Category: World

Lifestyle

Currencies and Protectionism

Currencies and Protectionism There is no question, if the Trump Administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs lead to carefully-targeted tit-for-tat retaliations against American products around the

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Lifestyle

Cause for Alarm?

    Cause for Alarm?   Quietly, without a lot of fanfare, the U.S. national debt moved past $20 trillion last September 8.  On March

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Lifestyle

Global Optimism

Global Optimism Most people tend to be optimistic about the future, and 2018 is apparently no exception.  An online survey conducted by the Ipsos organization

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World

Negotiating NAFTA

You probably know that representatives from Canada, Mexico and the U.S. are meeting at this moment to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)—and,

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News

Statehood or Bust?

You’ve probably read about the troubled finances of Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory in the Caribbean that has issued more than $70 billion in municipal

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Nature

The Earliest Humans

Archeologists have long traveled under the assumption that what we call the human race—the African hominids known to science as “homo sapiens”—evolved roughly 200,000 years

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World

Economic Progress

It’s not uncommon to hear people wish that we could return to the “good old days,” when the world seemed more prosperous. Of course, depending

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Lifestyle

Where to Find Happy People

The World Happiness Report is out, and a group of independent experts have now compiled surveys of people in 156 countries, asking them to evaluate

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