Hong Kong has sent the first sign from Asia that the region is creating extra financial buffers against a possible…
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President Obama will nominate Janet L. Yellen to be the next head of the Federal Reserve, the White House said…
As the Government shutdown in the US enters its second week, the country is just 10-days away from default, and…
By JOEL GEHRKE National Park Service officials cited the government shutdown as the reason for ordering an elderly Nevada couple…
Mike Krieger Liberty Blitzkrieg Earlier this week, USA Today reported that massive payment processor MasterCard had joined the FIDO alliance.…
The United States has no choice but to delay negotiations over a major free trade deal with countries in the…
The US government default caused by the ongoing budget standoff in the Congress could have a “catastrophic” effect on the…
By Brett LoGiurato Early Thursday morning, Potomac Research Group analyst Greg Valliere predicted that if the debt-ceiling deadline grew closer,…
By Lachlan Markay The National Park Service has ordered the closure of a Virginia park that sits on federal land,…
The global 1 percent hold twenty-one to thirty-two trillion dollars in offshore havens in order to evade taxes, according to…
With the threat of a federal government shutdown hanging over the US economy, here is a handy list of the…
Crony Capitalism in America, 2008-2012. By Hunter Lewis Those of us who favor the free market must confront a problem.…
By Hazel Henderson An “externality” is code in economics jargon meaning any cost of producing a product that can be…
The United States went ahead with major spending cuts earlier this year, slicing around $85 billion off the federal budget.…
The NSA has been widely monitoring international banking and credit card transactions, a new report says referencing Edward Snowden’s leak.…
Less than one month after regulators in New York issued subpoenas to major companies involved with the Bitcoin digital currency,…
By Hibah Yousuf U.S. stocks closed higher Thursday even after a technical glitch at the Nasdaq OMX caused a trading…
The United States Federal Reserve has set a new record, but it’s not one exactly worth celebrating. For the first…