Zero Hedge By Agence France-Presse CHICAGO — The number of people missing after the deadliest single tornado to strike the United States in more than six decades has been whittled down to just 10, state officials said Tuesday. A mile-wide May 22 twister reduced much of the Missouri town of Joplin to rubble, leaving at [...]
Zero Hedge Submitted by Tyler Durden The description of the Greek bailout plan in the NYT has just one salient paragraph. Here it is: “With great reluctance, European governments have come to the conclusion that an additional €60 billion now, while politically unappealing, would be less costly than the unquantifiable public funds that would be [...]
The Raw Story By Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON — Lawmakers voted against raising the US borrowing cap without making cuts in spending, in a Republican ploy Democrats branded a “charade” unworthy of a vital economic issue. The Treasury says that unless Congress votes to raise the $14.29 trillion debt ceiling by August 2, Washington could be [...]
The Raw Story By Stephen C. Webster New York state has filed a lawsuit alleging that regulators did not fully conduct an environmental impact study on the Delaware River Basin before authorizing energy companies to begin drilling for gas using a technique called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Fracking involves injecting a mixture of water and [...]