With the recent anarchy in the global economic system and Macroeconomics textbooks being reedited worldwide, many experts in the field have gone silent or have admitted their inability to predict the latest collapse and inability to give a definitive answer to the problem. In the midst of this chaos, the traditional debate of American foreign […]
With the victory of Mr. Obama in the US Presidential elections a wave of celebration washed over the world media as praise for Obama took place, and in many cases rightly so. He is not only the first African-American President elect in US history, but more so a change from eight years of the Bush […]
This Blog has also been posted in FPA's Latin America Blog. Japan has always maintained a certain level of intrigue for foreigners, especially since the end of the Second World War due to its history, culture, economic progress and people. While Japan stands out as one of the most influential nations of the 20th Century, […]
As expected by migrant advocates, the rightist government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has wasted little time in cracking down on illegal migrants in the country's South and throughout industrial centers. In this video, Financial Times correspondent Guy Dinmore takes a look at growing tensions in Milan.
This Blog has also been posted in FPA's Latin America Blog. There are a few realities that have hit the world this past year and this past month, to which most of the world has been affected by to some degree. Luckily enough, the issues which affect most Americans have made the greatest impact in […]
In the last two weeks while markets tumbled, the amount of information about common issues such as poverty, the food crisis and even the economies of otherwise notable countries have also dwindled as American candidates preach of change and the rest of the world deals with economic aftershock. While Europe and the US slowly absorb […]
This Blog has also been posted in FPA's Latin America Blog. Since the election of the PAN in Mexico and Vicente Fox, there has been a slow movement towards Free Trade economics, policies in cooperation with the US and a cooling of relations with Cuba. In the late 1970s and early 1980s it was quite […]
This blog has also been posted in the FPA Latin America Blog. CNN made a great acquisition taking on policy expert Fareed Zakaria and giving him his own show, Fareed Zakaria GPS which allows for a diverse perspective and a balanced international approach to a network which is often known for its Washington point of […]
Today's Wall Street Journal is running an insightful piece on a relatively new development in US immigration policy: return migration. Faced with fewer economic opportunities, in part through tightening regulations and the overall economic slide, illegal immigrants are returning home. This, in turn, has a significant effect on the economies in their countries, who have […]
In 2001 the head of the Inter-American Development Bank spent much of his time fighting speculation that one of Latin America's giants, Argentina, had enough national reserves to maintain a 1:1 ratio between the Peso and the US Dollar and maintain confidence for investors that they would have their investments returned with acceptable risk. Five […]
This week Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez was lucky enough to avoid an assassination plot against him. Two unknown men were found in the State of Zulia on the border with Colombia with a number of grenades and an anti-tank weapons system that officials say was going to be used to bring down Chavez's plane in […]
Many in America do not realize that 89,000 of their neighbours living in their towns and cities were born in Iraq or have parents from that country. With so many US troops going to Iraq and serving in the conflict there, the immigrant communities living in the US have had surprisingly very little media attention. […]
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