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The uproar of Candidate Christie's comments about the national teachers union continues: The head of New Jersey's largest teacher...

From the NY Times: FRANKFURT — An organization representing the world’s main central banks warned Sunday that dangerous new asset bubb...

Here's a taste of the Post article: New York City is stuck in the economic misery lane of middle-class jobs flight and an unemployed...

I thought $7.5 million dollar bail amount for former Atlanta School Superintendent Beverly Hall seemed a little high. Turned out I was rig...

US Attorney Preet Baharara expressed disappointment today as he announced the indictments of State Senator Malcolm Smith, City Councilman D...

David Stockman in full from today's NY Times:  The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached record highs on Thursday,...

Clearly the Masters of the Universe in the Eurozone are in a predicament they do not jnow how to solve: BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone f...

From The Guardian: Experts warned that even if the levy on deposits below €100,000 was axed entirely, it would not be enough to restore ...

The IMF, the EC and the ECB supposedly don't care how the brackets are done - they just want depositors to pay for the bail out of Cypru...

I think this is exactly right: One flabbergasted Larnaca bank employee, 28, was grabbing a coffee before returning to the rolling TV new...

Doesn't matter if the Cypriot House of Representatives votes for the "bail-in" or not - the precedent that your money will be ...

Cyprus is delaying a parliamentary vote on the bank bailout that is slated to "tax" depositors under $130,000 at 6.75% and those o...

Neil Irwin at Wonkblog on the events in Cyprus: In a lot of ways, it is separate from the rest of the euro zone, and not just geographic...

Everywhere you look lately, you see stories about how the economy has turned around.  The Dow is at an all-time high, first time jobless c...