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Hungarian Debt Crisis Still Crippling Middle Class

In Hungary there is a so-called “debtors’ ghetto” on the outskirts of the city of Ocsa. It is a small government-built development, housing just a few of the tens of thousands of indebted households; people who took out foreign currency loans before the economic crisis...

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The US Trade Deficit Has Never Been Worse

In January 2010 Obama promised that he should double US exports in 5 years in a bid to collapse the US trade deficit. It isn't quite 5 years later, but we doubt that anyone would have expected what the outcome of Obama's export boosting campaign would...

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In Uganda Rural Savings Scheme Boosts Household Income

Access to financial services is a decisive factor in fighting poverty and generating revenue among the rural households. However, financial institutions in rural areas are distant and the process involved in accessing them is not favorable for the rural semi-literates. Until December 2011, Yafeesi Kintu did...

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France Hits out at Dollar Dominance in International Transactions

France’s political and business establishment has hit out against the hegemony of the dollar in international transactions after US authorities fined BNP Paribas $9bn for helping countries avoid sanctions. Michel Sapin, the French finance minister, called for a “rebalancing” of the currencies used for global payments,...

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09.07.2014   |   World News

No Reasons For Dollar to be World’s Reserve Currency

The more the US antagonizes the world with spying or huge fines on foreign banks, the quicker the process of abandoning the dollar as a reserve currency will be unraveled. As Peter Schiff, the president of investment house Euro Pacific Capital, told RT, European countries...

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