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By This American Life
The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years. There are towns and counties around the nation where almost 1/4 of adults are on disability. Planet Money’s Chana Joffe-Walt spent 6 months exploring the disability program, and emerges with a story of the U.S. economy quite different than the one we’ve been hearing.
“Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk chee…
By Louise Story and Eric Dash
As its legal troubles mount, Goldman Sachs is losing a big corporate client: the American International Group.
A.I.G., the insurance giant that planned to retain Gold…
Stand Up For Your Right To Know
The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act of 2012
We All Have a Right to Know What’s in Our Food
Consumers have a right to know what’s …
Russian Banks Buy 181.4 Tons Of Gold In 2013
Zero Hedge | 31 December 2013
With headlines crowing of gold’s worst year since 1981 as a signal that the status quo is winning and proof positive that fia…
This Week in Crazy: Bill Gates Funding Student ‘Galvanic’ Bracelet Studies
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Who Parked Our Moon?
Disinformation (14 Sep 10)
Is The Moon The Creation of Intelligence?
The …
