Inequality not driven by economic laws, but by politics & policies
(27 Jun) - An insidious trend has developed over this past third of a century. A country that experienced shared growth after World War II began to tear apart, so much so that when the Great Recession hit in late 2007, one could no longer ignore the fissures that had come to define the American economic landscape. How did this...
Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices faces effective ban in China
(27 June 2014) Publisher says Chinese firms have turned down translation rights and major importer refuses to distribute English copies. Hillary Clinton's bestselling memoir Hard Choices has in effect been banned in China less than a month after its release, the publisher Simon & Schuster has said. The book,...
BIS warns of dangerous new asset bubbles forming in world
(29 Jun) - An organization representing the world’s main central banks warned on Sunday that dangerous new asset bubbles were forming even before the global economy has finished recovering from the last round of financial excess. Investors, desperate to earn returns when official interest rates are at or near record lows,...
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- $112,000 on Myanmar 7.7 earthquake collapses buildings in Thailand, tremors shake China and India
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