Nov 10 (Reuters) - Homeowners return to an 18-mile (30-km) barrier island off New Jersey's Atlantic coast on Saturday, giving some of them their first view of the devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy....

By Michael Hudson , a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College,. His latest book is “ The Bubble and Beyond .”

The Democrats could not have won so handily without the Citizens United ruling. That is what enabled the Koch Brothers to spend their...

BEIJING, Nov 10 (Reuters) - China's exports grew 11.6 percent in October from a year earlier, the customs administration said on Saturday, beating market expectations for a rise of 9 percent and stronger than the 9.9 percent increase recorded in September. Imports rose 2.4 percent on the year in October, below market consensus for a rise of...

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International Developments

❖ How much more can these people endure? Yesterday we read the Red Cross simply “can’t cope” any more with the human crisis in Syria. Today: “8,000 Syrian refugees fled to Turkey in the last 24 hours”, bringing the...

Part of the success in beating back efforts to limit election participation in a number of Republican-led states came from the work of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, which used its pre-clearance authority under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to block measures that could have disenfranchised minorities, like district-level...

Nov 9 (Reuters) - U.S President Barack Obama, fresh from his re-election victory, will have to turn his attention quickly to naming a new Treasury Secretary, one of the most powerful positions in world finance....

Of all the thumbsuckers about the second-term Obama agenda I’ve read, the ones that reflect the least contact with reality concern Administration housing policy . It’s beyond clear that the first-term policy framework sought to protect banks and allocate losses from the collapse of the housing bubble elsewhere. That was the point...