Precious Metals – Week of 5.6.12

* Freddie and Fannie had deep political connections
* Rahm Emanuel, Tom Donilon were on payroll

By Tim Reid, Margaret Chadbourn and Mark Hosenball

While presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich was forc…

By Jeffery Sparshott

The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to “virtual currencies,” amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit activitie…