio Students By Jennifer Oldham and Rodney Yap The  Ohio  State University President E. ...

California Psychiatrists Paid $400,000 Shows Bidding War By Freeman Klopott, Rodney Yap and Terrence Dopp Mohammad Safi, a graduate ...

Californian’s $609,000 Check Shows True Retirement Cost By Michael B. Marois and Rodney Yap  When psychiatrist Gertrudis Agcaoili ret...

Facing reality is positive By Charles Smith That's the upside to the fiscal cliff. There are two definite upsides to the fisca...

Stubborn Balkans Myths and Realities by  Nebojsa Malic “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” wrote a French columnis...