Today: UK PM Cameron with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, head of rebel TNC & former Gaddafi Justice Minister In the first days following the pro-democracy demonstrations and then uprising in Libya,…
Chinese groundwater reserves are in peril and the country must cut domestic food production.Zheng Chunmiao, director of the Water Research Centre at Peking University, said the world's most populous country…
Back in 2007, when the US Fed let the 100-year old Lehman Brothers investment bank go belly up, it was like a blasting cap that blew apart the global economy.…
America's prophet of fiscal doom, Nouriel Roubini, is warning that China now faces a "meaningful probability" of a hard economic landing. Roubini came to prominence by warning of the US…
The jobs report is out and like all of the other economic indicators, it shows that the US economy is going nowhere fast. The whole of this year has been…
At a time when owning a car in China has become the ultimate symbol of success, it’s very encouraging to see systems like Hangzhou’s bike share working so well. The…
"I see, said the blind man to the deaf dog, who wasn't listening anyway" is a phrase that comes to mind reading reports of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's press…
Those of us around in the 1970s will remember the term stagflation - a combination of economic stagnation and inflation that created a conundrum for bourgeois economists: do you move…
With revolution all the rage, so to speak, in the Middle East, pundits have been pondering the prospects of similar passions being sparked elsewhere. Inevitably China, the blossoming superpower on…
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, seems like a dog’s age since I done any boogin’. I been twitterin’ up a storm but I reckon I ain’t been motivated enough to…
A recent Economist article, The dangers of a rising China, leads a 14 page report loosely discussing the dangers posed to the world by China’s eclipsing of the USA’s international…
Separate reports this week in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuericher Zeitung (NZZ) are highlighting the difficult choices Switzerland, and by extension other nations, are facing in the continued onslaught of…
Two Economist articles of recent publication draw attention to the imminent threat that the availability of water, or the lack thereof, poses to social, political and economic stability. A Himalayan…
Not only is Cameco poisoning northern Saskatchewan through its uranium mining practices, but it is also poisoning the minds of children who happen to take in the Much More Munsch…
This week’s Economist magazine’s headlining articles and cover-page, ‘Buying up the world- The coming wave of Chinese takeovers’ highlight the process and nature of foreign takeovers by Chinese firms. The…
The conclusion of the most recent G20 summit in Seoul last Friday, hailed as a success for political reasons by attending politicians, was punctuated with the following agreed upon statement:…
Roll out red carpetsHere come the China boys-- The Payola$ (1979)A report by Robert Fisk (the only Western journalist to ever interview Osama bin Laden) in today's Independent augurs ill…
