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Though the plot is the same 10 years later, a different actor is playing the lead. In 1997, Asian countries sent ripples through the global financial system, beginning with Thailand's devaluation of the baht after a collapse of the nation's real estate bubble. In 2007, it is the...
The downside to the second plan: Seizing northern Gaza would mean destroying hundreds of Palestinian houses and displacing thousands of families. It could also raise an international outcry that Israel was imposing a collective punishment on Gazans for having backed Hamas in last January's free elections. It is almost...
First, there's the civil war. For nearly half a century, the Burmese army battled an array of communist and ethnic-minority rebellions, growing bigger and tougher in the process and seizing power along the way. About 15 years ago, the government and most of the rebel groups agreed to...
Complicating matters is Thailand's perennial wild card: the military. Shortly after seizing power, coup leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin reiterated that he had no interest in remaining in politics after elections were held. Earlier this summer, however, a junta aide hinted that perhaps Sonthi might throw his hat in the...
This might spur central bankers to lower interest rates in an attempt to maintain the integrity of sound lenders and borrowers and stop the markets from seizing up. Whether this saves the day or is seen as just a symptom of more bad news to come for risky assets will...