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To encourage Jews to illegally settle there in the WEST BANK, the Israeli government subsidizes home purchases and offers reduced rates for leasing land, in addition to the perks all new Israeli citizens get such as free health care, upward of a 90 percent reduction in property taxes, tuition...

Interesting throughout http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/world/europe/power-struggle-on-reforming-vatican-bank.html?_r=0

The stance that Spain could raise money on its own seems to be gone. After officials asked for the issuance of Euro bonds or further German help, the Treasury minister is now saying Spain is effectively being shut out of the bond market as rates continue to go up. There is an auction scheduled...

With the World Bank President stepping down, the search is on for the next head. The US will make the appointment as per tradition (in which the Europeans appoint the IMF and the US World Bank) and right now Lawrence Summers and Hilary Clinton are favorites. Summers I can see, but I was a bit...

Another reason not to vote Perry I suppose. This is the problem with DC today. Vote Paul? http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PerryRe/start/2402/stop/2421 Video should automatically start at ~40:00 but if it doesn't just scroll there.

The Bank of New York announced earlier this month that it would charge fees for large deposits, effectively creating a negative interest rate where the depositor pays money to keep money in the bank. This week, Switzerland and Singapore have seen certain market rates fall negative as well as...

If you haven't heard, it has been announced that WikiLeaks' next report will be on a big American bank. The strong guess right now is Bank Of America due to comments made by Assange in an interview a while back. WikiLeaks has not confirmed the bank, but has said that it contains evidence for...

President Obama has proposed a bank tax to help offset bailout costs and to help offset the growing deficit. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this? Not only have the major banks paid back most, if not all of their TARP money (many with interest,) but this move will only hurt market...

So Bank of America (who acquired the failing Merril Lynch) says that it only now realized how bad the assets were, and they are asking for government help.