Topic: Politics

Posters lining Pyongyang's streets are promoting the Workers' Party convention - North Korea's biggest political meeting in 30 years - as a ...
John Boehner could walk down most American streets without turning a head.. . But the perpetually tanned, chain-smoking Ohioan might be the next ...
Happy Labor Day! You're probably thinking about picnics or sales, rather than about Joe Hill, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, strikes...

"Destitute Index"

In response to Reflections on the "Recovery" reader "Thomas" has an interesting question regarding U6 unemployment that I would like to...

Paul Krugman: 1938 in 2010

In a deep recession, the usual rules don't apply : 1938 in 2010, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: Here's the situation: The U.S. economy has...
The latest Monday morning initiative from Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O'Keeffe TD, is a €1.4m pilot management training...

China orders action to cool food prices

China has ordered local leaders to cool a surge in politically sensitive food prices by raising vegetable production amid rising tensions in poor...

Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan

Russia's Gazprom on Friday clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to expand its control over gas former Soviet republics.....

Oil platform explodes in Gulf of Mexico

The opening scene was all too familiar. Black smoke rising from a burning oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and workers plucked from the sea. But...
A relatively wide disparity between wages that women and men in Germany earn could be due to the fact that women expect less pay than their male ...