With the top U.S. automakers in economic survival mode, the mantra, "Buy American," is a frequent cry among those trying to save jobs at home. But buying a car to benefit the U.S. economy has become an ambiguous, complicated challenge.

When American colonists declared independence from England in 1776, they also freed themselves from control by English corporations that extracted their wealth and dominated trade. After fighting a revolution to end this exploitation.....

There is compelling new proof of a silver (and gold) price manipulation. The evidence connects the investment bank JP Morgan Chase, the dominant force in world commodity trading, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)...........

Government and greedy bankers aren't the only ones to blame.

A settlement has been reached between the United Food and Commercial Workers union and one of the nation's worst corporate citizens, Smithfield Foods, the company that runs the world's largest pig slaughterhouse.

Prices for the flat screens in televisions, personal computers and cellphones have plummeted in recent years -- but the decline would have been even faster if it hadn't been for an international price-fixing cartel, the Justice Department......

The American economy is based on the monetary theory of capitalism; the Free Market system of entrepreneurship and free will choice. However, the current economic meltdown in America has placed that theory in question.

THE economy of the 15 nations sharing the euro has slumped into recession for the first time ever, European Union data has revealed.

As the government, housing advocates and banks like Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase struggle to streamline loan modifications and stave off foreclosures, one tactic keeps coming back to life as a sure-fire weapon: the 90-day mortgage moratorium.

It began with the banks. Then house prices began to tumble. In the months that followed, the shock waves spread, engulfing first high streets, then factories - and thousands of jobs. In this gripping account, Paul Vallely travels across Britain to meet...