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Republican campaign manager unmasked as source of fake Sandy tweets

The campaign manager for a New York Republican congressional candidate has been named as the man behind a series of fake tweets, one of which was picked up in the media, as Hurricane Sandy made its way through New York City Monday night. Buzzfeed reported Tuesday that Shashank Tripathi, a…

Obama: ‘This is not class warfare; it’s math’

President Barack Obama Monday introduced his plan to trim the deficit, including a “Buffett rule” — named after billionaire Warren Buffett — which would ensure that people making over $1 million a year would pay a tax rate as high as the people that work for them. “Middle class families…

Soros says European treasury needed to avoid Depression

(Reuters) – Billionaire investor George Soros has warned Europe’s debt crisis risks triggering another Great Depression unless euro zone leaders adopt a series of radical policy measures, including the creation of a common treasury. Soros, in an article for the New York Review of Books and Reuters.com, says policymakers must…