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The global economy should grow soundly this year and next, although the persistence of a credit crunch that has unnerved financial markets worldwide could throw a wrench in the works.
Clusters of migrant workers mount the train's crowded carriages, leaving their families and filing across the border to work at jobs more plentiful and lucrative than at home.
The U.S. economy has been battered by a bigger-than-expected slump in housing but will keep growing next year as consumers get relief from soaring energy costs.
Today, Sen. John Kerry [D-Mass.] praised passage of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for 2008 [H.R. 3093], with full funding provided for the Census Bureau's Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons [SBO].
Migrants are more reliable and harder working than British-born workers and are boosting economic output by £6 billion a year, according to a government study published yesterday.
REMEMBER the Republican presidential debate a few months ago, when three candidates raised their hands to indicate they didn't believe in evolution? Something just as laughable is likely to happen today, at the first Republican debate on the economy.
The training of Palestinian security services personnel, including the Fatah terrorists, has been proceeding for several years.
North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il has welcomed South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun to Pyongyang for a historic summit.
The dollar fell to a record low against the euro as investors increased bets the Federal Reserve will reduce its target interest rate, narrowing the yield advantage of the U.S. over Europe.
As progress continues to be made in every aspect of the Iraqi conflict – militarily, socially and politically – the debate among the ideologically entrenched here in the United States rages on.
The entire month of August, during daylight hours as I sat in our home study trying to write and after dark as I sat on our porch trying to relax, there was (and continues to be) the sound of gunfire. The shooting is weapons familiarization and marksmanship practice.
Crude oil rose from an eight-week low in New York on signs disruption from Hurricane Dean and summer driving demand will reduce U.S. fuel supplies.
When one can walk down the streets of any major US city and see illegal invaders marching under a Mexican flag with signs written in Spanish that attack, insult and incite sovereign American citizens who simply want secure organized legal immigration for their country, people wit …
Just when you thought the disingenuous blathering of the elected class, which typically affords the American people a huge helping of inaction and poor governance, was as bad as it could get, something comes along that makes their political opportunism seem almost acceptable.
The Ninth Ordinary Summit of the African Union is in the history books following its conclusion in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. But some Africans are still feeling betrayed over the leaders' failure to form a United States of Africa.
"The Canadians and the Americans are only interested in really big finds," said a veteran Western oil production engineer who works under contract here for the China National Petroleum Company, the C.N.P.C. "Anything else they think is not worth their time.
Too often those who opine on political matters make the mistake of directing their criticism – or accolades – toward a generalized group when in fact the comments are meant for a more specific faction commingled within that group.
Based on a poll of 700 executives from more than 60 countries around the world, the report tries to guage their views and expectations of China's global impact to 2020.
The recently released Benchmark Assessment Report mandated by the US Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 (HR2206/PL110-28) states that the common goal for both the US and Iraqi governments is a democratic Iraq that …
The recent release of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) asserting that al-Qaeda has regrouped in Pakistan has resulted in a significant amount of debate about the Global War on Terror and the efforts the United States is undertaking in its prosecution of that war.
An old economist joke goes like this. A person is walking along and says to an economist, look, there is a $20 bill on the sidewalk.
If you needed anymore proof that Democrat leaders in Congress are playing politics with the war against Islamofascism all you had to do was listen to a recent Capitol Hill press conference where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was fielding questions.
Following rather than leading Britain and Europe, America is indeed well on its way to losing the international war on terrorism.
These days, those who seem to come equipped with Teflon are the world's Islamics. What's so mystifying about this is that they share none of Reagan's finer qualities.
A child watching educational television is a way of life in over 120 countries. Today children throughout the world learn valuable life lessons on how to get along with and treat people in addition to the alphabet and basic math.
Conventional wisdom is that whatever happens between Israel and radical Islam will also be the fate of Western nations, especially the United States.
A friend of mine said recently, "We shouldn't even be there. Let them kill each other. I mean, that would solve the problem. Right?" I thought about that statement as I read the news coming out of the Gaza Strip.
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