The economy did not just have a heart attack; we are suffering from financial appendicitis. Instead of doing the necessary surgery, Congress is prescribing potent addictive painkillers.
We have been on a roller coaster when it comes to how we now sleep and what a ride we have been on.
The global economic decline has hit Central America hard. Unemployment has increased, remittances from emigrants have declined and governments face ri...
We must stop subsidizing speculators with cheap funding and tax breaks. We have to hold people accountable for malfeasance, break up large financial institutions, and allow them to fail.
The global finance industry, with companies and top talent that could locate anywhere in the world, is heavily concentrated in New York, with benefits that reverberate across the country.
Recently, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, penned an article bemoaning the greed of bankers and hatred of politicians. Indeed, it has been a wid...
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.
