$870 billion in outstanding balances exceeds credit card, auto obligations Move over, mortgages. Get out of the way, Greece. Another economic doomsday scenario is emerging. Student loan debt has reached about $870 billion, exceeding credit cards and auto loans, and balances are expected to c... Read more...
As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored. On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city o... Read more...
Revisiting the Wikileaks Stratfor trove, we get an inkling of how politics work in America, circa 2008. An internal email exchange at the intelligence front operation (with honest to god CIA cronies) reveals vote fraud in Ohio and Philadelphia during the election. Obama’s use of thugs to inti... Read more...
Harvard University Announcement No tuition and no student loans Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families will pay no tuition. In making the announcement, Harvard's president Lawrence H. Summers said, "When only ten perce... Read more...
This Tuesday, a group of billionaires and former NASA scientists will announce Planetary Resources Inc., the first asteroid mining company in history. They claim they will "add trillions of dollars to the global GDP" and "help ensure humanity's prosperity." The group of investors and scientists... Read more...