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  • Interest rates: Will savers ever see them rise again? Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:31AMInterest rates are so low now that it makes sense to pay off even low-interest debt. But interest rates will rise again.
  • Frequent-flier Miles Free for Dollar Coin Schemers Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:41AM  Here’s the premise: You love to travel, especially for free, and your credit card company rewards your purchases with frequent-flier miles. Here’s the problem: Purchases aren’t cheap. Here’s the diabolically simple solution: Use your credit card to buy money, use the money to pay off the credit card bill, and see the world on the house.  ...
  • 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2': EW movie recap! Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:35AMBy James Hibberd James Hibberd digs into Harry marrying the wrong girl, Voldemort's silly mistake, Snape as tragic hero
  • Gold likely to continue record run Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:44AMThe price of gold has been on a steady ascent for the past couple of years, and this morning it hit an all time high.
  • India's unique forex reserve accumulation story Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:21PMOn March 31, 1991, India had foreign exchange reserves of $5.83 billion that could finance not even 3.5 months of imports. Twenty years later, on the same day, the reserves stood at $304.82 billion.
  • India's unique forex reserve accumulation story Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:21PMOn March 31, 1991, India had foreign exchange reserves of $5.83 billion that could finance not even 3.5 months of imports. Twenty years later, on the same day, the reserves stood at $304.82 billion.
  • India's unique forex reserve accumulation story Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:21PMOn March 31, 1991, India had foreign exchange reserves of $5.83 billion that could finance not even 3.5 months of imports. Twenty years later, on the same day, the reserves stood at $304.82 billion.
  • India's unique forex reserve accumulation story Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:21PMOn March 31, 1991, India had foreign exchange reserves of $5.83 billion that could finance not even 3.5 months of imports. Twenty years later, on the same day, the reserves stood at $304.82 billion.
  • Workers of Egypt: Strike! Occupy! Bring the revolution to victory! Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 3:42AMWorkers of Egypt: Strike! Occupy! Bring the revolution to victory!
  • Review: Final 'Potter' Casts Spell Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 2:51AMWipe away those tears, at least until the last credit rolls, because "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2" is a satisfying and emotional end to a phenomenal film franchise.
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 2:13AMWARNING: SPOILERS Here's a confession. I stopped caring very much about Harry Potter in his film incarnation quite a few movies ago. There was something about the way Daniel Radcliffe had grown up, but still wore those silly glasses and owlish expression I began to find off-putting. Radcliffe himself must have been dying to get out of both. And oddly, there's a scene in the last film in which he ...
  • Doom And Gloom Dominate Conclusion Of Harry Potter Series Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 10:20PMTalk about a long goodbye. Seven books, eight movies, 10 years. But who's counting? Certainly not the gazillions waiting to witness Harry Potter riding off into the sunset - or, more properly, waving as the Hogwarts Express leaves the station - in the
  • Movie review: Harry Potter’s saga ends on exciting note Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 5:15PMMovie review: Harry Potter’s saga ends on exciting note By Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jul 15, 2011 07:17AM MDT All’s well that ends well, as William Shakespeare said (yes, folks, there were British writers before J.K. Rowling), and the eighth and final movie based on Rowling’s creation, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” does wrap up the good-vs.-evil drama of the ...
  • Murder twist in Angolan mega-theft Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 5:10PMOne of Angola's most senior police officers is accused of stealing $3.7-million and then paying a hit man to murder a colleague.
  • It ends with a bang (and tears) Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 3:35PMIt ends with razzle-dazzle, Horcruxes crushed, Harry resurrected (like Jesus Christ) and Snape's tears, the saddest tears of them all. To cut to the crux: this is one of the best Harry Potter movies, perhaps the best, given the sense of closure and catharsis that arrives after the 10-year span of Hollywood's most successful film franchise.
  • BMG to open two new gold storage facilities Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 7:58AMAs demand continues to rise for gold as a safe-haven investment, Bullion Management Group Inc. is establishing two new storage facilities for the custodial storage of its BMG BullionBars products.
  • A date with destiny in the Forbidden Forest Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 2:05AM“Join me in the Forbidden Forest, and confront your fate!” Talk about an offer you can’t refuse.
