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“Maybe I’m going to do the tax returns when Obama does his birth certificate. I may tie my tax returns into Obama’s birth certificate,” said Donald Trump last week in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) Chairman Ben Bernanke, for the first time ever, will hold a press conference on Wednesday after the FOMC’s monetary policy statement.

Donald Trump finally got what he wanted: a birth certificate from Barack Obama (pictured left).

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke doesn’t seem to understand inflation. In 2011, he has denied its existence and dismissed the recent run-up in commodities prices as transitory.

Inflation is coming to America because the Federal Reserve keeps printing money and has left interest rates at 0.25 percent since December 2008.

Donald Trump “is a racist, I’m calling it, it’s official,” said liberal talk radio show host Cenk Uygur on The Young Turks.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve is expected to hold its first ever post-policy meeting press conference.

The IMF recently projected that China's economy will overtake the US economy by 2016. This projection, however, can't be trusted at all.

For the first time ever, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold a press conference on Wednesday after the Fed’s policy announcement. The key issue is likely to be inflation.

Gold and silver continue to defy expectation and climb higher by the day.

The British royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton has invited at least eight dictators, including some that have brutally cracked down on protesters during the 2011 Middle East / North Africa unrest.

Full text of the British Royal Wedding Guest List.

Since the height of the financial crisis, gold prices have soared, oil has surged, the US dollar has somewhat declined against other currencies, and US consumer price inflation has only inched up slightly.

Venezuela’s inflation is at 29 percent and Argentina’s actual inflation (many allege the government data is fraudulent) is north of 20 percent.

The Japanese yen and gold may be in trouble as countries around the world set for budget austerity and rate hikes in 2011.

In recent weeks, global central banks have accelerated their pace of diversification out of the US dollar. One of the main beneficiaries has been the Australian dollar, which has surged in the face of bearish developments.

“Barack Obama will go down as the worst president ever,” said Donald Trump in a recent media interview.

The euro has decoupled from the euro zone peripheral debt crisis in 2011.

The US dollar is in a new phase of depreciation, said Douglas Borthwick of Connecticut-based Faros Trading.

US Treasuries are called the “risk-free assets” of the financial world. However, the moniker of “risk-free asset” may actually belong to another country.

President Obama just announced that his Attorney General will form a task force to probe fraud in the energy market. What the Attorney General should do instead is investigate the Federal Reserve.

Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the formation of a Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force Working Group to focus specifically on fraud in the energy markets.

To get exposure, most investors immediately considered equities, which have been historically correlated with economic growth. However, an even better option may be the forex carry trade.

Many elite US universities, whether they admit it or not, have a racial quota against Asians. They cap the admission for Asians around 20 percent. T

After ignoring the worsening euro zone peripheral debt crisis for the last month, participants in the currencies market may finally be paying attention to it.

The resumption of the global risk-on rally late Tuesday illustrates how trends work in the financial markets.

UCSF Professor Robert Lustig claims sugar is a poison and Coke conspired to increase America's consumption of it.

Many policy mistakes by Western governments come from a misunderstanding of globalization, said Stephen D. King, chief economist of HSBC

Florida Judge W.R. Heinrich ordered Philip Scott Struthers to cut off his relationship with his 16-year-old son.