There is hardly a minority interest that isn't celebrated in a museum; everything from teapots to Elvis Presley gets the curatorial treatment. There are galleries devoted to immigrants, to slavery, to prison life, to suffragists. In Southport there ...

Nervous voters might be forgiven today for wondering whether they're on the same page with a leader who sees great buying opportunities in the carnage that is the current stock market ... Read the full article s like from Canada writes: The problem ...

I think that businesses run badly go bust, but governments run badly simply charge more tax. However, banks seem to have made the switch form the former to the latter. Furthermore, the two options for running "our" new banks are not good: 1) The ...

The City, for so long seen as the acme of Britain's bucaneering free enterprise island spirit, looks set to be part-nationalised or, if you prefer, to become a public/private partnership. Thus will end the City of London's mesmerising hold on the ...

ABOUT half of the revenue pubs and clubs make from poker machines is derived from problem gamblers, a Senate inquiry has heard. The Senate's community affairs committee is considering two Family First Bills to cut the rate of problem gambling in ...

I took it as a measure of how deeply the credit crunch has afflicted the psyche of our people when, a few days ago, my 12-year-old son emailed me from school to ask me whether I could tell him how it had happened. As I enlightened him about the ...

In the 1930s, the US Congress did more than its fair share in helping to turn a financial crisis into a global depression. Yesterday it looked as though it was auditioning to assume that role again. Back then, Congress’s vote for protectionist ...

Central banks around the world unveiled a plan to pump massive amounts of cash into the global banking system in a concerted effort to boost market confidence and inject liquidity into the global markets. The move followed a fall in the Dow Jones of ...

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