Prudent homeowners recovering from pest or water damage remove all compromised material before they rebuild. Similarly, surgeons prepare wounds for s...
This financial crisis is not about some sophisticated failure of free enterprise and capitalism. Rather, it's an example fear-based, shortcut laden leadership by the banks and Wall Street.
Perhaps the most inaccurate and inept economic forecast of all time was delivered relatively recently by Ben Bernanke who n October '05 said, "There's no housing bubble to go bust"
By Tito Drago, Director of Inter Press Service Spain (IPS). Tito Drago (right) with Spanish judge | (derecha) con el juez español Baltasar Garz...
That earthquake you felt wasn't caused by the massive shifting of the earth's crust, but by something equally impressive: David Brooks agreeing with M...
The most reliable way to expand tax revenues would be to impose a modest fee on every stock, every bond -- in short, every financial transaction.
A world expert on economics delivered a cogent and optimistic analysis of the meltdown, its causes, its cure and its effect on the future at the recent Global Business Forum in Banff, Alberta.
Find out how Sarah Beatty, a determined new green business woman, has earned Green Depot's moniker as America's leading one-stop shop for building solutions.
The poorest countries, hardest hit by the economic crisis, are in a hurry to see their economies rebound and thus renew their peoples' hopes for prosperity.
The film is essentially the same rant against stupid behavior we've heard for years, dressed up in an elaborate, well-intended package.
Irrational exuberance? We think not. Market participants responding rationally to a range of short term economic incentives are the root causes of the crisis.
The Middle Kingdom has taken its place among the world's most important economies, and China is jittery.
How should Japan maintain its political and economic independence and protect its national interest when caught between the U.S., which is fighting to retain its position as the world's dominant power, and China, which is seeking ways to become dominant?
The centrality of the U.S. consumer to the overall global economy has meant his pulling back on a debt induced shopping spree, which has sparked a worldwide synchronized recession.
The world's third largest economy is sending worrying signals to those whose best hopes for an end to the Global Economic Crisis reside with China.
Fundamental problems are not being resolved, but rather papered over: the excess debt of low quality, excess speculation in the financial markets and mushrooming debt and deficits.
One market devotee explained, "It's a way to give value to things. To leave money aside, even if just one day a year, and to encourage more the exchange."
The prospect of a Wall Street career can't be that unappealing, notwithstanding the funny looks you may receive from your cousins at the next family reunion.
It is increased production and decreased consumption that we need. We need to boost savings and pay down our debt.
Any doubts as to whether Iceland's elite has declared war on its people were dispelled this weekend.
The warning is crystal clear. Before the onset of the current financial and economic crisis, the U.S. had structural deficits measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
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