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Public Roads By: Ellen Dannin On July 24, 2008, the Denver Post reported that Coloradans were shocked to learn that the private contractor that had

By Paul Craig Roberts There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology. It was

By Zachary Roth So: is Steve Rattner stepping down as the Obama administration’s car czar because of the investigation into whether his private-equity fund used

Under a broader definition of joblessness, some states have rates higher than 20 percent. This rate includes part-time workers who want to work full time,

AnimalFarm This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers.

Japan has again shown off one of its greatest innovations – square watermelons. For years consumers struggled to fit the large round fruit in their

“Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News

Goldman Sachs, the nation’s most powerful financial company, has reported the richest quarterly profit in its 140-year history: $3.44 billion between April and June. Goldman’s

By David Liechty In 1861, as the Civil War began, gold and silver coin remained the only national currency, while private-issued fractional-reserve bank notes, redeemable

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