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Goldman Sachs, the global financial institution, with fraud allegations levied against it has a long history of setting up its clients for a fall…and making handsome profits.

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Negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) resumed last week in Wellington, New Zealand, with Canada, the United States, the European Union, and a handful of other countries launch…

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Aberdeen Township, N.J. — The government’s civil-fraud allegation against Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS, News) Group Inc. centers on a deal the fi…

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I have received MANY inquiries about my new course. People have asked me for an outline or syllabus of the course. So here it is.

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March 10 (Bloomberg)—At least seven U.S. state attorneys general are investigating whether Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed producer, has abused its market power to l…

We seem to have an epidemic of oil and gas blasts:

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The following is Tenth Amendment Center approved legislation to nullify federal overreach into the health care industry. Activists, we encourage you to send this to your state senators and represent…

By Liz Sidot

Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans say they don’t trust the fe…

I finished Geneen Roth’s new book Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Anything this weekend. This is a beautifully written, inspiring book.

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Jim Johnson played an interesting role in the pump and dump of the American economy. He launched the pump as Chairman of Fannie Mae and since 1999 (the year he joined the board of Goldman per the pr…

By Jake Tapper

In my EXCLUSIVE “This Week” interview, I asked former President Bill Clinton if he thought he got bad advice on regulating complex financial instruments known as derivatives from…

By Susan Pulliam

Rajat Gupta told Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in March he wouldn’t stand for re-election as a director, after receiving notice from prosecutors that they were reviewing recorded conver…

The SEC’s complaint against Goldman Sachs (See U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud) is not the first time that Goldman has been investigated for mortgage market fraud. My company, Hamilton Securitie…

BY Larry Mcshane

The great Icelandic ash plume cast its devastating shadow over international air traffic again Saturday, grounding millions of global travelers – including hundreds trapped at Kenn…

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The great hope of transplant surgeons is that they will, one day, be able to order replacement body parts on demand. At the moment, a patient may wait months, sometimes…

We aren’t going to bother telling you the news on Goldman Sachs being charged by the SEC with fraud over mortgage products.  The notion that hedge fund Paulson & Co. is being implicated and t…

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After dominating space for a half century, the U.S. is mired in a political fight that threatens its leadership role and ambitions for manned exploration.

President Barack Obama travels Thursday to…

What is Nanotechnology? Nanotechnology is the experimental process of manipulating matter at a scale of 1/100th the width of human hair, in order to create new products and materials.

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Led by the New York Times, the violence campaign against Benedict XVI is meant to undermine his moral authority and that of the Catholic Church ahead of a possible war against I…

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Pro-immigration groups across the US expressed despair today after Arizona passed the toughest bills in the country which they say are aimed at forcing out hundre…

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HONG KONG–Mongolia plans to raise up to $1 billion through a sovereign bond offering in the fourth …

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Despite a growing federal deficit, IRS audit efforts aimed at the nation’s largest corporations have precipitously declined in the last few years and now are at an all time low, according to the ana…

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I found a booklet online—The War Garden Victorious—by Charles Lathrop Pack. The image here is just one of the posters produced during that time on the subject. The book was origina…

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A draconian Internet censorship bill that has been long looming on the horizon finally passed the house of commons in the UK yesterday, legislating for government powers to restrict…

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Congress’s food-safety fight is nearing an end but small farmers still have a bone to pick with the legislation.

The Senate version of a food-safety bill has attracted broad bipart…

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Former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and former Citigroup CEO Charles Prince testified Thursday before a federal panel on Capitol Hill. The panel is charged with rooting o…

Church services are being held across Poland to start a week of mourning for President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, killed in a jet crash in Russia.

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The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new global program to target what it calls “high wealth individuals,” IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman said Monda…

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Intervening in a high-stakes battle over regulation of Web traffic, a U.S. appeals court issued a ruling Tuesday that sharply undermines the federal government’s abili…

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President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear we…

NATO and Russia clashed on Wednesday over how to tackle the drug problem in Afghanistan, where Western nations have been fighting a Taliban-led insurgency for eight years.

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India is launching a new census in which every person aged over 15 will be photographed and fingerprinted to create a biometric national database.

The government will then use the information to is…

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After a decade of development, the Air Force this month plans to launch a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide hom…

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