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Opinion: A hard landing for Cyprus
In dramatic fashion, Cyprus' bankruptcy was averted. Both banks and investors will have paid heavily for it. But so, too, has the EU, says DW's Bernd Riegert - and it might be paying for quite some time to come.
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Stocks Fall Globally as Cyprus Deal Dissected
Investors dumped stocks around the globe as a euro-zone official stoked investors' fears that painful measures to secure a bailout in tiny Cyprus could be repeated in larger European countries.
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Is China Transforming Africa?
And, if so, is this transformation for the better? Part of an ongoing series of discussions with ChinaFile.
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Foreign Tourist Arrivals Down 25% in India due to recent rape incidents
Foreign tourist inflows into India have registered a 25-percent drop in the last three months of the year in the wake of rape incidents reported in the country, according to a survey by the Assocham Social Development Foundation (ASDF).
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How to Fix the Economy: Print Money and Mail Checks
America has grown desperate for smart ideas to revive a flagging economy. Sunday night in the Financial Times I read one of the most desperate: an op-ed by UCLA economist Roger Farmer arguing that the Federal Reserve should deliberately re-inflate a new asset price bubble to goose the economy.
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Bank of Japan to pump $1.4 trillion into economy in unprecedented stimulus
The Bank of Japan unleashed the world's most intense burst of monetary stimulus on Thursday, promising to inject about $1.4 trillion into the economy in less than two years.
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China's Export Boom That Wasn't
A close reading of the numbers suggests accounting tricks have played a significant role in China's economic data.
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Abenomics Takes Off: Can Japan Un-Doom Itself?
15 years later, Japan is finally taking Ben Bernanke's advice.
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Why Bitcoin scares banks and governments
Bitcoin offers an alternative to the conventional, state-sanctioned banking system. Maybe that's why powerful institutions are so wary of it.
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South v North Korea: how do the two countries compare?
How big is North Korea's army compared to South Korea? What is the size of the economy, or the average life expectancy? This is the key data to see how each country contrasts.
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Why Japan is the most interesting story in global economics right now
Japan has suddenly become a testing ground for how to solve the problems that ail all the leading advanced economies. Here's what to watch for.
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Why a patent suit won't be the end of Bitcoin
Bitcoin, the world’s most popular virtual currency, is also its most hyped. The value of one Bitcoin has climbed from just over $20 two months ago to around $185 a day, and press coverage of Bitcoin has increased right along with it.
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Bitcoin explained in video
A short video looking at 'Bitcoin', a decentralized digital currency.
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Bitcoin Is Crashing
After soaring past $250 earlier, it's tumbled all the way down to current levels around $135.
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Bitcoin crashes, losing nearly half of its value in six hours...
On Wednesday afternoon, the Bitcoin bubble appears to have burst. As of this writing, its current value is around $160—down from a high of $260. (It fell as low as $130 today.) There is no obvious explanation for why the digital currency has fallen so far and so fast, although the market correcting after such a huge rise might be a good explanation. (Update 4:05pm CT: Bitcoin seems to have somewhat recovered and appears to be hovering around $200. Update 6:00pm CT: The exchange rate has fallen..
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Meet the Bitcoin Millionaires
Early adopters of the virtual currency are suddenly rich.
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Bitcoin Was the 'Victim of Its Own Success,' Not DDOS Attack
Bitcoin, the world's most popular virtual currency, yesterday took a huge nosedive -- from its all-time-high of $265 to as low as $105 -- but the reason is not a DDOS as some have speculated.
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Bitcoin Is a Ponzi Scheme: The Internet Currency Will Collapse
Bitcoin is a fantasy. The Internet’s currency—a secure, private, decentralized type of money that makes possible anonymous and virtually costless transactions across borders—contains the seeds of its own destruction.
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The Entire Economy Is a Ponzi Scheme
Ponzinomics Bill Gross, Nouriel Roubini, Laurence Kotlikoff, Steve Keen, Michel Chossudovsky, the Wall Street Journal and many others say that our entire economy is a Ponzi scheme.
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It's Time to End the U.S. Embargo of Cuba
The U.S. government has been tireless in pursuing a policy that does not look better with time.
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