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"Thaksin loves football," said FAT president Worawi Makudi in July. "He loves his country and he has offered to help us with anything." But today, Worawi, who once sat on Manchester City's board of directors, will not say who is bankrolling the best-paid man in Thai football. The...
This idea always comes up and never goes anywhere. That's partly because of our general loathing of taxes and suspicion of Washington and partly because the idea tends to come up when energy prices are rising and people find it hard to believe that it would be good if...
Shinseki's new assignment is likely to be tougher than running the U.S. Army. The role of the VA is to deal with the post-post-invasion costs of war, including health care, education and disability benefits for the 24 million American military members who have served their nation. The...
A few years ago, as the financial storms that would come to define his tenure were gathering off center stage, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson viewed the economic relationship between the U.S. and China as his biggest challenge - and his biggest opportunity. He would sit down twice a year with his...
That, at least, is the nightmare version from the American perspective. But China's ability to make or break the U.S. economy is more of a "monster under our bed," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Beijing University, something that people spend too much time worrying about. Economists like...