Shareholders making their way to Bank of America Corp.'s annual meeting Wednesday in uptown Charlotte may find themselves weaving through scores of protesters angry over everything from coal-project financing to executive pay.
Compared with June 2009, the month the economic recovery officially started, the labor force has shrunk by 365,000, a trend that has never occurred in any post World War 11 recovery. Those saw the labor force climb by the millions by this point in their recoveries, even as unempl …
The first listed subpoena category that Holder has not provided any documents on — or denied the existence of any such documents — is one where Issa demanded all communications "between and among Department of Justice (DOJ) employees and Executive Office of the President em …
Justice Samuel Alito pointed out that nothing in federal law precludes an officer, on his or her own, from calling federal immigration authorities to make such a check. In fact, he noted, federal law mandates that immigration officials respond. The only difference, he said, is …
"It seems to me that the federal government just doesn't want to know who is here illegally and who's not," Roberts said. Verrilli seemed to struggle to convince even the court's more liberal justices that the federal government has exclusive authority over immigration matters …
Despite how you feel about Sheriff Joe's personal conduct, government suspicions or the severity of criminal discipline, there is no doubt that the feds' entanglements into his affairs are a massive overreach of local and state laws and jurisdictions. It is pathetic that Presid …
Home prices dropped in February in most major U.S. cities for a sixth straight month, a sign that modest sales gains haven't been enough to boost prices. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home-price index shows that prices dropped in February from January in 16 of the 20 …
The nation's 100 biggest metropolitan areas lost a collective total of 459,400 financial-activities jobs during the past four years, according to an On Numbers analysis. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics lumps a wide range of jobs under the financial-activities umbrella, …
Obama who made promises that he never intended to keep is now on his way out. Heavy duty fat cutting will be coming to a Congress and Senate near you as the economy has been driven to the edge of the cliff ( January 2013) and we as passengers on the bus can only hang …
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The crisis in Europe and a fragile recovery from recession in the United States has hastened the shift in world economic power towards the emerging markets, and they want their growing heft to be reflected in finance institutions like the IMF. Brazil, the most outspoken of the …
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