What to Look For in This Week?s Global Markets
This week investors should focus on the performance of European sovereign debt markets.
Verizon Strike: Health Care At Core of Conflict
The corporation seeks to dramatically reduce health care benefits for its wire line employees ? the workers are demanding they be retained.
Verizon Strike 2011: FBI Probing Acts of Alleged Sabotage by Workers
Reportedly, incidents of wire-cutting by aggrieved strikers have interfered with the phone services of thousands of customers between Virginia and Massachusetts.
London Riots 2011: Historian Says ?Whites Have Become Black?
A prominent British historian has sparked outrage by blaming the ongoing riots in England on black Afro-Caribbean culture.
Verizon Strike 2011: Unions Demonstrate Outside CEO?s Home
Many of the people demonstrating near Ivan Seidenberg?s home carried placards and held candles.
Sarah Palin ?Surprised? by Rick Perry?s Decision to Run for President
Palin is in Iowa, the site of as Republican presidential straw poll, with her ?One Nation? bus tour.
Excerpts of Rick Perry?s Presidential Announcement Speech
Here are some excerpts from a speech by Republican Texas governor Rick Perry in which he announced his intention to run for President in 2012.
Rick Perry launches presidential bid
Rick Perry, the conservative governor of Texas, declared himself a candidate for president on Saturday, shaking up the race for the Republican nomination to face Democratic President Barack Obama in 2012.
The Berlin Wall: David Bowie?s Greatest Muse
What better place for someone like Bowie to reside in?
Pesticides Damaging Australia?s Great Barrier Reef: Govt. Study
Pesticides of toxic concentrations have been detected 38 miles inside the reef.
Verizon Strike 2011: Union and Company Sniping At Each Other
?We?ve been willing to talk and willing to move forward,? said union spokeswoman Candice Johnson.
London Riots 2011: Lessons From France 2005
Issues of racism, police brutality and the failure of integrating immigrants into the broader mainstream society played key roles in both conflagrations.
Why Is Boeing?s Stock Struggling to Lift Off?
After rising steadily from the market-bottom of March 2009 to April 2010, Boeing stock has basically been flat.
Automation, Technological Innovation Will Create Jobs Long-Term
Automation will ultimately stimulate the economy and create jobs in the long-term.
Verizon Strike 2011: It?s All About Health Care
?At its core, the strike is about free health care, especially for retirees -- who actually outnumber the active workers.?
Will Joseph Biden Be Replaced on the 2012 Democratic Ticket?
Obama desperately needs to re-energize his flagging re-election hopes.
London Riots 2011: Could Such Disturbances Happen in the U.S.?
The current conflagration has the potential to escalate into the worst civil disorder in living memory,
Rick Perry Should Choose Nikki Haley As Running Mate
The governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, is not only a rising star in the GOP, but an absolutely ideal Vice-President nominee.
Recent Budget Crisis Creating Economic Anxiety
How do we keep our own stability and help build this economy instead of tear it down?
Should Barack Obama Dump Joe Biden in 2012?
What can Obama do to reinvigorate his 2012 campaign?
London Riots 2011: Labour Party Leader Blames Disturbances on Selfish Society
Miliband links the rioting and looting to other lapses in morality, including the banking crisis and the recent scandal involving MP?s fraudulent expenses.
Shaquille O?Neal Would Like to Fight Ron Artest
Artest is the only active player Shaq mentioned, suggesting the NBA may have become soft.
Boeing Looks to the Stars With Atlas, While Stock Price Languishes
Since mid-May 2011, Boeing shares have plunged from just under $80 to about $57, about a 29 percent decline.
London Riots 2011: David Cameron Seeks Advice from Former Los Angeles Police Chief
Bratton was credited with reducing crime in Los Angeles following the devastating riots of April 1992.
OPINION: The Next Economic Crisis Will Be Much Worse Than 2008
There is one thing that the doomsayers have gotten wrong: They aren?t nearly worried enough.
South Africa Plans Universal Health Care, Amidst Health Crisis
The ruling African National Congress estimated that the initial costs to establish the health care program at 128 billion rand ($18 billion).
London Riots 2011: Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood'
Much of the violence has occurred in inner-city neighborhoods populated by the descendants of immigrants from the former British Empire
London Riots 2011: Arrests Raise Jail Population to Record High
After hundreds of arrests this week, England and Wales now have 85,324 prison inmates, fewer than 2,000 below capacity.
London Riots 2011: Elderly Ealing Man Becomes 5th Murder Victim
He suffered head injuries in a brutal attack on Monday evening and was left in a coma.
London Riots 2011: The Revenge of Enoch Powell?
Most Britons under 30 have probably never heard of Powell, or perhaps he was someone their parents and grandparents have mentioned.