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News
July 5, 2012
America's Petro-Terrorists
Wall Street and Washington conspire to destablize the U.S. economy, one barrel of oil at a time.
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Robert Copeland: A Ponzi Schemer Gets Ponzi Schemed Out of $10 Million
The Ponzi-er gets Ponzied. And pwned.You are so freaking clever and smart that you have scammed $45 million out of 125 people in a Ponzi scheme. So when someone offers you a risk-free return of 30-40 percent on foreign exchange markets with a personal guarantee you will at least get your mone ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2010
Separation of Church and Finances: Pastor Swipes $462,000 Through False Investments
Time to replant the money treeLet your minister or rabbi or guru give you spiritual advice, but leave the financial dealings to your broker or accountant. The case of Jeremiah Yancy, aka Jeremiah Glaub, is a perfect example. While the pastor of a church in Idaho, Yancy managed to coax 64 individ ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2009
Yep, Speculators Caused Last Year's Oil-Price Spike, Rice Says
A couple of researchers at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy have released a study that gets close to proving that speculators caused oil prices to shoot up in 2008. This theory is nothing new, but the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the agency that regulates U.S. futu ... More >>
News
February 2, 2006
Wize Guys
Here's your chance to get rich quick -- or lose your shirt, in which case, GlobalTec disavows all responsibility for, well, anything
News
February 7, 2002
Up In Smoke
Enron used political ties to rid itself of regulators. But in the end, its supposed free-market trailblazing only burned investors.
News
April 6, 1995
The Wendy Card
Wendy Gramm's all-American success story is a centerpiece of her husband's fledgling presidential bid. But there's more to the story than what's being packaged and sold by the Phil Gramm campaign.