No matter what standard one might use to measure the extent of the current financial crisis, all the results confirm what the average consumer has known for a long time -- we are in hard times and they are getting more difficult. An article in The Economist insists that "the integration of the ...

Editor's note: This article will appear in Wired magazine's April issue, on sale March 24, 2009. It is being published online now because the subject of the story, Leonardo Notarbartolo, was released from prison in Belgium this week. Leonardo Notarbartolo strolls into the prison visiting room traili...

Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...

COMMENT  Adam Smith's market never stood alone By Amartya Sen Published: March 10 2009 20:15 | Last updated: March 10 2009 20:15   Exactly 90 years ago, in March 1919, faced with another economic crisis, Vladimir Lenin discussed the dire straits of contemporary capitalism. He was, however,...

By Sean Hyman, Currency Analyst www.worldcurrencywatch.com Let me go on record right now as saying a trailing stop is one of the most MISUSED orders out there in Forex. At first glance, it appears that if you put in an order and a stop with a trailing stop, then it seems like you’re guaranteed to ...

Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. This month we identify the nexus of the current economic problems and propose a solution to fix them. We discuss why we think our proposal would work, why some policy makers probably alread...

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Are you reading thousand-word stories about how Citigroup managed to propel the stock market upwards on Tuesday? Bear in mind this: Citigroup rose the grand total of 40 cents per share -- which means that its contribution to the 379-point rise in the Dow was a whopping 3 points. And at $1.45 a share...

Somalia’s governing council has voted to institute Islamic law (sharia). There are also stories tonight about the effects of Islamic law in Afghanistan and Algeria. Despite the protests of Islam’s apologists, the Muslim world is becoming more radical, not less. Thanks to Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni,...

Breakingviews.com On 10 Mar 2009, at 11:54, Paul Wood wrote: Great article - who wrote it? On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:08 PM, joe cook  <joe.cook@cook-comm.com  wrote: Crisis and no curtain for eastern Europe "We should not allow a new iron curtain to be set up and divide Europe in two par...