CNN : Lou Dobbs is expressing some regret for referring to former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean as a "bloodsucking leftist" who could only be stopped if one "put a stake through his heart."

Increased suicide among farmers is a national trend and Maine is not exempt. "They don't call it a depression for nothin'," one Maine farmer, who asked not to be identified, said recently. Earlier this year, a farmer in southern Maine hanged himself in

President Obama may have spoken out against assessing carbon tariffs on goods entering the United States that are produced in countries without adequate control of their greenhouse gas emissions, but speaking in China, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke

Chase has recently increased the monthly minimum payment on select accounts that have carried balances. Effective August 2009, impacted cardmembers will have their minimum payment increased from 2% to 5% of the statement balance, said a Chase spokeswoman.

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Now the lady who thought Africa was a country is an expert on economics. Her quotes speak for themselves:

When a company goes bankrupt, everyone takes a hit: fair or not, workers lose some contract wages, stockholders get wiped out and creditors get fragments of what's left. That's the law. What workers don't lose are their pensions . . .

On May 4, protesters will greet Motorola shareholders, already disgruntled by the company's losses, as they arrive for their annual meeting at the Rosemont Theater in Chicago, Illinois.The protest, organized by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupatio

The WHO has designated swine flu an "imminent" pandemic, and raised its alert to a level 5 out of a possible 6. The World Bank guesstimates the cost of a severe pandemic at 4.8% of world GDP (yikes!).

Several days after news broke of a possible link between Mexico-based hog CAFOs and the rapid spread of a novel swine-flu strain, what have we learned? o Clarifying details about respiratory ailments in the Perote area of Vera Cruz State--