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Soaring grain prices threaten to add new troubles to a global economy already in trouble
Soaring grain prices threaten to add new troubles to a global economy already in trouble
Easy money and central-bank intervention are not the answers to the stumbling global recovery
Even in Asia, where gains in wealth have been unparalleled, policymakers are finding it harder and harder to improve the welfare of the common man.
What Beijing needs to spur growth is not greater spending or easy money, but fundamental reform
As oil prices sink, so do the prospects for the Russian economy.
Beijing looks to its reformist past to launch an important experiment aimed at expanding the country’s role in global finance
Rising debt and lower growth threaten to derail Egypt’s revolution as much as grasping generals do. President Morsy’s political fate may depend on whether or not he can turn around a staggering Egyptian economy
Despite all the attention focused on Greece’s latest election, the results won’t alter the course of Europe’s widening debt crisis
Spain’s banks received a pledge for a huge rescue package from the European Union over the weekend. But some experts believe the bailout may end up causing more pain for the Spanish government in the long run
Since the start of Europe’s debt crisis in 2009, there has been a steady drumbeat of predictions that the euro is doomed. The problems were too intractable, the debts too large, the political will too feeble. So far, the …