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By: Reuters The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions

By Phil Howard In the last 40 years, the commercial seed industry has transformed dramatically. It has shifted from a competitive sector of agribusiness, composed

[Note from CAF: Given that the FDIC just picked up the BofA/Merrill derivatives position, you would think BofA would be a bit more sensitive to

By Kareem Fahim and Rick Gladstone MISURATA, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after an armed uprising toppled

By Susanna Kim While many law school graduates are all too aware of their accumulating pile of debt, few may realize it can prevent them

By Jonathan Benson If you buy or sell secondhand goods and live in the state of Louisiana, you can no longer use legal tender to

The Mises Institute dug up this cartoon from 1912 showing what would happen if the Federal Reserve Act was adopted in 1913; this is exactly

By Catherine Austin Fitts I just got a message from a reader for the third time today. It proposes that we support Warren Buffet’s proposals

On October 17, 2011, the Supreme Court granted a certiorari petition to review a decision issued by a divided panel of the Second Circuit Court