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Twenty four Senators and 63 House Representatives have completely lost their minds over pork bellies. Apparently the free market doesn’t work, hog farmers aren’t making enough money, and

If there’s a fine line between predator and capitalist, Swiss food maker Nestle toes it. Manufacturer of everything from chocolate to coffee to dog food, the only thing vaster than its product

Stocks died another little death, slipping for a fourth successive session on the day the munchkin coroner turned 94. Equities have started September with tears after being on a tear in August, thoug

Inquiring minds are reading Cash for Clunkers Is Just a Broken Windshield by Caroline Baum. It's the best trashing to date of "cash for clunkers" program.  "Transferring money

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These are the quick market stats for the past week: the MSCI World Index up by 0.3%, the S&P 500 Index up by 0.3%, the Reuters/Jeffries CRB Index down by 0.1%, the US Dollar Index down by 1.6% an

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co