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Photo By Phil Ewing By David Axe “On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed,” a sub commander recalled.

By Jason Leopold Former Vice President Dick Cheney pressured President George W. Bush and other top administration officials to deploy US soldiers to a Buffalo,

Gold in Sacks

By David Davis When I read in the pages of this newspaper this month that the Conservative Party was planning to transfer people’s health data

Chinese US Dollar The dollar may be the focus of Chinese-U.S. talks starting in Washington today as China presses the Obama administration on how it

By Peggy Noonan This is big, what’s happening. President Obama appears to have misstepped on a major initiative and defining issue. He has misjudged the

The L-Curve graph represents income, not wealth If we divided the income of the US into thirds, we find that the top ten percent of

Treasury’s is borrowing $235B in one week: * 70-day CMB (7/24/09) $30B * 13-week Bill (07/27/09) $32B * 26-week Bill (07/27/09) $31B * 19-year 6-month

I subscribe to The Kiplinger Letter. Among other things, I find it a predictor of the “official story” combined with a useful flow of tax

By David Liechty In 1863, Congress authorized the Treasury to receive “deposits of gold coin and bullion” in exchange for “certificates” payable on demand, having