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By Tom Simonite In 2012 the startup Pinterest became a peer of more established social sites by offering things that they didn’t—an attractive design, a

By Wikipedia The 2013 BRICS summit will be the fifth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference attended by the head of states or heads

Image Credit: Robert Neubecker By Tara Siegel Bernard Until recently, the tax man rarely held you accountable for how much you profited — or lost

By Catherine Austin Fitts Google has launched Glass. You can check it out here: Link Better yet, to understand what it is like to facilitate

[CAF Note: How has centralizing the mortgage market worked so far? Great, how about some more? Anyone considered free markets? Like the kind of markets

by Catherine Austin Fitts This weekend I read Forbes’ new special edition on billionaires. In his introduction, “They succeed by meeting your needs,” Steve Forbes

[CAF Note: The following is a complete lie. Shadowstats estimates the current annual inflation rate at 9+%. That fits with what I am observing. The

By Bruce Japsen As Medicare whacks away at what doctors are paid and health insurers move away from paying fees for service to bundled payments,

By Mark Drajem President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they should consider the impact on global

Photo credit: Dylan Thomas By Nicholas Shaxson Up until the 18th century, Knightsbridge, which borders genteel Kensington, was a lawless zone roamed by predatory monks