The next Great Depression is already happening – it just hasn’t reached the United States yet.  Things in Europe just continue to get worse and worse, and yet most people in the United States still don’t...

by Elizabeth Renter Potentilla alba, also known as white cinquefoil, is a plant native to Central Europe where it has been used in folk medicine for centuries. But recent research shows it may hold particular promise in the...

 Business Insider As expected, Cyprus and the EU reached a new late-night bailout deal last night that will reduce the chance that Cyprus’s financial system and economy will completely implode. The new deal is better than the last deal in one...

Everyone’s talking about it: The Italian election polls. In two separate notes we’re reading this weekend, analysts are putting the spotlight on the closing gap between Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative party and the mainstream left party headed by...

Michael Snyder/End of the American Dream Blog Are we witnessing the start of a historic financial meltdown in Europe?  In recent days, two massive corruption scandals have greatly shaken confidence in European financial markets. The first involves...

Thanks to the ECB’s promise that it will backstop the government bond market, if necessary, the acute financial crisis from the past couple of years is basically over. But there have always been risks. For one thing,...

In July 2012, amid a backdrop of serious uncertainty over the future of the euro, ECB President Mario Draghi told the world that the central bank would “do whatever it takes” to save the currency. Prior to...

GlobalPost Eight hundred children in Europe have developed narcolepsy after taking the swine flu vaccine, according to Reuters. Reuters reported the children in Sweden and across Europe came down with the sleep disorder after being vaccinated with the Pandemrix H1N1 vaccine...

Markets are mixed early in the European trading session. England’s FTSE is flat. France’s CAC 40 is up 0.5 percent. Germany’s DAX is down 0.2 percent. Spain’s IBEX is up 0.5 percent. Italy’s FTSE MIB is up...

The fiscal cliff has taken top billing in the “main risks” sections of investment forecasts and economic outlooks for the past several months as markets awaited the December 31 showdown over spending cuts and tax hikes feared...