  • 'Harry Potter' closes out the franchise with qualities that brought it this far Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 6:57PM'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2' -- 3 1/2 stars It has taken Harry Potter eight full-length films to really have it out with Lord Voldemort, the reptilian prince of darkness with the undeniable leadership qualities and a clear, can-do game plan. With an ordinary franchise the audience — even an audience pre-devoted to J.K. Rowling's books — would've grown itchy long ago ...
  • Review: A spectacular end for 'Harry Potter' Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 5:43PM'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2' brings the Potter saga to a magical end.
  • B.I.S. Gold/Currency Swaps and a Greek Drachma? Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 12:51PMIn the last year, according to the B.I.S.’s annual report Central banks have pulled 635 tonnes of gold from the Bank for International Settlements in the past year, the largest withdrawal in more than a decade.
  • ‘Travel hackers’ fly for free on government’s dollar, so to speak Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 12:22PMDollar coins may not be popular among most Americans, but they sure are for people who like to travel for free.
  • How to invest in gold Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:12AMThe gold price hit another all-time high on Wednesday, rising to $1,567.70 an ounce as the euro crisis deepened and on the prospect of more quantitative easing in the US.
  • Harry Potter runs out of magic Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:04AMDeathly hallows, indeed. In a misguided money grab, Warner Bros. has forced Harry Potter to make his exit riding...
  • Curt Flood's role sadly underappreciated Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 5:55AMFor a great center fielder, timing is everything. In the outfield, three-time All-Star and seven-time Gold Glove...
  • Defaulting on the Fed's Bonds Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 12:55PMRon Paul recently made (another) splash among economic pundits with his suggestion that the Treasury simply cancel the $1.6 trillion in its debt.
  • The Force Is Strong With This Market Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:01AMIt was another absolutely fantastic week. Our miners have bottomed from the recent correction which some didn’t even participate in, our dividend stocks are strong as always and near the tops of they're ranges and our swing trading portfolio has been doing smashingly well the past two weeks.
  • Gold: Summer Trip and a Long-term Overview Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 9:36AMWe've entered summer, a typically slow season for the metals, which is why they call it the summer doldrums. Gold closed June just 1.8% lower than it first started.
  • Euro-Swiss In Freefall, Triggers 1.18 Stops As It Tumbles To Fresh Record Lows, Sends Gold Surging Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 7:11AMThis morning's Greek deposit flight (which recently dropped by €5 billion or 2.5% of total , in the month of May) appears to be enjoined by other countries, who are now actively converting their currencies into CHF and stuffing it into bank vaults deep under the Swiss Alps. As of minutes ago the critical EURCHF just took out the 1.18 stops, which sent the pair tumbling to an all time record lows ...
  • Museums split on insurance Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 5:36AMSome of the state’s most valuable assets are not found in bank vaults or on balance sheets, but in its museums and archives.
  • Political Report for July 11 Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 2:44PM11 July 2011 Imagine if State Homie John Key announced five months before the last election that he was going to increase GST to 15 percent.
  • Sparkling start to a festival Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 7:22PMTHE George Town Festival 2011 kicked off its month-long celebrations with a showcase of glittering proportions.
  • Even in the Struggling U.S. Economy, It’s Still Only Money Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 11:36AMListening to an interview with an Iranian-American journalist about being detained in jails in Damascus and Tehran, I was struck by the contrast between the extremis of those experiences and the daily drumbeat of high emotions about money. The level of hyperbole in our daily discussion of markets, economics, personal finance and public policy is [...]
  • Review: 'Harry Potter' goes out with magical, and dark, bang Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 10:07AMWith the million awful, tacky, shrill, stupid, condescending, tasteless, "Eragon"-y things that could have gone wrong over the 10 years and eight movies that brought J.K. Rowling's mega-popular Harry Potter series to the big screen, it's practically a statistical anomaly that the final entry, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," brings its A-game from start to finish.
  • Harry Potter's bloody nostalgia fest Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 9:00AMHOGWARTS is falling, its ancient stones raining from a black sky in a storm of orange pyrotechnics.
