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Obama wants cheaper pennies and nickels

By Chris Isidore | CNNMoney.com – Wed, Feb 15, 2012 2:34 PM EST

The U.S. Mint is facing a problem -- especially during these penny-pinching times. It turns out it costs more to make pennies and nickels than the coins are worth.
And because of that, the Obama administration this week asked Congress for permission to change the mix of metal that goes to make pennies and nickels, an expensive recipe that has remained unchanged for more than 30 years.

To be precise, it cost 2.4 cents to make one penny in 2011 and about 11.2 cents for each nickel.

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Government rolls out high-tech gun shot detectors

Allison Barrie

FOX News Gunshots ring out in the dead of night, and not a single person reports it. Yet police know exactly where the shots came from, even before they arrive on the scene.

It sounds like a scene from The Minority Report, but it's real. A new technology called ShotSpotter enables law enforcement officials to precisely and instantaneously locate shooters, and it has been

Collective Action to Prolong the Economic Depression

by Bill Bonner

The Daily Reckoning

Have yourself a merry little depression…

What’s this? Christine Lagarde, IMF chief, said last week that the world’s nations needed to work together to avoid a 1930s-style depression.

But seeing the way they work together…and where they seem to be headed…we’d prefer a depression.

The idea of the world’s authorities is not to solve the debt problem, but to make it larger. One bank goes bust; they get a bigger bank – a central bank – to bail it out. One country goes broke; they get a bigger country to bail it out.

The US bailed out its financial sector. Europe has

Las Vegas Sands building casinos in Japan?

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) By Jacob Adelman and Kiyotaka Matsuda

Adelson, chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp., has for at least half a decade sought to reverse a ban on the gambling houses in the world’s third-biggest economy, only to be blocked by Japanese legislators arguing casinos would fuel organized crime and provide little benefit. Now, a group of 150 lawmakers plans to introduce a bill that could allow

Thomas Perez: Obama's one-man Gestapo

From a September 3rd, 2010 posting by Wes Vernon at Renew America

If you tried to help a "protected" Obama constituency, you had better hope that your best efforts didn't fail. The Gestapo will have you in its crosshairs.

This is not the Gestapo of the thirties-Germany variety so vividly portrayed by Hollywood long after the bright shiny black uniforms and man-sized flashlights of the SS became extinct and