Law Curbs McDonald's Happy Meal Toys (Lisa Baertlein)

Nov. 3, 2010 -- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant m ...

Town seeks new life via $1/week rent (Pauline Askin)

Nov. 4, 2010 -- SYDNEY (Reuters) -- An Australian rural community desperate to encourage new families to move in and revitalize the town is offering to rent farm houses to interested families for one ...

Plan To Lift Smoking Ban In Small Pubs (Reuters)

Nov. 4, 2010 -- AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -- Bowing to resistance to a smoking ban imposed on the nation's bars and cafes more than two years ago, the new Dutch government has opted to partially reverse th ...

Fed to Buy Extra $600 Billion of Treasuries to Boost Growth (Scott Lanman)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Nov. 3, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will buy an additional $600 billion of Treasuries through June, expandi ...

U.S. 'Quantitative Easing' is Fracturing the Global Economy (Prof Michael Hudson)

Moreover, it may well be asked whether we can take it for granted that a return to freedom of exchanges is really a question of time. Even if the reply were in the affirmative, it is safe to assume t ...

Psychological Inoculation For A Century Of Challenges (Carolyn Baker With Nicole Foss)

An exclusive interview with one of the most astute minds in the world of finance whose insights offer crucial preparation for living in a post-industrial world Nov. 2, 2010 -- BOULDER, Colo. (Carolyn ...

Why aren't you happy? (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust True happiness is out there. Pop songs, sit-coms, Julia Roberts movies, even commercials make it crystal clear that others have it all figured out. Love, sex, money, loo ...

American Job Loss Is Permanent (Paul Craig Roberts)

Oct. 28, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Now that a few Democrats and the remnants of the AFL-CIO are waking up to the destructive impact of jobs offshoring on the U.S. economy and millions of A ...

Halliburton Knew Cement for BP Well Was Unstable (Jeff Plungis)

Oct. 28, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The cement Halliburton Co. recommended to seal BP Plc’s Macondo well was unstable in tests and may have contributed to the April 20 blowout, the staff of a national commi ...

When Criminals Vote… (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 26, 2010 -- Election Day is mental illness in plain view -- unabashed, unfettered lunacy not even trying to masquerade as sanity. If we woke up, it would take perha ...

Planet Hoover (David Glenn Cox)

Victorian London workhouse David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Oct. 26, 2010 -- It is a dangerous time to be alive, it makes the zoo keepers nervous when they enter the cage to feed you one more bowl ...