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By Molly Peterson President Barack Obama will sign a $1.4 billion food-safety bill today that marks the biggest change to oversight of the food industry

By Graham Bowley A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just

By Sam Smith The day after Julian Assange of WikiLeaks threatened to “take down” a major American bank, the shares of Bank of America fell

By Paul Ferguson I noticed something last week.  But before I get into it a little background is required.  Most of the junior mining stocks

By Jonathan Benson In response to the recent passage of “food safety” bills S. 510 and corresponding H.R. 2751, the Vermont Coalition for Food Sovereignty

By Oliver Sacks New Year’s resolutions often have to do with eating more healthfully, going to the gym more, giving up sweets, losing weight —

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By John Hussman Why are Treasury yields rising despite hundreds of billions of Treasury purchases by the Federal Reserve? There are two possibilities in the

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By Gregory White The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced changes to rules on how it calculates long-term unemployment Tuesday, according to The Hill. Continue reading