Debt Crisis

Shinzo Abe
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Japan’s National Debt Problem Visualized

Addogram provides us with a visual representation of an otherwise complicated concept – government accumulation of sovereign debt obligations. How has Japan, once one of the world’s top, booming economies, drifted into malaise and stagnation? A combination of low interest rates and deficit government spending has led to a situation in which the Japanese central […]

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Wall Street: The Intersection of Money and Power in the American Empire, Part 2

Watch Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Part II of the PBS special documentary about money, power and politics in the United States. Politics, money, and power are three concepts typically associated together, particularly with regard to the American political system. Often cited by critics as one of […]

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Wall Street: The Intersection of Money and Power in the American Empire, Part 1

Watch Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Politics, money, and power are three concepts typically associated together, particularly with regard to the American political system. Often cited by critics as one of the main democratic deficiencies of the American political system, the convenient marriage of money and power […]

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Greek Rage at the Polls Results in Seats in the Parliament for Nationalist, Neo-Nazi Party the Golden Dawn

The start of voting in an early general election in Greece has not gone well for proponents of the European idea: After two years of austerity and financial crisis, the Greek public is turning away from the traditional conservative New Democracy party and the socialist Pasok, the two poles of Greek political life for decades. […]

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Euro Bonds Are Rejected by Germany as a Solution to the Euro Zone Financial Crisis.

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeated her nation’s rejection of a common euro bond market as a solution to the financial crisis gripping the euro zone following a failed bond auction on the part of Germany to raise money for the joint effort to save the common market currency. The German focus has remained on […]

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