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By Jennifer Staman, Legislative Attorney Congressional Research Service (31 Mar 11) This report first provides a broad overview of state and local government finances and

Release Date: April 13, 2011 For immediate release The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced formal enforcement actions requiring 10 banking organizations to address a

By Tom Foremski It’s taken a decade but Silicon Valley companies have climbed out of dotcom dotbomb recession and reported their most profitable year in

By Rady Ananda Urges USDA to rescind approval of genetically engineered alfalfa: “In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.” A plant pathologist

By Chris Lefkow The White House unveiled a plan on Friday designed to boost confidence and business in cyberspace through the creation of a single,

By Charles Hugh Smith The Con of the Decade, which I described last July, is being set up nicely. I described The Con of the

If I were managing a pension fund, I wouldn’t get within a 50 mile radius of anyone from Goldman Sachs, or their spouses, or their

By Leo Kolivakis If you missed CNN’s In The Arena on Thursday evening, then you missed the fireworks. Eliot Spitzer challenged investment banker Goldman Sachs:

By Mary Childs The cost to protect debt issued by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) jumped to a one-month high after the chairman of the

By James Herron The world of investment bank research is more often defined by consensus rather than confrontation. Radically conflicting opinions over the outlook for