BOSTON (MarketWatch) — If you thought the housing crisis was bad, think again. It’s worse. New data just out from Zillow, the real-estate information company, show house prices are falling at their fastest rate since the Lehman collapse.   Average home prices are down 8% from a year ago...

theeconomiccollapseblog.com | The United States is going to experience an absolutely devastating doctor shortage in the coming years.  Even now it can be difficult to see a doctor in many areas, and if you are fortunate enough to see one you will probably pay through the nose.  Medical bil...

theeconomiccollapseblog.com | The worst natural disaster in the United States since Hurricane Katrina just happened, and many in the mainstream media are already treating it like back page news.  It can be really tempting to want to talk about whatever the next "news cycle" brings us, but right...

theeconomiccollapseblog.com | Is going to college a worthwhile investment?  Is the education that our young people are receiving at our colleges and universities really worth all of the time, money and effort that is required?  Decades ago, a college education was quite inexpensive and it ...

theeconomiccollapseblog.com | Guess what?  The Democrats and the Republicans are both lying to us again.  So what else is new?  The truth is that the great "budget crisis" which supposedly took us to the verge of a government shutdown was just a whole bunch of political theater. ...

www.caivn.org | Last year, we took notice when Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) returned $100,000 of his Congressional office budget to the United States Treasury. CAIVN editor and contributing author Ryan Jaroncyk wrote: "Like him or hate him, Dr. Ron Paul doesn't just talk a big game about fisc...

nytimes.com | Chips are disappearing from bags, candy from boxes and vegetables from cans. As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, consumers are beginning to encounter shrinking food packages. With unemployment still high, companies in recent months ha...

yahoonews | As the New Yorker's former press critic, A.J. Liebling, famously said, "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." Perhaps that quotation is framed somewhere in a boardroom at the General Electric Corp., which owns NBC News. In spite of robust profits of $14.2 billio...

newsmax.com | Donald Trump is not backing down from his demand that President Barack Obama produce his birth certificate and stepped up his criticism by questioning why he has not released other personal records, including college transcripts and legislative papers. The billionaire real estate ty...

huffingtonpost.com | The Coast Guard is investigating reports of a potentially large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Deepwater Horizon site. According to a knowledgeable source, the slick was sighted by a helicopter pilot on Friday and is about 100 miles long. A ...

Reuters) - Stocks fell 1 percent but ended far from session lows on Tuesday on the Federal Reserve's more upbeat economic view and growing sentiment that Japan's nuclear crisis would only temporarily depress shares. In a second straight day of losses tied to Japan, the S&P 500 fell to within fo...

Washingtonpost.com | Carol Morello, Monday, March 14, 10:10 PMMore Hispanics were counted in the census than anticipated, reflecting the difficulty of calculating the size of the Hispanic population in states where the communities are small and growing rapidly, according to a new study. ...

MADISON, Wisconsin — Farmers on tractors joined a massive crowd surrounding Wisconsin's capitol Saturday to protest Republican moves to undermine unions and slash government services in a battle spreading across the United States. Cheers and bells rang out as tractors bearing signs declaring "Walke...

REDONDO BEACH (KTLA) -- Heal the Bay, one of Southern California's leading ocean advocates, is looking for volunteers to help clean up millions of dead fish that washed up in King Harbor near Redondo Beach. Experts believe the fist suffocated after being chased into the marina by rough waters Tue...

Madison, Wisconsin (CNN) -- After weeks of demonstrations in the state capital, Wisconsin Republicans cleared a final hurdle to a controversial proposal on Thursday after the state's Assembly passed an amended version of a bill that would curtail the bargaining rights of most state workers. The vot...

kingworldnews | Bill Haynes continues:| “Eric, the Mint sold about 10 million ounces of American Silver Eagles so far this year, 6.4 million in January and about half that in February.  The Mint had no problem producing those record quantities, but now the US Mint is cutting allocations to its ...

Reuters) - Bankers can expect their bonus packages in 2011 to be 10 percent to 15 percent richer on average than last year, a widely followed compensation expert said on Friday on Reuters Insider. Not everyone should expect that level of increase, however.   Asset managers and brokers will c...

(Reuters) - A judge on Thursday put on hold his ruling that President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul was unconstitutional, allowing the White House to continue implementing the landmark legislation for now. But U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson failed to dispel widespread uncertainty about the f...

NaturalNews) When the upswing in commodity prices eventually makes its way throughout the food system in mid-to-late 2011, food prices are sure to spike with levels potentially reaching those of 2008, announced U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) economist Ephraim Leibtag at the agency's annual Ou...

allgov.com | After months of earthquakes, including the largest felt in 35 years, the state of Arkansas has ordered a temporary moratorium on the drilling of new injection wells related to natural gas-related drilling, which some locals believe are causing the seismic activity. More than 700 small e...