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Brazil's problem is that on top of the worsening external conditions, the government piled a series of policy decisions that weakened the economy.
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It is now clear that the European authorities do not intend to let the Greek economy recover any time in the foreseeable future.
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“Vote as we’ll tell you to, or we can make your lives even more miserable than we have been making them,” European authorities seem to be telling the Greeks.
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The unprecedented public debate about trade deal contrasts with the one-sided fight over NAFTA.
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The president's approach to Venezuela may indicate how serious he is about detente with Cuba
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The most common tale is that this is a game of brinkmanship, with the Germans and their allies pushing for “reforms” that the Syriza government in Greece doesn’t want to adopt. Most of…
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The last Summit of the Americas, in Cartagena, Colombia in 2012, was a disaster for President Obama. There were scandals involving Secret Service agents and sex workers, an increasing…
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Yesterday the White House took a new step toward the theater of the absurd by “declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national…
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In just two months since it was created, the leftist party pushing for an end to austerity in debt-troubled Spain has won 8% of the vote in Europe’s parliamentary elections.
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On Monday, Feb. 16, European officials "handed Athens an ultimatum: Agree by Friday to continue with a bailout program or risk the funding that the country needs to avoid a default,"…
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