Republicans tease with gold standard
(Reuters) – U.S. Republicans have all but guaranteed the backing of the “gold vote” this November by raising an idea that even the most bullish mainstream bullion boosters believe is unrealistic – a return...
Category: Currency
Debt crisis: German business confidence slumps
Business confidence in Germany dropped to its lowest level in nearly two and a half years in August, as Europe’s biggest economy increasingly feels the pain from the debt crisis, data showed Monday. The...
Fiscal storm clouds: Federal debt nears $16 trillion
In the time it takes you to read this story, the U.S. debt will have grown by about $4.4. million. The debt is now lurking just under the $16 trillion mark — a number...
North Korean leader seeks trip to China for economic help
(Reuters) – North Korea’s young leader wants a state visit to China in the latest move in his push to lift the isolated state out of decades of poverty, but risks further fraying ties with his...
What the Left and George Soros plan for the RNC
It’s going to be a powder-keg in Tampa at the RNC if George Soros has anything to say about it. Soros bankrolled the 69-page ACLU report titled Rights and Wrongs at the RNC after the 2004 Republican...
2003, Obama defended late-term abortion: Infanticide
President Clinton believed abortion should be “safe, rare; and legal.” But Clinton also believed in a work requirement in his welfare reform bill. President Obama apparently disagrees on both counts. After unilaterally allowing states...
Feds warn anarchists could blockade roads, use acid-filled eggs to protest
Federal authorities are urging law enforcement agencies across the country to watch out for signs that extremists might be planning to wreak havoc at the upcoming political conventions — by blocking roads, shutting down...
Texas judge warns of civil war if Obama is re-elected
(CNN) — An elected county judge in Texas is warning that the nation could descend into civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and is calling for a trained, well-equipped force to battle the...
Philippines’ black market is China’s golden connection
(Reuters) – Erich Mulato walked out of a dingy workshop in this mountain village and into a gold shop next door, clutching a handful of shiny warm nuggets newly refined from the ore he...
Canadian church endorses boycott of Israeli products
The United Church of Canada is well known for siding with the underdog and now they’ve taken a stand with the Palestinian victims of Israeli occupation.
