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SEC Charges Oil Company and CEO in Scheme Targeting Chinese-Americans and EB-5 Investors
July 7th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Bay Area oil and gas company and its CEO with running a $68 million Ponzi-like scheme and affinity fraud that targeted the Chinese-American community in California and investors in Asia, including ...
Greece debt crisis: Greek voters reject bailout offer
July 6th, 2015
Greek voters have decisively rejected the terms of an international bailout. The final result in the referendum, published by the interior ministry, was 61.3% “No”, against 38.7% who voted “Yes”. Greece‘s governing Syriza party had campaigned for a “No”, ...
There’s a simple solution to Greece’s problems, but Europe won’t try it
July 2nd, 2015
An interview by Ezra Klein Adam Posen is president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and, like every international economist right now, he’s glued to the drama in Greece. There is, he says, a simple solution to the ...
10 things they’re not telling you about the Greek crisis
July 2nd, 2015
People from different countries, economists, politicians, professors are speaking about the Greek crisis and what is right and what is wrong about it. Everybody express their opinion and everybody seems to be right. Why this is happening and who ...
Greece crisis: Eurozone rules out talks until after referendum
July 2nd, 2015
Eurozone finance ministers have ruled out any further talks on a fresh bailout for Greece until the country holds its referendum on Sunday. Greeks will be asked to accept or reject proposals made by creditors last week, with Prime Minister Alexis ...
Will A Deal Leave Greece in Ruins?
June 25th, 2015
Any deal Greece strikes with its creditors may be a big step in Greece’s long delayed post-crisis recovery. But the direction it takes still won’t be clear. Will the road look like Spain’s, or Italy’s? It makes a big ...
Does The IMF Actually Want To Cause A Greek Debt Default?
June 24th, 2015
When it comes to geopolitics, there are often wheels working within wheels that are working within wheels. Once in a while we get a peek behind the scenes, but for the most part the machinations of the global elite ...
Hopes for Greece bailout deal rise sharply as Athens gives ground
June 23rd, 2015
Creditors view new Greek proposals on pensions and VAT as the most positive move yet in five months of wrangling Hopes of a deal that would spare Greece from a looming debt default and possible exit from the single ...
Greece crisis: Emergency summit called for Monday
June 19th, 2015
An emergency summit of leaders from eurozone nations will be held on Monday, after the latest attempt to resolve the Greek debt crisis failed. A meeting of finance ministers on Thursday made no breakthrough. Head of the Eurogroup, Jeroen ...
IMF Report Looks At Tax And Wealth Distribution
June 18th, 2015
High-income households and corporations now face lower effective rates in some advanced economies, and this has contributed to an increase in net income inequality, according to a new International Monetary Fund report, entitled Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A ...
