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The European Central Bank's promise to do “whatever it takes” to ensure the euro's survival is living on borrowed time From the standpoint of European stability, the...

Eleven countries support financial tax scheme but businesses are worried about impact on growth. A tax on financial transactions in 11 European Union member states will...

Transcripts from the economic crisis show the failings of the Fed; most others, though, were shown up. Critics of the US Federal Reserve are having a field day with...

Easy money may be an illusory – and dangerous – solution to stagnant economics. Stock markets around the world leapt last week. Many commentators said that this was...

A round-up of the international press on Thursday, 29 November. After receiving a parliamentary budget approval, Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho says...

A round-up of what's making the headlines in Europe's newspapers. Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, has called on EU leaders to do more to tackle the eurozone...

As concern about the eurozone's crisis spread around the world, the finance ministers and central bankers of the G7 group of industrialised countries held a conference call...

The selection of Jim Yong Kim gives cause for concern. The selection of the American nominee Jim Yong Kim as president of the World Bank, over Nigeria's finance minister,...

The IMF's economic outlook is bleak, and its ideas for recovery are not universally popular. Next month will mark the fifth anniversary of the start of what became the...

G20 tells eurozone to increase the 'firewall' in order to secure more help from the IMF. Eurozone countries came under pressure to increase the size of their bail-out fund at...

Latin America's financial woes led to a ‘lost decade'. The situation in Europe today looks much worse. Turning-points are easy to identify with hindsight, but not in real...

The EU and the US need a deeper and broader dialogue to improve economic management on both sides of the Atlantic. The 8-9 December summit of EU leaders exposed a portentous...

Even with more money from the EU, the International Monetary Fund will need to look for money from elsewhere if it is to help the eurozone's struggling economies. Christine...

Mario Draghi has made a positive impact as head of the European Central Bank, but it may not be enough to save the eurozone. Mario Draghi has scored two – related –...

Economic models and projections are incapable of capturing the scale of the threat to Europe's and the world's economy. Economic forecasts are sophisticated, computer-...

Republicans are playing with fire in their showdown about the US government's debt ceiling. Leading United States congressmen are determined to provoke a showdown with the...

The structures have been put in place, now comes the tricky task of pushing through huge amounts of financial legislation. It is four years since the waves of the global...

The markets cannot imagine that the Republicans would be able – or even willing – trigger a catastrophe. John Boehner, the speaker of the United States House of...

Civil liberties committee told that requests for data from the US are vague and may not comply with EU rules. MEPs have raised concerns about the way the EU deals with...

The US treasury secretary appears in thrall to the self-serving ideology of big banks. In a recent interview, Timothy Geithner, the US treasury secretary, laid out his view...