under the deal President Obama and Congress sealed last week.
by the Treasury Department on Friday.
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King and his Chinese counterpart Zhou Xiaochuan (周小川) agreed to a three-year currency swap line to promote financial stability and trade between China and Britain.
As we approach the 100 year anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve, it is absolutely imperative that we get the American people to understand that the Fed is at the very heart of our economic problems. It is a system of money that was created by the bankers and that operates for the benefit of the bankers. The American people like to think that we have a “democratic system”, but there is nothing “democratic” about the Federal Reserve. Unelected, unaccountable central planners from a private central bank run our financial system and manage our economy. 
As part of a new set of policies known as Abenomics, formulated by Japan's new prime minister Shinzo Abe, the Bank of Japan will buy ¥7tn yen (£46bn) of government bonds each month using electronically created money, with the aim of rekindling demand and pushing up prices and wages.
(Reuters) - Argentina's government forged an agreement on Tuesday with top retailers to extend a freeze on prices for another two months, the latest attempt to contain inflation estimated by private economists at above 20 percent a year.
A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit claiming J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) manipulated prices in the silver market between June 2007 and October 2010.
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the world’s Western central banks lie vaults holding gargantuan piles of physical gold bars… or at least that’s what they all claim. The gold bars are part of their respective foreign currency reserves, which include all the usual fiat currencies like the dollar, the pound, the yen and the euro.
