It was quite different from what we normally get at these games: when some mid-level country music or top 40 star is trotted out for a serviceable, but instantly forgettable, performance. No, Deschanel didn’t deliver a triumphant version of the song, like this fantastic …
The Obama administration says the Dodd-Frank financial reform law ends “too big to fail,” meaning that no financial institution will ever again need to be bailed out. The promise is alluring, but it’s already proving to be false.
In the largest transfer of liability in the history of the world, Bank of America’s massive $75 trillion book of risky derivative contracts has just been dumped onto the FDIC by the Federal Reserve.
The inequalities and distortions of capitalist development are often an expression not only of economic liberalism but also of utilitarian thinking: that is, theoretical and practical approaches according to which what is useful for the individual leads to the good of the c …
Goaded by battalions of corporate lobbyists, members of Congress are working to give a select group of U.S.
The Queen has to heat four palaces and one castle and at a time when energy bills have risen by around 15 per cent but the Queen’s income has been frozen by the government. A household is classified as being in fuel poverty when a homeowner has to spend ten per cent of t …
"There are many people under the rubble," Veysel Keser, mayor of the district of Celebibag told NTV. "People are in agony, we can hear their screams for help. We need urgent help." "It's a great disaster," he said.
New estimates of the former leader's assets — more than $200 billion — are called 'staggering.' If they prove true, he would rank among the world's most rapacious leaders.
After his capture, Colonel Gaddafi’s son Mutassim was photographed swigging water and smoking a cigarette. Sitting against a wall, Gaddafi’s fifth son wore heavily blood-stained clothes but did not appear to be seriously injured. Yet pictures taken minutes l …
In his regular appearance on the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” on Friday, Krauthammer castigated Cain, mainly for his confusing response on the abortion issue on “Stossel” on the Fox Business Network earlier this year. “[I] saw him on &l; …
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