Reuters - The Treasury Department is expected to meet with lenders on Monday to press them to do more to rework troubled home mortgage loans, a source familiar with the Treasury’s thinking said.  Read More →

Reuters - Holiday shopping online hit a record for Black Friday, several days before the retail industry-coined Cyber Monday gets underway, as more consumers said they used the web to seek deals.  Read More →

11-29-2009 York Hoeller, a German composer, will receive the 2010 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, the university has announced. Mr. Hoeller is a professor of music composition at the Cologne University of Music. He is being honored for “Spheres,” a six-movement... 

11-29-2009 Worried that a proposed law to allow foreign universities to set up shop in India still isn’t attractive enough to appeal to the world’s best universities, the prime minister’s office has referred the bill to a panel of top government officials for possible revisions, The... 

Its quite well known that the much of the negativity that is shown towards the Freemasons is based on what is believed to be their secrecy. It would seem with all of the books and materials that have been published over the years there couldn’t possibly be any secrets left unturned if there were... 

Cronkite News reporter, Maxine Park, talks to officials about Arizona budget deficit and what can be done to fix it.  Read More →

With journalists looking for any indication that the recession is over, or any indication it is getting worse, the fall home start numbers are a great chance for some opportunistic reporting. As with every fall, the October new homes starts declined from their summer highs, due to people choosing to... 

With just about the entire world looking for a resolution for the energy crisis, energy deregulation was inspired. Hoping the it would bring about rapid change in prices, most people were disappointed. Many energy customers are having to familiarize themselves with vernacular and jargon that they previously... 

Han Ji Eun is a naive writer who got swindled out of everything she owned including her house by her best friends. Stranded in China, She managed to borrow money from an actor Lee Young Jae to return to Korea. On her return, she found out that her house was bought by Lee Young Jae. In an attempt to... 

Reuters - Dubai, jobs data, Black Friday results and a chance for Congress to throw fireballs at Fed chief Ben Bernanke: The U.S. stock market’s path to glory is fraught with peril next week.  Read More →