Oil prices fell below $76 a barrel Friday in Asia, dampened by evidence of weak demand after government figures showed the United States continues to use less energy than last year.

Embracing Depression-era policy and populist politics, a combative President Barack Obama chastised big Wall Street banks Thursday and urgently called for limits on their size and investments to stave off a new economic meltdown.

Asian stock markets tumbled on Friday as commodity prices fell and the dollar weakened after U.S. President Barack Obama proposed tough new restrictions on banks, curbing investors’ appetite for riskier assets.

TAINAN, Taiwan—-The 2010 Annual Conference of Cultural Studies Association of Taiwan was held by the Cultural Studies Association of Taiwan and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of National Cheng Kung University in the International Conference Hall and the departmental building of Accountancy from January 9th to 10th.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid met on Thursday to talk about ways to strengthen the economy, spur more lending by banks and curb home foreclosures.

Mortgage rates dip below 5%

Don Blankenship and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the coal baron and the conservationist, are certain they could win over the world if only the public could see mountaintop removal mining through their eyes.