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Kemal Derviş Kemal Derviş, former Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey and former Administrator for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), is a vice president of the Brookings Institution. OCT 20, 2016 Project Syndicate WASHINGTON, DC –...

Lots to cover, including the latest bizarre twists at Fukushima after the jump/ Our first story, in which the third point precisely refutes the claim made just before, comes from the Department of Ironic Self Refutation via the London Daily Mail: Home...

A United States of Europe has been the dream of many political greats of the post-World War ii period. Men and women throughout the centuries have desired lasting peace on the European Continent plagued by wars. Popes, emperors and kings have tried to...

12 November 2016 — Saturday YESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUM The gold price traded a few dollars either side of unchanged through all of Far East and most of London trading on their Friday — and that lasted until `da boyz` showed up...

Toussaint Kluiters/United Photos/Reuters Netherlands’ Geert Wilders and France’s Marine Le Pen. As Europe heads into a saturated election year, markets are trying to identify the “next Brexit” or the “next Donald Trump.” Analysts have zeroed in on...