Now, who’d take advantage of Libya?
LONDON | Cheering the crude end that military dictator Muammar Gaddafi met on Wednesday, Libyans in the British capital gathered late in the evening outside the Libyan Embassy…
World economy
9-9-9 and karaoke
Meet a Republican candidate to the US presidency who dared to sing this at the Omaha press club in 1991: “Imagine there’s no pizza / I couldn’t if I tried / Eating only tacos / Or Kentucky Fried / Imagine only burgers / It’s frightening and sad…”
Occupy LSE Sunday Quotes’ Fest
We've selected some comments from public remarks published on social websites by demonstrators and observers of this weekend's globalised protests against the financial state of…
The war on taxes
“I don’t mean to get all class-warfare on you… But unless we find a way to spread the burden upward and cut the middle class some slack, it isn’t Greece we will soon be resembling”, writes Ellis Henican for Fox News, “it’s those old Caribbean islands Jimmy likes to sing about. Where a few super-rich families own just about everything. Where the vast majority of others have hardly anything at all.”
A futile Fed twist
IMF sharply reduces US growth forecasts
From Bankia, a Wednesday alert on global economic developments: the International Monetary Fund warns that the global economy is entering yet another new dangerous phase:…
The Fed's twist in the words of JP Morgan
JP Morgan expects that US Federal Reserve will announce that it is to auction between $300bn and $400bn in Treasuries with one to three years…
The Fed’s twist in the words of JP Morgan
JP Morgan expects that US Federal Reserve will announce that it is to auction between $300bn and $400bn in Treasuries with one to three years…
Foreign investors buy 50mn hectares of African land in six years
OECD figures put EMU’s unemployment at 10%, US’s at 9%
Link analyst note | “The unemployment rate among the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) remained stable in July compared…