Part 2, continuing to explain the derivative marketplace and its impact on society.

In what is likely to become a recurring theme for the Obama campaign, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday ridiculed Mitt Romney’s assertion that he deserves some credit for the auto industry’s recovery.

TED is a conference community that disseminates "ideas worth spreading". There’s one idea, though, that TED’s organizers recently decided was too controversial to spread: the notion that widening income inequality is a bad thing for America, and that as a result, the rich should pay more in taxes.

Bloomberg studied the past 50 years of U.S. job creation, under Democratic and Republican presidents. The facts: For the near half-century following the Kennedy administration, Democrats created nearly twice as many private-sector jobs as Republicans.

Earmarks were supposed to be banished by Republicans in Congress. Why then is John Boehner and Mitch McConnell pushing for one?

We hear or read about them every day. But however much we do read about them, they still seem daunting as ever, don’t they?

While politicians, insiders and experts may be divided over how much the government should spend on the nation’s defense, there’s a surprising consensus among the public about what should be done: They want to cut spending far more deeply than either the Obama administration or the Republicans.

The survey guidelines, questions and detailed results to the polling of 665 random Americans, done by 3 nonprofit companies, questioned in a new and innovative format on their positions in regards to what to do with our military budget: raise it, keep it the same, or cut it? Survey says...

Taxation without representation and the idea of less than 2% of working class in congress.Out of control GOP,trying to limit poor and minority votes.No representation.How to fix this problem.Why we fought the revolution in the first place.

It’s a common thing for a presidential candidate to pontificate about an issue of the day. It’s quite another for one to take credit for something he had no discernible role in.

Follow the money.Based on stats from sopatrack.tracks voting records based solely on cash.Has two fairly radical ideas on taking money completely out of races.And one on how force the Super PAC's to contribute to society.

Gov. Jack Markell will join former GE chief executive Jack Welch tomorrow as a closing speaker at the Wall Street Journal’s Women in the Economy conference in Palm Beach, Fla. The speaking role will give Markell, a voice on a topic that has recently been amplified by the presidential campaign.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to again look at former Illinois Gov. George Ryan's bid to overturn his corruption convictions, offering the imprisoned Republican a chance, however slim, at a new trial.

Romney's aide says the auto bailout was all Romney's idea, even after Romney said that the U.S. should "let Detroit go bankrupt."

Based on article 4/23/12 in USA Today,examining re-pub super pac's and their unashamed selling of congress.Goes into detail of the secertive nature of Re-pub PAC's and their "hidden" agenda.Trashes the whole idea of unlimited "donors" giving in a way the public cannot access,or check in any way.

Barbara Mikulski talks about her plan to create jobs and make advances in the medical and biotechnology industries.

The Koch Brothers are the plutocrats from central casting – oil-and-gas billionaires ready to buy any congressman, fund any lie, fight any law, bust any union, despoil any landscape, or shirk any (tax) burden to push their free-market religion and pump up their profits.

Fox News may be the next News Corp affiliate to be implemented in the Rupert Murdoch hacking scandal.

A split is opening up between two forces that helped to launch the Tea Party in 2009. FreedomWorks, a free market/limited government advocacy group, released a statement criticizing the move by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch to sue for majority control of the Cato Institute.

In this time, too many Rhode Islanders are feeling squeezed. To make matters worse, they're hearing about people making over $1 million a year who are actually paying a lower total federal tax rate than they are. Americans deserve a straight deal, but when it comes to taxes, they're not getting one.