The Malta Independent 15 November 2026, Sunday
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America’s Fiscal isolationism

Friday, 5 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Patience might be a virtue, but not necessarily when it comes to American foreign policy...

Car Prices on the decrease in the EU

Friday, 5 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Recently published statistics by the European Commission show that in 2010, car prices fell by 2.5% throughout the European Union...

Obama Pivots to new string of problems

Thursday, 4 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

President Barack Obama dodged a debt-ceiling fiasco Tuesday. He reacted with a wiped brow more than a victory lap, and with good reason...

Pederasts, Not paedophiles

Thursday, 4 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Charles Pulis and Godwin Scerri have been found guilty of sexual crimes against boys aged 13 to 16. Yet we persist in calling them ‘paedophile priests’...

Debt Deal takes minor swipe at red ink

Wednesday, 3 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The compromise debt limit deal may have resolved this year’s most clamorous political battle between President Barack Obama and Congress, but it takes only a modest swipe at the heart of the matter: The government’s relentlessly huge budget deficits...

Asia’s BRICs Hit the wall

Wednesday, 3 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

India’s democratic credentials do not impress Francis Fukuyama, who two decades ago foretold the “end of history,” as being a catalyst for the country’s economic growth...

China’s Inflation muddle

Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Even as the debt crises in Europe and the United States loom large and the global economic recovery falters, inflation is making a comeback worldwide. Indeed...

Forget The bananas; we are living in a surreal republic

Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

I still vividly recall an occasion when some months back Lawrence Gonzi defended the Commissioner of Police to the hilt in Parliament by claiming that he had full confidence in him as he always investigated thoroughly all those cases referred to him ...

The Talmud And Greek debt

Monday, 1 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

There are two ways to look at Greece’s majestically unsustainable sovereign-debt mountain...

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