Loan Modification

China Buys Gold as Inflationary Hedge
China is betting that the United States Dollar will decline in value: The mainland is seriously considering a plan to diversify more of its massive foreign-exchange reserves into gold, a person familiar with the situation told The Standard....

Gold Farming banned in China
New Chinese legislation has banned the exchange of virtual currency for real goods and services and consequently, it bans the practice of gold farming. The legislation also outlaws the purchase of virtual currency by minors and the use of the virtual currency for gambling...

CRS: Winter Fuels Outlook 2010-2011
Winter Fuels Outlook 2010-2011, Robert Pirog, Specialist in Energy Economics, October 29, 2010 "The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its...

Illinois Law Allowing Active-Duty Servicemembers To Apply For 90-Day Foreclosure Delay Goes Into Effect
The Huffington Post reports:The state of Illinois has faced an especially grim foreclosure picture in the last several years, and the outlook is likely to get bleaker in the first quarter of 2011...

Openly gay diver wins gold, but for some mysterious reason NBC Sports did not feature his parnter in its reporting
From Yahoo News (written by Maggie Hendricks): Diver Matthew Mitcham, the only openly gay male athlete in the Beijing Olympics, won gold in the 10m platform. He beat Chinese favorite Zhou Luxin by 4...

Goldman Forecast: Unemployment to Peak in 2011
James Pethokoukis at Reuters provides excerpts from the most recent Goldman Sachs forecast and writes about the political implications, but the economic implications are also significant...

China Green Agriculture, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
China Green Agriculture, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold
Face Class Action Over Health and Environmental Concerns at Blackwell

Infant Formula From China
FDA Warns it May be Contaminated Melamine

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...