Libertarian Convention Begins Today in Denver

The Libertarian Party Convention caught the attention of the financial press today, but for different reasons.Under the headline, Being Ron Paul, the Wall Street Journal ran an article this morning about the...

Bloomberg's Racist and Fraudulent Police Actions make even Giuliani look Good

Mayor Bloomberg has managed to one-up the fascist Giulianiand waist $100 million dollars of the cities money in the process. When the New York City police aren't busy chasing down andarresting city residents who...

American bourses bouncing back

After a couple of month's bearish trend, American stock market is slowly recovering and even junks bonds are rallying. " Main Street may be struggling, but Wall Street is on a bit of a roll.Despite a drumbeat of bad economic news, the stock market is up — almost 11 percent...

Inflation in Zimbabwe at 164,900%

According to the Central Statistics Office in Zimbabwe, Inflation rose to 164,900%. The last time I visited the webpage of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on the 5th of April 2008, they published the inflation rate at 100,582.%. According to Bloomberg, One US Dollar is...

Will Oprah Flog Obama for ‘Bitter’ Remarks?

The last time an Oprah Winfrey endorsement backfired, the talk show diva did not sit idly by and watch her reputation tank. Instead, she brought the perpetrator of the “crime” — A Million Little...

Two's the limit for Bloomberg

Though there had been specualtion that New York mayor Mike Bloomberg might try to find a way to run for a third term, the mayor's office has killed the speculation."Some New Yorkers wouldn't mind seeing Mayor Bloomberg stick around for another four years in City Hall - but...

UK Newspaper Attempted to Deceive Readers

When it comes to members of the mainstream news media and their penchant for making dire predictions about the economy, no one describes the phenomenon better than world-famous salesman and motivational speaker Zig Ziglar: “The media has accurately predicted ten of the...

City Council Approves Fee to Drive Below 60th

This vote is the first step toward a full "congestion charge" for New York City similiar to the one currently in place in London."he controversial proposal to charge drivers in the busiest parts of Manhattan took...

Rescuers at NY crane crash site

"Rescuers in New York have been searching for survivors in the rubble of the apartment blocks crushed when a construction crane toppled into them. At least four people were killed in the accident and 10 injured, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said. He told reporters that three...

Bloomberg not running for president

It's official.  If it's in an editorial, it must be true." NEW YORK (AP) -- After two years of playing coy about his presidential ambitions, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared in a newspaper editorial...

Thomson gets approval to buy Reuters for $16 Bn

After this almost $16 billion sale goes through, there will be only two companies "selling information and trading systems to the financial services industry". But the impact of 'reduced choice' is neglible, right? Big media consolidation can be good for us, can't it?"Thomson...

Breaking News...Or Not?

We're at war in Iraq and Afganistan, the US economy is sliding into recession, a campaign for President is underway, global warming threatnes the planet, health insurance still eludes most Americans, cyber crime...

Stephen Colbert's Wrists Raise $171,000 for Charity

It's amazing when comedy can do more than make us laugh, it can help out a good cause. Proving that Colbert's carefully cultivated, O'Reilly-esque persona is just a thin 'television veil' to mask his caring and...

Blooberg: US policy on climate change to change

"Speaking on the last day of the 13th Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) here on Friday, Bloomberg confirmed the present US federal government`s poiicy was not in favor of carbon emission reduction measures as...

Hudson Securities announces the implementation of FIXEdge

"FIXEdge enables Broker/Dealers and Institutions to route Orders to its Institutional Trading Desk and Hudson's Automated Trading platform, using various FIX Protocols. Recently, Hudson Securities, Inc. has successfully established 22 Fix Connections to well over 3 dozen...

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