NEW YORK (PNN) - April 17, 2012 - More than 200,000 money-strapped households will use their tax refunds this year to pay for bankruptcy filing and legal fees, says a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

BEIJING, China - April 14, 2012 - China's central bank announced Saturday a slight easing of its controversial currency controls. It says it will allow the country's yuan to rise and fall by a slightly wider margin against the dollar in daily trading.

LONDON, England (PNN) - April 11, 2012 - Global stock and bond markets suffered a rout as traders fled the renewed specter of a euro zone default and fresh evidence of a global Depression.

ROME, Italy - April 10, 2012 - Today is a very bad day for Europe's weakest markets.

Both Italy and Spain are getting taken to the woodshed.

SEATTLE, Washington (PNN) - April 9, 2012 - It’s supposed to be good news - the unemployment rate is falling - but for some long-term jobless residents in Washington, it means they’re about to lose their unemployment benefits.

ATHENS, Greece - April 5, 2012 - Violent protests broke out in Athens last night after an elderly man committed suicide near the country's Parliament building, claiming he was distraught at the prospect of "looking in the garbage to feed myself".

GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio (PNN) - April 4, 2012 - Half a decade into the deepest Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) housing crisis since the 1930s, many Amerikans are hoping the crisis is finally nearing its end. House sales are picking up across most of the country, the plunge in prices is slowing and attempts by lenders to claim back properties from struggling borrowers dropped by more than a third in 2011, hitting a four-year low.