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Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center published a report in the Cell Host & Microbe Journal explaining discovered a unique mechanism in the Ebola virus that defeats attempts

China’s National Bureau of Statistics revealed data on August 13th that the nation’s credit plunged by a dramatic and wildly unexpected 86% in July, down to the slowest pace since the 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the start of the

Despite decades of the medical community warning that time spent watching TVs, computers and cell phones can cause eye soreness, dizziness, blurry vision, headaches, and muscle strain, Americans are becoming more addicted to all screens–and especially small screens according to

Although investors hang on every comment by Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen to get insight on the direction of interest rates and what it means for the economy and asset prices, the real power to determine U.S. interest rates may

In a stunning development just 48 hours after Breitbart California published “Elon Musk Plays California for Tax Breaks, Then Moves SpaceX Operations to Texas,” employees at Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) headquarters in Hawthorne, California filed a lawsuit claiming the

Whether or not Ebola ever actually reaches the United States, the fear of contagion will soon cause major economic and lifestyle changes for Americans. After killing almost 1,000 people in the isolated tri-border region of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone,

The Gallup polling organization found that Americans who graduated from college between 1990 and 2014 and are saddled with $50,000 or more in student debt suffer 60% worse financial well-being and 38% worse physical well-being than their peers who graduated

A smiling Governor Rick Perry of Texas announced that Space Exploration and Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) will build the world’s first private commercial rocket launch facility on an isolated beach near Brownsville, Texas.  Texas appear to have “bought the deal” by

Apple will be holding a media event on Tuesday, September 9th to unveil its iPhone 6, according to reports today in the Wall Street Journal and tech news site Re/code.  The company releases a new phone each year, and the company

The Los Angeles Times ran a story entitled, “Freelance Workers a Growing Segment of California Economy,” lamenting that millennials working part-time costs California $17 billion a year in tax revenue.  Aside from the Times bizarre comment that young people are

Goldman Sachs and a group of top tier investment banks are about to buy Silicon Valley’s Perzo to directly compete with Bloomberg LP, their current vendor for institutional trader interface and messaging. Facing annual license costs per terminal of over

There will be no celebrations today for the fifty-year anniversary of the August 4, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The aftermath of the Incident still divides America today. At 11:00 p.m. Vietnam time, Commander John J. Herrick on the destroyer

Governor and potential presidential candidate Jerry Brown traveled to Mexico this week, while a team of economists for the popular Wallet Hub (WH) social media website employed a group of university economists to evaluate the 150 largest U.S. cities for

Sixty prominent members of Vietnam’s Communist Party, including a former ambassador to Beijing, signed a letter on July 29 urging political and economic reforms that would divorce Vietnam from reliance on China, according to a July 30th report by the

If you are a 28-year-old millennial in Argentina, you would have lived long enough for your nation to default for a third time in 28 years at 12:01 AM on August 1. The nation’s Economy Minister Axel Kicillof acknowledged the default after

As someone who saw his monthly health insurance premium double from $780 in 2013 to $1,460 this year, I was interested to see how long it would take for California’s Democrat leaders to fess up that there is nothing affordable

The Obama administration has led the European Union to jointly apply economic sanctions to starve Russia of the $59 billion in investment capital the nation needs to keep its oil and natural gas revenues high enough to fund over 50%

Governor Jerry Brown, now the latest potential presidential candidate for 2016, is touting his trip to Mexico this week as an opportunity to demonstrate foreign policy expertise as a cheerleader in the quest to combat climate change. Mexico President Enrique

Forbes Magazine recently wrote, “It is one of the most commonly held bits of conventional wisdom in this country: that teachers are grossly underpaid.” But a new survey of W-2 data from over half of the public school systems in California

The Obama Administration tried to make a big deal this week out of their proposed safety regulations to make the infamous “exploding oil trains” hauling crude oil across the U.S. less dangerous. But despite at least one fiery oil train

Americans are facing increasing budget crunches regarding spending on household essentials this summer, according to a July 23rd report by researchers at Gallup.  To respond, American consumers say in the past four weeks 83% purchased generic or store brand goods, 61%

Scientists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife are warning that streams harboring endangered salmon and steelhead could go dry because of the heavy water consumption by marijuana growers.  During the growing season, California “pot farms” consume 60 million gallons of water

With 79% California in “extreme drought” status, and the agriculture industry suffering its greatest loss of water ever recorded in state history, the $50 billion annual sector will only suffer about $1.5 billion in losses or 3%, of revenue according to

As the three day meeting for the 6th annual “BRICS” conference of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa comes to a close, the most important accomplishment is the founding of the BRICS Development Bank and a currency stabilization pool

China is cracking down after the CCTV state-owned broadcaster secretly recorded a state-owned bank executive bragging that the bank illegally provides in-house money laundering services for wealthy Chinese nationals to violate currency controls and buy real estate in “world cities”

Lyft peer to peer (P2P) shared-ride service said on its blog that Lyft will delay its New York City launch in Brooklyn and Queens after the New York State Attorney General said a court issued a temporary restraining order against the

John Gapper in a Financial Times article titled “US Banks Will Pay Dearly For Their Failure To Modernize” warns that the United States banking system is failing to modernize and is actually falling behind England, India, and Africa, as the

Municipal bond mutual fund investors are panicking this weekend after the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s Legislature passed a new law allowing public agencies to default on their debt.   Although part of the United States, Puerto Rico in the 1990s

The $288 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System was rocked on July 10 when it was learned that former CEO Federico Buenrostro had cut a plea bargain with the Justice Department to turn “state’s evidence” regarding steering $14 million in placement

A Reason-Rupe Survey of 2,000 American millennials between the ages of 18 and 29 titled “Millennials: The Politically Unclaimed Generation” found that 66% believe government is inefficient and wasteful, up by 24% since 2009.  Only 18% of millennials believe government regulators

Bloomberg ran an article this week hyping about summer interns in Silicon Valley that can get glamorous jobs working directly with Mark Zuckerberg, being paid $6,213 per month and even being allowed the perk of flying their mother out for the

With the Wall Street Journal turning 125 years old this week, it is humorous that its tech writer, Christopher Mims, chose to dismiss the lack of “net social benefits” by venture capital (VC) in an article titled “Is Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley in northern California remained the center of the earth for venture capital in the second quarter of 2014 according to PitchBook data. Of the $21.6 billion of venture capital (VC) investment worldwide, $9 billion, or 41.6%, went into

Three weeks ago, President Obama promised that the United States “will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat” in Iraq. But Foreign Policy magazine (FP) just reported that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey acknowledged that

The U.S. economy created 288,000 jobs in June, and unemployment fell from 6.3% to 6.1% according to the Labor Department. Job creation for the months of April and May were also revised up by another 29,000 jobs. June marked the

Possible presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who came up with the idea and led the start-up of the “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” as a federal watchdog to prevent financial institutions from abusing U.S. consumers, is now at the center