Many Americans will be shocked todiscover that the principle business of the Fed is to print money from nothing, lend it to the U.S. government and charge interest on these loans. Who keeps the interest?
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Reader J was detained and harassed bysome Walmart employees on his way out of the store the other day. J had already put his receipt inside his wallet after purchasing a $25 shower rack when a Walmart employee demanded to see his receipt. J declined and continued exiting the store. That's when thingsgot weird. First, he was grabbed by a Walmart e
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The euro, worth 83 cents in the early George W. Bush years, is at $1.45. The British pound is back up over $2, the highest level since the Carter era. The Canadian dollar, which used to be worth 65 cents, is worth more than the U.S. dollar for the first time in half a century. Oil is over $106 a barrel. Gold, was $260/ounce not long ago, now $800
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Digg this if you think it is wrongto make $11 million, and get a 36% raise, whenyou just fired 10,000 employees.
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This one defies description. You'vegot to see it to believe it.
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Silly Jason. He thought a Best Buy signreading "2 for $25" meant he could buy two DVDs for $25. He obviously didn't read the part of the sign that requires customers to buy Saw IV.
Oh, that's not part of the sign? Then why did themanager of the Best Buy in Beaumont, TX refuse to honor the in-store advertisement? Read Jason's story.
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Bush is implying that Americans who oppose telecom immunity are unpatriotic. But the American people don
’t owe the telecoms any gratitude. These corporations chose to break the law and profited greatly from doing so.
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A model of Open Source school computing is emerging which could save the taxpayer billions of pounds and provide enormous opportunities for the home-grown technology sector based around Open Source software.
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Last year total debt increased $3.9Trillion, 5 times more than GDP.
External debt owed foreign interests increased $1 Trillion;
Household, business and financialsector debtsoared 9%.
72% ($35 trillion) of total debt was created since 1990,
a period primarily driven by debtinstead of by productive activity.
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Sites like SugarDaddy.com lure young women by offering them far more money than they could get in most professions. What's wrong with this picture?
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