Economy - Signs in the News

In fiscal crises in a number of countries around the world, investors have lost confidence in governments’ abilities to manage their budgets, and those governments have lost their ability to borrow

Hu Xiaolian, deputy governor at the Chinese central bank, has released a paper which suggests it's soon time for China to peg the yuan to a basket of foreign currencies, rather than the U.S.

The state will begin unloading grain from its stockpiles August 4 to help relief efforts in drought-stricken regions, Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik said Wednesday, ending two years of stockpili

Following Rahm Emanuel's advice, the Obama administration is certainly not letting the Gulf oil crisis go to waste.

Many people today don’t even realize it because anyone alive today has always lived under an artificial, non-free market financial system.

There can be little doubt that America, along with the west as a whole, is being set up for a total collapse in which life as we know it will be fundamentally altered and rebuilt around a collectivist

The grand hopes of a decade ago that the euro, a common currency of the E.U., would lead to a golden age of economic globalism has been dashed on the rocks of political reality.

BERLIN (AP) -- How much stress can Europe's banking system take?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Big changes are in store for the financial world from a government crackdown more than a year in the making.

After strong criticism of the U.S. dollar in recent weeks from world leaders, the United Nations added more pressure with yet another scathing report calling for a new international reserve currency issued by the International Monetary Fund.