The Federal Reserve has bluntly refused a request by a major US financial news service to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans.
• Fed expected to cut US rates to 0.5%
• The Madoff Scandal & Post-World War II US
• When Should We Get Out of the Dollar?
• Downturn spurs “survival panic” for some
Desperate Double Speak: Global Cooling Is Part Of Global Warming
An Associated Press article has stunned some readers by suggesting that an ongoing global cooling trend is actually indicative of how quickly the planet is succumbing to man-made global warming.
• Defying Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow
• Global Sea Ice Trend Since 1979 - surprising
Russia said on Monday it was sending a group of warships to Soviet-era ally Cuba in its latest defiant naval move around US waters, part of a drive to revive old Cold War ties with Latin America.
• Putin to return to Kremlin by summer - Russian political scientist