Finance & Economics

El Paso Jury Finds Texas Pain Management Physician and Psychiatrist Guilty on Federal Health Care Fraud Charges

United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in El Paso, a federal jury convicted Dr. Anthony Francis Valdez, 57, on all charges in connection with an estimated $41 million fraudulent health care benefit program billing scheme. Dr. Valdez was...

U. S. Department of Energy Announces New Partnerships to Support Manufacturing Job Training

To complement the Obama Administration's launch last week of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced a series of new manufacturing job training partnerships using the Department of Energy's National...

Rural Azerbaijanis to receive boost from UN loan agreement

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MYANMAR: Government open to microcredit expansion

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A microfinance loan dispursement in Myanmar

DRUMBEAT OVER LIBYA: Obama Faces His Watergate

Talk of Watergate and impeachment is again in the air in Washington, triggered by President Barack Obama's blatant and willful violation of the War Powers Resolution, and of the U.S. Constitution itself, with his Libyan War adventure. As Lyndon...

Toward a Mass Mobilization To Restore Glass-Steagall

In the weeks running up to the final vote on the Declaration of Independence back in 1776, the citizens of the American colonies held hundreds of town hall meetings, established new legislative bodies, and passed hundreds of resolutions demanding that...

Has Greece Been Prescribed Bad Medicine For Crisis?

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Greek police unions, coast guards and firemen protest outside the finance...

Social investments deserve priority in economic recovery schemes – UN report

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U. S. Personal Income: First Quarter 2011

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Fed Stimulus Ends Soon; Do We Still Need It?

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"In this context, monetary policy cannot be a panacea," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernnake says.