‘Every day, twice a day, the local schoolchildren walk past my house. As they push and shove each other along the pavement, they leave behind a blizzard of fast-food detritus: crisp packets, dropped chips, half-eaten […]
‘Banks and City pension funds are to get preferential treatment in the £1.5billion sale of Royal Mail, leaving private investors empty-handed, The Telegraph can disclose. The sale of the Government’s remaining 30 per cent stake […]
‘That good health is insanely unprofitable was highlighted by a staggering statistic in the recent research paper The Concentration of Health Care Spending (via B.C.): Mean annual spending for the bottom half of (the American […]
‘The “little people” have had enough in Detroit, and they’re not taking it anymore. Scores of residents behind on their bills have had their water shut off by city water department officials, even as corporate […]
‘Nicole Keplinger, 22, had long seen ads on Facebook promising financial relief, but she always ignored them and assumed that they were scams. Keplinger was drowning in student debt after obtaining a worthless degree from […]
‘As noted by the Washington Post and the Liberty Blitzkrieg web site, the House Agriculture Committee voted overwhelmingly (38-6) in recent days to repeal a “country of origin” law for beef, pork and poultry, just […]
‘The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in fact, they were managed trade agreements, tailored to corporate interests, […]
‘Students attend college to pursue their interests, broaden their intellectual horizons and make headway toward a career. While this is made difficult due to the amount of debt that many must saddle in order to […]
‘An online petition urging the Government to force supermarket to distribute unsold food among the needy has been signed by more than 100,000 people. The petition, started a week ago, was inspired by French proposals […]
‘People across the country will be taking part in a different kind of protest – on the day of the state opening of Parliament. May 27 will be the first National Switch Off Day, when […]
‘Hundreds of tech companies and digital rights groups – including Imgur, DreamHost, Namecheap, AVG, Mediafire, Internet Archive, BoingBoing, Piwik, Private Internet Access, and more than 200 others – signed a letter to Congress today stating: […]
‘Calls by various mainstream economists to ban cash transactions seem to be getting ever more louder. Bills and coins account for about 10% of M2 monetary aggregates (currency plus very liquid bank deposits) in the […]
‘Baltimore officials, trying to collect some $40 million in long-unpaid water bills, have shut off service to more than 1,600 customers in the past six weeks. But records reviewed by The Baltimore Sun show the […]