` The California prison system must reduce overcrowding by as many as 55,000 inmates within three years to provide a constitutional level of medical and mental health care, a federal three-judge... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story

Nearly half of China’s toy factories closed last year as the financial crisis tightened its grip. The country started the year with 8,610 factories producing and exporting 70 per cent of all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story

` Federal agents on Monday raided a Georgia peanut processing plant linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak that has prompted one of the largest product recalls in U.S. history. The FBI executed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story

` “At 2 minutes, 20 seconds into this C-Span video clip, Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania explains how the Federal Reserve told Congress members about a ‘tremendous draw-down of money... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story

` As the Obama administration attempts to push through Congress a nearly $1 trillion deficit spending plan that is weighted heavily toward advancing typically Democratic-supported social welfare... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story

` Marc Faber was born in Zurich and schooled in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a Ph.D. in Economics magna cum laude. Faber... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story

Peter Schiff The intense scrutiny recently paid to my investment strategy in the immediate wake of the financial crisis of the last six months has unfortunately obscured the central element of my... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story

Melanie Phillips President Obama has had, by general consent, a torrid First Fortnight. To put it another way, it has taken precisely two weeks for the illusion that brought him to power to be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story

` Hundreds of people trying to save their homes from foreclosure flocked to Connecticut’s wealthy Gold Coast this weekend to give financial kingpins a piece of their mind. Stamford sits in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story

A 23-year-old man has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 virus in northern Vietnam, a state-run newspaper reported on Saturday. The online Lao Dong newspaper (www.laodong.com.vn) quoted health... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story