Is Chinese Economy a Paper Tiger?
Banks in China allow American customers to buy and to hold Chinese yuan. A state-owned Chinese bank in New York has begun to...
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Communists Criticize Southern Sudan Referendum, Despite Its Success
The referendum taking place this week in the Southern Sudan on whether the region should remain part of Sudan or become its own...
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Anti-Christian Violence Continues in Egypt
In the aftermath of a Christmas season filled with anti-Christian violence in Nigeria, Iraq, and Egypt, Christian leaders around the world have called...
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EU Officials Want Larger Bailout Fund
Even as the European Union is bankrupting itself with bailouts, the EU’s top Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Wednesday that the...
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EU Reinstates Travel Ban against Belarusian Dictator
The European Union announced today that they would be reinstating a travel ban against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and 40 of his close...
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Financial World Eyes Portugal
The outlook for the sale today of three- and nine-year bonds by the government of Portugal is still cloudy, but late-breaking news that...
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Pakistani Lawyers Laud Jihadist Assassin
When Governor Salman Taseer was murdered by his own bodyguard, “moderate Muslim” scholars in Pakistan greeted the assassination with cries of adulation. As...
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European Dis-Union
In a November 16, 2010 speech, European Union President Herman Van Rompuy warned that the eurozone economic crisis threatened the very existence of...
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China and India Fight Each Other and Christianity
The civilizations of China and India are two of the oldest in human history. Archeologists have found Bronze Age Indian artifacts from about...
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If You Don’t Pay This Tax, We’ll Shoot Your Dog
German sociologist and political economist Max Weber once defined a state as an institution that “successfully upholds a claim on the monopoly of...
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Communist Laos Opens Stock Market
“Beware, my dear Zilkov. The virus of capitalism is highly infectious. Soon, you'll be lending money out at interest,” commented Dr. Yen Lo,...
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The Ongoing Portuguese Debt Crisis
New year, new crisis. For the beleaguered, once-independent nations of Europe now entangled in the eurozone, the economic drama unfolding in Portugal this...
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Kyrgyzstan Honors Putin
In a gesture of goodwill to Moscow, the government of Kyrgyzstan decided to name a 14,587-foot mountain, located in the Tian-Shan range in...
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Romania to Tax Proceeds of Witchcraft
Everybody curses the taxman, but there is a new category of taxpayers in Romania that just might know how to really do it....
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China’s Gambit for World Dominance
The second half of the 20th century was defined by the military and ideological rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union....
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