Posts Tagged ‘United States’

China to lead world economy

China is about to overtake the United States as the world’s biggest economy, creating profound changes in the balance of global power. View full post on All Stories

G20 develops ways to monitor each other’s economies

The United States and other major powers will monitor the Indian economy and suggest steps to minimize risks it may pose to global growth under a new surveillance system developed at the World Bank-IMF meetings here this weekend. Shocking? View full post on All Stories

Fixing California may come at a high cost

California carries the largest annual deficit of any state in the United States yet also implements the highest percentage of taxation on its residents. How does a state obtain enormous amounts of revenue and finish the fiscal year with red ink?In… Stephen Michael II March 15, 2011 View full post on All Stories

Faster job growth on the horizon

Anthony Mason spoke with economist Lakshman Achuthan of the Economic Cycle Research Institute on the United States’ unemployment rate and the chances of a faster economic … View full post on All Stories

End of ‘dam theory’ means Japan badly needs paradigm shift

One is that Japan’s official unemployment rate has topped 5 percent for three years in a row. This is still much lower than the United States and much of Europe, where official rates are … View full post on All Stories

The Cost of Personal Borrowing in the United States

The Cost of Personal Borrowing in the United States

U.S. Watches As Ambassador Holbrooke Collapses

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. president’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is struggling in a critical condition at George Washington University hospital after admission on Friday morning. “This morning, doctors completed surgery to repair a tear in his aorta. He is in critical [...]

Vermont senator Bernard Sanders (I) spends 8 hours denouncing tax deal

Matthew Borghese – AHN News Contributor Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Vermont’s Independent Sen. Bernard Sanders spent over eight hours denouncing the new agreement to extend Bush-era tax cuts to millions of Americans. Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sanders spoke out against President Barack Obama’s efforts, saying the deal only increases [...]

International Outrage Follows Arrest of Wikileaks Founder

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent London, United Kingdom (AHN) – International protest is building about the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange this week. Assange is being held in a British jail awaiting extradition to Sweden on rape charges. Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice Department is seeking to extradite him to the United States to [...]

House Votes To Cut Funds For Terror Detainee Transfers Out Of Guantanamo Bay

AHN News Staff Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – In an attempt to prevent President Barack Obama’s plan to bring terror suspects to the United States for trial, the House voted 212-206 on Tuesday to curb the government’s expenses in the fiscal year. The measure targeted funds aimed at transferring inmates from a military holding [...]

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