Despite the fact that these herbicide tolerant, pesticide producing plants have never been tested to see if they are safe as food, the Agent Orange Gang is going full steam ahead.
Debunks the claim made by GM that the loans have been paid back, and as an added bonus shows how the figures can be manipulated a la Goldman Sachs.
This analysis from the Wall Street Journal indicates that most of the big US Banks are engaging in the same kind of repo accounting at the end of the quarter that Lehman Brothers was doing to hide their financial instability until deteriorating credit conditions and liquidity pro …
A new bill before the Senate would create a federal mandate for genetically modified (GM) crop research as part of U.S. aid programs, despite evidence that these crops will fail to curb hunger.
Jamie Dimon is by far the most dangerous American banker of this or any other recent generation. He, and his successors, will lead us into great harm.
The Fed has finally came clean. It now admits it bailed out Bear Stearns – taking on tens of billions of dollars of the bank's bad loans – in order to smooth Bear Stearns' takeover by JPMorgan Chase.
The NYT Business page reports that AT&T;, Caterpillar, Deere & Company and many other large corporations are complaining that the new health reform law will strip them of a large tax subsidy. They want the provision repealed so they can keep their lucrative subsidy.
The Republican Party and major corporations have joined forces in the first major rearguard attack on health care reform, charging that the cost of complying with "Obamacare" is resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in added business expenses.
Among his few accomplishments, George W Bush created the the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to spread his "compassionate conservative" philosophy. There was a 9% INCREASE in their budget for the prior fiscal year.
By now everyone has seen or heard about the comments made by South Carolina Lt. Governor, Andre Bauer regarding the poor and economically disadvantaged in his state.
See if this discussion of what would be offered as health care reform from last July sound familiar when compared to the bill that care out of the Senate. We were told five months ago. what President Obama intended to put in this bill in spite of his claims and promises.
From 2001-2006, the Republicans controlled all branches of government. It was an horrific period of utter destruction of American liberty.
Isn't it wonderful, how the government doesn't blink an eye at bailing out people who don't deserve it, and I ain't talking about a welfare mom and her six babies...
"Later this week, I will work with my colleagues at the G20 to phase out fossil fuel subsidies so that we can better address our climate challenge," he said this morning at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York.
Insurance providers seem to have successfully equated health insurance with health care but this is a relatively new concept. There were doctors and medicine long before there was health insurance.
It's about time we started talking about things that can keep us healthy as part of the solution to health care costs. By every measure, being well is far better than reduced cost services and discount drugs. Kudos to Michael Pollan for standing up to say it so well.
What a stunning picture they paint of the impact of food dollars feeding Wall Street.
Other than a self-made governor who chose not to abort her unborn Down syndrome child, nothing gets the Hollywood Left more outraged than what they call, "tax cuts for the rich," or "corporate welfare." For nearly thirty-years now, studio chiefs, millionaire actors and mi …
Managements "that engage in downsizing to cut costs, increase profits, and reduce redundancies," as the Conference Board paper notes, "prematurely proclaim 'mission accomplished' when these targets have been achieved without taking into account the human capital assets …
In its latest study, MACED determined that coal delivered $527 million to the state in 2006, mostly through coal severance, corporate income, sales and vehicle taxes, plus taxes on 17,903 people employed in mining and 52,429 people in jobs that depend on mining.
Today, amid the wreckage of the gravest financial crisis since the Great Depression, bigness is one of our biggest problems.
TONIGHT at Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox will set a remarkable record - 500 consecutive sold-out games. Only three other professional teams in sports history have achieved more, and they were all NBA teams who play shorter seasons in smaller venues.