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22 February 2011. With the arrest earlier this month of Andimuthu Raja, former telecommunications minister in India's current Congress-led coalition government, the deeper problems afflicting its unusual combination of a dynamic economy with a weak and corrupt political system have...

17 February 2011. As regular readers know, Economy Watch has been extremely concerned with the destructive power of derivatives -- and their STILL yet-to-be-fully-felt impact on the world political economy -- 17 February 2011. As regular readers know, Economy Watch...

  14 February 2011. Every spring, in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, an endless sheet of yellow grass, two million wildebeest, zebras, gazelles and other grazers march north in search of greener pastures, with lions and hyenas stalking them and...

10 February 2011. A decade ago China urged its companies to expand overseas under the slogan “go out”. Now it is finally happening -- and with great speed. A few years ago two executives of an international oil company were...

  8 February 2011. Central Asia is one of the eternal hot spots in world history, a place where Darius I and Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane left their marks. The British and Russian colonial powers followed suit...

  7 Feb 2011. As the issue of "dignity" becomes more pronounced in the struggle now under way in Egypt, consider this story about a town that exists simultaneously off the coast of Senegal and the agricultural heartland of southern...

3 February 2011. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com Of the many topics significantly under-analyzed by the so-called / self-styled / allegedly investigatory Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, among the MOST significant omissions was the role of the credit...

2 February 2011. Even as developed countries close, or limit construction of, coal-fired power plants out of concern over pollution and climate-warming emissions, coal has found a rapidly expanding market elsewhere: Asia, particularly China. At ports in Canada, Australia, Indonesia,...

1 February 2011. Last month, we ran a disturbing Feature on the darker side of the for-profit micro-finance sector in India. 1 February 2011. Last month, we ran a disturbing Feature on the darker side of the for-profit micro-finance sector...

31 January 2011. In booming South America, oil-rich Venezuela is the exception: the continent's only shrinking economy in 2010. Officials are rationing hard currency. Government takeovers of private businesses are increasing. One prominent financial analyst recently had just two words...

24 January 2011. Everyone knows what a disaster the foreclosure "process" has been in the US, with banks throwing people out of homes to which they have clearer legal title than the banks. Unfortunately, the situation isn't much better in...

Just before Christmas, we ran a long analysis of China's complex housing situation, noting that,  despite a literal over-abundance of housing in general, and luxury dwellings in particular, residential real estate prices are continuing to rise , even though there...

11 January 2011. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. Ever since the regime of Ronald Reagan, American political discourse has been in steep decline. His allegedly "sunny" disposition aside, Reagan was a master of rhetorical invective and radical...

US economy fundamentals deal with different factors that regulate the performance of country’s economy. Creation of a knowledge-based economy has been one of the major points for the federal government of the United States. The fundamentals of US economy put...

There are several US investment options open to investors over there. US investment options are highly rewarding from a financial point of view. There are two broad types of investment options that are available in the USA – ones issued...