The Federal Reserve is the only agency of government actively working to stimulate the economy, and its efforts are benefitting the wealthiest Americans. The two primary effects of the Fed's policies are: (1) flooding the stock markets with cash to re-inflate securities val …
Baltimore, MD, A year ago before the election, I joined Newsvine to express my discomfort with the election and how it was going for Barack Obama. I didn't want Barack Obama to become President of the United States for various reasons but not because he is black (I am black).
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SAN DIEGO -- A local pastor and his wife claim they were interrogated by a San Diego County official, who then threatened them with escalating fines if they continued to hold bible studies in their home, 10News reported.
"I am disappointed at the hypocrisy shown by this Administration," Gibbons said, "President Obama is coming to Las Vegas later this month for a political fundraiser, but he will not help the struggling families in Las Vegas and Nevada who are out of work because of his reckless c …
She went on to call on the CIA to release the details of briefings they provided to Congress and for the creation of a truth commission to "determine how intelligence was misused and how controversial and possibly illegal activities like torture were authorized within the executi …
Leaders of historically black colleges say they'll fight a reduction in a federal program they call a financial lifeline at a time of economic distress for the schools and their students.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't quite as optimistic as she used to be about the job-creating potential of the stimulus package -- telling Charlie Rose on PBS that it will probably fall short of the four million initially predicted, but exceed the 2.5 million guess-timate by pess …
You get a tax write-off for putting your money in the corporate Ponzi scheme, and the corporati get to feast on the corpus of what would have been your life savings. Vlad the Impaler would have envied them
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A record 31.8 million Americans received food stamps at the latest count, an increase of 700,000 people in one month with the United States in recession, government figures showed Thursday.
The Labor Department's report shows America's workers being clobbered by a relentless wave of layoffs.
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