Economy - Signs in the News

Economic terrorism is becoming the preferred tactic of radical Islamic thinkers and terror organizations, an 11-year study of public Islamist discourse has found.

The world’s most powerful investors have been advised to buy farmland, stock up on gold and prepare for a “dirty war” by Marc Faber, the notoriously bearish market pundit, who predicted the 1987 stock market crash.

Are you ready for the Great Recession of 2011–2012? You should be, for it is getting under way even as you read this.

The European single currency is facing an 'inevitable break-up' a leading French bank claimed yesterday.

More prosperous American shoppers seem to be defying continuing high unemployment levels and economic uncertainty to renew their spending on luxuries such as jewelery, fashion and cosmetics.

Fears of another crisis spiral for the world economy deepened Friday after the Portuguese parliament defeated a government austerity plan, triggering renewed concern that the financial crisis in that

Don't look now. But even as the bank bailout is winding down, another huge bailout is starting, this time for the Social Security system.

Gold is now "the ultimate bubble", billionaire investor George Soros has declared, sparking fears that prices for the precious metal may soon suffer a tumble.

It's one of those numbers that's so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while ...

The second banking bailout isn't getting the attention it deserves because Democrats don't want to talk about the disaster at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.