Pentagon: Inventory ordered of all U.S. nukes
JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share
JPMorgan's acquisition of Bear Stearns represents roughly 1 percent of what the investment bank was worth just 16 days ago. It marked a 93.3 percent discount to Bear Stearns' market capitalization as of Friday, and roughly a 98.8 percent discount to its book value as of Feb. 29.
Fed acts Sunday to prevent global bank run Monday
Acting quickly to prevent a run on major global financial firms, the Federal Reserve cut its discount rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.25% and offered to lend money to a longer list of firms than ever before.
Greenspan: Economy worst since WWII
[What this article does not mention is the fact that it is former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's policies were the cause of many of the current problems...]
Home equity slips below 50%
Federal Reserve says homeowners' debt on their houses exceeds their equity for the first time since 1945.
Slavery's staying power
...estimates from United Nations and other international researchers range from 12 million to 27 million slaves worldwide. The U.S. State Department estimates that from 600,000 to 800,000 people -- primarily women and children -- are trafficked across national borders each year, and that doesn't count the millions of slaves who are held in bondage within their own countries.
Cairo grappling with bread crisis
"There is No Way for NATO to Win This War"
Afghanistan: A River Running Backward
Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns minister
His department warned that two-thirds of the world's population will live in water-stressed countries by 2025.
Russia may bring its troops to Kosovo to protect Serbs
