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Following in the footsteps of Amsterdam; Portland, Ore.; and Washington, D.C., among other cities, New York is set to launch its bike-share program, Citi Bike, on Memorial Day...
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LONDON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has called on Britain to do more to support the economic recovery, urging the government Wednesday to speed up investment in infrastructure and come up...
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As we noted yesterday , the IRS' head of exempt organizations who started the whole IRS targeting scandal, is testifying this morning and is expected to plead the Fifth...
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Traders overreact to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments. Mr. Bernanke, in his Q and A, essentially reiterated what New York Fed President William Dudley said yesterday.
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We would have been perfectly happy to report this as Humpday Humor, but unfortunately, and only in America, can a disgraced former Congressman, the very appropriately named Anothony Weiner, announce...
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Markets were expecting Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to strike a dovish tone in Congress, and he did not disappoint.
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Crowds jammed onto the sidewalks in front of more than a dozen Internal Revenue Service offices nationwide Tuesday to protest the agency’s targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny.
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Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made clear Wednesday in testimony to the Joint Economic Committee that the exit from the Fed’s $85 billion-a-month bond buying program will be much different than...
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Stocks opened higher on Wednesday as markets await Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke on the economy and monetary policy at 10:00 a.m.
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Greek youth unemployment is close to hitting 75pc in some parts of the country, official data showed on Wednesday, highlighting a huge disparity between Europe’s northern and southern states.
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Or maybe this is a trick question, and the answer for the "New Normal", when all central banks are coordinating on reflating the biggest asset bubble of all time, is "all of them".....
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Here’s why you better start preparing today for a stock-market crash dead ahead: The easy money is going to dry up soon.
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Two years ago, Zero Hedge first made the observation that the bulk of Fed reserves (also known simply as " cash created out of thin air " because money is first and foremost fungible ...
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Is Google About to Accomplish What Apple Couldn't?
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With DIRECTV possibly looking to acquire Hulu, there are some major benefits and concerns investors need to consider.
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project-syndicate.org 20 May
While blaming the revolution is not a persuasive explanation for Egypt’s current economic woes, its appeal to many Egyptians is understandable...
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I am mystified how Amartya Sen can attribute a precise number of child deaths to the absence of a policy that has not been in place for a single day.
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Currently, 24 people are confirmed dead after a tornado swept through Moore, Okla., on Monday, leaving devastation in its wake...
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