The rise of digital money, where the wealth sits in charged ions along the strip of a bank card, has not meant the demise of the counterfeit bill.
According to one expert on counterfeits, through the late 1990s, Treasury Department officials estimated that about $20,000 in phony bills was passed in New York City each week.
For quite a while now, we’ve argued one of the main problems confronting the US and global economy as a whole, as well as several of its major players, like China and India,
For quite a while now, we’ve argued one of the main problems confronting the US and global economy as a whole, as well as several of its major players, like China and India,
The Federal Reserve transferred $47.4 billion, a record sum, to the Treasury Department last year, a result of the central bank’s actions to support the fragile housing market.
The transfer to the public coffers rose roughly 50 percent, or $15.7 billion, from $31.7 billion transferred in 2008,
For years, India and other developing countries, particularly China, have imported different categories of waste from developed countries as a lucrative, if controversial, business.
Critics have blamed the importing of discarded computer equipment, known as toxic e-waste, for long-term chronic health problems among workers in scrapyards, as well as environmental damage.
Well, things are definitely moving along in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and clearly devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,
Well, things are definitely moving along in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and clearly devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,
The Chinese military is seeking to project naval power well beyond the Chinese coast,
from the oil ports of the Middle East to the shipping lanes of the Pacific, where the United States Navy has long reigned as the dominant force, military officials and analysts say.
29 April 2010 By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com.
29 April 2010 By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com.
With pathetically uninformed questions from Senators – & equally opaque, evasive answers from the perpetrators – Tuesday’s “Goldman Sachs Day” in the Senate was a pretty big bust,
the reasons for which will be the subject of a Featured Analysis in coming days.
The Greeks are mainly responsible for their current predicament.
But the German government has made the country’s situation worse with its lectures and reluctance to provide assistance.
The Greeks are mainly responsible for their current predicament.
