04/03/2013 | Dossier Joseph Ratzinger
Opinion - Exiting a wounded church
There has been a lot of speculation, led by the BBC, CNN and bookmakers, about who will take over from Pope Benedict XVI as head of the Roman Catholic Church since Benedict stepped down Thursday.
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02/09/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Rocky future for China seas
e of the best aspects of the world since World War II has been rapid economic growth in Asia, which has seen once war-torn and impoverished landscapes turned into glittering cities with aspiring skyscrapers.
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26/05/2012 | Economia y Finanzas
Fiddling as capitalism burns
The BBC World business news presenter in Singapore was happily discussing the prospect of Facebook becoming, as he claimed, "a trillion dollar company" through its initial public offering. His error says a lot about the increasing sloppiness and dumbing down of the BBC's business coverage and its determination to push business into show business.
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08/09/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
Is China's economic miracle a mirage?
Doubts are beginning to be heard about how sustainable is China's economic miracle, particularly the relentless emphasis on exports and investment spending by hundreds of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and local governments. Beijing, of course, has its supporters, including banker turned academic Stephen Roach, non-executive chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia as well as a faculty member of Yale University, who assert that China is different, bigger, special, the superpower that will defeat all the odds.
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08/09/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
Is China's economic miracle a mirage?
Doubts are beginning to be heard about how sustainable is China's economic miracle, particularly the relentless emphasis on exports and investment spending by hundreds of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and local governments. Beijing, of course, has its supporters, including banker turned academic Stephen Roach, non-executive chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia as well as a faculty member of Yale University, who assert that China is different, bigger, special, the superpower that will defeat all the odds.
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17/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bin Laden bled U.S. of a cool trillion
Osama bin Laden must be laughing from his watery grave. In announcing a new policy of "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy," he mockingly declared in a 2004 video that "It is easy for us to provoke and bait. ... All that we have to do is to send two mujaheddin ... to raise a raise a piece of cloth on which is written 'al-Qaida' in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses."
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17/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bin Laden bled U.S. of a cool trillion
Osama bin Laden must be laughing from his watery grave. In announcing a new policy of "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy," he mockingly declared in a 2004 video that "It is easy for us to provoke and bait. ... All that we have to do is to send two mujaheddin ... to raise a raise a piece of cloth on which is written 'al-Qaida' in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses."
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19/02/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
Oil prices and social unrest
The resignation of Hosni Mubarak after a 30-year reign as modern-day pharaoh of Egypt has demonstrated the nervous and potentially combustible connection between oil and politics in the Middle East. As soon as Mubarak quit after weeks of demonstrations, oil prices dropped, but quickly rose again, and benchmark Brent crude touched $103 a barrel as new political protests erupted in Bahrain and Iran amid certainty about who would really rule Egypt.
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01/01/2011 | Frente Externo
US - Obama's seven headaches
Supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama are greatly cheered by notable victories in the final days of Congress before Christmas: the repeal of the "Don't ask, don't tell" law concerning homosexuals serving in the military, and the ratification of the New START treaty with Russia to curb nuclear weapons.
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05/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
$1 trillion wasted on wars
The calculator busily counting out how much money the United States has spent on wars since 2001 has raced past $1 trillion — $1,024 billion plus at the start of August. There is little point in trying to give a more refined figure since the clock ticks remorselessly on, mesmerizingly faster than you can write the sum down, about $260,000 blown away in each passing minute.*
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04/08/2010 | Economia y Finanzas
China's economic pride
In international business and finance, no less than in politics, diplomacy, defense and control of tiny strategic islands and islets in the seas around it, China is showing an increasingly assertive tendency with the clear message that it will not allow itself to be pushed around by anyone.
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04/07/2010 | Economia y Finanzas
The G20's expensive party
Leaders of the world's most powerful nations and a few less powerful hangers-on, like Canada and Italy, have just spent a few more billions of their taxpayers' money as they failed to devise a rescue plan for a world economy that is still perilously close to the cliff edge of disaster.
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21/06/2010 | Medio Ambiente
A presumptuous command of oil
Bosses of Big Oil have solemnly assured a U.S. congressional inquiry that they would never, ever, be as reckless or negligent as BP in causing the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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