Oklahoma prohibits towns from setting own minimum wage standards
No city or county in Oklahoma will be allowed to set their own mandatory minimum…
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Social Security, Treasury target Americans for their parents’ old debts
Many Americans expecting to see their tax refunds in their bank accounts soon are waking…
3 in 4 UK students will be repaying loans into their 50s – study
Three out of four of today’s UK university graduates will be paying back their student…
IRS pays out $53mn to whistleblowers on 2013 tax evaders
The US Internal Revenue Service paid millions to people who turned in their friends and…
CNN: Should people without kids pay higher taxes?
By Jeanne Sahadi The chat-o-sphere has been abuzz lately about a proposal by Slate columnist…
$6 bn worth of contracts misplaced by State Department
The US State Department is unable to explain how it spent billions of dollars worth…
GM saved only a dollar per car by avoiding defective switch redesign
Instead of recalling defective vehicles when it noticed they were built using flawed ignition switches,…
Inequality gap between super rich and poor continues to widen
Things aren’t getting much better for the gap between America’s rich and poor: a new…
Student loan debts top $1 trln in US
The student loan industry is booming, saddling over 37 million college students and graduates with…
IRS: Bitcoins are property, not currency
Bitcoin will be treated by the Internal Revenue Service as property, not currency, the IRS…
Ukraine’s Gold Reserves Secretly Flown Out and Confiscated by the NY Federal Reserve?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky A Russian Internet news site Iskra (“Spark”) based in Zaporozhye, eastern…
Washington Is Creating Jobs in China, Not America
By BENJAMIN CLEMENT The thing American politicians like about a free market is that it…
Chris Christie Blocks Sale of Tesla Cars in New Jersey
Like a lot of Republicans, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie likes to talk about how…
Alleged Bitcoin creator taken on wild car chase by media
A reporter for Newsweek says she’s unmasked the mysterious Japanese-American man responsible for inventing Bitcoin,…
Lakota nation adopts MazaCoin crypto-currency as legal tender
A Bitcoin spinoff known as Mazacoin has been adopted by a confederation of seven Native…
Swiss banks helped wealthy Americans hide $10bn from tax authorities
US regulators are after Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second-largest bank for helping Americans conceal as much…
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes dark in blow to virtual currency
By Ruairidh Villar Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange, abruptly stopped trading on…
‘Six Californias’ initiative to split up most populous US state gets green light
A wealthy US investor got the go-ahead for his campaign to carve up California into…
Fellow-students of Facebook founder launch Bitcoin index
The Winklevoss twins, best known for their legal clash with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ,…
Obama’s TPP negotiators received huge bonuses from big banks
A controversial trade deal being touted by the White House is expected to give American…