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By Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist My teenage son introduced me to a new slang term recently. He mentioned that a friend said that he needed to try

By Sarah Mulholland Want to buy a trailer park? Freddie Mac wants to give you a loan. The unit of the government-owned mortgage giant that

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” —Maya Angelou By Catherine Austin Fitts Our hero this week on the

By Jesse Drucker, Alan Katz and Andy Hoffman Two years ago, a Dutch law firm prepared a pitch in Moscow to Russian businesses: come to

By Christopher Ingraham The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That’s the conclusion of a new

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By Richard Wolf The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly upheld the centuries-old tradition of offering prayers to open government meetings, even if the prayers are

By Richard Dolan The very label [conspiracy] serves as an automatic dismissal, as though no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective

By Paul Levy I wonder if I am becoming addicted; I can’t get enough of quantum physics, which has captured – and simultaneously liberated –

**CAF Note: I am always amazed when someone complains to me that “no one warned us” as, of course, I spent a great deal of