News Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Banks Set to Stumble Again (David Ellis)
Wall Street expects ugly first-quarter results from Citigroup and Merrill Lynch. And the worst may not be over for financials just yet.
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Consumer Sentiment Plunges to 26-Year-Low (Ruth Mantell)
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Consumer sentiment sunk to its lowest level in 26 years in early April, according to a report on Friday from University of Michigan/Reuters, as worries about the economy, ...
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Federal Workers Charge Lingerie, Crab Dinners to Uncle Sam's Credit Cards (Hope Yen)
WASHINGTON | Federal employees charged millions of dollars for Internet dating, lingerie and other questionable expenses to their government credit cards over 15 months, congressional auditors say.
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Torture Lawyer in the Crosshairs (Scott Horton)
I reported here and here on former Pentagon General Counsel William J. (“Jim”) Haynes II, his covert war against the JAG Corps, and the focal role played by the torture issue in this process. Haynes ...
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A 'perfect storm' of hunger (Edmund Sanders and Tracy Wilkinson)
The U.N.'s World Food Program is struggling as costs of food and fuel skyrocket while the numbers of people needing help surge across the globe. Millions are in danger. April 2, 2008 -- KHARTOUM, ...
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Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf Risks Collapse, U.K. Group Says (Alex Morales)
March 25, 2008 (Bloomberg) -- An Antarctic ice shelf bigger than Connecticut risks collapse because of global warming after a retreat that began on Feb. 28, the British Antarctic Survey said. The ...
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Troubled Outlook for New York City Economy Turns a Lot Grimmer (Patrick McGeehan)
The outlook for New York City’s economy and its main engine, the financial services industry, had already taken a bleak turn before the sudden failure of Bear Stearns, the fifth-largest firm on Wall ...
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Most Economists Say Recession Has Arrived as Outlook Darkens (Phil Izzo)
The U.S. has finally slid into recession, according to the majority of economists in the latest Wall Street Journal economic-forecasting survey, a view that was reinforced by new data showing a ...
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Paulson Admits Deregulation has Failed Us All (Marketwatch)
You know things are very very bad on Wall Street when a guy like Henry Paulson -- Treasury secretary, solid Republican, and former Goldman Sachs CEO -- joins the crowd calling for more regulation ...
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Meet Obama's Top Foreign Policy Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski (Carolyn Baker)
(CarolynBaker.net) -- Quotes From Zbigniew Brzezinski In "The Grand Chessboard"
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Community And Personal Collapse Preparation: An Interview With Dan Armstrong (Carolyn Baker)
The first part of Carolyn Baker's exclusive interview with Dan Armstrong, writer, activist, and owner of MUD CITY PRESS
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