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Studying Japan's Dark Decade to See How U.S. Might Fare
The sky over Tokyo seemed to fall in September of 1990, when the Nikkei stock index dove almost 20 percent in one month. Real estate prices would plummet and the financial sector would crack, trapp...
Western Journalists in Iraq Stage Pullback of Their Own
BAGHDAD -- The number of foreign journalists in Baghdad is declining sharply, a media withdrawal that reflects Iraq's growing stability and the financial strains faced by some news organizations.
The Big Apple Loses Luster
NEW YORK -- This big, brash, in-your-face city suddenly seems to have lost its mojo.
Wall Street Greed? Not in This Neighborhood.
NEW DELHI -- With freshly cut keys to their new brick-and-cement homes, families in an impoverished settlement on the outskirts of India's capital honored a surprising hero this week: Richard S. Fu...
Malaysia's Self-Prescribed Rescue Debated
As more countries become enveloped by the financial pandemic that began in the United States, some in the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia are warily watching the events with a dose of schadenfre...