José Manuel Barroso was a student revolutionary while growing up in Portugal. His other middle name – Durão – even means hard. That he is now 53 and the centre...
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The G20 summit meeting in London from April 1st onward was loudly announced and publicized. Those 20 industrialized and emergent countries (G20) are meeting to...
Since the revolution in 1959 Cuba has been many things to many people, but the collapse of the Soviet Union meant few have seen the island state as a vision of...
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent the dollar tumbling with comments about China’s ideas for overhauling the global monetary system, only to drive it...
A penniless asylum seeker in London was vilified across two pages of the Daily Mail. No surprises there, perhaps – except that the villain in question...
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The president of the European Union on Wednesday slammed U.S. plans to spend its way out of recession as “a road to hell...
The global financial crisis could lead to social unrest and even war, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned yesterday. Dominique Strauss-Kahn said...
Federal Reserve policies making the problem worse, leading to super inflation around the corner Associate Director of Tyche Martin Hennecke warned in a CNBC...