Chinese speculators have seen Bitcoin values plunge, soar and plunge again within days, but say the virtual currency's extreme volatility is a profit opportunity despite the white-knuckle ride. China is…
The government has said time and again that it is resorting to privatisation in order to reduce the burden on the national exchequer as these state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are running…
General Motors Co's decision to pull the plug on Chevrolet in Europe is one of several calculated moves the US automaker appears to be making around the world that analysts…
Turkey faces an economic tight-rope walk in 2014, analysts warn, at risk from global turbulence and under pressure from the markets to cut consumption in a highly-charged election year. The…
Since the financial crisis struck Europe, Germany's steadfast economy has been the object of envy across the continent. Now even Britain, whose former chancellor Gordon Brown once boasted he had…
In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. ~ Wikipedia. Since time immemorial, at…
The energetic reforms of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's first year back in office have yielded results, but put him at odds with the public over some key issues, critics…
As the great defenders of state sovereignty continue their TV-friendly holy crusades against foreign domination, the voices that seek to expose the actual working of global structures of domination become…
A number of worrying developments are playing out on the economic front. The government has sounded the retreat on documentation of the economy, and announced amnesty schemes to attract ‘black’…
Pakistan did not enter a world of globalised capital flows on the heels of an economic crisis. India had its balance of payments crisis in 1991, Bolivia and Poland were…
