Having just finished our “Featured Analysis” of the SEC’s civil – not criminal – indictment of Goldman Sachs for its “double dealing” in the US housing market,
Having just finished our “Featured Analysis” of the SEC’s civil – not criminal – indictment of Goldman Sachs for its “double dealing” in the US housing market,
The past weekend was definitely not a good time to be a Kenyan flower grower, an Israeli avocado farmer, a package tour operator or anyone else trying to run a business that depends on air transport to or from Europe.
The past weekend was definitely not a good time to be a Kenyan flower grower, an Israeli avocado farmer, a package tour operator or anyone else trying to run a business that depends on air transport to or from Europe.
Drawn by the prospect of hefty profits from even the smallest of loans, a raft of banks and financial institutions now dominate the micro-finance field, with some charging interest rates of 100 percent or more.
“We created microcredit to fight the loan sharks; we didn’t create microcredit to encourage new loan sharks,” Muhammad Yunus,
In Jordan’s Qualified Industrial Zones, companies that use a percentage of Israeli inputs can export duty-free to the United States.
The QIZs, as they are known, have become the strongest engine for Jordan’s economic growth.
To modernize after its crisis, the U.S. financial industry needs help from IT outsourcers in India more than ever, according to sources in the Indian IT industry.
It’s understandable that many in the U.S. are angry that workers lose jobs to offshore programmers.
Despite the federal government’s repeated pledges to crack down on big businesses that underpay their taxes,
the Internal Revenue Service has decreased in recent years the time it spends auditing the returns of the nation’s largest corporations, according to a new study.
How appropriate that we have received on the weekend after the SEC’s civil – not criminal – indictment of Goldman Sachs for its “double dealing” in the US housing market [br]
How appropriate that we have received on the weekend after the SEC’s civil – not criminal – indictment of Goldman Sachs for its “double dealing” in the US housing market [br]
This month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner became the latest of President Barack Obama’s cabinet members to make a quick trip to India.
The trip could have served as an effective precursor to Obama’s planned visit to India’s capital this summer.
This month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner became the latest of President Barack Obama’s cabinet members to make a quick trip to India.
Denmark now regards garbage as a clean alternative fuel rather than a smelly, unsightly problem, using incinerators, known as waste-to-energy plants to make the transition.
Denmark now has 29 such plants, serving 98 municipalities in a country of 5.5 million people, and 10 more are planned or under construction.
Suicide has become something of a phenomenon in India, especially in the south, which now has one of the highest suicide rates in the world — a fact that has both puzzled and alarmed public health experts.
Suicides by indebted farmers are frequently reported in the news media and pointed to as a sign that India has forgotten its rural poor.
