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Yet amid the shocking developments of the past few months, the dollar has surprisingly gained strength. It has rallied more than 16% against the euro since its trough in early July and made impressive advances against the Australian dollar, South Korea's won and other currencies. There's a fairly...
The credit crisis has had a chilling effect on economies around the world, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects global growth to drop off sharply for the rest of this year and next as a result. The situation is particularly critical in Europe, where national economies were slowing markedly...
I had thought getting a mani-pedi would make me feel awkward and over-privileged. But it wasn’t like that at all. I felt expansive, like a cruise ship or a continent. I was supporting many industries. Filing my nails produced a fine white powder, like the...
There hasn't been any talk of any of that in all the weekend excitement in Europe. And of course it's bad form to ask whether governments across the continent have learned any lessons from their appalling mismanagement of banks in the past. Far easier just to bash those...
If a shock is what is needed to restructure the banking rules in Europe, one may be underway. Economists are warning that the Continent is facing its biggest crisis since the Depression - when Europeans also first mistakenly thought the problem would remain confined to the U.S. One leading German politician...