Gordon Brown insists Afghan campaign was 'prosecuted out of necessity' to protect UK and world from terrorism
Poverty, geography and poor infrastructure mean that India faces perhaps the world’s heaviest disease burden, ranging from infectious diseases, the traditional scourge of the poor, to diseases of affluence such as diabetes and hypertension. The public[...]
TIM GEITHNER has not had an easy time of it, but he is probably too busy to dwell on his tribulations. Three days after unveiling a plan to cleanse banks of their troubled loans and securities, America’s treasury secretary was back in front of a congressional[...]
IT IS an ill wind that blows no one any good. For many in China even the buffeting by the gale that has hit the global economy has a bracing message. The rise of China over the past three decades has been astonishing. But it has lacked the one feature[...]
SURELY a drama this dark deserved a more explosive finale. A previous wave of financial fraud produced many an entertaining courtroom battle, featuring the likes of Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling and Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski. But Bernard Madoff has robbed[...]
AMERICA, Britain and China are among the many countries that have adopted spend-now-pay-later policies to stave off economic disaster. But giant fiscal stimuluses, tax cuts and bail-outs are weighing heavily on public finances. In a paper prepared for[...]
AMERICA'S government has bailed out over 20 ailing companies since the demise of Lehman Brothers in September. And once, it seems, is often not enough. On Monday March 2nd AIG received a handout of $30 billion, the insurer's fourth so far. For brave investors[...]
The IMF is sharply increasing its lending capacity. It expects that more countries may need its help
FOR a man whose bumper stickers promised “Hope not Fear”, Barack Obama knows how to scare people. “If we don’t act immediately,” he told the citizens of Elkhart, Indiana on February 9th, “our nation will sink into a crisis that, at some point,[...]
Politicians from all sides rounded on the state-supported Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday as the row intensified over the failed bank's apparent determination to share £1bn of bonuses among staff.
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