For a long time many of us participating as fair dealers in the U.S. economy couldn’t shake the feeling that we were playing in a rigged game. Gasoline and oil …
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If you like wild, careening roller coasters with blind curves and death drops, then you were right at home in the stock market lately. Stocks fell, then rose to dizzying …
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For precise information on gold supply and demand throughout the world, it’s tough to beat The World Gold Council – an association of the world’s leading gold mining companies. Its …
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As if it wasn’t hard enough for home buyers with high prices, all cash offers and tighter lending standards, now buyers have to compete with cash-rich overseas shoppers from China …
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As everyone knows, the “People’s” “Republic” of China employs armies of hackers to perform corporate espionage and subvert foreign computer systems. This year there was even an indictment in US …
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A new international financial institution has been announced. Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (known as the BRICS) said this week at a summit in Brazil that they are …
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THE IMMIGRANT SONG: As thousands of people pile up in US detention centers, President Obama and Congress appear at a stalemate regarding the President’s request for $3.7 billion in emergency funding …
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Director Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, which didn’t even crack the top ten movies last weekend, is being called the best sci-fi film of the year, and possibly the best film of the year …
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Another day, another story of wacky, arbitrary cruelty out of North Korea. The prison nation’s tiny supply of Choco Pies, a South Korean version of the moon pie, has been …
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See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. The eyes of the world are focused on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup of soccer. It’s a televised panoply of white sandy …