Crisis-led suicide epidemic: Greek mother & son jump to death

(RT)   A 60-year-old Greek musician and his 91-year-old mother jumped to their deaths from their 5th floor apartment, driven to despair by financial woes. This double death is the latest in a rising epidemic of crisis-induced suicides in Greece. Witness accounts vary – some say the mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, jumped first, screaming a [...]

CEO pay raises jump a median of 27% in 2010, report finds

ShareThis CEO pay raises jump a median of 27% in 2010, report finds 15 Dec 2011 American CEOs raked in fat paychecks last year, as head honchos netted a median 27% increase in compensation in fiscal year 2010. Top executives from the S&P 500 scored a median 36.5% bump in realized compensation after two years [...]

Big Jump in Jobless Claims, Inflation Rise, Manufacturing Gets Weaker

By: CNBC.com Applications for unemployment benefits continued to rise in the past week, while inflation pushed higher and a key manufacturing index weakened. The weekly jobless claims number, which is closely watched as an indicator for employment trends, unexpectedly rose 11,000 to 428,000, well ahead of estimates of 411,000. The consumer price index, meanwhile, gained [...]