Analysis: Deal building to pump up IMF to handle Europe fallout bi2280159 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deal building to boost the International Monetary Fund's resources even as the world presses euro-zone leaders to put more of own firepower on the line to defeat a debt crisis that threatens global growth. Mexico, assumes on Thursday the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 nations, said on Wednesday would make increasing IMF resources a priority. IMF ..

ANALYSIS | Neil Macdonald: 'Liar loans' and American justice bi2280159 There a pattern emerging to the prosecution of those responsible for the financial meltdown four years ago, Neil Macdonald writes: The small fry go to jail the really big boys and girls hide behind corporate anonymity, pay fines and admit no wrongdoing

Africa Analysis: Assessing Angola's science ambition bi2280159 Angola has the money, connections and political to be a force African science. But tackle inequality, asks Linda Nordling

Analysis: Are Americans really shopping they drop? bi2280159 (Reuters) - One glance at the numbers for the first big weekend of holiday shopping and you might think Americans are flush cash and spending freely. A survey from the National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, indicates that Americans said they spent $7.4 billion more from Thursday's Thanksgiving through Sunday year, compared the same period 2010. The news drove ..

Analysis: Deficit flop turns spotlight on tax reform bi2280159 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the economy to prosper, major tax reform emerging as a vital ingredient toward lowering the budget deficit and increasing America's competitiveness. Yet the acrimonious collapse last week of talks Congress to start fixing the budget deficit has left the country at a political standstill and limits the prospects for a tax overhaul. President Barack Obama and ..

ANALYSIS: GAME's trading update bi2280159 Last week The Telegraph ran the headline ?Can GAME Group survive?? It was a sensational headline, not entirely based on the facts of the situation, and as GAME Group CEO Ian Shepherd says: ?It very easy to look at any retailer on the High Street and write an apocalyptic headline.? But The Telegraph didn?t pluck downbeat outlook from thin air. GAME Group did issue a profit warning and ..

Sector analysis: BTS preview bi2280159 A new kind of schooling Preparing to go back to school after the long summer holiday not what used to be. As a small example, August one school Maine, US, planning to spend $200,000 on iPad 2s for 300 kindergarten pupils. Similarly, ..

Poll: 4 10 to spend less on gifts year bi2280159 Just 9 percent of Americans plan to spend more on gifts year compared to last year, CBS News poll finds..

New analysis of government data shows that military spending a weak job en bi2280159 Given the recent focus on the federal defense budget, Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier, of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have revisited assessment of the employment-creation potential of military spending. As the previous editions of study, they find unequivocally that government spending on the military a far weaker ..

Analysis: Deal building to pump up IMF to handle Europe fallout bi2280159 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deal building to boost the International Monetary Fund's resources even as the world presses euro-zone leaders to put more of own firepower on the line to defeat a debt crisis that threatens global growth. Mexico, assumes on Thursday the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 nations, said on Wednesday would make increasing IMF resources a priority. IMF ..

ANALYSIS | Neil Macdonald: 'Liar loans' and American justice bi2280159 There a pattern emerging to the prosecution of those responsible for the financial meltdown four years ago, Neil Macdonald writes: The small fry go to jail the really big boys and girls hide behind corporate anonymity, pay fines and admit no wrongdoing

Africa Analysis: Assessing Angola's science ambition bi2280159 Angola has the money, connections and political to be a force African science. But tackle inequality, asks Linda Nordling

Analysis: Are Americans really shopping they drop? bi2280159 (Reuters) - One glance at the numbers for the first big weekend of holiday shopping and you might think Americans are flush cash and spending freely. A survey from the National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, indicates that Americans said they spent $7.4 billion more from Thursday's Thanksgiving through Sunday year, compared the same period 2010. The news drove ..

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