  • Treasurer's Office: State recommendations carried out Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 6:45AMStark County Treasurer Gary Zeigler, who was ousted in August and reinstated by the Ohio Supreme Court June 23, said one of his chief goals upon his return to office this week was to ensure that all of the state auditor’s recommendations had been addressed. Here’s how much progress has been made during the past year under Zeigler and three treasurers who served between his ouster and his return.
  • Delhi banker gets prison for thefts Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 12:55AMA Delhi woman on Wednesday was sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison for stealing from a Ceres bank where she worked, the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento announced Thursday.
  • Library upgrade speaks volumes about Womelsdorf Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 11:10PMWomelsdorf Community Library's final phase of construction wrapped up in June, and organizers are ready to showcase the facility. The library will host a grand opening Sunday, in which people can tour the newly renovated and expanded library.
  • Gilbey on film: Harry Potter - the end of of the affair Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 6:07PMAnd so it ends at last. I'm not referring here to the films of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series (though it's true that the eighth and final instalment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 , provides a definitive conclusion) so much as the agonising wait for another movie in the cycle that would live up to the creepy wonder of its third outing, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ...
  • Property lists seek owners Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 2:05PMBoone County Treasurer Nicole Galloway has claimed nearly $10,000 worth of unclaimed property from the state treasurer’s office in the name of Boone County. Most of the 51 unclaimed accounts belong to the county, but about 10 accounts belong to individuals. Galloway said her office is trying to track down the account owners to return the money or property that has been held by the state treasurer.
  • Review: "Harry Potter" goes out with magical, and dark, bang Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 8:09PMLOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - With the million awful, tacky, shrill, stupid, condescending, tasteless, "Eragon"-y things that could have gone wrong over the 10 years and eight movies that brought J.K. Rowling's mega-popular Harry Potter series to the big screen, it's practically a statistical anomaly that the final entry, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," brings its A-game from start to ...
  • Live - England v Sri Lanka Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 8:15AMEngland get off to a flying start as they chase 175 to level the four-match one-day series with Sri Lanka after Kumar Sangakkara hits 75 at Trent Bridge.
  • Nigeria: GTB Boss, Aderinokun, Buried in Lagos Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 4:43AMManaging Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), Mr. Tayo Aderinokun, who died in a London hospital on June 14 was buried yesterday at the Ikoyi Lagos amidst tears.
  • The Rise of the Barter Economy Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 9:51AMImagine a day when you go to buy a quart of milk, ask the price, and the cashier says, "that'll be a tenth ounce silver." As the US dollar's decline accelerates, several efforts around the country are trying to make this vision a reality.
  • Investigators turn to final vault at treasure temple Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 9:07AMTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - Investigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under a centuries-old Indian Hindu temple as police guarded round the clock the shrine where billions of dollars worth of treasure has been discovered.
  • India, in real time: 5th July 2011 Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 10:13PMIndia is a country on the go; at any given moment in time, there is much happening in the fields of politics and governance, of finance, of development; there is constant churning in society, considerable activity in sports and in the arts... It's almost too much to keep track of. And hence, this effort: a real-time, constantly updated look at the events that matter. Refresh this page for real ...
  • Investigators to open treasure vault Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 10:43AMInvestigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under a centuries-old Indian Hindu temple as police guarded round the clock.
  • Investigators turn to final vault at Indian treasure temple Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 10:40AMTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - Investigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under a centuries-old Indian Hindu temple as police guarded round the clock the shrine where billions of dollars worth of treasure has been discovered.
  • $20 billion! Temple's secret vaults yield treasure Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 6:10AMInvestigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under an Indian Hindu temple as police guarded round the clock the shrine where billions of dollars worth of treasure has been discovered.
  • Europe's Elusive Gold Reserves: Are Greece, Portugal Sitting on Billions of Dollars? Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 2:22AMThis post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Die Welt.
  • Why Are Greece and Portugal Sitting on Gold Reserves? Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 2:10AMDeeply indebted euro-zone countries are hoarding gold reserves worth of billions of dollars. But instead of selling it to pay off their creditors, they'd rather ask the E.U. for financial help