The world economy is deteriorating more quickly than leading economists predicted only weeks ago, with Britain yesterday becoming the latest nation to...
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
Our only hope now is a peaceful transition from a corrupt plutocracy to the responsible liberal democracy we had fooled ourselves into believing we already had.
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
The extensive protests that shook Iceland Tuesday have continued into Wednesday and are beginning to have an effect on one of the two political parties making up Iceland's coalition government.
AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 01.25.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI urged a world confronting a financial crisis, conflict, and increasing poverty not to lose hope at Christmas, b...
Business Sheet | Kamelia Angelova | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business
In the past decade, while you were trying to survive the dotcom collapse and $4 gas, commodity-owning Russia was getting rich (well, some Russians, an...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — World leaders battling a dire and deepening economic crisis vowed Saturday to cooperate more closely, keep a sharper eye out for re...
Alan Patricof | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business
After Obama's win, in Kenya, unlike when I last visited, there no heavy debates, but constructive dialogue about America resuming the role of leading the world.
Kim Mance | Posted 12.11.2008 | Living
Travel activates parts of ourselves that might otherwise remain dormant; it also relieves fears, and promotes understanding.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business
Perhaps the silver lining in this financial crisis is that we will start focusing on the human part of how we will build a more sustainable future.
Reuters | Burton Frierson and Christian Plumb | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business
The U.S. economy contracted in the third quarter as the financial crisis raged, while Japan and Germany said they would spend billions of dollars to p...
AP | PAN PYLAS | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business
LONDON — World stock markets were stronger Thursday led by sharp rallies in Asia and Latin America after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would ...
Billy Kimball | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
It appeals to my vanity to believe, as Maureen Dowd and Sarah Palin do, that we are living in the End of Days; but the facts suggest that the American Century may very well give way to the American Millennium.
AP | JEREMIAH MARQUEZ | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business
HONG KONG — Asian stock markets extended a global rally Wednesday after an overnight surge on Wall Street as investors awaited possible interest...
Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
The level of anger nearly always rises in the closing weeks of a national election. Elections are hard fought. But this year, the financial crisis is adding a whole new level.
AP | CARLO PIOVANO | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business
LONDON — World stocks took another beating Monday, although some markets showed resilience by bouncing off session lows, as global economic gloo...
Jessica Catto | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
What we need is a new attitude toward world wealth and what constitutes it. Not an easy task. The world is intermeshed as never before.
AP | CARLO PIOVANO | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business
LONDON — World stock markets tumbled Friday on growing alarm that a global recession will ravage corporate profits and push smaller developing e...
AP | KRISTEN GELINEAU | Posted 11.23.2008 | Business
SYDNEY, Australia — Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. reported a 21 percent decline in annual profit Thursday as soaring charges for ba...
AFP | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business
SAO PAULO (AFP) - Trading on Brazil's stockmarket, the biggest in Latin America, was automatically suspended Wednesday when the main Bovespa index plu...
Johann Hari | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green
To get out of the credit crunch, we need a big package of job creation and economic stimulus. To get out of the climate crunch, we need an army of millions of new workers -- and billions in public spending.
Wall Street Journal | John D. McKinnon | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON -- A planned international summit on the financial crisis is turning into a debate over the future shape of capitalism, with European leade...
AP | ELLEN SIMON | Posted 11.16.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — A stock market as difficult to fathom as it is volatile pulled off another stunning U-turn on Thursday, transforming a 380-point loss...
AP | JEREMIAH MARQUEZ | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business
HONG KONG — Asian stocks plummeted Thursday, with Tokyo's market plunging more than 10 percent, after another dive on Wall Street as worse-than-...
The Huffington Post | Nour Akkad | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business
A week, two weeks, three -- it's hard to even think about how many consecutive weeks of bad, terrible and even horrifying news have come across the bu...
Reuters | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland looked for help from new partners on Monday to dig it out of a crisis that has overwhelmed its once-flourishing financia...
Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 02.24.2009 | Business