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Snowden NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has blasted the Obama administration and announced that he actually had more details to release, even though it turned out that his relations with states who initially backed him appeared increasingly strained. Quite a few Russians leaving the country these days have been looking for... 

Taiwan struggles to relight its fire (29 June)     Times are tough in the  ‘little dragon’ economy.  Stagnant wages are feeding concerns about future growth. Can Taiwan come back? asks Ben Chu It’s an island off the coast of a continental land mass. Wages have been at a standstill for around a decade. The country had... 

(28 June)     In theory, the Fed could continue to print money and buy Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities, or even pure junk, at the current rate of $85 billion a month until the bitter end. But the bitter end would be unpleasant even for those that the Fed represents – and now they’re speaking up publicly. “Savers...