Only Europe's currency union faces uncertainty about its future; America faces no existential crisis for its currency.
More than 50 years ago (1957), the Soviets launched the world's first orbiting satellite, beating the US into space.
The United States continues to be riven by heated debate about the causes of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Is government to blame for what went wrong, and, if so, in what sense?
The worst of the financial/economic crisis seems to be over. Asset markets performed reasonably well in 2010. Growth in the United States and parts of Europe returned.
On the eastern edge of Kolkata, Dulu Bibi, a 25-year-old mother of four, worries about the cost of treating her two sick boys.
Last year, the leaders of all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council visited India, accompanied by delegations of business leaders.
Suppose that the world's leading policymakers were to meet again in Bretton Woods, New Hamp-shire, to design a new global economic order.
The European Union's sovereign-debt crisis constitutes a fundamental threat not only to the euro, but also to democracy and public accountability.
Where are global currencies headed in 2011? After three years of huge, crisis-driven exchange-rate swings, it is useful to take stock both of currency values and of the exchange-rate system as a whole.
As Swedish prosecutors’ sex-crime allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange play out in the international media, one convention of the coverage merits serious scrutiny.
Measured by the percentage of people living in its cities, China's urbanization rate currently stands at about 48%.
The key feature of the agreement is to continue the existing 2010 income-tax rates for another two years with no commitment about what will happen to tax rates after that.
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