By David McFadden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Bahamas court has rejected a U.S. bid to extradite a Czech-born financier on charges of plotting to bribe officials in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan in the late 1990s to get favourable treatment in oil deals, officials said ...

Financial lessons are often best learned in retrospect, which can make it difficult to tell when you're going down the wrong financial path. Luckily, we can always learn from the mistakes of others. The Detroit News reports that former Detroit Lions lineman Luther Elliss was forced to file for bankr ...

Equal Danger, by the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia, is set in an unnamed country not, perhaps, entirely unlike Italy.  The hero, Rogas, goes to see President Riches of the Supreme Court.  As tactfully as he can, he suggests judicial error may have resulted in the conviction of ...

Good read in this morning's New York Times by Alex Williams explaining that a law degree from a top law school is no longer a ticket to riches in large law. Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa, an associate in 2006 at Pillsbury in San Francisco was willing to work mammoth hours "for the prospect of Caribbea ...

The quickly fading story of Harry Reid’s comments about Barack Obama’s “light skin” and “non-Negro dialect” offered an opportunity for the President to lead on the issue of race in America, and he passed. Back in March of 2008, given a similar opportunity to show ...

A clip from The Daily Show involving Glenn Beck and gold has been making its rounds on the Internet lately. In the clip, Jon Stewart shows that Glenn Beck has been inciting fear and pushing gold investment on his Fox News show, while not disclosing that he is also a paid spokesman for Goldline. As J ...

If there's something uniquely American about the rags-to-riches-to-rags trope, it strikes us that there's something perhaps even more American about a rags-to-riches-to-rags-because-of-too-much-litigation story. According to an LAT article, such describes the fate of Guess Jeans founder Georges Marc ...

Who Owns America’s Debt – A Dynamic Perspective on Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities (2002-Present) from Michael J Bommarito II on Vimeo. Related posts:Which Countries Own America’s Debt?A Decade of Debt — The American Dream and the Road to Riches?Visualizing Dy ...

Michael John Long is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. The Romance of the Public Domain, as Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder see it, is the presumption that the public domain is a landscape where everyone has equal access to reap the riches foun ...

It seems like beauty has a beast of a problem with her co-op! A foot model is suing her co-op for mistreatment. Hand and foot model Christina Ambers fell in love with the doorman in her building after being unlucky in love only to have her neighbors try to force her out of the building. Her response ...