Iceland's Foreign Minister, Ossur Skarphedinsson, explains how his country managed to pull itself away from the financial abyss in 2008, without forcing the people to bail out the banks or imposing austerity measures.
The culmination of a plot in this long running soap has implications far beyond a mythical Mancunian town, but will the Greeks or anyone else take the hint?
The Greek economy has been struggling in recent times and tonight it made a call for a bail out. It has turned to the European Union and the IMF for emergency loans to rescue the country from its financial crisis.
The Congressional Oversight Panel announced Friday that George Bush's administration overpaid tens of billions of dollars bailing out Wall Street banks last year. That overpayment that came from taxpayers stands at $78 billion.
The bailed out banks are now trying to get droves of foreign workers into the U.S. for high-paying jobs. That's the word from the Associated Press' review of visa applications.
One thing is for sure, there seems to be more ups and downs in the porn industry during hard economic times than for someone staying in a cheap hotel room that’s next to the elevator.
Labor was asked to make concessions in order for Republicans to pass the auto bail out bill. In the meantime General Motors captains had already taken enough loot off the ship that when it sinks they’ll have enough lifeboats to be safe
It is 12 pm, ET, December 11, 2008. The announcement has just been made that the Senate has voted and rejected a bail out of the Big Three auto makers, something Harry Reid, top Democrat in the Senate considers will cause a serious negative reaction.
The Democrats' dangerous disregard to free markets and the natural economic system in America are in danger of fundamentally changing our country forever.
The current crisis will no doubt shake the foundations of every garden variety of banking as we know it. Ordinary folks are angry at the largesse of top banking executives. The Civic Banking model may come out as a clear winner .
Turn on the television, the radio. Scour the Internet. Google the term “financial crisis” and you are bound to hear frantic tales of the eminent Wall Street collapse.
When America went to bed last evening, the vast majority more than likely lost sleep or frankly just didn't care about the rescue or highway robbery issue. I watched guard and was pleased that the measure failed. First, please review the following.
"I said the government has to enact reform to prevent the kind of crisis we have, and there was a role for government, and I supported a bipartisan solution."
