NEW YORK (PNN) - February 3, 2012 - The number of people not in the labor force exploded by an unprecedented record 1.2 million. That is not a typo. 1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force in one month!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - February 1, 2012 - Home prices fell for a third straight month in November in nearly all cities tracked by the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home-price index.

FORT WORTH, Texas - February 1, 2012 - NBC 5 has learned that Fort Worth-based American Airlines may cut between 10,000 and 15,000 jobs across the company.

It is estimated that 1,000 of those jobs to be cut will be at the company's maintenance base at Alliance Airport in north Fort Worth.

NEW YORK - February 1, 2012 - Economic woes have forced at least one city agency into a hiring spree - adding more workers to process the demand for food stamps and other assistance.

The Human Resources Administration added more than 100 workers last July and plans to hire another 100 to serve the burgeoning number of New Yorkers applying for food stamps and rent assistance at their offices, according to the Daily News.

LONDON, England - January 29, 2012 - Greece faces “the specter of bankruptcy and all the dire consequences that entails”, the Greek prime minister warned last night.

Lucas Papademos said that unless the country’s international backers agreed to a new bailout, Greece would be unable to pay off its loans and be forced out of the eurozone.

LONDON, England - January 27, 2012 - Fitch just cut the long-term issuer ratings of 5 EU sovereigns: Belgium: AA+ to AA, Spain: AA- to A, Italy: A+ to A-, Cyprus: BBB to BBB-, and Slovenia: AA- to A.

Amerikan taxpayers again ripped off by outlaw thug officials.

January 26, 2012 - Ener1, company that manufactures batteries for electric cars, which received $118.5 million in federal stimulus money, and a visit by Vice President Joe Biden last year - the day after illegitimate President Obama’s State of the Union Address - announced today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.