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By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Associated Press  – RELATED CONTENT Enlarge Photo FILE - In this May 22, 2003, file photo, Whitney Houston, right, and her husband, … Enlarge Photo File- In this Oct. 28, 2006, file photo, musician Whitney Houston arrives at the … LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Publicist Kristen... Read Full Story

By Ed Crooks If anybody wants a reason to feel optimistic about America, they might take a stroll through the magnificent trading floor of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. A hundred years ago, farmers would come here and tip samples of their grain on to heavy wooden desks for merchants to assess. When that business moved on, the floor turned into a place for the open outcry trading of futures and options in hard red spring wheat. More video In 2008, that business died too, after the market... Read Full Story

By Edward Luce In Part One of the series examining the US jobs crisis, Edward Luce says that fears persist it cannot be fixed L ast week, Barack Obama went to Osawatomie , Kansas, to kick off a more populist phase in his 2012 re-election bid. “This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class,” declared the US president, who chose the same venue that Teddy Roosevelt used in 1910 to call for a new progressive era. “I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot.” Saying... Read Full Story

A few weeks ago, I heard a senior person in the Obama administration talk about the situation in Syria. One of the problems with Bashar al-Assad, he said, was that the Syrian leader was still surrounded by his father’s old cronies. But one positive development, he mused, was that it was no longer possible simply to kill 10,000 protesters in a single city, as Hafez al-Assad once did. I wonder whether that may be too optimistic? The reports from Syria are certainly alarming. Refugees flooding... Read Full Story

By Charles Wallace High T: Lionel Bissoon (above) has seen a rise in demand for testosterone from Wall Street workers. Until a few years ago, doctor Lionel Bissoon, who practises what he calls integrative medicine on Manhattan’s smart Upper West Side, mostly treated middle-aged women for what is politely known as cellulite. Then the financial crisis hit Wall Street and a strange thing happened: a stream of financial executives and traders began coming to him in the hope of being turned into... Read Full Story

By Martin Taylor Forget the icy weather: the financial markets are signalling that spring is coming. Equities are rallying and credit spreads have narrowed. Yet look around, if you can bear to. Similarities with the interwar period – a time of persistent false dawns – are multiplying ominously. As in the early 1930s, the shockwaves of the crash, at first confined to those directly involved in financial markets, are painfully touching the lives of increasing numbers of people. The search for... Read Full Story

By SEN. JOHN BARRASSO     On Monday, President Obama is scheduled to release his proposed budget for the coming year. If his past three budgets are any indication, it is unlikely anyone outside of the White House will take this budget seriously. That's because past Obama budgets have been long on empty promises and short on real solutions. This president has consistently ignored Washington's crushing debt and passed the real costs on to future generations. The administration has already... Read Full Story

The decline of marriage and male wages is a problem of equality, not inequality. By JAMES TARANTO Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman has expanded the blog post we criticized Wednesday into a full-length column, and in doing so made explicit a predictable fallacy in his thinking. To review, Krugman's argument is that the sharp decline in marriage rates among less-affluent white Americans, documented by Charles Murray in his new book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010," is... Read Full Story

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