Ron Paul Invests 64% of His Money in Gold and Silver Mining Stock
At least you can say this about Ron Paul: he puts this money where his gold-loving mouth is.
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Hope you have a Merry Christmas, America, because you've been extremely naughty at the mall this year.
At least you can say this about Ron Paul: he puts this money where his gold-loving mouth is.
According to a new study in Pediatrics, somewhere between 30.2 and 41.4 percent of 8- to 23-year-olds in the U.S. will be arrested before their 23rd birthdays.
Earning $45,000 or less annually per household is the U.S. Census Bureau's threshold or calling someone "low-income," and according to the bureau's latest figures, 48 percent of U.S. citizens fall into this category.
Experts who spoke with the Associated Press and The New York Times called the results of a new survey from Centers for Disease Control "striking" and "astounding."
It's a pretty good sign that your company is doing well if its three top executives own eight jets between them, as Google's does.
The "Christmas Price Index," the collective cost of all the gifts one clearly-trying-too-hard man buys his sweetheart in the carol "The 12 Days of Christmas," hit a record high this year.
Hurricane Irene struck the Northeastern U.S. some three months ago and cost the state of Vermont between $175 and $250 million -- but you wouldn't know it from driving through the state today.
According to a new study, hype surrounding the trend of teenagers sending sexually explicit pictures to one another may only be just that -- hype.
A CUNY sociologist has found that white males working in finance make significantly more money than those who aren't white or aren't male, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Put out a cookie for your favorite Wall Street banker along with Santa's this Christmas Eve, because the sour economy is playing Grinch on financial-sector employees.
This is just one strange data point found by blogger Jim Romenesko over at his new blog on some of the more peculiar habits of NPR listeners.
Nepotism and wealth go together according to a study published in the Journal of Labor Economics.
It's a somewhat depressing statistic: one in five Americans took at least one medication commonly used to treat a mental disorder in 2010, with women 25 percent more likely to seek out such drug treatment, according to a report released today from Medco, a health care company.
At least one airline is getting its comeuppance for those hours-long, pre-liftoff runway waits that have passengers scratching their heads while they sit on the tarmac.
Life in America has gotten lonelier over the past 25 years, if a new study is to be believed.
What research firm Gartner describes as the $2.1 billion "personalization services" industry is known to everyone else as that unintelligible (is that Beyoncé?) sound coming from someone who didn't get the "your phone should always on vibrate" memo.
Apparently we've only seen the tip of News Corp.'s phone-hacking iceberg.
More than a quarter of U.S. homeowners owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.
The crime of having a little bit of weed was was all the rage in New York City last year, according to the AP.
That common Republican talking point--that at 35 percent, the U.S. has one of the world's highest corporate tax rates--doesn't reflect the 18.5 percent effective tax rate that a new study from Citizens for Tax Justice found that they actually pay.
Though the running media chorus has been that Occupy Wall Street is the left's answer to the Tea Party movement, the former doesn't seem as keen on making themselves heard at the voting booth as the latter.
The walls of the Capital building do a pretty good job of sheltering members of Congress, who on average have a net worth of $3.8 million, from the stormy economy outside.
Expecting mothers apparently have watch The Omen a few too many times.
Though the company hemorrhaged some 800,000 customers last quarter after hiking its prices, Netflix still takes up a huge portion of the country's Internet bandwidth.
In the last five years, a lot more people have been telling waiters, "tap water will be fine."
Republicans on Capitol Hill have made up ground in social media after Barack Obama famously put social platforms to use to wrangle in votes in 2008.
Maybe gold is the more appropriate color for New York's famous yellow cabs.
There's some surprising good news to come out of RIM's headaches: few car wrecks
A firm has estimated the economic consequences to the Middle East uprisings
Some people need to have two screens in front of them at all times
There are now 1.05 wireless devices per person
90 percent of them, though, can't hurt humans
Because corporate boards want to think their head honcho is better than others
Just another nail in the coffin for the Postal Service
"Sex appeal," "arousal," and "other body parts" are popular themes in American music
A few incorrectly checked boxes caused a lot of problems for the U.S. Census Bureau
IKEA is reportedly a literal cradle of humanity
FEMA has declared 84 natural disasters,
Only 2.5 percent of lesbians in civil partnerships separate in the U.K.
The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is due to hit Earth in about two days
Fox News mentioned the law's repeal 16 times compared to 66 times at CNN
Job creation? Apparently there are a bunch of Facebook apps for that
Even Instragram has 10 times pictures
Still, that's only a "fraction" of the money that rich people have been stowing away
At least 5 percent of the world's population has the disease
That's 74 million more viewers than Oprah's cable network
He's topped Bush's last 28 months in office by about 200,000
Does that help explain why women are earning more degrees than men?
48 percent of those with $3 million or more in assets are open to giving Uncle Sam more
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