Month: January 2012

Photographer: Zhang Yan/Xinhua/eyevine/Redux By Caroline Salas Gage and Craig Torres Ben S. Bernanke laid the groundwork for a third round of large-scale asset purchases should

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Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system

By Simon Black With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least,

By Secrecy News From the Federation of Scientists Project on Government Secrecy The Joint Chiefs of Staff have produced updated doctrine on intelligence support to

Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss. By Adam Gopnik A prison is

Illustrations by Tom Garrett Source: December 2011 Consumer Reports Magazine. Americans spent $80.2 billion on seafood last year, $5 billion more than in 2009, but

By Yves Smith Obama’s latest housing market chicanery should come as no surprise. As we discuss below, he will use the State of the Union