Mark Kelly Vows to Go on With Gun Control Effort (video)
The husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says their gun control advocacy group will target an ad campaign at senators who failed to support expanded background checks for gun buyers. WT news...
View ArticleUnemployment in Spain passes six-million mark for the first time.
The ranks of the unemployed in Spain climbed above six million for the first time ever as the jobless rate hit an unprecedented 27 percent in the first quarter of the year, this despite an easing of...
View ArticleIntransigent Bundesbank: Mr Jens Weidmann’s surreptitious campaign to bring...
Any fair minded reading of the Bundesbank’s latest Constitutional Court deposition must lead to one of two conclusions: Either the Bundesbank has failed to recognise the existentialist threat to the...
View ArticleCarbon dioxide passes symbolic mark.
Daily measurements of CO2 at the authoritative “Keeling lab” on Hawaii have topped 400 parts per million for the first time. (And we are still alive, who would have guessed?) bertb news feed
View ArticleTwo tech executives quit Mark Zuckerberg’s Fwd.us political group
Elon Musk, the billionaire co-founder of electric car maker Tesla Motors, chief executive of SpaceX and chairman of solar-energy company Solar City; and David Sacks, CEO and founder of Yammer, both...
View ArticleMark Spitznagel Explains How To Prevent A Market Crisis
"When it comes to market events, there have been no impactful black swans – the so-called unexpected 'tail events," Mark Spitznagel notes in his excellent new book, The Dao Of Capital: Austrian...
View ArticleMark Faber Fears “Stocks Could Be Dead Money For A While” But “Gold Has...
“Since September 2011′s $ 1921 peak, gold has been in correction mode,” Mark Faber tells Barrons in this brief clip, but the overhwleminly bearish sentiment combined with the major accumulation (most...
View ArticleThat Mega “Black Friday” Sale? It’s Just The End Of The Mega”Pre-Black...
“The silliness of it all is that the original price from which the discount is computed is often specious to begin with,” sums up the seemingly obvious “retail theater” that plays out every Black...
View Article‘12 years too many’: US Activists to Mark Gitmo Anniversary By Rallying For...
Today marks twelve years since the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay prison on January 11, 2002. The anniversary will see US human rights activists march to the White House to demand the...
View ArticleRedbox gets a new president plucked from the studios, former Warner exec Mark...
Redbox has gone from fighting the studios to build its video rental (and now streaming) business to having deals with them, and that cozy new relationship is reflected by its choice of a new leader....
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