The Liberty Beat BY: Derrick Broze Monday in Greece a week of strikes to protest planned layoffs of public sector employees began around the nation. The teachers, and public hospital doctors are [...]
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER (AP) Calling it a “matter of justice,” Gov. Jerry Brown put his signature on a bill that will hike California’s minimum wage to $10 an hour within three [...]
By Terence P. Jeffrey (CNSNews.com) – The same day that the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee announced last week that the Fed would continue to buy $40 billion in [...]
By Sophia Yan Hong Kong (CNN) Americans, take your money elsewhere! That’s what banks around the world have been telling their U.S. customers, as they try to avoid having to comply with a [...]
By Bernie Becker and Brendan Sasso (The Hill) Republicans in the House are taking a step forward on Internet sales tax legislation despite potential opposition from the GOP base. House Judiciary [...]
By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Ylan Q. Mui, (Washington Post) Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary and senior White House economic adviser, has withdrawn as a candidate for Federal [...]
The Liberty Beat BY: Derrick Broze A lawsuit dealing with the 2008 bailout of insurance corporation American International Group (AIG) may result in Ben Bernanke becoming the first sitting [...]
The Liberty Beat BY: Derrick Broze The New York Department of Financial Services has issued a subpoena to several companies involved with virtual currency Bitcoin. The Wall Street Journal [...]
The State Weekly The city of Detroit isn’t looking too pretty to date. On July 18th as many know, Detroit filed for bankruptcy after falling an estimated $20 billion in debt to over 100,000 [...]
NPR After a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, it will continue to buy $85 billion in bonds every month and will leave the federal funds rate at the historic rate of near zero. Of [...]