Global Tectonic Shifts
This is without doubt the worst financial crisis in over eight decades. There is a growing disquiet on the issues of fairness and justice of open markets economies.
This is without doubt the worst financial crisis in over eight decades. There is a growing disquiet on the issues of fairness and justice of open markets economies.
Noam Chomsky | Posted 05.08.2012
The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead -- because victory won't come quickly -- it could prove a significant moment in American history.
AP | ANNA ANDERSEN | Posted 04.23.2012
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — The leader of Iceland's government when the nation's banking system collapsed was convicted Monday of one criminal charge, ...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.08.2012
The global economy may still be in dire straights, but if demand for rental office space is any signal, things could be looking up. The global mark...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.05.2012
Regardless of the number of mom and pops around the world, a small number of retailers continue to dominate the industry as a whole. Of the top 25...
Efraim Chalamish | Posted 04.01.2012
The new regimes in the Middle East, driven by old and new strong Islamist political parties, face an unprecedented challenge. They need to bring years of economic regression to an end.
AP | By NIKO PRICE | Posted 01.25.2012
DAVOS, Switzerland -- When the developed world sneezes, the old saying goes, Latin America catches a cold. But now, after decades of austerity and ref...
Posted 12.05.2011
China's services sector cooled in November to its weakest growth in three months, an HSBC purchasing managers' index showed on Monday, the latest ...
Posted 11.14.2011
None of the world's major economies will escape a slowdown, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Monday, highlightin...
Larry MacDonald | Posted 12.07.2011
If you want to know when the recession will be over and things back to normal, just look at the dates and overlay the 11.1 year cycle, and you will be pretty close to prognosticating the recovery.
Posted 11.30.2011
Policymakers have lost control of the economic crisis and financial markets are forcing the world into a depression, George Soros said on Friday, ...
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 11.13.2011
If we as Americans accept the idea that the only hope for our future rests with the rich and the multinationals, and that we must abandon the fundamental principle of equality of opportunity, then perhaps we need to take another look at the American Dream.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.09.2011
Even though Obama's jobs plan is "bolder and better" than Paul Krugman expected, the Nobel-Prize winning economist still told Bloomberg Television on ...
Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 11.08.2011
everyone other than President Barack Obama realizes that further fiscal stimulus is out of the question. The real policy choice is how aggressively to rein in the deficit. And even that decision is more likely to be made by foreign creditors.
AP | PAMELA SAMPSON | Posted 11.04.2011
BANGKOK — Asian stock markets took a beating Monday after U.S. job creation ground to a halt in August, reviving fears of a recession in the wor...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 10.26.2011
Michael Spence, professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, told Bloomberg Televisi...
AP | COLLEEN BARRY | Posted 10.19.2011
MILAN — Global stocks fell again Friday as fears of a possible U.S. recession combined with ongoing worries over Europe's debt crisis, which is ...
AP | By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 10.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- Discouraging economic data from around the globe have heightened fears that another recession is on the way. Fresh evidence emerged Thu...
Paul Heroux | Posted 10.05.2011
Downgrading us could prove to be a credit rating agency disaster as it has with other countries that have been downgraded.
Posted 09.17.2011
The world economy should expand steadily this year and next thanks mainly to prospering emerging powers, a Reuters poll showed, but fiscal trouble...
The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011
Yet another group of analysts have issued a grim warnings about the recent run-up in oil prices. In a letter to clients, analysts at Bank of Americ...
The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011
Norwegians have the privilege of enjoying the most democratic government on the planet, a new report has found. Now in its third edition, the Econom...
Robert A. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011
Many say that the Obama administration should have focused on jobs earlier to prevent what happened on November 2nd. But, for two reasons, "focus on jobs" would have almost certainly failed to produce more jobs.
nytimes.com | Floyd Norris | Posted 05.25.2011
The Great Recession in America more than earned that title. But by international standards, it was not that bad. The recession caused a greater decli...
Edward Muzio | Posted 11.17.2011
Has the recession benefited companies at the expense of individuals? It may seem that way. But even in the most difficult circumstances, sometimes everybody wins, at least a little.
Scheherazade Rehman | Posted 05.09.2012