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Here's an interesting commentary on how the FED is allowing highly leveraged trades of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac bonds for hard cash from the ...


It is hard to avoid addict analogies when discussing the politics of oil these days.  Just like the junkie who'll do anything to get one ...


Well, now that the financial train-wreck that has been occurring in slow motion for over a year has finally penetrated the collective consciousness, Federal Bureaucrats ...


Ask yourself, when was the last time that you heard an elected official give a speech as candid, reconciliatory and down to earth as this ...


In case anyone cares, the idea that our publicly traded institutions operate in a free market has been dealt a death knell, as the powers ...


The BBC is running this story on a new congressional assessment that pegs the total cost of the invasion and occupation of Iraq at $1.5 ...


While I am far from knowledgeable about the intricacies of the financials market, I do follow the news and blogosphere regarding financials and their entanglements ...


I have one more word on the mortgage industry implosion. With the Fed lowering the effective primary credit rate to ease liquidity constriction in ...


"The bottles stand as empty as they were filled before Time there was and plenty but from that cup no more. Though I could not caution all I yet ...


Newsweek is running this story, reprinting a letter in its entirety from Larry Johnson—a former CIA officer--blasting Tenet for his failure to take responsibility for ...


Evidence is surfacing that the same private servers used by the Ohio Secretary of State's department to track 2004 presidential election results also host the ...


If you haven't seen the Enron documentary The Smartest Guys In The Room, you are missing a first class presentation on one of the biggest ...


"By barring lobbyists from mingling with a lawmaker or his staff for the cost of a steak dinner, the restrictions have stirred new demand for ...


"Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone? But that's exactly what our government did," -Rep. Henry Waxman, ...


The UK Guardian is reporting here that the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative thinktank sponsored in part by ExxonMobil, is offering a $10,000 dollar ...