Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer and co-author Kenneth Hersh write in a New York Times op-ed today that America's domestic energy production renaissance will remake the world. "While this is not a free lunch, it should not be feared," they say. "The production process is complicated and expensive, and if the industry is not careful there can be risks to ...

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Attack on the Press You know that the Department of Justice tapped scores of phone lines at the Associated Press. You might have heard that the Attorney General of the United States isn’t sure how often reporters’ records are seized. You might have learned that the Department of Justice is prosecuting a whistleblower regarding North Korea … as well as ...

  It’s painfully clear for all to see that the majestic United States is now firmly caught in the rapacious stranglehold of financial elites which have completely captured it in a grotesque gamed monetary process.  Our country’s once idealistic and industrious free market economy has been hijacked and is undeniably being fraudulently and overtly financialized by the craven clutches and ...

Ben Bernanke gave a commencement speech to the graduates of Bard Collage at Simon's Rock. "My emphasis today will be on prospects for the long run," he said.  "In particular, I will be looking beyond the very real challenges of economic recovery that we face today--challenges that I have every confidence we will overcome--to speak, for a change, about economic ...