Personal bankruptcy filings reached 1.25 million in the year ending June 30, up 34 percent from the year before, as Americans continued to grapple with debt, unemployment and devalued homes, according to figures released Thursday by the Administrative ...
At a hearing before the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he found it "unacceptable" that the central bank risked taxpayer money without detailing where the funds went. "Will you tell the American people to whom you lent $2.2 ...
Four-fifths of the 2.74 million people who lost their jobs between November 2007 and November 2008 were men, according to Andrew Sum of the Center for Labor Market Studies. "It's been an overwhelmingly male phenomena," he said. Anyone can join this ...
Moneywar -- Check out this link: www.un.org From the UN Charter, the following provisions seem to apply to all, but seem to be widely dissed by some: Preamble: ... to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human ...
The House overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's veto Wednesday of a $290 billion farm bill, but what should have been a stinging defeat for the president became an embarrassment for Democrats. Action stalled, however, after the discovery that ...
The U.S. economy lost the title of "world's biggest" to the euro zone this week as the value of the dollar slumped in currency markets. Taking the gross domestic product of both economies in 2007, the combined GDP of the 15 countries which use the euro ...
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