Author : David Caploe

  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...

  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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

27 January 2011. President Obama made a big deal of the economic potential for solar and other clean energy sources in his State of the Union speech this week,...

26 January 2011. Last spring, an executive from a Chinese telecommunications equipment company made an intriguing job offer to a Silicon Valley software engineer. The Chinese company, Huawei Technologies,...

25 January 2011. Mumbai's Ambani family -- founders of Reliance, India's largest and most powerful company -- has long been known for its "larger than life" story / ambitions...

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...