The US Treasury has hit back against a Standard and Poor's downgrade of its AAA credit rating, saying there was a $2 trillion dollar error in the agency's calculations.
If the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear didn't convince you that Comedy Central's Jon Stewart has made the leap from comedian to political force, perhaps this will.
Selling off the public's transportation infrastructure to pay off government debt has no "ideological opposition" in London today, if a recently published report is to be believed.