In These Times Grupo Santander, the global banking giant, last year took control of Sovereign Bank. The largest bank in the Euro-zone, where it is based, Santander is the world’s…

…euro zone and the US. In spite of the modest changes to the US-Swiss tax convention, we can expect difficulty in acquiring information from Swiss banks that should be turned…

Rebecca Wilder Poland: the bull of eastern and central Europe. While most of central and eastern Europe are either defending exchange rate pegs – this limits the ability to stimulate…

…year. The dollar extended declines today after Treasuries and American stocks slumped on concern the U.S. government’s debt rating may at some point be lowered. Bill Gross, the co-chief investment…

…Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit,…

…obviously we all knew that average SAT scores of African Americans are lower than those of Euro-Americans so the SAT was presumably biased against African Americans (I mean if interpreted…

…jobs than all the countries in the Euro zone and Japan combined, and our economy is growing today faster than that of any major industrialized nation in the world. It…

…zero, unemployment over 8 percent, and the national debt at 108.5 percent of GDP in 2005, Italians are scared. The manufacturing industries that were the engine of Italy’s boom in…

…“E.U. Three.” … Ah, success. Instead of being years away from the point of no return for an Iranian bomb, as we were before we allowed Europe to divert anti-proliferation…

Kash detailed the latest good news on U.S. real GDP growth. Eurostat provides a link entitled “Euro-zone and EU25 GDP up by 0.6%” (approximately 2.5% per annum) for the third…