On September 12, 2012, a psychological threshold was reached in the E.U. on the way toward “ever closer union.” That is to say, at the end ...

                                      Catalons rally in favor of secession from the state of Spain.      Globalpost.com A crowd estimat...

If human beings have survival among our inalienable rights as citizens for whom both rights and duties apply, then we as a society must g...

In September 2012, the European Central Bank unveiled the Outright Monetary Transactions program in which the central bank would purchase b...

The debt of the U.S. Government—some $16 trillion in 2012—can be difficult even to grasp conceptually. One does not run into a trillion of ...

With Facebook’s stock trading at $17.73 a share just after Labor Day 2012, down more than half from the IPO issue-price of $38, further dow...

In early September 2012, Reuters reported that Bulgaria had “abandoned plans to adopt the single currency in response to deteriorating econ...

The American economy expanded during the second quarter of 2012 at an annualized rate of 1.7 percent. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate fo...

Facing an unemployment rate of 10% in his state, with youth particularly hard-hit (23% for those under the age of 25), Francois Hollande ...

In the days leading up to Labor Day 2012, Citigroup announced that the bank would pay $590 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by...

Those who laud the efficiency of the market mechanism are particularly wont to point to the slow mechanizations of government machinery. ...

A few years after the financial crisis of 2008, Sanford Weill, the man behind the $70 billion merger of Travelers and Citigroup in 1...

Mired in corruption, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea reflected on the matter on television in July 2012. “The more I think a...

With advertising accounting for more than 85 percent of its revenue, Facebook has faced great pressure in the wake of its lackluste...

According to the Congressional Research Service, the share of total net worth held by the less affluent half of American household...